Basic Trope: A blatantly effeminate male villain.
- Straight: The Magnificent Magic Matt, in addition to being evil, is flamboyant and prissy, wears makeup, and sometimes gets mistaken for a woman.
- Exaggerated: Matt is a Flaming Devil in a universe where all demons are pure evil and has a particular enjoyment for taking female shapes so he can indulge in stereotypically girly behavior.
- Downplayed:
- Matt has a few interests in feminine things, but is otherwise not overly feminine.
- Matt is femininely attractive and has lots of fangirls.
- Matt is an effeminate jerkass.
- Matt, while definitely not on the side of angels, is an Anti-Villain who gets a good deal of sympathy from the narrative.
- Justified:
- Matt comes from a culture where it's desirable for men to act feminine.
- Matt's stereotypically gay behavior has led to him being bullied and teased for most of his life, and this bitterness drives him to villainy.
- Matt is an Agent Peacock, so even though he is effeminate, he's still very much a threat.
- Implied: Johnny O'Tannen, the very epitome of a '90s Anti-Hero (has the Red Baron title of "SLAYR"), is often seen entering a room with Matt, alone. Guess what happens in there.
- Inverted:
- Matt is an Agent Peacock and also The Hero.
- Alternatively: Matt is a politically incorrect villain who wishes to exterminate all people who don’t conform to their gender stereotypes. Particularly/Especially men.
- Brick is the manliest sociopath you'll ever meet.
- Gender Inverted:
- Emma is a militaristic female villain who is very much a lad-ette.
- Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice
- Subverted:
- Matt is effeminate and characters assume he's going to be a villain, but he turns out to be the hero, and saves the day.
- Matt dresses like a sissy villain, but comes off as incredibly butch personality-wise.
- Matt is wearing a girly Clark Kent Outfit and is actually hiding the fact that he could easily punch out anybody who opposes him.
- Matt is effeminate and a bad guy, up until he makes a Heel–Face Turn without shedding his effeminacy.
- Matt initially seems like he's doing evil, but his supposedly harmful actions were badly misconstrued.
- Matt turns out to be a trans woman.
- Double Subverted:
- Matt is effeminate and seems to be a hero at first, before making a Face–Heel Turn.
- Until he decides to start acting more feminine.
- Though he always has the outfit on, and personality to match.
- Parodied:
- Matt's an effeminate villain who wants to take over the world so he can make everyone fashionable.
- When Johnny finds out that Matt's gay, he whips out his wallet and asks: "How much for anal?"
- Zig Zagged:
- Matt's Chaotic Neutral and so while he's consistently feminine, his level of villainy varies throughout the series.
- At first Matt appears to be one of these, but it turns out the actions that appear harmful are actually helping humanity in the bigger picture, however it later turns out that Matt was unaware he was doing good, and acting solely out of self interest.
- Matt has multiple personalities, some good and effeminate, some good and not effeminate, some evil and effeminate, some evil and not effeminate.
- Averted:
- Matt displays no overly feminine traits.
- Matt isn't evil.
- Enforced: "Carol, all of our male villains are very masculine. We need to demonstrate that this guy's different. Give one some feminine traits to make him stand out."
- Lampshaded: "We're looking for a criminal, he was wearing a feather boa and eyeshadow..."
- Invoked:
- Matt decides to freak people out by acting like a woman.
- Matt puts on an effeminate persona because he believes it will make people underestimate him in terms of evil and/or threat level.
- Exploited: The hero meets a drag queen, and being Genre Savvy he realizes that the drag queen will be the villain.
- Defied: Matt does not want to look like a wimp, so he goes as far in the other direction as possible.
- Discussed: "Matt's such a girly villain, the only reason he's trying to Take Over the World is because they discontinued his favorite shade of lipstick."
- Conversed: "It's pretty offensive that all the male villains on this show are so effeminate, it'd be nice to see a heroic effeminate character with an overly macho villain for once."
- Deconstructed:
- The reason Matt turned evil is because he was bullied for being feminine.
- Innocent effeminate men are assumed to be evil because Matt is evil.
- Reconstructed:
- Matt goes into therapy to deal with the fact that he was bullied, and either refuses to change or realizes that "No, I'm just evil."
- Matt's creepy effeminate behavior is very different than that of normal, innocent effeminate men, and most people can easily tell the difference.
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