Basic Trope: Someone wears bones as part of their outfit or as armor.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz wears a skull helmet with some bones attached to his belt.
- Exaggerated: All of Emperor Evulz' clothing is made entirely from bone.
- Downplayed:
- Evulz' necklace has a few real bones strung to it.
- Evulz is Putting on the Reich, so his Commissar Cap and epaulets, and a few other details include metal skull motifs.
- Justified:
- Evulz wanted to make use of the bones he collected - they could be either the bones of enemies he's defeated, or simply bones he found.
- Bones are fairly durable, and Evulz wants to use them as armor.
- Evulz just finds bones cool.
- Evulz had to make due with what he could find on the island.
- Evulz is pretending to be a skeletal being.
- Evulz draws power from bones, so he always makes sure he has some on hand.
- Inverted: Evulz is a skeleton that wears flesh as part of his outfit.
- Subverted:
- It turns out that the bones were actually fake.
- Although it seems like Evulz is wearing a skull as a helmet, it's actually his head.
- Double Subverted:
- He does switch over to using real bones in his outfit, though.
- Despite the skull being his real head, he still wears real bones alongside the skull fairly frequently.
- Parodied:
- Evulz' skull helmet is hilariously disproportionate to his real head.
- There is a section in a supermarket dedicated to supervillains full of different clothes and accessories made of bones.
- Zig-Zagged: Evulz is sometimes shown wearing bones, and sometimes he isn't.
- Averted: Nobody ever wears bones.
- Enforced: To establish Evulz as Obviously Evil.
- Lampshaded: "You wear bones in your belt? That must make it uncomfortable for you to sit."
- Invoked: Evulz wears skulls as a way to intimidate his enemies in battle.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "I don't know who the enemy can be, but I suspect the army of the man wearing a human skull for a helmet is up to no good."
- Conversed: "I wonder why so many characters often wear bones."
- Implied: It's not entirely clear if Evulz is wearing a skull or if he has a Skull for a Head.
- Deconstructed: This isn't a very practical clothing choice and it restricts Evulz's mobility.
- Reconstructed: Evulz uses magic to make the bones stay in place.
- Played for Laughs: Evulz gives the heroes a science lesson about the human skeleton using his outfit to demonstrate. The heroes find this more terrifying than any of his other tortures.
- Played for Drama: Evulz personally killed everyone whose bones he wears, and he gleefully taunts the heroes about all their loved ones he's now wearing.
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