Basic Trope: The villain stops their evil scheme just because someone told them to.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz decides to not Take Over the World, because Alice told him that what he was doing was wrong.
- Exaggerated: Evulz decides to not destroy the entire universe because someone sent him a complaint in the mail.
- Downplayed:
- Alice clearly explains the consequences of Evulz's plan to him and asks him to stop, which causes him to have second thoughts about it.
- Alice tells Bob not to steal Carol's cookies, and he complies.
- Justified:
- Alice has a Compelling Voice.
- Evulz was uncertain about his evil scheme anyway, and Alice's speech was simply the last straw.
- Evulz's plan was to kidnap Alice's Starfish Alien people and use them as chattel; he stops because Alice's communication proved that they were sentient.
- Pulls-The-Tiger's-Tail was bound by a Geas in response to his constant pranking. If specifically and explicitly ordered to stop his current scheme, he has to do so.
- Evulz is Alice's Henpecked Husband.
- Alice, for all of her sweetness, conceals Adamantium behind silk and Evulz decides not to push her.
- Inverted:
- Evulz stops his evil plan because someone complimented it.
- Evulz is spurred on by Alice telling him not to be evil.
- Alice is told by Bob not to give money to the poor and she complies.
- Evulz corrupts people into doing evil deeds just by asking them.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz agrees to be good as a result of Alice telling him he should... But it was all a trick to draw Alice's suspicions away from him.
- Double Subverted: However, Alice's words still haunt Evulz, and on reflection he decided to become good for real.
- Parodied:
- Evulz ceases his evil scheme because Alice called him a Big Stupid Doo Doo Head.
- Evulz stops his evil plan because Alice told him to. Then it's revealed that the evil plan was to remove a mattress tag.
- Zig Zagged: Evulz continues his plan despite Alice's words... until the next day, when his second thoughts finally catch up to him and he gives up on it. However, he then starts a new scheme to send Bob an insulting letter, but Alice's words keep haunting him, so he doesn't write the letter and never makes any evil plans again.
- Averted:
- Alice does not attempt to stop Evulz simply by telling him to stop.
- The work has No Antagonist to begin with.
- Enforced: "Hey, let's make Alice stop the villain, by telling him what he's doing is wrong! That'll teach the kids An Aesop about the importance of communication!"
- Lampshaded: "Wait... You didn't Take Over the World just because someone told you not to?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Someone proposes telling Evulz to stop to Alice, but she dismisses the idea because she realises how ridiculous it is.
- Discussed: "I will try telling Evulz that he shouldn't go through with his plan, but we gotta have a backup plan to fall back on in case my suggestion instead drives him to kill me."
- Conversed: "Villains would be so much more successful if they weren't convinced to give up so easily!"
- Implied: Alice sends Evulz a letter begging him to stop his evil plot. Next we see, Evulz is working at McDonalds.
Oh, man...
