Basic Trope: Anyone nicknamed "The Butcher" is automatically a bad person.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz's nickname is "The Butcher".
- Exaggerated: Every villain is nicknamed the Butcher.
- Downplayed: "The Butcher" is a common nickname for Emperor Evulz. He is also known as the Baron.
- Justified: Emperor Evulz wields an oversized butcher's knife and likes to prepare and serve executed rebels at debauched parties.
- Inverted: Hiro is painted as "the Butcher" by The Empire, with or without justification. He makes use of the nickname, either because it inspires due dread or because the false terror it causes actually helps prevent violence by letting him intimidate foes into surrendering instead of having to kill them.
- Subverted: The protagonists are told to talk to "the Butcher" about a mission. They're nervous, but it turns out the butcher really is just a cheerful, affable butcher who needs to hire them to take out a dangerous creature, which he intends to prepare afterwards.
- Double Subverted: It turns out the butcher really is a cheerful, affable butcher... who disposes of corpses for a particularly brutal criminal syndicate on the side.
- Parodied: Every actual butcher is a villain.
- Emperor's Evulz's nickname is "The Butcher"...because that's his day job.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody is nicknamed "The Butcher".
- Enforced: "We need to show that Evulz is a villain but how?" "I know! Let's nickname him the Butcher!"
- Lampshaded: "Sounds like we need to steer away from this Butcher guy!"
- Invoked:
- Someone comes up with the idea with calling Evulz "The Butcher," then refers him as "the Butcher" during a conversation.
- Emperor Evulz is a butcher robot whose main directive is to chop meat, distracting him from everything else.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "We're not going to call Evulz the Butcher!"
- Discussed: "So Evulz's nickname is The Butcher..."
- Conversed: "How come every villain is nicknamed The Butcher?"
Oh dear, here comes The Butcher! Ruuunnn!
