Basic Trope: A villain gets an episode about himself.
- Straight: John finally gets an episode about him.
- Exaggerated: The entire season is about John.
- Downplayed: John gets an episode about him, but he's only in it for about five minutes.
- Justified: The plot of the rest of the season would not make sense without knowing what the villain had done and seen.
- Inverted: John is the good guy in a series with a Villain Protagonist.
- Subverted: John begins the episode as a villain, but does a Heel–Face Turn...
- Double Subverted: ...Only to be reverted back to his villain status.
- Parodied: John has his own episode, but it turns out to be the series finale episode.
- Zig Zagged: John has his little episode in an alternate reality. The good guys are Demoted to Extra and have to spend the rest of the episode regaining their original status. The Hero and John have the Final Battle in which John wins, heroes mourn, credits roll, and a special added scene right after they finish says...John was only dreaming.
- Averted: The bad guys never get the spotlight.
- Enforced:
- The producers are Rooting for the Empire, and want to see the villains at least have a day in the limelight, even if the audience won't accept them winning in the end.
- The producers are aware of how popular the villains are with the audience. So in order to increase ratings, they decide to give them their own episode.
- The episode is a Hostile Show Takeover from the villain.
- Lampshaded: "Oh look! According to Troper Guide, John will have his own show today!"
- Invoked: The heroes have planted a bug on the villain, and are recording his every move.
- Exploited: The heroes bribe the producers to make an episode following John so that the Unspoken Plan Guarantee will work in their favor.
- After being defeated by the heroes, John bribes the producers to create him a spin-off series about himself defeating the heroes for the sake of revenge.
- Defied: John kills all the camera operators sent to film him.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: The villain who gets majority of the screen time is unfortunately the Hate Sink.
- Reconstructed: The Hate Sink villain gains likable traits and it turns them into a character that the audience want to root for.
- Played For Laughs: The heroes go to sleep at night and the Villain Episode focuses on the Laughably Evil villain wanting to wake the heroes up through overcomplicated schemes.
- Played For Drama: The heroes constantly defeat the villain and celebrate their victory in their episodes. However, the Villain Episode reveals the struggles the villain has to through in life and the stress of failures from being defeated by the heroes.
- Implied: The heroes notice that their screen time is lower than usual due to them being given easier tasks while the villain has more screen time due to the villain's huge tasks.
