History Main / ManofWealthAndTaste

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* Mr. Anon from ''OpenBlue'', a businessman who dresses in the snazziest outfits of the day, and whose [[DealWithTheDevil business involves payment that isn't in money]]...
* WhateleyUniverse example: unstoppable assassin cyborg Deathlist wears an expensive pinstripe suit when he and a small army of bad guys invade [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]]. Everyone else is in military gear or armor.
* When not dressed in his BadassLabcoat, DoctorSteel usually dresses in an Aristocratic neo-Victorian {{Steampunk}} style, complete with TopHat. (He even has his own personal clothier!) His followers wear uniforms that [[PuttingOnTheReich satirically mimic and playfully deconstruct the uniforms of fascist paramilitary groups]].
* Edwin Windsor from HowToSucceedInEvil is one, with his tailored suits and taste in art.

* Edwin Windsor from HowToSucceedInEvil is one, with his tailored suits and taste in art.

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* An essential feature of Lex Luthor in ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. He always was seen in black coat and slacks, with a white vest and tie. In his last appearance, in {{Justice League Unlimited}}, he even remarks that to properly deal with Darkseid, he has to get into his "power suit", abandoning the khaki uniform he had been wearing for his original garb.
* ''{{Metalocalypse}}'' - the band is in the ''DeepSouth'' learning the blues, which involves going to the crossroads to sell their souls to the Blues Devil, who is a gaunt, scary-looking man with a milky white eye and a sharp suit and hat.
* [[DannyPhantom Vlad Masters]], of course.
* From ''{{Batman The Animated Series}}'' there's The Joker, Two-Face and The Riddler who all wear over the top suits.
* [[{{Gargoyles}} David Xanatos]], naturally.

** Also subverted by Zinc Lablanc in ''AceAttorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth''; despite the name of his {{Leitmotif}} being ''ManOfWealthAndTaste'', his outfit is incredibly gaudy, to the point of being worse than Redd's. The only thing Lablanc's really got going for him is that he doesn't have ridiculously-colored hair (blond, as opposed to purple).

See also WickedCultured, DressedToKill, AGlassOfChianti. The polar opposite of WildMan -- a hero with no resources, no fashion, but a very good heart.

** Trieze Kushrenada from ''GundamWing'' is all over this trope, which fits nicely with his {{magnificent bastard}}ry.

** He was actually predated by M'Quve from the origianl Gundam series, who even [[spoiler: in his death scene]] was thinking of his precious art supplies and crystal vases.

* Murata Azrael of GundamSeed shows up dressed in a very nice blue suit. Turns out the [[CompleteMonster bastard's]] only good point is his fashion sense.

* Zolf J. Kimbly of [[FullMetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist]]. He wears a magnificent white suit. He makes people blow up in a shower of gore and fire. He keeps his suit white. Also a [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastard]].

* Giovanni Villanova from 7thSea is an archetypal example of this trope. He's [[CardCarryingVillain evil with a capital E]], has a prison built to spec as his own private hell for his enemies, [[KickTheDog beats]] his [[WitchSpecies "fate witch"]] wife, and is generally despicable to the Nth degree...but he's a ''Prince,'' by [[strike:God]] [[CrystalDragonJesus Deus]], and that means showing some ''style.'' One iconic moment is when he knifes a man from behind (one who's threatening the PCs), shoves him aside...and starts eating the victim's Fettucine Alfredo, because it's too good to waste. He also laments having the cook killed, because the pasta's that good...but while it's one thing to poison an enemy, it's another entirely for the cook to poison such works of art, so he had his men feeding said cook his own poison. EvenEvilHasStandards, after all.

*** But back then it didn't scream "a suit", but "a man who isn't doing physical labour at the moment."

* The majority of gangsters in ''TheGodfather'' and its game adaptation are DressedToKill, but Bruno Tattaglia goes one-up on the lot with a tux. He's a nasty piece of work, being responsible for the deaths of [[spoiler: Luca Brasi and, in the game, Frankie Malone.]]

[[caption-width:300:[[TheIgor Igor!]] Fetch my cravat!]]

A subtrope of EvilIsCool: Basically, if there's a truly evil male villain, he's going to wear a sharp-looking suit. Silk tie, expensive shirt, exquisitely ironed pants, leather belt and perfect jacket. Always [[GoodOldWays perfectly in fashion]]. Bonus points if it's a monochrome suit, and extra-special bonus points if it's a monochrome black suit.