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** EvilIsCool.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Lord Reptilian is [[AtLeastIAdmitIt openly and confidently self-aware]] regarding his lack of any redeeming qualities, and thus casually chooses to play them up ''further'' to the point that they loop all the way back to making him hilarious to watch.

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* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Hiro]] and [[TheLancer Lance]] have to face Lord Reptilian, a cruel and despicable EvilOverlord with absolutely no redeeming qualities and is hated by all.

* '''Implied''': Lord Reptilian is [[OffscreenVillainy never shown on-screen]], but Hiro and/or Lanca talk about him in a hateful tone.

* '''Played For Drama''': Lord Reptilian is a KarmaHoudini who gets away with nasty scars he inflicted on the main characters, and is still at large. And the audience finds this to be very unenjoyable, to see how such a vile and immoral character like this goes off unpunished.

* '''Played For Drama''': Lord Reptilian is a [[KarmaHoudini Karma Houdini]] who gets away with nasty scars he inflicted on the main characters, and is still at large. And the audience finds this to be very unenjoyable, to see how such a vile and immoral character like this goes off unpunished.

Back to HateSink.

** Lord Reptilian is a textbook example of EvilIsPetty and commits over-the-top horrendous actions that are PlayedForLaughs, such as nuking fast food restaurants [[DisproportionateRetribution that get his order wrong]] or kicking kittens off of cliffs [[ForTheEvulz because he was bored]].

** Lord Reptilian is a CardCarryingVillain who revels is his evilness and sets out to be as horrifically evil as possible.

** Lance: "Lord Reptilian, are you ''trying'' to get people to hate you? Because, mission accomplished."

* '''Played For Drama''': Lord Reptilian is [[MediumAwareness self-aware of his creator's intention of making him a character hated by everyone]]. He tries his best to avoid doing any heinous act, but since [[YouCantFightFate he has no rights to change the author's script]], he inevitably caused numerous deaths of heroes and innocent bystanders against his will, causing him to be hated in-and-out universe. At this point, he finally [[ThenLetMeBeEvil gives up and submits to his fate]], using every opportunity to bring sufferings to everyone and make them hate him as much as possible, because [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds that's his only worth in the story]].

* '''Invoked''': Lord Reptilian employs a ZeroApprovalGambit.

** LoveToHate.

** Lord Reptilian appears to be an affable fellow, but it's [[BrokenPedestal later]] [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[EvilAllAlong this exterior was a façade used to manipulate innocents for his own benefit]].

* '''Subverted''': Lord Reptilian turns out to be a TragicVillain with several good aspects.

** Lord Reptilian is a terrible person, but he's one of many in the plot.

** Lord Reptilian sells merchandise [[CardCarryingVillain bragging about how he's terrible]] and everybody hates him, [[RealityEnsues which no one wants to buy because they all hate him]].

** Lanca: "Lord Reptilian, are you ''trying'' to get people to hate you? Because, mission accomplished."

** Lanca sticks a piece of gum on a cardboard cutout of Lord Reptilian.

** Lanca sticks a peice of gum on a cardboard cutout of Lord Reptilian.

** The viewers don't enjoy hating Lord Reptilian much, because in a world full of disappointments, sadness, bullies, anger, and hate, [[Laconic/DarknessInducedAudienceApathy the last thing they want is MORE negativity from the very place they were trying to escape to.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': The viewers don't enjoy hating Lord Reptilian much, because in a world full of disappointments, sadness, bullies, anger, and hate, [[Laconic/DarknessInducedAudienceApathy the last thing they want is MORE negativity from the very place they were trying to escape to.]]

** Lord Reptilian sells merchandise bragging about how he's terrible and everybody hates him, [[RealityEnsues which no one wants to buy because they all hate him]].

** Lord Reptilian is [[CompleteMonster a monster of the highest order]].

** Lord Reptilian is made irredeemably evil so that the audience will sympathize with Hiro and Lanca's hatred towards him.
** All of Hiro and Lanca's previous opponents were sympathetic or [[EvilIsCool cool]] and became subject to RootingForTheEmpire, so Lord Reptilian is written as irredeemable to ensure that people root against him.

* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Hiro]] and [[TheLancer Lanca]] have to face Lord Reptilian, a cruel and despicable EvilOverlord with absolutely no redeeming qualities and is hated by all.

** Lord Reptilian is a sapient heat sink.

** Lord Reptilian is [[ThePowerOfHate empowered by hated]] so he gets stronger the more everyone hates him.