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* '''Straight''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz']] [[TheDragon dragon]], General Drake, is much more evil than Evulz himself. Evulz gets a few PetTheDog moments, such as genuinely caring about [[TheHero Bob]], and tends to go for diplomatic and bloodless conquests, while General Drake is a bloodthirsty warmonger who has outright tried to kill the heroes multiple times.

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* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Straight''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz']] [[TheDragon dragon]], General Drake, is much more evil than Evulz himself. Evulz gets a few PetTheDog moments, such as genuinely caring about [[TheHero Hiro]], and tends to go for diplomatic and bloodless conquests, while General Drake is a bloodthirsty warmonger who has outright tried to kill the heroes multiple times.

** Emperor Evulz is more of a HarmlessVillain, while one of his {{mooks}}, EgomaniacHunter Bob, is a CompleteMonster, OmnicidalManiac, and SerialRapist.

** Bob is a nearly-flawless IdealHero, but his second-in-command Lance is a brutal TokenEvilTeammate who regularly does horrible things and is only on Bob's side out of personal loyalty because he's his ChildhoodFriend.

** Bob is a nearly-flawless IdealHero, but his second-in-command Lance is a brutal TokenEvilTeammate who regularly does horrible things and is only on Bob's side because of personal loyalty.

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[SirSwearsALot Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]] and [[TrueCompanions camraderie]] towards Spike and each other, they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader, while [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Ike]] [[HateSink doesn't have the other three's reedeeming qualities]] and is TheStarScream within Spike's group

* '''Exploited''': ???

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[SirSwearsALot Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]] and [[TrueCompanions camraderie]] towards Spike, they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader, while [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Ike]] [[HateSink doesn't have the other three's reedeeming qualities]] and is TheStarScream within Spike's group

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[SirSwearsALot Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]] and [[TrueCompanions camraderie]] towards Spike, they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader, while [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Ike]] [[HateSink doesn't have the other three's reedeeming qualities]] and TheStarScream within Spike's group

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[SirSwearsALot Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty and camraderie towards Spike]], they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader.

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[HairTriggerTemper Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty and camraderie towards Spike]], they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader.

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[HairTriggerTemper Mike]], [[TheNapoleon Tyke]], and [[SmallNameNigEgo Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty and camraderie towards Spike]], they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader.

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[HairTriggerTemper Mike]], [[SmallNameBigEgo Tyke]], and [[BewareTheQuietOnes Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty and camraderie towards Spike]], they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader.

** More Unlikable Lackey: Spike is the head honcho of a GangOfBullies, but has a tendency to be a FatherToHisMen and is overall a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. His friends, [[HairTriggerTemper Mike]], [[BrattyHalfPint Tyke]], and [[BewareTheQuietOnes Harold]] on the other hand, aren't as likable, since, outside of their [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty and camraderie towards Spike]], they tend to veer into VillainyFreeVillain territory and KickTheDog more often than their leader.

** Drake being more evil also means he [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat tends to screw up Evulz’s plans by picking the move evil option over the pragmatic one]].

'''Basic Trope''': One of the villain's henchpeople is even eviler than the main villain.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** General Drake becomes TheStarscream and things go FromBadToWorse.
** Emperor Evulz develops [[EvenEvilHasStandards some standards]] against General Drake's cruel behavior, and replaces him.

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** General Drake goes as far as to try to kill (or even succeed at killing) Emperor Evulz in order to become the DragonAscendant. Emperor Evulz, if he survives, may even pull a HeelFaceTurn or an EnemyMine.

** Emperor Evulz is more of a HarmlessVillain, while General Drake is a CompleteMonster, OmnicidalManiac, and SerialRapist.
** General Drake goes as far as to try to kill (or even succeed at killing) Emperor Evulz in order to become the DragonAscendant. Emperor Evulz, if he survives, may even pull a HeelFaceTurn.

** Under Evulz's Empire, [[AlwaysChaoticEvil literally everyone]] under Evulz's faction is {{eviler|ThanThou}} than Evulz himself, who is either {{a lighter shade of black}}, at best or the {{token good teammate}} ([[IronicName ironically]]), at worst.

'''Basic Trope''': One of the villain's henchpeople is even more evil than the main villain.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': Evulz is a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes he is too "weak" to do what is necessary, so he hires PsychoForHire Drake.

* '''Straight''': [[BigBad Emperor Evulz']] [[TheDragon dragon]], General Drake, is much more evil than Evulz himself. Evulz gets a few PetTheDog moments, such as genuinely caring about [[TheHero Hiro]], while General Drake has outright tried to kill the heroes multiple times.

** Emperor Evulz is more of a HarmlessVillain, while General Drake is practically a CompleteMonster and OmnicidalManiac.

* '''Enforced''': Evulz's generally sympathetic nature has made him a les intimidating villain, so the execs create a more evil minion to be more intimidating.

* '''Invoked''': Evulz is a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes he is too "weak" to do what is necessary, so he hires PsychoForFire Drake.

* '''Downplayed''': Both villains are incredibly evil, but General Drake is more willing to kill.

* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???