History PlayingWith / PragmaticVillainy

** Evulz just wants to avoid accusing of {{Hypocrite}}, so he always outright admit that he doesn’t do bad thing purely out of pragmatism rather than conscience.

** Evulz has shown that he's EvilerThanThou and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally rips through]] the rest of them on how StupidEvil {{Card Carrying Villain}}y is, proving that he's closer to his goals than anyone else.

** Evulz [[StupidEvil destroys the city of Cort even after they surrendered]], which makes the other cities unwilling to surrender.

** Evulz [[StupidEvil destroys the city of Cort even after they've already surrendered]], which makes the other cities unwilling to surrender.

* '''Straight''': The city of Cort surrenders to Emperor Evulz, and he orders that the inhabitants be spared. When asked why, he replies that it will give other communities the incentive to surrender.

** Evulz is StupidEvil, destroying the city of Cort after they've already surrendered just because it would be evil to do it.
** Jay-ko is a PragmaticHero who is willing to ShootTheDog if it benefits the greater good.

'''Basic Trope''': A villain refuses to do something horrible not out of kindness, but because it's detrimental to their interests.

'''Basic Trope''': A villain refuses to do something horrible not out of kindness, but because it would hinder their plans.

** Evulz doesn’t want to be treated as {{Hypocrite}} because it is not honest to claim that he refuses to do bad deeds by morality other than pragmatic reasons.

** NecessaryEvil

** JerkWithAHeartOFJerk

* '''Downplayed''': Evulz gives his perceived enemies quick deaths instead of wasting time torturing them, because it's a waste of his time and torture doesn't get good information anyways.

* '''Defied''': [[AxCrazy Evulz is a crazed, sadistic lunatic]] [[TheMadHatter who loves ''being'' a crazed, sadistic lunatic.]] When told that he could be pragmatic in sparing them, he acknowledges that he could be; he's just choosing not to be.

* '''Defied''': Evulz is a crazed, sadistic [[TheMadHatter lunatic]] who ''loves'' being a crazed, sadistic lunatic. When told that he could be pragmatic in sparing them, he acknowledges that he could be; he's just choosing not to be.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Played straight''': The city of Cort surrenders to Emperor Evulz, and he orders that the inhabitants be spared. When asked why, he replies that it will give other communities the incentive to surrender.

'''Basic Trope''': A villain refuses to do something horrible, not out of kindness, but because it's a stupid thing to do.
* '''Straight''': The city of Cort surrenders to Emperor Evulz, and he orders that the inhabitants be spared. When asked why, he replies that it will give other communities the incentive to surrender.

** Evulz is StupidEvil.

** Evulz appears to being ready to spare the people of Cort, then slaughters them

** Only because Evulz knew they were [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': It's hard to tell whether or not Evulz is acting out of pragmatism or [[NobleDemon genuine goodness]], with plenty of evidence for both.

** Evulz is a StupidEvil CardCarryingVillain
* '''Enforced''': The fandom is infamous for tearing apart StupidEvil. The executives know their audience well affecting the plot accordingly.

* '''Defied''': Evulz is a crazed, sadistic [[TheMadHatter lunatic]] who ''loves'' being a crazed, sadistic lunatic.

* '''Deconstructed''': Evulz is such a SlaveToPR, the other villains mock him for it.

** But Evulz has shown that he's EvilerThanThou and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally rips through]] the rest of them on how StupidEvil [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villainy]] is, proving that he's closer to his goals than anyone else.
** Alternatively, not being StupidEvil means that he willingly follows the "unwritten rules" of the setting--rules that prevent anybody who considers himself "good" from applying ThisMeansWar and go full-on "[[KillThemAll Scorched Earth]]" on his organization. As such, every decision he's done follows a tenet of ultimate pragmatism: his assured continuous survival. And the fact that he continues to live on--maybe even becoming the SeriesMascot or an EnsembleDarkhorse--where every other villain buys the farm from the KnightTemplar hordes is all the gloating he needs.

* '''Exaggerated''': Evulz ends up [[AntiVillain doing massive amounts of good accomplishing his goals]]. After all, his troops need good roads to travel efficiently and the trade funds them, good supply of medical care and giving it away [[VillainWithGoodPublicity gets him their loyalty and a demonstrates great deal of intelligence]]. [[WellIntentionedExtremist Only his questionable but]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo expedient actions]] make him qualify as a villain. Without those he'd be nearly saintly.

** Alternatively, not being StupidEvil means that he willingly follows the "unwritten rules" of the setting--rules that prevent anybody who considers himself "good" from applying ThisMeansWar and go full-on "[[KillThemAll Scorched Earth]]" on his organization. As such, every decision he's done follows a tenet of ultimate pragmatism: his assured continuous survival. And the fact that he continues to live on--maybe even becoming the SeriesMascot or an EnsembleDarkhorse--where every other villain buys the farm to the KnightTemplar hordes is all the gloating he needs.

** Alternatively, not being StupidEvil means that he willingly follows the "unwritten rules" of the setting--rules that prevent anybody who considers himself "good" from applying ThisMeansWar and go full-on "[[KillThemAll Scorched Earth]]" on his organization. As such, every decision he's done follows a tenet of ultimate pragmatism: his assured continuous survival. And the fact that he continues to live on--maybe even becoming the SeriesMascot or an EnsembleDarkhorse--where every other villain buys the farm is all the gloating he needs.

* '''Reconstructed''': But Evulz has shown that he's EvilerThanThou and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbally rips through]] the rest of them on how StupidEvil [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villainy]] is, proving that he's closer to his goals than anyone else.

* '''Exaggerated''': Evulz ends up [[AntiVillain doing massive amounts of good accomplishing his goals.]] After all, his troops need good roads to travel efficiently and the trade funds them, good supply of medical care and giving it away [[VillainWithGoodPublicity gets him their loyalty and a demonstrates great deal of intelligence.]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist Only his questionable but]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo expedient actions]] make him qualify as a villain. Without those he'd be nearly saintly.

** Only because Evulz [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy knew]] they were [[ISurrenderSuckers feigning surrender]].

* '''Played For Drama''': Because how DangerouslyGenreSavvy Evulz is, and because he doesn't play the VillainBall, the heroes have a hard time facing him without ruining their own image as well.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Evulz is essentially a humanitarian, but the heroes considered him a criminal mastermind by shouting "[[YouMonster That monster,]] how dare he feeds those starving orphans and building houses for the homeless!"

* '''Parodied''': Evulz never actually does anything evil at all, and in fact donates regularly to charity and helps old ladies cross the street, but keeps up with the EvilGloating as he does so, gleefully pointing out to anyone who will listen how these acts of kindness ''totally'' furthers his evil goals.