Line #8 PlayingWith/HeroicComedicSociopath


1	'''Basic Trope''': A TokenEvilTeammate and DevilInPlainSight who is also the story's primary PluckyComicRelief, through liberal use of ComedicSociopathy, BlackComedy and their evil deeds being PlayedForLaughs.
2	* '''Straight''': [[SublimeRhyme Alice McMalice]] is a member of Team Good and is aiding the heroes in defeating the BigBad. At the same time, she gleefully continues to be an evil jerk both towards the heroes' enemies, the heroes' allies and the heroes themselves, and the story treats it as funny.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is more villainous and more powerful than said BigBad, who is deathly afraid of her to boot.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice is a dark AntiHero compared to the rest of her group, but gets all the best lines.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** The world lacks a justice system to deal with Alice's nastiness, and the other main characters don't dare stand up to her.
7	** Alice is a psycho, but she realizes that making herself useful to goody-two-shoes heroes will give her plenty of excuses to commit ultra-violence against the forces of evil, without the risk of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder that goes with the villain's side.
8	** The party includes Alice's MoralityChain, [[ThePollyanna Lovable Jimbo]] TheHeart, EvenEvilHasLovedOnes after all and that includes the LaughablyEvil TokenEvilTeammate.
9	** Alice is a sadistic BloodKnight who enjoys tormenting and slaughtering her enemies. Said enemies tend to be [[AssholeVictim pretty horrible people,]] and it's ''because'' [[PayEvilUntoEvil they're so evil]] [[SmitingEvilFeelsGood that she enjoys it so much.]] She is otherwise generally pretty heroic, and [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely believes her actions help protect innocents and make the world a better place.]]
10	* '''Inverted''':
11	** Alice is TheAce. She is so [[IncorruptiblePurePureness ludicrously]] [[AllLovingHero good-natured]] [[TheParagon and]] [[IdealHero heroic]] that she makes the rest of the party look bad by comparison.
12	** Alternatively, she is the party ChewToy: If something nasty happens, it will happen to her most of all. [[MisplacedRetribution And she never deserves any of it.]]
13	** Alternatively, she is a [[NobleDemon clearly good character]] [[PunchClockVillain that works for]] no one other than [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]].
14	** Alternatively, she performs completely good deeds [[HeroWithBadPublicity which are seen as incredibly evil]].
15	* '''Subverted''': Alice suddenly ends up doing something [[DudeNotFunny not-so-amusing]] and the party ends up sending Alice to prison for it.
16	* '''Double Subverted''': She blows her way out of jail and rejoins the party, who decide it was a poor idea to leave anyone else to supervise her.
17	* '''Parodied''': Alice's sociopathic deeds ignores any and all laws of common sense, continuity, characterisation and physics, and defies all possible explanations for how she's able to do it and get away -- [[RuleOfFunny just because it is funny]].
18	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is both on the giving and receiving end of misfortunes, being the top dog of ComedicSociopathy one moment and a ButtMonkey the next one.
19	* '''Averted''': The character gallery lack a person like this. Any characters who shows signs of evil is treated as a villain and dealt with accordingly.
20	* '''Enforced''':
21	** "Research shows that wish-fulfillment about having an evil best friend to sic on your troubles is a huge hit; let's add one to the cast."
22	** A LaughablyEvil villain proves to be so popular that they get to undergo a HeelFaceTurn... but if they stop being so hilariously psycho, they'll stop being popular. The only option is to have them do what they do best, just pointed at the bad guys.
23	* '''Lampshaded''': The other main characters point out that Alice is a horribly un-heroic character and notes how she never seems to end up in trouble for all the evil deeds she does.
24	* '''Invoked''': A main character about to do an evil deed decides to overkill so blatantly that people will think it's funny.
25	* '''Exploited''': The VillainWithGoodPublicity exploits Alice's misdeeds to paint her sane friends as [[HeroWithBadPublicity being enablers, if not just as bad]].
26	* '''Defied''': The party takes one look at Alice and decides to stay far, far away.
27	* '''Discussed''': "Alice is a horrible excuse for a human being and takes delight in tormenting both friend and foe equally (and I'm pretty sure I saw her take candy from a baby in that last town we were in)... But she's ''our'' horrible excuse for a human being and I'd rather not imagine what she'd do if she was ''against'' us."
28	* '''Conversed''': "Do you notice how some evil guys can get away with anything just because they're main characters?"
29	* '''Deconstructed''': The show goes meta as the narrator starts criticizing the viewer for finding Alice funny, pointing out that her actions are in fact harming lots of innocent people but we cheer for her anyway because she's LaughablyEvil.
30	** Alice may be LaughablyEvil, but she's still evil. As such, it does not take much for her to be [[HazyFeelturn talked into joining the other side and turing her talents against our actual heros.]]
31	* '''Reconstructed''':
32	** While the narrator is busy ranting, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Alice collapses the fourth wall (in the form of a literal wall) on top of him]]. The implications of her horribleness are never brought up again.
33	** While it's still one part unsettling and two parts hilarious how much she ''enjoys'' doing them, all of her "evil deeds" are in fact [[ShootTheDog as pragmatic and necessary as they are distasteful]].
34	** Alice considers [[WeCanRuleTogether the offer]], but turns it down out of [[VillainousVirtues loyalty to her friends.]] As she points out, just because she's a jerk doesn't mean she's [[EvilVersusEvil friends with other jerks.]]
35	* '''Played For Laughs''': The default state of the trope. The jerkiness, the abuse and the repeated flaunting of the rules are treated as funny.
36	* '''Played For Drama''': SociopathicHero.
37	* '''Played For Horror''':
38	** Alice is this… [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness only in her mind]].
39	** Alice is this… by her own rules. Her sense of humor [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor is vile and lousy]] and unsettling to people in and out of universe, and everybody who gets in the way of her fun dies screaming.
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