1 | '''Basic Trope''': Two or more {{Big Bad}}s work together. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[AlliterativeName Admiral Alex Annihilation and Baron Bruce Bonecrusher]] work together to TakeOverTheWorld. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alex and Bruce [[InvincibleVillain are so powerful]] that not even [[TheHero Bob Badass]] and [[ActionGirl Alice Awesome]] can stop them. |
5 | ** [[GeneralRipper Admiral Alex Annihilation]] and [[RedBaron Baron Bruce Bonecrusher]] also have [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Charles Cruel,]] [[AristocratsAreEvil Duke Dan Destruction,]] [[TheEmperor Emperor Elliot Evulz]], [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Führer Franz Foul]], [[TheGeneralissimo Generalissimo Grant Gore]], [[EvilOverlord Impirator Ivan Iron]], [[MeaningfulName King Keith Killbride]], [[RebelLeader Lord Larry Lawless,]] [[MadScientist Dr. David Destructo]], [[ThemeNaming etc.]] on their team. |
6 | ** The aforementioned villains all form an OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Alex and Bruce team up to rob a convenience store. |
9 | ** Alex and Bruce [[TeethClenchedTeamwork have a loose alliance.]] |
10 | ** Alex and Bruce are CoDragons, but collectively serve as the [[TheHeavy de facto main antagonists]] on behalf of the distant Emperor Evulz. |
11 | * '''Justified''': |
12 | ** Alone, Alex and Bruce [[HarmlessVillain aren't very good]] {{Big Bad}}s, but they're nigh-unstoppable when they work together. |
13 | ** Alex and Bruce are have a close connection, being [[VillainousFriendship friends]], [[SiblingsInCrime siblings]], or even [[UnholyMatrimony lovers]]. Despite [[ItsAllAboutMe being selfish]] they [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes really do care about each other]], so they decide to help each other and team up. |
14 | ** Alex is a NonActionBigBad and Bruce is a DragonInChief, and they have the same ambition. |
15 | * '''Inverted''': |
16 | ** Alex and Bruce are two {{Big Good}}s working together to save the world. |
17 | ** Alex and Bruce are a BigBadEnsemble [[EvilVersusEvil competing to conquer the world.]] |
18 | * '''Subverted''': |
19 | ** Alex and Bruce commit similar crimes at the same places and appear to be working together, but [[BigBadEnsemble are really working independently of each other.]] |
20 | ** Alex and Bruce turn out to be CoDragons to [[TheManBehindTheMan Emperor Evulz]]. |
21 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
22 | ** Until they meet and [[VillainTeamUp decide to work together.]] |
23 | ** Alex and Bruce [[TheStarscream overthrow]] Emperor Evulz. |
24 | ** Evulz decides to [[OrcusOnHisThrone get off his throne]] and directly join in on the crimes, making it a ''[[TerribleTrio tri]]''-umvirate. |
25 | * '''Parodied''': Alex and Bruce are [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain idiots]] who can't work without each other. |
26 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alex and Bruce are thought to be the {{Big Bad}}s of the story, but [[ManBehindTheMan they're really working for]] Emperor Evulz. We later see them [[TheStarscream trying to overthrow]] him. However Alex and Bruce fail miserably without Emperor Evulz even noticing, only for it to become a RunningGag. |
27 | * '''Averted''': |
28 | ** Alex is the BigBad while Bruce is actually TheDragon. |
29 | ** All bad guys work alone and never team up. |
30 | * '''Enforced''': "Fans like Alex, but they also like Bruce. Wouldn't they like them more if they worked together?" |
31 | * '''Lampshaded''': “Oh great, now we gotta fight ''two'' big bosses?!” |
32 | * '''Invoked''': Alex puts out an ad in the newspaper for a villain to team up with. |
33 | * '''Exploited''': |
34 | ** When [[HeroAntagonist Bob Badass and Alice Awesome]] find out that Alex and Bruce work in the same HQ, they formulate a plan to eliminate them at the same time. |
35 | ** Alice and Bob decide to [[DivideAndConquer turn the villains against each other.]] |
36 | * '''Defied''': Alex and Bruce refuse to work together at any point. |
37 | * '''Discussed''': "Hey, we should team up. We'd be twice as powerful then." |
38 | * '''Conversed''': "I should've known those two would be working together." |
39 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alex and Bruce work together, but there's a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork great deal of friction between them]], and their alliance [[AHouseDivided ultimately falls apart.]] |
40 | * '''Reconstructed''': However, when Bob Badass and Alice Awesome show up to Alex's [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom fortress of doom]], Bruce [[TheCavalry rushes there]] to [[VillainousRescue destroy his two worst enemies and save his former friend in one fell swoop.]] |
41 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alex and Bruce are the villains and are nigh-unstoppable together, so much of the story's tension is derived from trying to figure out if [[TheBadGuyWins the villains will win]]. |
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43 | Join me comrade! Only together, we can become the BigBadDuumvirate and conquer Website/TVTropes! |
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45 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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47 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
48 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
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