'''Basic Trope''': Reptiles are usually associated with evil.
* '''Straight''':
** The supervillain Lisa Lizard and her lizard-themed henchmen are trying to take over the world. They're the only reptile-themed characters in the story.
** King Blackstone's evil SnakePeople and LizardFolk armies are trying to take over the world. They're the only reptile races in the story.
** The characters constantly distrust entirely innocent SnakePeople and LizardFolk peasants, assuming they're evil, out of FantasticRacism.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** ''EVERY'' reptile in the world is an AlwaysChaoticEvil CardCarryingVillain that wants to take over the world, and has no redeeming qualities.
** ''EVERY'' villain in the world uses a reptile motif and has reptile pets.
* '''Downplayed''':
** The heroes stop the evil SnakePeople army from taking over the world. They are aided by virtuous LizardFolk.
** Some villains have a reptile motif. Others don't.
** Lisa Lizard is an obvious AntiHero, but still on the side of good.
** The SnakePeople are dangerous to the heroes, but only if they're attacked. Otherwise, they keep to themselves.
** On a team of heroes that otherwise consists of mammals and/or birds, Lisa Lizard is the TokenEvilTeammate.
* '''Justified''': LizardFolk are the AlwaysChaoticEvil spawn of humans mating with Infernal demons, and therefore nobody trusts them.
* '''Inverted''':
** Reptiles are the ''only'' good guys in the story. Everyone else is a JerkAss, and the bad guys are either mammals or birds ([[ScienceMarchesOn even though birds are technically reptiles]]).
** LovableLizard
** DelightfulDragon
* '''Subverted''': The heroes have to stop the evil SnakePeople terrorists from taking over the world. But when the heroes' army invades Snakeland, they discover that King Slither and his virtuous SnakePeople army have been trying the whole time to stamp out terrorism in Snakeland. Most SnakePeople are decent.
* '''Double Subverted''': The heroes have to stop the evil SnakePeople terrorists from taking over the world. When the heroes invade Snakeland, they discover that King Slither and his SnakePeople army have been trying to stop terrorism. Then later it turns out that Slither and his army secretly want to mutate everybody in the world into mindless slaves by selling them drugged food products. Terrorism just isn't subtle enough.
* '''Parodied''': Lisa Lizard and her kin perform [[PokeThePoodle low-grade acts of evil]] such as jaywalking and kicking old ladies in the shin.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Slither joins the good guys, but then turns out to be TheMole ... only for the team to be saved by Pythus, a heroic snake-man. Pythus later turns on them ... until they manage to break him free of King Blackstone's MindControl.
* '''Averted''':
** Pythus is a reptile on the side of good.
** Reptile-themed characters are no more likely than non-reptilians to be villains.
** The heroes have to stop the evil SnakePeople terrorists from taking over the world. They are aided by King Slither and his virtuous SnakePeople army, who want to stamp out terrorism in Snakeland.
** There are no reptile-themed characters in the series.
* '''Enforced''': [[AuthorPhobia The author's biggest fear is of reptiles]] so they think reptiles would be scarier villains.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Why is it that reptiles are the only evil animals? Is it something in the water in Snakeland?"
* '''Invoked''': Evil King Blackstone tricks the heroes into attacking his arch-enemy Lisa Lizard by framing her for a crime. The evidence is shoddy, but they assume Lisa is evil because she's a lizard. Blackstone correctly predicts the heroes will fall for it because [[TitleDrop ReptilesAreAbhorrent]].
* '''Exploited''': The villains breed and capture reptiles to fill out their army.
* '''Defied''': Lisa Lizard decides [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch her species doth protest too much]] and becomes a DefectorFromDecadence. She may be an AntiHero who struggles with her "unnatural" moral code, but with the help of her friends and allies she stays on the side of good.
* '''Discussed''': "Lisa Lizard betraying us ... We should've guessed. It's her nature as a reptile."
* '''Conversed''': "So a six-foot-tall tool-using reptile is an acceptable character, but a six-foot-tall tool-using reptile ''with empathy'' is absurd?"
* '''Implied''': In the peaceful, good villages, no snakes are to be found. But whenever the villains' armies show up, you can hear hissing sounds from the crowd, even if no lizardfolk are ever shown.
* '''Deconstructed''': Due to their AlwaysChaoticEvil nature, a genocide against all reptilians is started across the world, even the ones who turn to be [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch not so bad]].
* '''Reconstructed''': See Defied; enough reptilians join the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits unofficial forces against evil]] that they are spared once the heroes can prove their relative innocence, or at least can hide in a remote part of the world where they live on as a species without any {{Adam and Eve plot}}s until the vitriol against lizards runs out.
* '''Played for Drama''': One of the main heroes turns out to be of part-lizard heritage, leading to uneasiness.
* '''Played for Laughs''': Reptiles are {{Harmless Villain}}s who barely succeed at PokeThePoodle acts and fail spectacularly when they try to do true evil.
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