Basic Trope Description: A villain who needs support to stay alive.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz may be an Evil Overlord with everything that comes with it, but is hooked up on machines that he needs to survive.
- Exaggerated: All villains of the show are people on life support.
- Downplayed: Emperor Evulz is in a wheelchair, but can survive quite well otherwise.
- Justified:
- Evulz' power is weakening due to his advanced age.
- Evulz lost his health (or even body) in a magical accident.
- Evulz' means of gaining incredible power also left him on permanent life support due to extensive body and brain damage.
- Inverted: Alice, our heroine, is on life support.
- Subverted: When we first confront Emperor Evulz, he is in a hospital bed and surrounded by bleeping machines. But then he just gets up and confronts the heroes in a perfectly healthy state.
- Double Subverted: Then, Emperor Evulz collapses due to pulling the plug besides his disease, and has to be put back on the life support machines.
- Enforced: The writer intends to humanize Emperor Evulz.
- Averted: No villain is on life support.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz, who had been a failing villain until now, has a life support bag very distinctly labeled "PLOT AND FANSERVICE".
- Zigzagged: Whether Emperor Evulz is on life support or not is dependent on the day.
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz hooks himself up on life support machines since the heroes wouldn't harm a sick person (at least, that is what he thinks).
- Exploited:
- Emperor Evulz talks the heroes out of killing him with the excuse that he is already so sick that he is on life support - and it wouldn't be very heroic to kill a deadly sick person.
- Alternatively, Alice kills him by just pulling the plug.
- Defied: When Emperor Evulz falls sick, he decides against life support and chooses a quick exit.
- Lampshaded: "And we have that what already some heroes had before us: an Evulz on life support."
- Discussed: "I heard they had to put him on life support." "Do we even have to kill him to end his reign?" "Yes, nature could easily do it herself for us."
- Conversed: "Did they really have to kill him when he was already sick enough for life support?"
