Basic Trope: A character's bisexuality underscores their villainous and/or psychotic nature.
- Straight: An evil bisexual is introduced and grosses everyone out because of their proclivities towards both genders.
- Exaggerated:
- The villain parades around in fetish gear the entire film, nearly always with multiple men and women under their arm.
- A villainous Extreme Omnisexual.
- Downplayed:
- A bisexual character is a bit promiscuous, morbid, and abnormal, but not outright evil.
- The character's willingness to seduce both genders for his goals shows just how ruthless he is.
- The character isn't necessarily a villain, but doesn't seem to have standards, boundaries, or a sense of appropriateness.
- A bisexual character is a villain, but has sympathetic and/or redeeming qualities.
- The villain is Ambiguously Bi.
- Justified:
- It has already been established in the work that Everyone Is Bi, so that includes the villains as well.
- Alternatively, the villain is a sociopathic, hedonistic, and utterly amoral trisexual — they only care about their pleasure, and not a thing about who or what is being used, willingly or not, in the process.
- The reason they are evil is because they were shunned for being bisexual.
- The villain is not so much "bisexual" as "has an all-consuming paraphilia for stabbing people with knives."
- Everyone on the show is depraved in some way, regardless of their sexuality.
- Inverted:
- The show's bisexuals are actually the least depraved of the whole cast.
- A character's bisexuality underscores their heroic nature.
- No Love for the Wicked.
- Subverted:
- The bisexual villain turns out to be Good All Along.
- The villain is The Vamp, and their bisexuality is an act.
- The "Depraved Bisexual" is actually Camp Straight.
- Double Subverted:
- ...but then turns on the heroes once they've gotten what they were after.
- ...or at least that's what (s)he says.
- Upon further consideration, the villain realises they have tastes for both genders...while remaining as camp and as evil as ever.
- Parodied:
- The bisexual character immediately tries to have sex with anyone who antagonizes them.
- The hero has a massive crush on the villain, and fantasizes about the terrible things the latter will do to them... Much to the villain's consternation, as he plays both teams but is otherwise a decent person.
- Zig Zagged: A bisexual character appears to be a hero and a villain at different point throughout the story.
- Averted:
- No Bisexuals or most cases of extreme omnisexuality.
- The bisexual villain doesn't mix their evil with sex or their sex with evil, and no parallel is drawn between these two traits.
- The villains sexuality is never addressed.
- Enforced: "This isn't a gay show. If you're using bisexuals, either make them evil if they're men, or make them Fanservice fodder if they're female".
- The work was written in the age before such things were considered acceptable.
- Lampshaded: "You're bisexual? Why am I not surprised?"
- Invoked: The evil empire starts recruiting bisexuals into their armies.
- Exploited: Characters looking for a villain who works behind the scenes consider a character's loud bisexuality a red flag.
- Defied: "Look, what I do in bed is one thing, what I believe is right is another".
- Discussed: "I should have known better... He/She's bisexual after all. Not a good omen in general".
- Conversed: "Why is there so few sympathetic bisexuals on TV?" "Because it's too confusing for many people".
- Deconstructed:
- Because everyone believes bisexuals are evil by nature, when a bisexual character is introduced, they are shunned by everyone.
- The reason they are evil is because they were shunned for being bisexual.
- Reconstructed: Despite their initial refusal, the good characters eventually give the bisexual character a chance.
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