Basic Trope: A villain who actively destroys nature.
- Straight: Dr. Pollution is a fan of building giant factories that spew smoke into the air and hacking down forests.
- Exaggerated: Dr. Pollution hates nature so much, he's willing to travel to other planets that support life and destroy their environments, too.
- Downplayed: Dr. Pollution doesn't actively despise nature, but he doesn't care about what his factories are doing to it, either.
- Justified:
- Dr. Pollution had lost his loved ones to wildlife, and has gone on the warpath against nature.
- Dr. Pollution had lost his loved ones to Eco Terrorism, and has gone on the warpath against nature.
- Dr. Pollution is Only in It for the Money. He don't give two flying shits about nature, he just wants to grab his bag of money!
- Inverted:
- Dr. Green is an Eco-Terrorist.
- Nature Hero
- Subverted: Dr. Pollution's factories and deforestation acts are all made with the intent to both advance technologies that are eco-friendly in the long term and plans to replant the trees he cut down as well.
- Double Subverted: This was only a public front, Dr. Pollution doesn't actually mean it.
- Parodied: Dr. Pollution likes to drive his gas-dependent car around in circles while shouting "I'm polluting for no reason!"
- Zig-Zagged: Dr. Predation intentionally lets an invasive species out into an ecosystem, causing horrible ecological damage via overpopulation. His motive is neither apathy or hatred of nature, but rather an obsession with one particular part of nature at the expense of the other parts.
- Averted: The work, despite having a Green Aesop, features no such villain.
- Enforced: The work is aimed at young kids, so the creators make sure to make their Green Aesop easier to understand by making Dr. Pollution as cartoonishly evil towards nature as possible.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The heroes plant a tree to use as a distraction for Dr. Pollution, who gladly takes the bait and attempts to chop it down. The heroes take this as an opportunity to strike him.
- Defied: Dr. Pollution decides to reconsider planting his industries among the rainforests and natural scenery, and to avoid retaliation from angry nature lovers, takes precautions to industrialize where nature would be least affected by it.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Y'know, it's kind of hard to take this work's message seriously when the villain hates nature to such an unrealistic degree."
- Deconstructed: Dr. Pollution wins. Predictably, the end results of his pollution don't even benefit him. In the end, he suffers a Karmic Death from inhaling deadly toxins in the air or drinking polluted water.
- Reconstructed: Unfortunately, his son, Dr. Pollution Jr., who takes up his throne not long after his father's death, finds a way to profit off of the pollution: by inventing ways to filter water and air, but not using them to help the planet and instead making people have to buy clean drinking water and air in bulk.
- Played for Horror: Dr. Pollution's desecration of Mother Earth creates Eldritch Abominations made of pollution that create even more ecological destruction.
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