Basic Trope: A boss has minions to fight alongside them.
- Straight: When Bob confronts Emperor Evulz, Evulz is assisted by his Elite Guards.
- Exaggerated: The guards can summon their own minions.
- Downplayed: There are only two or three guards.
- Justified: Evulz knows the value of strength in numbers.
- Inverted: When fighting Evulz, Bob summons his Red Shirt Army.
- The guards are the real bosses and Evulz is the minion.
- Subverted: The guards are just statues.
- Double Subverted: Which Evulz brings to life as his own personal minions.
- Averted: Evulz fights Bob one-on-one.
- Invoked: Evulz decided that, as a Big Bad, he needs minions to keep up his image.
- Defied: Bob surrounds himself and Evulz with a force field, cutting off the guards.
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