History PlayingWith / JokerImmunity

** After his fourth defeat, Evulz is carted back to his CardboardPrison and mocks Bob for their refusal to kill him and pointing out they'll keep doing this forever, at which point [[AntiHero Alice]] shoots him in the back of the head.

--> '''Bob''': "Dude! We’ve killed you, like, 5 times! Stay down!”

* '''Played for Horror''': Evulz' constant rampages cause thousands of deaths, trying to arrest him only makes him escalate once [[CardboardPrison he escapes]], trying to kill him not only [[BackFromTheDead never truly works]] but only leads to more deaths as [[DeadMansSwitch measures he put in place for retaliation in case this happens]] activate and Evulz will get ''[[ColdBloodedTorture very]]'' personal with the killer the moment he comes back [[MakeAnExampleOutOfThem to teach everybody else a lesson]] and it's made constantly clear that, one way or another, he will outlive everybody else in the cast. [[HeroicBSOD Mental breakdowns]] occur as a result, more often sooner than later.

* '''Exaggerated''': Evulz spreads death and destruction wherever he goes but all the heroes can do [[SealedEvilInACan is put him back in his can.]]

** Although it is acknowledged that killing Evulz would not necessarily be a bad thing, the heroes are a LawfulGood group and firm believers in the principle ThouShaltNotKill, preferring to have faith in the courts to mete out appropriate justice.

* '''Played For Laughs''': Evulz is an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who never does any real damage and is treated by the heroes as little more than a nuisance. "Same time next week?"
* '''Played For Drama''': The heroes' inability or unwillingness to kill Evulz results in many deaths and a severe loss of morale.

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** [[VillainousBreakdown Brought to his breaking point]] by numerous defeats, Evulz decides that enough is enough and engages in a LastVilainStand against the heroes.

* '''Defied''': After his fourth defeat, Evulz is carted back to his CardboardPrison and mocks Bob for their refusal to kill him and pointing out they'll keep doing this forever, at which point [[AntiHero Alice]] shoots him in the back of the head.

* '''Subverted''': After a season of tormenting the heroes from afar, Evulz is abruptly killed off in the WhamEpisode season finale...

* '''Double Subverted''':...but it's later revealed to have been a DisneyDeath fakeout.

** Emperor Evulz, [[CardCarryingVillain as his hamtastic name suggests]], was only in it FortheEvulz anyway: as far as he's concerned, being locked in [[SealedEvilInADuel a loop of eternal conflict with no finale]] is [[WarriorHeaven his equivalent to heaven]], [[BloodKnight so he's already won.]]

** Evulz revels in his semi-immortality, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin until he realises he can't WIN either]], and that he's therefore stuck in a stalemate: he will never die, but will never achieve his goals either.

** Emperor Evulz, [[CardCarryingVillain as his hamtastic name suggests]], was only in it FortheEvulz anyway: as far as he's concerned, being locked in [[SealedEvilInADuel a loop of eternal conflict with no finale]] is [[BloodKnight his equivalent to heaven, so he's already won.]]

* '''Deconstructed''': Emperor Evulz coming back every time he is defeated leads to everything ranging from rage to despair to frustration on the part of those that stopped him the last time. The {{muggles}} also question the ability of the heroes to truly put him down.

* '''Reconstructed''': It is revealed that if Emperor Evulz is killed, [[EvilPowerVacuum a villain far more evil would take his place and everything would get much worse]]. The heroes are then celebrated for stopping Evulz's plans without killing him.

** Evulz revels in his semi-immortality, [[TheGoodGuysAllwaysWin until he realises he can't WIN either]], and that he's therefore stuck in a stalemate: he will never die, but will never achieve his goals either.

* '''Defied''': After his fourth defeat, Evulz is carted back to his CardboardPrison and gives Bob a HannibalLecture mocking their refusal to kill him and pointing out they'll keep doing this forever, at which point [[AntiHero Alice]] shoots him in the back of the head.

* '''Deconstructed''': Emperor Evulz constantly causes more and more destruction and death whenever he comes back, to the point that all faith has been lost in the heroes for failing to effectively stop him.
* '''Reconstructed''': Then it is revealed that if Emperor Evulz is killed, [[EvilPowerVacuum a villain far more evil would take his place]] and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero everything would get much worse]]. The heroes are then celebrated for stopping Evulz's plans without killing him.

* '''Intended Audience Reaction:'''

* '''Played For Laughs:''' Evulz is an IneffectualSympatheticVillain who never does any real damage and is treated by the heroes as little more than a nuisance. "Same time next week?"
* '''Played For Drama:''' The heroes' inability or unwillingness to kill Evulz results in many deaths and a severe loss of morale.

* '''Plotted a Good Waste:'''