Basic Trope: The villain has intellectual and artistic interests.
Played Straight: Evil Elliott ends every night with A Glass of Chianti, reads lots of classic literature, plays chess, and enjoys watching ballet.
Exaggerated: All of his plots are references to any and all of these things. Oh, and did we mention his British accent?
Justified: These are his interests, regardless of whether he's good or evil.
Inverted: Evil Elliott is an uncultured, sloppy Neanderthal.
Subverted: Evil Elliott likes classic literature and chess, but he's a big football fan too.
Double Subverted: But no one knows that except him and his Right-Hand Cat.
Deconstructed: The work criticizes the idea that have good taste makes Evil Elliott any less of a monster, and explores how his sensitivity in some areas makes him even worse than he would be otherwise.
Reconstructed: The work explores Evil Elliott's Freudian Excuse of a poor and miserable upbringing, and presents his cultured tastes as well as his villainy as attempts to overcome his past.
Parodied: Evil Elliott's dark fortress doubles as an opera house.
Zig Zagged: Sometimes Evil Elliott plays chess, other times he watches football.
Lampshaded: "For someone so evil, you sure like ballet a lot."
Averted: Evil Elliott is never shown as having particularly erudite interests in-story.
