Basic Trope: A mentally handicapped villain.
- Straight: The Dragon Dracone has an intellectual disability.
- Exaggerated:
- Dracone is pure evil, and has at least half a dozen mental handicaps.
- Every single villain has some sort of mental handicap.
- Downplayed:
- Dracone has Asperger's syndrome and is a Dumb Muscle.
- Justified:
- Dracone's disorder keeps him from understanding what is and is not acceptable. Emperor Evulz takes advantage of this by enabling and encouraging Dracone's less savoury actions.
- Dracone is lashing out after being bullied and ostracized because of his disorder.
- Inverted:
- Lance, Alice's second-in-command and primary partner, has a mental disability.
- Dracone is the only character who doesn't have some sort of mental handicap.
- Dracone is an Evil Genius, maybe even with a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate or two.
- Subverted: Evulz reveals that Dracone was faking his disability.
- Double Subverted: Evulz is a Politically Incorrect Villain, and lied because he was embarrassed to have a minion with an intellectual disability.
- Parodied: Evulz has engaged in plenty of dog-kicking, but no one believes he's evil because he doesn't have a mental disability.
- Zig-Zagged: Dracone is sometimes portrayed as mentally disabled, and sometimes he isn't.
- Averted:
- The villains have no mental handicaps.
- Any mental handicaps the villains have are explicitly not part of their evil.
- Enforced:
- Lampshaded: "What's up with all these mentally disabled people siding with Evulz?"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz recruits people with mental disabilities when he's in need of more minions.
- Exploited: The heroes use their knowledge of Dracone's mental disability to trick him into revealing Evulz's plans.
- Defied:
- Evulz refuses to hire Dracone because of his intellectual disability.
- Dracone's disability and his capacity for evil have no direct correlation. Dracone may even have a Berserk Button towards people who assume otherwise.
- Discussed: Evulz ponders whether people with intellectual disabilities make good villains.
- Conversed: While watching Sinkhole Wars, Alice remarks that the characters with mental disabilities seem to have an affinity for evil for some reason.
- Implied: Dracone has a few odd symptoms that suggest an intellectual disability.
- Deconstructed: The characters start associating intellectual disabilities with Dracone, which stigmatizes non-evil people with intellectual disabilities.
- Reconstructed: Jason, an intellectually disabled hero, kills Dracone and calls out the other heroes for their prejudice.
- Played For Laughs: Dracone's mental disability symptoms consist of him being a Literal-Minded Cloudcuckoolander, which always makes his schemes fail and turns him into an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
- Played For Drama: After being bullied because of his mental handicap, Dracone slips into extreme cynicism and eventually evil.
- Played For Horror:
- Dracone's mental disability manifests in a desire to do horrible (or just plain spooky) things like vivisection or taxidermy.
- Dracone has multiple mental handicaps that all combine into something resembling sociopathy, so Dracone has no problem slaughtering an entire building full of people for petty reasons (like the cook accidentally making his beans and vegetables touch in his dinner).
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