There have been heroes and villains ever since mankind has had stories and histories to tell. And sometimes, common themes occur in those stories (after all, that's why we have Tropes to catalog in the first place).

Sometimes, a hero (or in some cases a Villain Protagonist or Designated Hero), will decide that the absolute best way to get under an opponent's skin is to declare that they're utterly predictable and behaving like the bad guys in cheap/lowbrow fiction. This is particularly common to characters who have