History Main / BadGuysPlayPool

* ''[=~Luigi's Mansion~=]'': Slim Bankshot, one of the escaped ghosts, is a billiards prodigy. Sure enough, he promptly starts trying to kill you.
** Unlike most other examples, he's actually using his pool skills to try to kill you. He is HoistByHisOwnPetard, however.
** He doesn't actually intentionally try to attack Luigi; what's more, the billiards he sends flying can hurt him. HoistByHisOwnPetard, indeed.

** Unlike most other example's, he's actually using his pool skills to try to kill you. He is HoistByHisOwnPetard, however.
** He isn't actually trying to hurt Luigi at all; he's the only non-boss ghost to try and attack Luigi.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' short "The Dover Boys", a spoof of turn of the 20th Century [[{{Melodrama}} "Mellerdramas"]], bad guy Dan Backslide "that coward, bully, cad and thief of Roquefort Hall" is first seen playing pool in "a tavern of unsavory repute" so vile that the Boys and their lady love have to avert their eyes as they bicycle past.

* There's also a pool table in the villain's club in ''BatmanBraveAndTheBold'', surrounded by very colourful and very silly villains. Someone in the DC animation team must like this trope.

The popularity of this trope is likely due to a pool table's ability to fit nicely inside a BadGuyBar or a faimly-friendly DenOfIniquity. If a FightScene ensues, [[BarBrawl as it inevitably will]], expect [[ImprovisedWeapon the cues]] to be used as clubs, swords, or broken in half and used to stab people.

The popularity of this trope is likely due to a pool table's ability to fit nicely inside a BadGuyBar. If a FightScene ensues, [[BarBrawl as it inevitably will]], expect [[ImprovisedWeapon the cues]] to be used as clubs, swords, or broken in half and used to stab people.

* in the manga MARS there was a point where Rei's 'job' was betting on/playing pool to get money. He stopped later because Kira didn't like it.

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* Pretty much every North American direct-to-video B-martial arts flick of the 80s and 90s. More often than not, the pool hall scene is used early on to show how BadAdd the protagonist is.

* In ''Kuroshitsuji'', there is a scene of people playing pool. The protagonist is among them (Who is sort of an AntiHero), as well as the bad-guy for that chapter. There's also a metaphor involving getting rid of evil, being evil, and some other things involving the pool table.

* In ''Kuroshitsuji'', there is a scene of people playing pool. The protagonist is among them (Who is sort of an AntiHero), as well as the bad-guy for that chapter.

* Taking a cue from ''Pinocchio'', below, the headquarters for the Foot Clan in the ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' live action movie has a huge game room filled with typical '80s/'90s delinquent kid activities to keep their underage [[strike:{{Xanatos Sucker}}s]] {{Ninja}} {{Mook}}s pacified, including a series of pool tables.

* In the musical ''TheMusicMan'', Howard Hill gets an entire city riled up over the idea that pool is corrupting their children.

** Debatable at best. Note that Billiards and Pool are two different games played on different tables. Besides, the Billiards Room is featured as the murderscene only 1 in every 8 games; and if it does it just the scene. I doubt that the murderer actually played a game or two after the kill.

** Debatable at best. Note that Billiards and Pool are two different games played on different tables, and it only features as a murderscene 1 in 8 games. And if it does it just the scene. I doubt that the murderer actually played a game or two after the kill.

* [SixthRanger Merrick Balton]] of ''PowerRangersWildForce'' plays pool as a way of practicing his special attack.

* ''LuigisMansion'': Slim Bankshot, one of the escaped ghosts, is a billiards prodigy. Sure enough, he promptly starts trying to kill you.