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1'''Basic Trope''': A mentally disabled villain.
2* '''Straight''': TheDragon Dracone has [[HollywoodAutism Asperger's syndrome]].
3* '''Exaggerated''':
4** Dracone is pure evil, and has at least half a dozen mental disabilities.
5** [[DysfunctionJunction Every single villain has some sort of mental disability.]]
6* '''Downplayed''':
7** Dracone has Asperger's syndrome and is a MinionWithAnFInEvil.
8** Dracone is an AffablyEvil {{Manchild}} and a FriendlyEnemy to the heroes.
9* '''Justified''':
10** 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.
11** Dracone is [[WhosLaughingNow lashing out]] after being bullied and ostracized because of his disorder.
12* '''Inverted''':
13** [[LoonWithAHeartOfGold Lance]], [[TheHeroine Alice's]] [[TheLancer second-in-command and primary partner]], has HollywoodAutism.
14** Dracone is the only character who ''doesn't'' have some sort of mental handicap.
15** Dracone is an EvilGenius, maybe even with a MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate or two.
16* '''Subverted''': Evulz reveals that Dracone was faking his autism.
17* '''Double Subverted''': Evulz is a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain, and lied because he was embarrassed to have a minion with autism.
18* '''Parodied''': Evulz has engaged in plenty of [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]], but no one believes he's evil because he doesn't have autism.
19* '''Zig Zagged''': Dracone is sometimes portrayed as autistic, [[ThrowingOffTheDisability sometimes he isn't]].
20* '''Averted''':
21** The villains have no mental handicaps.
22** Any mental handicaps the villains have are explicitly ''not'' part of his evil (ex. Dracone's autism makes him a RailEnthusiast but none of his evil deeds involve trains in any way, shape or form).
23* '''Enforced''':
24** The author has some kind of problem with autistic people.
25** The author ''is'' autistic, but thinks EvilIsCool.
26* '''Lampshaded''': "What's up with all these autists siding with Evulz?"
27* '''Invoked''': Emperor Evulz recruits people with HollywoodAutism when he's in need of more minions.
28* '''Exploited''': The heroes use their knowledge of Dracone's HollywoodAutism to trick him into revealing Evulz's plans.
29* '''Defied''':
30** Evulz refuses to hire Dracone because of his autism.
31** Dracone's autism and his capacity for evil have no direct correlation. Dracone may even have a BerserkButton towards people who assume otherwise.
32* '''Discussed''': Evulz ponders whether people with HollywoodAutism make good villains.
33* '''Conversed''': While watching ''Sinkhole Wars'', Alice remarks that the characters with HollywoodAutism seem to have an affinity for evil for some reason.
34* '''Implied''': Dracone has a few odd symptoms that suggest a mental disorder.
35* '''Deconstructed''': The characters start associating autism with Dracone, which stigmatizes non-evil autists.
36* '''Reconstructed''': Jason, an autistic hero, kills Dracone and [[WhatTheHellHero calls out the other heroes]] for their prejudice.
37* '''Played For Laughs''': Dracone's HollywoodAutism symptoms consist of him being a LiteralMinded {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, which always makes his schemes fail and turns him into an IneffectualSympatheticVillain.
38* '''Played For Drama''': After being bullied because of his mental handicap, Dracone slips into extreme cynicism and eventually evil.
39* '''Played For Horror''': Dracone's autism manifests in a desire to do horrible (or just plain spooky) things like vivisection or taxidermy. Or the writer says that Dracone has a bundle of mental handicaps (of which autism is just one of his most visible) that all combine in a semblance of Hollywood Sociopathy and thus Dracone has no problem slaughtering an entire building full of people just [[DisproportionateRetribution because the cook made his beans and greens touch in his dinner]].
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