Line #11 PlayingWith/SortingAlgorithmOfEvil


1	'''Basic Trope''': The heroes defeat the villains in the order of weakest to strongest.
2	* '''Straight''': Our heroes [[StarterVillain first]] face off against [[{{Delinquent\|s}} Bruizer]], then [[MadScientist Dr. Destructo]], before moving on to [[TheEmperor Emperor]] {{Ev\|il Overlord}}ulz, and finally facing off against the [[TheChessmaster Queen Terra]] whom the previous villains [[UnwittingPawn unknowingly helped]].
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** The [[StarterVillain first villain]] Bob faces is a schoolyard bully, [[BarbaricBully Flash Young]] (who's a really young Bruizer), while the FinalBoss is a nigh-omnipotent GodOfEvil.
5	** The Mooks of the new Big Bad are just as strong as the previous Big Bad.
6	* '''Downplayed''': Each Big Bad is stronger than the previous one, but only for a little bit.
7	* '''Justified''':
8	** Emperor Evulz initially doesn't view the heroes as a threat, so he sends out his weakest forces to face them to conserve his resources. After realizing the threat the heroes pose, Evulz begins sending out stronger and stronger minions to fight them.
9	** The heroes start off not very strong and thus are only equipped to face off against Evulz's weaker minions. As they get stronger, they are able to go up against the stronger members of Evulz's army.
10	** Evulz' weakest minions are also [[PunchClockVillain not the most evil or loyal to his cause.]] He pits them against the heroes fully expecting them to die in order [[TheSocialDarwinist to weed out weakness in his ranks]], while promoting any minion who proves surprisingly competent.
11	** Evulz has many enemies, and at the start our heroes are the least of his worries. At the start of the tale Evulz has his stronger troops held back to protect him against the actual threats to his reign, which does not include the heroes until [[FromNobodyToNightmare much later in the plot.]]
12	** Each opponent defeated directly affects the goals of the next. Without Bruizer and his gang, Dr. Destructo lost the distribution network for the PsychoSerum he was trying to inject people with. Without Dr. Destructo, Emperor Evulz no longer has a way to build the mutant army he needed. And without Evulz's authority and influence over the planet, Queen Terra's entire plan for galactic dominance has been jeopardized.
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** EvilEvolves
15	** The heroes defeat Emperor Evulz first, before defeating TheDragon and working their way down the rest of Evulz's forces.
16	** Emperor Evulz first defeats the kingdom's {{Red Shirt}}s, then the HeroOfAnotherStory, then TheHero, and finally the BigGood.
17	** After Emperor Evulz and his empire are defeated, the unrelated and significantly less threatening Dr. Destructo steps up to bat.
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** The heroes defeat the BigBad in the first episode.
20	** After Dr. Destructo is defeated, Bruizer steps in -- an ordinary gangster, compared to the powerful scientist before him.
21	* '''Double Subverted''':
22	** Except it turns out that the supposed BigBad was just one of many {{Evil Overlord}}s and isn't even that strong compared to them.
23	** Bruizer may be an ordinary gangster, but [[BadassNormal he's very good at being one]], and due to the fact that [[OneManArmy he can take on and wipe the floor with twice as much people as Bob can bring with him]], Bob has far more trouble with him than he did with Destructo.
24	* '''Parodied''': While facing off against Bob, the villains get in a line from weakest to strongest and fight Bob one-by-one.
25	* '''Zig Zagged''': The heroes first defeat Sergeant Bad, who is little more than a glorified MookLieutenant in Evulz's army. They then battle General Drake, before fighting Captain Kill, who is considerably less strong than Drake. After that, they finally face off against Emperor Evulz himself, who apparently turns out to be a NonActionBigBad. And once he's taken care of, they now have to deal with Dr. Destructo and his new experiment; A PsychoSerum augmented Bruizer.
26	* '''Averted''': The villains are not all that different from each other in terms of strength or threat level.
27	** Alternatively, the first villain is more powerful than the ones who come later.
28	* '''Enforced''': ???
29	* '''Lampshaded''': "The villains we face seem to keep getting stronger and meaner."
30	* '''Invoked''': Upon hearing Bob has trounced a squad of Mooks, the rest of them promptly decide to make VillainForgotToLevelGrind a DefiedTrope.
31	* '''Exploited''': Bob makes himself look weaker than he is, [[UnderestimatingBadassery allowing him to take Evulz's minions by surprise.]]
32	* '''Defied''': Emperor Evulz [[BadBoss kills]] all of his weaker minions, leaving only the strong ones to fight the heroes.
33	** After the heroes defeat the weakest mooks, Evulz sends in his elite guards to [[CurbStompBattle absolutely crush]] them.
34	* '''Discussed''': ???
35	* '''Conversed''': ???
36	* '''Deconstructed''': ???
37	* '''Reconstructed''': ???
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41	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
42	%%* '''Implied''': ???
43	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
44	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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