Basic Trope: A chef who happens to be villainous.
- Straight: Chef Bob is a heinous fiend who isn't above preparing poisoned food or using his cutlery to murder people.
- Exaggerated: Chef Bob is a cannibal who goes a step further than simple murder and prepares his victims into food to be consumed by others.
- Downplayed:
- Angry Chef
- Chef Bob isn't necessarily evil, but is still a Jerkass.
- Justified: Bob assumed the guise of a chef so he could easily use the culinary arts to facilitate his plans to kill people, recognizing that he can slip poison into the food he prepares.
- Inverted: Chef Bob is a heroic chef who uses his culinary skills to fight crime.
- Subverted: Chef Bob is accused of poisoning the food, but he insists he did no such thing.
- Double Subverted: Chef Bob turns out to be lying, as the one who ate the poisoned food learned the hard way.
- Parodied: Chef Bob doesn't do anything that's truly criminal and his evilness is demonstrated by claiming that he only prepares evil food.
- Zig Zagged: Multiple chefs appear in the series and the ones that do commit questionable deeds may or may not have a good reason for their actions.
- Averted:
- Chefs aren't shown doing anything besides preparing food and aren't depicted as evil in any way.
- Chefs don't appear, period.
- Enforced: "Making our slasher villain a chef would allow lots of creative ways for him to do in his victims. He could boil someone alive, or cut someone to pieces with his cutlery!"
- Lampshaded: "And now to cook a recipe of crime almost as delicious as my recipe for creme brulee."
- Invoked: Chef Bob gets enraged at no one showing gratitude for his skill in preparing cuisine, so he decides to become a murderer and come up with plots to take the lives of those who have peeved him off.
- Exploited: Bob's rival, for some reason, has a fear of chefs, so Bob dresses up as one to scare him.
- Defied: Chef Bob refuses to commit any crimes, being content with preparing food and doing nothing beyond that with his life.
- Discussed: "I don't trust that chef. I think he's slipping arsenic into our food while he's working in the kitchen."
- Conversed: "Gosh, there's nothing more paranoia-inducing than the thought that someone who's job it is to make the food I eat would exploit his position to kill me."
- Implied: Mention is made of a chef serving time for poisoning people.
We must make haste if we are not to be poisoned by the Evil Chef.
