Basic Trope: Bad guys either don't understand jokes or tell really bad ones.
- Straight:
- Emperor Evulz never laughs at anyone's jokes.
- Emperor Evulz laughs at things like drowning a person in a ducking chair.
- Exaggerated:
- Emperor Evulz has never gotten a single joke since he was born.
- Emperor Evulz is The Hyena, and what he finds so funny all the time is torturing or killing others.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz rarely laughs at people's jokes, but occasionally it happens.
- Emperor Evulz finds torturing people funny, but it's not the only kind of humor he likes.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Bob, the hero, has No Sense of Humor.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz is seen laughing after someone drops a hundred-pound weight on an underling...but it turns out said underling is Made of Iron, making it the equivalent of slapstick comedy.
- Double Subverted: However, then someone hits the underling with a mallet made of something that weakens or bypasses his toughness, leaving him critically injured. Evulz finds this hysterical.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz is a comedian with the funniest jokes. The moment he performs a Face–Heel Turn, all his jokes get Dude, Not Funny! reactions and opens to an empty crowd.
- Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulz has no sense of humor; Dracone has a sadistic sense of humor, and Eva's sense of humor is no different from those of the heroes.
- Averted: Evulz' sense of humor (or lack thereof) is no different from the heroes'.
- Enforced: The author wants to show clearly that Evulz is not a guy the audience wants to imitate.
- Lampshaded: "Why is it every villain I've ever met either has no sense of humor or a lousy one?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
