Basic Trope: The team of humorless, cheating Jerk Jocks and Heels who serve as the final opponent of a sports movie.
- Straight: The last team the Trope High Faces Wildcats, led by Aiden "The Big One" Norbert Skumm, will face in the Professional Wrestling movie is the Vil Lain High Bigg Badds, who break the rules, cheat, and are generally made up of Jerk Jocks, Barbaric Bullies, and other Heels, led by the worst of them all, the Foreign Wrestling Monster Flash Young.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone who attends Vil Lain High - teachers, students, even the janitors - are horrible, horrible examples of the worst humanity has to offer.
- The Vil Lain High Bigg Badds are the SNK Boss team in the game.
- The Vil Lain High Big Badds literally don't seem to have anything else to do with their existence other than "break rivals in the most unnecessarily violent way possible".
- Downplayed:
- Most of the students of Vil Lain High are actually not all that bad (and it shows), but they're led by Flash and some other jerkasses that occupy the spotlight.
- The Bigg Badds explicitly don't cheat, but they are condescending, arrogant, and come from a wealthy school with resources the Wildcats don't have.
- Justified:
- Inverted:
- The antagonists of the film are generally more respectable people than the protagonists.
- The Big Badds are a Consummate Professional team. They are not vile, they are not even jerks, but the narrative has them as the antagonists so they are obviously still presented as borderline inhuman.
- Alternatively, the Bigg Badds are the main characters, as Flash tries to lead them out of a losing streak.
- Subverted: It seems like they're evil, but that's just a public image that they've embraced to scare off opponents.
- Double Subverted: But they've had the public image so long that many of the current players have bought into it.
- Parodied: Vil Lain High's fight song consists entirely of increasingly-brutal descriptions of what they'll do to the other team while the referee is distracted.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Some of the players are jerks, some aren't.
- Enforced: "No one's gonna watch this Professional Wrestling movie unless the last team they face are a bunch of jerks!"
- Implied: After cutting away from the Wildcats talking about how hard can it be to play the sport, we switch to an exterior shot of the Bigg Badds' training gym, in the middle of a dark and stormy night (even if it makes no sense) with Ominous Latin Chanting playing on the background.
- Lampshaded: "Rival teams. Evil Heels, the lot of them. Always."
- Invoked:
- The Greater-Scope Villain, Fantasy-Forbidding Father, Mayor Pain and Wrestling Manager Al "Reedy" Skumm, hires Flash and the Bigg Badds to face off against the Wildcats, hoping that by sending the whole team (and spectators) to the hospital, his son Aiden No. Skumm (the Wildcats' top face) will decide to stop playing out of despair.
- The Bigg Badds don't necessarily break rules and laws on a whim and are at most a Downplayed example in reality, but willingly embrace the bad boy heel wrestler image as a structure around which to rally their own fanbase and make them look cool to those who are partial to it.
- Flash seeks to break everyone in the game after seeing that his team was on the worst possible losing streak, and teaches everyone in the team how to be a little bit angry.
- Exploited: The Wildcats make sure to install spy cameras and record everything they can about the Bigg Badds' ultra-violent training and gaming style, and if they lose, they will just send the recording (and other possible files, like their X-Rays from where the Bigg Badds deliberately tried to cripple them or caused Casualties in the Rings) to a judge in the hopes of getting a Disqualification-Induced Victory.
- Defied: Flash simply tells others to not break rules left right and center.Flash: 'Ey, we don't want that kinda' heat on us, y'all dig? So don't try an' break rules!
- Discussed: "Sweep the leg, Vil Lain High Bigg Badds, no mercy!"
- Conversed: "J.H. Christ, what is it with these people? Did the writers do any research?! There is a very visible difference between accidental fouls, deliberate fouls and trying to commit freaking murder right in the middle of the playing field!!! And don't say that "Pro Wrestling Is Real" justifies it, dude. Just don't."
- Deconstructed:
- The Bigg Badds are choreographed to be Heels, but it soon becomes apparent that they're no worse than the Faces from Wildcats, just competitive - and their rivalry has led to both sides being unnecessarily rude to each other.
- The Big Badds have lost way too much through penalties and sanctions for their ultra-violent methods to be of actual effectiveness. But they are too vile to actually notice this, which gets them even more mired down in sanctions.
- Reconstructed:
- The realization leads to members of both teams becoming close friends, eventually leading to a more friendly rivalry even in Kayfabe.
- The Big Badds switch to playing in illegal, underground circuits where anything goes, and make a (literal) killing.
- Plotted A Good Waste:
- The Bigg Badds are given lots of mystery throughout most of the Professional Wrestling events and what few glimpses we get make them look like Wrestling Monsters, but then the event finally happens and we find out that they are pretty spirited competitors with a high degree of professionalism — they are still the Heels and must be defeated, of course, but nobody is gonna be ordered to hurt other players.
- (From Inverted #2) The Bigg Badds are presented as borderline inhuman, but there's a damn good reason for this; Each member's got family starving in some dingy work camp with terrible conditions, and the members are all threatened with their families' deaths if they don't present their country as an almighty, thriving, and borderline untouchable global superpower.
- Played For Laughs: The Bigg Badds all got their jerk jock playbook moves from watching The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai and the Heel wrestlers from WWE lots of times apparently without figuring out that the guys who apply "Strike fast, strike hard, no mercy" all of the time eventually screw up their lives. Result: it's a dodgeball competition and these guys act like stereotypical overkill-you-for-standing-against-them Eighties/early Nineties Jerk Jock Heels.
- Played For Drama: The Bigg Badds have a reputation as crazies that break rules willy-nilly and injure players in order to win. It doesn't matters how stupid and destructive these tactics are shown to be, they still do them.
- Played For Horror: The Bigg Badds have The Dreaded reputation as an undefeated team because they kill anybody who gets in the way.
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