Basic Trope: Someone finally achieves a victory they sought after, and they're left bored.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz has killed Bob, his main rival, and now is bored because he has nothing left to do afterwards.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz has killed Bob and even conquered the world but is extremely bored afterwards because now he has to fill out all the paperwork to make it formal to the point where he resorts to watching TV.
- Downplayed: Emperor Evulz is mildly annoyed afterwards and starts writing a book about his experiences.
- Justified:
- Emperor Evulz has dedicated his entire life up until this point to killing Bob the Hero and feels as if it wasn't adding anything afterwards.
- Evulz planned on waging a war against The Republic and now has to rule afterwards which is significantly less fun or exciting for a villainous overlord.
- After exterminating the Knights of Alice Evulz realizes nobody is going to fight him and he's left bored due to no new challengers to test his might upon.
- Inverted: Emperor Evulz is extremely happy after he kills Bob and he has a party afterward.
- Subverted: Emperor Evulz becomes paranoid of Bob not being dead after he succeeds and believes that victory will be stolen from him at any moment due to a last second resurrection.
- Double Subverted: After he confirms that Bob is dead, Evulz becomes depressed as well as bored as he ponders what to do with his life.
- Parodied: Upon realizing he actually won, Evulz throws a temper tantrum and screams profanity at how he didn't realize what would happen if he succeeded.
- Zig-Zagged: Emperor Evulz only gets bored after he kills capable rivals like Bob as he has to wait for long stretches until a new rival emerges but he relishes in the sweetness of victory when he succeeds in conquering nations that he can force under his will.
- Averted:
- Emperor Evulz either never succeeds in the first place.
- He never gets bored after winning.
- Enforced: Emperor Evulz ends up becoming bored after victory because the producers realized they didn't know how to write a sequel story in a world where the bad guy wins so they use this trope to allow for a Heel–Face Turn.
- Lampshaded: "Come on Evulz, even if you succeed you're not really gonna be that happy, especially when you run out of things that will fight you. You're gonna end up begging for me to come back to life.''
- Invoked:
- Bob fakes his own death so that Emperor Evulz can get a taste of how boring being a ruler is without a worthy rival to challenge him.
- Drake, Evulz's Dragon who wants his empire for himself, kidnaps Bob and tricks Evulz into thinking he killed him so Evulz's guard will be lowered to make it easier for Drake to take over.
- Exploited: A rival emperor helps Evulz succeed in taking over the world and pretends to be a good ally. When Evulz grows soft and unmotivated, the rival emperor attacks him which leads to a war between two evil emperors.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob is a hero who undergoes a cycle of feeling invigorated when his life is on the line to save the world and he's facing new challenges, only to be met with emptiness and depression once his story is over. Eventually Bob gets himself killed by a new villain far stronger than he's ever known, and contrary to belief dies happy that he'll never feel empty again.
- Bob is the type of person who cannot accept that he's won and decides he has to keep going, even when it'd be better to accept that it's over and move onto to new things. As a result, Bob ends up ruining himself as he digs deeper and deeper for that elusive dramatic finale victory he's been searching for.
- With no challengers to test his might against, Emperor Evulzs turns against his own people and starts killing them to pass the time. Because none of them are strong enough to fight him, he effortlessly crushes them and is left with nothing because he couldn't control his bloodlust.
- Emperor Evulz starts intentionally sabotaging his chances at victory because he cannot stand the boredom that comes after crushing a mighty foe. His henchmen get so sick of this that they become a Deck of Wild Cards who compete to usurp the emperor's position, and end up trapped in the same cycle as their former leader.
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