term for trope exaggerated and downplayed at the same time

There's this one villain from a kid's show that seemed to both downplay the You Have Failed Me trope and exaggerate it at the same time—-he downplayed it in that he used an Agony Beam magic spell to punish his minions instead of actually killing them, and he exaggerated it in that he used his Agony Beam on minions who annoyed him, even if the annoyance had nothing to do with failing a mission.

Now, there are tropes like You Have Failed Me that have multiple aspects to them, and for those tropes, some aspects of the trope can be played up while others are played down—and this can happen simultaneously.

So what I'm wondering is: does that kind of thing—part of a trope being exaggerated and part being downplayed—happen often enough to make it worth the bother of giving that a name?

Simply use Zig-Zagged Trope

Thanks; I'd forgotten that Zig Zagging wasn't just for triple-subversions!