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MegaMarioMan
(Ten years in the joint)

What is the trope, if there is one, for when the Big Bad kills a Red Shirt Minion (one of their own henchmen) for a small reason - if at all - to show how bad they are. I think this differs from the usual Red Shirt trope as the character killed is a bad guy and one of the vilians own. Thanks.