Bastard Bastard/Playing With

Basic Trope: The illegitimate son of an aristocrat is evil with ambition, resentment and perversion.
 * Straight: Bob's parents aren't married, which makes him an evil jerk.
 * Exaggerated: Bob's parents aren't married, so he destroys the world.
 * Justified: Bob lives in Medieval England, where they treat illegitimate children like crap. This makes him bitter and angry, and he takes out his pain on the world around him.
 * Inverted: Bob is much nicer than his legitimate half-brother, The Prince.
 * Subverted: Bob is a Heroic Bastard, who seeks to overthrow the evil man who sired him.
 * Double Subverted: ...but he abandons the path of good for the sake of his father's approval!
 * Parodied: The Bastard Bastard is a Harmless Villain.
 * Deconstructed: The Bastard Bastard is a Hero With Bad Publicity.
 * Reconstructed: ...who ultimately turns to evil in frustration and despair, because his will was weaker than his inherited character flaws.
 * Zig Zagged: ??
 * Averted:
 * Bob's parents are married.
 * Or Bob lives in a society with no concept of bastardy.
 * Enforced: ??
 * Lampshaded: ??
 * Invoked: Maria has an affair with the king, hoping that his illegitimate son, Bob, will be his downfall.
 * Exploited: Bob's adoptive parent fosters his resentment toward his father the king.
 * Defied: ...But Bob refuses to be controlled by his past, and lives a normal life.
 * Discussed: Two characters wonder whether newborn bastard Bob will be a problem later on.
 * Conversed: Alice and Bob see a play about a Bastard Bastard, and critique it.
 * Played For Laughs: ??
 * Played For Drama: Bob--and the rest of his Big Screwed-Up Family--feel the bonds of family warring with political ambition. These powerful, conflicting emotions tear them all apart.
 * Plotted A Good Waste: Bob is a poor bastard with every reason to hate the world, but he just puts up with it.

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