Beware the Silly Ones/Playing With: Difference between revisions

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* '''Subverted''': The heroes bust into the [[Obfuscating Stupidity|seemingly-idiotic]] [[Big Bad]]'s fortress, expecting to sabotage his [[Doomsday Device]]...except it appears that all his recent scheming and suspicious activity has gone towards building a kiddie pool. An ''evil kiddie pool that will help him take over the world!''...but still a kiddie pool.

* '''Double Subverted''': The heroes bust into the [[Obfuscating Stupidity|seemingly-idiotic]] [[Big Bad]]'s fortress, expecting to sabotage his [[Doomsday Device]]...except it appears that all his recent scheming and suspicious activity has gone towards building a kiddie pool. The heroes leave, flustered and embarrassed...and then while their back is turned, the kiddie pool moves aside to reveal the [[Doomsday Device]] the [[Big Bad]] has been constructing in secret.

* '''Parodied''': The villain is such a goofball that the heroes even consider themselves best friends with him, even though he's scheming behind their backs to kill them all and take over the world. However, the oblivious heroes manage to disrupt his plans [[Hilarity Ensues|in comedic fashion]] [[Spanner in ~~The~~ Works|with their very presence]].

* '''Parodied''': The villain is such a goofball that the heroes even consider themselves best friends with him, even though he's scheming behind their backs to kill them all and take over the world. However, the oblivious heroes manage to disrupt his plans [[Hilarity Ensues|in comedic fashion]] [[Spanner in the Works|with their very presence]].

* '''Deconstructed''': The villain suffers from a physical and/or mental condition that makes him look or act ridiculous, and [[Freudian Excuse|being brutally teased as a child]] led him to withdraw from the world, retreat to a hidden island fortress and [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|change his name to something frightening]] so that no one would bother him ever again. Then the heroes come calling, with exactly the wrong idea...

* '''Reconstructed''': The villain suffers from a physical and/or mental condition that makes him look or act ridiculous, and [[Freudian Excuse|being brutally teased as a child]] [[Start of Darkness|led him to seek revenge against the world]] [[Disability Superpower|and learn how to use his disability]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|to his advantage.]]

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* '''Enforced''': The writer created the villain wanting to trick the viewers into thinking the villain is harmless.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Have you ever noticed how it's always the ''stupid'' ones you have to look out for?"

* '''Invoked''': "Oh, come on! Does anyone ''really'' believe a guy who calls himself Dr. Mephistop[[Godwin's Law|hitler]] spends his days [[Pet the Dog|playing with puppies]] and [[Go-Karting ~~With~~ Bowser|playing video games with the local law enforcement]]? What about that shipment of 5,000 metric tons of [[Unobtainium]] he had shipped to his hidden volcano base just yesterday, huh? Or that tanker full of [[Made of Explodium|Explodium]] that vanished in the Pacific less than 10 miles from his Island Resort ''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Of Doom]]?''"

* '''Invoked''': "Oh, come on! Does anyone ''really'' believe a guy who calls himself Dr. Mephistop[[Godwin's Law|hitler]] spends his days [[Pet the Dog|playing with puppies]] and [[Go-Karting with Bowser|playing video games with the local law enforcement]]? What about that shipment of 5,000 metric tons of [[Unobtainium]] he had shipped to his hidden volcano base just yesterday, huh? Or that tanker full of [[Made of Explodium|Explodium]] that vanished in the Pacific less than 10 miles from his Island Resort ''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Of Doom]]?''"

* '''Defied''': The villain acts serious wanting to be taken seriously.

* '''Discussed''': "You have to wonder about [[Monster Clown|The Greasepainter]]. I mean, sure, ''now'' he's making silly faces and balloon animals for the kids, and he hasn't pulled off one of his crazy world domination schemes in months, but what about last week, when we spotted him less than a block from that armed car robbery? Or the stuff he does in the basement [[Noodle Implements|with those cats and that Tesla coil]]? And I could ''swear'' I heard him [[Ax Crazy|muttering "kill 'em all" under his breath]]. Something tells me we should keep an eye on him."