Depraved Bisexual/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A character's bisexuality underscores his or her villainous nature.

  • Straight: A scene establishes the villain's proclivities for both sexes, and perhaps shows unwelcome affection to heroic characters or sexually enthralls minions.
  • Exaggerated: The villain parades around in fetish gear the entire film, nearly always with multiple men and women under his or her arm.
  • Justified:
    • A psychiatrist posits that the villain has a mental disorder that, in addition to generally sadistic behavior patterns, leads to a sexual emphasis on pain rather than anatomy.
    • Alternatively, it has already been established in the work that Everyone Is Bi, so that includes the villains as well.
    • Alternatively, the villain is a sociopathic, hedonistic, and utterly amoral trisexual -- he or she only cares about his or her pleasure, and not a thing about who or what is being used, willingly or not, in the process.
  • Inverted:
    • It's suggested bisexuality gives the hero a more balanced outlook on life.
    • Alternatively, the character is a Virtuous Asexual.
    • Or, alternative to that, a villain's asexuality is just another facet of their inability to care about other people.
  • Subverted:
    • The bisexual villain turns out to be Good All Along.
    • The villain is The Vamp, and their bisexuality is an act.
    • Or their bisexuality is one of their humanizing qualities.
  • Double Subverted: ...but then turns on the heroes once they've gotten what they were after.
  • Parodied: A bisexual character's Jerkass tendencies are treated as more inherent to that trait than actual sexual or romantic patterns.
  • Deconstructed: The villain's bisexuality strengthens the Anti-Hero's animosity, and the way this is treated by the story causes the audience to think less of the heroes.
  • Reconstructed:
  • Zig Zagged: A bisexual character appears to be a hero and a villain at different points throughout the story.
  • Averted: Bi the Way, No Bisexuals, or even most cases of Anything That Moves.
  • Enforced:
  • Lampshaded: A character on the heroes' side finds out the villain is bisexual and comments it isn't a surprise.
  • Invoked: Characters looking for a villain who works behind the scenes consider a character's loud bisexuality a red flag.
  • Defied: A bisexual character noted as suspect is outraged as the assumption.
  • Discussed: Upon learning an openly bisexual character has done something horrible, the rest of the cast talk about how this is generally a red flag in the media.
  • Conversed: Members of a gay rights organization are talking about media portrayals of evil bisexuals in an establishing shot, before moving onto whatever issue brings them into the plot.

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