Generic Doomsday Villain/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A villain without coherent motivation, goals and plans, defined solely by the threat he poses.

  • Straight: General Dusk is a villain that just destroys things and is all-powerful, and nothing else.
  • Exaggerated: General Dusk does random villain things for no reason whatsoever
  • Justified: General Dusk is a practically mindless robot/force of nature/other, so it doesn't really have a personality.
  • Inverted: Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
  • Subverted: General Dusk actually has some complexity to him...
  • Double Subverted: Then it turns out to be just an excuse to do whatever he wants.
  • Parodied:
    • The characters point out how one-note and completely unremarkable he is.
    • General Dusk is the Big Bad, yet every other villain working for him has a fully developed personality and ambitions. The joke is from Seargent Night's inability to have any relationship with his master.
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???
  • Zig Zagged: His complexity varies between episodes.
  • Averted: He's actually a very complex villain.
  • Enforced:
    • The writers are lazy.
    • The writers are portraying the villain as a force of nature instead of an individual.
  • Lampshaded: "Okay, why are you doing what you're doing General Dusk? Seriously, you must have some motive!"
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