Jabba Table Manners/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A villainous character has bad table manners to emphasize their badness.

  • Straight: Emperor Evulz eats in a sloppy, wasteful manner.
  • Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz can hardly get any food in his mouth because he drops so much.
  • Downplayed: Emperor Evulz drops a few crumbs.
  • Justified: Emperor Evulz has a chronic disease that makes his hands shake.
  • Inverted: Bob the Hero eats like a pig.
    • Alternately: Emperor Evulz is an extremely fastidious eater and always uses the correct fork.
  • Subverted: Emperor Evulz was trying to mislead the heroes into underestimating his intelligence and education.
  • Double Subverted: ...by eating how he always eats anyway.
  • Parodied: Emperor Evulz eats very expensive food in such a wasteful manner that he bankrupts the nation.
  • Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulz eats properly in some scenes, and like a pig in others.
  • Averted: No one is shown eating on screen.
  • Enforced: "We need to show that Emperor Evulz is a bad ruler so let's have him waste food during a famine."
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: The heroes know that Emperor Evulz's potential ally is fanatical about manners, so the heroes arrange that the two are invited to the same dinner party.
  • Defied: Emperor Evulz announces to himself that this time he will not get drunk and embarrass himself while eating again.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???

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