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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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 '''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 eats very expensive food in such a wasteful manner that he bankrupts himself.
+* '''Exaggerated''': Emperor Evulz can hardly get any food in his mouth because he drops so much.
-* '''Justified''': Emperor Evulz skipped Table Manners 101 in favor of Evil 101.
+* '''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.
-* '''Subverted''': Emperor Evulz eats his food with the same manners the viewer would expect of an emperor...
+** Alternately: Emperor Evulz is an extremely fastidious eater and always uses the correct fork.
-* '''Double Subverted''': ...but only in public. In private, he eats like a slob.
+* '''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''': Whenever Emperor Evulz eats, people around him [[Waterfall Puke]] out of disgust.
+* '''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."
-* '''Enforced''': ???
-* '''Lampshaded''': "Emperor Evulz will be dining here tonight, so go buy another mop."
+* '''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.
-* '''Exploited''': "O great and might Jabba..." "Oi, fuck you!!"
-* '''Defied''': In a [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]] scene, Emperor Evulz displays exquisite table manners.
+* '''Defied''': Emperor Evulz announces to himself that this time he will not get drunk and embarrass himself while eating again.
 * '''Discussed''': ???
 * '''Conversed''': ???