Nice Job Fixing It, Villain/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The villain unwittingly gives the hero an advantage.

  • Straight: Emperor Evulz kidnaps and hold's the hero's sister ransom. Unknowingly, the hero's sister was holding the hero hostage to get an artifact of evil to offer to Evulz.
  • Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz turns on a lightswitch.It turns out to also cut enough power from the hero's binds to allow them to exscape.
  • Justified: Hey, how was Evulz supposed to know?
  • Inverted: Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
  • Subverted: Evulz unleashes an evil beast that the hero befriended. Turns out it owes more to Evuls than the hero.
  • Double Subverted: But after a good thrashing the beast can't bring itself to kill the hero, so it gives Evuls an equal trashing.
  • Parodied: Everything Evulz does gives Albert an advantage.
  • Deconstructed: Evulz becomes rather paranoid about how much he does that helps the heroes. Soon enough he goes on a rampage that ignores both Evulz main objective and kills many people on all sides.
  • Reconstructed: Before breaking down, Evulz starts to think, and realizes that the heros do this for him as well. Soon enough he has an ever better plot that uses the heroes to his advantage.
  • Zig Zagged: Whether Evulz accidentally helps Albert Depends On The Writer.
  • Averted: Evulz doesn't give Bob an advantage.
  • Enforced: "Oh, shit... Evulz is gonna win at this rate, and it's too late to change it! Oh! Make him accidentally give Albert an advantage!"
  • Lampshaded: "Nice job helping him, Evulz!"
  • Invoked: Evulz is a powerful manipulator but weak in combat, so after so long he starts to relax and make plans that leave him more open.
  • Exploited: Carly, The Starcream, looks everything over, and realizes how many things are on the needles edge of aid to the hero. After giving some suggestions to Evulz that seem like a good idea, she causes his death and take his place, planning a much better job.
  • Defied: Evulz refuses to do anything that isn't on a strict and controlled plan unless the risk is needed or worth it, that way he minimizes his self-harm.
  • Discussed:

Evulz: I have to be careful, who knows what might help the heroes, I'm pretty sure my beast has seen them before.

  • Conversed: "Oh, dear, Evulz just released the beast that the heroes helped, the beast won't be happy."

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