No Cure for Evil/Playing With

Basic Trope: Bad guys don't get healing powers.
 * Straight: Emperor Evulz can't heal.
 * Exaggerated: Every healing item has no effect on Evulz.
 * Nobody in Evulz's army has healing powers.
 * Enlisting yourself in Evulz' army prevents all healing powers in the world from working for you.
 * Justified: Emperor Evulz has a god complex, and thinks he doesn't need healing powers.
 * The Healing spell is either Light or Holy element; both are opposing forces to Evulz.
 * And Evulz is undead, with all the implications.
 * Inverted: The heroes can't heal.
 * Evulz is world's most effective healer.
 * Subverted: Emperor Evulz doesn't heal... until you get him down to half health.
 * Double Subverted: He heals himself... of negative status effects.
 * He "heals" himself by replacing the wounded body parts with robotic ones.
 * Parodied: Using a healing item hurts or kills Evulz.
 * Deconstructed: ???
 * Reconstructed: ???
 * Averted: Emperor Evulz can heal just as much as the good guys.
 * Enforced: "I hate bosses that heal, and I'll bet the players do too."
 * Lampshaded: "You know, if Emperor Evulz can use magic, why can't he use healing spells?"
 * Invoked: Marcy casts a spell on Emperor Evulz that prevents him from healing.
 * Defied: Emperor Evulz brings along several Potions before the battle.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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