Wicked Cultured/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: The villain has intellectual and artistic interests.
 * Played Straight: Evil Elliott ends every night with A Glass of Chianti, reads lots of classic literature, plays chess, and enjoys watching ballet.
 * Exaggerated: All of his plots are references to any and all of these things. Oh, and did we mention his British accent?
 * Justified: These are his interests, regardless of whether he's good or evil.
 * Inverted: Evil Elliott is an uncultured, sloppy Neanderthal.
 * Subverted: Evil Elliott likes classic literature and chess, but he's a big football fan too.
 * Double Subverted: But no one knows that except him and his Right-Hand-Cat.
 * Deconstructed: The work criticizes the idea that have good taste makes Evil Elliott any less of a monster, and explores how his sensitivity in some areas makes him even worse than he would be otherwise.
 * Reconstructed: The work explores Evil Elliott's Freudian Excuse of a poor and miserable upbringing, and presents his cultured tastes as well as his villainy as attempts to overcome his past.
 * Parodied: Evil Elliott's dark fortress doubles as an opera house.
 * Zig Zagged: Sometimes Evil Elliott plays chess, other times he watches football.
 * Lampshaded: "For someone so evil, you sure like ballet a lot."
 * Averted: Evil Elliott is never shown as having particularly erudite interests in-story.
 * Enforced: "Rocko, if I chose to defy the law yet made absolutely no endeavours to appreciate higher culture, what would I be?" "Duhhhh, you'd be me, Mistuh Elliot!" "Quite right. And who would wish such a thing upon themselves?"
 * Invoked: Evil Elliott decides he needs a break from his World Domination plot and decides to take Lilith Badgirl to the ballet.
 * Defied: Evil Elliott doesn't want to be seen as unmanly, so he doesn't pursue any of these interests.
 * Exploited: Superguy lures Evil Elliott to Trope City Art Museum for the final battle.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: The Five-Man Band (and, secretly, Evil Elliott's minions) find it amusing that he likes art and music.
 * Played For Drama:

Here is a link back to Wicked Cultured, not that you goody-goodies could appreciate it for what it is, of course.