Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

He's an evil lawyer, and that's no joke. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Fanservice Extra Betty and Veronica Humans Are Bastards He Knows Too Much Conspicuous CG Darker and Edgier Knife Nut Shipper on Deck Agony of the Feet Scenery Porn Rewatch Bonus The Chick Five-Man Band Establishing Character Moment Hate Sink In Medias Res Novelization Not Even Bothering with the Accent Here We Go Again! Driven to Suicide Say My Name Canadian Movies Get Out! Loads and Loads of Characters Combat Pragmatist '80s Hair Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dirty Cop Bond Villain Stupidity The Casanova Domestic Abuse Line-of-Sight Name Fate Worse than Death Comically Missing the Point Refuge in Audacity Children Are Innocent Pet the Dog Mistaken for Gay Brother–Sister Incest Ambiguously Gay Affably Evil Not So Above It All The Brute Age Lift Stylistic Suck Annoying Younger Sibling Beard of Evil Enemy Mine Broken Bird Curse Cut Short Retirony Red Eyes, Take Warning Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! La Résistance Genre Throwback Tagline Peek-a-Boo Corpse Leaning on the Fourth Wall Expy Heroic BSoD Darkest Hour Gory Discretion Shot Continuity Nod Soundtrack Dissonance Double-Meaning Title Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Abusive Parents Downer Ending As the Good Book Says... World of Ham Grey and Gray Morality Deus ex Machina Adaptational Attractiveness Show Within a Show A.I. Is a Crapshoot Four-Temperament Ensemble Spiritual Successor Big Brother Instinct All for Nothing Ascended Extra Destination Defenestration Woman in White Mr. Exposition Properly Paranoid Big Applesauce Breaking the Fourth Wall Jerkass The X of Y Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Historical Hero Upgrade Hollywood Darkness Bavarian Fire Drill Anti-Hero Wham Line Amoral Attorney Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Worthy Opponent Informed Ability Easily Forgiven Green-Eyed Monster Hypocrite For the Evulz Break the Cutie Bury Your Gays Chiaroscuro Improvised Weapon Our Vampires Are Different Animal Motifs 20 Minutes into the Future Love Triangle Reasonable Authority Figure The Stinger Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Disproportionate Retribution Car Fu Suspiciously Specific Denial One-Word Title Call-Forward Character Development Japanese Films What the Hell, Hero? Politically Incorrect Villain Silent Movie Death by Sex Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Took a Level in Jerkass Anguished Declaration of Love Rule of Symbolism Sealed Evil in a Can Double Entendre Those Wacky Nazis Vomit Discretion Shot Reality Ensues Ship Tease Spell My Name with an "S" Bare Your Midriff Dramatic Gun Cock Motor Mouth Stock Footage Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Almost Kiss Never My Fault Last-Name Basis Bound and Gagged Redshirt Army I Need a Freaking Drink Self-Deprecation Fainting Sir Swears-a-Lot The Smurfette Principle Spiteful Spit O.O.C. Is Serious Business Crazy Jealous Guy The Alcoholic The End... Or Is It? Does Not Like Shoes Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Music Stories Extreme Doormat Red Oni, Blue Oni Punny Name Mood Whiplash Totally Radical Once More, with Clarity! Pretty in Mink German Films Actually Pretty Funny Mercy Kill Smug Snake Hollywood Law Brick Joke Mugging the Monster Artistic License – Gun Safety Gone Horribly Right Silence Is Golden Interrupted Suicide My Beloved Smother The Un-Reveal Light Is Not Good All Men Are Perverts Costume Porn Not So Stoic Bilingual Bonus Dies Wide Open Moment Killer As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cat Fight Bullying a Dragon Final Girl Death of a Child Fantasy Films Serious Business Celebrity Paradox Hero Antagonist Expository Hairstyle Change Random Events Plot Guns Akimbo No Celebrities Were Harmed Reality Has No Subtitles Morality Pet Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Soft Glass Amusing Injuries Coming-of-Age Story Drill Sergeant Nasty Would Hurt a Child Naïve Newcomer Ironic Echo Actor Allusion And the Adventure Continues Bald of Evil British Films Slasher Smile N-Word Privileges War Is Hell Index of Film Westerns Kill It with Fire Heel Realization Time Skip Psychological Thriller Implacable Man Black Best Friend Foreshadowing Even Evil Has Loved Ones Gold Digger A Minor Kidroduction Corpsing Irony Friend to All Children Creative Closing Credits Fatal Flaw Bond One-Liner Humiliation Conga Big Bad Duumvirate Mighty Whitey Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ghost Fiction Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Stalker with a Crush Asshole Victim Dirty Coward Documentary Shell-Shocked Veteran Greater-Scope Villain The '90s Vitriolic Best Buds The Film of the Book The Reveal How We Got Here Sole Survivor Cool Old Lady Not Quite Dead Mystery and Detective Films Meaningful Name Fantastic Racism Red Herring Drowning My Sorrows Only in It for the Money Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Sports Stories Adaptational Villainy Overly Long Gag Extremely Short Timespan Lock and Load Montage Pragmatic Villainy Villain Ball Badass Longcoat Romantic False Lead Depraved Bisexual Homage Reality Is Unrealistic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Meaningful Background Event Mundane Made Awesome The Mafia Bottomless Magazines Dull Surprise Product Placement Diabolus ex Machina It Will Never Catch On Big Fancy House Grievous Bottley Harm Unwitting Instigator of Doom Take That! Chase Scene Guile Hero BFG Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hypocritical Humor Pay Evil unto Evil Kill 'em All Instant Death Bullet All Just a Dream A Date with Rosie Palms Riddle for the Ages Artistic License – History Crazy-Prepared Bloodless Carnage Historical In-Joke Evil-Detecting Dog Every Car Is a Pinto Cool Guns Police Brutality Red Shirt Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Auto Erotica Determinator Your Cheating Heart Psychopathic Manchild Malevolent Masked Men The Stoic Decoy Protagonist Scary Black Man Parental Abandonment Red Right Hand The Cavalry True Companions Berserk Button Central Theme Science Fiction Films Overprotective Dad Neck Lift No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Paper-Thin Disguise Awesome, but Impractical The Chessmaster Obviously Evil Mexican Standoff Aside Glance For Want of a Nail From Bad to Worse Tranquil Fury Off-into-the-Distance Ending Early-Bird Cameo Sinister Minister NO INDOOR VOICE Bloodier and Gorier Demonic Possession Adaptation Dye-Job The Stoner The Hero Dies Dogged Nice Guy Recycled IN SPACE! Dramedy Antagonist Title Manipulative Bastard Spared by the Adaptation Fiery Redhead Getting Crap Past the Radar May–December Romance Cluster F-Bomb Stepford Smiler Running Gag Adorkable Aluminum Christmas Trees Psycho for Hire Madness Mantra One-Man Army Would Hit a Girl Catapult Nightmare Big "NO!" Jerkass Has a Point Be Careful What You Wish For Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bad Boss Artistic License – Physics And I Must Scream Good Is Not Nice Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Crucified Hero Shot As You Know Foil Batman Gambit Tempting Fate Shout-Out Translation Convention Imagine Spot The Ace Death Glare Jerk with a Heart of Gold Not What It Looks Like Playing Gertrude Video Credits Eye Scream Artistic License – Geography Knight Templar Film Noir Only Sane Man Protagonist Title Revenge Manchild Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Taking You with Me Real Life Writes the Plot Adults Are Useless Dark Reprise My God, What Have I Done? Scenery Gorn Cat Scare Stuff Blowing Up Setting Update Death Seeker Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene She Cleans Up Nicely Make It Look Like an Accident Rule of Funny She's Got Legs Bar Brawl The Cameo Dual Wielding Mad Scientist I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Star-Crossed Lovers Badass Normal Works Set in World War II Kubrick Stare Those Two Bad Guys Black Comedy Calling the Old Man Out Stealth Pun Villain Song Film Noir Index Book-Ends Eagleland Animated Credits Opening Adult Fear Chekhov's Gun Fat Bastard Chekhov's Gunman Fanservice Visual Pun The Ditz Butt-Monkey Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Arranged Marriage Obfuscating Stupidity Hoist by His Own Petard Rated M for Manly "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Exactly What It Says on the Tin Really Gets Around The '60s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fingore Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sexy Discretion Shot Drives Like Crazy Poor Communication Kills Race Lift Daddy's Girl Insane Troll Logic Super Strength Offscreen Teleportation Composite Character Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism An Aesop The Bully Bittersweet Ending Historical Villain Upgrade Whole Plot Reference Based on a True Story Drugs Are Bad Let's Get Dangerous! Wham Shot Faux Affably Evil Artistic License – Military No Name Given Better to Die than Be Killed Eyepatch of Power Sadistic Choice The Quiet One Damsel in Distress No-Sell Contrived Coincidence Brutal Honesty Curb-Stomp Battle Babies Ever After Rule of Cool Accidental Misnaming Thriller Evil Laugh Card-Carrying Villain Bolivian Army Ending Dumb Blonde Retcon Ms. Fanservice Rasputinian Death Eldritch Abomination No Ending The Dreaded Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Developing Doomed Characters It Can Think Abhorrent Admirer Take a Third Option Fun with Acronyms MacGuffin Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Guy Big Eater Covers Always Lie Together in Death Made of Explodium Adapted Out Pre-Mortem One-Liner Break the Haughty Sanity Slippage Flashback Department of Redundancy Department Groin Attack The Power of Love Frame-Up The Bad Guy Wins Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Pyrrhic Victory Suddenly SHOUTING! Only Known by Their Nickname Handicapped Badass Rule of Three Horror Comedy Improbable Weapon User "Well Done, Son!" Guy Taking the Bullet Closed Circle Large Ham Idiot Ball Karmic Death Slasher Movie Sassy Black Woman He Who Fights Monsters Author Avatar Advertised Extra B-Movie Broken Pedestal Ambiguous Ending Unusually Uninteresting Sight Disguised in Drag Took a Level in Badass Heroic Sacrifice Anachronic Order Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adaptation Name Change Earn Your Happy Ending Intrepid Reporter Defrosting Ice Queen Anti-Villain Armor-Piercing Question Monumental Damage Mama Bear The Vamp Disney Death Improbable Aiming Skills Re-Cut Accidental Murder Bowdlerise Casting Gag Fourth Date Marriage Deconstruction Older Than They Look Unspoken Plan Guarantee Black Dude Dies First Superhero The Dragon Title Drop Back from the Dead Fan Disservice No OSHA Compliance The Place I Did What I Had to Do Shoot the Shaggy Dog Affectionate Parody The Alleged Car Faking the Dead Mooks Vampire Fiction Air-Vent Passageway Camera Abuse Disappeared Dad Retired Badass Happily Married Logo Joke You Have Failed Me Ax-Crazy Badass Grandpa Blatant Lies Foregone Conclusion Facial Horror Freeze-Frame Bonus Tap on the Head What Happened to the Mouse? Broken Aesop Bitch in Sheep's Clothing All There in the Manual Beta Couple Anachronism Stew The Atoner Russian Films Police are Useless Cain and Abel Christmas Movies Index Not So Different Badass Bookworm In the Back Storming the Castle Action Prologue Pimped-Out Dress You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! The Smart Guy The Ghost Villain with Good Publicity Defiant to the End Toplessness from the Back Love at First Sight Intergenerational Friendship The Hero Deadpan Snarker Only a Flesh Wound Genre Savvy Hair-Trigger Temper The Load Action Genre Our Zombies Are Different Framing Device Off with His Head! Important Haircut Beauty Is Never Tarnished Artistic License – Law Bland-Name Product Empathic Environment Loophole Abuse Laughing Mad Demoted to Extra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Half the Man He Used to Be Wicked Cultured Evil Brit Manly Tears Fatal Family Photo "The Reason You Suck" Speech Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The '70s An Axe to Grind Call-Back Gilligan Cut Ambiguous Disorder Deliberately Monochrome I Have Your Wife The Faceless Maybe Ever After Nothing Is Scarier Corrupt Corporate Executive Gainax Ending Plot Hole Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Posthumous Character Death by Irony Alas, Poor Villain Bad "Bad Acting" Ass Shove The Big Guy Ominous Latin Chanting Alliterative Name Early Installment Weirdness Dwindling Party Unresolved Sexual Tension Villain Opening Scene It's All About Me Needs Wiki Magic Love French Films Hell Is That Noise Black Comedy Rape The Musical Epic Fail Gorn Insult Backfire Chewing the Scenery Cool Old Guy Creepy Child Slap-Slap-Kiss Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Body Horror Fire-Forged Friends Alpha Bitch Catch-Phrase Even Evil Has Standards Only One Name Same Language Dub Woman Scorned All There in the Script Major Injury Underreaction Action Survivor Word of God It's Personal Up to Eleven Left the Background Music On As Himself Adaptation Distillation Insistent Terminology Hero of Another Story Crapsack World Cloudcuckoolander Reckless Gun Usage Papa Wolf Evil Counterpart Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Boom, Headshot! Room Full of Crazy Gratuitous English Suspiciously Similar Substitute Anyone Can Die The '50s Face–Heel Turn Token Minority Nice Hat Cool Car Shut Up, Hannibal! Small Name, Big Ego Adaptational Badass Biopic Cool Shades Spanner in the Works Attempted Rape Pretty Little Headshots Wretched Hive Becoming the Mask Did Not Get the Girl Belligerent Sexual Tension The Lancer Freudian Excuse Adaptation Expansion timeperiod Dying Moment of Awesome The Dog Bites Back Credits Gag Funny Foreigner Bi the Way Too Dumb to Live Jump Scare Badass Boast Eiffel Tower Effect Man on Fire Never Found the Body Sequel Escalation No-Holds-Barred Beatdown And Starring The Sociopath Artistic License – Biology Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Mole Evil vs. Evil The Lost Lenore "Shaggy Dog" Story Rape as Drama Dirty Old Man Heterosexual Life-Partners Evil Plan Villain Protagonist Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Scare Chord Parental Incest Jitter Cam Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Military and Warfare Films Camp Gay Meet Cute You Killed My Father Jerk Jock Undying Loyalty Romantic Comedy A God Am I Captain Ersatz Trailers Always Spoil I'm a Humanitarian Daylight Horror Evil Is Hammy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Heroes Want Redheads An Arm and a Leg The Remake More Dakka Brainless Beauty Australian Movies Have a Gay Old Time Author Appeal Italian Films Narrator Black and Gray Morality Country Matters Straight Gay Hope Spot Market-Based Title Pragmatic Adaptation Sacrificial Lion Dutch Angle You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Femme Fatale Heel–Face Turn Never Trust a Trailer Neck Snap Shirtless Scene Face Death with Dignity Cassandra Truth Precision F-Strike Dramatic Irony Dark Action Girl Big Damn Heroes No Antagonist Television Movie Index Creator Cameo The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Parental Neglect After the End Film Series The Great Depression Cold-Blooded Torture Evil Is Petty Rich Bitch Fake Shemp Hidden Depths Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Kids Are Cruel Slashed Throat Naked People Are Funny Meaningful Echo Flipping the Bird From Nobody to Nightmare Plucky Comic Relief Adaptational Heroism Horror Films Married to the Job Made of Iron Martial Arts Movie Mythology Gag Authority Equals Asskicking Those Two Guys Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Action Girl Mind Screw Shower Scene Manic Pixie Dream Girl Arc Words Redemption Equals Death Eureka Moment Karma Houdini Evil Sounds Deep Male Frontal Nudity Sci-Fi Horror Public Domain Feature Films Cruel and Unusual Death Dressing as the Enemy Men Are the Expendable Gender Beware the Nice Ones Wounded Gazelle Gambit Zombie Stories Unreliable Narrator Funny Background Event Dropped a Bridge on Him Very Loosely Based on a True Story All Girls Want Bad Boys In Name Only Everyone Has Standards My Greatest Failure This Is Gonna Suck Laser-Guided Karma Apocalypse How Truth in Television Fish out of Water Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bait-and-Switch Bloody Hilarious Noodle Incident Genre Shift Smoking Is Cool Ungrateful Bastard Put on a Bus Badass in a Nice Suit Skewed Priorities Twist Ending Killed Mid-Sentence Henpecked Husband Leave the Camera Running Training Montage Bunny-Ears Lawyer Match Cut Well-Intentioned Extremist Sequel Hook Parental Substitute Death by Adaptation Dark Is Not Evil Your Head A-Splode Captain Obvious "Awesome McCool" Name One Steve Limit The Oner Vomit Indiscretion Shot Immune to Bullets Dark and Troubled Past Hong Kong Films Deal with the Devil Male Gaze Vacation Films The Voiceless Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Serial Killer Dissonant Serenity Lampshade Hanging Arch-Enemy Rousing Speech Victoria's Secret Compartment Exact Words Cowboy Cop Stealth Hi/Bye Disney Villain Death Blood from the Mouth Animal Title Index Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome What You Are in the Dark Shown Their Work folderlabel Real Life Deliberate Values Dissonance Non-Indicative Name Race Against the Clock Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Does This Remind You of Anything? Despair Event Horizon The '80s Wrong Genre Savvy Kick the Son of a Bitch The Starscream Not Using the "Z" Word Famous Last Words Missing Mom Punch-Clock Villain Due to the Dead Blood Knight Big Bad Oh, Crap! Honor Before Reason Distracted by the Sexy Outrun the Fireball Names to Run Away from Really Fast Unusual Euphemism Leitmotif Failed a Spot Check Kick the Dog A Father to His Men There Is No Kill Like Overkill Obstructive Bureaucrat Determinator aka: The Determinator Chekhov's Skill Lighter and Softer Mr. Fanservice Yandere Award-Bait Song Bring My Brown Pants Ripped from the Headlines Big-Bad Ensemble Blackmail Gender Flip Canon Foreigner Historical-Domain Character Epic Movie Villainous Breakdown Didn't Think This Through