Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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