Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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