Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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