Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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Is a Crapshoot All There in the Manual Meaningful Background Event The '80s Damsel in Distress For the Evulz Skewed Priorities Sacrificial Lion Parental Abandonment Beware the Nice Ones Papa Wolf Mundane Made Awesome Corpsing The Bad Guy Wins Action Prologue Eiffel Tower Effect Sir Swears-a-Lot 20 Minutes into the Future Deus ex Machina Evil Plan Insult Backfire Grievous Bottley Harm Science Fiction Films Police Brutality Flashback Refuge in Audacity Worthy Opponent Bound and Gagged Translation Convention The Musical Adaptation Expansion Pragmatic Adaptation Protagonist Title Daylight Horror Bury Your Gays Your Head A-Splode Properly Paranoid Once More, with Clarity! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Anyone Can Die Kubrick Stare Chekhov's Gun Belligerent Sexual Tension Red Shirt Facial Horror Heroes Want Redheads Batman Gambit "Shaggy Dog" Story Biopic Historical Hero Upgrade Irony Reality Ensues Sequel Escalation Posthumous Character Big Bad Daddy's Girl Brick Joke Psychopathic Manchild The '70s Developing Doomed Characters Double-Meaning Title Slasher Movie Genre Shift Show Within a Show Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Those Two Bad Guys World of Ham Suspiciously Similar Substitute Artistic License – Geography All Just a Dream Kick the Son of a Bitch Adults Are Useless Gone Horribly Right Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fainting Dwindling Party Here We Go Again! Index of Film Westerns Drugs Are Bad From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Counterpart Thriller Be Careful What You Wish For Beta Couple Taking You with Me Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Does This Remind You of Anything? 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