Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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