Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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