Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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