Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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