Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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