Tropescilloscope: Amoral Attorney

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

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