Basic Trope: The one causing the conflict. * Straight: Emperor Evulz, who rules the Land of Shadows with an Iron Fist, causes chaos and misery for all when he decides to expand his territory. This forces the Five-Man Band to rise up and defeat him. * Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz is so powerful that there is no conceivable way he can be defeated. * Justified: Evulz is dangerously savvy in politics, and combined with his dark sorcery, he's able to get himself into a leadership position with ease. * Inverted: * The Hero, the one (partially, occasionally) fixing the problems. * Big Good * Subverted: * Emperor Evulz's actually a figurehead for the real big bad, King Bubba the First. * Evulz is really a Well-Intentioned Extremist and is using his status to prepa