Big Bad Duumvirate/Playing With

Basic Trope: Two or more Big Bads work together.

• Straight: Alex Annihilation and Bruce Bonecrusher work together for world domination.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alex and Bruce are so very powerful that not even Bob Badass and Alice Awesome can stop them.
  • Alex and Bruce also have Charlie Cruel, Destruction Dan, and Elliot Evil on their team.
• Downplayed: Alex and Bruce team up to rob a convenience store.
• Justified: Alone, Alex and Bruce are not very good Big Bads, but when they're practically unstoppable when they work together.
• Inverted: Alex and Bruce are two Big Goods working together in saving the world.
• Subverted:
  • Alex and Bruce commit similar crimes at the same places and appear to be working together, but are really working independently of each other.
  • Alex and Bruce turn out to be Co-Dragons to Emperor Evulz.
• Double Subverted:
  • Until they meet and decide to work together.
  • Alex and Bruce overthrow Emperor Evulz.
• Averted:
  • Alex is the Big Bad while Bruce is actually The Dragon.
  • All bad guys work alone and never team up.
• Enforced: "Fans like Alex, but they also like Bruce. Wouldn't they like them more if they worked together?"
• Invoked: Alex puts out an ad in the newspaper for a villain to team up with.
• Defied: Alex and Bruce refuse to work together at any point.
• Discussed: "Hey, we should team up. We'd be twice as powerful then."
• Conversed: "I should've known those two would be working together."

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