Depraved Bisexual/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character's bisexuality underscores his or her villainous nature.

• Straight: A scene establishes the villain's proclivities for both sexes, and perhaps shows unwelcome affection to heroic characters or sexually enthralls minions.
• Exaggerated: The villain parades around in fetish gear the entire film, nearly always with multiple men and women under his or her arm.
• Justified:
  • A psychiatrist posits that the villain has a mental disorder that, in addition to generally sadistic behavior patterns, leads to a sexual emphasis on pain rather than anatomy.
  • Alternatively, it has already been established in the work that Everyone Is Bi, so that includes the villains as well.
  • Alternatively, the villain is a sociopathic, hedonistic, and utterly amoral trisexual -- he or she only cares about his or her pleasure, and not a thing about who or what is being used, willingly or not, in the process.
• Inverted:
  • It's suggested bisexuality gives the hero a more balanced outlook on life.
  • Alternatively, the character is a Virtuous Asexual.
  • Or, alternative to that, a villain's asexuality is just another facet of their inability to care about other people.
• Subverted:
  • The bisexual villain turns out to be Good All Along.
  • The villain is The Vamp, and their bisexuality is an act.
  • Or their bisexuality is one of their humanizing qualities.
• Double Subverted: ...but then turns on the heroes once they've gotten what they were after.
• Parodied: A bisexual character's Jerkass tendencies are treated as more inherent to that trait than actual sexual or romantic patterns.
• Deconstructed: The villain's bisexuality strengthens the Anti-Hero's animosity, and the way this is treated by the story causes the audience to think less of the heroes.
• Reconstructed:
  • The story tries to stress that the villain's behavior does not stem automatically from bisexuality, while at the same time making copious use of the villain's bisexuality in the story.
  • The heroes assume that the villain's bisexuality and how society reacted to it caused him or her to become a villain...only to discover that what the villain gets off on is actually quite horrific and turned evil because, well, Rape Is Okay When Its The Hero is a thankfully Forgotten Trope.
• Zig Zagged: A bisexual character appears to be a hero and a villain at different points throughout the story.
• Averted: Bi the Way, No Bisexuals, or even most cases of Anything That Moves.
• Enforced:
  • A bisexual character originally conceived as a supporting character or Anti-Villain becomes Ax Crazy over concern about how audiences will react to a sympathetic bisexual character.
  • The audience is into that.
• Lampshaded: A character on the heroes' side finds out the villain is bisexual and comments it isn't a surprise.
• Invoked: Characters looking for a villain who works behind the scenes consider a character's loud bisexuality a red flag.
• Defied: A bisexual character noted as suspect is outraged as the assumption.
• Discussed: Upon learning an openly bisexual character has done something horrible, the rest of the cast talk about how this is generally a red flag in the media.
• Conversed: Members of a gay rights organization are talking about media portrayals of evil bisexuals in an establishing shot, before moving onto whatever issue brings them into the plot.

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