Generic Doomsday Villain/Playing With

Basic Trope: A villain without coherent motivation, goals and plans, defined solely by the threat he poses.

• Straight: General Dusk is a villain that just destroys things and is all-powerful, and nothing else.
• Exaggerated: General Dusk does random villain things for no reason whatsoever
• Justified: General Dusk is a practically mindless robot/force of nature/other, so it doesn't really have a personality.
• Inverted: Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
• Subverted: General Dusk actually has some complexity to him...
• Double Subverted: Then it turns out to be just an excuse to do whatever he wants.
• Parodied:
  • The characters point out how one-note and completely unremarkable he is.
  • General Dusk is the Big Bad, yet every other villain working for him has a fully developed personality and ambitions. The joke is from Seargent Night's inability to have any relationship with his master.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: His complexity varies between episodes.
• Averted: He's actually a very complex villain.
• Enforced:
  • The writers are lazy.
  • The writers are portraying the villain as a force of nature instead of an individual.
• Lampshaded: "Okay, why are you doing what you're doing General Dusk? Seriously, you must have some motive!"