Jabba Table Manners/Playing With

Basic Trope: A villainous character has bad table manners to emphasize their badness.

• Straight: Emperor Evulz eats in a sloppy, wasteful manner.
• Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz can hardly get any food in his mouth because he drops so much.
• Downplayed: Emperor Evulz drops a few crumbs.
• Justified: Emperor Evulz has a chronic disease that makes his hands shake.
• Inverted: Bob the Hero eats like a pig.
  • Alternately: Emperor Evulz is an extremely fastidious eater and always uses the correct fork.
• Subverted: Emperor Evulz was trying to mislead the heroes into underestimating his intelligence and education.
• Double Subverted: ...by eating how he always eats anyway.
• Parodied: Emperor Evulz eats very expensive food in such a wasteful manner that he bankrupts the nation.
• Zig Zagged: Emperor Evulz eats properly in some scenes, and like a pig in others.
• Averted: No one is shown eating on screen.
• Enforced: "We need to show that Emperor Evulz is a bad ruler so let's have him waste food during a famine."
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: The heroes know that Emperor Evulz's potential ally is fanatical about manners, so the heroes arrange that the two are invited to the same dinner party.
• Defied: Emperor Evulz announces to himself that this time he will not get drunk and embarrass himself while eating again.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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