No Cure for Evil/Playing With

Basic Trope: Bad guys don't get healing powers.

• Straight: Emperor Evulz can't heal.
• Exaggerated: Every healing item has no effect on Evulz.
  • Nobody in Evulz's army has healing powers.
  • Enlisting yourself in Evulz' army prevents all healing powers in the world from working for you.
• Justified: Emperor Evulz has a god complex, and thinks he doesn't need healing powers.
  • The Healing spell is either Light or Holy element; both are opposing forces to Evulz.
    • And Evulz is undead, with all the implications.
• Inverted: The heroes can't heal.
  • Evulz is world's most effective healer.
• Subverted: Emperor Evulz doesn't heal... until you get him down to half health.
• Double Subverted: He heals himself... of negative status effects.
  • He "heals" himself by replacing the wounded body parts with robotic ones.
• Parodied: Using a healing item hurts or kills Evulz.
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???
• Averted: Emperor Evulz can heal just as much as the good guys.
• Enforced: "I hate bosses that heal, and I'll bet the players do too."
• Lampshaded: "You know, if Emperor Evulz can use magic, why can't he use healing spells?"
• Invoked: Marcy casts a spell on Emperor Evulz that prevents him from healing.
• Defied: Emperor Evulz brings along several Potions before the battle.
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???

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