Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 129: Token Evil Teammate

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Yesterday's Results: Hand Wave
"By all accounts, it doesn't make sense." - 7
Sea Turtles - 2
Dr. Robotnik's diabolical speed traps - 2
Speed Force - 2
"Thank God we invented the, you know, whatever device." - 2
Lilith's story about mordecai's bird - 1
Bio-Luminescent Mushrooms - 1
Chell's leg springs - 1
8-year-old Brian having a 13-year-old son "Those are dog years" "That doesn't make any sense" - 1
Link's Smart Sword, which "won't hurt anyone friendly" but instead "makes them talk" - 1
Eventually they were rescued by... let's say... Moe - 1
Born to Hand Jive - 1
Freddy coming back to life because a dog peed fire on his remains - 1

Nominations
Always a Bigger Fish
Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Bittersweet Ending
Interface Screw
Signature Moves
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
The Paladin
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Crowning Moment of Awesome
What Happened to the Mouse?
Arc words
Deadly Doctor
Weapon of Choice
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Opposing Sports Team

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Battleship - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) / Han Solo & Princess Leia (Star Wars)
Flaming Hair - Hades (Hercules)
Disney Death - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
Identity Absorption - Alex Mercer (Prototype)
Glass Cannon - Attack Deoxys (Pokemon)
Heroic Sacrifice - The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Quest for Identity - Leonard Shelby (Memento)
Spotlight-Stealing Squad - 1st Gen (Pokemon) / Wolverine (X-Men)
Mourning Antagonist - The Joker and Batman (Batman)
Tall, Dark And Handsome - Handsome Jack (Borderlands)
Dude, Where's My Respect? - Joey Wheeler (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / The Player (World of Warcraft)
Rooting for the Empire - Team Rocket (Pokemon)
Darker and Edgier - Shadow the Hedgehog
Crowning Moment of Awesome - Vegeta Final Flash against Cell (Dragonball Z)
Hand Wave - "By all accounts, it doesn't make sense" (The Emperor's New Groove)

Today's tropes is the Token Evil Teammate
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenEvilTeammate

Just because the main characters are fighting to oust the Big Bad doesn't mean they're heroes... at least, not all of them.

In a team composed of good members, there will often be one Token Evil Teammate. Narratively, this character can serve as a distinct and amoral foil to his more strait-laced colleagues. If the Heroes start putting Honor Before Reason, the Token Evil will often remind them that sometimes unpleasant methods are needed to save the world. They also provide Your Approval Fills Me with Shame for when the heroes are getting too pragmatic and forget their morals.

These characters are often Played for Laughs as the Heroic Comedic Sociopath. A lot of the humor they provide is of the Crosses the Line Twice variety, doing obscenely wrong things because it's shocking and unexpected, as well as a form of escapism. On the other side of the fence, a very serious character that fills this role might see it as Dirty Business, and do what they have to on behalf of the hero.
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Reaver (Fable 2)
HK-47 (KOTOR)
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Eric Cartman (South Park)
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Magneto (X-Men: First Class)
Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
Eric Cartman (South Park)

HM
Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
Ben Linus (Lost S6)
Byakuya Togami (Danganronpa)
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Bowser (Super Mario RPG/Super Paper Mario)
Reaver (Fable 2)
Belkar Bitterleaf (Order of the Stick)
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Magus (Chrono Trigger)
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HK-47 (KOTOR)
Lex Luthor (New 52 Justice League)
Mick Rory/Heat Wave (Legends of Tomorrow)

Hms:
Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (Legends of Tomorrow)
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Reaver
Pierce
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Garak (Deep Space Nine)
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Magus
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Edward Richthofen
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Captain Cold (Legends of Tomorrow)
Bowser (Super Mario RPG / Super Paper Mario)
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HK-47 (KotOR)
Bowser (Super Mario RPG)
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up
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HK-47 (KOTOR) (caps)
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Belkar (Order of the Stick)
Black Mage (8-bit Theater)
Paul von Oberstein (Legend of Galactic Heroes)
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HK-47 caps

Mayuri Kurotsuchi (Bleach)
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bump
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Belkar
Black Mage
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Rachter (Shadowrun: Hong Kong)
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Belkar
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Alex Wilder (Runaways)
Albel Nox (Star Ocean 3: TTEOT)
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Cait Sith (FF7)
Belkar (OotS)
Bowser (SMRPG)
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