Basic Trope: The Hero's most prominent enemy.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz plots world domination and is Hiro's main enemy.
- Exaggerated: Emperor Evulz plots the world's demise, and is Hiro's most despised enemy.
- Downplayed: Draco is Sir Robert's prominent rival.
- Justified:
- Hiro is always the one to put an stop to Emperor Evulz's evil schemes. Evulz took this very personally.
- One guess as to who created Hiro.
- Inverted: Lance is Hiro's greatest friend.
- Subverted: Evulz and Hiro turn out to be Friendly Enemies.
- Double Subverted: It turns out to be a front on Evulz's part and the two are enemies again.
- Parodied: Despite constantly declaring each other their "biggest enemy", Hiro and Evulz act like friends everytime they meet, having conversations even when they're fighting each other.
- Zig-Zagged: Hiro and Evulz's relationship tend to change between being enemies, to friends, to frenemies, to outright lovers.
- Averted: Hiro doesn't have a particular hated enemy.
- Lampshaded:
- "Well, well, if it isn't my persistent adversary, Sir Robert."
- "By Goddess Troperia, these two were destined to fight to the death."
- Invoked: "My life is boring as a hero. I need an enemy. Or should I say, the enemy."
- Exploited: Hiro goads Emperor Evulz into fighting him to keep him distracted long enough for his sidekicks to disable his Doomsday Device in the background.
- Defied: No matter how many schemes Hiro ruins or how many atrocities Evulz commits, both insist that it's Nothing Personal.
- Discussed: "Look at these two. Imagine if they were, like, forever enemies or something."
- Conversed: "You can't write a Hiro fanfic without Emperor Evulz!"
- Deconstructed:
- Hiro and Emperor Evulz have become used to battling each other for so long that when one of them is finally defeated, the other isn't sure what to do with their life anymore, and finds it has become empty.
- A version of this story ends up killing one or the other without their opposite involved, because it turns out being arch-enemies doesn't prevent them from being targeted and destroyed without the interference of the other. This throws everyone off guard, because they never fathomed the idea that arch enemies could die without the other ever being part of the process.
- Hiro and Evulz have been battling each other for so long that they have become completely obsessed with each other and their existence revolve around their feud. So when one finally manages to defeat the other, the one still standing no longer know what to do with their life.
- Played for Laughs: Evulz lives with Hiro in the characters' run-down apartment and they frequently squabble with each other.
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