On the subject of a bad guy with a tropes database, it is not clear here whether this guy is a bad guy. He didn't deny the Dark Lord label the kid stuck on him, and he is apparently ruthlesly pursuing some goal, but he also doesn't want to kill everyone and plunge the world into eternal darkness.
There isn't enough to go on for a clear picture here, but I'm left more with the impression of someone who has had it with some aspect of the world, for which the council is at least partially to blame, and he's going to fix this problem by any means necessary. Making him, at worst, a Magneto sort of villain. The kind who has something of a point and some justification, even though he goes much to far in his actions.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
There isn't enough to go on for a clear picture here, but I'm left more with the impression of someone who has had it with some aspect of the world, for which the council is at least partially to blame, and he's going to fix this problem by any means necessary. Making him, at worst, a Magneto sort of villain. The kind who has something of a point and some justification, even though he goes much to far in his actions.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.