Aaaugh, yeah, he really, really had an irritating sense of entitlement. He'd turn up out of nowhere, tell people what to do, then expect them to obey because he thought he knew best; it was paternalistic smugness at its finest. Granted, in the right hands, it made him a flawed, interesting character... But a lot of the time, the narrative just vindicated his self-righteousness and set opposing characters up as incompetent strawmen, which was... blah.

Now I have a twisted desire to find fic where he screws things up and gets his ass kicked in interesting ways.