I was gonna write a big long thing like the other posters but in the end I just decided to say, I despise the “humanized villain” trope. Because it all always feels like propaganda. It’s all always about how they suffered in an unjust society and now they are rebelling against it. It all always feels like they are trying to train people to see anyone that wants to change the current system as bad.

I was my villains to be proper evil. Make them a mirror image of the actual oligarchy.