: Let me throw a couple keywords to help you get your villain being despicable: cowardly backstabbing honorless lying egomaniac petty malicious ruthless (no punishment too high for offense too small...)

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Let me throw a couple keywords to help you get your villain being despicable:

cowardly
backstabbing
honorless
lying
egomaniac
petty
malicious
ruthless (no punishment too high for offense too small...)
unfair (an act of obvious injustice, for arbitrary reasons makes many people fume)
disgusting
lazy / slothful
narcissistic
blackmailing

Pick any number of the above and you have someone very hard to adore.

Keep ruthless, and add into the mix paranoid and competent and you have a villain both hated and feared, killing whoever has even a potential of becoming a threat, disposing of faithful followers before they could get disillusioned, abusing power for own perverted pleasures, never showing regret or hesitation.

Above all, no redeeming values whatsoever. No tragic backstory, no noble motive, no justifiable cause. Just ego. Own sense of entitlement.

You know, how a smart villain will listen to his faithful first officer when given advice about own weakness, and an arrogant villain will ignore the advice and possibly punish the faithful first officer for the offense? This one will listen to the advice, but before following it he will kill the first officer, because being able to spot the weakness, he became a threat.

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