Overlord, what it does, and how I interpret it

sometimes people just are terrible, and even if they have a reason to be that way, it doesn't need to justify the terrible things they do. overlord is an excellent example of this concept done even better (than the comic i was talking about in the original conversation), though the anime kinda butchers the presentation. the whole concept with overlord is supposed to be that you start out having ainz do questionable things with a degree of justification that lets you rationalize he's still just misunderstood, but progressively ups the ante for the evil shit he does or lets happen to see how long you are willing to keep trying to justify his actions before you realize he's plain and clearly the villain. personally, i like to interpret this as an allegory for either parasocial attachments to bad people, or my personal favorite interpretation; the drive to continuously justify capitalism based on the honesty of it's founding principles despite the state to which it has reduced the world. obviously that's not too imply i think that was a concept that was intentionally implied in the story. maruyama probably just wanted to write about a cool scary skeleton man. but i think the interpretation holds some degree of merit!