User blog comment:AnimationFan15/Fanfiction - Loudcasts/@comment-31083693-20170401104155/@comment-31199313-20170402231149

"He's just a manipulative jerk in the actual show; in most fanfics he's shown as a bully being evil for the sake of evil."

Pretty much this show's equivalent of Joe Agate from Peanuts, minus the lost marbles game motive.