I’ve finally found words for why I hate Tywin Lannister so much: he’s a rape-minded, murderous asshole with delusions of grandeur like many of the other men in Westeros (as others have pointed out), but he manages to hide that behind a veneer of competence because he’s surrounded by fellow rape-minded, murderous assholes who also happen to have idiotic delusions of grandeur and are louder about it.