&gt; Now if you’re thinking my novel is about the Pro Choice&#x2F; Pro Life debate, hold your horses. It’s not. I merely needed a reason, a one chapter reason, to justify the things my antagonist is about to do to the world without just making him a one-note 80’s action flick villain as voiced by John Lithgow. I wanted this villain to be Alan Rickman-deep. One chapter. That’s all.<p>It&#x27;s not a particularly terrible trope. I mean, the <i>I, Robot</i> movie features an A.I. that [spoiler] tries to enslave (and even kills some of) humanity in order to take &quot;protection&quot; to its furthest logical extreme.<p>Politically-motivated characters aren&#x27;t always representative of the author&#x27;s political views, and even if they are then you have the simple option of not reading it.