Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/@comment-31365092-20180826135734/@comment-216.10.217.234-20180827014245

Draco in Leather Pants means a bit villain that is elevated to protagonist status by part of the fandom.

''Ainz is the main protagonist. He always has been.''

No, that's incorrect. Draco in Leather Pants is when a villain's flaws are whitewashed by fans to create some factually incorrect of them. You simply see it a lot in fanfiction where a villain is the main character.

And while Maruyama (and Ainz) dispense with the typical nonsense of insisting that whatever the protagonist does is "justice" because it is done by the protagonist, the entire theme of the series is that people pretending that whatever they do is right because they are the ones doing it are the real evil in the world (both the New World and 21XX).

Ainz doesn't call it justice, (even he's not that deluded), but he clearly believes that he's justified to do anything as long as it's for Nazarick's benefit, which isn't that different from anyone else in the New World.

Ainz simply takes it further than any of them can or even would, because he has both the power to do so and absolutely no moral compuctions at all to limit him.