Exactly! Argh, he is! Such a dick! And then he pretty much whines at length about how hard he's made his life for himself? It's like, it's your fault dude, and almost everyone else ends up even worse off than you do, so shut uuuuppp (but actually don't because I want to keep hearing you sing).

...it's possible that Götterdämmerung is my least favorite of the operas largely because Wotan's not in it, oops