Oh so much this. Richard Rahl, winner of every single poorly written argument the lesser humans of his universe can throw at him because he's JUST THAT AWESOME!!!!Hagi said:Richard from the Sword of Truth would make a pretty good bad guy in any other high fantasy story I'd say.
Utterly convinced he's doing the right thing, unwilling to consider any course of action but his own and easily dismissing anyone who disagrees as hating life and thus being undeserving of it.
He's even got the whole religion worshipping him personally thing going on.
The guy is a perfect believable villain. Not such a great hero unfortunately.
He would make such a great villain in another story, but as the protagonist, I just wanted to strangle him a bit.