It is a truth universally acknowledged among readers, that a man in possession of a villain must be in wanting to survive.
it is a well established fact that a third rate villain, a mid boss, or the final villain are always destined to die.
Therefore they must struggle with everything they have to live.
If a person who is well acquainted with such settings and all tropes surrounding it were to be put in such place, how would he respond?
My God, is he a chunnibyw?!