>Your mission my son is to spare the conquered and subdue the proud. To teach the peoples of the Earth civilization and mercy.
>Later on his boy toy dies if fair combat
>"Good thing Aeneas isn't like wrathful, brutish Achilles or else this could get ugly!"
>Aeneas goes SSJ and goes on massive Achilles style murder spree.
>Executes people begging for mercy
>"At least you get killed by the great Aeneas lul."
>Engaged in human sacrifice
>Keeps killing
>Appears to calm down
>Sacrifices more prisoners to his boy toy at his funeral
>Calms down a bit
>Finally faces main rival
>Defeats him
>He begs for mercy
>Gets pissed about Patroclus Jr. again
>Murders him instead

I think it's foreshadowing. For all the shit talking of Achilles, Diomedes, and especially Odysseus early on, the Trojans end up not being that different. It's like Dany destroying King's Landing and going bad but vastly more tasteful and subtle.

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