Okay, I have a feeling you're not going to agree about Klaus, because I'm looking at it from an ideal world perspecive and you're seeing how much worse it could be.

And you're right about that, I think Klaus is a hell of a lot better than a number of other people would be.

Okay, first of all, it's implied that when the Heterodyne boys were about, he was quite the villain; at the very least he was holding his own with the woman who became/was the Other. Gil and Agatha have both explictly said that the Baron position is an "evil overlord" position, if I recall the phrase they used correctly.

Klaus seems to have no problem with carpet-bombing cities to make sure he rule remains unchallanged, and while part of that might be the necessity of making sure The Other doesn't take over, part of it is keeping his government stable.

He doesn't seem to have a problem with Dupree murdering as long as she isn't too over the top about it.

I have a feeling that Klaus isn't really picky aobut his the subjects for his experiments, and while he's not a sadistic, he still doesn't care that he's going to be causing someone else excrucating pain, which is almost worse. Furthermore, he killed Adam and Lilith, not to mention Lars, and would have destroyed a traveling circus just for not killing Agatha, who he wants to kill.

So,while Klaus is better than the average psychotic spark, and I actually like he quite a lot, I don't nessecarily think he should be ruling.