I mean just look at Inquirer. He's a perfect example of a non-protagonist, exaggerated (and fake, admit it Inquirer you fucking bitch) evil character. He's also self-aware of the fact. Basically every. single. thing. Inquirer ever fucking says is in line with some intellectual, robot without emotion, evil-schemes-under-the-surface type character. I mean just look at his response to "What keeps you moving forward":
I figured that he was just naive.
Naive about what?
Basically, I think "robot" is closer than "evil mastermind".