I thought a lot of those tropes were bad, and then I clicked the links to popular representations at the bottom, and found a comic in which he apparently rules a thinly veiled approximation of Hell as a Vampire along with a transgendered sex-maniac Nero (... I mean, really?...) and realized that the actual representations just make the tropes look well-thought-out...

I totally agree that this sort of thing should stick to fiction... I mean, it's one thing for someone's reputation to have been historically skewed by their contemporaries, but just imagine if your entire political legacy was popularly reduced to "Villain out Shopping" and "Sinister Shiny Glasses".

"Complaints to register"= Comedic win. lol.