The chairman is definatly being evil/manipulative right now. The return of "Lacus" and Athrun to ZAFT as EA attempted to use nuclear weapons and got their ass handed to them and using it to stur up PLANT into supporting a full offensive against EA. I think he is doing a better job of being the villian than the guy manipulating EA (sorry, i'm having trouble with names tonight), although if he is a villian or not depends on the point of view I suppose.