Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Are you kidding me, hell if anything Koba was the metaphor of the oppressed black man, and Caesar was the c00n.
What turned him from a sympathetic character to a heartless b*stard was the killing one of his own by throwing him off the ledge. The writers want of to know that he was bad and their was no redemption for his character. It was really cheap the way they want to make the audience root against him. But I totally empathize with his pain and suffering.
Oops, you wrote it before me. But yeah. That's exactly what went down, and that's why I give the scriptwriters the side eye. I saw what they were doing, and I hoped others saw it, too.