The evil property developer trope has a long history in culture, for example the character of Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice
(Picture: Netflix)From It’s a Wonderful Life to Beetlejuice, you can be sure that if a fictional character is a property developer, they are a villain.
Western culture is full of cold, heartless money men (almost always men), whose hobbies include corrupting politicians, destroying cities and making our cool and authentic hero or heroine homeless (or flattening their quirky place of work) so they can build a soulless new apartment block.
