Ugh, heeere we goooo... They could have just, I don't know, run a sword through his face?? It's like those spy movies where the villain has to kill the MC in overly complicated way when they could have just put a gun to the head since they're already strapped to a chair...
And now we'll have to contend with this dumbass popping up again and again like a goddamn matryoshka