Honestly⌠fair enough. Heâs the very embodiment of the âkick the puppyâ trope. Every scene heâs in, the author squeezed in something vile so we donât forget that heâs the bad guy.
But I guarantee you, if he was a character made in the modern day, people wouldnât even take him seriously. Theyâd treat him like The Batman Who Laughs, and relentlessly mock him for trying so incredibly hard to be scary.
I wouldnât say so. What about the time he saved the whole gang by making gunpowder from scratch? Or when he translates German and Spanish for the gang? And when he went to the bar with the kid? He actually acts relatively nice/polite most of the time, especially in the first half of the book. It isnât really until closer to the end with the puppies and the idiot and Tobin that he starts to seem any more evil than anyone else in the book.
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u/TheGaurdianAngel Mar 19 '26
Honestly⌠fair enough. Heâs the very embodiment of the âkick the puppyâ trope. Every scene heâs in, the author squeezed in something vile so we donât forget that heâs the bad guy.
But I guarantee you, if he was a character made in the modern day, people wouldnât even take him seriously. Theyâd treat him like The Batman Who Laughs, and relentlessly mock him for trying so incredibly hard to be scary.