Scaramouche, Scaramouche

There are a few reasons why this doesn't work any more and I'll address them all as I go, but - seriously. People. Please lose the 'but it's okay if our side does it'. It didn't fly even before the current politics made it a manky, manky proposition. it's lazy writing, and immature. If all you do is make excuses for your crew, have background characters pop in to sing their praises if they're ever (rightly) questioned for their actions, refuse to allow them to be wrong and try to justify every action...people are going to stop liking them. I can name several series in which this has happened; I'm sure everyone has ideas of their own that I never thought of.

If it's a single character whom everyone excuses or fanboys/fangirls, that character will quickly become a sue/stu and their author's-darling status will be very, very apparent.

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