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[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He's absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he's also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he's an inversion of.

Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.