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No Hero to His Valet Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  Quite often,
a character will end up idealized when he becomes acknowledged
as a celebrity or a hero. All his little quirks and flaws will
be overlooked by the general public because anyone who's that
famous must be a great person, right? As a result, most people,
especially the hardcore Fanboys and Fangirls, will simply assume
that the character is, if not a paragon of virtue, at the very
least someone who is better than they are.  But there is always
at least one person (and sometimes a small group of people) for
whom the character's fame and heroic reputation mean nothing. It
might be that the person has known the character from childhood,
and thus remembers when they were an annoying nose-picker. It
could also be that the character wronged them somehow, and the
person's resentment makes them immune to the fame. Whatever the
case, they refuse to be sucked in to the hype surrounding the
charact