Given that his demeanor at the beginning is all part of a byzantine plan to recruit Rico into the Marauder program, I understood his character change midway through. Also he is depicted as a 'true believer' in Earth's system, its military, and their strategy in the Arachnid Wars. I don't think you're supposed to think he's anything but a douchebag, but the phrase 'At least he's OUR douchebag' did occur to me while watching the film. Yes, he could have been killed and declared a martyr, but they tried that with the second film and it failed to move audiences. My feeling is he was a kind of analogue character to Carl Jenkins (played by Neil Patrick Harris in the first film), as Blalock with her photogenic torso seems to be analogous to Carmen Ibanez (played by Denise Richards), and that the whole point of the ending of 'Marauders' was for our original group of friends to live 'happy ever after'. This is satire, after all.
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