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1) TheScrappy. Undisputed, thanks.
2) Loved by the creators. Nope, still hasn\'t been established. When you stop taking their comments out of context instead of the little chunks we\'re getting here to try and make him some kind of god, all you get is the creators establishing that they felt a \'\'storyline\'\' was misinterpreted. Seeing how \'\'in the show itself\'\', Mako\'s girlfriend \'\'does\'\' call out his attitude and \'\'is\'\' presented as correct, you cannot also claim that he\'s a KarmaHoudini simply because he broke up with his girlfriend he\'d been dating all of a month or so and successfully started a relationship with the person he was actually interested in. And admitted and apologized to her. Not to mention that the same damn commentary also acknowledged their awareness of the character\'s controversy.
3) Nope, that\'s still not CharacterFocus. Mako is not in a scene for \
2) Loved by the creators. Nope, still hasn\'t been established. When you stop taking their comments out of context instead of the little chunks we\'re getting here to try and make him some kind of god, all you get is the creators establishing that they felt a \'\'storyline\'\' was misinterpreted. Seeing how \'\'in the show itself\'\', Mako\'s girlfriend \'\'does\'\' call out his attitude and \'\'is\'\' presented as correct, you cannot also claim that he\'s a KarmaHoudini simply because he broke up with his girlfriend he\'d been dating all of a month or so and successfully started a relationship with the person he was actually interested in. And admitted and apologized to her. Not to mention that the same damn commentary also acknowledged their awareness of the character\'s controversy.
3) Nope, that\'s still not CharacterFocus. Mako is not in a scene for \
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# TheScrappy. Undisputed, thanks.
# Loved by the creators. Nope, still hasn\\\'t been established. When you stop taking their comments out of context instead of the little chunks we\\\'re getting here to try and make him some kind of god, all you get is the creators establishing that they felt a \\\'\\\'storyline\\\'\\\' was misinterpreted. Seeing how \\\'\\\'in the show itself\\\'\\\', Mako\\\'s girlfriend \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' call out his attitude and \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' presented as correct, you cannot also claim that he\\\'s a KarmaHoudini simply because he broke up with his girlfriend he\\\'d been dating all of a month or so and successfully started a relationship with the person he was actually interested in. And admitted and apologized to her. Not to mention that the same damn commentary also acknowledged their awareness of the character\\\'s controversy.
# Nope, that\\\'s still not CharacterFocus. Mako is not in a scene for \\\"no reason\\\" at any point of this show. Claiming that he is being written to be important is not \\\"CharacterFocus\\\" either - otherwise literally any character you don\\\'t like that is important to a storyline is getting \\\"CharacterFocus.\\\" Pointing out that the show could have been massively rewritten to remove him is rather silly, and your link to a fan editorial complaining about how they don\\\'t like Mako is still not establishing CharacterFocus.
# Your CharacterShilling is laughable at best. CharacterShilling is when secondary characters start overstating or overselling a character who clearly is not actually living up to what they are saying - but the story wants us to think they are. Mako has just done something that Amon did not believe possible. He has earned a sentence of acknowledgement, yes? Furthermore, \\\'\\\'as I already said further up\\\'\\\', it\\\'s a far less impressive feat when \\\'\\\'Korra does it too.\\\'\\\' The entire point of that scene wasn\\\'t \\\"Mako is so cool he broke Amon\\\'s bloodbending!\\\" It was \\\"Someone who focuses hard enough can break out of blood bending with or without the Avatar state.\\\" Your complaining that that person is Mako does not count - we already know you hate his guts, that\\\'s not this trope. Furthermore, Mako stating that he is doing well at work is an estimation of \\\'\\\'his own abilities.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not CharacterShilling and given what we just saw before the scene, he managed to capture the criminals with a minimal amount of \\\'\\\'unnecessary\\\'\\\' property damage. We can reasonably assume that the statement he has made about \\\'\\\'himself\\\'\\\' is backed up by the plot. And your complaint about Lin being out of character in that front doesn\\\'t hold water either - Lin arrested Korra for being an armed, reckless vigilant that tore up a street without any authority but her own. Mako was a licensed officer of the law arresting someone using bending - which, I hate to break it to you, is what the Metalbenders are already doing.
# Loved by the creators. Nope, still hasn\\\'t been established. When you stop taking their comments out of context instead of the little chunks we\\\'re getting here to try and make him some kind of god, all you get is the creators establishing that they felt a \\\'\\\'storyline\\\'\\\' was misinterpreted. Seeing how \\\'\\\'in the show itself\\\'\\\', Mako\\\'s girlfriend \\\'\\\'does\\\'\\\' call out his attitude and \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' presented as correct, you cannot also claim that he\\\'s a KarmaHoudini simply because he broke up with his girlfriend he\\\'d been dating all of a month or so and successfully started a relationship with the person he was actually interested in. And admitted and apologized to her. Not to mention that the same damn commentary also acknowledged their awareness of the character\\\'s controversy.
# Nope, that\\\'s still not CharacterFocus. Mako is not in a scene for \\\"no reason\\\" at any point of this show. Claiming that he is being written to be important is not \\\"CharacterFocus\\\" either - otherwise literally any character you don\\\'t like that is important to a storyline is getting \\\"CharacterFocus.\\\" Pointing out that the show could have been massively rewritten to remove him is rather silly, and your link to a fan editorial complaining about how they don\\\'t like Mako is still not establishing CharacterFocus.
# Your CharacterShilling is laughable at best. CharacterShilling is when secondary characters start overstating or overselling a character who clearly is not actually living up to what they are saying - but the story wants us to think they are. Mako has just done something that Amon did not believe possible. He has earned a sentence of acknowledgement, yes? Furthermore, \\\'\\\'as I already said further up\\\'\\\', it\\\'s a far less impressive feat when \\\'\\\'Korra does it too.\\\'\\\' The entire point of that scene wasn\\\'t \\\"Mako is so cool he broke Amon\\\'s bloodbending!\\\" It was \\\"Someone who focuses hard enough can break out of blood bending with or without the Avatar state.\\\" Your complaining that that person is Mako does not count - we already know you hate his guts, that\\\'s not this trope. Furthermore, Mako stating that he is doing well at work is an estimation of \\\'\\\'his own abilities.\\\'\\\' That\\\'s not CharacterShilling and given what we just saw before the scene, he managed to capture the criminals with a minimal amount of \\\'\\\'unnecessary\\\'\\\' property damage. We can reasonably assume that the statement he has made about \\\'\\\'himself\\\'\\\' is backed up by the plot. And your complaint about Lin being out of character in that front doesn\\\'t hold water either - Lin arrested Korra for being an armed, reckless vigilant that tore up a street without any authority but her own. Mako was a licensed officer of the law arresting someone using bending - which, I hate to break it to you, is what the Metalbenders are already doing.
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It seems like maybe this trope should be expanded, or there should be some kind of parent trope. Not sure what to call it, but it would represent the concept of the unconventional detective who\'s not a cop but, due to his unique skills, physiology, or afflictions, hangs out with the cops and is able to solve cases that they can\'t. Following are some examples, grouped by the general type of the fish-out-of-water character (note that some of these are already listed on the trope page, but I include them here as examples of why this seems broader than just magicians).
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UPDATE: Sorry, I just found the Exotic Detective page. I had made the incorrect assumption that since the Magician Detective didn\\\'t link to a parent page, there wasn\\\'t one.
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* Mystery writers: Richard Castle (\'\'Series/{{Castle}}\'\'), Ellery Queen
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