No but when he's like, what about you? Do you see me as a villain? He's asking us. First and foremost. John is just a surrogate for the audience in the sense that, despite having seen this man go to dark places, thinking how awful it must be to be him... We follow him still.
We do not care as to what labels others affix to him - hero, antihero, villain, monster, legend - we follow his story all the same.
We see him kill Gates and yet weirdly still feel for him after that. There's always a way. We see blood on his hands, but we're unbothered by it
We see him kill Gates and yet weirdly still feel for him after that. There's always a way. We see blood on his hands, but we're unbothered by it
We see how many questionable decisions he makes, how catastrophic the consequences of his actions may be sometimes - we want to oppose him, even - yet we root for his journey through every which hardship, including ones of his own making, and we want to see him succeed. We care.
And we love him all the same, dammit