Thread:Looperreallyreallysucks/@comment-24977413-20180922191442/@comment-34055410-20180922202127

Montgomery is only protective of Bryce for a selfish reason. It was a simple obsession to another Pure Evil villain (e.g. Bellatrix's relation with Voldemort), and loyalty to a sociopathic rapist like Bryce doesn't sound mitigating to begin with. And Montgomery's whole speech to Alex about how he got his friends and his team wasn't played for sympathy. It was rather to show that Montgomery only views his friends as his own means of survival rather than actual caring about them.

And the abuse rarely justifies anything. To start with, we never see how much he is abused, which makes it harder to sympathize with him. And Justin, a foil to Monty, is explicitly abused to the point where he was nearly killed by his own stepfather, but he isn't even remotely as horrible as Monty.

That said, Montgomery's crimes are more violent that Bryce's. While Bryce does nothing other than raping girls, Montgomery stands out by having two attempted murders (one of which he attempts to force a recent suicide survivor to shoot kill himself), spending the entire second season ruining the protagonists' lives, and eventually raping Tyler with a broomstick, eliminating all sympathy for him.