Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32039927-20171010172534/@comment-32931283-20171014184120

MenInBlak wrote: There are multiple anti-villains on this wiki. Including Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat, who Rocket Raccoon is pretty similar to.

difference is Marvel pins Rocket as a hero, the audience can view him whatever they want but his owners / creators specify him as a hero "on the side of good", thus we should respect that.. only in extreme cases do audience opinions really override the author / owner's view on a story.. if they say a character is a hero, we should usually abide by that.. officially.

(extreme examples are things like Alan Yates, who the author wanted us to see as a sympathetic character.. instead it went the EXACT opposite way and he's now one of the poster-boys for Complete Monsters)