User blog comment:Flagator24/What's with all the hate towards Mike?/@comment-1037137-20180420043945

Everything you need to know about Mike's hatedom, you can find by watching TDAS. This is a bland milquetoast character who's disorder is used to elicit sympathy for him and who's entire personality and presence relies on that and on Zoey alone, with nothing that really separates him from either. He's virtually indistinguishable from Zoey and is very much a Vanilla Protagonist (See TVTropes). It's Mal though that completely invalidates him as a character, It's because of Mike that we got Mal and Mal was one of the most overhyped, underused villains ever put out. Yes, he was evil, but that's about it. He did too little to justify his presence and most of his evil plans relied on dumbing down the cast to act uncharacteristically stupid. And how he is defeated is definitely a scene that can be taken the wrong way.

In Revenge he is passable, if still rather bland and uninteresting. After All-Stars however his presence is no longer needed.