User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Lightning - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-24971793-20141109144357

Like others said below, he's quite flat. His comedy and stereotype is all he has going for him (kinda like Justin). Which means if you found him funny and where compelled to his type of stereotype you'll probably like him, maybe even love him. And if you didn't you probably hate him. I fall in the latter category for Lightning. Out of his entire run I only found him slightly funny in one episode of All Stars (evil dread), where he seemed to be a bit flanderized. I didn't even realise he was meant to be comic relief in ROTI when I first watched it and I literally forgot he was still competing at times.

So that's my personal opinion. Is he objectively a good character. Meh... I'll go with neutral. Some things really worked for him and others really didn't. He didn't have enough flesh to be a finalist though.