User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Do So Many People Like Tyler?/@comment-25297892-20150826084122/@comment-31556666-20150826121101

Brick is liked not just for being a funny character, but for me he's enjoyable because he's such a good person. He has traits of what most cadets have so his liability wasn't exaggerated. He's an improvement of characters like DJ and Tyler because he's just such a great human being. Fans can be drawn to that and root for Brick because of this. I do think his pain magnet humor was hit or miss since, again,  he's not the right character for it. But this kind of humor is used way less with Brick, making him more balanced and therefore more popular than Tyler.