User blog comment:Zoether/Would you consider Courtney an Anti-Hero or Villain/@comment-7084398-20131231060308/@comment-23995441-20131231064822

Christ: Ok, would you say this about any other Antagonist on the show [besides Mal] that they are Anti-Heroes because they have those rare moments where they show they have a moral conscience too?

The writers can do whatever they want with the characters, whether we hate what they're doing to them or not that's still their actual character and the way the writers want to portray them. And Courtney's being portrayed as a Villain.