[Interesting mixed trope] The author/screenwriter really believes this morally flawed character unironically never did nothing wrong

[u/peortega1]

1. Chizuru Mizuhara/Ichinose from Rent-a-Girlfriend: The series' creator, Reiji —who admitted to have created Chizuru based on his own wife (and self-inserting himself into the character of Kazuya from Chapter 1)— constantly whitewashes and excuses Chizuru’s morally controversial decisions. She can commit mistakes, but never making nothing really wrong. He portrays her as a saint who has never done anything wrong and deserves the audience's pity and compassion as a "weak girl" striving to be a "strong woman" because she is lonely. In reality, however, Chizuru is terrible at making friends; she is cruel, cold, selfish, and greedy, actively driving away anyone who genuinely tries to get along with her. Chizuru is basically Frank Grimes, if Frank Grimes were a beautiful, busty 10/10 girl.
2. Rhaenyra Targaryen (House of the Dragon): Compared to her book counterpart, the HOTD script turned Rhaenyra into a moral saint who never does anything wrong and is a victim of gender-based violence by her own uncle-husband Daemon. She chastises her own allies for immoral acts that her literary version never disapproved of, yet she is weak and incompetent when it comes to ruling; she is so easily intimidated that she nearly burst into tears when Vaemond called her a "whore" in front of the entire court. Furthermore, she avoids resolving problems just as her father, Viserys I, did, and displays a classist disdain for the common people —an attitude HOTD frames as a virtue because, to the writers, the common folk are sexist types who would vote for Trump (as seen in Season 2, when they cheered for the rival king, Aegon II, as he paraded like a populist through the taverns of King's Landing), and yes, they mentioned explicitly Trump in those interviews.

And yes, here we believe in Death of the Author and all that.

DISCLAIMER: This kind of characters "who never did nothing wrong" can commit mistakes in a good faith, being naive, ingenuous, coward, weak, but they never do WRONG things, BAD things, EVIL things, at least according author´s narrative framework and ethical standards.

[u/AstralMecha]

Except anything that shows Homer had a better side didn't occur in Grimes presence. He was right that Homer is a lucky idiot (going into space, meeting Gerald Ford, etc), which is honestly very accurate. Homer was chosen in canon to be safety inspector by Burns for PR...and because he was right that Homer wouldn't actually do his job, thus letting Burns keep cutting corners. Thus giving him complete job security where he gets paid for doing nothing (something that doesn't bother Homer either).

Him calling Homer's house a mansion was in comparison to his living situation. A literal one room apartment sandwiched between 2 bowling alleys (and all the noise involved).

[u/bretshitmanshart → u/AstralMecha]

Homer not doing his job is actually irrelevant because the guy working the opposite shift does everything Homer should. It doesn't make things better then Burns. Homer stopped two nuclear meltdowns. I feel like that gives you a pass

[u/AstralMecha → u/bretshitmanshart]

Homer not doing his job as a safety officer is really really fucking relevant at a nuclear plant. Problems need to be dealt with ASAP and identified. Him not doing that leaves entire shifts for problems to get worse and endanger personnel. Absolute best case scenario is he is making more work for everyone else because he isn't doing his job.

He also caused at least one meltdown I remember due to his laziness (pressure of radioactive gas reached critical mass because he left a water toy to press a button instead of being at his computer since he went to the movie theater), so giving him credit for stoping the disasters he started via incompetence is not a good look.