So I'm just going to point out that if you go back and watch the scene with Walker getting discharged from the Army the terms of his OTH discharge explicitly say he's never allowed to serve as an agent of the US government again
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Manipulating him into like blowing open a bank vault and taking out all the cash as a "top secret mission for national security" "You've served your country well today, soldier!" *grabs two bundles of cash off the top and throws them to him* "Here, have a bonus"
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His "paycheck" comes from visiting various dead drops around his neighborhood to pick up sketchy envelopes filled with unmarked bills "Yeah, honey, my new government job is so classified they can't even let the IRS know about it"
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Lol this screencap is just so funny to me His excited little-boy smile "I'm an antihero now, honey! I'm a gritty '90s antihero!"pic.twitter.com/97fQDFJbgd
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"It's great! I didn't realize -- the stuff I got fired from being an inspirational superhero for, if you're an antihero they actually *pay you to do that* In this job it's not a 'red flag' it's a *positive*"
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(This could apply equally well to washing out of the military and ending up an assassin for a supervillain crime syndicate *or* ending up a beat cop in an urban Black neighborhood)
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Like seriously I'm pretty sure people have talked about washing out of the military for being unstable and violent and then getting a job as a cop immediately afterwards The dude who shot Tamir Rice had been fired from another police department for that reason
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I'm just thinking of Steven Heck from Alpha Protocol now, possibly my favorite riff on that theme. Although in his case he doesn't seem to be a patsy so much as a deluded, self-employed murder enthusiast.
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