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* '''Exaggerated''':
** President Legit does not understand the concept of [[Nice to the Waiter|common courtesy to your inferiors]], so he is unprepared when Jesse's use of "please" and "thank you" leads to mass [[Heel Face Turn]] actions on the part of his minions.
** "His charm is not superficial?! Are you sure this is the monster that attacked one of my men?! MORE SURVEILLANCE AND INVESTIGATION!!!"
** President Legit fails to comprehend why people would rebel against him if he keeps them working for him out of abject fear.
** Jesse is part of a co-culture that speaks [[Language of Truth|Parody Suean]] (or Suean for short), while the regime speaks [[Black Speech|Officialese]], which is full of [[Deadly Euphemism|euphemisms]] and other [[Dark Secret|criminal-argot-like characteristics]]. President Legit's Suean translators are Social Text-like humanities types, and so don't actually know Suean, resulting in many false convictions and the rebels going free on countless occasions. The rebels use the defenses' cases as a propaganda coup without actually saying who is a rebel going free.
* '''Justified''':
** President Legit deals with so many alleged "legitimate", actually evil, people that dealing with an actual good person is a new one for him, or is so rare that he can attribute their conduct to a series of deceptions and coincidences. He has a family, but he's kind of distant, cold, and careerist and doesn't really want or enjoy their companionship, so they're not able to serve as his [[Morality Pet]]s. He genuinely believes that underneath their goody-goody exteriors, everyone else is just as self-centered and greedy as he and the people he deals with at work are. For someone in his position, [[Crapsack World|this is actually a well-advised assumption]].
** Legit's national security adviser's most trusted subordinate is a game theorist, and the second most trusted subordinate is a computer programmer, who are both running a computer program that was once programmed to understand altruism, not just selfish motives, but after producing results that the expert witnesses, judges, prosecutors and jurors selected for their political beliefs didn't believe, the program was re-written not to use the open-source machine ethics (Wikidata item Q6723711) package it once used to understand dissident's conduct. One of Jessie's allies is a computer programmer whose computer still uses the very machine ethics package that the regime is convinced that dissidents do not use.
* '''Inverted''':
** Good Cannot Comphrehend Evil. Jesse is killed because it never occurred to him that President Legit would cheerfully kill his own wife and children for a shot at Jesse.
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