I support whomever I want to support in a story, and that support is not dictated by the author. You may find that Jack Reacher/Flashman/Holden Caulfield/Little Tree/etc. doesn’t float your particular boat regardless of what you may consider to be authorial intent, and so you root for someone else in the fictional tale. In practically every Nicholas Cage movie other than Raising Arizona, I want his character to die. By VX gas, thug, CIA, etc. I can read or watch fiction any way I choose to interpret that fiction. Complex situations yield a range of opinions.
