[2banana]

I agree.

Archie was supposed to the enemy.

Instead - he turned into a folk hero.

[aquila48]

And Meathead became the pajama boy.

[Borges]

Archie was always intended to be ‘lovable’ in the end. A truly hateful character wouldn’t work. AITF was a remake of a British show and the character there was certainly not ‘the enemy’.