THISSSS. Oh, and I'd also like to add something. While it absolutely doesn't justify all of his actions, I do think it helps us understand him better.
Honestly, I'm also pretty tired of people reducing him to just a cruel, pathetic loser of a teacher—which, to be fair, he is—but there's also more to him than that. He has moments of empathy, a fear of abandonment, and as I've been rewatching the episodes, I don't know if I'm the only one who feels like the only thing that genuinely seems to entertain Herkabe is messing with Malcolm.
On the surface that sounds cruel, but if you look at it more deeply, it raises an interesting question: how depressed do you have to be for the only thing you genuinely enjoy doing to be tormenting a teenager?
And that's without even mentioning his valedictorian status, which he loses in the final episode. To me, it feels like he's still desperately trying to regain the only thing that truly mattered to him—besides Malcolm, in the sense of having someone to mess with.
I honestly find it both poetic and hilarious to imagine that Herkabe wasn't in the reboot because he's still trying to pass P.E.
Anyway, I'll leave these two things here: a video explaining why he's not just the "psychopath" people often make him out to be, and something from the wiki itself. If you pay attention, you can definitely see some of the traits it describes reflected in him.
(Seriously, I really want to write a much longer analysis of his character and why, personally, he's the character who's made me feel the most connected to that sense of misery and "loser syndrome." LMAO.)
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