User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Is Cardin smarter than he looks?/@comment-9464517-20150524092349

I feel like Miles and Kerry went out of their way to portray Cardin in every possible negative manner in the series: racist, cowardly, arrogant, and relatively weak. If asked about it, they'd probably say that he is in fact dumb as well, when this is clearly not the case.

I have a theory that Miles was bullied as a teenager, and that by having Jaune stand up to his bullies in the show, he himself is symbolically letting go of his anger at not being able to do so in reality. If so, it would demonstrate even further that Jaune is just an author surrogate for Miles. It's just a theory, yes, but I'm almost 100% sure that this is true.