It was the language of heroes and villains, the shooter as cold-blooded killer or culture warrior, Thompson as money-grubbing CEO bleeding Americans dry or good family man bleeding out on the street.

“If I had a good family,” he once joked, “I might have been a terrible musician.”

I think he was probably from middle America and from a good family, a really good family.

Besides, the councilmember argued, “people have seen it play out. ... You see new neighbors come in and think, ‘Oh, there’s a good family.’

Agent Carter seems like a pretty solid guy, good guy to work with, good family man.