 The discovery of Che 's remains metonymically activated a series of interlinked associations — rebel , martyr , rogue figure from a picaresque adventure , savior , renegade , extremist — in which there was no fixed divide among them . The current court of opinion places Che on a continuum that teeters between viewing him as a misguided rebel , a <unk> brilliant guerrilla philosopher , a poet @-@ warrior jousting at windmills , a brazen warrior who threw down the gauntlet to the bourgeoisie , the object of fervent paeans to his sainthood , or a mass murderer clothed in the guise of an avenging angel whose every action is imbricated in violence — the archetypal <unk> Terrorist . 
