The boxers do deserve a bad reputation. Not only did they bomb a mine under the french legation and blame foreigners/new churches being built for the droughts and floods happening, but they also killed a lot of foreign missionaries and Chinese converts. When they bombed the french legation, they showed that they were hot-headed and quick to act because they could’ve just worked things out of they didn’t agree with something but they chose to bomb a mine under them, forcing the French and Australians to seek shelter with the British. This made the relationship between foreigners and boxers even worse, making coming to a truce even harder (not that it happened). When they blamed the foreigners and the new churches being built for the droughts and floods happening, they showed that they were really quick to blame others for things that they didn’t do. As people say, “Innocent until proven guilty”, so when they blamed them it showed the biased thinking of them, because it might just be someone else who “made god angry” or the climate change. But the worst is that they killed a lot of foreign missionaries and Chinese converts. They are going against the missionaries because they think that they should be able to follow the religion they want to follow, but when they killed them, it was the same as what the missionaries were doing because they are forcing the Chinese to stick to their own religion. This also showed that they were ruthless, killing not only the missionaries but also killing the people that were once part of them.