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⌈ Secret Post #4333 ⌋

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Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

Character and fandom, and if you can, tell us why it worked for you?

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

Zuko in ATLA.

I don't think I would have bought it without Iroh. Iroh knows he has the potential to change and he lets him figure it out for himself. He just loves him.

I like to watch the early episodes and laugh about how much fun they had making him such a hammy villainous brat. It helps that he's so bad at being bad.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

They absolutely missed the boat with Zuko... If they hadn't had him destroy all his character development by betraying Iroh/The Gaang, his redemption would have been on top of my list as well. But they decided instead to scrap all of that, and have him go on some blind cliche 'destiny' mission, that had nothing to do with the storyline, came out of nowhere, and was a shitty replacement to any reason Zuko already had to redeem himself...

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[greghousesgf]

yeah, I agree completely.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

Agent Kallus - Star Wars Rebels

They did a good job of showing his slow change. I really liked how seeing someone who should hate him reaching out to him ended up being the catalyst for his redemption. I'm super happy that he ended up with Zeb in the end, and by the end, it felt like he'd earned a happy ending.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[type_wild]

Impmon on Digimon Tamers. I think that entire story is extra powerful because Impmon starts out as such a non-threat that his atrocities are all the more shocking, but still completely in tune with what he had been established as. What makes his redemption so particularly raw is of course that his attempt at making up for things that he never really can make up for ultimately fails - as an unforeseen consequence of his actions - but even as he fails, we know that he's back to what he started out as and a little better at that.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

Ken from Digimon season 2 was a good redemption arc, too.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[kaijinscendre]

Vegeta in Dragonball Z.

Spike in Buffy.

Scar and Green in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Real Life: Oskar Schindler.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

cook from skins was brilliant until the writers got bored and undid it all :(

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[philstar22]

Darth Vader/Anakin. Boromir. Zuko.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

ATLA: Zuko

Fringe: Walter. Not really a full redemption arc, more like "you fucked up, learn to accept the consequences."

Pose: Elektra Abundance.

Parks and Recreation: Again, not really a redemption arc, and the premise is spoiled a bit now that we have a literal Ron Swanson in the White House, but that subtle shift from the arch-libertarian troll to adoption of some of Leslie's values is seismic.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that John Noble was never even nominated for an Emmy for Fringe is a serious crime I think about every day.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[nightscale]

Zuko from ATLA is probably still my favourite redemption arc ever tbh, he wasn't even my favourite character on the show but I was so invested in him coming over to the good side in the end and was so happy when he did.

And it wasn't an easy transition, he fucked up a lot trying to do the right thing, he'd do one step forwards and then 5 steps back. I honestly wanted to smack him on the head sometimes because he was just being so stupid, but it made it all the better when he did finally come-around.

Also I liked that most of Team Avatar wasn't immediately on-board with him siding with them, he had to earn their trust.

Vegeta on DBZ's redemption was amusing to me, it was more of a 'he's a good guy now but he's still an ass'.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[kaijinscendre]

'he's a good guy now but he's still an ass'

My favorite kind of asshole, tbh. And a more realistic character change.

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[nightscale]

It worked given the kind of show it was tbh. And I liked Vegeta so I didn't mind. :P

Re: Based on #1 - Your favorite redemption arcs

[(Anonymous)]

Bellamy - One Piece

It worked for me because, well, for one, he showed up literally 500 chapters after his last appearance, which implied that something nasty had happened to him and you were basically led to believe that this petty minor villain had gotten what he deserved. But then he's back after having suffered, paid his dues, had a revelation. On-screen he attempts to be the same old badass motherfucker that he's always been but gets his ass handed to him. Repeatedly. At the end of which he genuinely faces the consequences of his poor choices, admits he was wrong, and accepts punishment. No detail is spared. I honestly had forgotten about him and didn't care about him until he showed back up in Dressrosa, and his arc there made me want to see him redeemed. And now I really like his character.