Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-43719117-20190910220946/@comment-48714-20190911182114

If they ever intended to go down the redemption route for Adam, I don't think they would have made him as creepy and despicable in Volume 3 as they did. Adam was never shown as conflicted outside the early section of his own character short and that brief moment of concern when Cinder tried to make a deal.

Ilia was portrayed sympathetically and clearly conflicted for all of Volume 5. And she went straight to the edge of the abyss before going back, but she did go back. Adam had already gone over that edge before the series started.

A villain like Adam COULD be redeemed in a different kind of show, but I just don't think that's the kind of show RWBY is. Someone like Emerald or Hazel, maybe, but not someone like Adam.