Talk:Downfall/@comment-28171999-20180115002411/@comment-30575510-20180115222955

Villain redemption has to be done in the right way. It can't just be "Lol join us and let us never speak of this again". A good way to do this, is to show the former villian's struggle with completely getting rid of their old self, and to also have some characters question whether said character is really a different person. A couple of good examples of this are Sunset Shimmer from Equestria Girls, and Garmadon from Ninjago. Sunset was a typical high school bitch, with a lot of powerlust thrown in. She turned into a literal hellspawn and enslaved an entire school, however after the little "friendship rainbow magic defeat" she was emotionally broken and had to make up for that carp she pulled. In the other movies, she is constantly trying to rebrand herself as a different person, but it's difficult because the other students know what she did and distrust her. Lord Garmadon tried to essentially destroy the world several times, but he was purified and redeemed. Even so, some of the main characters were wary of him.

Eh he's dead.