Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-1446360-20190222143740/@comment-24018437-20190225163150

Sienna didn’t tell him to murder humans left and right. She approved of killing humans for self-defense or if it had a higher purpose. Adam killed out of spite and revenge. He twisted what Sienna taught him. Sienna is far from responsible for what he turned into. She certainly was a factor, but ultimately not the one who told Adam to do everything he did. Also, I’m really sick of people seemingly Blake, the victim of abuse, for Adam’s downfall. If she had stayed with Adam, she either would have died or walked down a very dark path. She made the right choiche. And don’t say that she should have tried, because it was both shown and mentioned that she had tried that without succes.

Adam is responsible for everything he did himself. He got ample oppurtunity to walk away, to redeem himself. He refused to take it. And he paid the price for it.

First of all, nowadays, redemption arcs are predicteble. And as many have pointed out, an antagonist needs redeeming qualities in order to be redeemed. Adam has none. Even his fight for equality was more along the lines of a self-serving quest for revenge, motivated by spite. Redeeming him wouldn’t have worked because it simply wouldn’t have made any sense for Adam to feel bad about his actions, and ty and redeem himself. You gave an example of how prison would change Adam, but given the mad bull’s personality, it probably would have fueled his rage.

No potentiol was flushed down the toilet simply because the potentiol was never there in the first place. Adam is, and never was, a Zuko or IIlia. He was never meant to be that.

As for your last comment, no need to explain. We already to know that, to you, a tragic backstory immmidiatly excuses evil and denies any sort of accountebility.

Tragic backstory = You can do whatever the Hell you want and when people call you out for your evil actions, just cry about how tough your childhood was.

Yeah, it doesn’t work like that Thunder, and its really about time you realize that. You can sympathize with a villain, but you’re just seemingly trying to find reasons to approve of what they did and blame their victims.