Call me romantic, but villain redemption is my favorite Anon Babble trope. I don't care if it's realistic or not...

Same, I think it's because I absolutely loathe one-dimensional "he is bad because he is.... LE BAD" villains who are purely there as an antagonist, very rarely is something Anon Babble able to pull it off.
Redeemed villains are great because it speaks to the ability of anyone rational to fall into evil but recognise the error of their ways.

Dragged Across Concrete has this.

looses to a nigger and an old man

the guy that replied to be is American because... HE JUST IS, OK?

t. stupid angsty teenager who thinks he's deep

I hate how overdone and unearned it is. Doc Ock works because he just wants to do his experiment. He's not fully in control of his actions either, as the arms want to live and need his body to exist. The experiment gets out of hand and he doesn't want to destroy NY, so yea he does the "right" thing and dunks it in the river, himself included.

What?

PISS OFF YOU HARKONNEN SCUM

actually a stupidly angsty 20 something alcoholic

redemption is the opposite of rationale. a truly rational villain uses pure logic to get his ends - irrespective of morality

my fav trope is when the villain's motives/reasoning turns out to be more right than the hero

name 5

This is what the cookie monster is for

uh... watchmen. ok that's all i can remember (mid movie btw)

ok and the matrix trilogy (agent smith). smith wanted to destroy the matrix, and neo literally stopped him by making a deal with the machine to do so at the end of revolutions

It’s a massive, boring trope capeshit does too much. Look at Magnito “there is good in you Eric” bullshit after he just murdered a bunch of people. I hated it with Vader too. He murdered people and watched an entire planet get destroyed by his Death Star. But because he killed the Emperor all is forgiven. It’s just a cheap way to make villains look deeper.

cookie monster
big bird
godzilla
king kong
god
satan the black cat

this is the ultimate villain redemption arc

Andy went from an alcoholic childraping wifemurder to a holedigging, shitcrawling, moneylaundering shipwreckrepairer.

Red went from a carstealing, wiferaping childmurderer to a pickaxeselling, moneybetting knifecarving sightseer.

yes, it's among my fav tropes too. sadly it isn't popular in the porn genre. Lately I've binged some classic 70s porn and the 90 italian porn and the villain redemption trope is almost never ever used, feels like a missed opportunity

morgan freeman

It's a nig and guaranteed to suck

he even went to force heaven, while his victim's souls probably dissipated in the ether.

childraping

conan the barbarian
robocop
demolition man
face//off
x-men 2

It's more like nignog bullshit

If you're willing to put 6 bullets into your wife then you're a childraper according to my reasoning.

Not really. Usually people do the wrong thing because they are thinking rationally.

Morgan Freeman is actually based. He wanted to abolish the black history month and survived multiple allogations during the #MeToo-debacle.

You're just not forgivenesspilled. Regardless, it's not about all being forgiven, it's about finding that inner strength to admit you were wrong and doing what's right regardless of the personal cost.

"Not really"

agrees with me

meh

Evil isn't one dimensional, you're just a moral relativist scum.