Beyond Redemption

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Kitana believes that her mother has fallen into Shao Kahn's brainwashing as an explanation for her actions. Later on, the gargoyle statue that Frollo clings on to before his doom comes to life and snarls at him with a demonic grin before breaking off from Notre Dame to cast him down to a fiery sea of molten metal. One of the main goals of the last season is killing him for good because the heroes know that Moo can't be redeemed. Part of the reason he wants to die is that he knows no matter how hard he works, his number is so impossibly high that he'll never get off the train.

After that, Joker, Ryuji, and Ann decide they don't care if Kamoshida dies anymore; they just want him gone. Sentinel betrayed those beliefs when he sided with the Decepticons and tried to enslave humanity to rebuild Cybertron. Harry Potter: The sixth book reveals that Voldemort broke his soul into pieces and hid the fragments in various Soul Jars in an attempt to achieve immortality; the only way to repair a soul once it has been ripped apart in such a way is for the person to feel genuine remorse for their actions. Long-running series often go about this as a way of raising the stakes; if the audience knows that the hero won't go the merciful route anymore, there's sure to be some escalation of tension. Hiccup’s father, Stoic, repeatedly tells him that Drago is beyond all reason, but Hiccup doesn’t listen.Pokémon: Harmony and Chaos: Grand Hoof tries to help his grandson Lightning Blitz change for the better since Lightning became bitter and obsessed with power after watching Grand lose his championship title to Shining Armor. In the radio drama, Leia tells him that if he had a shred of humanity left in him, then it's dead now, and he is at war with life itself. It took roughly a year in real publishing time for her to finally realize that redemption was indeed possible for her.

At that point, the Oath of Redemption Paladin needs to follow through with ending that evildoer's life for the safety of the world.This trope is firmly defied when he sees a mural of his prophesized future depicting him as a god that is beloved and worshiped rather than hated or feared. Many years later, Leo, having become a Buddhist monk, tracks Carnage down to Hong Kong, where he has kidnapped several people, intending to forgive him for Radical's murder and free the hostages. But when she divulges her origins, he's confronted not with a tragic backstory, but the makings of a monster. However, due to his neglect after Live Wire, Grand’s wife, and Doom’s mother, had passed away, Doom refuses to take responsibility for his actions, and blames it all on Grand.

Batman Vampire: In Crimson Mist, Batman has fully succumbed to his vampire nature and feeds on his Rogues Gallery before beheading them; he's fully aware of what a monster he's become, but is no longer capable of fighting it and is convinced he's taken in too much evil from his victims to be redeemed, reflecting he may very well destroy the world if he isn't stopped. Only after all of the firstborn sons of Egypt, including Rameses' own son, have been taken by the Angel of Death does he let Moses and the Hebrews leave Egypt. In Oxenfree, the entire cast will consider you to be this if you are willing to give Clarissa's soul to the Sunken, even if you ultimately save her later.Relatedly, apocryphal texts claim that Demons (as Fallen Angels) are this; not because they're just that evil, mind, but because an angel does everything in full knowledge of all consequences of its actions, so an angel that Falls will never change its mind and repent, and thus can't be forgiven. Even with Wolf's Positive Friend Influence, Snake has a hard time accepting his own reformation, and this is what allows the Overlord to corrupt him, turning him into one of his servants. Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu is initially a well-meaning Supreme Kai, but soon ends up Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, becoming an Ax-Crazy Knight Templar who's willing to commit genocide and mass murder in the name of his idea of justice. It's not until Cell crushes 16's head underfoot that he finally crosses the line with Gohan; reaching his Rage Breaking Point, Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2 and does everything he can to make Cell suffer as much as possible for what he's done.

Erichthonios wonders if Athena could have been a truly loving mother to him and wife to Lahabrea if she'd never discovered the Heart of Sabik. In The Rise of Skywalker, it took his mother's death and Rey using Force Heal on him to finally make him turn away from the dark side. In The Flash Sentry Chronicles, Grand Hoof had spent years trying to get his son, Doom Raizer, to accept responsibility for his actions. Edward stops Roy before he can kill Envy, and warns him that he has the face of a man who would not be worthy to lead Amestris. The two met again a decade later in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, where Vader tells Obi-Wan that Anakin Skywalker is dead and that Vader killed him.Fortunately, Fletcher has a gift of writing in a beautiful, literary prose that displays clear insights on the lurid nature of humanity. However, in the season 6 episode " Waltz", Sisko and Dukat get trapped on a desolated planet while en route to Dukat’s trial, and when Dukat goes completely insane from the hallucinations that he had been seeing throughout the episode, it causes Sisko to realize that there really are people like Dukat who are completely evil. Themis declares that he will cast judgment on her as Elidibus the Emissary, and Athena treated with complete contempt from the penultimate fight of the raid onward. Yusuke repeatedly insists that Madarame is innocent of the accusations, though it eventually becomes clear that Yusuke is desperately denying the man who saved his life and took him in could possibly be that bad.