Everyone knows that a Near Pure Evil is incapable of redemption in any way, shape and form, even if some have redeeming qualities, since those who redeemed themselves do not qualify as Near Pure Evil. But what about an instance where a Near Pure Evil supposedly changes for the better?

This is what is known as a Faux Redemption, where a villain that clearly will never have any chance of redemption feigns a redemption in some way or actually redeems but for some other reason. This includes:

• Villains that are brainwashed into heroism, either through having their evilness sucked out of them or through rewriting their original personality (e.g. Alex DeLarge, Grandfather, Kid Buu, Preston, Professor Pericles, and the Earl of Lemongrab).
• Villains that acquire amnesia or some other mental illness that make them forget about their thirst for evil (e.g. Dark Danny, Raiden the Moon King, Light Yagami, Yoshikage Kira, Makima, and Gorr the God Butcher).
• Villains who ally with the heroes yet only do so for pragmatic reasons and clearly detest working with them (e.g. Carnage (2010), Solf J. Kimblee, Agent Smith, Trigon, Dr. Eggman, Lou, and Hector Salamanca).
• Villains who simply retire from villainy for whatever reason, such as boredom, laying low, accepting their fates, deteriorating health, etc. (e.g. Monaca Towa, Johan Liebert, Jevil, Flumpty Bumpty, Rattlesnake Jake, Oh Il-nam, Lord Shen, and Kai the Collector).
• Villains who accomplish their goals and as a result have no reason to actively continue their villainy (e.g. Hans Landa, Lulu, Apocalypse, Evil Morty, and The Lich (Extinct World)).
• Villains who feel remorse for a few of their actions yet refuse to take up the opportunity to redeem and grow as people (e.g. Jimmy, Kai Chisaki, Sozin, and The Count).
• Villains who do only one good thing or make peace with someone they wronged, (could be the hero or someone else), before being resigned to their fate, without remorse for their previous actions and wanting to grow (e.g. William Birkin, Jack Krauser, Hiro Shishigami, Colonel McCullough, Imhotep, Karl Heisenberg, and Citra Talugmai-Montenegro)

This is different from Redemption Rejection, describing villains who are given chances to redeem themselves but outright refuse them. However, in some cases, they can be both, given that villains that have Faux Redemptions do not completely redeem themselves (e.g. Erik Killmonger, Niles, Tighten, Circus Baby, and Starscream (Unicron Trilogy)).

They will be Remorse Fakers in order to look redeemed, but in some cases, they could be Minor Remorseful as well.

NOTE: In order for someone in this category to be Near Pure Evil, there needs to be a strong enough of an implication that their "redemption" was either pragmatic, accidental or not of their own volition. If there is proof that a character's redemption is genuine, they cannot qualify as Near Pure Evil.

Their heroic counterparts are Fake Corruption Near Pure Goods.