Faux Redemption

Everyone knows that a Near Pure Evil is incapable of fully redeeming themselves 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 or being neutral, either through having their evilness sucked out of them or through rewriting their original personality (e.g. Alex DeLarge, Kid Buu, Professor Pericles, Master Control, the Earl of Lemongrab, Moon, and Yukana Kishi)
• Villains that acquire amnesia or some other mental illness that make them forget about their thirst for evil (e.g. Raiden the Moon King, Yoshikage Kira, 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. Sōsuke Aizen, Carnage, Agent Smith, Trigon, Dr. Eggman, Lou, Hector Salamanca, Valentino, Velvette and Chelsea Van Der Zee).
• Villains who simply retire from villainy for whatever reason, such as boredom, laying low, accepting their fates, deteriorating health, etc. (e.g. Jevil, Rattlesnake Jake, Chloé Bourgeois, Oh Il-nam, Lord Shen, Harry Lime, Kai the Collector, Dawn Bellwether and Light Yagami).
• Villains who accomplish their goals and as a result have no reason to actively continue their villainy (e.g. Lulu, Lee Woo-jin, Apocalypse (Marvel), Terence Fletcher, Evil Morty, and The Lich).
• 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. Kai Chisaki, Sozin, and Luigi).
• 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, Danzō Shimura, Abigail Lazar, Colonel McCullough, Karl Heisenberg, Ansem, 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. Tighten, Lord Dominator, and Starscream).

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

Their heroic counterparts are Fake Corruption Near Pure Goods.