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Alex: I just want to be good. I want the rest of my life to be one act of goodness.
Priest: The question is whether or not this technique really makes a man good. Goodness comes from within. Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
~ Alex asks the priest to use Ludovico technique to turn him into "good" so that he can get out of jail.
Inuyashiki: Why are you here?
Hiro: I wanted to try to shift its trajectory.
Inuyashiki: You? Why?
Hiro: Even I have people I care about. I don't want Shion or Chokko to die.
~ Hiro Shishigami decides to destroy the asteroid threatening the earth ONLY to save his family, former best friend, and girlfriend.
But now you'll survive. It's like you said, together we can fix anything. I'm just proud I got to be your friend and co-pilot, Captain. No one can hurt you now. We fixed it. I... fixed it...
~ Jimmy's last words to Curly in the cryo-pod before killing himself, believing he "fixed" it

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:

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 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.

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