History Main / EvilRedeemedInACan

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': The Forerunners lost their war with the Flood partially because the ArtificialIntelligence they built to help combat it, Mendicant Bias, joined the Flood after being corrupted by the Logic Plague. The Forerunners only just managed to delay the traitorous AI long enough to pull a MutualKill on the Flood, with the survivors capturing Bias and imprisoning him in the Ark. After 100,000 years, Bias awakens and reveals himself to the Master Chief via Terminals, admitting his wrongdoing and now committed to helping Humanity as penance to the Forerunners. Though in an ironic twist, ''Literature/HaloContactHarvest'' reveals Bias' first attempt to help humanity ended up making things worse by accidentally inciting war between them and [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]].[[note]] To clarify, when the Forerunners reseeded the Galaxy after the Flood war, they reprogrammed all their remaining technology to recognize Humanity as their successors by designating them Reclaimers. When a fragment of Mendicant Bias located in the Forerunner Dreadnought on the Covenant capital, High Charity, was accidently reactivated due to the sensor data recently gained from First Contact with the Human colonists on Harvest, it revealed this to three San'shyuum(Prophets) that were present at the time, before it was deactivated as it attempted to take control of the dreadnought. These three San'shyuum misinterpreted the term Reclaimer to mean that the humans were living descendants of the Forerunners, something that contradicts the very core of their religion which states that all the Forerunners ascended to Godhood during the Great Journey. Realizing such knowledge would completely fracture the Covenant, these three kept this information to themselves, ascended as the new leaders of the Covenant, and began the war in an attempt to wipe out humanity before the "truth" could be revealed, which they justified to the rest of the Covenant by claiming that the humans were heretics who deliberately destroyed Forerunner relics.[[/note]]

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': The Forerunners lost their war with the Flood partially because the ArtificialIntelligence they built to help combat it, Mendicant Bias, joined the Flood after being corrupted by the Logic Plague. The Forerunners only just managed to delay the traitorous AI long enough to pull a MutualKill on the Flood, with the survivors capturing Bias and imprisoning him in the Ark. After 100,000 years, Bias awakens and reveals himself to the Master Chief via Terminals, admitting his wrongdoing and now committed to helping Humanity as penance to the Forerunners. Though in an ironic twist, ''Literature/HaloContactHarvest'' reveals Bias' first attempt to help humanity ended up making things worse by accidentally inciting war between them and [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]] [[note]] To clarify, when the Forerunners reseeded the Galaxy after the Flood war, they reprogrammed all their remaining technology to recognize Humanity as their successors by designating them Reclaimers. When a fragment of Mendicant Bias located in the Forerunner Dreadnought on the Covenant capital, High Charity, was accidently reactivated due to the sensor data recently gained from First Contact with the Human colonists on Harvest, it revealed this to three San'shyuum(Prophets) that were present at the time, before it was deactivated as it attempted to take control of the dreadnought. These three San'shyuum misinterpreted the term Reclaimer to mean that the humans were living descendants of the Forerunners, something that contradicts the very core of their religion which states that all the Forerunners ascended to Godhood during the Great Journey. Realizing such knowledge would completely fracture the Covenant, these three kept this information to themselves, ascended as the new leaders of the Covenant, and began the war in an attempt to wipe out humanity before the "truth" could be revealed, which they justified to the rest of the Covenant by claiming that the humans were heretics who deliberately destroyed Forerunner relics.[[/note]]

* [[spoiler: The Great Raven of ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'']], having spent a considerable amount of time sealed and actually unable to order his servants about (they just acted on the last orders given, which were to cause destruction and try to free their boss). When finally released, he turns out to be on his last legs and very repentant.