History Quotes / ReformedButRejected

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', "[[Recap / BojackHorsemanS6E11SunkCostAndAllThat Sunk Cost and All That]]"

-->-- '''Doug [=MacRay=]''', ''[[Film/TheTown The Town]]''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', "Sunk Cost and All That"

-->--'''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/06/his-almost-gleeful-pleasure-mindwarp.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp}} "Mindwarp"]]

->'''[[spoiler:Zuko]]''': This isn't fair. Everyone else trusts me now. You're the only one still mad.\\

->'''[[spoiler:Zuko]]''': This isn't fair. Everyone else trusts me now. You're the only one still mad.
->'''Katara''': Oh, ''everyone'' trusts you ''now''?! [[spoiler:I was the ''first'' person to trust you, remember?! Back in Ba Sing Se! And you turned around and betrayed me! Betrayed all of us!]]
-->--'''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''', ''The Southern Raiders''

->'''Shepard:''' It's a little late to start worrying about his safety now.
->'''[[spoiler:Gavin Archer:]]''' I never stopped. I know you think I'm a monster. And you're right. Not a day goes by where my dreams aren't haunted by what I did to [[spoiler:David]]. All I can do now is hope that one day he forgives me.

->'''Bigby:''' I thought we were all supposed to have a fresh start here. I can't change the past.
->'''Colin:''' Well, you can't change people's memories either.

->'''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy Flash Sentry]]''' (''pointing at Sunset Shimmer''): Now ''that's'' the bad girl we love to hate! (''crowd erupts into jeering'')
->'''[[ElegantClassicalMusician Octavia Melody]]''': I ''knew'' she was still trouble!
->'''Random third student''': (''off-screen'') The ''real'' Sunset Shimmer is back!
->'''Sunset Shimmer''': (''sadly'') No. It isn't like that. (''she walks offstage with the Rainbooms as the crowd boos at her'')

-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/06/his-almost-gleeful-pleasure-mindwarp.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp}} "Mindwarp"]]

->''"So you take a guy who's committed a crime. Now you put him on a registry that may keep him from getting a job, or making friends, generally just totally isolating him for the rest of his life and giving him lots of free time. [[FridgeLogic Do you think that makes him]] ''[[FridgeLogic less]]'' [[FridgeLogic likely to commit another crime?]]"''
-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', {{deconstructing}} this trope, [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17216_the-5-most-popular-safety-laws-that-dont-work_p2.html "The 5 Most Popular Safety Laws That Don't Work"]].

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->''"To what extent is it just that [[Creator/ColinBaker Baker's]] Doctor is fatally flawed or miscast? As mentioned, [[BigFinishDoctorWho the audios]] do suggest that Baker is, in fact a skilled actor and that his Doctor can work, but then again, audio is a different medium... So much effort was put into making Baker's Doctor unlikable that, well, it succeeded to a real extent. Even if the eventual redemption had played out the fact remains that Baker's Doctor was always designed as being [[SociopathicHero a bit dodgy and flawed]]. No amount of redemption, it should be noted, would have undone this. The idea that this Doctor was fatally flawed was written into the basic concept of the character. Even after [[AdoptTheDog a seven season arc of redemption]] Baker's Doctor would still be defined as [[NeverLiveItDown the one that might have been bad.]]"''

->''"So you take a guy who's committed a crime. Now you put him on a registry that may keep him from getting a job, or making friends, generally just totally isolating him for the rest of his life and giving him lots of free time. [[FridgeLogic Do you think that makes him ''less'' likely to commit another crime?]]"''

->''"To what extent is it just that [[Creator/ColinBaker Baker's]] Doctor is fatally flawed or miscast? As mentioned, [[BigFinishDoctorWho the audios]] do suggest that Baker is, in fact a skilled actor and that his Doctor can work, but then again, audio is a different medium... So much effort was put into making Baker's Doctor unlikable that, well, it succeeded to a real extent. Even if the eventual redemption had played out the fact remains that Baker's Doctor was always designed as being [[SociopathicHero a bit dodgy and flawed]]. No amount of redemption, it should be noted, would have undone this. The idea that this Doctor was fatally flawed was written into the basic concept of the character. Even after [{AdoptTheDog a seven season arc of redemption]] Baker's Doctor would still be defined as [[NeverLiveItDown the one that might have been bad.]]"''

->''"To what extent is it just that [[Creator/ColinBaker Baker's]] Doctor is fatally flawed or miscast? As mentioned, [[BigFinishDoctorWho the audios]] do suggest that Baker is, in fact a skilled actor and that his Doctor can work, but then again, audio is a different medium... So much effort was put into making Baker's Doctor unlikable that, well, [[CharacterDerailment it succeeded to a real extent]]. Even if the eventual redemption had played out the fact remains that Baker's Doctor was always designed as being [[SociopathicHero a bit dodgy and flawed]]. No amount of redemption, it should be noted, would have undone this. The idea that this Doctor was fatally flawed was written into the basic concept of the character. Even after [{AdoptTheDog a seven season arc of redemption]] Baker's Doctor would still be defined as [[NeverLiveItDown the one that might have been bad.]]"''

->''"So you take a guy who's committed a crime. Now you put him on a registry that may keep him from getting a job, or making friends, generally just totally isolating him for the rest of his life and giving him lots of free time. Do you think that makes him ''less'' likely to commit another crime?"''

-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', {{deconstructing}} this trope while discussing misaimed laws.

-->--'''MassEffect3'''

-->--'''AvatarTheLastAirbender''', ''The Southern Raiders''

->'''Katara''': Oh, ''everyone'' trusts you ''now''?! [[spoiler:I was the ''first'' person tor trust you, remember?! Back in Ba Sing Se! And you turned around and betrayed me! Betrayed all of us!]]