Times where an antagonist rejects an offered opportunity to redeem themselves in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Tchang Zu from Adopted Displaced refuses to change his ways during the parole hearing, so his soul is forcibly returned to the cycle of reincarnation.
- The Bridge: When the Big Good, Harmony, is finally confronted face to face by the Big Bad, Bagan, she offers him a chance to abandon his mad plans right then and there. He flatly refuses.
- The Alternate Events series reveals that Clark Luthor/Ultraman (as depicted in Smallville) ultimately decided that attempting to redeem himself was too much work and it was easier just to go back to being a villain, assembling his own equivalent of the Legion of Doom until he is finally defeated in a rematch with his counterpart and banished to the Phantom Zone of Earth-96.
- Danganronpa: In Harmony's Wake: While Adagio seems to become much nicer after coupling up with Sunset, all that changes when she learns that the latter played a role in her losing her magic, as she goes full Love-Interest Traitor, destroying her ex's property before leaving her to die, declaring that she no longer loves her.
- Empathy: Riley uses her empathic powers in an attempt to invoke a Heel Realization on Callaghan. It almost works, but then the Gorg threatens to kill Abagail if he doesn't hold up his end of their bargain, so Yokai goes right back to fighting the heroes.
- A New World, A New Way: After Gene learns what happened to Hastings' Mienshao, he offers him his sympathy along with his hand, trying to bring their battle to a peaceful end. Hastings exploits his lowered guard by cracking his cane across Gene's face, sending him flying into a tree.
- The Weaver Option: The Traitor Primarch Omegon, facing an existential threat to his Legion from Malal, communes with the Emperor in hope of finding a solution. The Emperor offers to shield his son, but the Primarch and Legion must swear themselves once again to the Imperium. Omegon refuses as he can't bring himself to trust the Emperor.
- Confessions: Time and again, Sasha is confronted with evidence of how horribly she's treated Anne and Marcy. But every time she's on the verge of a Heel Realization, it becomes an Ignored Epiphany as she rejects the notion that SHE could be in the wrong.
- A Moth to a Flame: When Lady Olivia tries to appeal to Marcy's better nature, insisting that she's not acting like herself anymore, Marcy retorts that the Marcy she knew is gone and that she's fully embraced the Core's vision for Amphibia's future.
- Kissed by a Rose ends with the Beast basically giving Gaston a chance to redeem himself after defeating the hunter in their confrontation. Recalling Belle's literary examples of those who have committed crimes and been given second chances, such as Sir Gawain being allowed to atone for raping a woman, Beast makes it clear that he will spare Gaston if the hunter leaves the castle and doesn't return, despite how Gaston raped Belle. While Gaston is killed when he goes to attack the Beast anyway, the Enchantress later appears to the once-again human Alexander after the curse has been broken to affirm that he did the right thing giving Gaston the choice and it isn't his fault if Gaston simply chose not to take the offer.
- In Hellsister Trilogy, Supergirl promises her Evil Twin to help her find her child if she stops trying to kill her and everyone else. Her counterpart replies she can find her baby on her own and resumes her attack.Supergirl: You won't believe this, but I'm sorry. On my honor, I am. And if you will swear to stop this battle, I will help you search for your child. That is my promise.
Satan Girl: (sneering) Ohhhhh, don't you wish, Lightsister. I can find my child. After our war, I will find him. Or her. There is nothing left to us now, except the fight. -You would not tolerate my existence, nor I yours. I am not capable of your empathy, of your petty virtue. You are not capable of my ruthlessness and power. Come, sister. Let us destroy each other.
- In Rivalry, after surviving his encounter with Toothless, Hiccup decides that their family feud felt inconsequential and tries making peace with Astrid, even trying and failing to convince Stoick to give her the heirship instead. It is not until he accidentally slips that he thinks she's beautiful does she snap at him.
- The Sun Will Come Up And The Seasons Will Change: When the two of them are dangling over the train tracks, Mary tries one last time to reach out to Nora. She refuses to take responsibility for any of her actions, claiming that she's "free" as she lets go of Mary's hand and falls to her death.
- Jade Dragon: Viper pulls one on Lefevre after Po Kong's portal is opened — the detective offers to cut a deal in addition to extracting Fei Cui Huo from her in exchange for Viper helping to bring Fei in, but with a little persuasion from Fei, Viper not just refuses but outright lets Po Kong try to eat Lefevre.
- Instinctively Family: In Big Brother Instinct, Sora tries to convince the Vanitas from the past that he can choose what kind of darkness he wants to be. Vanitas ignores his pleas, while Ventus points out that due to the way time travel works, Vanitas won't even remember the conversation after returning to his own time period.
- For His Own Sake has the Hinata Girls' Karma Houdini Warranties expiring. While some recognize their mistakes and work to turn their lives around, several repeatedly reject every opportunity offered to them to change their ways before it's too late. Naru is the most viciously outspoken of the lot, to the point that she responds to her mother and sister arriving to bail her out of jail by hitting the latter with a Breaking Speech accusing her of being a self-centered Spoiled Brat who demands constant attention... effectively accusing her of all of her own flaws while refusing to acknowledge them as such in herself.
- Chat Noir from Back To Us turns his back on Ladybug during her Shaming the Mob speech. As noted elsewhere, it doesn't last.
- CONSEQUENCES: Discussed in MAX-IMUM EFFECT when Lila reveals to Max how she's been slandering Marinette and trying to ruin her life. When Max protests, stating that Marinette's the nicest person in the world, Lila scoffs:Lila: Ugh, I know. And that sickens me! Everyone's always going on about how sweet she is, how kind, how helpful, how utterly selfless! Please. She tried to tell me that we could be friends if I didn't lie, that all I had to do was be honest. As if! Why be honest and have friends, when I could lie and have loyal servants?
- Apotheosis:
- Throughout Izuku's rise to power, he is repeatedly offered the chance to surrender, with All Might being the most persistent — even telling him that he can still become a hero after he's helped the League of Villains, caused a ton of property damage, and injured multiple heroes. Izuku rejects each and every opportunity, seeing their efforts as Condescending Compassion and looking down on him for being Quirkless.
- Izuku later offers Uwabami and Mt. Lady the chance to regain their Quirks and rejoin the hero industry, provided that they prove they learned their lesson by donating to charities and doing volunteer work. Both reject his offer and attempt to pay off the media to spread Malicious Slander about him instead.
- In Dead on Arrival, Hisashi is offered a chance to surrender, and briefly considers it before deciding that he simply can't abide the thought of losing.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Aftermath of the Games has Villain!Starlight refuse to change her ways in her clash with Twilight on the grounds that Twilight is just trying to get the latter to stand down so she can capture her. This forces Twilight to Ret-Gone her by taking her past self back to the future* and making Filly!Starlight her student.
- In Bad Future Crusaders Silver Spoon is offered a second chance by Trixie but coldly shoots it down. It's made into something of a Tear Jerker since it's implied Silver Spoon wants it but knows she can't accept it since she's a wanted criminal.
- Loved and Lost: During King Jewelius' attack on Ponyville, Celestia flies to her rotten nephew and offers him a chance to stop and make atonements, promising even that if he wishes so, he can rule Equestria as the princesses' equal so that he won't have to feel overshadowed by them. She gets in response cruel laughter from Jewelius who doesn't want to share power with anypony before she's subdued by a magic-proof net.
- Marionettes: Upon being freed from their Brainwashing, Longhorn and his herd promptly decide that they'll kill the Mane Six, then follow that up by getting revenge upon the ones actually responsible for their plight.
- Pony POV Series:
- Queen Chrysalis is offered several chances to end her plans to conquer Equestria and enslave the inhabitants. Even after it becomes clear that befriending and working with ponies is beneficial to the Changelings (as it creates much more love that does not get used up like when the Changelings drain it by force), and even after seeing alternate worlds where she accepted the chance to reform and was happy, Chrysalis still refuses out of misplaced pride and a bad case of Revenge Before Reason.
- The Nameless Filly crafted the Concept Killing Spear and murdered Cupid with it, which Ret Goned Cupid and every creature in the universe who existed because of him. After she died, the gods confronted her with the consequences of her actions and gave her several chances to repent and atone. However, even seeing all the damage she had done and being threatened with Hell failed to invoke a shred of remorse and she refused to apologize, so into Hell she went. Inmates in Hell will be released if they genuinely want to atone for their actions, but it becomes clear that she never will.
- RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Throughout the series, Corona repeatedly rejects all efforts to help her realize the error of her ways, stubbornly insisting that Luna is the one in the wrong for opposing her and that she has done no wrong. Eventually, it's revealed that part of the issue is that Luna crossed the Godzilla Threshold in order to defeat her sister, using dark rituals to transform a copy of herself into Nightmare Moon. Corona is convinced that Luna was corrupted by that power, unaware that she cleansed the copy while sealing Corona into the sun.
- In Volume II of Spectacular Seven, Moondancer is offered several chances to open up to someone about her troubles: the Big Bad is essentially holding Moondancer and her father hostage, she has to put on different masks every time she goes outside, she desperately wants Twilight Sparkle's love and affection, and she feels like she'll never be as good as other people in her life. Moondancer's uncle Artemis dotes on her and treats her nicely with no ulterior motive, and Twilight tries to lift Moondancer's spirits even without knowing that Moondancer is in love with her. Despite multiple chances to atone, Moondancer always rejects them and keeps Slowly Slipping Into Evil.
- We Can't All Be Friends has Starlight Glimmer reject Twilight's offer, forcing Twilight to use a spell to remove Starlight's ability to use magic.
- Son of the Sannin: When Hinata finds out that Toneri broke out of the Kotoamatsukami brainwashing, she tells him they don't have to be enemies anymore, and he agrees... but immediately refuses her offer to join them to take down Akatsuki, stating that he wants to let the war rage on so the current world can be destroyed, as he feels it's beyond saving. Him stating his plan to become the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki and become the ruler of the new era with Hinata as his queen is what makes her realize he's beyond redemption.
- In All Mixed Up!, Carlos tries to get Mariana Mag to stop what she's doing by reminding her of all the good times she had with him back when she was employed with Odd Squad as Agent Ocean, and by trying to get her to realize that what she's doing is wrong and full of flaws. Mariana is actually stricken by his words and appears to be won over by him, but then she reverts right back to being evil and tells him that she has to finish what she started. Unfortunately for her, Otto, who used the redemption offer and subsequent distraction to his advantage, figures out how her alphabet keyboard works and uses it to induce Hoist by His Own Petard as Mariana fires a beam from her lifeline at him and he uses his compact handheld mirror to return it to sender. Once she's revived by Oprah, she has a genuine Heel–Face Turn and begins to atone for her actions.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act IV: For the first few chapters, Luna Cii's evil sister, Falla, appears willing to clean up her act through several acts of kindness... but in chapters 10 and 11, just as Luna is convinced that Falla has changed and finishes the spell to restore her magic, Falla promptly drops the act and slices Luna in half before cruelly gloating to the others that her attempts at redemption were all just an act in order to dupe Luna into giving her her magic back. By the end of chapter 11, however, Falla is killed by a far more genuinely benevolent Alternate Timeline version of herself, who takes her place in the mainstream timeline.
- Arc Royale: While fighting the White Fang, Blake offers Adam a chance to join their side, pointing out that Salem's plans threaten to destroy all of humanity and Faunuskind alike. Adam acknowledges that if Salem wins, it will result in The End of the World as We Know It... and presses the attack, having decided he doesn't care about ensuring there's a future.
- Better Bones AU: Oakstar, along with Darkstar, is begged by StarClan to atone for their roles in the exile and death of Mapleshade's kits. While Darkstar does her best to redeem herself, Oakstar responds by not changing his ways and instead launching "crusades" on the kittypets of the nearby city to impress StarClan. It doesn't work and he gets sent to the Dark Forest after he dies.
