Line #33 TheAtoner/WesternAnimation


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3	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': After two seasons of bad behavior, [[spoiler:Sasha Waybright ''finally'' becomes this in early season three, when the full consequences of her actions becomes clear (namely, they cost her one of her best friends and nearly got the other one ''killed'', not to mention the fact the former prevented her from stopping a DayOfTheJackboot). She decides to become Wartwood's protector and vows to become the sort of person who actually deserves a friend like Anne]].
4	** [[spoiler:King Andrias]] ends the show as this. In "All-In", he [[spoiler:realizes that the millenium of pain and suffering he has caused was ultimately all for naught, but thinks he has done too much to ever atone for it, so he lets Anne strike him down. Except that he survives and becomes this trope, first begging Anne to save Marcy, then sending his army of robots to help the girls fight against the Core. In the ending, set nine months after the final battle, Andrias is seen working the fields to mend Amphibia's ecosystem that he ruined]].
5	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
6	** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZuko Prince Zuko]] in the third season by joining Team Avatar as a firebending instructor.
7	** Jeong Jeong deserted the Fire Nation navy ten years before the story began.
8	** Having a career as a Fire Nation general, [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderGeneralIroh Iroh]] counts as well.
9	** Jet during the second season [[spoiler: before his [[RedemptionEqualsDeath ultimate fate]]]].
10	** [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheFireNation The Fire Nation]] by the time of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', to the point of being the only nation to be not involved in any conflict as an antagonist at all.
11	** By the end of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler:Tarrlok, a former SmugSnake with a massive DarkAndTroubledPast... and the brother of BigBad Amon/Noatak]].
12	** Since Book 2, [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraAsamiSato Asami Sato]] has tirelessly worked to restore her family's name and Future Industry's reputation after her father's arrest for his Equalist involvement.
13	** Another one we have from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is Wan. Through Wan's story we learn the reason the Avatar exists. [[spoiler: Wan, originally an ordinary human, interfered with a battle between the spirits of light (Raava) and dark (Vaatu). The result is Vaatu being released into the world and unleashing darkness and chaos. Wan eventually seals Vaatu after mastering the power of the elements and fusing his spirit with Raava, creating the Avatar Spirit and saving the world. However, there is still darkness in the world]]. After spending his entire life trying to fix his mistake, [[spoiler: Wan expresses guilt in being unable to rid the world of darkness in his lifetime. Raava allows Wan to reincarnate, granting him more time. This begins the Avatar's cycle of reincarnation]].
14	** And it seems that [[spoiler: Hiroshi Sato in Season 4]] has become one.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': Following the Skrull Invasion, Captain America, who was one of the first to be replaced and his image was used to try and convince humanity to surrender, became something of this as he tried to regain the trust he lost. Kind of an unusual example, being that he had nothing to do with the event he's atoning for and he's just as much a victim as any other Skrull victims. The world hasn't forgiven him for... having a total stranger pose as him while he was ''trapped on a spaceship''.
16	* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', [[Characters/DCAUTerryMcGinnis Terry McGinnis]] is a mild atoner. He was something of a juvenile delinquent before meeting the now-retired Bruce Wayne, and sees being the new Batman as a way to make up for that.
17	** Zeta, star of the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject'', has elements of this- a former assassin robot who gained free will and doesn't want to kill anymore. When he finds other robots of his type, he tries to stop them.
18	** Mr. Freeze/Victor Fries in "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E7Meltdown Meltdown]]". Upon getting a brand new body, Fries genuinely seemed to want to make things better this time around. After being targeted in an assassination attempt by a man that he once wronged, he refuses to press charges against the man and instead decides to start a charity named in his late wife's honor to repay the victims that he had harmed in the past. Unfortunately, his new body soon begins breaking down and reverting back to its old state...
19	* Tetrax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', as revealed in ''[[TheMovie Secret of the Omnitrix]]''. Also Kevin in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce''.
20	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': [[BoomerangBigot Black hating black man]] Uncle Ruckus practically lives to atone for the sin of being black. He believes he can accomplish this by idolizing white culture while rebuking his own race at every conceivably opportunity.
21	* Count Dracula himself is this in ''WesternAnimation/DrakPack'', acting as mentor and boss to the teenage heroes against the forces of O.G.R.E. in order to help make amends for his evil past.
22	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
23	** Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck. Whenever he screws up, he will frantically do whatever it takes to set things right, although he often makes it worse until he ultimately succeeds.
24	** Two examples occur in the episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E53HeroForHire Hero for Hire]]":
25	*** When Scrooge sees Launchpad's photo in the paper as "the Webbed Wonder", [[ItsAllMyFault he blames himself]] for sending his former pilot off the rails and makes up his mind to get to him before the police can lock him up.
26	*** After realizing [[FilmFelons he's been duped]] and other people will suffer for it, Launchpad goes after the Beagle Boys to get back the money they tricked him into stealing and to rescue [[IntergenerationalFriendship Doofus]].
27	* Both Ingrid and the titular protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' were delinquents. Now they're respected members of their school's Safety Patrol. The series treats them [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything similarly]] to ex-criminals who became police officers.
28	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the Magus trapped Goliath's clan in stone form after he mistakenly believed their attack got Katherine killed. The guilt he felt would dominate the rest of his life. He devoted himself to protecting the clan's next generation and never made his feelings for Katherine known as she fell in love with Tom. Goliath himself bears no grudge against him and is simply grateful that the Magus protected his clan's children.
29	* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': [[spoiler:Amelia, the first season's BigBad, is revealed in Book 3 to have spent her time in the train since then fixing the messes she made working as an underling to One-One.]]
30	* A [[WhatCouldHaveBeen woulda-been]] third ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Jungle Book]]'' film would have actually turned [[BigBad Shere Khan]] from a KnightOfCerebus in the second to this.
31	* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Luanne's FetishizedAbuser Buckley was an emotionally abusive LazyBum and treated Luanne like crap through most of the relationship. However, [[spoiler: after his death his spirit visits Luanne and helps her deal with her grief and get into community college to make up for being such a jerk to her in life. The episode ends with his [[OurAngelsAreDifferent spirit having earned his halo]] and [[OffIntoTheDistanceEnding walking into the horizon]].]]
32	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
33	** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicPrincessLuna Princess Luna]] is definitely one, trying to live down her 1000-year legacy as BigBad Nightmare Moon. Mind you, her public relations need a lot of coaching from Twilight Sparkle, but she makes a real breakthrough. [[spoiler:"Do Princesses Dream Of Magic Sheep" reveals she went so far as to ''create a monster'' called The Tantabus, which is essentially a small ghostly ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet G-Rated Freddy Krueger]]'', to punish her with horrific nightmares ''every single time she slept''. This particular act of self-punishment takes more work from Twilight Sparkle and her friends, but they get Luna to forgive herself]].
34	** Trixie starts out as an insufferable blowhard and [[TheRival rival]] for Twilight Sparkle who later [[RivalTurnedEvil turning to the dark side]] after acquiring the corruptive Alicorn Amulet. Once Twilight frees her from the amulet's spell, Trixie becomes apologetic (albeit still a pompous {{Jerkass}}) and leaves her with a fireworks display to start her atonement.
35	** [[spoiler: [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicDiscord Discord]]--the {{manipulative\|Bastard}} trickster, of all characters--manages to pull a HeelFaceTurn after becoming friends with Fluttershy, and swears to use his powers for good... [[ReformedButNotTamed most of the time]]. He makes good on his word by settling into a sort of TricksterMentor role for the Mane Six, giving underhanded assistance while remaining as mischievous and obnoxious as ever. He pulls a FaceHeelTurn when Tirek convinces Discord to defect to his side with the promise of being chaos uninhibited as he had once been. Discord backstabs the entire pony race, but then he himself gets backstabbed by Tirek, who calls him a fool for actually believing he would share power with him. The trickster found out the hard way what a huge mistake he's made, and after Twilight sacrifice her powers to save her friends, him included (even though she had every right to abandon him for what he's done), Discord sincerely apologizes for the mess he's made and helps Twilight and her frieds to unlock the power needed to defeat Tirek]].
36	** [[spoiler: [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight Glimmer]], the twisted Cutie Mark hating-dictator and BigBad of Season 5, pulls a HeelFaceTurn when Princess Twilight Sparkle offers her hoof in friendship and makes Starlight her own student. Starlight's first act of atonement was returning to Our Town from the Season 5 premiere to make things up with the townsponies]].
37	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', Garmadon falls into this role after he is redeemed by his son. Post-redemption, he opens a monastery where he teaches how to [[SettleItWithoutWeapons fight without weapons]]; an approach partially rooted in his fear that using excessive violence or just simple weapons may cause him to [[ChronicVillainy fall back into darkness]]. He even [[ThouShaltNotKill reacts with disgust and mild fear when seeing the Techno Blades]] because of his [[EvilOverlord past]]. His redemption arc reaches a tragic peak in Season 4 when [[spoiler:Garmadon [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices himself to banish Chen's Anacondrai army]]. Even Wu and Misako, who were angry that Garmadon had stolen Misako away, come to forgive him. He is even given a place in the Corridor of Elders to honour his memory as a hero.]]
38	* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Mr. Burns, after losing his fortune and learning about ecology from Lisa, is determined to turn his life around and rebuild his fortune doing good works. Unfortunately, Mr. Burn's idea of "[[KnightTemplar doing good]]" involves raping and pillaging the environment in an even ''worse'' way than he had as the CEO of a pollution-causing nuclear power plant (which says a lot considering that nuclear power is one of the cleaner forms of energy, and he managed to corrupt even that without causing a meltdown). Lisa then is forced to admit that Mr. Burns is just naturally evil--and when he tries to be good, his twisted sense of morality makes him even ''more'' evil.
39	--> '''Mr. Burns:''' I don't understand. Pigs need food. Engines need coolant. Dynamiters need dynamite. I provide it to them at a tidy profit: and best of all, [[WellIntentionedExtremist not a single sea creature was wasted]]. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint You inspired it all, Li'l Lisa.]]
40	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' reveals that [[spoiler: [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]]]] is this, since apparently he murdered all those teenagers in the 1980s because the U.S. Government told him it would help with the Cold War and is now ashamed of having been a government lapdog. He even has a wife and kids now, but reluctantly decides to help save Stan and Mr. Mackey when they get trapped in a dream.
41	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Characters/StevenUniverseCrystalGems The Crystal Gems]] themselves are atoners for their entire species. In "The Return", Greg says that their leader, [[Characters/StevenUniverseRoseQuartz Rose Quartz]], led a rebellion against her own kind to drive them off Earth for doing something horrible to it, and that the surviving rebel Gems have dedicated themselves to atone for what their people have done, but they just can't seem to forgive themselves.
42	* Dinobot, in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Only a little, but more and more as it gets further into the second season, culminating in his [[spoiler: RedemptionEqualsDeath]].
43	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Major Threat was once a feared galactic overlord, but thanks to a HeelFaceTurn by "Tumbleweed", he now dedicates his life to setting right all of the wrongs he had done, and bringing out the good in other villains.
44	* [[TheLancer Raimundo]] of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' spends some time as this after [[spoiler: temporarily defecting to the Heylin side, resurrecting Wuya, and even ''winning''... then sealing her all over again]]. While he definitely goes out of his way to make up for this, it takes {{Call Back}}s all the way to Season 3 before he finally [[spoiler: [[CharacterDevelopment becomes Shoku Leader]] in the finale]].

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