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I felt it was too late by this point for the show to say an “unrepentant” villain could never be redeemed. There were quite a few villains (e.g. Starlight) who committed comparable crimes and showed no remorse in their first appearance, but Twilight kept trying to get through to them, and she approved of Starlight trying to redeem Chrysalis in Season 6 despite her never showing remorse, but with Cozy she didn’t. She never asked her if she’d be willing to change, she just asked her why she did it, then told her she was wrong and that was it.
That said, if this isn’t really what the trope is about then I’d agree with changing it.
Edited by Javertshark13^Regardless of when and why she did, she still refused to do what the Aesop said would redeem her and paid the price. So the Aesop wasn't broken, the unfair things about it are separate things already under Karmic Overkill and Unintentionally Sympathetic.
I'd say the Broken Aesop is the Season 7 finale's about getting the full story and not assuming the worst before deeming one irredeemable, as they were portrayed as right for deeming Cozy irredeemable despite not making that effort (other villains are grey area given the questionable canonicity of their comic backstories). But last I recall BA is about contradicting it's internal logic so later Aesops/logic contradicting it don't count. But BA is due for a TRS, we can ask if the later breakage counts.

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I've deleted something similar to this before as that's misreprisenting the message, that that anyone has the capacity to change for the better by accepting friendship. Cozy refuse to do so every time they were offered or had the chance, so their punishment is in line with the message that even if they could they refused to do so and suffered the results. There's also Chrysalis and Tirek who identically refused without issue, so this is complaint about a child being punished (valid but not the place here) as opposed to the logic behind the message being broken. The issues with Cozy have long since been covered by Karmic Overkill and Unintentionally Sympathetic.
It's also not the explicit Aesop in the episodes where they are so punished. I believe it was decided that BA contradicting it's own logic means later works contradicting it do not count, that the case? If not this can be reworked into breaking the Season 7 finale Aesop of not assuming the worst and getting the full story before deeming one irredeemable, as the heroes were portrayed as right for deeming her irredeemable despite making no effort to figure out why she was this way.
Permission to re-remove or rework?
Edited by Ferot_Dreadnaught