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Less lethally, a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] may find they've been effectively chained to the role, and no amount of [[Character Development]] or [[The Woobie|viewer sympathy]] can free them. In this case, they at least don't die, but are still doomed to a lifetime of failure and villainy and ''[[Genre Savvy|realize it]]''. Contrast [[Redemption Earns Life]], [[Karma Houdini Warranty]], and [[Redemption Rejection]]. Compare [[Redemption Failure]], where the character actually goes clean for a while but has to revert back to villainy due to unforeseen circumstances. When it's played lethally, this trope can straddle the border of [[Redemption Equals Death]] or [[Death Equals Redemption]], depending on how close to redemption the character comes before they're offed. May be the result of a [[Last Second Chance]] offer that is later taken [[Off the Table]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Near the end in the manga of ''[[Gash Bell]]'' {{spoiler|Zeon Bell}} repents for everything he did in the human world and his ruthless towards {{spoiler|his younger twin brother}} Gash. In the last part of the fight he wasn't trying to make Gash suffer, instead he was testing him to see if {{spoiler|their father, the last king of the demon world}} made the right choice giving the power of Baou to Gash.
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* Shinsen Tennozu of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' is the head of both a legitimate multi-billion dollar organization and the shadier criminal group that helped make it so powerful. Also, [[Abusive Parents|she's a]] [[Denied Food as Punishment|terrible]] [[Offing the Offspring|mother]]. She gets a very [[Karmic Death]] at the hands of her [[Magnificent Bastard]] right-hand man, and as she's dying on the floor her daughter Kagura comes running up to her and tearfully reveals that {{spoiler|Shinsen's lover (Kagura's father) hadn't abandoned her: he had been unavoidably delayed for their rendezvous and had subsequently been murdered by the secret organization he was working with}}. The look on Shinsen's face suggests that she truly regretted allowing herself to become the bitter and hateful person that she had, but it was too late to even try to make up for it and she died moments later.
* Deliberately invoked by {{spoiler|Klaus Von Bogoot}} on {{spoiler|Mary, Ibaraki and Oyamada}} in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. {{spoiler|He had forcibly made them into Cyborgs, counting on them to kill their former [[True Companions|friend]] 009... but the moment the kids couldn't bring themselves to kill him, he [[Action Bomb|activated the bombs they had implanted in their bodies.]] The three [[Oh Crap|look at each other in horror]], then Ibaraki tackles Joe so he won't get close, and they hug each other as they say their goodbyes and die.}}
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', after [[The Brute|Senkaku]] escapes from prison, he reflects on the battle he had with [[The Hero|Kenshin]]. Grateful that Kenshin spared his life, he decides to turn over a new leaf... only for [[The Dragon|Seta Sojiro]] to [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|unceremoniously assassinate him]] for [[You Have Failed Me...|losing the fight]].
* ''[[Chirin no Suzu]]'' has this happen to Chirin at the very end. He kills the Wolf, but the sheep throw him out. Chirin is left with nothing. This is one of the contributing factors to the tragedy of the story.
* ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' offers a non-death variant. At the very start of his journey, Afro's [[Revenge Before Reason|obsession with revenge]] resulted in the death of all of his friends and his teacher. This is the one of two times in the series he actually show regret for his actions, but he quickly accepts afterwards that there was no turning back at that point.
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** Though how much deciding that you're only going to murder one more person for money counts as a [[Heel Face Turn]] is a matter of some dispute.
** The samurai doesn't appear to feel remorseful and the bookie doesn't appear to force the samurai into one last fight. The samurai wants to earn enough money to care for his family and the fight with Usagi just happens to be the one that would give the samurai enough Ryo to live a quiet, peaceful life with his wife and child. The samurai fights this last fight not because the bookie is forcing him to, but because he wants more Ryo.
* LOTS of villains in ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' books:
* In ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' Mac Gargan, a.k.a. the Scorpion, ends up wandering the sewers at one point, depressed but with a clearer head than he had had for a long time. Eventually, his sanity starts to return, and he is about to make a [[Heel Face Turn]] when Spider-Man {{spoiler|having depression issues of his own, finds Gargan and [[What the Hell, Hero?|attacks him savagely ignoring Gargan's pleas that he had changed.]] Gargan then goes crazy again to save himself and continues his life of super-villain debauchery, first as Scorpion, and later as a new Venom}}.▼
** In one story from the 70s, the Kingpin's wife Vanessa once told him he had to choose between her and his crime syndicate. He chose her. (She gave him twenty-four hours to tie up loose ends, and he may well have killed Spider-Man, had the deadline not come right before he was about to make the killing blow.) The two retired to a private estate in the South Seas. But many other crime bosses he had bequeathed his empire to didn't like having to run it without him, and felt that Vanessa was the cause, so sometime later, she was apparently killed by an assassin's bullet. (She got better later.) The Kingpin returned worse than ever, not only seizing back full control of his former organization, but making sure the police ended up with incriminating evidence that led to the arrest of the ones responsible for his wife's apparent death (he hadn't been fooled for a minute) a true case of a plan [[Gone Horribly Right]].
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** Shriek, one member of Carnage's group of killers during the [[Maximum Carnage]] fiasco. Some months after that event, she broke out of Ravencroft Asylum and kidnapped Malcolm McBride (formerly Carrion, who was human at the moment, the virus inside him in remission) and stress caused by the ordeal caused him to become Carrion again. After seeing Carrion show some sympathy for his mother, Shriek had a brief moment of sanity, and actually tried to absorb the Carrion Virus into herself, trying to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Malcolm. She did save Malcolm, but the virus didn't kill her... And for poor Shriek, this heroic act only made it worse for her. It drove her deeper into madness, making her think the virus inside her was an unborn child, and she spent her time in her cell eagerly anticipating the birth of her "baby" like an expectant mother. Eventually, the Jackal assaulted her to get the virus back, and when next seen, she was back with Carnage and worse than ever.
** The Rhino spent a good chunk of his criminal career using the money he made from villainy to finance surgery that would remove the suit that was bonded to him. In ''Deadly Foes of Spider-Man'', he finally found a doctor who managed to do it, and he retired to Mexico City. However, the Kingpin - who had financed both the surgery and most of his activities during that mini-series - felt the need to remind him of that, so he sent Rhino a non-lethal bomb as a threat, along with a message that ''he knew'' where the doctor who had done the surgery was, ''and'' that said doctor was in witness protection. In order to protect himself and them, Rhino got a new suit from [[Welcome to Evil Mart|Justin Hammer]], and before long, was back in business as a villain.
* From [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]: The Blob was the oldest-running villain to lose his mutant powers during M-Day, but afterwards, the future was looking bright for him; he had become a fitness guru in Japan, and would be staring in an upcoming movie filmed in San Francisco made by Kingo Sunen. However, he has since resumed his villainous ways, having been given the Mutant Growth Hormones by Mystique, restoring his powers. Clearly, super-villainy was just too much of a temptation for him.
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'': V4 has a wretchedly sadistic example in Sun Boy, a long-standing Legionnaire who'd been seduced into being the public face of the evil Earthgov. Faced with an impending disaster, he tried to put his costume back on and save the city, only to a) meet with public scorn and b) be caught in the explosion of a fusion reactor. Wait, we're not done: due to his powers, the explosion didn't kill him (actually, due to his powers [[Did Not Do the Research|the explosion shouldn't even have touched him]]; oh well); instead it left him a mangled, screaming, ''burning'' wreck. He then spent the next ''year and a half'' on life-support, in agonizing pain and reliving his worst memories, until finally he was [[Mercy Kill|shot]] by his lover/[[The Handler|handler]] (who then killed herself). That door slammed so hard it ''broke''.
* In ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'', during the Battle of St Petersburg, a random [[Mook]] suddenly had a change of heart and shoved a machine gun operator out of the way to stop him firing on the Romanov forces. Immediately afterwards, Jena, unaware of what he had just done, stabbed him in the chest.
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* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Doctor Octopus refuses to help Norman Osbourne kill Spiderman. He explains that he is sick of being evil and wants to make a fresh start for himself. He also tries to convince Osbourne not to kill Peter, since Spiderman is their greatest "creation". Norman won't have any of that and kills Otto after a vicious fight.
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', {{spoiler|the head is shot down by the time he began to ponder about his ways and the possibility to change them.}}
== Film ==
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** Not sure if this counts—Megatron was just trying to keep himself from being, as Carly put it, " {{spoiler|[[Memetic Mutation|Sentinel's Bitch]]}}". Odds are he would have killed Optimus as soon as he was done with {{spoiler|Sentinel}} if Optimus hadn't dealt with him first.
* In ''[[Four Lions]]'' one of the protagonists panicked and no longer wanted to be a suicide bomber, so he tried to turn himself in to the police. While he was yelling about how his costume was filled with explosives but he wasn't going to blow himself up, {{spoiler|one of his friends blew him up to stop him giving the rest of them away.}}
* In ''[[Babysitter: Killer Queen]]'', {{spoiler|Bee double crosses the cult, enabling Cole and Phoebe to not only survive, but fall in love. Sadly, this does not nullify her [[Deal with the Devil]], so she is [[Dragged Off to Hell]] with the others, [[Redemption Equals Death| a fate she anticipated and accepts]].}}
== Literature ==
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** Probably does not apply. While Jacen had realized that he'd made a number of mistakes, he had no intention of turning back. It's just that what he was trying to do at the time of his death was a good thing.
* In [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s ''[[Doctor Faustus]]'', Faustus begins to regret his decision to make a deal with the devil right before he dies and is carried off to hell.
* ''[[Harry Potter and
** Another possible example from the book would be the fate of Regulus Black, a former Death Eater who sacrificed his life in an attempt to destroy [[Big Bad|Voldemort's]] [[Soul Jar|Horcrux]] after realises just [[Complete Monster|how bad]] Voldemort was. Unfortunately, not only did Voldemort have more than the one Horcrux, but his accomplice was unable to destroy the one he did get - and because no one knew what he'd done, Dumbledore still ended up being horribly wounded pointlessly trying to retrieve it from the original hiding place.
** Before it even happened in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Dumbledore states that Harry sparing Pettigrew's life would give Pettigrew a chance to do the same later on; [[Wild Mass Guessing|so it could be that Pettigrew was willing to let his Evil Hand kill him before he did anything foolish]].
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* Vermin in the ''[[Redwall]]'' universe can never repent, ever. ''Outcast of Redwall'' was a particularly strong example, where a ferret raised in the abbey turns out evil, just because of his nature as a ferret.
** But there have been a couple cases of vermin turning out good. In ''The Bellmaker'', for example, the former pirate Blaggut ends up leading a life of peace at the end of the book. Most vermin with streaks of good [[Redemption Equals Death|realize it a bit late]], however.
* The Romulan Star Empire has one of these in the [[Star Trek:
* [[Glen Cook]] wrote three short stories about a crew of pirates under a [[Flying Dutchman]] sort of curse. They realize in the second story that any of them who do something genuinely ''good'' can escape their eternal wandering, and the ship's captain sacrifices himself to destroy an even worse evil—leaving the narrator as the new captain, wondering what ''he'' did wrong that he wasn't freed as well...
* ''[[In Death]]'': In ''Ceremony In Death'', one lawyer who happens to be a Satanic cult member gets evidence shoved into his face that one of his fellow cult members has been murdered. Later, he realizes that he's been having blackouts ever since he joined the cult...and that he witnessed that one cult member murdered in a sacrifice in one of those blackouts! He starts wonder what else happened in those blackouts. He ends up deciding that he can't defend the cult leader anymore and that he should tell Eve everything he knows...only to get murdered shortly after his decision. Now that's just harsh!
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** It should be noted, however, that at no point did Diabolico indicate that he was actually turning ''good,'' he was just turning against the Queen. He himself put it that he'd come to hate the queen more than them.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has this happen to Bennett. {{spoiler|She's made the choice to help the team at the LA Dollhouse, if only because Echo has promised to help her get all the revenge she wants on Caroline and she's in love with Topher. Then Saunders shoots Bennett in the head.}}
* Wakana Sonozaki from [[Kamen Rider Double]] had planned on getting away from her megalomaniac father's plans and move out of the city with her friend/ {{spoiler|brother}} Philip. Her dad [[Brainwashed and Crazy|had other ideas.]] After her father died and she was subsequently used as an [[Apocalypse Maiden]] by her father's ex-financers, her mind was so shattered that she was put under observation in a mental hospital. She finally gets her redemption by sacrificing herself so that {{spoiler|Philip/Raito}} can be brought [[Back
** Earlier in the series, Kirihiko Sonozaki's turn started when he met [[The Hero]] Shotaro and discovered they both loved Fuuto, and continued when [[Heel Realization|realizing how his selling Gaia Memories was hurting the city]] when he saw a bunch of kids sharing the Bird Memory around and suffering drug-like effects. After helping Shotaro (as Double) defeat the Bird Dopant, he tried to convince his wife Saeko to leave the city with him. Too bad for him, [[The Dragon|she wasn't too interested]].
* On [[Lost]], we have {{spoiler|Charles Widmore}}. When he shows up claiming to have redeemed himself in season six, we aren't quite sure if he's legit or not. When we finally realize that he ''is'', he is {{spoiler|promptly shot and killed by Ben, though that's more because he didn't want Widmore to have a chance to save his daughter when Ben didn't get a chance to save his.}}
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* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', Ankh had been on a series wide [[Heel Face Turn]] as he grew closer to Eiji and Hina. This actually happened to him ''twice''. The first time was when he was absorbed by his [[Evil Counterpart]]. Soon, after he [[Face Heel Turn]]ed, he considered [[Face Heel Revolving Door|going back]], but then {{spoiler|Dr. Maki mortally wounds him. He dies after helping Eiji destroy him.}}
* This happens to Cole in the fourth season of ''[[Charmed]]''. He finds a wizard willing to take the Source's powers, thus freeing him from being possessed but Phoebe appears on the scene and kills the wizard before he can take the powers. Cole is killed in the next episode.
* Two examples in Wednesday:
** {{spoiler|The [[Corrupt Politician| Mayor of Jericho]] (who was formerly the Sheriff) has committed many crimes in his past, the most serious of which framing Gomez for murder in order to protect the victim’s father, a bigot who had orchestrated a plot to murder the entire student body of Nevermore. In the present day, the Mayor realizes he has gone too far and starts trying to find the true mastermind of the current plot - only for that mastermind to decide [[He Knows Too Much]] and murder him.}}
** Wednesday's actions in her attempt to identity the mastermind tend to be rather destructive, so much that {{spoiler|[[Evil Teacher| Headmistress Weems]] (who is trying very hard to cover up the murders, making her an unwitting accomplice) eventually decides to expel her. However, Wednesday is so insistent she knows who the villain is that Weems decides to give her one final chance and use her abilities to get close to the accused suspect, hoping a confession or lack thereof will confirm or deny Wednesday's claims. Unfortunately, Wednesday is right, and trying to confront the killer gets Weems killed.}}
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* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat]]'', this happens to Cyrax, who gets a chapter in Story Mode showing his signs of turning good, ditching the Lin Kuei over the Cyber Initiative. Then he got captured and roboticized off-screen.
** [[Late Arrival Spoiler|Elder Sub-Zero dies at Scorpion's hand and his soul descends into the Netherrealm to become Noob Saibot]] (as foreshadowed in ''Mythologies'' and revealed in ''Deception''). Raiden tries to avert this in ''9'' by striking a deal with Scorpion (if Scorpion doesn't kill Sub-Zero, he'll ask the Elder Gods to restore Scorpion's family to life), but Quan Chi, being the [[Manipulative Bastard|asshole]] that he is [[Blatant Lies|creates false images of Sub-Zero killing Scorpion's wife and child]], causing Scorpion to lash out and kill his nemesis in anger anyway. So, not only does the younger Sub-Zero get dragged into the picture alongside Smoke ''again'', but his older brother [[Came Back Wrong|returns to life]] as Noob Saibot ''again''. This also comes with the unfortunate side-effect of Scorpion playing Quan Chi's lapdog, something that Raiden calls him out on (in the original timeline, Scorpion learned that Quan Chi, and ''not'' either of the Sub-Zero brothers killed his family, and chased Quan Chi through the Netherrealm after ''4'', beating the tar out of him).
** Also, Sindel. True to ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]'', she's brought [[Back
* [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]] has Officer Hernandez, the third, [[The Voiceless|silent]] member of C.R.A.S.H (Well, not completely silent. The one time he speaks is on the phone with C.J. warning him that C.R.A.S.H is going to make sure he stays in Los Santos and works with them.) who acts as a Foil to the loudmouthed [[Big Bad|Tenpenny]] and [[Jerkass|Pulaski.]] Eventually however, he got fed up with [[Dirty Cop|Tenpenny and Pulaski's ways]] sometime offscreen as his final cutscene is of Tenpenny beating him with a shovel for being a snitch, and having C.J. dig his grave at gunpoint. Hernandez isn't dead though, and he gets back up to try and tackle Pulaski, only to get shot, finally dying.
** The Introduction DVD expands on this. Hernandez speaks in it, telling a story about how he had to make a difficult decision between letting a man beat his crack addicted wife, or jailing the man and leaving the obviously unsuitable for children wife with their kids, establishing himself as a cop with morals. The other two cops scoff at that being a difficult decision, telling him that they're gonna be making difficult decisions on a regular basis. Later on, they force him to personally shoot a cop who had evidence proving that Tenpenny and Pulaski were crooked, so he can "be a fucking man." It makes Hernandez's death all the more tragic, as he was pretty much one of the handful of good cops in the whole series.
* {{spoiler|Gaspard}} in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'' realizes that he's lost his way after a [[Not So Different]] moment with the hero and decides to quit serving the [[Big Bad]] and back out of the conflict entirely, expressing a wish to see the end of the heroes' journey and maybe end his own with them. Unfortunately for him, the [[Big Bad]] pulls a [[Villain Override]] out of spite and the heroes are reluctantly forced to kill him.
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* A heartbreaking example in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]: Chains of Olympus''. After [[Big Bad|Persephone]] reveals her [[Evil Plan|scheme to undo reality]], Kratos ends up slaughtering the pure souls of Elysuim in order to gain his powers back that he can stop both her and [[The Dragon|Atlas]]. The price he ends up paying is '''very''' high; in order to save the world and the underworld, he would never see Calliope again.
** The quicktime event where Kratos must push away his daughter and embrace his monstrous self again is possibly the most [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]] use of this type of gameplay ever created.
* In the ''[[Castlevania]]'' franchise, the initial reason Mathias Cronqvist became the diabolic vampire Dracula was [[Rage Against the Heavens]]. Blaming God for taking his beloved wife from him after showing unshakable faith his entire life, he felt that defying the laws of God by becoming a vampire would be fitting revenge. But after roughly three centuries as one, he fell in love again. While details are sketchy, he and Lisa fell in love, married, and even had a son (Alucard, who would eventually become his enemy) and for a while, it seemed Dracula was truly happy and would put his evil ways behind… Until Lisa, after using alchemy to cure those who fell ill from an epidemic, fell victim to an angry mob who believed she was practicing witchcraft. All hope for Dracula's redemption was lost that day, and his rage shifted from God to humanity in general.
* Zigzagged with Charlie from ''[[Don't Starve]]''. As seen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjbOJBfk5U&t=1s the trailer for the sequel], she tries to redeem herself by rescuing Wilson from the Nightmare Throne, only to be corrupted by it herself. Although, it seems very likely her darker personality was influencing her with the ''intent'' to claim the Throne's power.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Zuko, who has been trying to capture the protagonists for three seasons and half-ignoring their insistence that he could be their friend for just as long, finally sees the error of his ways and, guilt-ridden and earnest, tries to join the Aang Gang so he can play a vital role in teaching Aang/saving the world. The protagonists unanimously decide that he's used up his chances and send him away. Then he accidentally injures the only protagonist still in doubt about him. Kid's got bad karma. {{spoiler|All is eventually well though!}}
** More accurately, he chased them for one season, had two relatively neutral encounters, betrayed an almost-not-really-there possibility of alliance, was absent from their lives for about half a season, and ''then'' turned up wanting to be their friend. Special in that he wasn't able to do this until after experiencing the shock of doing the thing that makes them unable and unwilling to trust him. And then the feet-burning thing.
* In ''[[
* Taken to ridiculous extremes in the ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' [[Made for TV Movie|TV movie]] Channel Chasers. At the end of the movie, Timmy's [[Sadist Teacher]] Mr. Crocker was seen coming out of therapy, cured of his obsession with fairies and decides to turn his life around. He even discovered cold fusion! Then, [[
** Done again in the episode "Crocker Shocker", where Mr. Crocker is put under hypnosis by a desperate therapist to erase his belief in fairies. Among the changes he undergoes, he loses his hunchback look and his ears move from his neck to his head. Unfortunately, it turns out that Fairy Magic is powered by Crocker's fairy believing spazz attacks, so Timmy had to get him to change back to his old self. You know the universe is unfair when one person's sanity has to be sacrificed.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Terra makes a [[Face Heel Turn]] and joins Slade, becoming [[The Mole]] to the Titans. However, due to getting close to the Titans, she ends up regretting her actions, but doesn't dare to fully betray Slade, so she just tries to spare Beast Boy, taking him on a date while Slade's army infiltrate the Titan Tower. Slade tracks Terra and Beast Boy down, revealing the truth to Beast Boy. An apologetic Terra breaks down sobbing, saying she's sorry and pleads with Beast Boy to forgive her, reminding him he said they'll be friends no matter what. [[What an Idiot!|An angry Beast Boy responds with "Slade's right. You don't HAVE any friends."]] As a result, Terra fully embraces being Slade's apprentice and becomes truly ''evil'', and Beast Boy [[My God, What Have I Done?|ends up kicking himself over slamming the door in her face earlier.]] In the end, however, Terra makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] after all...[[Heroic Sacrifice|but with a cost.]]
* In ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', [[The Starscream|Starscream]] gets so sick of the being the Decepticon's [[Chew Toy]] that he tries to defect to the Autobots. Note that Starscream is not in any way repentant, he just figures he has a better chance on their side. Once it's revealed that Starscream killed [[Sacrificial Lion|Cliffjumper]], [[Action Girl|Arcee]] goes ballistic and tries to [[You Killed My Father|avenge her dead partner.]] Starscream is driven off, and is convinced that he should become a neutral party in the war.
* In the ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'' episode “#AngerManagement”, Pamela (aka Poison Ivy) goes to Jessica's anger management therapy classes, and they actually seem to work; her hatred of humanity starting to wane, letting her finally enjoy the beauty of the natural world that she loves. Until she finds there are plans to cover a lake and meadow with concrete in order to build a monument to concrete. This causes Pam to relapse and believe that Kara (who ironically, is [[Supergirl]]) had a point with her claims that "anger is healthy" and relapses into her villainous form, using the lake to create an algae monster to attack the city.
== Real Life ==
* Sabino Arana Goiri (1865-1903) was a Spanish writer, philosopher, and political activist of Basque descent. It was he who founded the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV), which was the first political party to strive toward an independent nation-state for the Basque people. He also harbored an obsessive loathing for any Iberian peoples who were ''not'' Basque, condemning them in his nationalistic tracts and arguing against intermarrying with them to such a degree that his attitude bordered on racism. (It should be pointed out that this was the 1890s, [[Values Dissonance|when racism was not only socially acceptable but also considered rational and scientific]]; and anyway, most of Arana Goiri's opponents shared similar attitudes.) Arana Goiri eventually began to moderate his extremist views,
▲* Sabino Arana Goiri (1865-1903) was a Spanish writer, philosopher, and political activist of Basque descent. It was he who founded the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV), which was the first political party to strive toward an independent nation-state for the Basque people. He also harbored an obsessive loathing for any Iberian peoples who were ''not'' Basque, condemning them in his nationalistic tracts and arguing against intermarrying with them to such a degree that his attitude bordered on racism. (It should be pointed out that this was the 1890s, [[Values Dissonance|when racism was not only socially acceptable but also considered rational and scientific]]; and anyway, most of Arana Goiri's opponents shared similar attitudes.) Arana Goiri eventually began to moderate his extremist views, deemphasizing race and stating that home rule for Basques within the Spanish nation-state would be an acceptable alternative. Unfortunately, he died before he could convince most of his followers to similarly adjust their attitudes, and the PNV (or at least a militant wing of it) remained radicalized down to the present day. It is largely for this reason that Basques are often thought of (at least by other Spaniards) as terrorist bombers, rather than the peaceful, churchgoing farm folk they always have been and still are. When a bombing occurred in Madrid in 2004, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar even hinted that the plot might have been orchestrated by ETA (a major Basque terrorist organization) rather than by the true suspect, Al-Qaeda. Many Spaniards, including non-Basques, conceded that that was wrong, and it's widely credited for Anzar's party being defeated in the national elections 3 days later.
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