The Atoner - TV Tropes. This is why you don't want to take The Atoner for granite. Once, there was a major villain named Bob. He committed every crime one could think of, and he did it with a song in his heart and a skip in his step. Then, something happened to make him see the horror of what he was doing. He realized how much pain he had caused, and he set out on a personal quest to try to make it right. Simple imprisonment won't do, because it does nothing to make recompense for what he's done wrong.
Besides, he still has all these amazing skills and resources from the Bad Old Days—wouldn't it be better to use them for good? Also, said previous villain skills usually involve killing people in very messy ways, which can result in karmically harmful situations. Other times Bob's evil side won't go down without a fight, and manifests itself as a Superpowered Evil Side. Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that morality isn't a book that can be balanced—no amount of babies saved now will bring Bob's past victims back to life.
The Atoner usually realizes that . Generally the only Atoners who avoid this are main characters who are already in the atoning stage by the series' start. Atoners often end up as Knights in Sour Armor. Those who believe redemptioninherentlyequals death may well become Death Seekers. Atoners sometimes go on a Redemption Quest in order to atone. If their deed of atonement is especially painful, it may overlap with The Penance.
Not to be confused with The Aloner, though they can both coincide if the character is trying to atone for killing off everyone else on the planet. And especially not to be confused with The Stoner. The Atoner may face rejection and hatred from those who don't believe he's reformed, which is Reformed, but Rejected, and more importantly, he must be careful not to run into the Heel. In some instances, however, there are characters who will acknowledge The Atoner's change of heart, but do so in a grudging manner. The Atoner must also beware of one character who actively seeks to end his path to redemption. The success rate of atoners depends on where the work sits on the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs.
In more idealistic works, or at least ones that posit that people can change for the better, atoners may have a greater chance of success, as proof that no matter one's actions may have been in the past, it's always possible to change for the better and do good. Watch online Blood Vow in english with english subtitles 2160p. See also, Be All My Sins Remembered, where they continue to suffer a guilt complex over their past misdeeds.
Contrast with My Greatest Failure—instead of a formerly evil character turning from their past, a good character feels the need to atone for not preventing a bad outcome (regardless of whether they could have changed anything). The Atoner may have experienced Go and Sin No More. After the breakdown of his Digimon Emperor persona, he works hard to undo all the damage he caused and redeem himself. Even as late as the series finale, however, when the characters are each shown their fondest wish Ken's vision is of himself beaten to death by the Digimon he abused as the Digimon Emperor. He killed and absorbed the data of Leomon, whose partner, Jeri the former comic relief was utterly heartbroken to witness, which resulted in her later being susceptible to being kidnapped and psychically tortured by a modern- day Eldritch Abomination. Spared from death by Jeri herself, tormented by the guilt of his actions, discovering his inner goodness, reuniting with his own young Tamers, Impmon finds new resolve to save Jeri from the Eldritch Abomination known as the D- Reaper. Against the D- Reaper he uses everything in his power to desperately save Jeri.
Every attack until he calls forth Leomon's . He is nearly fatally wounded and doesn't participate in the final battle. After the D- Reaper's defeat, Impmon is at last able to ask for Jeri's forgiveness. To his relief, she forgives him, leaving Impmon finally at peace in the end. However, when Juggernaut, his attempt to purge all digital life from the real world, not only fails horribly but opens the way for the real invasion, he has a genuine What Have I Done moment and spends the rest of the series working with the reunited Monster Makers to aid the Tamers. He modifies both the Hypnos system and many of his old programs into highly useful tools, and Juggernaut even becomes the means by which the ultimate enemy is finally deleted.
In the appropriately- named . He becomes The Atoner as a result and redoubles his efforts to try and save Rena, who is now in the same boat as he was. Also, before he moved to Hinamizawa, he was a nihilistic loner who got his kicks by shooting at little kids with a pellet gun.
When he severely injures a little kid (as opposed to the bruises it usually caused) he realized how horrible his actions were and turned over a new leaf. He was essentially a living weapon of mass destruction and supposedly killed seven million humans. Eventually it was the death of his lover, who had sided with the humans (after telling him how to defeat the vampires) and had been trying to influence him, that caused him to change his views. Nine hundred years later, he's a priest of the Vatican and tries to avoid and prevent killing whenever he can, and is wracked by guilt for his sins. What he truly has remorse for is the fact that he couldn't prevent said things from happening in the first place. In the original manga, Vash killed everyone in July except for himself, Knives who was critically injured, and Hopperd the future- Gauntlet. Vash was friends with several people in July and is forever haunted by killing his own friends for revenge.
To atone is to do something "right" to make up for doing something wrong. Religious believers are known to atone for their sins, but even students can atone for a. Atonic seizures can be begin in one area or side of the brain (focal onset) or both sides of the brain (generalized onset). What is an atonic seizure? Middle English at-onen, become.
He only comes to realize that wolves are not evil when Toboe, the wolf he has been pursuing most vigorously, makes a futile attempt to save him from the Big Bad Lord Darcia. It is only afterthey have both been mortally wounded, and Quent realizes that it was Toboe who saved him from freezing to death on an earlier occasion, that Quent is able to redeem himself in a small way by comforting the dying Toboe as his own life ebbs away. It's not much—but it's enough. While not an evil person, his playing style was highly violent. Then, his best friend and rival Senri Chitose became one of his victims when Tachibana accidentally hit him in the eye and almost blinded him. Wrecked with guilt, Tachibana seriously thought he should just leave tennis as a whole, but then his family transferred to Tokyo.
He enrolled in Fudomine Junior High and and witnessed how the local tennis clubs' rookies were bullied by the sempais and the ex- coach; Tachibana stood up for them and became their leader and captain. And before that, the reason why Yuri was able to completely seizing the Stage is because Kalos Eidos let him do so as atonement for believing himself to have caused the death of Yuri's father on- stage due to a very ill- timed talk with him. Kalos saw Yuri's rise as his revenge for the death of Aaron and his (Kalos's) own punishment, which is why he didn't retaliate until the last moment. Franz Bonaparta from Monster is played up as being the creepy childrens book author responsible for the madness that created Johan Liebert. To do so, she realizes would only mean something if she doesn't kill others. It's not easy to spare and escape a force of elite warriors. Marcoh, Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, and Alex Louis Armstrong's motivations are to atone for all the Ishvalans they killed during the Ishval Massacre.
ESPECIALLY Armstrong, Roy, and Hawkeye. I. e., Roy's long- term goal when he becomes Fuhrer? He wants to turn the country into a democracy, and eventually be tried for his war crimes. Ed and Al's primary reason for finding the Philosopher's Stone is to redeem their bodies after attempting to transmute their mom. At tie same time, Ed's own primary reason is to bring Alphonse back. And this is the second time—the first time was his wife.
The 2. 00. 3 anime version, however, uses Tucker in a villainous example. Once he finds out about Nina's death, he spends the rest of the series trying to bring Nina back, which extends to mutating himself into a grotesque beast man and siding with the likes of Greed and Frank Archer.
Unfortunately, his efforts are in vain. He even has a bit of a final goodbye to his daughter. Fruits Basket. Ayame feels guilty about his neglect of his younger brother Yuki, and is trying to be a better big brother. The rift between them, and Ayame's natural extravagant manner not appealing to Yuki, makes it difficult, but Ayame persists and ultimately succeeds.
Hence why she asks/warns Tohru to only approach and love Kyo if she really loves him, and not due to p. It's a pretty big mistake, since it ended up causing all life in the world to die or start dying. It's implied Braiking Boss, the person who ordered Luna's murder, is of this trope as well. He goes so far as to bury every follower of his that died from the Ruin, reasoning that he wanted to etch into his heart the pain the Ruin had caused.
In Full Metal Panic!, it's revealed that Kalinin always felt horrible guilt and great regret that he did nothing to save Sousuke's mother (who ended up plunging to her death on the frozen and broken down airplane). As a result, he feels the great need to make it up to Sousuke, and always had the great desire to adopt him as his own son. Unfortunately, Sousuke is sent to an orphanage, and the next time Kalinin meets him, he's shocked to see that Sousuke turned into a cold blooded, uncaring killer. This causes him to feel even more guilt for having let Sousuke go and become like this, and in turn becomes even more dead set on making it up to him. A once- violent criminal has decided to atone for his acts by accompanying the widow of a man he killed while she Walks The Earth as her bodyguard. The next scene shows the atoner dying in a forest clearing, as the widow has just emptied her pistol into him.
She was so hurt that she didn't think he deserved atonement.