It was an episode of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why that made me think: "Could that character be redeemable?" I immediately felt uncomfortable at the thought that anyone might be irredeemable because that's ...

One of the most satisfying arcs in a comic book story can be a redemption arc, and DC has translated this concept to the big and small screen on multiple occasions. As the DCU begins to break new ...

Marvel didn’t create the superhero or supervillain, but they helped perfect the concepts. The publisher’s heroes and villains were unlike anything that readers were getting at the time, and they found ...

Once upon a time, redemption arcs were the exception to the rule in Marvel Comics. Heroes were purely good, villains were irredeemably bad, and rarely did the twain meet. This wasn’t just a creative ...