#pro other characters who also fits in this
valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn:
Browsing the tag is a trip and a half, I swear.
Using the “well, he stopped selling them” argument every time Stark is criticized for selling weapons as an attempt to separate him for the trade and deaths those weapons caused for years is sign of just how privileged he was and I think it’s disingenuous to claim otherwise.
I think it is actually part of the pattern in the MCU as a whole. For a lot of designated “heroes” redemption basically means “stop doing the bad thing”.
Like, Thor simply stopped (even if not really) murdering inhabitants of other realms in imperialistic “interventions” and being openly racist towards them (again, not really) and is never even called out on it. He even gets to say “In my youth I courted war” barely a year after his last attempt at pointless murder of Jotuns. Valkyrie stopped selling slaves and it’s never mentioned again. Hell, Mobius stops supporting genocide of entire universes for made up crimes only after it becomes personal for him and is still painted as a good and righteous guy, worthy of being a judge of the morality of others.
And the ones who are villanized and get ‘redemption arcs’ are the characters who had their autonomy taken from them and couldn’t do anything to stop it…
Character who commits genocide and/or other horrible crimes then (sometimes) realizes their mistakes:
Character who is tortured and/or otherwise forced into doing something bad (even when it’s not as bad as what the first character did):
