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This. What Sunset has over Glimmer, according to people who care about that aspect at all (which I don't), is that her peers reacted more realistically to her reformation and were suspicious of her until she proved her good intentions by saving everyone. That's all well and good but this is not everything that makes a good reformed antagonist in my opinion.
Where Sunset loses is the actual reformation (brainwashed by lasers vs convinced in a touching scene), realistic personality change (instantenous vanishing of all negativity, with only mild anger showing on rare occasions, which isn't a uniquely her character trait, vs very gradual learning about what is good and what is bad and lots of baggage), actual character (good at everything and simply an angel vs many flaws and certain personality quirks), heck, evil plan when she was an antagonist (really dumb vs one of the best villain episodes in the show), even backstory, despite many people's feelings about Starlight's reason for going off the deep end, at least she had one.
Sunset is basically a gordon freeman-esque vehicle to portray how you can fit in among people who used to hate you if you're a really, really good person. Starlight is an actual character with her own story and visible, well-defined progression.
This. What Sunset has over Glimmer, according to people who care about that aspect at all (which I don't), is that her peers reacted more realistically to her reformation and were suspicious of her until she proved her good intentions by saving everyone. That's all well and good but this is not everything that makes a good reformed antagonist in my opinion.
Where Sunset loses is the actual reformation (brainwashed by lasers vs convinced in a touching scene), realistic personality change (instantenous vanishing of all negativity, with only mild anger showing on rare occasions, which isn't a uniquely her character trait, vs very gradual learning about what is good and what is bad and lots of baggage), actual character (good at everything and simply an angel vs many flaws and certain personality quirks), heck, evil plan when she was an antagonist (really dumb vs one of the best villain episodes in the show), even backstory, despite many people's feelings about Starlight's reason for going off the deep end, at least she had one.
Sunset is basically a gordon freeman-esque vehicle to portray how you can fit in among people who used to hate you if you're a really, really good person. Starlight is an actual character with her own story and visible, well-defined progression.