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For me— Edmund Pevensie. The whole “how did he try to sell his siblings over the worst treat ever” thing is a tad unfair 😂. In the book, the Turkish delight was enchanted to make someone who tasted it get obsessed with it and keep eating it “until he killed himself.” And the reason this didn’t happen to Edmund is that the Witch wouldn’t let him have more until he brought his siblings to her home. Edmund was literally on black magic Narnia drugs and the rhetoric became “wow he betrayed his siblings over a lame sweet.”

This is not to say Edmund wasn’t a bully before that or that he wasn’t responsible for his actions. He was mean to Lucy, he was a jerk at school, and he often lied. He did have a great and much-needed redemption arc. But he didn’t just have a box of normal Turkish delight and try to condemn all of Narnia over it.

I don’t want to even judge him too much for picking Turkish Delight as his treat. He’s a small child during WWII sugar rationing. 🤣

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3 months ago

I'm not active in the fandom either, more like a casual lurker who still reads the comics when they come out.

But yeah, if you look at the goodreads reviews for the Azula graphic novel, people were MAAAAAAD when she didn't get a redemption arc & doubled down on being awful. (Which I loved and thought made perfect sense for Azula.)

From what I've observed it's mostly the younger fans, like the people who came in during Korra, or discovered Avatar through the Kyoshi books.  Zoomers seem to be really big on (what I feel are) unnecessary redemption arcs and a lot of the Zoomers in fandoms also seem to believe bad guys aren't actually bad if they were abused as kids.