[Annuga]

I don't think the option I'd want applies to anything in the poll, what I want in a redemption arc is for it to feel believable and deserved, Rogue's felt believable as he's a broken man realizing what he'd done under the effects of Pandora's Box and wanting to make things right. It makes sense for a character who was brainwashed into doing stuff against his values to actively do the opposite. Michinaga from Geats is also a good example, for he realized that his goals and Geats' aligned meaning it was in his best interest to go on the path of righteousness.

A bad example to me is Amatsu Gai, for both reasons why a redemption can feel flat imo, for starters, it feels very sudden, he's directly antagonized and attempted to murder Aruto throughout the show but suddenly he tells us his dad was strict and now he's a good guy which doesn't feel like enough of a reason to make him such a bastard as he's shown to be like 30 years later. The bigger reason is that it feels entirely unearned. This man has canonically been shown committing series crimes by endangering people, destroying evidence to cover up his own crimes, attempted murder, sexual harassment and oh, you know, being the cause of everything bad that happens in the show? He never really faces any consequences for this nor does it feel like he's truly regretful of all of his heinous acts but rather realized "Oh shit Ark would kill me too, better fight the thing I specifically made to try and wipe out humanity before it wipes out humanity". It's like they saw his toys weren't selling and tried to make him a good guy so that kids would suddenly like him