Inconsistently Admirable heroes who used to have certain corrupting qualities, but would come to shed or subvert them later on.

Redeemed Villains often fall under this category, but exceptions exist if they are fallen and only redeem themselves before death or "redeem" themselves but then turn to the dark side again as well as those who don't subvert any of their evil traits and never feel remorse despite redeeming.

Examples (excluding Redeemed Villains) are:

• The reboot version of Scrooge McDuck, who used to be cold-hearted and bitter old man due to losing Della until his nephews' arrival brought back his adventurous spirit.
• Shrek, who used to be hostile and aggressive ogre due to being treated like a monster until his life changed upon meeting Donkey and Fiona.
• Merida, who used to be short-tempered and rebellious princess who constantly disrespecting her mother out of frustration until they reconciled.
• Revali, who used to viciously pick on Link quite a lot due to his sheer envy of Link's position as the one chosen by the Master Sword to destroy Calamity Ganon as he wanted to face the monstrosity to prove himself to the world. Only after he was saved by him did he start to soften up and accept his role, even if he doesn't fully admit it. Tulin was also pivotal in helping him realize that he is still loved by his people.
• Lance Sterling, who used to be arrogant, lethal and can be hostile to Walter until he finally sees him as his ally and a friend.
• Lincoln Loud, who wanted to become the Duke of Loch Loud to get attention from everyone else before he passed his crown onto Angus and reformed his selfish ways.
• Mordecai, who is too much of a slacker, always irresponsible, and is selfish, however he later reformed his ways and became less of a slacker than he was in the earlier seasons.
• Gary Goodspeed, who used to be anti-heroic before he subverted it.
• Katsuki Bakugo, who used to bully Izuku for being Quirkless and mistreated him out of resent and jealousy, until they made up once they began to understand each other.
• Wolverine, who used to be antisocial and initially wanted nothing to do with X-Men, before he grew to care for his teammates and became one of the team's greatest heroes.

Please do not add Inconsistently Admirables here who have only faked corrupting qualities (e.g. Batman (DC). Those should go under Misguided, Hidden Inconsistently Admirables and/or False Antagonists. This category is only for heroes who once had genuine corrupting qualities but ended up subverting/losing them.

It is rare for an Inconsistently Admirable to be WHOLLY reformed, considering they almost always have multiple corrupting qualities. The only way they can qualify as this is if their reform happened too fast to tell if it was completely real, they are too amoral or incompetent, not taken seriously, or do not display enough personality to be Pure Good or Near Pure Good (e.g. Michael Afton (FNaF VHS)). In rare cases, they may be wholly reformed depending on how the player plays the game (e.g. the Minecraft Players, Jesse, Valery Sablin). In other cases, they may be extremely close to wholly reformed, but they have too severe of corrupting factors to be close to Pure Good. (e.g. Luke Skywalker, Knuckles the Echidna from the live-action film series, Batman from The Lego Movie).

Their Inconsistently Heinous equivalent is Debased. However, they are not mutually exclusive, as for the case of On & Off characters, it is possible for one to subvert both corrupting and redeeming qualities (e.g. Bowser, Eric Cartman)

NOTE: Do not add the Fallen category unless they subverted few of their corrupting qualities and would rather stayed like this (e.g. Steven Universe, Vegeta, Anakin Skywalker). Even in cases a fallen hero may look reformed (e.g. Daffy Duck, Stan Smith, Mario, Lena Luthor, Cho Sang-woo, Rigby, Riku, Discord, Tom Cat, Bowser Junior, Brooklyn T. Guy and Woody), if they have corrupted themselves away from it then they can no longer qualify. If the hero is already corrupted, you may remove this category.