We need more stories where the villain is never redeemed (at least, not explicitly), but does not die either. Instead the hero makes peace with them, accepts them for the vile assholes they are, and begrudgingly respects them for it once the hero had grown powerful enough to stand up to them and prevent them from hurting innocents (or at least hurting innocents on scale).
The 3rd and 4rd POTC movies had nailed it with their depiction of the relatonship between Jack and Barbossa before the fifth movie had to ruin everything.
The idea that every antagonist should end up either "redeemed" (read - unilaterally and uncritically submit to your notions of morality), either dead is very reactionary actually once you think about it.
OP your example both has the villain die in the first movie and get resurrected on the condition that he cooperate lol. Like there's a scene where he gets explicitly threatened with his resurrection being revoked if he gets any ideas. He's functionally a slave.
>>29901>We need more stories where the villain is never redeemed (at least, not explicitly), but does not die eitherOne piece between the start of the series to the dressrosa arc is already like this, there’s like dozens of capeshit comics with characters like doom or lex luthor where this is a thing, transformers has a ton of this stuff with megatron and star scream, I’m not expanding this list. No, it’s objectively shitty writing to leave a lot of obviously harmful villains alive or present in the story for redemption usually because it insults the agency of the villain to live in a defeated state instead of being allowed to die off with a shred of dignity against the protagonists and because redemption arcs usually can look more like moral policing on behalf of the authors than organic growths on behalf of the characters themselves.