Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-24859393-20180201220944/@comment-30634893-20180210233156

Well, in the comic prequels to the original film, he was shown to be far more cruel and remorseless than he was in the movie (inhumanely and illegally hunting animals, abusing his horse, hitting an old woman for annoying him, etc), and in the remake, he went all Prince John on his subjects, heavily taxing them and making them suffer so he could fund his huge parties. So, I'd say that his crimes are enough to justfy him being here.

And he technically wasn't fully redeemed while fighting Forte either. He was making progress, but he wasn't fully redeemed. If he was fully redeemed in that movie, there'd be no point in it or the other tie-ins existing and Disney would make less money.