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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' provides the page image and quote. Judy was bullied as a child by a fox named Gideon Gray who beat her up and clawed her left cheek while mocking her desire to become a police officer. Near the end of the film, she learns that Gideon's now a top pastry chef and even does business with her parents. When she reunites with Gideon as an adult, he apologizes to Judy for how he acted in the past--claiming that he had a lot of issues as a kid, but has ultimately come to realize that it was very wrong of him to take them out on other people, including her. For her part, Judy accepts his apology and mostly seems happy for his positive personal growth.

** Diamond Tiara, one of the wealthiest fillies in town, has been bullying the CMC over their lack of Cutie Marks (and Scootaloo's difficulty with flying) for whole seasons of the show. Then, after losing an election to a classmate and being called out and ditched by her friend Silver Spoon, she lapses into depression. The Crusaders follow her to see that she was all right, which leads to the group becoming unlikely friends and Diamond Tiara discovering that her Cutie Mark represents not richness, but [[TheLeader leadership]].

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': In an early episode, the VictimOfTheWeek was one of these. After driving his [[DrivenToSuicide victim to hang himself]], the remorseful bully showed up to the victim's father crying and begging for forgiveness. The father not only forgives the bully but even lets him pet-sit the dog when the bully returns as an adult. [[spoiler: But it turns out the [[SubvertedTrope bully actually never changed his ways]], and prompted the father to train his dog to [[AssholeVictim attack the bully]].]]

* ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'', a fanfic follow-up that combines both the Katherine Patterson novel and the Disney adaptation, actually gives [[spoiler:Scott Hoager, Jess' former bully from the movie version]] the reformed treatment. The story also includes a new character, Sonia Taylors, Jess' on-off girlfriend who is excessively manipulative, sadistic, ruthless, and especially takes delight in [[spoiler: picking on Leslie, who turns out to be not really dead but was kidnapped by an enemy of the Burke family and isolated from society for years before inevitably reuniting with Jess when both of them are teenagers]]. Sonia gets written off halfway through the story before showing up again in the DistantEpilogue, where [[spoiler: she actually turns over a new leaf after she married Scott Hoager. The two ex-bullies had a son, Brandon, who became best friends with the daughter of Jess and Leslie, much to Jess' bewilderment. According to the daughter, "Brandon's mom is so nice to me..." and "Brandon's dad is a sergeant in the army"]]...

* ''Fanfic/EverydayLifeWithUltimateGirls'': In light of [[spoiler: her AttemptedRape, Hiyoko Saionji becomes this. She still occasionally calls her previously favorite target Mikan Tsumiki names, but she is actually trying to get her to stop being such an ExtremeDoormat and fire back against those who mistreat her. She also drops her nickname of "Pig Barf", calling her by her real name]].

* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has "Baby" Brent [=McHale=], whose fame as the mascot of Baby Brent Sardines gave him a huge ego and caused him to be a bully to Flint Lockwood starting from childhood and taking it into adulthood. When Flint's food rain causes him to become a bigger celebrity, Brent falls from grace and starts reflecting on his life. At the climax of the film, he decides to go with Flint and company to help stop the [[AIIsACrapshoot FLDSMDFR]], wanting to make a change in his life and stop coasting on his childhood fame. Come the second film, he's become good friends with Flint. [[spoiler: When trying to separate Flint from his friends, [[BigBad Chester V]] uses the fact that he used to be a bully to try and make Flint distrust him.]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Megamind}}'': Downplayed with [[SupermanSubstitute Metro Man]]. As a child, Metro Man (or Metro-Lad) was a SmugSuper who relentlessly bullied Megamind after the latter caused an accident in class; constantly telling Megamind he was evil and making sure he was picked last in [[DodgeballIsHell all games of Dodgeball]]. As an adult, whilst Metro Man is still a rival to Megamind, his rivalry with Megamind is far more [[FriendlyEnemy friendly]] and [[spoiler: he expresses approval about Megamind's HeelFaceTurn]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Tyler Nguyen-Baker is frequently antagonistic towards Meilin Lee and her friends. When he learns of her Red Panda transformation, he tries to take advantage of her form by making her the attraction for his birthday party (though this later backfired horribly on him). [[spoiler: During the 4*Town concert, when Mei and her friends discover he's also a fan of the group, they hug and welcome him into the "sisterhood". After the climax, it's revealed that he now hangs out with Mei and her friends, and he even wears a friendship bracelet that matches theirs, thus becoming a BullyTurnedBuddy.]]

* Shane Hawkins in ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' used to bully Pete to a horrendous degree. At first he ignores him, then approaches him later on to apologize. Under the circumstances, it's probable that part or all of his reformation is due to [[spoiler: him being a robot controlled by an alien intelligence trying to get the cast off their guard so they can be caught]].

* ''Literature/BridgeToTerabithia'': Janice Avery, the eight-grade class bully who even forces other girls to hand over chocolate so she will let them use the bathroom (changed to a quarter in the movie adaptation), turns out to have a FreudianExcuse [[spoiler: having been physically abused by her father at home]]. When Leslie Burke gives Janice some heartfelt advice and warms out to her, Janice eventually turns over a new leaf.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' offers a glimpse into the shared past of Patrician Vetinari and Lord Downey, now Guild Master but then a contemporary of Havelock Vetinari when both were pupils at the Assassins' guild School. Downey is very much the undisputed School Bully and seeks to make life miserable for the seemingly weedy and ineffectual "Dog-botherer". Vetinari bides his time and comes up with a devastating counter-attack. In the "now" of the Discworld, some thirty years later, lord Downey is deferential and careful to be of service to the City's ruling Patrician. A school bully at the Assassins' School risks making some very powerful enemies who will have memories in later life - not forgetting and possibly inclined to forgiveness. Eventually.

* Buckaress from ''WebComic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'' was revealed to have once been an AlphaBitch alongside her former friend before becoming who she is now. She was afraid of what her relatively unchanged former friend thinks of her, [[spoiler: until it became apparent that she grew jealous at Buckaress's new life. Buckaress didn't notice the jealousy, however.]]

-->'''Ponder''': Why would I [steal the dope farm]?\\
'''Ray''': Well, you did used to pick on me a bunch in high school.\\
'''Ponder''': Well I'm ''sorry''! I was a ''dick'' in high school!

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In the ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment "Hog Noon", Orson gets a letter from his childhood bully Hammerhead Hog and finds Hammerhead is coming to "settle with him"; Orson expects he wants revenge after being busted for repeatedly stealing Orson's lunch money and getting detention. When Hammerhead arrives, his method of settling with Orson surprises everyone - he's come to give back all the lunch money he'd stolen.

* Flash Thompson from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' bullied Peter in high school. He got better as he got older once the two entered college and they got along fairly well, and eventually became one of Peter's best friends. Joining the military also taught him discipline and mellowed him out a lot. He became a hero in his own right and eventually the fourth, and first straight-up heroic, incarnation of Venom and became an ally of Spider-Man.
* A mid-eighties ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' issue has Matt encountering Stinky [=McQuade=] at the end of an unrelated adventure. Stinky claims to be the bully who ironically nicknamed Matt "Daredevil" and he apologizes for his treatment of Matt as a kid before walking away.
* A one-off issue of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' focuses on how Twilight's brother, Shining Armour, met his wife. The story is a playful homage to every teen '80s film ever including a JerkJock called Buck. While he's definitely an antagonist in the past, in the present day he seems much more likable, and judging by the friendly gestures gets on a lot better with Shining.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Amity Blight is introduced as the resident AcademicAlphaBitch, but by the end of the first season, not only is this revealed to be a front she puts on to appease her parents, but she manages to repair her broken childhood friendship with Willow and become good friends with Luz ([[spoiler:developing a crush on her in the process]]) once she decides to become more cordial. By the midway point of the second season, [[spoiler:Amity and Luz have become an OfficialCouple.]]

** Eric Cartman himself managed to become this in ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid Post Covid]]'' going from a vicious antisemite to a soft-spoken Jewish rabbi and family man. Though Kyle is suspicious of Cartman since he was a ManipulativeBastard who gave Kyle his worst treatment, Cartman proves that he did change his ways in the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid next special]] by [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing his prosperous life]] so Kyle and his friends can have a better future. This act ironically turns Cartman into SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp in the new future as well as a bitter and homeless alcoholic.

* In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'', the resident GangOfBullies of Seiryo High start off not only actively picking on Mami Koda but are also hostile to Yagami. Over the course of the game, they end up seeing the error of their ways and not only do they start to clean their act up but by the end [[spoiler:they not only help out Yagami by distracting some cops sent by the GreaterScopeVillain to arrest him, the final scene has them standing up to other bullies alongside Koda]], thus averting any potential future tragedies.

** As revealed in ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', after the main events of the series, Draco Malfoy turns his life around and raises his son Scorpius to be a better man than he was. He even genuinely becomes [[BullyToBuddy Harry's friend]] at the end of the play.

** As revealed in ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTtheCursedChild'', after the main events of the series, Draco Malfoy turns his life around and raises his son Scorpius to be a better man than he was. He even genuinely becomes [[BulyToBuddy Harry's friend]] at the end of the play.

** After the main events of the series, Draco Malfoy turns his life around and raises his son Scorpius to be a better man than he was.

A [[TheBully mean kid from school or the neighborhood]], who treated people like dirt and ruled over the class with an iron fist turns up again. They were pretty, petty, judgmental, quick to shove other hapless students in their own lockers or slander them to their faces, and now they're... apologizing?

* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaYakuzaArc'', after Natsumi Kuzuryu was saved by Hajime, he convinces her to better herself in Part 1, leading her to stop bullying people. She later apologizes to Mahiru and Sato, who she had bullied previously, and the latter of whom attempted to kill her for it to protect Mahiru. Mahiru accepts the apology and forgives Natsumi, with the two later becoming friends. Sato doesn't forgive Natsumi, but accepts her apology and ends their feud. Sato also apologizes for, you know, trying to bash Natsumi's head in.[[note]]She had succeeded in doing so in the original timeline, getting killed herself in reprisal, since Natsumi is the daughter of the most powerful {{Yakuza}} in Japan.[[/note]]

* ''Fanfic/NymphAndTheCorruptedMiraculous'': Marinette saves Chloe from an incoming car but at the cost of becoming paralyzed from the waist down. Grateful for saving his daughter, Mayor Bourgeois repays her by helping with all expenses related to making Marinette's life wheelchair accessible and Chloe declares herself Marinette's friend. While nicer to Marinette, Chloe still acts like a brat to everybody else with Marinette trying to make her behave. It is not until Adrien practically yells at her in public due to her behavior does she realize just how toxic her behavior is.

* Earl from ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' was a bully as a teen (and still a pretty mean guy into the first few years of adulthood) before he finally had a change of heart. Former victims of his make up a couple [[ListOfTransgressions List]] items, with his first one being Kenny James, a guy he used to torment as a kid that Earl helps with coming out of the closet.

* Gus from ''Film/{{Benchwarmers}}'' was a bully in his childhood, who bullied one kid so much he became a [[BasementDweller shut-in in his mother's basement]] even into adulthood. In the present day, he is afraid to have a kid because he thinks they'll be bullied or become a bully, and joins the 'baseball team' The Benchwarmers (a couple of dorky adults representing the kids who never get to play baseball because they are deemed too wimpy or geeky or weird) and plays baseball games against little league teams of jock kids and their former jock coaches. Later in the movie, he tries to make amends and apologize to the kid he himself bullied as a child.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' provides the page image and quote. Judy was bullied as a child by a fox named Gideon Gray who beat her up and clawed her left cheek while mocking her desire to become a police officer. Near the end of the film, she learns that Gideon's now a top pastry chef and even does business with her parents, Stu and Bonnie Hopps. When she reunites with Gideon as an adult, he apologizes to Judy for how he acted in the past--Gideon claims that he had a lot of issues as a kid, but has ultimately come to realize that it was very wrong of him to take it out on other people, including her. This ends up helping Judy to forgive Gideon for how he treated her when they were kids. Surprisingly, [[spoiler: alongside Judy's resignation to the police and going back to her hometown, Gideon provides the necessary information needed to uncover and solve the film's main conflict, enabling Judy to go back to the eponymous city to finally end the violent divide between predators and prey once and for all.]]

* Earl from ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' was a bully as a teen (and still a pretty mean guy into the first few years of adulthood) before he finally had a change of heart. Former victims of his make up a couple [[ListOfTransgressions List]] items, most notably the first one he completes is Kenny James, a kid he used to bully in school.

Yep, that grade-A pain in the neck has seemingly turned over a new leaf. The reason varies from person to person. Maybe their victims gave them a taste of their own medicine. Maybe they graduated and realized the real world isn't as easy as they thought it would be in school. [[note]]In many cases, though not all, they reform after having a few years of adult life under their belt.[[/note]] Maybe they did some soul-searching, became more enlightened or matured significantly and [[JerkassRealization realized that's not the person they want to be]]. Maybe they were just tired of being mean. No matter what reason, [[TheAtoner they are trying to change for the better]]. [[ThisIsUnforgivable Of course]], [[RejectedApology not everyone is likely]] [[ReformedButRejected to forgive them]], [[IHatePastMe and they probably wouldn't blame them if they didn't]].

Compare FormerTeenRebel, where the character may have been rebellious but weren't necessarily mean or a bully. Also compare and contrast to the LovableAlphaBitch, who has enough nice qualities to balance out the bad ones, and the LovableJock and DumbJock, since the former is just a NiceGuy all around and the latter is probably [[PopularIsDumb too stupid to be mean]]. If they were always reluctant about bullying, see PeerPressuredBully. Compare also the FormerBigot whose {{Jerkass}} behavior from an earlier time came from bias and hatred of a catgorical class and which have since been renounced.

* ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'': Taichi Mashima was a bully in flashbacks, but reformed and is now a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheWingedBraves'': Thanks to AdaptationalNiceGuy, Gusuke's bullies, Tsubakuro and Tobio reforms at the end of the climatic battle, putting their rivalries aside and even cheers for Gusuke in the finale. Averted in the manga where the bullies are absent for unknown reasons in the final scene.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Played with in regards to Bakugo. He starts the series as a SmugSuper who takes pleasure in bullying and picking on the much weaker Midoriya. A few chapters in and Midoriya has gained his own superpower and starts standing up to him at the same time that the two join a prestigious HeroAcademy, which is unlikely to tolerate that behavior, and their classmates are not intimidated by him, with many being actually as powerful or skilled as him, sometimes even more. So he stops being a bully, but he maintains the same personality, except that he ''can't'' bully anyone anymore. He later starts befriending some of his classmates and even Midoriya, leading to him playing this trope straight, while still having quite an unpleasant personality. [[spoiler:He finally becomes completely reformed in Chapter 322 after apologizing to Midoriya.]]

* ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'', a fanfic follow-up that combines both the Katherine Patterson novel and the Disney adaptation, actually gives [[spoiler:Scott Hoager, Jess' former bully from the movie version]] the reformed treatment. The story also includes a new character, Sonia Taylors, Jess' on-off girlfriend who is excessively manipulative, sadistic, ruthless, and especially takes delight in [[spoiler: picking on Leslie, who turns out to be not really dead, but was kidnapped by an enemy of the Burke family and isolated from society for years before inevitably reuniting with Jess when both of them are teenagers]]. Sonia gets written off halfway through the story before showing up again in the DistantEpilogue, where [[spoiler: she actually turns over a new leaf after she married Scott Hoager. The two ex-bullies had a son, Brandon, which becomes best friends with the daughter of Jess and Leslie, much to Jess' bewilderment. According to the daughter; "Brandon's mom is so nice to me..." and "Brandon's dad is a sergeant in the army"]]...

** Cheerilee was a bully in high school of Scootaloo's father Crimson. When she sees him again when Scootaloo had taken Silver Spoon to the hospital when he tries to leave she apologizes to him for everything she did to him. Crimson doesn't want to hear it but Cheerilee begs him to hear her out. Even offering to meet him somewhere to speak about it. He agrees then they get along better later.

* ''Film/INotStupid'' has a TV series adaptation that gives Chong Meng, TheBully to the trio Terry, Boon Hock and Kwok Pin, the AdaptationalNiceGuy treatment, by giving Chong Meng a BreakTheHaughty moment where he fails his exams and is unexpectedly comforted by Terry. When Kwok Pin's mother is diagnosed with leukemia and the school is searching for volunteer blood donors, the reformed Chong Meng is the ''first'' upper-class student to raise his hand.

* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'': Invoked in the "Sour Ron" story arc, where Bruno realizes ''he'' was the bully who caused Sour Rons StartOfDarkness by stealing his childhood teddy bear (at the time, Ron had been an expy of [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]], while Bruno was one of Moe), setting him down the path of becoming a nihilistic death metal superstar. While Bruno hasn't actually reformed one bit, being a professional thief as an adult, he invokes this trope to strip Sour Ron of his cynicism and destroy his career after Ron refuses to be blackmailed, heartfully apologizing for his behavior when they were children, and delivering the final blow by returning the teddy bear.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': E.Z. Ponder, the sheriff of Ray's old hometown in the South turns out to be this, as ''everything'' pointed to him being a DirtyCop who was trying to steal Ray's brother's pot farm for himself. As it turns out, Ray's brother was lying, and Ray had just believed him because of what an enormous asshole Ponder had been in high school. In reality, Ponder had not only cleaned up his act and became an honest cop, he's also an elder of the local church, and had gone out of his way to settle the matter peacefully before being forced to use the law.

** Rattles is also this. He was actually one of the most intimidating Tough Customers. But in Season 16, the same season where he gave up bullying, he revealed himself to be an expert Chess player, surpassing even [[ChildProdigy the Brain]]. He then gave Brain some training on how to defeat an opponent who had a reputation for never losing. Brain even called Rattles his friend when they met the aforementioned opponent for the first time.

** Eric Cartman himself managed to becomes this in ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid Post Covid]]'' going from a vicious antisemite to a soft-spoken Jewish rabbi and family man. Though Kyle is suspicious of Cartman since he was a ManipulativeBastard who gave Kyle his worst treatment, Cartman proves that he did change his ways in the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid next special]] by [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing his prosperous life]] so Kyle and his friends can have a better future. This act ironically turns Cartman into SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp in the new future as well as a bitter and homeless alcoholic.

* ''Film/INotStupid'' has a TV series adaptation that gives Chong Meng, TheBully to the trio Terry, Boon Hock and Kwok Pin, the AdaptationalNiceGuy treatment, by giving Chong Meng a BreakTheHaunghty moment where he fails his exams and is unexpectedly comforted by Terry. When Kwok Pin's mother is diagnosed with leukemia and the school is searching for volunteer blood donors, the reformed Chong Meng is the ''first'' upper-class student to raise his hand.

* In ''Film/AngerManagement'' David is forced by his anger management therapist Buddy to confront his old bully Artie Shankman, who turns out to have become a Buddhist Monk in the modern day. Subverted in that while Artie is initially willing to apologize for most of what he's done, he still thinks pulling David's shorts down in front of a girl he had a crush on was pretty funny and it just takes a bit of goading from Buddy about his mentally-disabled sister to get Artie back into his old mentality and the two to fight each other.

** Eric Cartman himself managed to becomes this in ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovid Post Covid]] going from a vicious antisemite to a soft-spoken Jewish rabbi and family man. Though Kyle is suspicious of Cartman since he was a ManipulativeBastard who gave Kyle his worst treatment, Cartman proves that he did change his ways in the [[WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid next special]] by [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing his prosperous life]] so Kyle and his friends can have a better future. This act ironically turns Cartman into SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp in the new future (bitter and homeless alcoholic).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' TimeTravelEpisode "Get Back Jojo," we learn that none other than Professor Utonium is actually one of these. Back in his youth, he was a BrattyHalfPint who loved to pick on the nerd in his class, but after being rescued by the Powerpuff Girls from a time-traveling Mojo Jojo, he developed his love for science and became the nice man we all know him to be.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': E.Z. Ponder, the sheriff of Ray's old hometown in the South turns out to be this, as ''everything'' pointed to him being a DirtyCop who was trying to steal Ray's brother's pot farm for himself. As it turns out, Ray's brother was lying, and Ray had just believed him because of what an enormous asshole Ponder had been in high school. In reality, Ponder had not only cleaned up his act and became an honest cop, he's also an elder of the local church, and had gone out of his way to settle the matter peacefully before being forced to use the law.
-->'''Ponder''': Why would I [steal the dope farm]?\\
'''Ray''': Well, you did used to pick on me a bunch in high school.\\
'''Ponder''': Well I'm ''sorry''! I was a ''dick'' in high school!
* Buford Van Stomm from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' is portrayed as a standard BarbaricBully for an episode or two, but quickly ends up rounding out Phineas and Ferb's core FiveManBand, reveals [[HiddenDepths a soft heart and a surprising intellectual bent]], and develops a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with his [[BullyAndWimpPairing default victim]] Baljeet, at one point even describing him as his best friend. An episode set ten years in the future shows that he's fully abandoned the trappings of his "bully" persona and become a film student.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Amity Blight is introduced as the resident AcademicAlphaBitch, but by the end of the first season, not only is this revealed to be a front she puts on to appease her parents, but she manages to repair her broken childhood friendship with Willow and become good friends with Luz ([[spoiler:developing a crush on her in the process]]) once she decides to become more cordial. By the midway point of the second season, [[spoiler:Amity and Luz have become an OfficialCouple.]]

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'' it is revealed that James was a bully in his youth, mostly targeting Snape because he was a Death Eater wannabe and [[DisproportionateRetribution friends with the girl James fancied]]. Sirius and Lupin reassure Harry that he grew up before Lily would date him and he became Head Boy, both of which happened in his seventh year.
** Draco's behavior in the epilogue and play suggest this as well.
*** Dudley apologized to Harry and they still keep in touch as adults.

* In ''Videogame/LostJudgment'', the resident GangOfBullies of Seiryo High start off not only actively picking on Mami Koda but are also hostile to Yagami. Over the course of the game, they end up seeing the error of their ways and not only do they start to clean their act up but by the end [[spoiler:they not only help out Yagami by distracting some cops sent by the GreaterScopeVillain to arrest him, the final scene has them standing up to other bullies alongside Koda]], thus potentially averting potential tragedies.

* In ''Film/AngerManagement'' David is forced by his anger management therapist Buddy to confront his old bully Artie Shankman, who turns out to have become a Buddhist Monk in the modern day. Subverted in that while Artie is initially willing to apologize for most of what he's done, he still thinks pulling David's shorts down in front of a girl he had a crush on was pretty funny and it just takes a bit of goading from Buddy to get Artie back into his old mentality and the two to fight each other.

* In ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'', Tianhuo used to be an AlphaBitch who bullied the weakest [[OurDragonsAreDifferent longmas]], considering them a shame to their own kind. Then she had a JerkassRealization after a [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind prophetic dream]] in which the representation of both parts of her cultural legacy (a kind mare and a savage dragon) [[YinYangClash battled to achieve her inner peace]]. She apologized to her former victims and swore to use her strength to protect the weak.