Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-33127939-20130322001539/@comment-5805674-20140108183221

BrainChill284 wrote: I agree. Like Kevin, Hope deserves a chance for redemption!

Seconded, especially seeing as her crimes just plain aren't as severe as Kevin's. OK, killing 600,000 people is, but that got undone as if it never happened and Hope clearly doesn't ever want to cross that line again, so her slate is clean.

In all the other episodes where she was a villain ("Tough Luck", "A Change of Face", "Vs. The Negative 10", "In Charm's Way", and "Hit 'Em Where They Live"), she never killed or even seriously hurt anyone: even when she tried, she failed. In her other episodes she was either neutral ("Don't Drink the Water"), heroic ("Where the Magic Happens"), or both ("Couples Retreat"). And as for "Time Heals", that's an alternate timeline so it doesn't count. Her only true scene there (the opening scene) had her as neutral.

Bottom line: it's actually kind of ridiculous that her redemption takes so long while Kevin's does not, though OV seems to be rectifying this by having Kevin slowly falling off the wagon again until he's Weapon XI, not to mention retconning his Osmosian heritage so that he doesn't get such an easy pass and will have to work harder and longer for redemption just like Hope.