Rehabilitating the Enemy

All the Cures have been freed from being transformed into babies, prepared to fight. All, except for one. Cure Yell. But the rest of the Cures quickly realize that Yell is alive and well, hanging onto Miden’s inner self for dear life while he fights to throw her out. The rest of the Cures know what they have to do, defeat the swarm of Mini-Midens to weaken him enough so Yell can break through to him. After what is one of the coolest, most nostalgia filled action sequences they defeat all of them and Yell finally walks through a crack in Miden’s personality to find the real him. Then… what? Some spectacular explosion? Some even crazier action? She opts to go with the most astounding display of power and... simply hugs him. This moment is easily one of the most satisfying climaxes in recent memory. Miden was not some justifiable villain that was trying to change the world to create something better, he was unrelatable, selfish, reactionary and yet we didn’t want him gone. Defeating him would have been easy, but hanging on through the fight until he was ready to be seen was harder. Rehabilitating him was the hardest choice for the girls, and for the writers, but by doing so we are given a fantastic ending that gives us a more in depth understanding of Miden and all the girls. Rehabilitating the villain, as opposed to defeating the villain, creates a much more interesting story and should be something used more often than it is.