Also Deathstroke.
Okay, I'm going to need you to explain that. Because I remember being so let down.
Re-reading it now in one swift swoop, the entire book has these characters constantly on the precipice of changing, but they never really do. None of them are sure if they can be hero or villain. They have no idea what they are. Every arc has details about why these people are the way they are, with the world telling them that it doesn't matter how they use these skills, they'll always be villains. And as the series goes on, you see that they're always sitting in the middle, but never progressing. Catman is the best example of this, since he is the most morally conflicted at the beginning, but eventually loses himself. Every member that leaves the group, leaves in a manner that shows that they never progressed. Fiddler is killed for being a failure, Parademon dies as a suicide bomber, Cheshire leaves as a baby-crazy backstabbing villainess, Black Alice leaves as a scared kid, Mad Hatter crazed drug addict. Finally, the group has their final stand as what the world always wanted them to be: supervillains. There is no change, here. Even some of the progress we do see either doesn't matter or ends with them leaving. Sure, Bane becomes a father figure, but he also more and more aggressively takes power and control. He's a conqueror. Sure, Catman becomes a leader. but he aggressively hunts and kills people who tread his territory (lion pride lands or his own child), getting more and more brutal. "Marking" people in brutal ways. And those are probably the two biggest standouts as far as morality goes, aside from Scandal, who really just ends up with another hyper-controlling father figure in her life.
#24 sums it up in one page:
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The bottom line is that at the end of the series, they're going out exactly how the world sees them: as villains. That's who they are. They can't be heroes. They love to talk about change, but they can't bring themselves to do it. The Wild West issue and the Battle for the Cowl tie-in (where Bane, Catman, and Ragdoll go to Gotham) both show that more than any other issues.
