History CharacterDerailment / ComicBooks

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Twilight Sparkle is a kind, moral and intelligent individual who is protective of her friends, to the point where she was willing to hand over godlike power to a malevolent demon so he'd let them go. In the IDW ''[[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' comic, she's possessed of an extremely arbitrary and obstructive morality that she'd do things like not intervene when her friends were getting assaulted, or not intervene when a bunch of thugs were terrorizing a town, or scold her friends when they tear up a legal document that the aforementioned thugs were using to acquire a piece of property despite their blatant campaign of terror against the townsfolk that should get them laughed out of court, or concocting a plan that involves them kidnapping and impersonating the notary to commit fraud so she would have an excuse to use her magic.
** Iron Will during the "Siege of the Crystal Empire" arc. In the show, and previous IDW comic he appeared in, he's a pretty nice guy who left ''both'' times on good terms with the mane six and was generally a nice guy, if a tad aggressive. Here he's part of a LegionOfDoom dedicated to helping resurrect ''King Sombra''. Even assuming he was unaware of the King Sombra part, other members of the team up include the Changelings and Queen Chrysalis (enemies of state who have tried several times to destroy Equestria), and the plan involves him [[spoiler:''stealing the Crystal Heart'' needed to protect the Empire and keep it safe from harm]]. He does so ''proudly'' and openly enjoys doing so.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Fire Princess Ursa, mother of Zuko and Azula, and the [[MissingMom single biggest hanging plot thread of the original series]]. Her fate would finally be revealed years later in the sequel comic [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]--but the explanation of her disappearance cast her in a far more negative light than what most fans expected. To start off, she's revealed to have written a letter [[spoiler: claiming that Zuko wasn't Ozai's son, but actually her lover Ikem's son just to see prove that Ozai was reading her letters. He was, but saw through the lie anyway, but vowed to treat Zuko as though he wasn't his son to punish Ursa. Meaning that part of Zuko's terrible childhood came about because of Ursa trying to spite Ozai]]. More importantly, the trauma of being Ozai's wife became too much for her, [[spoiler: so she asked the Mother of Faces to remove her memories of her life as a Fire noble, even though it would mean forgetting her children and leaving them in the hands of Ozai. Despite that, she allowed herself to keep her memories of Ikem, and ran off to start a new family with him]]. There is heavy debate on whether this is CharacterDerailment. Some fans argue that very little was shown of Ursa in the original series, and most of what was seen was shown through Zuko's eyes, leaving some fans to wonder if Ursa was really the perfect mother Zuko perceived her as. While some consider the popular fan perception of Ursa to be just {{fanon}}, detractors counter that what was shown of Ursa, particularly her last words to Zuko ("Never forget who you are" and "Everything I've done, I've done for you" which would be a flat out lie given the revelations of the comic) paint her as a far stronger and caring mother than what the comic gave us. They also point out that the people who wrote the original Ursa flashbacks weren't the same people who worked on the comic. Ursa herself [[spoiler: before and after regaining her memories]] says what she did was a terrible thing for a mother to do.
** Zuko himself underwent this as well. He's frequently portrayed as paranoid, weak, and vacillating to the point where he goes to his father for advice on ruling, proving his philosophy of might and absolutism to be superior to Zuko's empathy and understanding. To make him even more of a CosmicPlaything, later on Azula defeats him in a duel, [[BrokenAesop essentially rendering all of Iroh's teachings about inner calm and control meaningless in the face of raw power and ruthlessness]].

** Zuko himself underwent this as well. He's frequently portrayed as paranoid, weak, and vacillating to the point where he goes to his father for advice on ruling, proving his philosophy of might and absolutism to be superior to Zuko's empathy and understanding. To make him even more of a ComicPlaything, later on Azula defeats him in a duel, [[BrokenAesop essentially rendering all of Iroh's teachings about inner calm and control meaningless in the face of raw power and ruthlessness]].

%%* Agatha went from being Gaturro's girlfriend to his unattainable love interest.
* Fire Princess Ursa, mother of Zuko and Azula, and the single biggest hanging plot thread of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Her fate would finally be revealed years later in the sequel comic [[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch The Search]]--but the explanation of her disappearance cast her in a far more negative light than what most fans expected. To start off, she's revealed to have written a letter [[spoiler: claiming that Zuko wasn't Ozai's son, but actually her lover Ikem's son just to see prove that Ozai was reading her letters. He was, but saw through the lie anyway, but vowed to treat Zuko as though he wasn't his son to punish Ursa. Meaning that part of Zuko's terrible childhood came about because of Ursa trying to spite Ozai]]. More importantly, the trauma of being Ozai's wife became too much for her, [[spoiler: so she asked the Mother of Faces to remove her memories of her life as a Fire noble, even though it would mean forgetting her children and leaving them in the hands of Ozai. Despite that, she allowed herself to keep her memories of Ikem, and ran off to start a new family with him]]. There is heavy debate on whether this is CharacterDerailment. Some fans argue that very little was shown of Ursa in the original series, and most of what was seen was shown through Zuko's eyes, leaving some fans to wonder if Ursa was really the perfect mother Zuko perceived her as. While some consider the popular fan perception of Ursa to be just {{fanon}}, detractors counter that what was shown of Ursa, particularly her last words to Zuko ("Never forget who you are" and "Everything I've done, I've done for you" which would be a flat out lie given the revelations of the comic) paint her as a far stronger and caring mother than what the comic gave us. They also point out that the people who wrote the original Ursa flashbacks weren't the same people who worked on the comic. Ursa herself [[spoiler: before and after regaining her memories]] says what she did was a terrible thing for a mother to do.

* In the original stories of ''ComicBook/{{Paperinik|NewAdventures}}'' (aka Phantomias), Paperinik was the ChaoticNeutral alter-ego that WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck used for punishing those who had wronged him, mostly his own relatives. He was a shameless outlaw who was hunted down by the police and never had a motive to help others, unless he'd get a large reward. (Back then his relatives were HUGE {{Jerkass}}es. Scrooge was always breathing down his neck, pushing him and so on. Daisy was being a {{Tsundere}}. Gladstone was acting like Gladstone. They mellowed out later.) In later versions he was turned into a LawfulGood superhero who fights crime and unconditionally helps the authorities. This was [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools a derailment for the better]], out of which we got ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''.

* ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}'': All of the Micronaut characters have suffered from inconsistent characterization since their reappearances in ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'' during the 1990s. In that first reappearance, Mari fared the worst. In the original Micronauts, she was depicted as an intelligent, verbose, and independent woman. In ''Cable'', she was given a butch masculine appearance and rarely spoke. In ''Realm of Kings: Son of Hulk'', she grew back her locks and started acting like an airheaded, motormouth amazon who has spent too much time on Earth.