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Reorganised the Live Action TV section in alphabetical order, adding entry for Joan for season 5 of Mad Men.

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* The plot of one episode of ''TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' was a total homage to TheTerminator, where a [[TerminatorTwosome robot is sent from the future to kill Superboy and a woman is sent to warn him]]. Superboy foolishly brushes off the warnings, after all, he's Superboy, right? In their first battle, he gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the robot, who is ''way'' stronger than him and can resist his punches and heat vision.
* Cordelia has been put through the HumiliationConga more times than are countable on both ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
** After awhile on the Series/{{Angel}} it results in one of the poignant cases of CharacterDevelopment in the 'verse. [[spoiler:And then she was PutOnABus, and later killed.]]
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** Londo Mollari and G'Kar start the series as prime examples of arrogance (what with being ambassadors of galactic Great Powers and all). Then CharacterDevelopment happens. Both come out enlightened, and--to their amazement--[[OddFriendship friends]].
** Shikira is the head of the warrior caste and an arrogant SmugSnake who wishes to rule Minbar by force. He is challenged to a [[CombatByChampion Combat by]] SelfImmolation by Delenn with the taunt that he is really a MilesGloriosus . He fails the challenge as Delenn does not fail(and has to be rescued by Neroon). Thus Shakira is shown to be a DirtyCoward in front of ''millions of Minbari'' .
---> '''Neroon''': ''I'' speak for our people! Who do ''you'' speak for?

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* Priscilla of R.L. Stine's ''TheHauntingHour Volume One: Don't Think About It'' is such an ego balloon, you know she's going to be a prime candidate for the pin treatment. [[spoiler:We start with a piñata sabotaged with cockroaches that spill out all over her when she breaks it. Later, she suffers the indignity of Evil Thing webbing. She doesn't seem to get it, as an offered ride home by the Papa John's boy is harshly turned down.]]
* Cordelia has been put through the HumiliationConga more times than are countable on both ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''.
** After awhile of Series/{{Angel}} it results in one of the poignant cases of CharacterDevelopment in the 'verse. [[spoiler:And then she was PutOnABus, and later killed.]]
* Happens to Prue in the ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode "Death Takes A Halliwell" where she is convinced she is meant to stop the Angel of Death and he gives her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to convince her that some things are out of our hands. A similar thing happens to her again in an episode where she gets infected with pride. The only way to beat that sin is to be saved by someone else.

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* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' tends to torture its characters.
** [[TheAtoner Walter's]] backstory.
** [[spoiler: Fauxlivia]] goes from SmugSnake to HeartbrokenBadass in ''both'' [[AlternateTimeline Season 3 and 4.]]
** Dear God... ''Peter.'' He was a bit of a self-centered {{Jerkass}} at the start of season 1. Four seasons later... he gets infected, captured and/or tortured a few times. Has something of an identity crisis when he discovers that [[spoiler: he was kidnapped from an alternate universe. Possibly responsible for the apocalypse. Erased from existence for a while. When he comes back everyone he knows and loves doesn't remember him. Finally resolves his "Will they, won't they" with Olivia, only to discover that the woman he's sleeping with is actually Fauxlivia. Has a son he doesn't know about until it's too late. When he does get with the real Olivia, she gets shot in the head. ''Twice.'' His daughter dies...also twice.]] No happy ending in two ''different'' [[BadFuture Bad Futures]]. ''This man cannot catch a break.''
* Quinn Fabray starts out on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' as a snobbish bully and gossip who had everything. She was captain of the cheerleading squad, president of the celibacy club, nominated for prom queen, a straight-A student on honour roll and had a rich family who lived in a big, beautiful house. She had the perfect popular boyfriend, a army of friends and was one of the most beautiful girls in school with a bright future which screamed [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Ivy League.]] Then her boyfriend cheats on her with her worst enemy, she gets pregnant aged 15-16, is [[HumiliationConga humiliated in front of the whole school]], kicked out of her house, kicked off the celibacy club and cheerleading squad, [[IHaveNoSon disowned by her father]] who is revealed to be adulterer and is eventually dumped by her boyfriend and becomes a [[FallenPrincess complete joke in the school.]] The only people she has left are the people in glee club, who she used to look down upon and snigger at. Then she gives birth very painfully to a daughter she gives up for adoption, and it is implied that she suffers from post-partum depression soon afterwards.
** Subverted after a serious case of AesopAmnesia in season 2, when she gains everything she lost back and thensome with ease. 
** DoubleSubverted when she loses it all over again by the beginning of season 3.
** ...And manages to bounce back before the Season 3 fanale, where she is nominated for prom queen, gets to go to Yale, her glee club wins nationals and she finally manages to work things out with Puck and forgive him for their troubled history. 
*** ...Then season 4 happens, and it looks like its back to square one again for her.
** Santana Lopez could also qualify as of season 3, after being humiliated not just in front of the school but in front of the ''state'', when she is outed against her will and disowned by her grandmother. She is made to question her girlfriends love for her, is harassed by a boy who wants to "straighten her out" and is even nearly suspended for confronting the boy who outed her. In fact, the only reason she wasn't suspended is because she was blackmailed into compliance by her outer, [[DesignatedHero who is actually the frickin' hero]] of the series. This is, however, [[AngstWhatAngst forgotten about in 2 episodes time...]]
** Rachel Berry's gone through this to some extent in every season but season 3 and 4 strike a chord the most when she slowly starts to realise she's not the only person who's a "star" and that not everyones going to bend over backwards for her.. 
** Mercedes could qualify when she struggles with a eating dissorder and loses all the confidence she once had...For one episode.
** Strangly enough, [[DoubleStandard you don't see many male characters going through this process.]]
* Priscilla of R.L. Stine's ''TheHauntingHour Volume One: Don't Think About It'' is such an ego balloon, you know she's going to be a prime candidate for the pin treatment. [[spoiler:We start with a piñata sabotaged with cockroaches that spill out all over her when she breaks it. Later, she suffers the indignity of Evil Thing webbing. She doesn't seem to get it, as an offered ride home by the Papa John's boy is harshly turned down.]]
* Played with in ''Series/{{House}} M.D.'' in the Tritter subplot and subsequent rehab, but subverted in the end when House reveals he's still...well, House.
** Played straight in the Season 5 finale. [[spoiler: He realizes that he's going insane and finally casts aside his pride to get treatment]].
* The point of ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. Typically, the villain is some type of corporate sleaze who tends to be either arrested, finanically ruined, and/or put through a HumiliationConga by the end of the episode.

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* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' did this all the time with Major Winchester, especially the occasional failing and having to rely on others. Sometimes resulted in legitimate CharacterDevelopment and sometimes [[SnapBack not]].
** Subverted in "Major Topper", where Winchester was set up for this, but it turned out he was right/had been telling the truth.
* Happens to C.C. Babcock throughout ''TheNanny'', with [[RichBitch good reason]].
* There are several episodes of ''Series/ThePrisoner'' in which Number Two's over-confidence in his ability to break Number Six ends up being his own downfall. One episode in which this theme is used very prominently is "Hammer Into Anvil".
** Averted in "The Carnival Job", where Elliot lampshades this. Nate only replies, "It's not a requirement, it's a bonus".
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' goes through a major wringer in Series 2, especially "The Reichenbach [[MeaningfulName Fall]]." By the end, he's seen as a fraud, a criminal and [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice a corpse.]]]]
** The most prominent example (found in "The Reichenbach Fall") would be how his constant belittling and insulting of the police makes it that much easier for them to swallow the lie that [[spoiler:Sherlock faked and orchestrated all his cases to show how clever he was.]]
** Happened even earlier in "The Great Game". At first, he's in top SociopathicHero form, having genuine fun solving cases that involve people strapped to bombs and looking forward to meeting his archnemesis. [[spoiler:At then Moriarty straps [[MoralityPet John]] to a bomb. Cue Sherlock freaking out.]]
* On ''SonsOfAnarchy'', Agent Stahl tries to do this to the titular motorcycle gang by turning their 'prince' Jax into a 'rat' who informs to the ATF in exchange for a deal. It [[spoiler: backfires completely since the gang knows what is going on and uses it to setup Stahl and get their prison sentences reduced by 12 years]].
** And then it's done to Stahl herself [[spoiler:when Opie kills her.]] She breaks down crying [[spoiler:and begins begging for her life.]]
* Q, in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Deja Q", is stripped of his powers. Within the first five minutes of his appearing on the bridge of the Enterprise, he's forced to wear a really awful outfit, has Troi announcing to the entire crew that he's terrified, and is thrown in the brig. Later things get worse. [[CrowingMomentOfFunny Oh, and he gets stabbed in the hand with a fork]].

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* One could argue that this is what the third season of ''TheBigBangTheory'' conspired to do to Sheldon. [[SubvertedTrope It didn't work, though...]]
** He did get a (for him) painful come-uppance in ''The Jiminy Conjecture'', when he was [[spoiler:shown to be wrong about the species of cricket the boys had been hearing. Causing him to lose a prized comic book over a bet]]
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** Londo Mollari and G'Kar start the series as prime examples of arrogance (what with being ambassadors of galactic Great Powers and all). Then CharacterDevelopment happens. Both come out enlightened, and--to their amazement--[[OddFriendship friends]].
** Shikira is the head of the warrior caste and an arrogant SmugSnake who wishes to rule Minbar by force. He is challenged to a [[CombatByChampion Combat by]] SelfImmolation by Delenn with the taunt that he is really a MilesGloriosus . He fails the challenge as Delenn does not fail(and has to be rescued by Neroon). Thus Shakira is shown to be a DirtyCoward in front of ''millions of Minbari'' .
---> '''Neroon''': ''I'' speak for our people! Who do ''you'' speak for?
* The plot of one episode of ''TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'' was a total homage to TheTerminator, where a [[TerminatorTwosome robot is sent from the future to kill Superboy and a woman is sent to warn him]]. Superboy foolishly brushes off the warnings, after all, he's Superboy, right? In their first battle, he gets a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the robot, who is ''way'' stronger than him and can resist his punches and heat vision.
* On ''SonsOfAnarchy'', Agent Stahl tries to do this to the titular motorcycle gang by turning their 'prince' Jax into a 'rat' who informs to the ATF in exchange for a deal. It [[spoiler: backfires completely since the gang knows what is going on and uses it to setup Stahl and get their prison sentences reduced by 12 years]].
** And then it's done to Stahl herself [[spoiler:when Opie kills her.]] She breaks down crying [[spoiler:and begins begging for her life.]]
* Happens to C.C. Babcock throughout ''TheNanny'', with [[RichBitch good reason]].
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' tends to torture its characters.
** [[TheAtoner Walter's]] backstory.
** [[spoiler: Fauxlivia]] goes from SmugSnake to HeartbrokenBadass in ''both'' [[AlternateTimeline Season 3 and 4.]]
** Dear God... ''Peter.'' He was a bit of a self-centered {{Jerkass}} at the start of season 1. Four seasons later... he gets infected, captured and/or tortured a few times. Has something of an identity crisis when he discovers that [[spoiler: he was kidnapped from an alternate universe. Possibly responsible for the apocalypse. Erased from existence for a while. When he comes back everyone he knows and loves doesn't remember him. Finally resolves his "Will they, won't they" with Olivia, only to discover that the woman he's sleeping with is actually Fauxlivia. Has a son he doesn't know about until it's too late. When he does get with the real Olivia, she gets shot in the head. ''Twice.'' His daughter dies...also twice.]] No happy ending in two ''different'' [[BadFuture Bad Futures]]. ''This man cannot catch a break.''
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' goes through a major wringer in Series 2, especially "The Reichenbach [[MeaningfulName Fall]]." By the end, he's seen as a fraud, a criminal and [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice a corpse.]]]]
** The most prominent example (found in "The Reichenbach Fall") would be how his constant belittling and insulting of the police makes it that much easier for them to swallow the lie that [[spoiler:Sherlock faked and orchestrated all his cases to show how clever he was.]]
** Happened even earlier in "The Great Game". At first, he's in top SociopathicHero form, having genuine fun solving cases that involve people strapped to bombs and looking forward to meeting his archnemesis. [[spoiler:At then Moriarty straps [[MoralityPet John]] to a bomb. Cue Sherlock freaking out.]]
* In ''ChinesePaladin'', this happens to the AlphaBitch Yue'Ru (to give an example: her EstablishingCharacterMoment was attacking and temporarily killing TheHero for insulting her) via an extended and painful HumiliationConga.
* ''CriminalMinds'': [[JerkassFacade David]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Rossi]], not much of a team member at first, is systematically broken out of this behavior by "Limelight" and "Damaged." Then he's broken down further just for fun by "Zoe's Reprise" and "Epilogue."
* [[AlphaBitch Maria Joaquina]] from {{Carrusel}} goes through this rather early. At some point she openly denounces [[ProperLady Marcelina]] for cheating in a test, and while she ''is'' [[JerkassHasAPoint tehcnically right]], the problem is that the kids were already getting tired of [[SpoiledBrat her arrogance and spoiled behavior]]... so not only they side with Marcelina, but ''they totally shun Maria Joaquina and refuse to even speak to her''. (Even her DoggedNiceGuy!) Few afterwards, the tiny IceQueen is reduced [[CryCute to a sobbing wreck]], and only '''then''' she's re-accepted into the group. (And she switches from AlphaBitch to {{Tsundere}}))
* Quinn Fabray starts out on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' as a snobbish bully and gossip who had everything. She was captain of the cheerleading squad, president of the celibacy club, nominated for prom queen, a straight-A student on honour roll and had a rich family who lived in a big, beautiful house. She had the perfect popular boyfriend, a army of friends and was one of the most beautiful girls in school with a bright future which screamed [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Ivy League.]] Then her boyfriend cheats on her with her worst enemy, she gets pregnant aged 15-16, is [[HumiliationConga humiliated in front of the whole school]], kicked out of her house, kicked off the celibacy club and cheerleading squad, [[IHaveNoSon disowned by her father]] who is revealed to be adulterer and is eventually dumped by her boyfriend and becomes a [[FallenPrincess complete joke in the school.]] The only people she has left are the people in glee club, who she used to look down upon and snigger at. Then she gives birth very painfully to a daughter she gives up for adoption, and it is implied that she suffers from post-partum depression soon afterwards.
** Subverted after a serious case of AesopAmnesia in season 2, when she gains everything she lost back and thensome with ease. 
** DoubleSubverted when she loses it all over again by the beginning of season 3.
** ...And manages to bounce back before the Season 3 fanale, where she is nominated for prom queen, gets to go to Yale, her glee club wins nationals and she finally manages to work things out with Puck and forgive him for their troubled history. 
*** ...Then season 4 happens, and it looks like its back to square one again for her.
** Santana Lopez could also qualify as of season 3, after being humiliated not just in front of the school but in front of the ''state'', when she is outed against her will and disowned by her grandmother. She is made to question her girlfriends love for her, is harassed by a boy who wants to "straighten her out" and is even nearly suspended for confronting the boy who outed her. In fact, the only reason she wasn't suspended is because she was blackmailed into compliance by her outer, [[DesignatedHero who is actually the frickin' hero]] of the series. This is, however, [[AngstWhatAngst forgotten about in 2 episodes time...]]
** Rachel Berry's gone through this to some extent in every season but season 3 and 4 strike a chord the most when she slowly starts to realise she's not the only person who's a "star" and that not everyones going to bend over backwards for her.. 
** Mercedes could qualify when she struggles with a eating dissorder and loses all the confidence she once had...For one episode.
** Strangly enough, [[DoubleStandard you don't see many male characters going through this process.]]

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* Sister Clodagh's arc in ''Black Narcissus'' is all about this trope: she's too proud of her new position as the Order's youngest Superior, lacks the spiritual resources to adequately counsel her nuns (one of whom is [[spoiler: rapidly going insane]]), and is increasingly beset by memories of her own UnrequitedLove.
* This is the entire plot of the 1930 German film ''Film/TheBlueAngel'': a proud professor (played by Emil Jannings) becomes infatuated with burlesque singer Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and, after a one-night stand, they get married. He leaves his well-respected job, comfortable apartment, and quaint village to go on the road with the troupe, where he slowly discovers that Lola is not as faithful as he is. Over the next few years, his pride and humanity are methodically stripped away as he is forced to perform more and more embarrassing acts. At the climax of the film, the troupe returns to his village and, dressed as a clown, he has eggs broken over his head and is forced to crow like a rooster in front of [[ComeToGawk a crowd of his former students and colleagues]]. [[HumiliationConga Then he finds out Lola is leaving him for another man]]. [[DrivenToSuicide Then he kills himself]]. What do you expect, [[TrueArtIsAngsty it's a German movie]].
* James Bond goes through this in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', first getting lectured by M, [[spoiler:then loses to Le Chiffre in Poker, then gets captured, stripped, and tortured via GroinAttack[[note]]which he admittedly takes in stride[[/note]]]], but the one that really does him in is falling in love with [[spoiler:and getting betrayed by]] [[FemmeFatale Vesper Lynd]]. [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] himself goes through this as well after his EvilPlan fails, [[spoiler:getting attacked by the Africans he owes money to, losing to Bond after he thought Bond was out of the game]], and then [[IncrediblyLamePun dying after scratching Bond's balls]].
* Brent from ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''. He starts off an [[RoyalBrat arrogant jerk]], riding on the fame he garnered as a baby, but once Flint's food replicator gets going, he sees his status in the town drop like a rock, until he is booed by the very same people who were cheering for him mere days earlier. Ultimately, this works in his favor, because if he hadn't lost his social status he never would have become... [[TookALevelInBadass CHICKEN BRENT!]]
* This is the title character's chosen method of revenge in ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
* It was quite ''fun'' watching the victims' terror just before they were attacked in ''DeadFriend'' (aka The Ghost), considering what haughty bitches they were in the past. The movie even emphasizes how cruel and nasty they were in flashbacks.

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* Discussed by Admiral Pike in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
-->'''Pike:''' There's greatness in you, but there's not an ounce of humility. You think you can't make mistakes, but there's gonna come a moment when you realize you're wrong about that -- and you're [[SenselessSacrifice gonna get yourself, and everyone under your command, killed]].
* The Jedi Council is the bane of many a ''StarWars'' fanfiction writer, particularly those writing about the [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KotOR]] era. It seems to be generally accepted by people that the council members are all a bunch of stuck up, worthless dicks who are completely wrong in their assessment of what leads to the DarkSide (apparently people forget that Obi Wan was a council member) and so many writers want to write about a character who gets one up on the council, which can range from mild humiliation to full blown mass murder. The problem is if a Jedi character does this, it automatically proves the council 100% correct. Given the Council gets slaughtered by the Sith Lord they were hunting, who had manipulated them and the Republic into the Clone Wars, and who then stole their prized Chosen One...well, Palpatine kind of trumped any fanfic writers, didn't he?
** Some of the politicians of the SW universe can be examples of this trope, such as Borsk Fey'lya.

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* In ''KingdomOfHeaven'', Guy de Lusignian says that he will be the king of Jerusalem after Baldwin dies. He couples this with wanting to slaughter all of the Saracens in the Holy Land to have the Christians own it. After he [[spoiler: murders Saladin's sister, Saladin retaliates by demanding the surrender of Jerusalem. Then Guy and all of his followers (the priest of the lot stating that if a Crusader army carry's Jesus's cross with it, they are undefeatable) go and try to fight him. Due to poor planning, the Christian army is easily beaten, and Guy captured and made to ride on the ass of an ass as the Saracen army laughs at him. In the director's cut, it doesn't do anything for him, as he still tries to kill Balian but is then beaten (again).]]
* This is the entire plot of the 1930 German film ''Film/TheBlueAngel'': a proud professor (played by Emil Jannings) becomes infatuated with burlesque singer Lola (Marlene Dietrich) and, after a one-night stand, they get married. He leaves his well-respected job, comfortable apartment, and quaint village to go on the road with the troupe, where he slowly discovers that Lola is not as faithful as he is. Over the next few years, his pride and humanity are methodically stripped away as he is forced to perform more and more embarrassing acts. At the climax of the film, the troupe returns to his village and, dressed as a clown, he has eggs broken over his head and is forced to crow like a rooster in front of [[ComeToGawk a crowd of his former students and colleagues]]. [[HumiliationConga Then he finds out Lola is leaving him for another man]]. [[DrivenToSuicide Then he kills himself]]. What do you expect, [[TrueArtIsAngsty it's a German movie]].
* Happened to star player Boobie in ''Film/FridayNightLights''. The kicker is that it's not just predictable characterization; [[TruthInTelevision it actually happened in real life]]!
* Brent from ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''. He starts off an [[RoyalBrat arrogant jerk]], riding on the fame he garnered as a baby, but once Flint's food replicator gets going, he sees his status in the town drop like a rock, until he is booed by the very same people who were cheering for him mere days earlier. Ultimately, this works in his favor, because if he hadn't lost his social status he never would have become... [[TookALevelInBadass CHICKEN BRENT!]]

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* Film/{{UHF}}: The antagonist R. J. Fletcher and his son, who both work at the successful network affiliate station both fit this trope. Fletcher has his station taken off the air by the FCC for being a {{Jerkass}}. The last scene in which we see Fletcher's son has him trip and fall in the mud and then pouting about it.
* Film/TheUsualSuspects has a glorious example in the form of [[spoiler: Agent Kujan, who goes into Verbal's interrogation intent on hearing what he wants to hear, that Keaton was the mastermind of the whole movie and the mythical "Keyser Soze" everyone's so mystified by. Verbal tells him just that, and Kujan realizes too late that the entire movie, Verbal (who is self-admitted to be, by trade, A CON ARTIST) has just spent the entire movie feeding him an impromptu story he pulled completely out of his ass just to chew up the time until he's released, and that he has just let Verbal, the ''real'' Keyser Soze, walk out his front door and get away clean. All this after posturing condescendingly to Verbal how much smarter he his than him, and that Verbal is just a stupid, weak cripple who is no where near as dangerous as his fellow criminals (all of whom it is implied Verbal personally ''murdered'' to cover his tracks.)]] Ouch.

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* This is the driving motivation behind the {{Villain Protagonist}}s in ''TheFinal''. Rather than kill their [[AlphaBitch pretty]], [[JerkJock popular]] classmates, they instead [[ColdBloodedTorture horribly torture and mutilate them]] so that, when they go back to school crippled and disfigured, they will know what it's like to be at the bottom of the PopularityFoodChain.
* The point of the 'dragon balls' scene in ''Film/HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince''.
* 1, in the movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}''. He starts out as a JerkAss WellIntentionedExtremist, and isn't very sympathetic at the beginning...then the church, the place he led seven of the others to and kept them safe in, burns to the ground when a machine attacks. Then the revelation that he [[spoiler:sent one of the others out ''to die'']] comes to light and he loses a great deal of trust and respect. Then his bodyguard and the only thing ''close'' to a friend he has is killed. Ouch.
* It was quite ''fun'' watching the victims' terror just before they were attacked in ''DeadFriend'' (aka The Ghost), considering what haughty bitches they were in the past. The movie even emphasizes how cruel and nasty they were in flashbacks.
* James Bond goes through this in ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', first getting lectured by M, [[spoiler:then loses to Le Chiffre in Poker, then gets captured, stripped, and tortured via GroinAttack[[note]]which he admittedly takes in stride[[/note]]]], but the one that really does him in is falling in love with [[spoiler:and getting betrayed by]] [[FemmeFatale Vesper Lynd]]. [[BigBad Le Chiffre]] himself goes through this as well after his EvilPlan fails, [[spoiler:getting attacked by the Africans he owes money to, losing to Bond after he thought Bond was out of the game]], and then [[IncrediblyLamePun dying after scratching Bond's balls]].
* Film/{{UHF}}: The antagonist R. J. Fletcher and his son, who both work at the successful network affiliate station both fit this trope. Fletcher has his station taken off the air by the FCC for being a {{Jerkass}}. The last scene in which we see Fletcher's son has him trip and fall in the mud and then pouting about it.
* After revealing himself to be a reckless and arrogant BloodKnight and instigating a war between the Frost Giants and Asgard, Film/{{Thor}} was cast out of Asgard by his father, Odin, and forced to live as a mortal to teach him humility.
* Abbot Cellach, from ''TheSecretOfKells''. He controls the Village of Kells and has them build a wall around it to protect them from [[HornyVikings the Viking invaders.]] However, he doesn't let the monks do ''anything else'' and punishes to anyone who tries. [[spoiler: Then the Vikings break down the gate, climb over the walls, burn the village down, and shoot him with a burning arrow. The people he was trying to save die because he paid more attention to the wall than the steps into the only protected building in Kells, and he ''gets stabbed'' trying to get to Brendan, who he had locked in the Scriptorium prior to the invasion as punishment for illuminating. Said Scriptorium burns down, and he’s lead to believe for nearly twenty years that he had caused the death of his twelve-year-old nephew.]]
* Sister Clodagh's arc in ''Black Narcissus'' is all about this trope: she's too proud of her new position as the Order's youngest Superior, lacks the spiritual resources to adequately counsel her nuns (one of whom is [[spoiler: rapidly going insane]]), and is increasingly beset by memories of her own UnrequitedLove.
* According to ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' this is apparently what happened in Storm Shadow's backstory, what with his being surpassed by some random street-kid and their teacher being a wonderful example of a WellDoneSonGuy. This is well in accordance with several previous versions of their backstory, though the Old Master is sometimes Stormy's ''uncle''.
* Discussed by Admiral Pike in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''.
-->'''Pike:''' There's greatness in you, but there's not an ounce of humility. You think you can't make mistakes, but there's gonna come a moment when you realize you're wrong about that -- and you're [[SenselessSacrifice gonna get yourself, and everyone under your command, killed]].
* Film/TheUsualSuspects has a glorious example in the form of [[spoiler: Agent Kujan, who goes into Verbal's interrogation intent on hearing what he wants to hear, that Keaton was the mastermind of the whole movie and the mythical "Keyser Soze" everyone's so mystified by. Verbal tells him just that, and Kujan realizes too late that the entire movie, Verbal (who is self-admitted to be, by trade, A CON ARTIST) has just spent the entire movie feeding him an impromptu story he pulled completely out of his ass just to chew up the time until he's released, and that he has just let Verbal, the ''real'' Keyser Soze, walk out his front door and get away clean. All this after posturing condescendingly to Verbal how much smarter he his than him, and that Verbal is just a stupid, weak cripple who is no where near as dangerous as his fellow criminals (all of whom it is implied Verbal personally ''murdered'' to cover his tracks.)]] Ouch.

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No she really doesn't change. She still cares about being perfect in later games.

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