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* Most of the cast ofThomasTheTankEngine in [[TheRailwaySeries the original books]] as well as the classic episodes. Thomas himself started off as a cocksure, immature young station pilot with the delusion that no engine worked harder than he. But he learned from advice and his experiences to be responsible, earning his own branch line and eventually becoming a wise engine in his own right. Gordon learned to be less condescending towards other engines, and he, Henry, and James all learned not to complain about shunting and dealing with goods trains.

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* Most of the cast ofThomasTheTankEngine of ''ThomasTheTankEngine'' in [[TheRailwaySeries the original books]] as well as the classic episodes. Thomas himself started off as a cocksure, immature young station pilot with the delusion that no engine worked harder than he. But he learned from advice and his experiences to be responsible, earning his own branch line and eventually becoming a wise engine in his own right. Gordon learned to be less condescending towards other engines, and he, Henry, and James all learned not to complain about shunting and dealing with goods trains.
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* Most of the cast ofThomasTheTankEngine in [[TheRailwaySeries the original books]] as well as the classic episodes. Thomas himself started off as a cocksure, immature young station pilot with the delusion that no engine worked harder than he. But he learned from advice and his experiences to be responsible, earning his own branch line and eventually becoming a wise engine in his own right. Gordon learned to be less condescending towards other engines, and he, Henry, and James all learned not to complain about shunting and dealing with goods trains.
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* Sancho Panza and Don Quixote are dynamic characters that influence each other and end closer to each other in personality at the end of Don Quixote's adventures, to some degree even some swapping occurs...

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* Sancho Panza and Don Quixote DonQuixote are dynamic characters that influence each other and end closer to each other in personality at the end of Don Quixote's adventures, to some degree even some swapping occurs...adventures.
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** And speaking of, TheNostalgiaCritic. He went from a stereotypically manly, whiny jackass who took things too seriously to a broken husk of a man who's still strong-willed, endearing and a major PapaWolf.
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* TheNostalgiaChick has evolved from "Lindsay acting like the Critic" to a pathetic, nuanced, sympathetic failure of a human being. While it might not sound like a good thing, ask yourself, how many female characters do we have like that?

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* In Marble Hornets, the Operator, or Slender man, stalking the main character, Alex, eventually turns Alex into a psychopath, constantly drawing things related to The Operator.

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* In Marble Hornets, the Operator, or Slender man, stalking the main character, MarbleHornets it is suspected that Alex, eventually turns Alex the missing film student, is changed from a basically reasonable, stable individual into a psychopath, constantly drawing things related paranoid obsessive due to The the influence of [[SlenderManMythos the Operator]]. [[spoiler: Recent entries (as of July 2011) suggest that Alex is now working for, or somehow allied, with the Operator.]] The reasons behind this remain obscured at this time.
** Meanwhile, Jay (another student searching for Alex) has at least moderated his characteristic GenreBlindness by beginning to trust the people around him a little less unconditionally. [[spoiler: Or at least he is during the seven month LostTime period.]]
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* Boyd Crowder of ''{{Series/Justified}}''. [[spoiler:In the span of a season, he goes from EvilCounterpart to WorthyOpponent to what seems to be a genuine (if possibly temporary) HeelFaceTurn in the season finale.]]

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* Boyd Crowder of ''{{Series/Justified}}''. [[spoiler:In the span of a season, he goes from EvilCounterpart to WorthyOpponent to what seems to be a genuine (if possibly temporary) HeelFaceTurn in the season finale.]]]][[spoiler:Even though in season two he goes back to being a criminal, he is no longer as reckless and carefree as he was at the beginning of the series]]

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*''StarTrekTheNextGeneration:'' Picard was somewhat dynamic at least by that show's standards starting out as overly stern and grouchy hating children but softening in later seasons and eventually bonding with children on the ship and having a family in a simulated reality.
** Spock grew a little throughout his run, first trying to purge his humanity and become wholly Vulcan but later moving beyond logic leading to his line "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
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The Umbridge is now Tyrant Takes The Helm. And it\'s a story arc, not a character type. We don\'t use fanon in examples, better to stick to the work in question.


* Hermione from ''HarryPotter''. She starts off as a bossy, insecure, neurotic rule-abiding girl, best exemplified by equating being expelled with ''being killed''. Ultimately ends up with a number of ToBeLawfulOrGood decisions, and chooses to be good -- best exemplified by lying to Professor [=McGonagall=] about having gone after the troll to cover for Harry and Ron. It's a popular {{Fanon}} theory that Hermione was dangerously close to growing up to be TheUmbridge.

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* Hermione from ''HarryPotter''. She starts off as a bossy, insecure, neurotic rule-abiding girl, best exemplified by equating being expelled with ''being killed''. Ultimately ends up with a number of ToBeLawfulOrGood decisions, and chooses to be good -- best exemplified by lying to Professor [=McGonagall=] about having gone after the troll to cover for Harry and Ron. It's a popular {{Fanon}} theory that Hermione was dangerously close to growing up to be TheUmbridge.
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Change to what he actually said. Or never said.


->'''JOEL:''' Look, dawg-\\
'''PHIL:''' You never say 'dawg'.\\

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We need some character development… in the… hizzy.\\
'''PHIL:''' You never say 'dawg'.'hizzy'.\\
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* Almost everybody from Team Medical Dragon. Character development and character depth is this manga's main strength and drive. Almost nobody stays the same as they are in the beginning of their appearance. Best example includes Noboru and Gunji.
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* In Marble Hornets, the Operator, or Slender man, stalking the main character, Alex, eventually turns Alex into a psychopath, constantly drawing things related to The Operator.

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* Bulk and Skull from the Zordon-era ''PowerRangers'' shows. Over the course of six seasons, they start off as low-competence comic relief guys with no positive qualities who regularly bully the main characters and wind up ''leading mankind's IAmSpartacus rebellion against their alien conquerors'' at the end of ''PowerRangersInSpace''.
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* [[TheKingOfFighters Athena Asamiya]]. Although her personality didn't recived such a big overhaul as her wardrobe, naturally. '''EVERY''' single new King of Fighters tournament features her either with a new stance or new outfit... save for XIII which gave her only a new color scheme and nothing else.

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* Zuko has quite the character arc throughout ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''.

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* Zuko has quite the character arc throughout ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. He began as a bitter and angry WellDoneSonGuy. After a long period in the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor, he realised he could earn his own honour. He became more friendly, peaceful and wise.
** A lot of characters from this show did this. Aang went from a happy-go-lucky kid to a responsible [[TheMessiah hero]]. Sokka developed from his original comic relief roll, and overcame his insecurities to become a BadAssNormal and tactician.
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* Basically everyone in BuffyTheVampireSlayer has so much trauma inflicted on them that by the end of the show they've all become much, much darker. The only ones who barely change are Spike and Joyce, and she dies in Season 5 (it's been a decade, it's not a spoiler).
** Buffy: Starts the series cheery, sometimes depressed but generally upbeat. Ends it basically broken, having lost her mother, died, gotten dragged out of heaven, gets thrust into a war she never asked for and then epically fails when expected to lead people.
** Xander: Starts out pretty much cheery and non-serious. Ends it much less cheery, much more serious and with one less eye.
** Willow: Starts out shy, kinda upbeat but afraid of interaction. Ends it having lost the person she loved, went evil and had the guilt of murdering someone ([[IGotBetter he got better]]) and has lost most of the self-confidence she built up throughout the show.
** Dawn: Loses her mom, loses her sister, her sister comes back and basically ignores her and is commonly ignored by the Scoobies. Oddly enough, she comes out of it actually better than when she went in (she tazed Xander WHILE he was driving, that's both crazy and brave). Still, what she went through through alot of her existence could be called one prolonged moment of BreakTheCutie.
** Joyce: Dead.
** Giles: Admittedly, he actually pretty much improves through the series, but he loses his girlfriend and Season 7 (and 8, but I'm talking about show development since more people know that) shatters his father/daughter relationship into tiny little pieces.
** Spike: Actually improves, going from an evil, souless (but strangely caring) vampire to a heroic vampire with a soul who sacrifices himself to save the world (and comes back from it).
** Faith: Starts out acting happy and cheerful to hide pain, ends up mostly showing it on the outside by the end (but actually being more happy and cheerful). Also murders a few people and then turns herself in, most likely causing many needless deaths (had she stayed with Angel and done the whole Help The Helpless to repent for an evil past thing she would have ended up saving plenty of lives).

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Harry doesn\'t change. Hermione does.


* HarryPotter has multiple examples of Dynamic Characters:
** Harry starts of as a newcomer, confused and trying to adjust. He's concerned that he isn't going to be any good at anything. He eventually gains confidence in his abilities. Besides a bunch of {{Wangst}} in Book Five, he ends up [[spoiler: saving the wizarding world in the end.]]
** Hermione Granger starts off as a bossy, insecure, nerotically rule-abiding girl. She eventually ends up with ToBeLawfulOrGood choices and picks good over lawful.

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* HarryPotter has multiple examples of Dynamic Characters:
** Harry starts of as a newcomer, confused and trying to adjust. He's concerned that he isn't going to be any good at anything. He eventually gains confidence in his abilities. Besides a bunch of {{Wangst}} in Book Five, he ends up [[spoiler: saving the wizarding world in the end.]]
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Hermione Granger from ''HarryPotter''. She starts off as a bossy, insecure, nerotically neurotic rule-abiding girl. She eventually girl, best exemplified by equating being expelled with ''being killed''. Ultimately ends up with a number of ToBeLawfulOrGood choices decisions, and picks chooses to be good over lawful.-- best exemplified by lying to Professor [=McGonagall=] about having gone after the troll to cover for Harry and Ron. It's a popular {{Fanon}} theory that Hermione was dangerously close to growing up to be TheUmbridge.

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** Leon S. Kennedy starts out as a rookie cop. He's naive and brash, with a strong sense of justice. He assumes the best of people he's just met. He then joins SOCOM. He's still trusting, somewhat, but he starts to become a bit jaded. He didn't want Manuela to kill herself from blood loss during the [[spoiler: fight with Javier, despite the fact that she's infected.]] But he expressed shock [[spoiler: that she didn't mutate.]] He ends up in the Secret Service. He's much more jaded and sounds more bitter than before. He still appears to care about others, to the point of yelling in woe over the deaths of two people he's known for roughly a few hours and ten minutes respectively.

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** Leon S. Kennedy starts out as a rookie cop. He's naive and brash, with a strong sense of justice. He assumes the best of people he's just met. He then joins SOCOM. He's still trusting, somewhat, but he starts to become a bit jaded. He didn't want Manuela to kill herself from blood loss during the [[spoiler: fight with Javier, despite the fact that she's infected.]] But he expressed shock [[spoiler: that she didn't mutate.]] He ends up in the Secret Service. He's much more jaded and sounds more bitter than before. He still appears to care cares about others, to the point of yelling in woe over the deaths of two people he's known for roughly a few hours and ten minutes respectively.
respectively. Instead of being thickheaded when [[spoiler: Krauser ended up a traitor]], by claiming he wouldn't switch sides, he just takes it as it comes, unlike in ResidentEvil2 with Ada. Skip ahead a year, and he looks like he's about to shoot his old friend [[ResidentEvil2 Claire]], a United States senator, and a little girl named Rani. He's jaded. He doesn't assume other people have good intentions. He still saves survivors, but he looks like he might kill them.
** Ada is another good example.
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* HarryPotter has multiple examples of Dynamic Characters:
** Harry starts of as a newcomer, confused and trying to adjust. He's concerned that he isn't going to be any good at anything. He eventually gains confidence in his abilities. Besides a bunch of {{Wangst}} in Book Five, he ends up [[spoiler: saving the wizarding world in the end.]]
** Hermione Granger starts off as a bossy, insecure, nerotically rule-abiding girl. She eventually ends up with ToBeLawfulOrGood choices and picks good over lawful.
* ResidentEvil has several:
** Leon S. Kennedy starts out as a rookie cop. He's naive and brash, with a strong sense of justice. He assumes the best of people he's just met. He then joins SOCOM. He's still trusting, somewhat, but he starts to become a bit jaded. He didn't want Manuela to kill herself from blood loss during the [[spoiler: fight with Javier, despite the fact that she's infected.]] But he expressed shock [[spoiler: that she didn't mutate.]] He ends up in the Secret Service. He's much more jaded and sounds more bitter than before. He still appears to care about others, to the point of yelling in woe over the deaths of two people he's known for roughly a few hours and ten minutes respectively.
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** Quinn, who starts out a TheLibby/TheCheerleader/BlondesAreEvil stereotype but eventually grows to caring about her baby and learns through her mistakes and her new friends in Glee club. After her pregnancy though she seems to have gone into denial and is trying to rebuild her old life and is a cheerleader again.

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** Quinn, who starts out a TheLibby/TheCheerleader/BlondesAreEvil TheLibby/ TheCheerleader/ BlondesAreEvil stereotype but eventually grows to caring about her baby and learns through her mistakes and her new friends in Glee club. After her pregnancy though she seems to have gone into denial and is trying to rebuild her old life and is a cheerleader again.
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* Rachel Berry from ''{{Glee}}''.
** She can't seem to get rid of her basest flaws of being abrasive and attention seeking though, but even those stem from her rather heartbreaking loneliness and lack of self esteem.

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* Rachel Berry from ''{{Glee}}''.
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''{{Glee}}''. She can't seem to get rid of her basest flaws of being abrasive and attention seeking though, but even those stem from her rather heartbreaking loneliness and lack of self esteem.esteem.
** Quinn, who starts out a TheLibby/TheCheerleader/BlondesAreEvil stereotype but eventually grows to caring about her baby and learns through her mistakes and her new friends in Glee club. After her pregnancy though she seems to have gone into denial and is trying to rebuild her old life and is a cheerleader again.
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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[UsefulNotesObjectivism Objectivist]].
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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[{{Useful Notes/Objectivism}} Objectivist]].

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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[{{Useful Notes/Objectivism}} [[UsefulNotesObjectivism Objectivist]].
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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]].

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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[{{Objectivism}} [[{{Useful Notes/Objectivism}} Objectivist]].
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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[UsefulNotes/Objectivism Randroid]]]] [[UsefulNotes/Objectivism Objectivist]].

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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[UsefulNotes/Objectivism [[strike:[[FanNickname Randroid]]]] [[UsefulNotes/Objectivism [[{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]].
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** Arguably a WarpedAesop. Particularly if you're a [[strike:[[UsefulNotes/Objectivism Randroid]]]] [[UsefulNotes/Objectivism Objectivist]].
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* Sancho Panza and Don Quixote are dynamic characters that influence each other and end closer to each other in personality at the end of Don Quixote's adventures, to some degree even some swapping occurs...

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