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* Selina Kyle from the ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' comics is usually portrayed as a criminal who grew up on the streets. In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' she has a regular job and a home but hates her life and eventually snaps when her boss pushes her out of a window.

* Averted in ''Film/TheBadSeed''. Rhoda Penmark was never good; she's been evil literally from birth, and the mystery of why she's evil is part of the creepiness.

* Lorelei and Morwenna of ''Literature/{{Eludoran}}''.

* from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

** Also, [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn Willow]]]] after the death of [[spoiler: Tara]] on the episode "Seeing Red".

* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has [[spoiler:Kaede]], commonly known as Lucy. She was nice and sweet, [[spoiler:until a group of orphans beat to death Lucy's puppy, the only being in the world she actually cared about. And they found out about it from a girl who pretended to be her friend, the first human she was beginning to trust. That's when her murder spree began, although it was put down eventually thanks to Kouta. However, after he lies about his cousin's gender and she finds out the truth, she's gone for good.]]

* Boa Hancock from ''Anime/OnePiece'', although she [[CharacterDevelopment got better]].
** Nami was one as well, until she was freed from Arlong.
** Robin, while she was [[TheDragon a villain]], also qualifies.

* Qi'ra from ''Film/{{Solo}}'' started out as a [[UsedToBeASweetKid kind-hearted]] [[HeartwarmingOrphan orphan]] but goes through [[TraumaCongaLine enough crap]] that she ends up a manipulative and self-serving FemmeFatale. She does have a bit of a soft spot for [[LoveInterest Han]] [[MoralityPet Solo]], though.

Subtrope of FaceHeelTurn. See also GoodBadGirl. May also relate to UsedToBeASweetKid.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Bela Talbot. Even if we don't exactly know whether she was good or bad [[spoiler:before she made her deal with a demon]], it was certainly implied that she was somewhat innocent... [[spoiler:and being abused.]]
** Ruby qualifies as well. Before being the demon we know, [[spoiler:who eventually betrayed the Winchester brothers,]] she was [[spoiler:a human witch who lost her soul to the demon Tammi. The torture she underwent in hell, that eventually turned her into a demon as well, is responsable for making her a bad girl.]]

* In the fourth season of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' [[spoiler: Vivian Winterbottom]], a sweet, naive character, is [[CorruptTheCutie manipulated]] into [[spoiler: following in her father's footsteps]] after being hurt by both him and the show's heroes. In the end [[spoiler: her father himself is able to redeem her]].
* [[DarkActionGirl Faith]] from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fits this trope perfectly, although she [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]] after appearing in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and [[spoiler: turning herself in to the police.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn Willow]]]] after the death of [[spoiler: Tara]] on the episode "Seeing Red".

* Regina Mills from ''Series/{{Once Upon a Time}}'' is a clear example of this, after [[spoiler:her mother killed Daniel, the man she truly loved, in order for Regina to marry the king.]]

* Subverted in "Last Whiff of Summer", the [[MultiPartEpisode two-part]] fourth season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle''. Sue realizes that even the negative attention her older brother gets is attention, and decides to start going bad to get some of that from her parents. However, the transgressions she comes up with—not wearing her [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill headgear]] at night, wearing a red hair extension, and not taking her multivitamins—aren't really that serious. Double subverted by her parents not noticing or caring.
* Morgana from ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}'' discovers she has magic in a kingdom where it's punishable by death, lives in terror of her guardian the king, tries to run away only to be brought back again, can't prevent her powers from manifesting, becomes estranged from all her friends, meets her half-sister who places her under a spell that causes all of Camelot to fall asleep, and is poisoned by a friend she trusted in order to break the enchantment. She comes back after a year's absence with a few bones to pick...
* [[spoiler: Quinn]] from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' becomes this in the beginning of the third season, due to the events at the end of the second season, complete with whole new look: pink-dyed hair, piercings and cigarette in hand, she is the complete opposite of her old self.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' gives us Miyo Takano, who was revealed to be [[spoiler: [[EvilAllAlong the main villain of the series]]]] in Kai. Her actions speak for themselves, and all because [[spoiler: the investigation of her grandfather was laughed at and treated as rubbish. Her horrible life before being found by him contributed as well.]]
** All the main females from this anime are this, actually, when commiting murder. [[spoiler: Except for Rika, who is inmune to Hinamizawa Syndrome.]] Each one has an event at a respective arc that makes her [[AxCrazy snap.]]

** [[AxCrazy Yuno]] [[{{Yandere}} Gasai]] from eventually qualifies, after we learn that [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents her mother kept her in a cage for not living up to her expectations]].]] And then she goes completely bad after [[spoiler: [[SelfMadeOrphan killing both her parents]]. [[FromBadToWorse And it just went downhill from there.]]]]

* Bela Talbot from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Even if we don't exactly know whether she was good or bad [[spoiler:before she made her deal with a demon]], it was certainly implied that she was somewhat innocent... [[spoiler:and being abused.]]

* The title character of ''Film/{{Maleficent}'' was originally a [[NiceGirl very kind and polite]] - if not [[TheIngenue naive]] - orphaned fairy girl, who used her powers to heal damaged trees and defend the Moors from human armies who tried to invade it. She even befriended a human boy named Stefan and [[InterspeciesRomance came to love him.]] However, this all changed when Stefan [[EtTuBrute betrayed her trust and cut off her wings]] [[AmbitionIsEvil in order to become king,]] resulting in her becoming a cold and ruthless woman capable of cursing an innocent child to get revenge. [[spoiler: Luckily, in this version Maleficent comes to love Aurora [[LikeADaughterToMe like a daughter]] and she helps her [[LoveRedeems redeem]] [[HeelFaceTurn herself]]]].

They come in various different flavors. Sometimes they're simply an IceQueen. Other times, they are worse. Many female villains tend to be good girls gone bad.

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* Invoked by {{Rihanna}} with her album ''Good Girl Gone Bad'', which provides the page quote.

* Subverted in "Last Whiff of Summer", the [[MultiPartEpisode two-part]] fourth season premiere of ''TheMiddle''. Sue realizes that even the negative attention her older brother gets is attention, and decides to start going bad to get some of that from her parents. However, the transgressions she comes up with—not wearing her [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill headgear]] at night, wearing a red hair extension, and not taking her multivitamins—aren't really that serious. Double subverted by her parents not noticing or caring.

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* [[spoiler:Madam Red]] from ''[[BlackButler Black Butler]]'', after the death of Ciel's parents and meeting Grell. Although she does redeem a bit at her last moments, [[spoiler: when she is unable to kill Ciel.]]

* [[AxCrazy Yuno]] [[{{Yandere}} Gasai]] from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' eventually qualifies, after we learn that [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents her mother kept her in a cage for not living up to her expectations]].]] And then she goes completely bad after [[spoiler: [[SelfMadeOrphan killing both her parents]]. [[FromBadToWorse And it just went downhill from there.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Hinata]] too; she was a nice girl until the Survival Game began, which made her become TheDragon so that she could live happily with her father once it was all over.

* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' is famous for this; Sekai starts off as the protagonist's best friend and a comical plucky girl, which she was until [[spoiler: she gets pregnant of [[{{Jerkass}} Makoto]] who, terrified that his secret lover could be carrying his child, leaves her for Kotonoha and orders Sekai to get an abortion.]] Needless to say, things do ''not'' end well.
** Not to mention Kotonoha, who is this ten times worse. She was possibly [[NiceGirl the nicest girl]] in the series; honest, pure and compassionate. And then she starts seeing Makoto, falling in love with him. But when [[spoiler: he starts secretly having sex with Sekai,]] Kotonoha starts to break, completely breaking after [[spoiler: Setsuna kisses Makoto right in front of her to let her know that their relationship was over. Not to mention she had seen Makoto and Sekai dancing at the couples dance the previous night, which caused Kotonoha an HeroicBSOD that lead to her being raped by Taisuke.]] The result [[http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2050/unrecuerdo.jpg is not pretty]]. You've been warned.

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', this is the general consensus for Natalie V. "Envy" Adams, Scott's ex back when he was in university. She was a rather nice girl with otaku tastes and happily dating Scott. However, her success with Scott and Steven Stills' band ''Kid Chameleon'' led to her changing her image to that of a bad girl while steering the bad toward a direction no one wanted to go and possibly even cheating on Scott. It's telling that everyone calls her by her stage-name Envy while Scott remains the only person to call her by Natalie.
** Even taking into account [[spoiler:Scott's unreliable memory, it's clear that her current image isn't well-liked by his friends, especially Wallace, who gets angry when she hears back in town. Ultimately, she stays as Envy though she does get closure with Scott and appreciates he still remembers her as Natalie.]]

* Megumi from ''{{Shiki}}'' was a [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent common schoolgirl]]... until, she met the Kirishikis. Then, [[spoiler: when she comes back as a shiki, she becomes much more bad, almost reaching {{Yandere}} levels for Natsuno.]]

* In ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'', this is the general consensus for Natalie V. "Envy" Adams, Scott's ex back when he was in university. She was a rather nice girl with otaku tastes and happily dating Scott. However, her success with Scott and Steven Stills' band ''Kid Chameleon'' led to her changing her image to that of a bad girl while stearing the bad toward a direction no one wanted to go and possibly even cheating on Scott. It's telling that everyone calls her by her stage-name Envy while Scott remains the only person to call her by Natalie.
** Even taking into account [[spoiler: Scott's unreliable memory, it's clear that her current image isn't well-liked by his friends, especially Wallace, who gets angry when she hears back in town. Ultimately, she stays as Envy though she does get closure with Scott and appreciates he still remembers her as Natalie.]]

* ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' has Cersei Lannister, enemy of the Starks and queen of Westeros. Back in her childhood memories (which we get from her [[VillainProtagonist POV chapters]] in the fourth book), Cersei behaved as a nice little lady as she was promised she'd be married to [[TheOneThatGotAway Prince Rhaegar]]. A visit to a fortune teller later told her that she wasn't going to marry the prince, but also that she [[spoiler: was going to have three children, and they would all die before she did, and her eventual death would come at the hands of her own younger brother.]] Also, after leaving the psychic, it's implied that she may have drowned her friend in a well in a desperate attempt to prevent the prophecy from coming true. Cersei's paranoia for the prophecy (combined with not being able to get over Rhaegar) is what turns her into the ManipulativeBitch we know today. Well, that and being raised by [[AbusiveParents Tywin]].
** Notably, Cersei was not much of a 'good' girl even before the visit to the seer. From Jaime and Tyrion's recollections, she was bossy, selfish and cruel from an early age.
** Arya Stark can be seen as this. She went from a young noble girl who didn't want to be a lady to a [[LittleMissBadass little girl]] who has [[BloodKnight killed a lot of men]], despite her very young age. Not to mention [[spoiler: she's now on her way to become a magical assassin of sorts.]]
** Her mother Catelyn completely [[SanitySlippage loses it]] after the death of [[spoiler: Robb (plus, she assumed [[FakingTheDead Arya, Bran and Rickon]] were all dead as well), and after her ''own'' death and resurrection, going on a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing spree]] against every Lannister and Frey on her way.]] So far, Sansa seems like the only Stark good girl left.
*** That may not be so, as the fourth book implies that she might have to [[spoiler: kill her cousin [[CreepyChild Robert]], or at least allow him to be killed by Littlefinger.]]
* Lorelei and Morwenna of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Eludoran Eludoran]]

* Morgana from ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' discovers she has magic in a kingdom where it's punishable by death, lives in terror of her guardian the king, tries to run away only to be brought back again, can't prevent her powers from manifesting, becomes estranged from all her friends, meets her half-sister who places her under a spell that causes all of Camelot to fall asleep, and is poisoned by a friend she trusted in order to break the enchantment. She comes back after a year's absence with a few bones to pick...

* Subverted by Sara Tancredi from ''PrisonBreak'', who was a good girl before she got hooked on drugs, as revealed through flashbacks dating prior to Lincoln's arrest. Her father even had to use his influence to prevent it from going on her record. It is only after [[DespairEventHorizon she is unable to save a life due to being drugged at the time]] that she decides to straighten up and get over her addiction.

* In ''TrueBlood'', [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Debbie]] after getting hooked on V (aka vampire blood). We also have Jessica, who's not evil or anything, but before being turned into a vampire she was a good girl who went to church and classes and obeyed everything [[AbusiveParents her father]] told her, and now she's a blood-thirsty vampire so... you can see how she might fit in here.

* ''Film/BatmanReturns'': Selina Kyle is usually portrayed as a criminal who grew up on the streets. Here she has a regular job and a home but hates her life and eventually snaps.
** Being pushed out of a window by your boss also helps.
* Both female protagonists in ''BrideWars'' become bad girls after their weddings get booked on the same date. And since, to them, weddings are SeriousBusiness, they each become obsessed with ruining the other one's great day.
* ''Film/CharliesAngels'': The villain in the second movie is [[spoiler: the former agent [[FallenHero Madison Lee]], who was an angel previous to the three protagonists and lost her path after leaving said position.]]
* Averted in ''Film/{{The Bad Seed}}''. Rhoda Penmark was never good; she's been evil literally from birth, and the mystery of why she's evil is part of the creepiness.

-->-- '''{{Rihanna}}''', "[[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rihanna/goodgirlgonebad Good Girl Gone Bad]]"

Subtrope of FaceHeelTurn. See also GoodBadGirl. May also relate to UsedToBeASweetKid .

* [[AxCrazy Yuno]] [[{{Yandere}} Gasai]] from ''Manga/MiraiNikki'' eventually qualifies, after we learn that [[spoiler: [[AbusiveParents her mother kept her in a cage for not living up to her expectations]].]] And then she goes completely bad after [[spoiler: [[SelfMadeOrphan killing both her parents]]. [[FromBadToWorse And it just went downhill from there.]]]]

* Yuka Minase from ''ElevenEyes'' could be considered this, even if in the end [[spoiler: she returns to her old persona, becoming the sweet girl she was in the beginning once again,]] she does have her [[{{Yandere}} bad]] [[CuteAndPsycho moments]].

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', we have Konan, who used to be a cheerful young girl... then [[BreakTheCutie things]] happen.

* In ''DeadmanWonderland'', when we see Minatsuki's (Hummingbird) past before the earthquake, she comes around as a sweet, innocent girl who loved helping her mother out in her flower shop. Then, the earthquake came along, and she's trapped on the shop. What does her mother do? Grab a pot of flowers and [[ParentalAbandonment left her to die]]. And that's when she became [[AxCrazy as we know her now.]]

* Inverted with Claire from ''{{Modern Family}}'', who makes sure her daughter doesn't [[FormerTeenRebel make the same mistakes she did]].

* ''[[HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni]]'' gives us Miyo Takano, who was revealed to be [[spoiler: [[EvilAllAlong the main villain of the series]]]] in Kai. Her actions speak for themselves, and all because [[spoiler: the investigation of her grandfather was laughed at and treated as rubbish. Her horrible life before being found by him contributed as well.]]

* In ''{{Gossip Girl}}'' Jenny Humphrey, possibly the most innocent character of them all, is [[spoiler: [[NearRapeExperience nearly raped]]]] and gradually transforms first into a bad girl and by season four is even something of a villain. She mostly learns her lesson though after [[spoiler: loosing her virginity to Chuck, her own would-be rapist from before]] at the end of season three.