History Main / PeerPressureMakesYouEvil

** In "Marge Be Not Proud", Nelson and Jimbo (as well as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario, Luigi]], Franchise/DonkeyKong and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog in Bart's fantasy) pressure Bart into shoplifting a copy of the ''Bonestorm'' video game.

* In ''Manga/PrivateActress'', while neither [[spoiler: Maki Kouno]] now [[spoiler: Mai Housaka]] is a peach, it turns out that their AlphaBitch [[spoiler: Kana Juumonji]] has them completely dominated through fear. [[spoiler: When Maki begins to break through and is heading to a HeelFaceTurn thanks to the protagonist Shiho Kobayakawa, Kana convinces Mai to attack her as retaliation.]]

* In his ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'', St. Augustine doubts he would have been brave enough to steal or lust as much as he did in his adolescence if he hadn't associated himself with a group of idiots and brutes who never expressed any moral qualms about their robberies and vandalism.

This is the polar opposite of LoveRedeems and ThePowerOfFriendship, because the new circle of friends or role models is a bad influence on someone who started out as a good person. Can also be considered the opposite of TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong in which the Aesop is about how you ''should'' go along with the group, as well as an overlapping trope to TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight. Compare PopularIsEvil, which can overlap with this trope because the peers who pressure you are popular, and you go along with them to be popular, too.

* Miyoko Shitou from ''Manga/ShadowStar'' is a nice girl and kind of a ShrinkingViolet. Bad thing, though? One of her closest friends is Aki Honda, AlphaBitch from Hell, and she and her GirlPosse terrorise Miyoko into helping them bullying the smartest girl of their class, [[{{Ojou}} Hiroko]] [[LonelyRichKid Kaizuka.]]. [[spoiler: With FATAL consequences, since Hiroko goes CuteAndPsycho on them once the girls cross the MoralEventHorizon in regards to her.]]

* In his ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'', St. Augustine doubts he would have been brave enough to steal or lust as much as he did in his adolescence if he hadn't associated himself with a group of idiots and brutes who never expressed any moral qualms about their robberies and vandalisms.

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'', it is pretty clear from Finn very first scene that he doesn't like bullying, but he doesn't stop the bullies either, this happens again in episode 8 and 12.

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Taylor is a young, bullied girl who makes the first friends that she's had in a year with a group of teenaged supervillains, who she joins with the intent of betraying to the authorities, but she eventually decides that she values their friendship more than helping the authorities that abandoned her at every turn and joins them fully.

* Among the advice given to recovering alcoholics or drug users is to separate from persons and places you were involved with when addict, because addicts tend to have their lives revolving around their drugs and such persons and places might still be linked to these addictions. For exemple an alcoholic might be advised to not assosiate anymore with the golf club he used to belong to, since he mainly drank booze there.

* ''Film/TheLostBoys,'' wherein peer pressure makes you evil ''and'' a vampire.

** But then, Kronk is continually doing evil things [[PoisonousFriend for Yzma]], and most of the good things [[JerkAss Kuzco]] does are because his friends call him out.

* It's implied in ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' that a good part of [[AlphaBitch Otome]]'s bullying against Kotonoha comes from her GirlPosse encouraging and egging her on. Otome herself is '''not''' an innocent dove in all of this (as her bad behavior comes from [[GreenEyedmonster her envy of Koto's popularity with guys]]), but depending on you-as-Makoto's actions, she may show a kinder side to her.

This is the polar opposite of LoveRedeems and ThePowerOfFriendship, because the new circle of friends or role models is a bad influence on someone who started out as a good person. Can also be considered the opposite of TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong in which the Aesop is about how you ''should'' go along with the group. Compare PopularIsEvil, which can overlap with this trope because the peers who pressure you are popular, and you go along with them to be popular, too.

* In the first ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'', Stu makes the feeble claim that he'll blame peer pressure for his and Billy's homicidal rampage if they're caught.
* In ''Film/{{Thirteen}}'', this ends up happening to Tracy when she starts hanging out with Evie, the most popular girl in school and a serial shoplifter. From being an honor roll student, Tracy's life goes ''way'' down south, so far she becomes a junkie. [[spoiler:Only her self-mutilation habits don't have anything to do with it all.]]

** Teen Movie example: ''Film/CantBuyMeLove''.
** Infamous exception: ''Film/{{Grease}}''
* Tom Cruise's character Mitch [=McDeere=] in ''Film/TheFirm'' (1993). Quote from Internet Movie Database:

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This trope is often used in {{anvil|OfTheStory}}-laden lessons about not mindlessly following one's peers. Expect scenes to contain a ToxicFriendInfluence, JumpOffABridgeRebuttal, and IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten.