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* Kane in ''CitizenKane''.
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* Washizu in ThroneOfBlood. Since the film is based on ''{{Macbeth}}'', this is not a surprise.
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* [[StartOfDarkness The entirety of]] GaReiZero for [[FallenHero Yomi]].
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* Possibly TheSocialNetwork. It shows Mark's slide from average nerd to a possible CorruptCorporateExcutive due to 1 mean streak too many.
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* Fred C. Dobbs in ''TreasureOfTheSierraMadre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with GoldFever and eventually goes bad.

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* Fred C. Dobbs in ''TreasureOfTheSierraMadre''.''TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with GoldFever and eventually goes bad.
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* Fred C. Dobbs in ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with GoldFever and eventually goes bad.

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* Fred C. Dobbs in ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''.''TreasureOfTheSierraMadre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with GoldFever and eventually goes bad.
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* The first ''[[HeroesOfMightAndMagic Heroes Chronicles]]'' campaign details the rise and fall of Tarnum, a barbarian whose only goal is to free his people from the tyrannical rule of the Bracadan wizards to re-establish the glorious barbarian empire of old. Throughout the campaign, various events cause him to grow more paranoid and ruthless, with the tipping point being his poisoning of all his generals, whom he suspected of treachery. He is eventually ended by King Rion Gryphonheart, the first Erathian king, in a CombatByChampion. The remaining campaigns detail his redemption after he is not admitted to the barbarian afterlife. His final redemption comes in the barbarian campaign of ''Heroes of Might and Magic IV'', where he guides a young barbarian named Waerjak in uniting the scattered tribes in a story mirroring his own, minus this trope.
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* ''{{Irredeemable}}'' is about a {{Superman}} {{Expy}} called the Plutonian who loses it and starts lashing out. Part of the book involves looking at how he got to that point. [[spoiler:And some of his former teammates seem to have started down that same path while trying to stop him...]]
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For example: Bob, the happy, idealist, doer of good loses his morals through a series of battles with evil, and becomes just the opposite of what he once was. He is now a cruel, amoral evildoer.

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For example: Bob, the happy, idealist, happy idealist and doer of good good, loses his morals through a series of battles with evil, and becomes just the opposite of what he once was. He is now a cruel, amoral evildoer.
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* Redcloak's journey in the OrderOfTheStick book StartOfDarkness. He begins simply wishing to avenge the massacare of his village and create a fairer world for his people (who were screwed over by the Gods), but gradually makes more and more sacrfices, helps an evil man and gets overwhelmed by the fallout of his actions.

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* Redcloak's journey in the OrderOfTheStick book StartOfDarkness. He begins simply wishing to avenge the massacare of his village and create a fairer world for his people (who were screwed over by the Gods), but gradually makes more and more sacrfices, helps an evil man and gets overwhelmed by the fallout of his actions.
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* ''MahouSenseiNegima'' may turn out to be this for poor [[CuteShotaroBoy Negi]]. He starts the series as a StepfordSmiler from his DarkAndTroubledPast. As he and his students become involved in magic and the magical world, he begins to put his students in trouble and he blames himself for everything. In the Magic World arc, [[ItGotWorse things get worse]] and he learns BlackMagic. Now he's struggling with TheCorruption and faces becomming a inhuman demon. Right now his nakama is the only thing keeping him from JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope while his enemies and his master want to push him over the edge.
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* ''BlackLagoon'', [[CrapsackWorld for pretty much everyone involved]].
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* The ''MetalGearSolid'' prequel games - ''[[MetalGearSolid3 MGS3]]'', ''[[MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]]'' and ''[[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker]]'' - are this for Naked Snake/Big Boss.

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* The ''MetalGearSolid'' prequel games - ''[[MetalGearSolid3 MGS3]]'', ''[[MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]]'' and ''[[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker]]'' ''[[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'' - are this for Naked Snake/Big Boss.
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* The ''MetalGearSolid'' prequel games - ''[[MetalGearSolid3 MGS3]]'', ''[[MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]]'' and ''[[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker]]'' - are this for Naked Snake/Big Boss.

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* In the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', the general opinion is that this started for Terry "Mister America" Benedict when he testified during the McCarthy hearings as a friendly witness.
** There's also The Dove's slow descent from street-level hero to serial killer, all in the name of fighting crime.

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* [[spoiler:MiraiNikki,]] turning TheWoobie into... well, [[WellIntentionedExtremist something]] [[AxeCrazy else]] [WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds entirely.]]

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* [[spoiler:MiraiNikki,]] turning TheWoobie into... well, [[WellIntentionedExtremist something]] [[AxeCrazy else]] [WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds entirely.]]
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* [[spoiler:MiraiNikki,]] turning TheWoobie into... well, [[WellIntentionedExtremist something]] [[AxeCrazy else]] [WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds entirely.]]
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* In Livy's TheHistoryOfRome, which is based on real events, embellished, this is a major theme for more than a few of the kings and consuls of early Rome.

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* In Livy's TheHistoryOfRome, which is based on a record of real events, embellished, embellished where the author felt it necessary, this is a major theme for more than a few of the kings and consuls of early Rome.
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* In Livy's TheHistoryOfRome, which is based on real events, embellished, this is a major theme for more than a few of the kings and consuls of early Rome.



* Sarah Kerrigan's plot-arc from {{Starcraft}} could basically be described as "heroic moral center" to "BrainwashedAndCrazy [[TheDragon Dragon]]" to "BigBad in her own right".


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* Sarah Kerrigan's plot-arc from {{Starcraft}} could basically be described as "heroic moral center" to "BrainwashedAndCrazy [[TheDragon Dragon]]" to "BigBad in her own right".

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* ''{{Berserk}}'' devotes much of the Golden Age arc to the relationship between [[AntiHero Guts]] and [[BigBad Griffith]], and focuses on the factors which would ultimately lead Griffith to betray Guts and become his number one enemy.
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* Another example of this would be the Christopher Bond/Stephen Sondheim adaptation of the tale of ''{{Sweeney Todd}}}''. A barber framed and transported for life for a crime he did not commit by a corrupt judge who wanted his beautiful wife for himself, he returns to London, finds out what happened to his wife and daughter in the meantime [[spoiler:though he turns out to have been lied to about the former by Mrs. Lovett, who led him to believe that his wife was dead]], and seeks revenge against the judge, leaving a trail of blood and death in his wake that would ultimately lead to him becoming the infamous Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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* Another example of this would be the Christopher Bond/Stephen Sondheim adaptation of the tale of ''{{Sweeney Todd}}}''.Todd}}''. A barber framed and transported for life for a crime he did not commit by a corrupt judge who wanted his beautiful wife for himself, he returns to London, finds out what happened to his wife and daughter in the meantime [[spoiler:though he turns out to have been lied to about the former by Mrs. Lovett, who led him to believe that his wife was dead]], and seeks revenge against the judge, leaving a trail of blood and death in his wake that would ultimately lead to him becoming the infamous Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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For example: Bob, the happy, idealist, doer of good loses his morals through a series of battles with evil, and becomes just the opposite of what he once was. He is now a cruel, amoral, evildoer.

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For example: Bob, the happy, idealist, doer of good loses his morals through a series of battles with evil, and becomes just the opposite of what he once was. He is now a cruel, amoral, amoral evildoer.



* Harvey Dent/ Two-Face in TheDarkKnight.
* Fred C. Dobbs in ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with gold fever.

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* Harvey Dent/ Dent / Two-Face in TheDarkKnight.
* Fred C. Dobbs in ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with gold fever.
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** Although, if you ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality wanna]] [[CrapsackWorld get]] [[FreudianExcuse into]] [[TheWoobie it]]....

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** Although, if you ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality wanna]] [[CrapsackWorld get]] [[FreudianExcuse into]] [[TheWoobie it]]....it]]...







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* Another example of this would be the Christopher Bond/Stephen Sondheim adaptation of the tale of ''{{Sweeney Todd}}}''. A barber framed and transported for life for a crime he did not commit by a corrupt judge who wanted his beautiful wife for himself, he returns to London, finds out what happened to his wife and daughter in the meantime [[spoiler:though he turns out to have been lied to about the former by Mrs. Lovett, who led him to believe that his wife was dead]], and seeks revenge against the judge, leaving a trail of blood and death in his wake that would ultimately lead to him becoming the infamous Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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** [[ChekhovsBoomerang Done exactly the same way]] with Anakin's [[InTheBlood grandson]] in LegacyOfTheForce. Minus the redemption.
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*In FanFic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance, Mao's frustration, growing insanity and desperation twist him into a much more manipulative and brutal person. Later chapters, however, appear to hint at a moral recovery.
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* Redcloak's journey in the OrderOfTheStick book StartOfDarkness. He begins simply wishing to avenge the massacare of his village and create a fairer world for his people (who were screwed over by the Gods), but gradually makes more and more sacrfices, helps an evil man and gets overwhelmed by the fallout of his actions.
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* The first half of the third season of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' is this for protagonist Judai. He doesn't remain a villain for long, but comes out the situation an almost completely different character.
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** Although, if you ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality wanna]] [[CrapsackWorld get]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness into]] [[TheWoobie it]]....

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** Although, if you ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality wanna]] [[CrapsackWorld get]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness [[FreudianExcuse into]] [[TheWoobie it]]....
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** Although, if you ''[[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation really]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality wanna]] [[CrapsackWorld get]] [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness into]] [[TheWoobie it]]....
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* Fred C. Dobbs in ''Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. He starts off as our main character, but our allegiance gradually switches to his partners as he comes down with gold fever.

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