History Main / TranshumanTreachery

If this FaceHeelTurn is too quick, it gives the impression that one of the other things is going, like TheDarkSide, or WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity. However; this trope may be justified a couple of ways. If TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody it doesn't matter that vampire Dan doesn't want to drink human blood, [[SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness he has to]], and trying to be [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly]] won't last. If the setting has an ongoing "[[FantasticRacism race war]]" against what the character has become, if they don't join their new race they'll quickly face death. However most of the time the switch in alliances comes about with alarming speed and lack of concern. At best you'll see these {{Big Bad Friend}}s offer the transformation to a friend or loved one... and kill them if they refuse. TheDarkSide, [[EvilTastesGood they have cookies.]]

A possible cause of BewareTheSuperman, this is the third sin in the ScaleOfScientificSins. Compare SheepInWolfsClothing, SpeciesLoyalty. Contrast MonstersAnonymous. May lead to forming an {{Anti-Human Alliance}}. {{Opposite Trope|s}} to ProHumanTranshuman.

* In ''Blassreiter'', [[spoiler: Wolf Goring, the commander of the XAT,]] is infected with nanomachines and transforms into an Amalgam. Beatrice convinces him that this is a good thing, as only the Demoniacs will survive the coming Armageddon, and he sets to work infecting the rest of the XAT, all the while claiming it's for their own good.

* ''Marvel Zombies'': A disturbing example shows up. In the worst MadScientist fashion, after [[FantasticFour Reed Richards]] sees a zombie SheHulk eat his children he decides (after studying the zombies) that they are the next evolutionary step and ''turns the whole FF into flesh eating fiends!'' Also from the same book, ZombieInfectee Giant Man knocks out and hides Black Panther because he wants to have a "snack" to eat later, knowing his former colleagues would kill the world's population in days. [[spoiler: He slowly amputates T'challa's limbs and eats them to stave off his hunger.]] He survives, thankfully, and gets a [[ArtificialLimbs new leg]] out of it.

* Averted in X-Men #2. It's made abundantly clear in the text that, despite this trope appearing to be in play, there is definitely brainwashing in play, at the least MoreThanMindControl.

* Though any movie with still sentient zombies has this, ''The Return Of The Living Dead'' shows how Freddy 'has an epiphany' that the only thing that can stop his pain and will show Tina's true love for him, is letting him eat her delicious brains.

* Some variation of this seems to be part of Magneto's plan to [[spoiler: turn all the world leaders into mutants]] in the first ''X-Men'' movie.

* In KnownSpace if an hominid above a certain age eats from the Tree of Life it becomes a Protector where they enter true adulthood and have a massive amount of changes, making it stronger, faster, more resistant to damage, and granting it super-human intelligence. A Protector is compelled to protect his genetic lineage, and his species from any possible harm. As a matter of course, Protectors exterminate any nearby alien species on the grounds that they ''might'' become a threat.
** Most Protectors are ''only'' interested in protecting their direct descendants and are perfectly willing to nuke other human groups to do so. It's a rare Protector who can make itself feel concerned for humanity as a whole, and usually only when all of its own lineage has been killed off.

** Only because he hates vampires even more than people, though. It's mentioned in the films that he survived by killing and draining homeless people before meeting Whistler (nothing much is made of that, because [[AcceptableHardLuckTargets the homeless obviously aren't real people]].)

* In JamesHSchmitz's “The Machmen”, the machmen claim this is the case, but the protagonist believes they are merely being brainwashed as well as enhanced.

* Inverted with the Pack in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. When Coyote, a robot, offers various "upgrades" to the other members, Jackal and Hyena become {{HollywoodCyborg}}s and Wolf becomes a HalfHumanHybrid. Dingo, the group's OnlySaneMan, forgoes the transhumanism, takes a suit of PoweredArmor, and would later make a HeelFaceTurn.

* In ''SwampThing'': The Curse (part of AlanMoore's run), a recently-vamped boy taunts one of his parents about how they were too ineffectual to protect him while he tears out the other's neck.

* Similar to the ''VampireHunterD'' example above, vampires spawned by other vampires in ''JoJosBizarreAdventure'' are all [[CompleteMonster complete monsters]]. One scene ha a woman pleading with Dio to spare her baby, and he agrees, on the condition that he can drink her and turn her into a vampire. Immediately after the transformation, ''she tears her own baby apart''.

A possible cause of BewareTheSuperman, this is the third sin in the ScaleOfScientificSins. Compare SheepInWolfsClothing. Contrast MonstersAnonymous. May lead to forming an {{Anti-Human Alliance}}. {{Opposite Trope|s}} to ProHumanTranshuman.

* ''DarkerThanBlack'': Tania has a quick and jarring her personality shift upon becoming a Contractor. Originally, she was a kind person. She immediately becomes cold towards her friends and by the third episode is really enthusiastic about the idea of selling her friends out to an intelligence agency for a chance for promotion. [[spoiler: she even brutally kills her childhood friend/crush Nika]] Making this example especially jarring is that there's several examples of Contractors who don't turn on their loved ones, which kind of makes you wonder why she became this way.

* Similar to the ''VampireHunterD'' example above, vampires spawned by other vampires in ''[=~JoJo's Bizarre Adventure~=]'' are all [[CompleteMonster complete monsters]]. One scene ha a woman pleading with Dio to spare her baby, and he agrees, on the condition that he can drink her and turn her into a vampire. Immediately after the transformation, ''she tears her own baby apart''.

** Zombie Spider-Man was hit with the business end of the HorrorHunger stick ''just'' as he got home to Mary Jane and Aunt May. Hilarity ensued.

* Lucy Westerna in the DC comic ''Victorian Undead 2: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula''. In this alternate version of ''{{Dracula}}'', she avoids being staked upon her awakening after being turned and sides with Dracula to takes over London. Going on and on to the protagonists how she likes the power that being a vampire has given her [[spoiler: Then its later revealed she's not very loyal to Dracula either. Leaving in the middle of the conflict with her newfound power rather then be killed.]]

* In the ''CountYorga'' movies all the turned victims instantly become evil and obey Yorga without question examples being Erica, who attacks Hayes along with the other brides, tries to attack Michael when he comes across the dying Hayes (and yet oddly gives him a chance to [[StakingTheLovedOne stake her]], he doesn't go through with it) and attacking Michael and Donna as they're leaving right after [[spoiler: Yorga is killed. Showing that the vampirism is permanent and she is beyond saving, plus that the vampires are inherently evil. We also find out that the blonde haired bride of Yorga's is Donna's mother (who at the beginning had "mysteriously died")]] who likewise attacks Dr. Hayes with the other brides. An unused scene also showcased she had become monstrous enough to [[EatsBabies eat a]] [[http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/Retro7/19643eb0.jpg baby]]. [[spoiler: Donna herself turns at the end of the film and instantly attack Michael when his guard is down]].

** Gordon Walker was already an [[WellIntentionedExtremist antagonist]] before he got turned into a vampire, with the goal of killing Sam because he believed Sam was the AntiChrist and would lead hell's army against humanity. While a turned Gordan (says he) planned to kill himself after killing Sam, along the way he killed to feed, killed newly-made vampires, killed the hunter he was working with, nearly killed Dean, and turned a young woman as a distraction.

* Inverted with the Pack in ''{{Gargoyles}}''. When Coyote, a robot, offers various "upgrades" to the other members, Jackal and Hyena become {{HollywoodCyborg}}s and Wolf becomes a HalfHumanHybrid. Dingo, the group's OnlySaneMan, forgoes the transhumanism, takes a suit of PoweredArmor, and would later make a HeelFaceTurn.

* In the first film of the Film/{{Subspecies}} series. Lillan and Mara are both bitten and turned by Radu. Mara is the first victims and, after rising after being buried, helps Radu lures Michelle to him and capture her. Lillan is kidnapped and slowly turned by Radu. We actually see her becoming a monster as her transformation finishes while Michelle and she trying to escape Radu's castle and she instantly turns on Michelle once her fangs form, scaring her right into the arms of Mara. The next scene sees the two dragging Michelle to Radu so he can bite her and even holding her down so she can't escape, pretty much becoming solidifying their loss of humanity. [[spoiler: Radu succeeds in turning Michelle but she mostly flip flops on this trope through the series, trying to fight from becoming an all out monster like Radu is though falls off the wagon now and then due to his influence.]]
* Very frequent in the HammerHorror Dracula films
** In ''HorrorOfDracula'', Lucy , after becoming a vampire, preys on her niece as one of her first victims.
** In ''Film/TheBridesOfDracula'', a village girl and a school teacher, Gina, fall victim to the vampire Baron and instant become evil upon awakening. [[spoiler: Though oddly the Baron's mother doesn't succumb to this trope when she is turned.]]

** ''Taste The Blood of Dracula'': Another character named Lucy is turned and helps Dracula and her hypnotized friend killed her father and later bite her boyfriend.

* Lucy Westerna in the DC comic ''Victorian Undead 2: Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula''. In this alternate version of ''{{Dracula}}'', she lives and sides with Dracula to takes over London. Going on and on to the protagonists how she likes the power that being a vampire has given her [[spoiler: Then its later revealed she not very loyal to Dracula either. Leaving in the middle of the conflict with her newfound power rather then be killed.]]

* In the CountYorga movies all the turned victims instantly become evil and obey Yorga without question examples being Erica, who attacks Hayes along with the other brides, tries to attack Michael when he comes across the dying Hayes (and yet oddly gives him a chance to [[StakingTheLovedOne stake her]], he doesn't go through with it) and attacking Michael and Donna as they're leaving right after [[spoiler: Yorga is killed. Showing that the vampirism is permanent and she is beyond saving, plus that the vampires are inherently evil. We also find out that the blonde haired bride of Yorga's is Donna's mother (who at the beginning had "mysteriously died")]] who likewise attacks Dr. Hayes with ther other brides. An unused scene also showcased she had become monstrous enough to [[EatsBabies eat a]] [[http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/Retro7/19643eb0.jpg baby]]. [[spoiler: Donna herself turns and instantly attack Michael when his guard is down. In fact its implied her mother, along with Yorga, had turned her together though we never see it]].
** In the sequel, theres the Cythia's sister, Ellen who along with the other brides, torments her sister mentally as she trying to find her way out of Yorga's mansion and is part of an ambush on her boyfriend which results in him killed and thrown to the vampire brides for food. [[spoiler: At the end, one of the heros, Balwin, succumbs to vampirism after Yorga is killed and instantly claims Cynthia as his own victim right after he saves her.]]

But then there's times that a transformation ''doesn't'' [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwash,]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul de-soul]], [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity drive insane]], or [[DemonicPossession demonically possess]] the victim. Other times the ViralTransformation causes changes that are purely cosmetic, granting amazing abilities albeit [[PowerAtAPrice at great cost]] and (usually) a horrifying appearance. So what do these unwilling tranformees do? Become {{Phlebotinum Rebel}}s or {{Vampire Refugee}}s and use their powers to fight these monsters? Nope. They engage in TranshumanTreachery.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', of all things, has this in the Yamask-Cofagrigus family. Yamask WasOnceAMan and carries a mask of its former human face, which it [[TheWoobie sometimes cries over]]. By the time it evolves into Cofagrigus, it begins seeking to [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel capture and convert humans into more Yamask]].

* Halfway subverted: On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Gordon Walker was already an antagonist in the form of a WellIntentionedExtremist. When he gets turned into a vampire, he does kill someone in order to feed, kill the hunter he was working with, nearly kill Dean (although he could trying for a case of Suicide-By-Sam here) and turn a young woman into a vampire, but he also kills two newly made female vampires and plans to kill himself after killing Sam Winchester, whom he still believes is the Antichrist. But Gordon [[KilledOffForReal lost their final fight]].

* In the CountYorga movies all the turned victims instantly become evil and obey Yorga without question examples being Erica, who attacks Hayes along with the other brides, tries to attack Michael when he comes across the dying Hayes (and yet oddly gives him a chance to [[StakingTheLovedOne stake her]], he doesn't go through with it) and attacking Michael and Donna as they're leaving right after [[spoiler: Yorga is killed. Showing that the vampirism is permanent and she is beyond saving, plus that the vampires are inherently evil. We also find out that the blonde haired bride of Yorga's is Donna's mother (who at the beginning had "mysteriously died"), who likewise attacks Dr. Hayes with ther other brides. An unused scene also showcased she had become monsterous enough to [[EatsBabies eat babies] [[http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/Retro7/19643eb0.jpg (see here)]]. Donna herself turns and instantly attack Michael when his guard is down. In fact its implied her mother, along with Yorga, had turned her together]].

* In the CountYorga movies all the turned victims instantly become evil and obey Yorga without question examples being Erica, who attacks Hayes along with the other brides, tries to attack Michael when he comes across the dying Hayes (and yet oddly gives him a chance to [[StakingTheLovedOne stake her]], he doesn't go through with it) and attacking Michael and Donna as they're leaving right after [[spoiler: Yorga is killed. Showing that the vampirism is permanent and she is beyond saving, plus that the vampires are inherently evil. Donna herself turns and instantly attack Michael when his guard is down]].

** In the sequel, theres the Cythia's sister, Ellen who along with the other brides, torments her sister mentally as she trying to find her way out of Yorga's mansion and is part of an ambush on her boyfriend which results in him killed and thrown to the vampire brides for food. [[Spoiler: At the end, one of the heros, Balwin, succumbs to vampirism after Yorga is killed and instantly claims Cynthia as his own victim right after he saves her.]]

* A few of the turned people in ''{{Shiki}}'', the most noticeable case is Megumi who gleefully torments her former friends when she arises as a shiki herself. Granted she didn't like the village when she was human but that was more of a spoiled brat personality. She turns into a complete monster once she turned.

* [[{{Braceface}} Brock]] from ''BracefaceFangface'' and ''BrockOfTheUndead''. Quickly finding he like the power despite being a vampire and his first act is to bite his girlfriend Maria.

* Averted in LetMeIn. Abby feeds on people, and will often use the fact that she's looks like a 12-13 year old girl to appear harmless. However, she clearly does not enjoy doing it and only does so when she can no longer resist the hunger. After her first shown attack in the film she looks like she's about to cry afterwards. The only time she deliberately unleashes death is [[spoiler: At the end when the four bullies are attempting to drown Owen.]] This clearly hits her BerserkButton and launches an UnstoppableRage.

* ''HalfLife2'': The Transhuman Arm of the Combine Overwatch ''combine'' this with being LesCollaborateurs. Humans start out joining Civil Protection to get decent rations; promotions are tied to voluntary brainwashing until they become eligible for MindRape and modification into actual transhumans (though the Combine often picks up random civilians for conversion too). Soldiers presumably go through the same rank system with the highest-ranking Elites being more like synths than cyborgs.