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** Warren Mears was subjected to this in between seasons five and six. He built a subservient robot girlfriend because he was lonely, but found that he actually preferred a real-life girl who was his intellectual equal and "[[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou gave him a hard time]]". Xander even expressed sympathy for him (although he was undeniably a pervert). Yet by season six he's a full-out misogynist whom Xander "could see as a SuperVillain type."

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** Warren Mears was subjected to this in between seasons five and six. He built a subservient robot girlfriend because he was lonely, but found that he actually preferred a real-life girl who was his intellectual equal and "[[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou gave him a hard time]]". Xander even expressed sympathy for him (although he was undeniably a pervert). Yet by season six he's a full-out misogynist whom Xander "could see as a SuperVillain {{supervillain}} type."



* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': It's not so much that his motive got decayed, more like {{retcon}}ned, but the SerialKiller known as the Fox has something like this happen to him when he's brought back in the season five episode "Outfoxed". His crimes as revealed in his original appearance "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E7TheFox The Fox]]" are breaking into the houses of families, then taking them all hostage and forcing them to treat him as the head of the household before eventually leading them down to the basement and killing them all, saving the father for last. In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E8Outfoxed Outfoxed]]", it's implied that he sexually abuses the children he takes hostage, and it's suggested that his crimes are essentially him lashing out at his abusive father and also at himself. In his first appearance, there's no hint of a sexual component to his crimes, and the reason given for his behaviour is that his wife and kids have left him and he's trying to recapture what it was like to have them, with him killing the families at the end because he knows the fantasy can't last.

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* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': It's not so much that his motive got decayed, more like {{retcon}}ned, but the SerialKiller known as the Fox has something like this happen to him when he's brought back in the season five episode "Outfoxed"."[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E8Outfoxed Outfoxed]]". His crimes as revealed in his original appearance "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS1E7TheFox The Fox]]" are breaking into the houses of families, then taking them all hostage and forcing them to treat him as the head of the household before eventually leading them down to the basement and killing them all, saving the father for last. In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS5E8Outfoxed Outfoxed]]", "Outfoxed", it's implied that he sexually abuses the children he takes hostage, and it's suggested that his crimes are essentially him lashing out at his abusive father and also at himself. In his first appearance, there's no hint of a sexual component to his crimes, and the reason given for his behaviour is that his wife and kids have left him and he's trying to recapture what it was like to have them, with him killing the families at the end because he knows the fantasy can't last.

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