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9* Jason, the protagonist of ''ComicBook/LongAgoAndFarAway'' was once the heroic "[[KidHero Child Knight]]" who saved the land of Elvenwood from the evil Witch-Queen Nexis. In the years that followed, he grew up into a 30-year-old JerkAss.
10* Natalie "Envy" Adams from [[Comicbook/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Volume 3]] took a several year course in jerk-assery and passed with an A+++.[[spoiler: In college, "Nat" used to be a nerd who had a lot of anime stuff in her dorm and kept to herself. She was Julie's roommate and she ended up meeting Scott and dating him for a nice while. Her, Scott, Stephen Stills, and two insignificant others (one being Young Neil's older sister Stephanie) started a band called "Kid Chameleon" that ended up becoming pretty popular, eventually cornered by record labels. Over time, she began becoming more confident and selling her old possession for cooler things while slowly becoming more of a 'bad girl,' even using the alias Envy. However, she also ended up changing the band without the consent of Scott or really anyone with the rest of the band against the changes. In fact, it's implied that Envy may have begun cheating on Scott and certainly saw less and less value in ther relationship. Eventually, an incident at the bar led to a drunk Scott and Envy creating a large argument that Scott didn't recall anything, but Envy announced that it was over, both the band and their relation, causing heartbreak for Scott and a good deal of insecurity. Byt the time we see her in the main line, she has become pretty successful though Scott has compliations talking with her while Wallace is pissed off for what she did to Scott.Now in a band with Todd Ingram, her now boyfriend, childhood friend and Ramona's third evil ex-boyfriend, and a drummer named Lynnette Guycott. In bitter irony, Envy discovered Todd himself wasn't as loyal as she thought and with Todd's defeat and Lynette's disappearance, she was left with little else but the clothes on her back (including an old hoodie from Scott). The two didn't make closure until the final book where Envy seemed to have found success going solo, albeit being with Gideon. With his end though, not sure what happens to her, but at least the closure helped repair the damage between the two]].
11* The Cutie Mark Crusaders in the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' "2014 Holiday Equestria Girls Special", especially Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom started the "Anon-A-Miss" blog as revenge against Applejack due to the fact that [[GreenEyedMonster she was jealous that she was spending more time with Sunset Shimmer than her.]] She essentially destroyed what goodwill Sunset was trying to rebuild out of pure jealousy and Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle went along with it.
12* ''ComicBook/AgeOfBronze'': In ''A Thousand Ships'', Paris starts out as a slightly arrogant but relatively decent and enthusiastic youth who is a bit overwhelmed by his new life. By ''Betrayal, Part One'', after three years as a Prince of Troy and being indulged in his behavior by Priam, he has become very arrogant, rude, pushy, and refuses to accept he could be ''wrong''.
13* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', King Acorn in the pre-ContinuityReboot universe spiraled into this direction after the restoration of his body, disbanding the more battle-hardened Freedom Fighters to install his Secret Service and trying to force Sally into marrying Antoine, but went full tilt after his body was damaged by Antoine's EvilCounterpart Patch.
14* In the comic book continuation of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Mai has fallen into this, as evident in ''[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow Smoke and Shadow]]'', especially how much she treats Zuko in the graphic novel in addition to being written as [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic someone that fans are supposed to sympathise when her actions aren't sympathetic at all]]. This has come to the point that some fans have stopped shipping her and Zuko and started shipping Zuko with Suki than the obvious choice being [[FanPreferredCouple Zutara]].
15* Hot Rod after becoming Rodimus in IDW's run of The Transformers. In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAutocracy'', his main concern was protecting the poor Cybertronians who lived in the slums of Nyon. By ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', he's become an egotistical jerk who in love with the sound of his own voice and loves being in charge even though he's a lazy slacker who pretends to be asleep whenever someone approaches him with something that bores him.
16* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
17** Huey, Dewey and Louie. One story had them complaining to each other about WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's many flaws — only to suddenly realize that no matter if Donald is a big success or not, he still takes care of them, cooks for them, makes sure they're clothed and happy, and on the whole uses a lot more money on them than he does on himself. Cue guilt and a resolve to start appreciating their uncle a little more in the future. Later stories have them be openly ashamed on him and even come off as [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] {{Jerkass}}es [[note]]In "Where There's Smoke", one of the three said he wasn't annoyed by Donald dropping foam on them (because Donald thinks that [[TitleDrop where there's smoke]], there's fire), but because [[{{Jerkass}} he would get the badge instead of them]], and the comic portrays them in the right for their ItsAllAboutMe attitude, and they even get ''[[KarmaHoudini rewarded]]'' for it instead (they get their badge at the end), and in "Paperino e i Gamberi in Salmì", Scrooge's brother Gedeon gives Huey, Dewey and Louie a stand-in of the "Pulitzer" prize, but gives it to Donald to keep it for them until they grow up. Afterwards the three are shown [[DisproportionateRetribution running Donald out of town and saying]] "[[YoureNotMyFather You're not our uncle]]... you're a medal snatcher!" [[FelonyMisdemeanor just for getting the medal]], which he didn't steal it from them.[[/note]], and it doesn't help that they ''still'' [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality take the moral high ground against Donald and win]].
18** ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' shows Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s decades long quest to become rich turned a nice, hopeful kid into a cynical misanthrope. As commented on by his sister Hortense in ''The Empire Builder From Calisota'':
19--->'''Hortense:''' Getting richer and richer, and meaner and ornerier! That's all you do.
20* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': After spending the entire series as [[LaughablyEvil a joke character]], Brutus suddenly becomes the BigBad of ''Asterix and Son''. He goes further than any villain previous and burns the village down. Not to mention, it's heavily implied he was trying to ''murder his baby brother'' in order to remain Caesar's only heir.
21* ''ComicBook/{{Battle}}'': The Scholar becomes more obnoxious after Grogan's death, leading Charley to realise that Grogan might have been right about him thanks to becoming pally with Snell, who helps him with an application for officer training. When he returns to the front as a 2nd Lieutenant, he is outright snobbish towards Charley.
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25* The title character of ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'' was something of a pessimist as an adult, but still mostly a nice guy. After TimeSkip #2, he became a grumpy, avaricious JerkAss.
26* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', Ratbert started out as an affectionate, yet dim-witted lab rat who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends desperately wanted to be a part of Dilbert's family.]] However, when he briefly became CEO of [[IncompetenceInc Dilbert's company,]] the power went to his head and he became extremely abusive to the employees, to the point of bordering on TheCaligula.

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