'''Basic Trope''': A character becomes more cynical throughout the series due to horrible things happening to them and those around them.
* '''Straight''': [[MeaningfulName Jade]] starts as a KnightInShiningArmor, but during her adventures through the CrapsackWorld she lives in, she becomes much more cynical.
* '''Exaggerated''': Jade starts out as ThePollyanna, but then something goes wrong and immediately becomes TheSnarkKnight or a StrawNihilist.
* '''Downplayed''': Jade becomes a KnightInSourArmor; no longer nice but still hanging onto core idealism.
* '''Justified''':
** Jade [[NaiveNewcomer has no idea what she's getting herself into]] at the beginning, so when she sees the horrible things she has to do and have happen to her and those around her, she becomes hardened.
** Jade becomes a StepfordSnarker as a defense mechanism, [[BecomingTheMask but she internalizes this and it becomes depression. She can't take the glasses off if she wants to]].
* '''Inverted''': Jade starts off as a SourSupporter but as time goes on [[TookALevelInIdealism she accepts that the world is far more idealistic than she gave it credit for]].
* '''Subverted''': Jade [[ThePollyanna remains idealistic]] despite the things she must do and must see.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...But, [[BeneathTheMask deep down]], she's a KnightInSourArmor.
* '''Parodied''': As Jade becomes more jaded and cynical, [[ExactWords the glasses she wears]] [[VisualPun become]] [[LiteralMetaphor greener and greener]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Every episode sees Jade shifting from one end of the scale to the other. TheTeam calls her a MoodSwinger.
* '''Averted''': Jade remains a WideEyedIdealist throughout and/or the world gives her no reason to become cynical.
* '''Enforced''': TrueArtIsAngsty, CharacterDevelopment.
* '''Lampshaded''':
-->'''Alice:''' What happened to the young, idealistic girl I knew?\\
'''Jade:''' [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids She grew up]].
* '''Invoked''': Ruby takes Jade along on her adventures in the first place to show her the harshness of the real world.
* '''Exploited''': Knowing what she's been through, [[BigBad Raven]] gives Jade a BreakingSpeech on how humans are bastards and thus not worth saving. His goal is to provoke a HeroicBSOD or FaceHeelTurn.
* '''Defied''': Jade refuses to give up her idealism, regardless of the horrors she must deal with.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Jade's newfound cynicism ultimately make her [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves think her world is not worth saving]], causing her to leave it to its fate.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Jade fights evil so long she loses faith that she will ever win but an idealistic MoralityChain reminds her that there are indeed reasons to try to save her world.
** Jade's newly acquired cynicism doesn't change her ideals. Instead, it allows her to see her previously naive ways, and how they limited her. She becomes a PragmaticHero and [[{{Determinator}} pulls out all the evils around her by the roots, with any means necessary]]. In the end, her actions change the world around her, [[EarnYourHappyEnding allowing for idealism to flourish]].
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