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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Not all Villains are born. Some are made, and none are more tragic than the Fallen Hero. As the name implies, the Fallen Hero used to be a hero. They may even have been The Messiah or another equally optimistic archetype, up until the moment when they suffered something bad enough for them to lose all faith in good and idealism, be it the loss of a loved one, too many good deeds coming back to bite them hard, betrayal by someone they trusted the most, too much distrust from those who should have been allies, or some other faith-shattering event. It might even be a drawn out process of seduction to The Dark Side or fall from grace.
What they choose to do about it determines what they become:
They'll use their not-inconsiderable powers and abilities to do it, too. Often they'll twist healing powers into evil ends, or allow pain to fester by simply denying the use of their powers for good. Where once the Barrier Maiden wanted to heal the world, she'll spread misery to speed its destruction. The Messiah who wanted to save the world now wants its damnation. The Gunslinger, once wanting to bring justice to the frontier, now wants nothing but vengeance and blood.
Usually revealed in a Not So Different moment. Almost always gets a Start Of Darkness. Christopher Booker's sixth basic plot, Tragedy, uses this character arc, with the Fallen Hero as main character. Compare Face Heel Turn, The Dark Side Will Make You Forget. See also Fallen Angel.
Examples
Anime
- Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Judai's Heroic BSOD causes him to become possessed by and transform into the villainous Supreme King Haou, complete with a literal gaggle of Fallen Heroes (evil versions of his normal Elemental Heroes).
- Juudai was not possessed. He *is* Haou. He just believed (wrongly) that only by being evil could he accomplish his goals. He had a minor split personality and it was stated quite clearly by Shou that Haou and Juudai are two sides of the same person, and they needed to become one. And did.
- Nina from Mai-Otome takes this to its literal extreme. At first, she was the top student in her class with a promising life ahead of her, and then went crazy when she thought Arika was trying to steal the man she loved. From there, she accidentally kills one of her best friends when she turns out to be The Mole, and purposefully kills tens of thousands more to prove her devotion, ending with her reputation in tatters, him on his deathbed and the memories of the two of them ever having met lost forever, and a loss in a (
somewhat anticlimactic) final battle that ends with her falling from outer space.
- Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho. Was a Spirit Detective, and a damn effective one, until he saw the Black Black Club torturing demons for their own amusement, got his hands on Chapter Black, and went insane with the desire to get rid of all humanity.
- Pretear. Along with the revelation that the Princess of Disaster is the current form of the last Pretear, Takako, the show also plays with the possibility that anyone who becomes the Pretear could become the Princess of Disaster. Which naturally leads Himeno Awayuki, the current Pretear, straight into a Heroic BSOD while she sorts it out.
- In G Gundam, Gentle Chapman was one of the most admired Fighters ever, but after old age and an illness caught up with him, he resorted to traps and deceit to win. He paid for it by dying... and was revived as a zombie by the Devil Gundam.
- There are hints that Gundam 00's Big Bad Ribbons Almark is this considering he was
Amuro Ray in his past life a Gundam Meister who piloted the very first Gundam in the series. It's actually subversion, as he never been a hero. The intervention he save Setsuna has no glorious goal beyond field test of the 0 Gundam, and he was suppose to kill all witness. He only spare young Soran Ibrahim because he saw the devotion in young soldier. And this incident trigger his god complex, leading him to the road of Big Bad.
- Gale Raregroove, Pumpkin Drew, and Captain Hardner in Rave Master.
- Lord Genome of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, who was basically Simon's predecessor. One of them, anyway.
- Griffith of Berserk pretty much embodies this trope.
- In Magical Project S, The third candidate, Romio was a former magical girl from Earth, but she was unable to maintain the Good-Evil Balance. Because of this, she becomes bent on destroying Earth.
- In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Dios aka Akio shows what happens when The White Prince turns into one of these.
- The When They Cry series has Bernkastel. When Rika finally manages to achieve a happy ending in Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, that's great for her - the one Rika out of thousands of alternate Rikas to survive. However, all of the alternate Rikas who died didn't just stay dead. Instead, they came together to become Bernkastel, the Witch of Miracles, who appears to be becoming the Big Bad of Umineko No Naku Koro Ni.
- Ga Rei Zero: Yomi ;_;
- In Naruto, Nagato aka Pain was born with a special power that marked him as a literal messiah. Inspired by the words of his childhood friends and mentor, he desired to bring about a lasting peace. However, his pacifistic attempts left his friend Yahiko dead and him crippled, shattering his dreams of such a peace. Instead he set out to create a new peace by sharing the pain he had suffered.
- Oskar Von Reuenthal in Legend Of Galactic Heroes. Particularly tragic, since he did not rebel against Reinhard Von Lohengramm out of genuine malice or ambition, but because he was framed and was too proud to accept punishment for a crime he did not commit. His death is arguably the most senseless and undeserved in the entire series.
Comic Books
- The Long Halloween, the series that inspired Nolan when he was writing the script for The Dark Knight, has a Harvey Dent that worked alongside Batman and Commissioner Gordon. We later find out that Harvey may not have even been responsible for some of the deaths, it may have been his wife trying to end all the terror that was happening and trying to get Harvey to come back. A closer inspection reveals plot holes with this revelation, and it's vague whether she did it or was just crazy. This is only one version of Two-Face's origin, but all the ones worth mentioning show him as working with Batman before turning into Two-Face.
- Both Sinestro, and later his Arch Enemy Hal Jordan are Green Lantern Corps members who turned evil. Sinestro wanted to enforce order, so became a Knight Templar dictator of his home planet Korugar. Years later, after a seeing his home city nuked, among other things, led Hal to Freak Out and destroy the Green Lantern Corps and even try to remake the universe. Hal was later retconned into being possessed the the Anthropomorphic Personification of fear itself, and Sinestro was influenced by a demon telling Sinestro a propechy that Korugar would destroy itself if order wasn't enforced.
- Astro City has El Hombre, an Expy Batman from Los Angeles. Though he became prominent in his super-hero career, he became upset at his lack of respect from the populace and his love interest's marriage to someone else. He then hired a super-villain to build a robot to attack the city so he could stop it in a high-profile fight. He was betrayed by the villain, and when it was later revealed that El Hombre commissioned the attack, he became a wanted fugitive and disappeared into his civilian identity.
- Decades later he tries a similar ruse, killing low-level supervillains to unite their ilk against him, eventually gathering them all in one place, and wiping them out in his new heroic identity as El Conquistador.
- Shakara - the Big Bad responsible for most of the destruction has recently been revealed to be Cinnibar Brenneka.
Film
- Anakin Skywalker, who got three whole movies of Start Of Darkness.
- Hell, Star Wars tends to use this one so frequently, it should get a award of some kind. Exar Kun, Ullic Qel-Droma, Revan and Malak, Vader, and even Luke fell down this rabbit hole more than once, and while he crawled out his nephew sure didn't. And THOSE are just the ones making "Sith Lord" status!
- Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight definitely counts, after he becomes Two-Face. Formerly idealistic, he grows steadily more cynical in the face of the Joker's crimes, and after the Joker's Hannibal Lecture turns into a Nietzsche Wannabe who believes that Chance is the only fair law.
- Tai Lung of Kung Fu Panda fits this. He only wanted to make his master proud, but because his master wasn't able to appreciate his hard work, he became enraged. Prior to betraying Shifu and Oogway, he was very much the loyal, dutiful, trustworthy student, and if he exhibited darkness and seemed a little too focused on power, nowhere is it indicated he didn't intend to use the Dragon Scroll to become a hero (or Anti Hero) and defend the Valley of Peace with it - at least before his masters turned on him.
- Kirsty Cotton in the Hellraiser franchise.
Literature
- Saruman in The Lord Of The Rings.
- Almost every villain or tragic figure is this, Sauron is a fallen Maiar, his master Melkor/Morgoth was once the greatest of Valar. Arguably Fëanor and his sons, Túrin, the other three wizards, and a lot of other people. Tolkien used this trope a lot.
- The other two wizards. Radagast didn't really fall, it was more a case of turning hippy and talking to trees. (And in some of Tolkien's unpublished notes, there are hints that healing damage to the natural environment was Radagast's mission all along.)
- Sauntered vaguely downwards, then?
- Not even that, Radagast never turned, he was just duped into helping lure Gandalf into a trap because he trusted Saruman and thought he was still good, the Blue wizards it's never mentioned what happened to, just that they went to battle Sauron's forces in the East, after that no one knows what happened to them.
- Shakespeare's Mac Beth.
- In the Belgariad, Zedar, the Dragon, used to be Belzedar, one of Belgarath's sworn brothers and a servant of the god Aldur. When Torak, the Big Bad of the series, struck Aldur and store the Orb, Zedar headed out to confront him... and found himself overwhelmed by Torak's power. Faced with The Dark Side, he gave into his barely-suppressed lust for power and swore fealty to Torak.
- Berserker, dubbed "Black Knight" in Fate Zero, revealed in the final battle (by King Arthur herself, no less) to be Lancelot.
- Gerald Tarrant/The Hunter in the Coldfire trilogy. Sorcerer, philosopher, and Prophet of the One God, until the religion he had created excommunicated him, at which point he killed his wife and children as part of a bargain with Dark Powers.
- In the Dilvish, the Damned stories by Roger Zelazny, it's stated that the Big Bad Jelerak used to be good, many hundreds of years ago. But he is a Complete Monster now, having long ago crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
Live Action TV
- Linderman on Heroes is a prime example. His low key evil approach is made all the more monstrous when viewers realize that, having the ability to heal most injuries, he chooses to have people killed, kidnapped, and crippled instead.
- A better example is Season 2's Big Bad, Adam Monroe. He is introduced as Takezo Kensei, the literal hero of legend. Despite trouncing all the fantastic tales attributed to him in one fell swoop, Kensei proves himself a true hero many times over during his time with Hiro - only to do a Face Heel Turn when Hiro steals away the woman he loves right out from under his nose. Four hundred years later, his heartbreak has driven him to seek a 'second chance' by wiping out 93% the world's population.
- Willow of Buffy The Vampire Slayer became the Card Carrying Villain version of this trope after witnessing the death of her girlfriend. Luckily, the transition was temporary.
- Lex Luthor from Smallville is a great example. He started off as nothing more than a good samaritan friend to Clark Kent. As time went on, he became nastier and more cynical at the world, and became possibly Clark's worst enemy. However—-how long would the show actually last if Luthor was kept a good guy throughout the entire show?
- In the french fantasy dramedy Kameloth, the Knight Lancelot start out as the noble and charismatic heros we expect him to be but he has always be ideologically opposed to the libertarian policy of Arthur (who he consider a proof of weakness) and consider himself more worthy of the holy mission given to his king. after the spoofed-legend-opposed-got-away-with-Genievre-part he openly rebel against Kameloth's order and became the tool of a dark sorcerer named Melangeant who present himself as the chessmastering answer of the gods to Arthur's failure in his mission
- Some of the best episodes of Scrubs deal with this happening to Dr. Cox. While the fall is temporary, the sight of the normally caustic and extremely confident physician in tears is very heartrending, to say the least.
- Eli David in NCIS seems to be this. In a way he reminds me of Denethor.
Mythology
- Many depictions of Satan (originally God's torch-bearer "The Morning Star" or Lucifer) as evil show him as a fallen angel. This is Older Than Feudalism, as the popular depiction has roots in the 2000+ year old source material.
- A very common misconception. In the Bible, Satan and Lucifer are never presented as being the same being. Satan is apparently on speaking terms with Yahweh, and the name "Lucifer" appears only twice in the text: once in Isaiah, in reference to a Babylonian king whom the passage was condemning, and once in Revelations, in reference to...Jesus!
- Yes they are! Lucifer and Satan are the same being. Lucifer was his first name before he decided to revolt and was thrown down from heaven with a third of the angels (Angels who went with him).
- Actually, many people theorize that Lucifer is the devil, the fallen angel, while Satan(sometimes called Satanail) was the angel who tested faith. He participates in this capacity in the Book of Job, where he sends tragedy after tragedy Job's way to test his faith in Yahweh.
- Is this not an issue of interpretation? Since the source material has been translated and (possibly)altered hundred of times, the original meaning may very well has been lost in the annals of history, especially considering that the priests and monks who did the translating of the bible often interpreted the old translation in a way that they wanted to.
- Which is especially strange, since there are multiple references to "falling like lightning". Of course, that could be a reference to how fast God can topple an empire.
Professional Wrestling
- Hulk Hogan's infamous Face Heel Turn and transformation into Hollywood Hogan in WCW's Bash at the Beach was born of the realization that he was "old news," and that the fans he had lived his whole life to please weren't really interested in him anymore. Which just couldn't stand, after all; he's Hulk Freaking Hogan, the biggest icon in wrestling! Maybe the fans didn't deserve to cheer for him! Maybe they deserved to have him and his buddies from up north destroy everything about WCW that they enjoy instead!
- Similarly, Chris Jericho's recent WWE Face Heel Turn was fueled by the fans' continued cheering for Shawn Michaels — who was not only a lying, cheating hypocrite, but was unrepentant for having retired the great Ric Flair. In Jericho's mind, it's not him that turned heel; it's the fans.
- Subverted with Bret Hart in 1997, who turned only against the American wrestling fans, but was still considered a hero in the other territories.
Tabletop Games
- Warhammer 40000 has an entire race of these, the Chaos Space Marines. Dark Eldar would qualify, if they'd been remotely heroic before their fall.
- A clarification: The Dark Eldar survived the fall by being so virtuous and pure that they were immune to being eaten by daemons, but anybody who was raised in a pleasure-seeking cult that sacrifices sentient beings just for the thrill is pretty much automatically disqualified from heroism.
- Corrention the Dark Eldar survived the fall by bribing the daemons with other souls.
- The Dark Eldar actually have an army unit composed entirely of newly-minted Fallen Heroes, if the implications in 3rd edition are to be believed. This unit would be the Incubi: supposedly, they were once Eldar Striking Scorpions that have left their shrine for one reason or another. The first Phoenix lord of the Striking Scorpions, Arrha, was known to have abandoned his shrine in order to follow some being through a Webway portal while in Dark Eldar territory, potentially making him the first Incubi.
- The Eldar book describes him as "burn[ing] with the dark light of Chaos", so if he isn't an Incubus, he's somethign worse.
- Yu-Gi-Oh gives us the Gigobyte
 /Gagagigo/Giga Gagagigo/Gogiga Gagagigo cards, which describe a young troublemaker who has a Heel Face Turn upon having his life saved, and in trying to gain enough power to help repay his debt, he acquires cybernetic upgrades which eventually eat at his soul and drive him mad. It's a surprisingly detailed story told out not only in the flavor text of his own cards, but in illustrations for other cards that otherwise have nothing to do with him. It's only natural that his story gets played out in one of the video games.
Theatre
Video Games
- In the Halo Universe, Mendicant Bias betrays the Forerunners, who made him with free will (which is what caused this) and then had him communicate with the leader of the Flood, The Gravemind, to the Flood. Then the Forerunners build Offensive Bias, who lacked free will to defeat him. He did, but it was too late. The Forerunners had to activate the Halo Installations, killing all life in the galaxy. Offensive locked MB on the Ark. All the beings were cloned and seeded on their worlds (well, mostly, a few mistakes were made where some beings got placed on the wrong planet, as humanity found a few planets inhabited by humans that nobody knew of). Cut to 100,000 years later, and Mendicant Bias causes the Master Chief and Cortana to go somewhere unknown, to, as he said, show his masters he had atoned for his sins. There is a short history on the end of the Forerunner/Flood War, with an explanation of where John is going (sort of).
- A major plot-point in Squaresoft's Live A Live. A classic Knight In Shining Armor is rapidly deconstructed by being tricked into slaying the king, finding out that his best friend has betrayed him, and finally realizing that the princess he's been trying to save is actually in love with said friend. He becomes the "Demon King", Odio, who has been a recurring Big Bad for the heroes of our world to fight, from the Stone Age to the far future. The aesop, which somehow manages to avoid being Anvilicious, is that anyone can be a Big Bad - as long as they hold enough hatred...
- In Overlord, your enemies are seven Fallen Heroes who represent the Seven Deadly Sins: Melvin Underbelly the halfing (gluttony), Oberon the elf (sloth), Goldo the dwarf (greed), Sir William the paladin (lust), Jewel the thief (envy), Kahn the warrior (wrath), and the Wizard (pride).
- A more literal example would be the title character, who was originally a hero who fought alongside the other heroes, but fell from a great distance and left for dead by his companions. As part of a Xanatos Gambit by the old Overlord the main character was eventually revived by the minions and given the position of Overlord as well as command of the minions.
- In the sequel Queen Fay becomes a Fallen Hero after her Heroic Sacrifice. Florian may also be one although it's unclear if he was ever truly a hero.
Rose: Power, it always corrupts.
Gnarl: Hah, that's half the fun!
- Sargeras in Warcraft originally fought demons for millenia, but eventually fell into thinking it was no help and actually chaos was the only real solution to everything. Just to signify what this meant, his bronze skin split apart, revealing a new body of fire and brimstone.
- Similiarly, the human prince and Paladin Arthas eventually resorted to the cursed blade Frostmourne to slay the demon that was (apparently) behind the plague that turned people into the undead. As a result, it took his soul and turned him into a Deathknight loyal to the Lich King (who, of course, had all that planned from the start).
- Then there's the Death Knights that followed him, which basically constitute entire Orders of Fallen Heroes.. A force of them in Wrath of the Lich King are sent to wreak havoc in Norther Lordaeron... All of which seems to be little more than a ploy to lure out Tirion Fordring, one the few living beings that could even be consider anything close to a threat to the Lich King. They were just a diversion, and as a result of a climactic battle in which Tirion reveals the truth of their betrayal and ultimate expendability pull a Heel Face Turn. The player plays through this entire sequence, including all the irredeemable evil goodness inherent therein.
- And the night elf Illidan, trying to fight fire with fire (or demons with demon magic) eventually became a semi-demon himself.
- In fact, it would be easier to list the War Craft series villains that didn't start this way.
- The Frozen Throne shows how the arrogant-but-decent high eleves turn into the evil, demon-following blood elves they are in World Of Warcraft.
- Neltharion the Earth-Warder, one of the Five Dragon Aspects, charged by the Titans to protect the lands of Azeroth and Dug Too Deep. After a little Mind Rape by the resident Eldritch Abominations he's calling himself Deathwing.
- And, of course Sarah Kerrigan in Star Craft. Though she didn't "fall" so much as "was thrown," and once she got her free will back, she decided she liked being evil.
- The first Diablo has King Leoric, who was strong enough to resist being completely possessed by Diablo but was left an insane and murderous wreck by the ordeal. The second game has all three of the original game's heroes; the Warrior was manipulated into becoming Diablo's new host, the Rogue became Blood Raven, and the mage became The Summoner. And in the third game, apparently every Diablo 2 character except the Barbarian will be Ax Crazy. Blizzard is in love with this trope.
- Ace Hardlight from the fourth Ratchet And Clank game. Ace was once a great hero before being kidnapped and forced to participate in Gleeman Vox's deadly gameshow Dreadzone. Ace eventually became seduced by the thrills and infamy of the tournament, and became the deadliest contestant on the show-and The Dragon to Big Bad Vox.
Clank: I do not understand. What sort of hero would kill other heroes for money?
Hardlight: Not money, tin man. Fun.
- Tons of these in Final Fantasy games.
- Big Boss of Metal Gear Solid was originally a quirky, cheerful, affectionate, paternal sort of man, who ends up going through a major Break The Cutie routine in Snake Eater and Portable Ops. He then ends up creating The Patriots with other "fallen heroes" Major Zero, Sigint (a.k.a. DARPA Chief Donald Anderson), and Para-Medic (aka, Dr Clark, the head of the Les Enfants Terribles project and the one who turned Grey Fox into the Cyborg Ninja), along with Ocelot and EVA and creating Outer Heaven and Zanzibarland to plunge the world into eternal war before meeting his end at the hands of his "son" Solid Snake, which was prophesized by The Sorrow and Elisa.
- Then Metal Gear Solid 4 turns everything on its head with the revelation that Big Boss was always a good guy. In fact, MGS3 and Portable Ops were created specifically so that the big, final reveal of MGS 4 wouldn't come completely out of left field.
- Mass Effect's Saren Arterius serves as a Fallen Hero Knight Templar, the cause of whose fall is a major plot point for the game.
- Who just happens to be a racist, with "lots of practice" in killing unarmed civilians
- Thorndyke in Soul Nomad And The World Eaters, a Lawful Good Knight In Shining Armor goes this route in the Demon Path, initially submitting to The Main Character in order to save his son. As time goes on, he is forced to do worse and worse things until he is tricked into believing he killed his own son, turning him into an Ax Crazy Berserker. When he later sees that his son is alive, Kanan later convinces him that he never went mad and killed because he truly enjoyed it, finally breaking him.
- Of course, if we're talking Demon Path, Revya is possibly the biggest Fallen Hero of them all.
- Mithos (second type), Kratos and Yuan (both first type, one in service of Mithos and the other one opposing him) from Tales Of Symphonia.
- From the Lunar series, Ghaleon qualifies quite well for this trope, having been known as one of the Four Heroes of legend, until the Goddess Althena (whom he was quite possibly in love with) sacrificed herself, along with Dragonmaster Dyne (his best friend) giving up all his power, so that Althena could be reborn as a human being (Luna). Being unable to understand why they had done such a thing, Ghaleon began formulating his plans, culminating in returning Luna to her Goddess state (albeit under his control) and giving him the means to become a God himself. Heck, his entire purpose in Lunar2 turns out to be redemption for this, though the player doesn't learn this until right at the end of the game.
- Jon Irenicus from Baldurs Gate II counts. Prior to his exile from Sulldanesselar he was an upstanding citizen and powerful mage. Pride was his downfall; he was exiled and stripped of his soul for using his power to try and achieve godhood.
- Skies Of Arcadia features Ramirez, The Dragon to Lord Galcian. He's described as having once been pretty similar to Vyse - artistic, kind-hearted, loyal... unfortunately, he was raised in near-isolation by the most arrogant culture in the game and coming into contact with the meaner parts of Arcadia proved a little much for him.
- Disgaea 3 has an example of its own in Super Hero Aurum. He originally was a hero who fought some of the greatest villains his world has ever known, but the more he fought, the further he fell towards obscurity, which he feared more than anything else. He needed to relish in being known as a hero, so he began doing worse things over the years, up to and including killing a nice guy Overlord and raising his son to be a general asshole Overlord just so he could be a hero again. As Sapphire put it, he eventually "ignored being the hero".
- Archer in Fate Stay Night. He gets to have all of the above ways of breaking him. Technically, he still believes his ideal is correct, he just realizes it's way bloodier than he thought it would be and would rather not exist than be forced to continue with it. He pulls off a pretty impressive Batman Gambit to do so.
- Beldr from Devil Survivor is Baldr, god of light and beauty from Norse Mythology. After he became trapped in the underworld as a giantess refused to weep for him, he became determined to spread lament on the Earth until everything cries.
- Malin Keshar from Battle For Wesnoth attempted to use necromancy to defend his home village of Parthyn. However, after being rejected by his own people due to the bad reputation that necromancy has, he becomes the apprentice of Darken Volk, and begins to despise everyone more and more until he's a full-blown Villain Protagonist.
- Tempest Hawker from Super Robot Wars Original Generation was once member of The Federation Agressor unit. After loss his wife and daughter in Hope incident, he will do anything to get revenge on Earth Federation.
- Boy, does Viewtiful Joe have these...
- In the first game Captain Blue is the one masterminding to escape from Movieland to take over the real world, having lost his stride twice, in the real world, he was hailed as revolutionary director, having created several good movies, but then he lost all that, he just wanted to create more heroes, and he was then somehow sucked into one of his films, and he lived all the great adventures he wanted, but then he figured something out, the world was Too Good Too Last, he started to want revenge against the people of the human world. Thankfully, he got some sense knocked into him.
- May not count, but the second game gives us Jet Black, who wanted to become a film maker, to show his son what a true hero was, then he found the Black Film, which started to eat at his desires, eventually twisting his desire to make a film about heroes, to actually wanting to be the hero, and was going to take over the world. Again, he got some sense knocked into him.
- The World Corp storyline in The Nameless Mod allows you to be this.
- Mathias Cronqvist, friend to Leon Belmont, brilliant strategist, noble Crusader, and genius alchemist. The death of his wife Elizabetha shattered his faith in God and he became obssessed with obtaining immortality so that he could curse God forever. And thus was Dracula born.
Web Comics
Western Animation
- The Justice Lords from Justice League, following the death of their Flash, became Knight Templars and transformed their earth into a metahuman-ruled dystopia where dissidents and supervillains were lobotomized. The Superman quote above from the episode "A Better World" is given just before he crosses the line and kills Luthor, who was responsible for Flash's death, with his heat-vision.
- Hector Sinestro in Monster Allergy.
- Morgana in Winx Club until her Heel Face Turn.
- Nerissa in WITCH.
- Blackarachnia of Transformers Animated. Getting abandoned on a hostile planet and suffering nasty Transformation Trauma involving a Giant Spider or twenty would make anyone a little bitter.
- Not to mention Wasp of the same series, who after being falsely accused of being a traitor, spends over fifty years in a prison and goes insane. Poor guy.
- That's not to say he was a decent guy. As Bulkhead put it, "You may not have been a traitor, but you were never a good bot."
- Danny Phantom finds this as his future. He did some pretty disturbing things in that future, too including murdering his human self along with probably hundreds of others and millions in property damages... at least. Quite shocking, given the otherwise childish, campy tone of the series. Danny, upon seeing this is extremely horrified by his actions.
- Shego in Kim Possible according to her backstory.
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