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* The Cirinist from ''Comicbook/{{Cerebus}}'' were originally a group of mothers who worked together to help their community. Over the course of the first 1/3 of the series they go from a creepy MonsterOfTheWeek to a major political party to an oppressive matriarchy and eventually the closest thing to a BigBad the series has.

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* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': The Cirinist from ''Comicbook/{{Cerebus}}'' were originally a group of mothers who worked together to help their community. Over the course of the first 1/3 of the series they go from a creepy MonsterOfTheWeek to a major political party to an oppressive matriarchy and eventually the closest thing to a BigBad the series has.



* Basically ''everyone'' in the ''Comicbook/TheWalkingDead'' is like this, as all the survivors were more or less just normal people [[ZombieApocalypse until the world ended]]. [[TheHero Rick]] was just a smalltown cop, Michonne was apparently a lawyer, Maggie was a farmer, Glenn was a ''pizza delivery boy'', and even infamous BigBad Negan was a simple used car salesman. Now, several years after the end of civilization as we know it, all of them have become some of the most capable, dangerous, and canny individuals around. Special mention though goes to The Governor, Philip Blake, who was [[spoiler: a meek, ineffectual, divorced failed businessman cum music geek named '''Brian''' before becoming the sadistic, raping, power-crazed, insane, mass-murdering tyrant who would cripple Rick, rape and torture Michonne, and kill off fully half the cast during his notorious assault on the prison in ''Made To Suffer''.]]
* In ''Comicbook/{{Wanted}}'', Wesley Gibson started out as a weak-willed and pacifistic individual and eventually becoming a monster with his father's ImprobableAimingSkills. [[spoiler:This was all masterminded by his father, who hated how Wesley's mother raised him and wanted him to "man up" by embracing his supervillain heritage.]] Arguably the [[Film/{{Wanted}} film version]] is a less evil variation, where Wesley just becomes a badass instead.

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* Basically ''everyone'' in the ''Comicbook/TheWalkingDead'' ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' is like this, as all the survivors were more or less just normal people [[ZombieApocalypse until the world ended]]. [[TheHero Rick]] was just a smalltown cop, Michonne was apparently a lawyer, Maggie was a farmer, Glenn was a ''pizza delivery boy'', and even infamous BigBad Negan was a simple used car salesman. Now, several years after the end of civilization as we know it, all of them have become some of the most capable, dangerous, and canny individuals around. Special mention though goes to The Governor, Philip Blake, who was [[spoiler: a meek, ineffectual, divorced failed businessman cum music geek named '''Brian''' before becoming the sadistic, raping, power-crazed, insane, mass-murdering tyrant who would cripple Rick, rape and torture Michonne, and kill off fully half the cast during his notorious assault on the prison in ''Made To Suffer''.]]
* In ''Comicbook/{{Wanted}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', Wesley Gibson started out as a weak-willed and pacifistic individual and eventually becoming a monster with his father's ImprobableAimingSkills. [[spoiler:This was all masterminded by his father, who hated how Wesley's mother raised him and wanted him to "man up" by embracing his supervillain heritage.]] Arguably the [[Film/{{Wanted}} film version]] is a less evil variation, where Wesley just becomes a badass instead.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Chronin}}'', the BigBad Azai turns out to be a younger son from a minor and impoverished samurai family who thanks to cunning, fighting ability and [[spoiler:knowledge of the future]] managed to scheme his way into power and then grow that power until he occupied a position of great power in the shogunate. As Magistrate of Kyoto, he is exceedingly effective in his efforts to both counter and quash the revolutionaries and to play the delicate and dangerous game of politics in the shogunate. Fortunately, as capable and ruthless as Azai is, [[spoiler:he's also reasonable, and Mirai manages to convince him that he has no chance of accomplishing his goals for reforming Japan by working with the shogunate, and in the end he crosses over to the side of the heroes.]]
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': "The Eagle and the Mountain" gives us the story of a lowly slave named Kiyu, and how he eventually becomes Infidel, the reality-shattering EvilSorcerer ArchEnemy of Samaritan.
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** Galvatron and Arcee, who [[DecompositeCharacter is not a reformatted Megatron in IDW 2005]], started out as siblings in the gladiatorial slave pits. After Megatronus, AKA the Fallen, overthrew their leader and recruited them into his military, Galvatron would become a genocidal warlord who became the first person to kill a Prime without being one. Following a stay in the Dead Universe, he would nearly destroy Cybertron, then become the leader of the post-Megatron Decepticons and prove to be so dangerous that even Optimus Prime opted to ShootTheDog rather than accept his surrender. Arcee, meanwhile, had her gender affirmation surgery go badly thanks to consulting a MadScientist over it and would spend the period after her release from spark containment as a rampaging killer who viewed repeatedly dismembering said mad scientist as a form of therapy prior to eventually calming down and moving on with her life.

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** Galvatron Arcee and Arcee, Galvatron, who [[DecompositeCharacter is not a reformatted Megatron in IDW 2005]], started out as siblings in the gladiatorial slave pits. After Megatronus, AKA the Fallen, overthrew their leader and recruited them into his military, Galvatron would become a genocidal warlord who became the first person to kill a Prime without being one. Following a stay in the Dead Universe, he would nearly destroy Cybertron, then become the leader of the post-Megatron Decepticons and prove to be so dangerous that even Optimus Prime opted to ShootTheDog rather than accept his surrender. Arcee, meanwhile, had her gender affirmation surgery go badly thanks to consulting a MadScientist over it and would spend the period after her release from spark containment as a rampaging killer who viewed repeatedly dismembering said mad scientist as a form of therapy prior to eventually calming down and moving on with her life.
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** Galvatron and Arcee, who [[DecompositeCharacter is not a reformatted Megatron in IDW 2005]], started out as siblings in the gladiatorial slave pits. After Megatronus, AKA the Fallen, overthrew their leader and recruited them into his military, Galvatron would become a genocidal warlord who became the first person to kill a Prime without being one. Following a stay in the Dead Universe, he would nearly destroy Cybertron, then become the leader of the post-Megatron Decepticons and prove to be so dangerous that even Optimus Prime opted to ShootTheDog rather than accept his surrender. Arcee, meanwhile, had her gender affirmation surgery go badly thanks to consulting a MadScientist over it and would spend the period after her release from spark containment as a rampaging killer who viewed repeatedly dismembering said mad scientist as a form of therapy prior to eventually calming down and moving on with her life.

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