History Main / CuriosityCausesConversion

* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': [[spoiler:After losing his humanity, Koro-sensei, formerly the ruthless assassin known as the Reaper, realized he loved Aguri despite her human flaws and set out to honor her dying wish by teaching Class 3-E. Teaching proves to be just as much a learning experience for him as he grows to love his students and use abilities for something other than death and destruction for once in his life]].

* In ''Manga/Parasyte'', Reiko's strong interest in humans, her kind, and emotions in general lead her to become more human, and grow to care for her son.

* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'' [[BadFuture Dark World Arc]], [[spoiler:this triggers [[TheDragon Twilight Tragedy's]] HeelFaceTurn. She sees [[CheerfulChild Apple Pie]] laugh at one of [[BigBad Discord's]] jokes despite said joke being about a horrible tragedy that had just been inflicted upon the poor filly. Tragedy is [[EvilCannotComprehendGood incapable of figuring out why]], and her curiosity slowly overwhelms her. This also causes her to become curious about ''other'' things, like why she can't remember something Liarjack can. Being told what happened in Old Avalon during the FinalBattle with [[HeroAntagonist Queen Cadence]] begins to trigger old memories buried for over a thousand years. When she finally talks to Apple Pie under the guise of an Earth Pony filly named Half Light Dawn, she finds herself asking other questions about various things that peak her curiosity about Apple Pie's family, gradually undermining her own beliefs on tragedy and other things. This results in a VillainousBSOD that causes her to retreat into her mind and confront herself, finally managing, with the help of Cadence's spirit (or her subconscious appearing to be her), she finally performs a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has [[spoiler: Maddie]] in the sequel. It drives her CharacterDevelopment, even prior to her first appearance, and even helps trigger her HeelFaceTurn.

* Peridot in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' starts to lean toward the Crystal Gems when she felt compassion for the first time while on Earth. She gets more curious on how much she can care for others and ends up experiencing more of what Earth has to offer. This (along with a heated confrontation with her boss) causes her to switch to Steven's side.

->''One case of true curiosity had the same sort of redeeming power in rationality that one case of true love had in movies.''

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* In ''Anime/{{Macross}}'', this along with HumanityIsInfectious caused three Zentradi spies to [[GoingNative go native]]. Also a somewhat similar thing with TheAce on the enemy's side who tries to study and defeat TheAce on the human side. [[spoiler:They end up getting married and have a child.]]

-->-- FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality

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* In ''Anime/{{Macross}}'', this along with HumanityIsInfectious caused three Zentradi spies to [[GoingNative go native]].
** Also a somewhat similar thing with TheAce on the enemy's side who tries to study and defeat TheAce on the human side. [[spoiler:They end up getting married and have a child.]]

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* In ''ComicBook/CartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'', a pagan Roman couple in the arena watch with fascination as a Christian martyr enthusiastically welcomes death by lion ("C'mon! What are you waiting for?"):
--> '''Pagan Man:''' Man, how do they do that?
--> '''Pagan Woman:''' [[CreepyMonotone Must...find...out...]]
* This happens all the time in ''ComicBook/ChickTracts''. Ala "Who is Jesus? Tell me more!" and a few panels later they're crying and begging for forgiveness.

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* John Preston in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' is an interesting case. He was a loyal member of the [[StateSec Tetragrammaton]], but he understands how people who aren't on emotion suppressants act, sort of intuiting emotion. After meeting a resistance member who reminded him of his dead wife, and killing his partner for going off the emotion inhibiting drugs, he accidentally-ish broke the morning vial emotion suppressants. He''llo'' emotion!
** He later finds out that [[spoiler:his son has been off the meds since Preston's wife's execution and has been successfully hiding it from even his own father. Then again, Preston didn't know his wife was off the meds too until too late]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Jack Skellington is deathly bored with running Halloween, so when he accidentally winds up in Christmasland he becomes morbidly curious as to how Christmas "works". Facing BlueAndOrangeMorality, he conducts experiments trying to [[MeasuringTheMarigolds measure the marigolds]] to quantify merriment, deduce generosity, and distill happiness. Eventually he embraces his image of the concept so thoroughly he tries to save Santa the hassle of running Christmas. It went [[GoneHorriblyWrong Horribly Wrong]].
** In other words, this trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. Also, one should note that unlike most trope examples, [[DarkIsNotEvil Jack isn't evil]].

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** The mechanic, but not the trope, is inverted in its spiritual ancestor, ChangelingTheDreaming, where delving into fae lore and power causes one to become less human and more fae but this is unquestionably a Bad Thing, as humanity is the natural state and the dream is the corrupting influence.

* Many colonization efforts in early America went this route-

** Even after this, African slaves still made a run for Indian communities, for the obvious reason that being a slave sucked and they weren't all that quick to believe that Massa was telling the truth about Indians being savages, since Massa himself was a complete asshole. This is most famously the origin of the Black Seminoles. It should be noted that one of the big advantages in expanding the American frontier is that the bigger America got, the harder it was for slaves to run away to Indian tribes and become nearly unfindable.
*** The fact that their captors would've also referred to the slaves' ''own freeborn African ancestors'' as "savages" probably also gave would-be runaways an entirely-different impression of what that word connoted.
** This also explains how so many current African Americans can find Indian ancestry in their lineage.
*** In fact, one might be surprised upon meeting a man as black as the ace of spades to learn that he identifies himself as Cherokee.
* This can also happen regarding religion, but not quite as [[EasyEvangelism easily as is sometimes portrayed.]]
** Also works in reverse (inversion?), where a person investigates their religion trying to answer their questions and concerns about it, and end up leaving the religion altogether; sometimes for another religion, a more personal, toned-down version of their previous one, even outright agnosticism or atheism.
*** This is why many believers-turned-atheists claim that the easiest way to lose one's religion is to read one's holy text cover-to-cover without a middleman interpreting it. Naturally, there's plenty of people who do this on a daily basis and still retain their faith, so the argument is only valid for some people.
**** More generally, sometimes when extremist people with BlackAndWhiteInsanity discover that The Enemy is not the Cult Of Pure Evil they had it hyped as in their mind, they assume that the side they were previously on is Completely Wrong and switch to an equally extreme position on the opposite side. It happens between religion and atheism, between different religions, between political factions, etc., anywhere there are two extreme factions bitterly opposing each other. Instead of reaching a more sane conclusion, sometimes their response to seeing a strong counterexample to their previous prejudices is to just say "GASP! EVERYTHING I'VE EVER KNOWN IS A LIE!!" and rubberband to the opposite extreme position.

* In ''{{Macross}}'', this along with HumanityIsInfectious caused three Zentradi spies to [[GoingNative go native]].

-->-- ''Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality''

->''One case of true curiosity had the same sort of redeeming power in rationality that one case of true love had in movies. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality''

* John Preston in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' is an interesting case. He was a loyal member of the [[ThoughtPolice Tetragrammaton]], but he understands how people who aren't on emotion suppressants act, sort of intuiting emotion. After meeting a resistance member who reminded him of his dead wife, and killing his partner for going off the emotion inhibiting drugs, he accidentally-ish broke the morning vial emotion suppressants. He''llo'' emotion!

* In ''CartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'', a pagan Roman couple in the arena watch with fascination as a Christian martyr enthusiastically welcomes death by lion ("C'mon! What are you waiting for?"):

* John Preston in ''{{Equilibrium}}'' is an interesting case. He was a loyal member of the [[ThoughtPolice Tetragrammaton]], but he understands how people who aren't on emotion suppressants act, sort of intuiting emotion. After meeting a resistance member who reminded him of his dead wife, and killing his partner for going off the emotion inhibiting drugs, he accidentally-ish broke the morning vial emotion suppressants. He''llo'' emotion!

* In ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', Jack Skellington is deathly bored with running Halloween, so when he accidentally winds up in Christmasland he becomes morbidly curious as to how Christmas "works". Facing BlueAndOrangeMorality, he conducts experiments trying to [[MeasuringTheMarigolds measure the marigolds]] to quantify merriment, deduce generosity, and distill happiness. Eventually he embraces his image of the concept so thoroughly he tries to save Santa the hassle of running Christmas. It went HorriblyWrong.

** The mechanic, but not the trope, is inverted in its spiritual successor, ChangelingTheDreaming, where delving into fae lore and power causes one to become less human and more fae but this is unquestionably a Bad Thing, as humanity is the natural state and the dream is the corrupting influence.

* In ''PowerRangersMysticForce'', Itassis wonders how the Power Rangers keep beating the Ten Terrors, as the Terrors are more powerful than the Rangers are. Being more of a AntiVillain than the others, she goes to the Rangers and asks them their secret. They answer "courage", and she eventually abandons the Terrors to learn more.

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