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* In ''Literature/EthanFrome'', most of the narrative is Ethan telling the narrator about how he was unhappily married to a hypochondriac shrew named Zeena and longed to be with her sweet and vivacious cousin Mattie instead. When Ethan finishes telling his story, he invites the narrator into his home where one of the two women there begins loudly complaining about pretty much everything possible. We're led to believe that this woman is Zeena, until Ethan introduces her to the narrator as ''Mattie''. As another character points out, being rendered unable to walk by a horrific accident and consequently forced to live with the woman who hates her for trying to steal her husband away will sour even the sweetest of dispositions over time.
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** Even Harry himself isn't immune. His already-short temper gets a LOT worse in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' due to both his age and being shunned by almost everyone he knows thanks to the Ministry slandering him.
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** Even Harry himself isn't immune. His already-short temper gets a LOT worse in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' due to both his age age, his trauma, and being shunned by almost everyone he knows thanks to the Ministry slandering him.
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** Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
** In ''Literature/ProvostsDog'', Beka's mentor Tunstall goes from being the paternal and easygoing half of his and Goodwin's OddCouple in ''Terrier'' to a grouch who goes out of his way to antagonize the group's NiceGuy mage at any opportunity and harshly reprimands Beka for getting emotional over the fact that they can't do anything for a ''giant heap'' of brutally murdered people. Probably due to the insecurities that come with him aging, career prospects, and the nasty comments his relationship with Lady Sabine attracts. [[spoiler:Those are the reasons he turns ''traitor'', after all.]]
** In ''Literature/ProvostsDog'', Beka's mentor Tunstall goes from being the paternal and easygoing half of his and Goodwin's OddCouple in ''Terrier'' to a grouch who goes out of his way to antagonize the group's NiceGuy mage at any opportunity and harshly reprimands Beka for getting emotional over the fact that they can't do anything for a ''giant heap'' of brutally murdered people. Probably due to the insecurities that come with him aging, career prospects, and the nasty comments his relationship with Lady Sabine attracts. [[spoiler:Those are the reasons he turns ''traitor'', after all.]]
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** Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology.''Literature/TrickstersDuet''. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
** In''Literature/ProvostsDog'', ''Literature/BekaCooper'', Beka's mentor Tunstall goes from being the paternal and easygoing half of his and Goodwin's OddCouple in ''Terrier'' to a grouch who goes out of his way to antagonize the group's NiceGuy mage at any opportunity and harshly reprimands Beka for getting emotional over the fact that they can't do anything for a ''giant heap'' of brutally murdered people. Probably due to the insecurities that come with him aging, career prospects, and the nasty comments his relationship with Lady Sabine attracts. [[spoiler:Those are the reasons he turns ''traitor'', after all.]]
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** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible environment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
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** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged acknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible environment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
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* In the ''Literature/FortunesOfWar'' series, the main character Piper treats her fellow officer Judd "Scanner" Sandage much more abrasively in the second book, ''Battlestations!'', than in the first book, ''Dreadnought!''. She uses her size advantage to physically intimidate him, is almost verbally abusive at times, and generally treats him like crap.
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* Literature/Sherlock Holmes pretty famously became a bigger asshole than he ever was before from "The Empty House" and onward. Given that Doyle hadn't wanted to resurrect the character, it's hard not to see this change as a result of his bitterness.
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* Literature/Sherlock Holmes Literature/SherlockHolmes pretty famously became a bigger asshole than he ever was before from "The Empty House" and onward. Given that Doyle hadn't wanted to resurrect the character, it's hard not to see this change as a result of his bitterness.
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** Ron temporarily went through this in ''Deathly Hallows'', where he leaves Harry and Hermione on their own...only to come back and apologize. He makes up for this by destroying the Horcrux [[HatePlague that caused him to act like a jerk]].
** Even Harry himself isn't immune. His already-short temper gets a LOT worse in ''Order of the Phoenix'' due to both his age and being shunned by almost everyone he knows thanks to the Ministry slandering him.
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** Ron temporarily went through this in ''Deathly Hallows'', ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'', where he leaves Harry and Hermione on their own...only to come back and apologize. He makes up for this by destroying the Horcrux [[HatePlague that caused him to act like a jerk]].
** Even Harry himself isn't immune. His already-short temper gets a LOT worse in''Order ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix'' Phoenix]]'' due to both his age and being shunned by almost everyone he knows thanks to the Ministry slandering him.
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* Percy Weasley and Cornelius Fudge from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both start out fairly nice, if a bit pompous then turn against Dumbledore. Of the two, Percy gets better. Fudge seemingly also return to normal as of the 6th book when he loses his position as Minister Of Magic.
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* Percy Weasley and Cornelius Fudge from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both start out fairly nice, if a bit pompous then turn against Dumbledore. Of the two, Percy gets better. Fudge seemingly also return returns to normal as of the 6th book when he loses his position as Minister Of Magic.
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** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible enviroment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
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** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible enviroment,]] environment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
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* Adam Parrish, who was easily one of the nicest characters in ''The Raven Boys,'' had this happen in [[Literature/TheRavenCycle The Dream Thieves]]. He gets better by the end of the book and it's implied to be a result of [[spoiler: his sacrifice the Cabeswater and his father's abuse taking its toll on him]] but the contrast is still jarring. Heck, for most of the book he makes [[JerkAss Ronan]] look like a sweetheart in comparison.
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* Adam Parrish, who was easily one of the nicest characters in ''The Raven Boys,'' had this happen in [[Literature/TheRavenCycle The Dream Thieves]]. He gets better by the end of the book and it's implied to be a result of [[spoiler: his sacrifice the to Cabeswater and his father's abuse taking its toll on him]] but the contrast is still jarring. Heck, for most of the book he makes [[JerkAss Ronan]] look like a sweetheart in comparison.
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* Adam Parrish, who was easily one of the nicest characters in ''The Raven Boys,'' had this happen in [[Literature/TheRavenCycle The Dream Thieves]]. He gets better by the end of the book and it's implied to be a result of [[spoiler: his sacrifice the Cabeswater and his father's abuse taking its toll on him]] but the contrast is still jarring. Heck, for most of the book he makes [[JerkAss Ronan]] look like a sweetheart in comparison.
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* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': Reynard is portrayed far less sympathetically as the series goes on, committing acts that rankle even his best friend. This is one of the main features of the series, seeing as it is a Deconstruction of the LoveableRogue trope.
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* Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
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** Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
** In ''Literature/ProvostsDog'', Beka's mentor Tunstall goes from being the paternal and easygoing half of his and Goodwin's OddCouple in ''Terrier'' to a grouch who goes out of his way to antagonize the group's NiceGuy mage at any opportunity and harshly reprimands Beka for getting emotional over the fact that they can't do anything for a ''giant heap'' of brutally murdered people. Probably due to the insecurities that come with him aging, career prospects, and the nasty comments his relationship with Lady Sabine attracts. [[spoiler:Those are the reasons he turns ''traitor'', after all.]]
** Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
** In ''Literature/ProvostsDog'', Beka's mentor Tunstall goes from being the paternal and easygoing half of his and Goodwin's OddCouple in ''Terrier'' to a grouch who goes out of his way to antagonize the group's NiceGuy mage at any opportunity and harshly reprimands Beka for getting emotional over the fact that they can't do anything for a ''giant heap'' of brutally murdered people. Probably due to the insecurities that come with him aging, career prospects, and the nasty comments his relationship with Lady Sabine attracts. [[spoiler:Those are the reasons he turns ''traitor'', after all.]]
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* Sarai Balitang of the ''Literature/DaughterOfTheLioness'' duology. She stops being NiceToTheWaiter in the second book, stops listening to anyone else's opinions and accuses them of being complacent and unwilling to act (unable to realize they're actually plotting revolution), and at one point threatens Aly with a riding crop. Easily justified [[spoiler:by the fact that her father died horribly in the first book and she's not in a place where dealing with that properly can be done]].
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* ''Sisterhood'' series by Creator/FernMichaels: Oh, man! Many of the characters start out as relatively nice, and then become more and more like {{Jerkass}}es as the series goes on. Charles Martin notes in the book ''Vanishing Act'' that the Vigilantes are treating him with little respect, when they used to defer to his judgement before. Charles is hardly a saint himself in terms of behaviour. However, their attitudes come back to bite them hard in the book ''Deja Vu'', and they seem to have dropped the Jerkassitude (ha, ha!) by the book ''Home Free''.
* King Orrin in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. He begins as a somewhat dissolute, but brave and intrepid young man and a vital component of the Varden (Orik even says that the Varden couldn't exist without his hard and dangerous work). However, stress, as well as feeling under-appreciated and overshadowed lead to a drinking problem in between ''Brisingr'' and ''Inheritance'', which leads to his taking a level in jerkass.
* King Orrin in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. He begins as a somewhat dissolute, but brave and intrepid young man and a vital component of the Varden (Orik even says that the Varden couldn't exist without his hard and dangerous work). However, stress, as well as feeling under-appreciated and overshadowed lead to a drinking problem in between ''Brisingr'' and ''Inheritance'', which leads to his taking a level in jerkass.
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* ''Sisterhood'' series Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: Oh, man! Many of the characters start out as relatively nice, and then become more and more like {{Jerkass}}es as the series goes on. Charles Martin notes in the book ''Vanishing Act'' that the Vigilantes are treating him with little respect, when they used to defer to his judgement before. Charles is hardly a saint himself in terms of behaviour. However, their attitudes come back to bite them hard in the book ''Deja Vu'', and they seem to have dropped the Jerkassitude (ha, ha!) by the book ''Home Free''.
* King Orrin in the''Literature/InheritanceCycle''.Literature/InheritanceCycle. He begins as a somewhat dissolute, but brave and intrepid young man and a vital component of the Varden (Orik even says that the Varden couldn't exist without his hard and dangerous work). However, stress, as well as feeling under-appreciated and overshadowed lead to a drinking problem in between ''Brisingr'' and ''Inheritance'', which leads to his taking a level in jerkass.
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** Another debatable one is [[TeenGenius Astrid Ellison]]. She started the series with [[SoapboxSadie very strong morals]] which she loyally stuck to, and often was the one to break up fights and encourage equality between the freaks and the normals. Sure, she had a few jerkass moments [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation which might or might not be justified]], but she certainly wasn't a shit head to half the magnitude or consistancy as 90% of Perdido Beach, and may even of been a rolemodel to real life girls. Then she got seriously, seriously bitchy. It was pretty bad in ''LIES'', when she humiliated Mary by telling the entire town about her bulimia just to distract from the fact she lied to the entire town, but ''PLAGUE'' just took the trope up to 11. [[spoiler: throwing her brother out of a window]] might be the most exxagerated example of this trope. Now; did she get better or worse during ''FEAR''? [[BrokenBase That's the real question.]]
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** Another debatable one is [[TeenGenius Astrid Ellison]]. She started the series with [[SoapboxSadie very strong morals]] which she loyally stuck to, and often was the one to break up fights and encourage equality between the freaks and the normals. Sure, she had a few jerkass moments [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation which might or might not be justified]], but she certainly wasn't a shit head to half the magnitude or consistancy as 90% of Perdido Beach, and may even of been a rolemodel to real life girls. Then she got seriously, seriously bitchy. It was pretty bad in ''LIES'', when she humiliated Mary by telling the entire town about her bulimia just to distract from the fact she lied to the entire town, but ''PLAGUE'' just took the trope up to 11. [[spoiler: throwing her brother out of a window]] might be the most exxagerated exaggerated example of this trope. Now; did she get better or worse during ''FEAR''? [[BrokenBase That's the real question.]]
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** Ron temporarily went through this in ''Deathly Hallows'', where he leaves Harry and Hermione on their own...only to come back and apologize. He makes up for this by destroying the Horcrux [[HatePlague that caused him to act like a jerk.jerk]].
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* Joni from ''Webcomic/BoyMeetsBoy'' is shown as a good, somewhat tomboyish straight girl and friend of gay teens Paul and Tony. But then she hooks up with dumb jock Chuck, who is really [[spoiler: most likely dating her out of spite for a previous girl who spurned his advances]], and things go downhill from there. Although her friends try to like Chuck, it's no good and then they ''don't'' try very hard to hide how much he annoys them. Even so, this doesn't excuse Joni for giving all of them (except Chuck) the silent treatment, not returning calls, or dropping completely out of their lives after about a decade of friendship. To her credit, [[spoiler: she probably goes back to making nice with Paul and Tony in the end]].
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** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible enviroment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
** Another debatable one is [[TeenGenius Astrid Ellison]]. She started the series with [[SoapboxSadie very strong morals]] which she loyally stuck to, and often was the one to break up fights and encourage equality between the freaks and the normals. Sure, she had a few jerkass moments [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation which might or might not be justified]], but she certainly wasn't a shit head to half the magnitude or consistancy as 90% of Perdido Beach, and may even of been a rolemodel to real life girls. Then she got seriously, seriously bitchy. It was pretty bad in ''LIES'', when she humiliated Mary by telling the entire town about her bulimia just to distract from the fact she lied to the entire town, but ''PLAGUE'' just took the trope up to 11. [[spoiler: throwing her brother out of a window]] might be the most exxagerated example of this trope. Now; did she get better or worse during ''FEAR''? [[BrokenBase That's the real question.]]
** [[GenkiGirl Brianna]] could qualify. In book 1 she was a sweet, somewhat hyper but nice girl. In book 5, she's a mouthy, egocentric borderline sociopath.
*** Could be argued that all characters ([[TookALevelInKindness sans Diana]]) had to do this in order to survive.
** Argubly [[TheHero Sam]] [[TheEveryman Temple.]] In the first book he's described as the third most kind person in a town of 400 kids (Mary and Edilio ''just'' beating him). He, even though he knew the risks, took on the task of looking after everyone in the FAYZ and was sympathetic and sincere to all the kids, and didn't seem to have any alterior motives of all but to make sure everyones safe. he didn't ''want'' to be the leader per se, but he wanted to help people through their problems and didn't ask for anything in return, even though the kids were usually complete asswipes to him. Fastforward to ''FEAR'' and he's (in no particular order); cheated on his girlfriend and then tried to blame it on her, made out with a girl nearly 4 years younger than him, tried to pressure his girlfriend into non-consensual sex, refused to save the town unless the dying folk adknowledged that they "needed him", told his best friend that he didn't care about anyone and got drunk on the illegal booze '''HE''' outlawed. Justified in that, 9/10 of the people there are complete douches too, and after spending so long in such a [[CrapsackWorld terrible enviroment,]] you can't ''really'' blame him if it rubbed off on him too.
** Another debatable one is [[TeenGenius Astrid Ellison]]. She started the series with [[SoapboxSadie very strong morals]] which she loyally stuck to, and often was the one to break up fights and encourage equality between the freaks and the normals. Sure, she had a few jerkass moments [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation which might or might not be justified]], but she certainly wasn't a shit head to half the magnitude or consistancy as 90% of Perdido Beach, and may even of been a rolemodel to real life girls. Then she got seriously, seriously bitchy. It was pretty bad in ''LIES'', when she humiliated Mary by telling the entire town about her bulimia just to distract from the fact she lied to the entire town, but ''PLAGUE'' just took the trope up to 11. [[spoiler: throwing her brother out of a window]] might be the most exxagerated example of this trope. Now; did she get better or worse during ''FEAR''? [[BrokenBase That's the real question.]]
** [[GenkiGirl Brianna]] could qualify. In book 1 she was a sweet, somewhat hyper but nice girl. In book 5, she's a mouthy, egocentric borderline sociopath.
*** Could be argued that all characters ([[TookALevelInKindness sans Diana]]) had to do this in order to survive.
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* Roger and Jack from ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''.
* Percy Weasley and Cornelius Fudge from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both start out fairly nice, then turn against Dumbledore. Of the two, Percy gets better [[spoiler: just in time for one of his brothers to get killed]].
* Nick Carraway from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' becomes more and more sarcastic toward the end of the novel, since [[spoiler:the girl people tried to hook him up with turned out to be a fraud and his friend Gatsby got killed by his cousin's abusive husband's lover's widower. [[DeusAngstMachina Kind of a lot to swallow]]]].
* Joni from ''Webcomic/BoyMeetsBoy'' is shown as a good, somewhat tomboyish straight girl and friend of gay teens Paul and Tony. But then she hooks up with dumb jock Chuck, who is really [[spoiler: most likely dating her out of spite for a previous girl who spurned his advances]], and things go downhill from there. Although her friends try to like Chuck, it's no good and then they ''don't'' try very hard to hide how much he annoys them. Even so, this doesn't excuse Joni for giving all of them (except Chuck) the silent treatment, not returning calls, or dropping completely out of their lives after about a decade of friendship. To her credit, [[spoiler: she probably goes back to making nice with Paul and Tony in the end]].
* Nathaniel in ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' starts out as a kid you can sympathize with and becomes a complete {{Jerkass}} as he becomes more and more invested in the magicians' society.
* Rand al'Thor in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' gets harder and colder as the series goes on, a combination of the trials of his position and his traumatic experiences (he's pretty mad as of book 7 and spirals downward into insanity from then on). [[FromBadToWorse This gets really bad]] in The Gathering Storm, where he starts alienating even his closest friends and allies[[spoiler: to the point of nearly killing his own father out of misplaced rage and paranoia]], before finally having a breakthrough while [[spoiler: having a good old therapeutic StrawNihilist rant and conversation with the voice in his head upon the site of the death of his last incarnation 3000 years ago]]..
* Onestar from ''Literature/WarriorCats''. He's a NiceGuy early on, but after becoming the leader of [=WindClan=], he becomes more of a jerk as he attempts to prove his Clan's independence.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by Creator/FernMichaels: Oh, man! Many of the characters start out as relatively nice, and then become more and more like {{Jerkass}}es as the series goes on. Charles Martin notes in the book ''Vanishing Act'' that the Vigilantes are treating him with little respect, when they used to defer to his judgement before. Charles is hardly a saint himself in terms of behaviour. However, their attitudes come back to bite them hard in the book ''Deja Vu'', and they seem to have dropped the Jerkassitude (ha, ha!) by the book ''Home Free''.
* King Orrin in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. He begins as a somewhat dissolute, but brave and intrepid young man and a vital component of the Varden (Orik even says that the Varden couldn't exist without his hard and dangerous work). However, stress, as well as feeling under-appreciated and overshadowed lead to a drinking problem in between ''Brisingr'' and ''Inheritance'', which leads to his taking a level in jerkass.
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* Percy Weasley and Cornelius Fudge from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' both start out fairly nice, then turn against Dumbledore. Of the two, Percy gets better [[spoiler: just in time for one of his brothers to get killed]].
* Nick Carraway from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' becomes more and more sarcastic toward the end of the novel, since [[spoiler:the girl people tried to hook him up with turned out to be a fraud and his friend Gatsby got killed by his cousin's abusive husband's lover's widower. [[DeusAngstMachina Kind of a lot to swallow]]]].
* Joni from ''Webcomic/BoyMeetsBoy'' is shown as a good, somewhat tomboyish straight girl and friend of gay teens Paul and Tony. But then she hooks up with dumb jock Chuck, who is really [[spoiler: most likely dating her out of spite for a previous girl who spurned his advances]], and things go downhill from there. Although her friends try to like Chuck, it's no good and then they ''don't'' try very hard to hide how much he annoys them. Even so, this doesn't excuse Joni for giving all of them (except Chuck) the silent treatment, not returning calls, or dropping completely out of their lives after about a decade of friendship. To her credit, [[spoiler: she probably goes back to making nice with Paul and Tony in the end]].
* Nathaniel in ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' starts out as a kid you can sympathize with and becomes a complete {{Jerkass}} as he becomes more and more invested in the magicians' society.
* Rand al'Thor in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' gets harder and colder as the series goes on, a combination of the trials of his position and his traumatic experiences (he's pretty mad as of book 7 and spirals downward into insanity from then on). [[FromBadToWorse This gets really bad]] in The Gathering Storm, where he starts alienating even his closest friends and allies[[spoiler: to the point of nearly killing his own father out of misplaced rage and paranoia]], before finally having a breakthrough while [[spoiler: having a good old therapeutic StrawNihilist rant and conversation with the voice in his head upon the site of the death of his last incarnation 3000 years ago]]..
* Onestar from ''Literature/WarriorCats''. He's a NiceGuy early on, but after becoming the leader of [=WindClan=], he becomes more of a jerk as he attempts to prove his Clan's independence.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by Creator/FernMichaels: Oh, man! Many of the characters start out as relatively nice, and then become more and more like {{Jerkass}}es as the series goes on. Charles Martin notes in the book ''Vanishing Act'' that the Vigilantes are treating him with little respect, when they used to defer to his judgement before. Charles is hardly a saint himself in terms of behaviour. However, their attitudes come back to bite them hard in the book ''Deja Vu'', and they seem to have dropped the Jerkassitude (ha, ha!) by the book ''Home Free''.
* King Orrin in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. He begins as a somewhat dissolute, but brave and intrepid young man and a vital component of the Varden (Orik even says that the Varden couldn't exist without his hard and dangerous work). However, stress, as well as feeling under-appreciated and overshadowed lead to a drinking problem in between ''Brisingr'' and ''Inheritance'', which leads to his taking a level in jerkass.
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