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See also, [[We Want Our Jerk Back]], [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]].
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* While in the past two or three volumes, she was [[Ax Crazy|murderously insane]] in pretty much every single chapter, in volume 8 of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'', Chiri returns to her original characterization as [[Super OCD|very uptight]], but still somewhat the [[Straight Man]].
* Orihime from ''[[Bleach]]'' is an odd case of rerailment due to [[Character Development]] instead of undoing [[Character Derailment]]. She has recently gone back to being her humorous, perky self like how she was to begin with rather than the [[Broken Bird|broken, emotional character]] she's been portrayed as throughout the Hueco Mundo arc as a result of being kidnapped and watching her [[Love Interest]] being beaten to near death. This is because all her issues from said arc were wrapped up and she was free to be a content person once more.
* Mamoru Chiba from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was subjected to quite the [[Character Derailment]] in the R season, going from a polite young man who still [[Brutal Honesty|didn't unnecessarily sugarcoat his words]] and ''did'' tell his (much-younger) girlfriend and her friends what he had in his mind, to a [[Angst
* Jessie, James, and Meowth, the [[Terrible Trio|Team Rocket trio]] from the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime were first introduced as true members of the evil Team Rocket organization, constantly obeying their leader [[Big Bad|Giovanni]] all the time, but after their obsession with capturing Ash Ketchum's Pikachu began in the show's second episode, they started to ignore Giovanni and went after Pikachu and occasionally, some other random Pokemon instead, which inevitably resulted in them constantly getting kicked around and "being blasted off again" every single time, even when Ash continued his journeys from Kanto into Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh. However, by ''Best Wishes'', poor Jessie, James, and Meowth were eventually "rescued" by a stronger member of Team Rocket and as a result the three all [[Took a Level In Badass]] after being trained back into true Team Rocket members again. This means that they must now obey Giovanni again, they cannot steal other Pokemon again, and especially, they can't blast off again anymore (they are all given jetpacks so they can escape from an extremely dangerous situation, especially if "the twerps" are involved, which is completely against Giovanni's rules).
** That said, a lot of their fandom was gained as a result of their [[Badass Decay]] into a trio of [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|stooges]]. As always in the [[Broken Base]] of Pokemon, there are people who like them taking a level in badass and people who prefer them to be lovably pathetic.
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** For Nightwing, it was a case of rerailment or death. Dan Didio has stated that it was originally planned to have Nightwing die at the end of [[Infinite Crisis]] (if you've read it, you can probably figure out where), and he kind of implies that Devin Grayson's handling of the character is one of the reasons.
** This seems to be a pattern with Batman characters, including the case of Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl... for a while, at least. After she was revealed to [[Face Heel Turn|have thrown out her heroic side and become evil]], later writers ret conned this by saying that she was under the control of Deathstroke through a drug, only to have her swing ''back'' to killing people again. Poor girl can't catch a break.
* Hal Jordan of the [[Green Lantern
* Writer [[Peter David]], who wrote ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' for 12 years, disliked the changes made by a subsequent writer so much that when he came back to write the title, he had the entire previous storyline revealed to have been [[All Just a Dream]].
* At this point, there are at least three different characterizations of [[Magneto]], with authors repeatedly [[Armed with Canon|rerailing one by derailing the others]]. [[Chris Claremont]]'s tormented [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] is the most complex, but [[Grant Morrison]]'s [[Complete Monster]] is arguably closer to the character's roots. Any attempt to argue which characterization is the "true" one is [[Flame War|inadvisable]].
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* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Crisis Core]]'' did this for the ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' cast, particularly Cloud, Aerith and Yuffie. They weren't exactly the same as before, but this was [[Justified Trope]] by the game being set five years before the original game, and they were a lot closer to their original counterparts than they were in ''Advent Children'' and ''Dirge of Cerberus''. Aerith got her flirtiness and [[Plucky Girl]] traits back, Cloud regained his sense of humour and realistic levels of [[Angst]], and Yuffie regained her snarkiness and manipulativeness.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Cataclysm'' turned Sylvanas back into her old bitchy, vengeful, bitter, snide, condescending, determined, manipulative self that had been gone since [[Warcraft III]].
* In the ''[[Pokémon]]'' series, there's usually a Pokemon intended to be a bad guy in each generation except for [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|the second]] (the fourth has ''two''): [[Pokémon Red and Blue|Mewtwo]], [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Deoxys]], [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|Giratina and Darkrai]], and [[Pokémon Black and White|Genosect]]. Most of them (Genosect pending) are given the [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]] treatment in the [[Pokémon (anime)|anime movies]] - With Mewtwo, Deoxys, and Giratina, it stuck, but Darkrai, who was portrayed as [[Would Hurt a Child|putting a child into an endless slumber for no real reason]] in his initial appearance, was hastily retconned into having his deadly Nightmare ability as a defense mechanism after ''The Rise Of Darkrai'' portrayed him as an [[Anti-Hero]]. However, after his role in ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'', in which he stands with [[Pokémon Ranger|Purple Eyes]], {{spoiler|[[Pokémon Black and White|Ghetsis]]}} and Grings Kodai as one of the biggest [[Complete Monster
** Curiously enough, in the ''Mystery Dungeon'' games, both Mewtwo and Deoxys (the latter being the first game's [[True Final Boss]]) in the first game and Giratina in the sequel are for some reason all depicted on the side of good. Now guess who the bad guy is, considering all of this...
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser]] after becoming a lame sitcom dad who just wanted to ruin Mario's vacation in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' actually became a [[Galactic Conqueror]] in both ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', where not only did the Koopa King want to take over the entire Mushroom Kingdom, but also all of outer space as well.
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[[Category:Characterization Tropes]]
[[Category:YMMV Trope]]
[[Category:Character Rerailment]]
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