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* 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]]y and broken mess who acted borderline abusive to her, badmouthing her to keep her away and safe, and caused her lots of turmoil (which once almost ''killed her'' since he would not tell her what he ''did'' have his reasons... when in fact said reasons ''did'' involve her and she had all the right to know). Fortunately, once he finally told her the truth and the arc reached its end, Mamoru's [[Out of Character]] half-season was put in a shelf and he returned to be the Senshi's [[Big Brother Mentor]] and a kind yet sincere boyfriend to Usagi. [[Never Live It Down|Too bad fandom won't let him live it down, though]]....him being put heavily [[Out of Focus]] in the next few seasons didn't help matters either.
* 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
** 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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* [[X-Men|Gambit]] started off as a [[Rule of Cool]]-based, [[Mr. Fanservice]] [[Manipulative Bastard]] [[Handsome Lech]] [[Death Dealer|Death Dealing]] [[Badass Longcoat]] who relished the challenge of getting his hands on the [[Forbidden Fruit]] Rogue, though stymied by his self-centered [[Jerkass]] qualities and the large number of people he pissed off in his thief career. Then, Rogue left him to die in Antarctica. After this, the result was a lot of [[Angst]] on Gambit's part, whose characterization was changed from the previously-described version to a [[Angst|Self-loathing]] [[The Atoner|Atoner]] desperate to punish himself for his (morally blameless) role in the Morlock Massacre. More recent adaptations, however, have reached back to the character's roots: ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine|X Men Origins Wolverine]]'' showed Gambit as competent, charming, handsome and relatively low-angst [[The Gambler|card-sharp]] who won a [[Cool Plane]] in a poker game, and ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'' had Gambit as a mercenary, ruthless, charming, manipulative thief for hire (albeit in only two episodes). Whether or not this trend will continue is currently unknown.
* The entire purpose of ''[[One More Day]]'' was to get Spider-Man single again and make him "young and fresh" again. In order to do this, he was made to [[Character Derailment|make a deal with Mephisto to save an OLD WOMAN from dying, at the cost of his wife and unborn child]], then was reset to being single, "young and fresh", and....living with his elderly aunt again. Safe to say, this [[This Loser Is You|didn't work out so well]], but later writers have done their best to salvage it.
* Shatterstar's an odd case in that the "rerailment" wasn't to his original characterization. ''[[X-Force]]'' had him slowly lose his rage, but handled it believably, and didn't give him [[Badass Decay]]. Rob Liefeld's work on the series snapped him back to his old self, but didn't do much with the possibilities involved. ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' toned him down again, and has had more of a positive reception.
* Speedball's infamous transition from wacky comic relief to self-hating [[The Atoner|atoner]] in ''[[Civil War]]'' has been undone, redone, and partially undone again as different writers debate over the character. As of ''Heroic Age'', he's still haunted by his memories, but he's slowly recovering.
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** 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.
** Similarly, King Boo was actually first introduced as [[Nightmare Fuel|a demonic, sinister, and outright terrifying villain]] in his debut game, ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'', but by ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' he was redesigned in a way so that he now looks almost completely silly and ridiculous-looking, before being redesigned again for the spinoffs so that he now looks like what is basically a giant Boo with a crown on his head. Justified for ''Sunshine'', since that King Boo is actually just an illusion created by [[Overlord, Jr.|Bowser Jr's]] magic paintbrush, and is confirmed by Nintendo to be a separate character than the one we know more of (his Japanese name in that game is also different); the spinoffs, not so much. However, the upcoming sequel ''[[
* ''[[Mortal Kombat 9]]'' does this to most of its cast. Johnny Cage is shown as being a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Hollywood douchebag with a heroic spirit]], instead of the [[Butt Monkey]] who serves no purpose aside from being killed off as a gag. Likewise, Jax goes from being a stereotypical Blaxploitation hero back to his role as the [[Badass]] [[Straight Man]] of the cast. And [[Big Bad|Shao Kahn]] finally stops being a regular playable character, and returns to his spot as the overpowered [[Final Boss]].
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