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* Gilbert in ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' is an especially tragic example of this.
* Wrath in [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' starts out as a kind and innocent kid who loves life, but after being corrupted by Envy and getting his memories back he becomes a sadistic psychopath. {{spoiler|He gets better eventually.}}
* In the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' manga, this adds a new dimension of creepy to the [[Humans Are Bastards|genocidal]] [[Big Bad|Sensui]] and his dimension-warping [[The Dragon|Dragon ]] Itsuki, when Itsuki says he started hanging around Shinobu ''in the first place'' because he could see that the [[Tyke Bomb|boy's]] [[Black and White Morality|perfect]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|blind]] [[Dissonant Serenity|innocence]] was just waiting to [[Go Mad From the Revelation|be]] [[Split Personality|shattered]], and he wanted to be there to enjoy it.
** '''"A little girl who believes babies come from storks growing up to be in pornos...[[Evil Feels Good|I love that kind of thing.]]"''' Makes you wonder what that TV show he used as his redeeming human characteristic to stop Shinobu from killing him actually was.
** In the anime he just comes across as obsessively in love, though. The fangirls love him.
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* A particularly odd case of this would be Yamcha of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' fame as revisionist history seems to paint him as some kind of womanizer in recent video games and such. Despite being a rather [[Badass]] desert bandit (who rapidly underwent [[Badass Decay]]), he was a [[Shrinking Violet]] any time he was near a woman. Early on he got together with Bulma, a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who always accused Yamcha of cheating ''any time another girl even looked at him'' ([[Bishounen|which was admittedly, often]]), despite him not looking back at them. (Eventually, Bulma ended up with Vegeta, with their son Trunks describing the version of events he was told as Yamcha cheating first before she ended up with his father.)
* Played in ''[[Hellsing]]'' TV series with both Seras Victoria's and Integra Hellsing's different temptations during the series.
* Implied to happen to Manami in ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]''. She starts out as being a bubbly, cute girl who befriends the outcasted protagonist, however after her boyfriend dumps her she spirals into a depression and becomes suicidal. She's taken in by a gang of boys who get her into sex, drugs, and alcohol.. And next time we see her she's become the antagonist of the manga, being an extremely manipulative [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] with a [[Girl Posse]] who enjoys abusing people for her own needs.
* Vincent of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' is hinted to want to do this to Ada.
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** The [[Tina Fey]] movie ''[[Mean Girls]]'', starring [[Lindsay Lohan]].
** And especially, ''especially'', ''Thirteen'' (not that [[Thirteen|one]]). The protagonist starts out as a sweet [[Purity Sue]] and ends as a drug-addicted, sex-crazed pickpocket.
* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]'' has the main protagonist helping a group of girls get back at John Tucker and turning into the [[Alpha Bitch]] in the process.
* In a ''slightly'' rarer male version, Will Stronghold has a [[Corrupt the Cutie]] sequence in ''[[Sky High]]''. This being a feel-good family-oriented movie, he gets better.
* Jenny from ''[[Forrest Gump]]''. It's debatable if she got better as she ends up dying from a disease (probably AIDS) she gets in her former lifestyle, but is redeemed as a person.
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** Then there's the long, long arc of Sam, his psychic powers, and the fear that he will '[[Face Heel Turn|go darkside]],' because as a family of [[The Hunter|hunters]] their default assumption is that anything supernatural is probably evil. [[Crapsack World|This assumption is usually justified.]] When Sam refuses to lead hell's army, demon Lilith steps into the [[Evil Power Vacuum]] to wreak havoc, [[Despair Event Horizon|killing his brother Dean in front of him]]. Sam thinks demon [[Evil Mentor|Ruby]] is teaching him to use powers fueled by [[Psycho Serum|demon blood]] to make him strong enough to kill Lilith and prevent the Apocalypse, so he follows her lead even though it alienates his resurrected brother and he [[This Is Your Brain on Evil|knows]] it's corrupting him, since he doesn't [[Driven to Suicide|doesn't expect to survive]].<br /><br />By the end of season four, he beats up his brother, who [[Berserk Button|called him a monster]], in order to return to Ruby and gain the power to kill Lilith, even letting Ruby drain a possessed woman for it. Even [[Light Is Not Good|the angels]] were manipulating him to this end. Unfortunately, it was all a [[Thanatos Gambit]], so [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|no ambiguity]] about whether [[I Did What I Had to Do|the ends justified the means]].
*** After Sam starts the [[Signs of the End Times|prelude to Apocalypse]] by [[Unwitting Pawn|killing]] [[Apocalypse Maiden|Lilith]], thus releasing [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Lucifer]] from his prison, Sam learns that the final goal for Azazel's [[Batman Gambit]] was actually to get him to say "yes" as Lucifer's chosen vessel so Lucifer could [[The End of the World as We Know It|raze the world]]. At the end of season five, {{spoiler|he finally does say "yes" [[Redemption Quest|just]] [[Must Make Amends|so he can]] [[Fighting From the Inside|take Lucifer]] [[Self-Sacrifice Scheme|back into his prison]] even though being locked in there with a vengeful Satan is a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], so}} the corruption [[Heroic Sacrifice|doesn't stick]].
** Many of Azazel's other chosen children, notably Ava, who started kind and very normal and very intentionally resembled Sam, and who went violently insane during the months she was trapped at Cold Oak.
** Castiel gets this season six. You could say Dean started the corruption in season four, but that's [[Humanity Is Infectious|a different kind]]. The Free Will Castiel came to value through helping Dean by choosing humanity over his [[The Evils of Free Will|brothers' goal]] to have [[Did Godzilla Just Punch Out Cthulhu|Michael and Lucifer fight]] doesn't offer the same moral certitude as he was used to as a warrior angel, and in season six, Castiel's soldier-like willingness to do anything for the cause {{spoiler|gets ''completely'' [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|out of hand]] so that he winds up [[Moral Event Horizon|offing his dearest lieutenants]] when they find out that he's working with a demon and trying to save the world by risking opening a door better left unopened [[Jumped Off the Slippery Slope|that might destroy the world]]. And then he [[Kick the Dog|drives Sam insane]] ''as a distraction''. He ''risked the fate of the world'' for this guy a couple of years ago. Then Castiel went [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|completely overboard]] and [[A God Am I|declared himself God]].}} He was wrong.
*** Castiel in season seven {{spoiler|gets [[Drunk on the Dark Side]], goes on a [[Disproportionate Retribution|murderous rampage]] with the help of [[The Corruption]], has an [[Ignored Epiphany]] from Dean, becomes a [[Knight Templar]], and inadverently releases a horde of [[Eldritch Abominations]] on the world, pretty much justifying all Dean's efforts to talk him down or kill him if he couldn't.}}
** Don't forget that "the First Seal shall shatter when a righteous man sheds blood in Hell. As he breaks so shall it break." Dean and Sam ''both'' got this between seasons three and four.
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