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There are many ways this could happen. For example:
* The character willingly abandons their previous life and physical form in order to [[
* The character [[You Kill It, You Bought It|killed the previous incarnation of the abstract concept]], so they must take its place as an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]].
* The character obtains this in a metaphorical sense through purity of action. For example, a [[Big Bad]] is so evil and so spiteful that it becomes [[As Long as There Is Evil|a being of pure hate]].
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Often overlaps with:
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]], if the character becomes an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of an abstract concept.
* [[Apotheosis]], when a character becomes a god (usually without dying first).
* [[
* [[Deity of Human Origin]], if the character becomes the deity of an abstract concept, or if in becoming an abstract concept, they gain powers equivalent to a [[Physical God]].
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Quite often invokes "[[I Am the Trope]]." Contrast [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]], [[Omnicidal Maniac]], and [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]. Contrast or compare [[Pure Is Not Good]] and [[Made of Evil]], the latter of which can overlap depending on the context.
{{examples|Examples }}▼
== Anime
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'': This is a Magical Girl and Duck prima donna who is said to be hope itself.
* The concept of ''La Persona Superiore a Dio'' (The Person Higher Than God) in ''[[
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' is the former [[Trope Namer]] and gave us the Alternative Title: Becoming Hope. Explanation is a spoiler for all the series: {{spoiler|Madoka's wish makes her become Ultimate (Goddess) Madoka, the abstract concept of hope which exists beyond time and space. She erases all witches (past, present, and future, including ''her own'') from existence, thus preventing magical girls from becoming Witches}}.
** However, it's made apparent that Mami is being merely poetic, {{spoiler|as Madoka becomes closer to a physical law of the universe or some sort of deity than anything else}}, especially after ''[[The Movie|Rebellion]]''.
== Comic Books ==
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** It is mentioned that Despair was killed at some point a long time ago, and replaced by a new Despair, but there are no details whether or not the new one was a person who turned into Despair or something else completely.
* An example (or six) is demonstrated in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfiction [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-light-never-goes-out.html 'The Light Never Goes Out']. After a couple of decades<ref>
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* An example (or six) is demonstrated in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfiction [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/07/story-light-never-goes-out.html 'The Light Never Goes Out']. After a couple of decades<ref> not to mention after half the mane cast had gotten married and started families</ref> it becomes clear what bonding to concepts such as laughter, honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, and magic would actually ''do'' to mortal ponies. Now it is the bicentennial of Luna's return....
== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'', ''[[
* Near the end of [[Brandon Sanderson]]'s ''[[Mistborn]]'' {{spoiler|Vin}} takes up the mantle of {{spoiler|Preservation, a shard of Adonalsium (essentially, she becomes a God), and ends up locked in opposition to her much more experienced counterpart Ruin.}}
** Many of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere works seem to incorporate this in some way, with the Shards of Adonalsium.
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]''. Each of the first five books features a mortal who becomes an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] ([[The Grim Reaper|Death]], Time, War, [[The Hecate Sisters|Fate]] and [[Mother Nature|Nature]]).
* The titular character in Libba Bray's ''[[Gemma Doyle]]'' trilogy is called Lady Hope by the people of the Realms, as she
* In the
* This is a major element in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Lord of Light]]'':
▲* In the Brasilian book [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Batalha_do_Apocalipse The Battle of the Apocalypse], God {{spoiler|becomes the spark of free will and evolution within all human souls}}.
{{quote|''Godhood is more than a name. It is a condition of being.... Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that those who look upon you know this without hearing your name spoken.... One rules through one's ruling passion. Those who look upon gods then say, without even knowing their names, "He is Fire. She is Dance. He is Destruction. She is Love."''}}
== Live-Action TV ==
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** This is further explored in the ''[[Kamen Rider OOO|Let's Go Kamen Riders]]'' movie.
{{quote|'''Owner:''' Even if Rider history changes, it seemed the memories people have of Riders don't changed. People's memories create time. In other word, as long as people's memory exist Kamen Riders will endlessly revived.}}
* In the ''[[Star Trek: The
* In ''[[Star Trek]]: [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'', Kes essentially does this in "[[wikipedia:The Gift (Star Trek: Voyager)|The Gift]]" when she [[Put on a Bus|leaves the crew]], but not before giving the morales of her crewmates a literal boost by sending Voyager nearly 10,000 light years closer to home.
* There's a [[Doctor Who/Fridge|theory in the Doctor Who fandom]] since they utilised a variation on the myth of Pandora's Box in the form of the Pandorica -all the dark and scary things that were let ''out'' of the box were represented by the Doctor. Pandora herself can be symbolised by Amy, and the person who [[Unbroken Vigil|remained with the box for ''over two thousand years'']] was Rory: hope. At the very least he was elevated to a mythical figure.
** But this Pandora's Box was being used by the [[Evil Alliance]], so it makes sense that what was being let out of the box is considered evil and scary ''to them'' - ie. good to everyone else including the viewers.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In the ''Kamigawa'' cycle in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', {{spoiler|Michiko Konda}} fuses with her spirit world counterpart to become a living embodiment of the barrier between the mortal world and the spirit world, ending the spirit war in the process.
* In ''[[Planescape]]'', the souls of the dead can be reborn as the [[
** Further, when such a being dies in its native plane, they merge with the plane itself. The Abyss is pure chaotic evil because it's forged from the countless evils of every soul that has ever gone there, while Mount Celestia is built, stone by stone, from the lawful goodness of every soul that ended up there, and so on.
* The most powerful of the gods in [[Scion]] are unique in their ability to assume "Purview Avatars", temporarily becoming intelligent manifestations of a certain aspect of reality with unlimited power. A god can literally turn into The Glory, The Abyss, or The Reaper.
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* ''[[Exalted]]'': this is the nature of Primordials - they're an embodiment of a concept, such as Hierarchy and the Rules (She Who Lives In Her Name) or Backstabbing Dickery (the Ebon Dragon). Which means that when an Infernal takes (Yozi) Cosmic Principle, this happens to him. (He can also create his own embodied concept, but he can't truly ''become'' it in the same way due to the Charms required to do so.)
** Ironically, it's by averting this trope that the Devil Tiger path allows the Infernals to become more than their predecessors. By remaining an embodiment of themselves, rather than a concept, they avoid the Primordial's [[Crippling Overspecialization]].
== Video Games ==
* Hazama in ''[[
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' Ares wanted Kratos to become {{spoiler|death itself by becoming the ultimate warrior}}. To accomplish this, Ares tried to remove his humanity by tricking Kratos into {{spoiler|killing his family}}. Unfortunately for Ares, all this did was [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|piss Kratos off]].
** In ''3'' it's hinted that {{spoiler|Athena}} has become something higher that a god, following the explanation of {{spoiler|why the gods became evil between ''1'' and ''2''}} it can be guessed that {{spoiler|Athena has become Greed itself}}
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', Zeromus (the trope namer for [[As Long as There Is Evil]]) ends up the living embodiment of hate, born from the sheer hate of the slain Zemus.
* In ''[[Adventure Quest]]'', the player character literally becomes the avatar of Hope during the last chapter of the Devourer Saga.
* ''[[Live a
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* At the end of book six of ''[[Fans]]'', Lord Feral becomes the alphabet itself, succeeding the inventor of phonetic writing.
* Lord Kyran of ''[[Emergency Exit]]'', also known as Lord Hate. To this Troper's memory, the idea is never fully explained, but he seems to personify and subsist on the hate of all beings.
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