Adaptational Villainy: Difference between revisions

* Generally speaking, this trope is usually in effect for characters subjected to the "[[Ron the Death Eater]]" treatment (when they aren't "merely" twisted into obnoxious jerks). In fact, it's all there in the trope name: there are an ''astounding'' amount of ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfics where Ron Weasley, a good-hearted, loyal, steadfast friend, ends up becoming a [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Death Eater]] out of jealousy and spite towards his friends.

* In ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13655556/chapters/31364238 Troop of Beasts]'', since Kakarot never hits his head, he never becomes the kind, happy Goku. After successfully killing Gohan (which he does while in full possession of his faculties, rather than after turning into an Oozaru), he slaughters everybody he comes across. Oh, and after forcing Colonel Violet to show how children are made, he starts violating huge numbers of women. Then, after the Red Ribbon Army is defeated, he becomes a warlord who subjugates many communities through brutal conquest. While he [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|comes to deeply care for his family and those he calls friends]] and [[Took a Level In Kindness|becomes more pleasant overall]], he's still not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination.

* While already an example of this trope in the [[Pokémon]] anime, Sabrina manages to be even worse in ''[[Pokémon Reset Bloodlines]]''. Much to Ash's horror, the Sabrina of the timeline he's stranded in isn't ''just'' a psycho who turns people into dolls that she can torment forever, but a murderous, sociopathic [[Social Darwinist]] who wants to cleanse the world of people she deems "weak" and "useless". Tellingly, Ash doesn't defeat her by having his clown of a Haunter make her laugh and trigger a [[Heel Face Turn]]. Instead, he swipes her badge and runs the hell away while she comes after him with an army of Psychic Pokémon.

* While Count Varley never appears in [[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]], Bernadetta and Yuri both paint a very vivid picture of him being an abusive father and terrible person in general, while ''Three Hopes'' would reveal that he's also one hell of a [[Dirty Coward]] when he finally appears in the flesh. Even then, he's far from the bloodthirsty war criminal that he is in ''[[The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation]]'', and never gets up to anything nearly as bad as butchering entire civilian populations.