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* Some Yu-Gi-Oh cards have images that tell stories. One is the Gagagigo series; it starts as the Gigobyte, who wants to fight monsters... and ends with Gogiga Gagagigo, whose soul has ceased to exist and his body only moves on a drive for power. Then there's Warrior Dai Grepher; the first card of his story shows him and other warriors and spellcasters fighting demonic creatures. Then the series goes on and he becomes Dark Lucius. In Sakuretsu Armor, Dark Lucius [[LV 6]] can be seen striking down some of the people he fought alongside in that first card.

** Gigobyte starts down the road to [[Start of Darkness|evil soulessness]] by modifying himself to get more power to defeat the [[Big Bad|Invader of Darkness]]. Since the story is spread over the flavor texts of many cards over a few different expansions, it doesn't come as too much of a surprise. The compiled story is [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Gagagigo here] if you're interested.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' gives us Karn, a golem created to fight the Phyrexians. But his heart was a Phyrexian stone, normally used for insta-[[You Have Failed Me]]. This stone contained, like all artifacts of Phyrexian origin, [[From a Single Cell|the oil]], which took hold on Mirrodin. Karn [[Subverted Trope|almost gave in]] to the Praetors' whispers.

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' gives us Karn, a golem created to fight the Phyrexians. But his heart was a Phyrexian stone, normally used for insta-[[You Have Failed Me...]]. This stone contained, like all artifacts of Phyrexian origin, [[From a Single Cell|the oil]], which took hold on Mirrodin. Karn [[Subverted Trope|almost gave in]] to the Praetors' whispers.

** The Innistrad Block has a fetish for these, and with good reason, as the story line has nearly all monstruousities coming from mankind. In particular, "church warrior becomes zombie" seems to be very popular.

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== Film ==

* ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] 4: The Return of Michael Myers'' had this at the end with the little girl holding Michael's butcher knife, implying that she has become the new killer.

* The [[~~Re Cut~~|Producer's Cut]] of ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]: The Curse of Michael Myers'' ended with Dr. Loomis being marked with the [[The Corruption|Curse of Thorn]] to imply that he would carry on Michael's taint. This was one of many things dropped in the theatrical version, although this one happened because [[Donald Pleasence]] died.

* The [[Recut|Producer's Cut]] of ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]: The Curse of Michael Myers'' ended with Dr. Loomis being marked with the [[The Corruption|Curse of Thorn]] to imply that he would carry on Michael's taint. This was one of many things dropped in the theatrical version, although this one happened because [[Donald Pleasence]] died.

* At the end of the ''[[30 Days of Night]]'' movie, the protagonist has to become a vampire in order to fight off the vampires that have been eating everyone. {{spoiler|He dies very shortly thereafter due to watching the sunrise with his girlfriend (so he'll die and not eat anyone).}}

* In the ''[[Doom]]'' movie, Reaper is dying and his sister subjects him to the chromosome which had turned everyone else into monsters. [[Deus Ex Machina|Luckily]] (and perhaps subverting this trope) he is among the small percent of humans who ''don't'' turn into monsters when exposed to it and instead become 'angels'.

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* A similar ending occurs in the 1983 film ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch]]''.

* [[Ken Russell]]'s 1988 film ''[[The Lair of the White Worm]]'' also concludes in a similar fashion.

* Occurs in ''[[~~Dragon Ball~~ Evolution]]'' when Goku turns into the Oozaru, said to be an unstoppable servant of Piccolo, after having spent the movie determined to defeat Oozaru. Only after {{spoiler|killing Roshi}} does he get out of it. This is not the case in the original source material, where the Oozaru is not mentioned until Goku transforms for the first time.

* Occurs in ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]'' when Goku turns into the Oozaru, said to be an unstoppable servant of Piccolo, after having spent the movie determined to defeat Oozaru. Only after {{spoiler|killing Roshi}} does he get out of it. This is not the case in the original source material, where the Oozaru is not mentioned until Goku transforms for the first time.

* In ''[[Pumpkinhead]]'', a man summons a spirit of vengeance (the titular Pumpkinhead) after his son is accidentally killed by reckless teenagers. Realizing how screwed up things have become, he tries to stop Pumpkinhead, to do so, he himself must die. At the end of the film the man has to become the next Pumpkinhead.

* In ''[[Van Helsing]]'', the Live Action movie, Van Helsing becomes a werewolf to battle Dracula because apparently vampires are weak against werewolves.

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* The end result in ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'' for changelings whose [[Sanity Meter|Clarity]] gets too low and their [[Power Levels|Wyrd]] too high. They leave for Arcadia and become exactly the same as the monster who kidnapped and abused them in the first place.

** [[White Wolf]] in general is in love with this trope, as it is likely to come into play in both versions [[Vampire: The Masquerade|of]] [[Vampire: The Requiem|Vampire]] [[Hunter: The Reckoning|and]] [[Hunter: The Vigil|Hunter]], old [[Wraith: The Oblivion|Wraith]], [[Kindred of the East]], and ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]''. It is also possible in [[Mage: The Ascension|both]] [[Mage: The Awakening|Mages]], [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]], [[Changeling: The Dreaming]], and [[Orpheus]]. The list just goes on....

* [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer ~~40000~~]] use this trope heavily. In 40k, it is [[Turned Up to Eleven]], where not only do you turn into a demon, but you also have a good chance of winding up causing the deaths of billions. The pen and paper RPGS [[Dark Heresy]] and [[Rogue Trader]] feature extensive rules on corruption by the Ruinious Powers just to fit this trope.

* [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]] use this trope heavily. In 40k, it is [[Turned Up to Eleven]], where not only do you turn into a demon, but you also have a good chance of winding up causing the deaths of billions. The pen and paper RPGS [[Dark Heresy]] and [[Rogue Trader]] feature extensive rules on corruption by the Ruinious Powers just to fit this trope.

* This is a quite common fate for any investigator in [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]], ranking perhaps just below "killed by horrible monster existing in fourteen dimensions at once," "lab rat or soul-in-a-jar for horrible monster," "spends remainder of his or her life eating cockroaches in a padded cell," and "gets brain stolen by horrible monster."

* Subverted in [[The Whispering Vault]]: People who investigate the [[Eldritch Abomination|Unbidden]] and survive tend to be turned into [[Humanoid Abomination|Stalkers]]...but given how a Stalker's entire purpose is to [[Dark Is Not Evil|protect reality from Unbidden and retain most of their human personality]], this comes off more as a transhumanist reward.

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** It's uncertain how long [[Hero of Another Story|Tal Rasha]] held out containing Baal this way, but considering the Diablo 2 expansion, it's probably safe to say that anyone who fights demons succumbs to this in some degree.

*** And again in Diablo 3. Leah, niece of Deckard Cain starts off as a genuinely [[Lawful Good]] character. Then she finds out that {{spoiler|her Mom is an evil witch, and her dad is the wanderer from Diablo 2. She becomes corrupted by the soulstone after capturing a few more demons in to it (thus becoming an even more powerful version of) Diablo herself.}}

** In ''[[~~Starcraft~~]]'', Kerrigan fights the Zerg during the Terran campaign but becomes one during the Zerg campaign. {{spoiler|[[Dark Action Girl|She]] [[~~Starcraft~~ II|gets]] better.}}

** In ''[[StarCraft]]'', Kerrigan fights the Zerg during the Terran campaign but becomes one during the Zerg campaign. {{spoiler|[[Dark Action Girl|She]] [[StarCraft II|gets]] better.}}

** Similarly, Arthas and Illidan in ''[[Warcraft]] III''. Note that in the cases of Kerrigan and Arthas, the trope is in that they become leaders of the factions that they opposed, not those that they first joined.

*** Sylvannas fights Arthas' undead right up to the point where she was killed and resurrected as a banshee.

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* The ending of the original ''[[Condemned]]'' seems to imply that main character Ethan Thomas has become one of the demonic freaks causing all the chaos in the game. The sequel josses this, as Ethans winds up as a burned out alcoholic bum, {{spoiler|and the demonic freaks [[Voodoo Shark|are really just an ancient mystical cult]].}}

* At the end of ''Apocalypse'', Bruce Willis's character is [[Demonic Possession|demonically possessed]].

* In the end of ''[[Alone in ~~The~~ Dark]] 2008'', [[Morton's Fork|either Carnby or Sarah]] becomes a demon of Lucifer.

* In the end of ''[[Alone in the Dark]] 2008'', [[Morton's Fork|either Carnby or Sarah]] becomes a demon of Lucifer.

* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', Sora {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|impales himself with Riku's Dark Keyblade in order to free Kairi's heart]], releasing her from her catatonic state. In the process, he becomes a Heartless ''and'' creates two Nobodies: Roxas (himself) and Naminé (Kairi). Of course, it doesn't stick, Kairi leads him back to the light, but in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', you will occasionally turn into Anti-Sora when activating a Drive Form.}}

** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth by Sleep]]'': {{spoiler|By continuing to use the darkness, Terra's heart is weakened. The straw that broke the camel's back was [[Complete Monster|Master Xehanort]] orchestrating Terra's [[Rage Against the Mentor|emotionally-supercharged duel with Master Eraqus]] and then [[Shoot the Dog|killing a weary Eraqus just as he and Terra were calming down from and remorsing over their fight]]. When Terra gives into his [[Unstoppable Rage|rage]], unleashing the full extent of his inner darkness, Xehanort uses this as the perfect opportunity to [[Grand Theft Me|take over Terra's body]]. Thus, Terra has become the one thing he's hated the most: ''Xehanort himself''. [[Tragic Hero|Luckily for him]], [[The Woobie|and several others across the series' timeline, including his close friends Ventus and Aqua]], [[Messianic Archetype|Sora]] [[Earn Your Happy Ending|is going to earn a happy ending for them]].}}