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* At the ending of ''[[The Thing (Film)|The Thing]]'', it appears as though the Thing was killed in an explosion. However, Mac and Childs are still around, and it's not revealed whether or not they had been infected, leaving them to wait and see what happens.

* All the alternative endings of ''[[The Ruins]]'' show the [[Final Girl]] succumbing to the evil {{spoiler|plant spores}} in some way, while it is suggested in the theatrical one.

* In ''[[Timecrimes]]'', Hector gets stabbed in the arm and chased through the forest by a man in a black coat with his head covered by bandages. Then he travels backwards in time an hour, cuts his head, and begins bandaging the cut. Realizing that he's in a [[Stable Time Loop]], Hector completely wraps his head in bandages, then takes a pair of scissors and attacks his past self, deliberately causing the series of events that led to his climbing into the time machine an hour ago.

* In the 1990 remake to ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' Ben is badly wounded by Cooper during the night and as a last resort locks himself in the basement against the zombie horde. When we last see him, the door seems to be holding, but Ben has no supplies and his wound is worsening. When Patricia returns the next day with a group of locals, they eventually manage to open the door to the basement, and encounter the now zombified Ben.

* And then, the [[Star Wars|Jedi]] Anakin Skywalker became the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader.

* {{spoiler|Needy}} becomes part-demon after surviving Jennifer's attack in ''[[Jennifer's Body]]''.

* ''[[Waves Put Out The Wind]]'' by the brothers Strugazkiys has a commission that ensures that no [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] can improve human history unnoticed. One of employees gets some hidden superpowers activated while investigating a superhuman organization. {{spoiler|He remains well-intentioned but becomes too inhuman to not gradually his contact with humanity. All "ludens" (annagram of inhuman in Russian and a reference to "Homo Ludens" - human that plays) have this fate. }}

* ''[[Shinigami God of Death]]'' by Django Wexler has the younger of two sisters {{spoiler|bring her mother and her older sister back to life, using the same method the Lightbringer did. Unfortunately, this causes her to be imprisoned as he was.}}

* ''[[Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter]]'' has the twist ending of...well, guess.

* ''[[Goosebumps]]'':

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', this happens to {{spoiler|AU![[Kamen Rider Hibiki|Hibiki]].}} In fact, this trope is a common theme throughout the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' franchise, although the difference is that they ''were'' the "zombies" in the first place or take the source of their power from the very monsters they fight.

** For a straight example, the earlier titular ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'', {{spoiler|by virtue of overtaxing his use of his [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|King Form]] (which uses the powers of all the [[Monster of the Week|Undead]] he has captured), is already slowly becoming a Joker-type Undead himself.}} In order to prevent [[The End of the World As We Know It|the impending apocalypse a single remaining Joker Undead would cause]], {{spoiler|he chose to [[Heroic Sacrifice|go through it and transform into an Undead himself]], putting the apocalypse on deadlock.}}

* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark]]'': In "The Tale of the Chameleons", Janice gets turned into a chameleon and drowned in a well, and her [[Evil Twin]] plans to do the same to her friend and the rest of her family.

* ''[[The Vampire Daries]]'' does this multiple times. First with Caroline's {{spoiler|dad who choses not to complete the transformations}} and later with {{spoiler|Alaric who is turned into an Original Vampire just to become the world's greatest vampire hunter.}}

* The backstory of Byakuren Hijiri in ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]] 12'' is this played sympathetically; originally a youkai-hunting priestess, Byakuren came to appreciate her youkai allies more than her human ones, and that combined with the fear of death drove her to transform herself into a youkai. Sanae recieves a warning that [[He Who Fights Monsters|she who hunts youkai]] may become one, as well. In her profile, it's mentioned that Alice was a human who became a youkai to pursue power. In supplementary materials, Marisa is confirmed to experiment with methods of gaining immortality, but in one game she refuses to eat an immortal person's liver to get it. Reimu also has that option, and doesn't balk at the ''method'' so much as the idea of becoming anything remotely inhuman.

* In ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]'', after several days of battling Noise, {{spoiler|Rhyme}} undergoes an [[Emergency Transformation]] and eventually manifests as one. Subverted slightly in that the transformation only serves to introduce her as a [[Living MacGuffin]], rather than invoking any [[Internal Conflict Tropes]] on her part.

* Happens in ''[[Metal Slug]] 2/X'' and ''3'', with MS2/X setting the players against mummies, and MS3 being the literal trope. {{spoiler|The clones of your abducted comrade? They join in on the fun, too!}}

* Happens in one of Kichikuou Rance's endings, where Rance, depressed either for Sill's death or absence (if the player is taking too long in rescuing her) finally gives in to Satera's suggestions of becoming the Demon King, committing immediately after a [[Moral Event Horizon]] {{spoiler|cruelly killing poor Miki, who, crushed by the betrayal, lets herself be hacked during hours, since she's ''that'' tough.}} Then he becomes a powerful Demon King, who crushes without trouble the human nations, with Satera at his side.

* Attempted by Chief in [[Arby 'n' the Chief]], when his Machinima character, also named Jon, becomes an alien after fighting in a war against them. The effect was [[Crowning Moment of Funny|not as he intended]].

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQ3RqEOF44 Herobrine]'' ends with {{spoiler|George Smith becoming a new Herobrine.}}

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