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No, All The Tropes. [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|''You'' are the demons.]]

 

 

A popular variation of this is for protagonists to have this thrust on them as an [[Emergency Transformation]], and/or use (or attempt to use) [[Heroic Willpower]] to avoid the [[Face Heel Turn]] frequently associated with this trope and use the powers [[Cursed with Awesome|for the cause of good]]. Results may vary. Of course, it is also possible for this to happen to villainous characters, [[Humanity Ensues|particularly]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|Non-human]] villains, though it is certainly possible for this to happen to human villains, especially in stories where [[The Virus]] has strong presence, but is not the sole villainous force. Depending on the villain and the type of transformation in question, results can and often will vary even more than heroic characters suffering this.

* In ''[[Shiki]]'', {{spoiler|almost every character ends up as a vampire, including the protagonist}}.

* In ''[[Kakurenbo]]'', the main character wins the game of hide-and-seek by being the last child to be found... and then is given the honor of being the new "it", that is, he becomes a demon himself.

* In ''[[Shikabane Hime]]'', {{spoiler|Ouri turns out to be part Shikabane}}.

* In "Umineko no Naku Koro Ni" EP5, "End of the Golden Witch,{{spoiler|Battler, who has been fighting to deny Witches up to this point, becomes a Sorcerer(basically the male equivalent of one) and takes Beatrice's place as the Game Master.}}

* ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'': And then Souma was a [[Taken for Granite|petrified]] Orochi. He saw it coming, though, and try to use the Orochi powers contaminating his body to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. He recovers later.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Blizzard seems to love the trope.

** 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.}}

* Possible example: In ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'', at a particular point that marks roughly the midpoint of the game, the protagonist is converted into a Strogg in all but allegiance. Were it not for a very well timed raid by the good guys, our hero would have crossed the point of no return, as he was almost the entire way through the [[Painful Transformation|conversion process]] by that point. He then became a [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3clVvh5gbGE Wanna see?]

* The Bydo ''love'' pulling this on humanity's heroes in the ''[[R-Type]]'' series.

** Then there's ''R-Type FINAL'', in which one of the [[Multiple Endings]] leads to the player getting converted into a hybrid Bydo/human/R9-Series...[[Biological Mashup|thing]]...and is sent back to the ''first level of the game,'' fighting both the Bydo as well as its former comrades. (It's worth noting that at the start of the game, you can ''see'' your future Bydo self [[Stable Time Loop|fly by at the very start of the level]]!)

* In the end of ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Luigi ends up as part of Dimentio's plan and pilots a giant robot before being cured by Mario. It ''was'' implied something might happen to Luigi a few minutes before that, though.

* In ''[[Castlevania (Nintendo 64)|Castlevania 64]]'s'' [[Downer Ending]], you get this on two levels; a side character, Vincent the vampire killer, becomes a vampire. Also, Carrie agrees to marry Malus (Dracula), to which he ominously notes that they have "a binding contract".