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* In the book version of ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'', Ripley gets away with everything. On the other hand, Ripley spends the rest of his life in paranoid fear of the police, wondering if the next cop he sees has figured out what Ripley has done.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Roland Sullivan in ''Lethal Justice'' learned this the hard way. However, it is does not cause him to [[Heel Face Turn]]...possibly because he's too spineless and weak to do it.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' has {{spoiler|Theon Greyjoy}}. After he {{spoiler|takes Winterfell}}, he thinks everyone he betrayed would stay his friends and accept him as their new leader. Instead, he gets [[
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** [[Wraith: The Oblivion|Wraiths]]: Your Shadow, your resident [[Enemy Within]], grows more and more powerful, working against everything you care about. When it's [[Split Personality Takeover|finally able to take over]], you become one of the local servants of Oblivion, and now work to the destruction of everything.
** [[Genius: The Transgression|Geniuses]]: (yes, it's fanmade, but shut up): the you that's actually, well, ''you'' slowly dissipates and your personality is overtaken by some strange, [[Eldritch Abomination|unknown and terrifying will]] that leads you to [[Ax Crazy|horrible acts]]. Also, the Geniuses who ''haven't'' given in to Illumination (likely including your friends and [[Mentor]]) will hunt you down and kill you. Granted, at that point it could be considered a [[Mercy Kill|mercy]] to ''you''.
* The fate of most servants of Chaos in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. Sure, the lucky few become immortal and godlike Daemon Princes, but the vast majority is doomed to become consumed by their emotions and end up as blood-crazed berserkers who live only to kill and die in battle, jaded hedonists who have to keep doing more and more depraved things simply to feel something, sorceress who are forever driven to expand their knowledge in an attempt to reach an impossible goal, or disease-ridden husks who are kept alive by supernatural powers despite their bodies rotting away. That is, if you don't simply end up becoming a mindless mass of betentacled gribblyness because of all the mutations you've been receiving, or simply sacrificed, as cannon fodder, as an experiment, to slate the hunger of ravenous daemons, as a sex toy to rapacious daemons, or simply [[For the Evulz]].
* Do enough truly evil stuff in [[Ravenloft]] and you'll end up becoming a darklord, along with the requisite powers and your own domain. Sounds fun, right? Except that you're confined to to your realm, you're forever being tormented by the objects of your desire, and the only way to escape is through a [[Heel Realization]]. Of course, as the sourcebook states, if you were the kind of person to ever ''have'' a [[Heel Realization]], you probably wouldn't have become a darklord in the first place.
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