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{{quote| "Calling someone else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone else stupid doesn't make you smarter. And ruining Regina George's life certainly didn't make mine any happier."}}

* In ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'', Roger Corman's ''[[The Magnificent Seven Samurai|Magnificent 7]]'' [[Recycled in Space|In Space]], one of the recruits is the galaxy's greatest assassin. He's amassed great wealth, but he muses that he lives alone and bored because he's feared everywhere he goes. The kid promises a home on his planet where no one knows him and where he can be happy if he helps them fight off the slaver.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': Anakin's turn to the dark side costs him everything and everyone that he loves as well as leaves him locked in a robotic life-support system.

* Michael Corleone in ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' is one of the best examples. He was a likable young man who could have done a lot of good in the world. But somehow he made the wrong choice, partly through [[In the Blood|upbringing]]. And partly through focusing [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|too much]] on [[Thicker Than Water|loyalty]]. And partly because while he always wants to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] and comes close on a couple of occasions (as with his talk with the future Pope), he can't bring himself to give up wealth and power. He was very good at being evil but something inside him always seemed to consider that the worst fate of all.

* 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.

 

 

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