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* Harmony Kendall from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is an interesting case: in her earlier appearances her main defining trait was her meanness, especially when she took over leadership of the [[Girl Posse|Cordettes]] from Cordelia. After becoming a vampire her (considerably expanded) role focused mostly on her [[Dumb Blonde|stupidity]] and clinginess instead. In fact, aside from the whole bloodsucking, no problems with killing thing, she actually became [[Affably Evil|far less obnoxious]]. This was taken even further when she started appearing on ''[[Angel]]'' and developed into a likable, if highly incompetent ally of the good guys. Even her rather ineffectual betrayal at the end is done without rancour on either side (Angel actually counted on her betraying him as part of his plan, and writes her a letter of recommendation).

** Justified: the process of becoming a vampire causes a profound personality change in the subject, and Harmony's shift in character coincided with her being turned. Admittedly the usual result is to become ''more'' aggressive and devoid of empathy rather than the reverse, but as Harmony went from a socially dominant position whose rules she entirely understood as a human to being relatively weak and an effective immigrant to an entirely alien culture as a vampire, its understandable that she lost confidence and started desperately seeking allies.

** In an even more noticeable example in the same series Anya (a former demon turned into a human) had no major difficulties adapting to human customs [[Villains Blend in Better|early on]], but as soon as she [[Redemption Demotion|took on a larger role]] she suddenly started using [[Spock Speak]] and had had tremendous problems grasping human things like tact and mortality.

*** Justified, really, since her interactions with humans tended to last only a few minutes while she waited for them to inadvertently make a wish; apart from that she made little effort to blend in at all. As for tact and morality, she was a malevolent [[Manipulative Bitch|manipulative]] demon- they ''never'' mattered to her, even if she [[Faux Affably Evil|pretended like they did.]]