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Updated the "Student Council's Discretion" example to include the relevant second season episode.
(Updated the "Student Council's Discretion" example to include the relevant second season episode.)
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This phenomenon is not really [[Character Derailment]], as producers often state that they just didn't know the character back then, and a more complex and interesting character usually arises from [[retool]]ing of the initially more [[Flat Character|flat portrayal]], instead of the other way around (though not always).
 
This happens a lot in [[Web Comic|webcomics]]s when attempting [[Cerebus Syndrome]], to overcome a previously [[Flat Character|flat cast]]. See also [[Divergent Character Evolution]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This happen in the last episode of the first season of ''[[SeitokaiStudent noCouncil's IchizonDiscretion]]'' to the main character Ken Sugisaki, as he explains to the in-story defictionalized Nakameguro how he got to be where he was (a [[Harem Seeker]] in the besides him all-girl student council): {{spoiler|after two-timing two girls, he became a social outcast in his old school. After switching schools, he met Kurimu, who inspired him to make everybody around him happy, Minatsu, who told him to seek his own strenghtstrength instead of just looking up to her, Chizuru shared mutual comfort with him when they were at their low-point and Mafuyu who saved him from freezing to death. This made him fall in love with each one of them, so to be with them, he became the valedictorian to occupy the last seat of the student council, into which the girls were recently voted.}} Cue the first episode and the first words he said to them as a group.: That he loved them all and would make them all happy in his harem. Since the entire series was more of a screwball comedy, this was a [[Tropes Are Not Bad|most memorable ending]]. The first episode of the second season puts Ken in the spotlight again, showing how he went from a slacker student to having the best combined-test score in the school, {{spoiler|tied with the most studious student in the school, who willingly steps aside to let Ken have the student council seat.}}
* Many of the villains underwent this in [[Inuyasha]], with personalities in their later appearances very different from in their first appearances. Most notably, Sesshomaru went from [[Evil Gloating]] to [[The Stoic]], Koga went from [[Smug Snake]] to [[Noble Demon]], Naraku went from [[Magnificent Bastard]] to [[Evil Evolves]], and Kagura became [[The Starscream]].