Belated Backstory: Difference between revisions

 

This happens a lot in [[Web Comic]]s when attempting [[Cerebus Syndrome]], to overcome a previously [[Flat Character|flat cast]]. See also [[Divergent Character Evolution]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* This happen in the last episode of the first season of ''[[Student Council's Discretion]]'' 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 strength 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.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Specifically, during season 4, Bob adamantly believed that viruses could be cured rather than merely [[Never Say "Die"|deleted]] and that "deletion" should be avoided at all costs. This initially seemed like [[Character Development]], but then multiple flashbacks during that same season made it clear that he had always been that way, even though he had made several genuine attempts to kill [[Big Bad|Megabyte]] in earlier seasons.

* Ralph Wiggum from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went from a generic classmate of Lisa's to [[The Ditz]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]].