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* Codex of ''[[The Guild]]'' is shy and accommodating to the point of being an [[Extreme Doormat]], but when she found out her boyfriend had dumped her for another man she set fire to his cello.
* Codex of ''[[The Guild]]'' is shy and accommodating to the point of being an [[Extreme Doormat]], but when she found out her boyfriend had dumped her for another man she set fire to his cello.
** Lampshaded in Season 3 by Vork: "Codex, you of all people turning on me as well? Do I truly have the power to snap your gentle spirit?"
** Lampshaded in Season 3 by Vork: "Codex, you of all people turning on me as well? Do I truly have the power to snap your gentle spirit?"
** Zaboo is [[Stalker With a Crush|very creepy]], but always sweet and giving, to the point of people [[Misaimed Fandom|wondering why Codex doesn't want to date him.]] And then he goes crazy on Valkyrie. Codex, whose plan it was to go after Valkyrie in the first place, says, "Ok, he's basically freaking both of us out now."
** Zaboo is [[Stalker with a Crush|very creepy]], but always sweet and giving, to the point of people [[Misaimed Fandom|wondering why Codex doesn't want to date him.]] And then he goes crazy on Valkyrie. Codex, whose plan it was to go after Valkyrie in the first place, says, "Ok, he's basically freaking both of us out now."
** Clara was the other nice one of the guild. She was a sweet, [[Cloudcuckoolander|if slightly out there]], overgrown teenager who...tried to be a good mother. Probably. Then Vork didn't give her the orb, so she spent the next few days killing him nonstop.
** Clara was the other nice one of the guild. She was a sweet, [[Cloudcuckoolander|if slightly out there]], overgrown teenager who...tried to be a good mother. Probably. Then Vork didn't give her the orb, so she spent the next few days killing him nonstop.
* ''[[The Saga of Tuck]]'' has several perfectly nice, ordinary characters who are all but trained covert operatives in intelligence, counterintelligence, black propaganda and sabotage.
* ''[[The Saga of Tuck]]'' has several perfectly nice, ordinary characters who are all but trained covert operatives in intelligence, counterintelligence, black propaganda and sabotage.
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** Caboose is another example. He started out as an idiot and only [[Flanderization|got]] [[The Ditz|dumber]]. However, he is by far the nicest member of the main cast; he cares more about making friends than fighting (unfortunately, when he does fight, generally he's a danger to his allies). However, when he worked himself up into a fury, aside from launching into a series of nonsensical one-liners ("Your toast has been burnt and no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!"), he defeated two armies of flag-obsessed zealots.
** Caboose is another example. He started out as an idiot and only [[Flanderization|got]] [[The Ditz|dumber]]. However, he is by far the nicest member of the main cast; he cares more about making friends than fighting (unfortunately, when he does fight, generally he's a danger to his allies). However, when he worked himself up into a fury, aside from launching into a series of nonsensical one-liners ("Your toast has been burnt and no amount of scraping will remove the black parts!"), he defeated two armies of flag-obsessed zealots.
*** [[Fridge Logic|His nonsensical one-liners are actually helping him fight,]] because he's saying things that make him angry, prolonging his [[Unstoppable Rage]]. [[You Fight Like a Cow]] probably makes the slaughter easier for him.
*** [[Fridge Logic|His nonsensical one-liners are actually helping him fight,]] because he's saying things that make him angry, prolonging his [[Unstoppable Rage]]. [[You Fight Like a Cow]] probably makes the slaughter easier for him.
*** Caboose is also [[Nigh Invulnerable]], equipped with a [[Super Strength]] [[Powers As Programs|unit]], man enough to be in a temporary relationship with a tank, and just wants to keep his best friend [[MacGuffin Girl|Chu]][[Living MacGuffin|rch]] safe.
*** Caboose is also [[Nigh Invulnerable]], equipped with a [[Super Strength]] [[Powers as Programs|unit]], man enough to be in a temporary relationship with a tank, and just wants to keep his best friend [[MacGuffin Girl|Chu]][[Living MacGuffin|rch]] safe.
**** Don't forget that his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is caused by him imprinting an evil AI, (also a [[MacGuffin]])
**** Don't forget that his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] is caused by him imprinting an evil AI, (also a [[MacGuffin]])
** Doc was also a case while he was stuck with O'Malley for a while.
** Doc was also a case while he was stuck with O'Malley for a while.
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** In fact, let's put the entirety of Team Kimba, plus Carmilla, on the list.
** In fact, let's put the entirety of Team Kimba, plus Carmilla, on the list.
* [[Chakona Space|Chakats]] are usually nice to a fault -- empathic, social, family-oriented, and almost too good to be true except that they normally actually are; their designers did a good job. ''Don't'', however, threaten one's cubs or even hir best friends and family will have trouble keeping hir from shredding you on the spot...
* [[Chakona Space|Chakats]] are usually nice to a fault -- empathic, social, family-oriented, and almost too good to be true except that they normally actually are; their designers did a good job. ''Don't'', however, threaten one's cubs or even hir best friends and family will have trouble keeping hir from shredding you on the spot...
* Alfred, the [[The Big Guy|massive]] construction worker from ''[[Darwins Soldiers]]'', is explicitly described as not "the kind of person to pick fights". And it takes a lot to provoke him into physical action. But anger him enough and you'll see why angering someone with [[Super Strength]] is ''[[Tempting Fate|extremely]]'' [[Too Dumb to Live|stupid]]. His most extreme case was when he got so angry that he threatened ''to dismember someone and beat them to death [[Grievous Harm With a Body|with their own limbs]]''. And if [[The Hero|Dr. Zanasiu]] hadn't calmed him down, there was no doubt he would have done so.
* Alfred, the [[The Big Guy|massive]] construction worker from ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'', is explicitly described as not "the kind of person to pick fights". And it takes a lot to provoke him into physical action. But anger him enough and you'll see why angering someone with [[Super Strength]] is ''[[Tempting Fate|extremely]]'' [[Too Dumb to Live|stupid]]. His most extreme case was when he got so angry that he threatened ''to dismember someone and beat them to death [[Grievous Harm with a Body|with their own limbs]]''. And if [[The Hero|Dr. Zanasiu]] hadn't calmed him down, there was no doubt he would have done so.
* The eponymous doctor in [[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog|Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]. Despite being a supervillain, he wouldn't dare think about murder or fight in a park with kids. Then Captain Hammer talked about doing Penny...
* The eponymous doctor in [[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog|Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]. Despite being a supervillain, he wouldn't dare think about murder or fight in a park with kids. Then Captain Hammer talked about doing Penny...
* ''[[Awkward]]'' gives us Lester, a wonderfully amiable and somewhat put-upon hero who will put up with quite a lot -- until he actually seems to be making progress with Steph, and his live-in [[Stalker With a Crush]] Alex interferes and refuses to be ignored.
* ''[[Awkward]]'' gives us Lester, a wonderfully amiable and somewhat put-upon hero who will put up with quite a lot -- until he actually seems to be making progress with Steph, and his live-in [[Stalker with a Crush]] Alex interferes and refuses to be ignored.
* [[Survival of the Fittest]] is perhaps one of the most perfect environments for turning nice guys/girls into murderous psychopaths. Perhaps one of the most jarring recent examples being Liam Brooks in v4, originally a rather quiet character with a love for gardening and a phobia of blood, but after the death of his girlfriend he dove headfirst onto the crazy train, putting together a makeshift garden with said girlfriend at the center while he proceeded to brutally kill three people and injure a third trying to add more bodies to it.
* [[Survival of the Fittest]] is perhaps one of the most perfect environments for turning nice guys/girls into murderous psychopaths. Perhaps one of the most jarring recent examples being Liam Brooks in v4, originally a rather quiet character with a love for gardening and a phobia of blood, but after the death of his girlfriend he dove headfirst onto the crazy train, putting together a makeshift garden with said girlfriend at the center while he proceeded to brutally kill three people and injure a third trying to add more bodies to it.
** A lesser example in v4 would be [[Genki Girl|Maria Graham]], a happy-go-lucky [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who [[Heroic BSOD|was rendered almost catatonic for days]] after being beaten half to death and accidentally setting someone on fire trying to escape. However, after watching [[Evil Brit|Maxwell Lombardi]] kill the boy she was in love with and her best friend, one after the other, and then try to kill her while mocking the former, she finally snapped hard and the two ended up viciously beating on each other in a burning building.
** A lesser example in v4 would be [[Genki Girl|Maria Graham]], a happy-go-lucky [[Cloudcuckoolander]] who [[Heroic BSOD|was rendered almost catatonic for days]] after being beaten half to death and accidentally setting someone on fire trying to escape. However, after watching [[Evil Brit|Maxwell Lombardi]] kill the boy she was in love with and her best friend, one after the other, and then try to kill her while mocking the former, she finally snapped hard and the two ended up viciously beating on each other in a burning building.
* Matt of ''[[Two Best Friends Play]]'' is usually the calmer of the two friends, preferring [[Lighter and Softer]] games. But when he plays ''[[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', after some initial reluctance, Matt goes nuts with the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]], stabbing and punching all the NPCs he can find.
* Matt of ''[[Two Best Friends Play]]'' is usually the calmer of the two friends, preferring [[Lighter and Softer]] games. But when he plays ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', after some initial reluctance, Matt goes nuts with the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]], stabbing and punching all the NPCs he can find.
* ''[[The Gungan Council]]''. Io Akima seems to be one of the most lovable, playful persons around. That is, until Adira smashed her datapad, which was a gift from a friend that had died. Cue Io going from wanting to tease Adira to outright attempting to murder her.
* ''[[The Gungan Council]]''. Io Akima seems to be one of the most lovable, playful persons around. That is, until Adira smashed her datapad, which was a gift from a friend that had died. Cue Io going from wanting to tease Adira to outright attempting to murder her.
* The title character of [[Erikas New Perfume]] is normally a loving, soft spoken [[Shrinking Violet]], but when [[Big Brother Bully|Big Sister Bully]] Marie tries to {{spoiler|reverse [[Cool Big Sis|Sarah's]] [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]],}} she ''snaps'' and lays into her with an epic combination [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] / [[World of Cardboard Speech]] that leaves her flabbergasted. In a ''wet diaper,'' no less.
* The title character of [[Erikas New Perfume]] is normally a loving, soft spoken [[Shrinking Violet]], but when [[Big Brother Bully|Big Sister Bully]] Marie tries to {{spoiler|reverse [[Cool Big Sis|Sarah's]] [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]],}} she ''snaps'' and lays into her with an epic combination [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] / [[World of Cardboard Speech]] that leaves her flabbergasted. In a ''wet diaper,'' no less.
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