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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' has Zabuza (1,3), Itachi (1,2, apparently 3 at first), Hidan (3, probably 2), Kakuzu and now Sasuke (1,2).▼
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] 's'' [[Anti-Villain]] {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn|turned]] [[Anti-Hero]]}} Scar begins his serial-killing career by killing any and all available Amestrians - {{spoiler|after waking up in a hospital to find that his entire family has been killed by the [[Complete Monster|State Alchemist]] Kimblee and that his [[Badass Transplant|brother's arm has been grafted onto his body]] in the place of his own severed arm.}} He [[Berserk Button|flips out]] and starts his rampage with the two Amestrian doctors who saved his life. {{spoiler|Who are married. And who also happen to have a daughter who'll grow up to become a pretty damn good [[Wrench Wench|automail mechanic]]. [[Oh, the Humanity!]]!}}▼
▲* ''[[
* [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Sensui's]] [[Start of Darkness]] was like this: he [[Go Mad From the Revelation|flipped out]] upon learning [[Humans Are Bastards]], and killed everyone in the Black Black Club's villa.▼
▲* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
▲* [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Sensui's]] [[Start of Darkness]] was like this: he [[Go Mad
** Coincidentally, the people he murdered were themselves enjoying a demon blood bath.
* There's quite a few sympathetic starts of darkness in [[Rurouni Kenshin]], but the one closest to this trope is when [[Stepford Smiler|Seta Soujirou]] murders his abusive parents after they pushed him one time too many and ended up as [[The Dragon]] for a [[Social Darwinist]].
* Rob Lucci of ''[[
* In the remake of ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'', young Michael overhears that he's going to get some massive psychological intervention soon to try and curb his nascent [[Serial Killer]] tendencies. He decides to take advantage of his freedom at the moment and it being Halloween to exact revenge on: The bully who teased him about his mom being a stripper, his abusive dad, overbearing sister and her boyfriend.▼
* The Mad Pierrot from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.▼
** In the original, Michael just snapped and murdered his sister for no apparent reason. Doctor Loomis eventually concludes there's nothing to him, except evil.▼
* While the extent of her evil is ''[[Noble Demon|very]]'' debatable, [[The Archmage|Evangeline]] [[Undead Child|McDowell]] from ''[[Negima]]'' is convinced that she underwent this.▼
* [[Forgotten Realms]]: Sammaster's fall started in somehow similar way - he blasted slavers with spells, but in process also caused death of the very people he tried to resque. Not that he was the shining example of mental stability before this.▼
* Sometimes the bloodbath happens because [[Beware the Nice Ones|the person in question got pushed too far and snapped out]]. Just take a look at Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' and what she did to the [[Kids Are Cruel|cruel kids]] in her backstory for beating the puppy that she'd started caring for to death.
** Bonus point #1, minus points for having two separate flip-out incidents before it became a habit.
* In [[Warhammer]] Battle, one of the named chaos villains used to be a shaman's apprentice, the weaker of two twins, constantly bullied and ridiculed for his weakness. When his prayers attracted attention of Chaos god Tzeentch, he was granted powerful magic as well as a powerful body to match (he was magically grafted on top of his brother's shoulders) His first act was to turn his power against the tribe, making the village "run with molten flesh".▼
* Joe Darke in ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'', a business man who after accidentaly running over a man with his car, entered in panic and started to kill the witnesses of the accident (and the witnesses of ''those'' murders too).▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''Very common'' angst-oriented origin story for both good and evil Werecreatures in ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]''.▼
*''[[Evil-Ernie]]'' develops a lust for killing after being exposed to the Dream Probe, and murders an entire street of people.
* Helen Narbon in ''[[Narbonic]]''... insofar as she can be considered a villain. Apparently all mad scientists try to cause as much carnage as possible when they [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|go mad and get full control over their mad science abilities]]. Mind you, some of them were already evil before they were mad.▼
**and after being treated with Neurotech, which helped unlock his supernatural powers, he goes on another rampage!
== [[Film]] ==
▲* In the remake of ''[[Halloween (
▲** In the original, Michael just snapped and murdered his sister for no apparent reason. Doctor Loomis eventually concludes there's nothing to him, except evil.
* Although we don't hear all of [[Monsters vs. Aliens|Gallaxhar's]] back story, he does directly state that he was the one who [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blew up his planet]].
* The ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Haunted" begins with a man having a psychotic break at a pharmacy and killing a number of the other customers.▼
* {{spoiler|Rumpelstiltskin}} in [[Once Upon a Time]] goes on a killing spree after suddenly acquiring awesome powers. Justified by the fact that they were all soldiers trying to conscript his barely 14 year old son, and he was trying to protect the kid - but he was still evil, since the power was dark and corrupted him.▼
* {{spoiler|Subverted in}} Harry Potter, with Sirius Black.▼
** And, at the same time, played straight with {{spoiler|Pettigrew.}} ▼
▲* Alas, poor [[Ga Rei Zero|Yomi]]... (2, and when she's lost it, 3)
* Depending on [[Bloodless Carnage|how much]] damage you think he did, [[Kung Fu Panda|Tai Lung.]]
▲* Rob Lucci of ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' is a perfect example. His first mission as a CP9 agent was given to him when he was only a kid; to save some hostages from pirates... he killed not only the pirates, but all the hostages as well, because they were getting in the way/didn't deserve to live. And he got a nasty-looking scar on his back in the process, which coincidentally looks like the Marine flag.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'':
** Anakin Skywalker's [[Start of Darkness]] (murdering an entire camp of Sand People) and later his attack on the Jedi Temple. The slaughter of the Tusken Raiders was because they tourtured and killed his mother.
** Palpatine/Darth Sidious, who throttled his family and their bodyguards to death, and intended to at the very least kill his father since he was born due to hatred of him, and for no reason other than his family forbidding his contact with Plagueis, as revealed in ''[[Darth Plagueis]]''.
▲* The Mad Pierrot from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* {{spoiler|Subverted in}} Harry Potter, with Sirius Black.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* The ''[[
▲* {{spoiler|Rumpelstiltskin}} in [[Once Upon a Time]] goes on a killing spree after suddenly acquiring awesome powers. Justified by the fact that they were all soldiers trying to conscript his barely 14 year old son, and he was trying to protect the kid - but he was still evil, since the power was dark and corrupted him.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* [[Forgotten Realms]]: Sammaster's fall started in somehow similar way - he blasted slavers with spells, but in process also caused death of the very people he tried to resque. Not that he was the shining example of mental stability before this.
▲* In [[Warhammer
* Table-Top RPG [[Eclipse Phase]] includes "The Lost Generation", an attempt at accelerated maturation [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] that are all assumed to be this. Several of the survivors of the program ARE this, but not nearly all of them.
▲* ''Very common'' angst-oriented origin story for both good and evil Werecreatures in ''[[
* In [[FEAR]], Paxton Fettel fell into this trope as a kid during the so called "synchronicity event", during which he was possessed by Alma Wade and killed several scientists using his psychic powers.▼
▲* While the extent of her evil is ''[[Noble Demon|very]]'' debatable, [[The Archmage|Evangeline]] [[Undead Child|McDowell]] from ''[[Negima]]'' is convinced that she underwent this.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* Joe Darke in ''[[
▲* In [[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* Helen Narbon in ''[[Narbonic]]''... insofar as she can be considered a villain. Apparently all mad scientists try to cause as much carnage as possible when they [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|go mad and get full control over their mad science abilities]]. Mind you, some of them were already evil before they were mad.
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