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* From ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]: Shadows of Almia'', {{spoiler|Isaac is a surprisingly good example. He was [[Batman Gambit|tricked]] by [[The Dragon|Kincaid]], his teacher from Ranger school, into working for Team Dim Sun, thinking that they were the good guys. During his time there, [[Xanatos Gambit|he ''made the Miniremo units you have to fight against throughout the game'',]] as well as working on most of the Altru Tower's design. (It turned out that Kincaid was only teaching at the school to find the kind of genius that could do those things.) He was understandably hit hard when he found this out. To make matters worse, it was Kincaid who broke it to him, and not too kindly, either. A short [[Heroic BSOD]] ensues. [[It Gets Worse]], though--afterwards, his little sister Melody is kidnapped by Team Dim Sun and used as bait to get him to finish the machine.}} In the end, though, [[Angst What Angst|he seems to be just fine]].

* {{spoiler|Sakura}} from ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'', as revealed in the game's final route, Heaven's Feel.

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'': {{spoiler|Aribeth.}} {{spoiler|Fenthick's death}} causes her to go from patriotic, god-loving Paladin to god-forswearing general of the [[Always Chaotic Evil]] Old Ones.

** The above, while certainly not a high point for the said character, is only the beginning. {{spoiler|Dread Queen Morag's sending false visions of her god abandoning her and the ensuing self-doubt/loathing is likely much more damaging to her already weakened psyche.}} So much for the Paladin's high will save...

** As it turns out, Walter Sullivan, though at the time of ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'' his time as the Cutie is [[Serial Killer|already way gone by]].

* Gwen from ''[[Guild Wars]]'', you first meet her at the beginning of the first campaign ''Prophecies'' as a cute, cheerful and lovely little girl, soon after her (and yours too) [[Doomed Hometown|hometown is destroyed]] by the Charr and Gwen's fate is unknown, until years pass and you meet her again as a young woman in the expansion pack ''Eye of the North'', it is revealed that she was brutally tortured and enslaved by the Charr and she bitterly harbors hate and desire of revenge against them.

** Not to mention Genis Sage from ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]''. Where to even start? Perhaps with the [[Fantastic Racism|fantastic racism]] against his entire race everywhere you go, including people wishing all half-elves would die... in the starting village, in the first couple hours of the game, to his face (if you have him set as the display character) or to the face of one of his few friends. It only gets worse from there: {{spoiler|racism against half-elves just gets worse and worse as you proceed through the game, including Genis and his sister Raine being sentenced to death simply for being the half-elves in your party of criminals, there's a village where racism against half-elves is so bad that even the racists passing through are uncomfortable and a boy in the armor shop flat-out says they're not allowed to sell to half-elves,}} all of which contributes to him getting more and more bitter about humans as the game progresses. And even with racism aside, {{spoiler|Genis considers himself a murderer for the death of one of his few friends, which also caused him and the main character to be banished from their home; he falls in love with a girl who clearly thinks of him as a child;}} and the first half-elf friend he makes is actually {{spoiler|THE VILLAIN OF THE GAME IN DISGUISE.}} Someone really, really hated this poor kid.

* [[Knights of the Old Republic]] subjects Bastila and Mission to this treatment. Most of Bastila's occurred off-screen, while Mission's experiences having her home planet glassed and her brother, the only family she had left, revealed as a lying scumbag give her a much nastier temper than she had at the beginning.

** And yet, despite all of this, Mission is still one of the most pure hearted characters in the game, as is obvious in the scenes where {{spoiler|the player reveals that he is Revan}} and her attempt to bring you back to the Light if you go Dark near the end. She gets broken, but inevitably bounces back to her feet.