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*** Not really. Morgoth is Tolkien's analogue for [[Satan]]: he is the incarnation of evil; he never reformed and never will. Morgoth's brother [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Manwë]], the guy who released him, simply failed to understand why anybody would want to be evil. When I think of it, remind me why Eru Ilúvatar put Manwë in charge of the world…
* Count Olaf pulls this trope multiple times over the course of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''.
* In the [[Tortall Universe]], Duke Roger is one of these for the last two books of the Lioness quartet. Before he died the first time, he ''tried to kill the crown prince as well as the queen'', among others. After he came [[Back
** The belief was that having died had changed him, and it had - before he'd just been trying to gain the throne, but after being brought back he wanted to destroy everything.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': After Voldemort was defeated trying to murder baby Harry, some Death Eaters claimed to have been bewitched or unwilling participants and tried to go back to living a normal life. This was most successful in conjunction with ministry connections and large bribes. Of course, in most cases it was only a lie to keep them out of Azkaban.
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