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* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Smeagol's literal [[Heel Face Turn|face turn]] on the stairs of Cirith Ungol. Smeagol's gentle touch of Frodo's knee is [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|misinterpreted by Sam]] as an attack on his master (or molestation, as Sam's wording of it implies.) This marks the last point in the book where Smeagol had a chance at redemption...<ref>But Frodo's "faith" in Gollum is rewarded when Gollum ends up destroying the Ring anyway, and Sam also makes up for his earlier mistake by sparing Gollum when he has a chance to kill him, which helps result in said destruction of the Ring.</ref>

** Wormtongue appears to have one of these in the penultimate chapter. You can sense that he really does want to leave Saruman, but as he's hesitating, Saruman mocks him. This drives him to kill Saruman, and then the hobbits kill him.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', according to [[Word of God]], {{spoiler|Asmodean}} was genuinely trying to switch sides--if only for lack of options--when he was killed.

* Of the less lethal variety we have Zaknafein from the [[Drizzt]] books, who realized the evil in his society but was unable to escape it or to fight against it and became resigned to being the least evil he could get away with.

* Special Agent Kato in ''[[Shadow Hearts]] Covenant'' {{spoiler|gradually grows disgusted with the motives of his superiors, and shifts focus towards his own dream of having a family with the clone of his murdered love (it's complicated), and living peacefully. Then the girl is killed a second time, and Kato decides to destroy the world.}}

* It is very possible to slam the door in the face of a character's redemption (Although, not necessarily canon) in every ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', due to the fact that [[Anyone Can Die]], and there's lots of [[Strange Bedfellows|potential allies who are enemies at first]].

** Another canon example from ''Sacred Stones'': Glen and Duessel, two of Vigarde's generals, both figure out that something rotten is going on in Grado; Duessel manages to defect, but Glen is slain by Valter [[Curb Stomp Battle|effortlessly]] before he can switch sides.

* Kuja of ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'' redeems himself by teleporting the heroes out of the Hill of Despair and outside the Iifa Tree. It's probably because of this that Zidane decides to go back for him. If anything, at least Kuja didn't [[Dying Alone|die alone]].

* [[Trigger Star]] has [http://www.triggerstar.com/index.php?strip_id=68 this.]

** In Avocado's defense, that was the most competent he's ever been at anything.

** Lyn Burbank spends her early part of the game trying to play the game after killing her cousin, and even after she joins a group to repay being rescued from a [[Villainous Breakdown|nervous breakdown]], it eventually falls apart, ending in her [[Mercy Kill|MercyKilling]] one of the members and pulling a gun on the other one before leaving him behind, going on to return to playing the game. After she gets caught and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|brutally tortured]] by [[Complete Monster|J.R. Rizzolo]] and left to die in a burning hanger, however, she gets rescued by her former party member, leading to her finally breaking down, tearfully admitting that she's sick and tired of trying to play the game and that she just wants to go home. Unfortunately, she ends up dying of blood loss shortly after.

** Non-death variant; Reiko Ishida, after her murder of {{spoiler|Carol Burke}} among other things, becomes more hesitant to play the game, and once she finds her girlfriend Sarah Xu, she's obviously happy. However when {{spoiler|the escape boats arrive}} she is denied going with Sarah, on the basis that she was playing the game to begin with. It ends with {{spoiler|Sarah going on the escape boat (though reluctantly) and Reiko staying}}.

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