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* Vermin in the ''[[Redwall]]'' universe can never repent, ever. ''Outcast of Redwall'' was a particularly strong example, where a ferret raised in the abbey turns out evil, just because of his nature as a ferret.
** But there have been a couple cases of vermin turning out good. In ''The Bellmaker'', for example, the former pirate Blaggut ends up leading a life of peace at the end of the book. Most vermin with streaks of good [[Redemption Equals Death|realize it a bit late]], however.
* The Romulan Star Empire has one of these in the [[Star Trek: Vulcans Soul]] trilogy. Praetor Neral is about to lead the Romulans into formalizing and strengthening alliance with the Federation (as well as lift many of the restrictions placed on the Vulcan unificationist movement). Neral has come to realize the Federation can be trusted and that they are worthy friends to Romulus...but he's unable to implement any of his new policies before he's killed off, replaced by conservative leaders who take Romulus back into hostile isolationism.
* [[Glen Cook]] wrote three short stories about a crew of pirates under a [[Flying Dutchman]] sort of curse. They realize in the second story that any of them who do something genuinely ''good'' can escape their eternal wandering, and the ship's captain sacrifices himself to destroy an even worse evil -- leaving the narrator as the new captain, wondering what ''he'' did wrong that he wasn't freed as well...
* ''[[In Death]]'': In ''Ceremony In Death'', one lawyer who happens to be a Satanic cult member gets evidence shoved into his face that one of his fellow cult members has been murdered. Later, he realizes that he's been having blackouts ever since he joined the cult...and that he witnessed that one cult member murdered in a sacrifice in one of those blackouts! He starts wonder what else happened in those blackouts. He ends up deciding that he can't defend the cult leader anymore and that he should tell Eve everything he knows...only to get murdered shortly after his decision. Now that's just harsh!
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** Half-orc ninja Therkla gets this in a big way. She falls madly in love with Elan, but he's not willing to leave Haley for her, and nobody else on the Good side is willing to cut her any slack. {{spoiler|She dies tragically.}}
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/19/ Played] hilariously straight in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' (in reference to ''[[Uncharted]]'').
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': {{spoiler|[[Homestuck/Characters/Trolls Four
* The plot of ''[[Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell]]'' can be summarized as "futilely banging on the door." Darwin only made one mistake, but the [[Call It Karma|laws of the universe]] aren't letting him make up for it, since the incredibly bad luck he's been cursed with applies even when he's trying to help other people.
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