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* The title character of ''[[Carlitos Way]]'' is a gangster who has been freed early on a technicality. He really, sincerely strives to now live an honest life. Unfortunately, just about every other character in the film is determined to see him fail, and, while he does achieve his dream of redemption, it costs him his life.
* Happens to Megatron at the end of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' just right after killing {{spoiler|Sentinel Prime}} as an attempt to prevent him from [[The Starscream|overthrowing him and becoming Decepticon leader himself]], is soon dispatched by Optimus Prime even though Megatron, though still evil, actually tried to save his life!
** Not sure if this
* In ''[[Four Lions]]'' one of the protagonists panicked and no longer wanted to be a suicide bomber, so he tried to turn himself in to the police. While he was yelling about how his costume was filled with explosives but he wasn't going to blow himself up, {{spoiler|one of his friends blew him up to stop him giving the rest of them away.}}
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** 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 Stand]]'', an especially ironic example is the story of Nadine Cross, who spent her whole life believing she had to save her virginity for [[Dream Weaver|Randall Flagg]], who is revealed to be [[The Antichrist]]; when she falls in love with good guy [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Larry Underwood]] she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her to remove the spell, after he has fallen in love with someone else. When [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|he refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg.
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', according to [[Word of God]], {{spoiler|Asmodean}} was genuinely trying to switch
* 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.
* In the ''[[Coldfire Trilogy]],'' {{spoiler|the Hunter, finally no longer undead and free to try to redeem himself, is promptly killed.}} Sort of.
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* In a true horror instance, the God of the [[Left Behind]] books continues his series-long progression across the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by rendering people who've accepted the Mark of the Beast ''unable to repent even though they desperately want to''. At one point a character tries to recite a prayer, ''any'' prayer, and can only recall the first line of "Now I lay me down to sleep".
** This is at least semi-Scriptural. According to Revelation, there are some decisions you can't take back. It's not clear from the Scriptures, however, whether that means you aren't allowed to repent, or whether it's just that nobody who goes that route ''ever will'' sincerely repent.
** Leon Fortunato, when he is brought before Jesus along with Nicolae Carpathia, tries to repent and gets the
* 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
* ''[[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!
* In ''[[Warrior Cats]]'', {{spoiler|when Beetlewhisker says that he's going to leave the Dark Forest because he didn't know that they wanted to destroy the clans, Brokenstar leaps on him and kills him.}}
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* On [[Lost]], we have {{spoiler|Charles Widmore}}. When he shows up claiming to have redeemed himself in season six, we aren't quite sure if he's legit or not. When we finally realize that he ''is'', he is {{spoiler|promptly shot and killed by Ben, though that's more because he didn't want Widmore to have a chance to save his daughter when Ben didn't get a chance to save his.}}
* In [[Legend of the Seeker]] TV series, just as it seems that Zedd has talked Denna into changing her ways and setting him free, she is shot in the back with an arrow by Cara and falls off a cliff.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', Ankh had been on a series wide [[Heel Face Turn]] as he grew closer to Eiji and Hina. This actually happened to him ''twice''. The first time was when he was absorbed by his [[Evil Counterpart]]. Soon, after he [[Face Heel Turn
* This happens to Cole in the fourth season of ''[[Charmed]]''. He finds a wizard willing to take the Source's powers, thus freeing him from being possessed but Phoebe appears on the scene and kills the wizard before he can take the powers. Cole is killed in the next episode.
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* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9|Mortal Kombat]]'', this happens to Cyrax, who gets a chapter in Story Mode showing his signs of turning good, ditching the Lin Kuei over the Cyber Initiative. Then he got captured and roboticized off-screen.
** [[Late Arrival Spoiler|Elder Sub-Zero dies at Scorpion's hand and his soul descends into the Netherrealm to become Noob Saibot]] (as foreshadowed in ''Mythologies'' and revealed in ''Deception''). Raiden tries to avert this in ''9'' by striking a deal with Scorpion (if Scorpion doesn't kill Sub-Zero, he'll ask the Elder Gods to restore Scorpion's family to life), but Quan Chi, being the [[Manipulative Bastard|asshole]] that he is [[Blatant Lies|creates false images of Sub-Zero killing Scorpion's wife and child]], causing Scorpion to lash out and kill his nemesis in anger anyway. So, not only does the younger Sub-Zero get dragged into the picture alongside Smoke ''again'', but his older brother [[Came Back Wrong|returns to life]] as Noob Saibot ''again''. This also comes with the unfortunate side-effect of Scorpion playing Quan Chi's lapdog, something that Raiden calls him out on (in the original timeline, Scorpion learned that Quan Chi, and ''not'' either of the Sub-Zero brothers killed his family, and chased Quan Chi through the Netherrealm after ''4'', beating the tar out of him).
** Also, Sindel. True to ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]'', she's brought [[Back From the Dead]] as a part of Shao Kahn's [[Evil Plan]], [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. In the original timeline, she was able to break free of her mind control and was reunited with her daughter Kitana and their allies. {{spoiler|Here, Shao Kahn empowers her with Shang Tsung's soul, allowing her to ''[[Kill'Em All]]'' 90% of Raiden's chosen warriors (including Kitana). It takes a [[Taking You with Me|kamikaze]] [[Heroic Sacrifice]] on Nightwolf's part to kill her, and her and the fallen heroes' <ref>Kitana, Nightwolf, Cyber Sub-Zero, Smoke, Jade, Jax, Stryker, and Kabal; Kung Lao had been killed by Shao Kahn previously, while Raiden and Liu Kang were away consulting the Elder Gods; only Sonya and Cage made it out alive</ref> souls descend into the Netherrealm, [[It Got Worse|where they become Quan Chi's slaves.]]}} Sindel ''does'' make a [[Heel Face Turn]] in her Arcade Ladder ending, but this is noncanonical in regards to the story.
* [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]] has Officer Hernandez, the third, [[The Voiceless|silent]] member of C.R.A.S.H (Well, not completely silent. The one time he speaks is on the phone with C.J. warning him that C.R.A.S.H is going to make sure he stays in Los Santos and works with them.) who acts as a Foil to the loudmouthed [[Big Bad|Tenpenny]] and [[Jerkass|Pulaski.]] Eventually however, he got fed up with [[Dirty Cop|Tenpenny and Pulaski's ways]] sometime offscreen as his final cutscene is of Tenpenny beating him with a shovel for being a snitch, and having C.J. dig his grave at gunpoint. Hernandez isn't dead though, and he gets back up to try and tackle Pulaski, only to get shot, finally dying.
** The Introduction DVD expands on this. Hernandez speaks in it, telling a story about how he had to make a difficult decision between letting a man beat his crack addicted wife, or jailing the man and leaving the obviously unsuitable for children wife with their kids, establishing himself as a cop with morals. The other two cops scoff at that being a difficult decision, telling him that they're gonna be making difficult decisions on a regular basis. Later on, they force him to personally shoot a cop who had evidence proving that Tenpenny and Pulaski were crooked, so he can "be a fucking man." It makes Hernandez's death all the more tragic, as he was pretty much one of the handful of good cops in the whole series.
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