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* Shinsen Tennozu of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' is the head of both a legitimate multi-billion dollar organization and the shadier criminal group that helped make it so powerful. Also, [[Abusive Parents|she's a]] [[Denied Food as Punishment|terrible]] [[Offing the Offspring|mother]]. She gets a very [[Karmic Death]] at the hands of her [[Magnificent Bastard]] right-hand man, and as she's dying on the floor her daughter Kagura comes running up to her and tearfully reveals that {{spoiler|Shinsen's lover (Kagura's father) hadn't abandoned her: he had been unavoidably delayed for their rendezvous and had subsequently been murdered by the secret organization he was working with}}. The look on Shinsen's face suggests that she truly regretted allowing herself to become the bitter and hateful person that she had, but it was too late to even try to make up for it and she died moments later.
* Deliberately invoked by {{spoiler|Klaus Von Bogoot}} on {{spoiler|Mary, Ibaraki and Oyamada}} in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. {{spoiler|He had forcibly made them into Cyborgs, counting on them to kill their former [[True Companions|friend]] 009... but the moment the kids couldn't bring themselves to kill him, he [[Action Bomb|activated the bombs they had implanted in their bodies.]] The three [[Oh Crap|look at each other in horror]], then Ibaraki tackles Joe so he won't get close, and they hug each other as they say their goodbyes and die.}}
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', after [[The Brute|Senkaku]] escapes from prison, he reflects on the battle he had with [[The Hero|Kenshin]]. Grateful that Kenshin spared his life, he decides to turn over a new leaf... only for [[The Dragon|Seta Sojiro]] to [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|unceremoniously assassinate him]] for [[You Have Failed Me...|losing the fight]].
* ''[[Chirin no Suzu]]'' has this happen to Chirin at the very end. He kills the Wolf, but the sheep throw him out. Chirin is left with nothing. This is one of the contributing factors to the tragedy of the story.
* ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' offers a non-death variant. At the very start of his journey, Afro's [[Revenge Before Reason|obsession with revenge]] resulted in the death of all of his friends and his teacher. This is the one of two times in the series he actually show regret for his actions, but he quickly accepts afterwards that there was no turning back at that point.
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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:
* [[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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** It should be noted, however, that at no point did Diabolico indicate that he was actually turning ''good,'' he was just turning against the Queen. He himself put it that he'd come to hate the queen more than them.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has this happen to Bennett. {{spoiler|She's made the choice to help the team at the LA Dollhouse, if only because Echo has promised to help her get all the revenge she wants on Caroline and she's in love with Topher. Then Saunders shoots Bennett in the head.}}
* Wakana Sonozaki from [[Kamen Rider Double]] had planned on getting away from her megalomaniac father's plans and move out of the city with her friend/ {{spoiler|brother}} Philip. Her dad [[Brainwashed and Crazy|had other ideas.]] After her father died and she was subsequently used as an [[Apocalypse Maiden]] by her father's ex-financers, her mind was so shattered that she was put under observation in a mental hospital. She finally gets her redemption by sacrificing herself so that {{spoiler|Philip/Raito}} can be brought [[Back
** Earlier in the series, Kirihiko Sonozaki's turn started when he met [[The Hero]] Shotaro and discovered they both loved Fuuto, and continued when [[Heel Realization|realizing how his selling Gaia Memories was hurting the city]] when he saw a bunch of kids sharing the Bird Memory around and suffering drug-like effects. After helping Shotaro (as Double) defeat the Bird Dopant, he tried to convince his wife Saeko to leave the city with him. Too bad for him, [[The Dragon|she wasn't too interested]].
* 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.}}
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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
* [[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.
* {{spoiler|Gaspard}} in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'' realizes that he's lost his way after a [[Not So Different]] moment with the hero and decides to quit serving the [[Big Bad]] and back out of the conflict entirely, expressing a wish to see the end of the heroes' journey and maybe end his own with them. Unfortunately for him, the [[Big Bad]] pulls a [[Villain Override]] out of spite and the heroes are reluctantly forced to kill him.
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