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** Though how much deciding that you're only going to murder one more person for money counts as a [[Heel Face Turn]] is a matter of some dispute.
** The samurai doesn't appear to feel remorseful and the bookie doesn't appear to force the samurai into one last fight. The samurai wants to earn enough money to care for his family and the fight with Usagi just happens to be the one that would give the samurai enough Ryo to live a quiet, peaceful life with his wife and child. The samurai fights this last fight not because the bookie is forcing him to, but because he wants more Ryo.
* LOTS of villains in ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' books:
* In ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' Mac Gargan, a.k.a. the Scorpion, ends up wandering the sewers at one point, depressed but with a clearer head than he had had for a long time. Eventually, his sanity starts to return, and he is about to make a [[Heel Face Turn]] when Spider-Man {{spoiler|having depression issues of his own, finds Gargan and [[What the Hell, Hero?|attacks him savagely ignoring Gargan's pleas that he had changed.]] Gargan then goes crazy again to save himself and continues his life of super-villain debauchery, first as Scorpion, and later as a new Venom}}.▼
** In one story from the 70s, the Kingpin's wife Vanessa once told him he had to choose between her and his crime syndicate. He chose her. (She gave him twenty-four hours to tie up loose ends, and he may well have killed Spider-Man, had the deadline not come right before he was about to make the killing blow.) The two retired to a private estate in the South Seas. But many other crime bosses he had bequeathed his empire to didn't like having to run it without him, and felt that Vanessa was the cause, so sometime later, she was apparently killed by an assassin's bullet. (She got better later.) The Kingpin returned worse than ever, not only seizing back full control of his former organization, but making sure the police ended up with incriminating evidence that led to the arrest of the ones responsible for his wife's apparent death (he hadn't been fooled for a minute) a true case of a plan [[Gone Horribly Right]].
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** Shriek, one member of Carnage's group of killers during the [[Maximum Carnage]] fiasco. Some months after that event, she broke out of Ravencroft Asylum and kidnapped Malcolm McBride (formerly Carrion, who was human at the moment, the virus inside him in remission) and stress caused by the ordeal caused him to become Carrion again. After seeing Carrion show some sympathy for his mother, Shriek had a brief moment of sanity, and actually tried to absorb the Carrion Virus into herself, trying to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Malcolm. She did save Malcolm, but the virus didn't kill her... And for poor Shriek, this heroic act only made it worse for her. It drove her deeper into madness, making her think the virus inside her was an unborn child, and she spent her time in her cell eagerly anticipating the birth of her "baby" like an expectant mother. Eventually, the Jackal assaulted her to get the virus back, and when next seen, she was back with Carnage and worse than ever.
* The Rhino spent a good chunk of his criminal career using the money he made from villainy to finance surgery that would remove the suit that was bonded to him. In ''Deadly Foes of Spider-Man'', he finally found a doctor who managed to do it, and he retired to Mexico City. However, the Kingpin - who had financed both the surgery and most of his activities during that mini-series - felt the need to remind him of that, so he sent Rhino a non-lethal bomb as a threat, along with a message that ''he knew'' where the doctor who had done the surgery was, ''and'' that said doctor was in witness protection. In order to protect himself and them, Rhino got a new suit from [[Welcome to Evil Mart|Justin Hammer]], and before long, was back in business as a villain.
* From [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]: The Blob was the oldest-running villain to lose his mutant powers during M-Day, but afterwards, the future was looking bright for him; he had become a fitness guru in Japan, and would be staring in an upcoming movie filmed in San Francisco made by Kingo Sunen. However, he has since resumed his villainous ways, having been given the Mutant Growth Hormones by Mystique, restoring his powers. Clearly, super-villainy was just too much of a temptation for him.
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'': V4 has a wretchedly sadistic example in Sun Boy, a long-standing Legionnaire who'd been seduced into being the public face of the evil Earthgov. Faced with an impending disaster, he tried to put his costume back on and save the city, only to a) meet with public scorn and b) be caught in the explosion of a fusion reactor. Wait, we're not done: due to his powers, the explosion didn't kill him (actually, due to his powers [[Did Not Do the Research|the explosion shouldn't even have touched him]]; oh well); instead it left him a mangled, screaming, ''burning'' wreck. He then spent the next ''year and a half'' on life-support, in agonizing pain and reliving his worst memories, until finally he was [[Mercy Kill|shot]] by his lover/[[The Handler|handler]] (who then killed herself). That door slammed so hard it ''broke''.
* In ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'', during the Battle of St Petersburg, a random [[Mook]] suddenly had a change of heart and shoved a machine gun operator out of the way to stop him firing on the Romanov forces. Immediately afterwards, Jena, unaware of what he had just done, stabbed him in the chest.
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* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Doctor Octopus refuses to help Norman Osbourne kill Spiderman. He explains that he is sick of being evil and wants to make a fresh start for himself. He also tries to convince Osbourne not to kill Peter, since Spiderman is their greatest "creation". Norman won't have any of that and kills Otto after a vicious fight.
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', {{spoiler|the head is shot down by the time he began to ponder about his ways and the possibility to change them.}}
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