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== Anime and Manga ==
* Yurin L'Ciel in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam
* An interesting case in ''[[Brave 10]]''. As revealed, {{spoiler|Anastasia served Hanzo in the first place because Hanzo was holding her family heirloom that she has been looking for since childhood and her parents dead, at first playing it straight. Over time, however, she developed into a cold [[Broken Bird]] [[Ice Queen]] that is nearly as bad as Hanzo himself (though not quite), therefore subverting it. Once Hanzo's dead, however, she actually regretted that her whole life as an evil assassin has been for naught, since she found out that the heirloom was fake, thus making it somewhat of a double subversion.}}
* [[Sailor Moon]] loved this trope, especially during the Dark Kingdom arc, ranging from brainwashed random innocents-of-the-week up to the horrifying {{spoiler|brainwashing of Endymion/Mamoru- sure, it didn't take at first, but after the second go he pretty much beat Usagi within an inch of her life before [[The Power of Love|Usagi tearfully reminding him of their history together, holding out their music box locket]] snapped him out of it. And, according to the manga continuity and a blink-and-you-miss-it reference near the end of the season, the four Dark Generals/Shittenou all suffered this fate, too, being brainwashed by Beryl and Metallia the same way Endymion was. This might suggest some semi-failed brainwashing on the part of [[Heroic Sacrifice|Nephrite]]...}}
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In [[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', {{spoiler|Cid Raines}} is pushed into villainy by his fal'Cie masters.
* In ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', the scientists who were kidnapped in the intro are forced into {{spoiler|making what's essentially a killswitch for every cyborg on the planet...which also happens to be able to turn them into Technically Living Zombie by causing them to go berserk.}}
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', Leon Magnus' chief reason of betraying Stahn's party is that his foster mother figure Marian was taken hostage by Hugo Gilchrist. Depending on the version, he either subverts it or plays it straight: In the original, he's already been an incurable [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilist]] [[Jerkass]], so he's not so much
* In the first ''[[Art of Fighting]]'', Mr. Karate's identity is actually Takuma Sakazaki, father and master of the protagonist Ryo and Robert. He only became the [[Final Boss]] working with crimelord Mr. Big because they already took his daughter, Ryo's sister, Yuri, as a hostage and blackmailed Takuma to work for them unless he wants Yuri to bite it. By the second game, Takuma returned into being a good [[Cool Old Guy]], and Yuri [[Took a Level
▲* In ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', Leon Magnus' chief reason of betraying Stahn's party is that his foster mother figure Marian was taken hostage by Hugo Gilchrist. Depending on the version, he either subverts it or plays it straight: In the original, he's already been an incurable [[Nietzsche Wannabe|nihilist]] [[Jerkass]], so he's not so much [[Forced Into Evil]], he's just playing along to vent his annoyance to Stahn's party. {{spoiler|Then he got [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|dropped with a bridge]]}}. In the remake, he genuinely did consider Stahn and co. his [[True Companions]], but then was powerless to ask them for help, therefore playing it straight. {{spoiler|Then comes the [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}
▲* In the first ''[[Art of Fighting]]'', Mr. Karate's identity is actually Takuma Sakazaki, father and master of the protagonist Ryo and Robert. He only became the [[Final Boss]] working with crimelord Mr. Big because they already took his daughter, Ryo's sister, Yuri, as a hostage and blackmailed Takuma to work for them unless he wants Yuri to bite it. By the second game, Takuma returned into being a good [[Cool Old Guy]], and Yuri [[Took a Level In Badass]].
* In ''[[Tekken]] 6'', after losing in the 5th tournament and seeing his master dwindle into an even worse state, Eddy Gordo becomes desperate in giving him medical treatment. Cue Jin Kazama, after he himself pulled a [[Face Heel Turn]] into the head of Mishima Zaibatsu, offers him a medication so long as he joins the Zaibatsu. Without much choice, Eddy joins and turns from a model citizen in a soldier involved in many of the Zaibatsu's dirty works. {{spoiler|Jin lied about the medication.}}
* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'', the [[Big Bad]] of the first game (there's also a [[Playable Epilogue]] that has a totally different enemy) is basically sent out on an exploration mission for his fellow demons (they're in a [[Crapsack World]] and looking to escape). The very first town he visits, [[All of the Other Reindeer|all the villagers treat him like a pariah]] and [[Sealed Evil in a Can|he is sealed in an urn]]. Needless to say, he quickly decides to do something not so good not long after, and basically decides he doesn't care enough to spare the world he visited, instead preferring to violently merge the two worlds.
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** In the animated adaptation, Kouchuu also was found first as a would-be assassin about to kill a high-ranking officer because several bandits (led by {{spoiler|the fake Ryuubi}}) has taken her daughter hostage. For both versions, once the daughter is rescued, she ends up becoming the good guys.
* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]: [[Dynasty Warriors|Ken's Rage]]'' Dream Mode, the usually virtuous Rei ends up serving Thouzer as one of the [[Token Good Teammate]] since his beloved sister (and later, {{spoiler|his lover Mamiya}})is planted with a bomb in case he rebels. The other [[Token Good Teammate]] (Shew) has no such forcing.
* Nearly everyone in ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'' were
** And reversed in ''3''. In order to prevent reuniting with Orochi, Dong Zhuo is forced by Zhuge Liang to serve the force of Good, which makes him 'Forced Into Good'.
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* The Urpneys only really seemed bothered about going after ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' because [[Bad Boss|Zordrak]] will either [[Taken for Granite|turn them into stone]] or feed them to the Frazznats otherwise, making them essentially all [[Slave Mooks|conscripts]]. [[Co-Dragons|Sgt Blob and Urpgor]] partly go after it for rivalistic sake though.
* Colossus in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' is working for Magneto solely because his family was kidnapped.
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* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Robin briefly joins forces with Slade because {{spoiler|he injected his teammates with lethal nanobots that he could trigger and deactivate at will}}
* ''Every'' [[Villain of the Week]] in ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]'' is a brainwashed pawn of [[Big Bad|Hawk Moth]] who is "akumized" after feeling some sort of negative emotions. Only one victim actually tried to fight it, but to date, nobody has done so successfully.
* A [[Flashback]] episode of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' (told to Optimus Prime by Omega Supreme) revealed that Megatron recruited many of the earliest Decepticons this way, using an insidious device to reprogram citizens of Cybertron. The Constructicons were the only known victims of this device who are still around in the present, and it is not known if any other present-day Decepticons were. When Megatron tried to use the device on Omega Supreme, he managed to destroy it before it completely took hold of him; Megatron was apparently either unwilling or unable to rebuild the device for some reason, so he lost this method of recruitment.
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