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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Highlander (TV series)|Highlander]]'' TV series, at some point Methos is coerced with physical harm or death by Kronos into rejoining his evil old friends. However, this development only lasts a few episodes.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In [[Dungeons and Dragons (Tabletop Game)|Dungeons and Dragons]], devils have been known to alter a society's culture so that coming-of-age rituals involve acts that will send you to hell (or increase your chance of ending up there).
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Sophitia Alexandria from the ''[[Soul Series]]'' falls into this category during ''Soulcalibur IV''. Her daughter has been captured and bound to the evil Soul Edge, meaning that if the sword is destroyed, so is her daughter's soul. Sophitia is forced to fight on the side of the villains and spill blood to save her daughter's life. The worst part of it is that her proximity to Soul Edge, her despair, her dread of doing something [[Moral Event Horizon|which can never be redeemed]], and [[Evil Feels Good|the overall exhilaration]] she tries to deny are all pushing her toward a permanent [[Face Heel Turn]]. {{spoiler|To rub salt in the wound, she's killed before she's ever got a chance to redeem herself.}}
** As of ''Soulcalibur V'', her daughter Pyrrha followed in her footsteps. Practically raised by Tira from the young age she was kidnapped at, once she grew old enough to have suitors, Tira killed every single one of them, giving Pyrrha a reputation as "The Bringer of Woe" and people everywhere incentive to kill her. Tira, being [[Poisonous Friend|Tira]], advises her to kill them all. After all, it's self defense, so it's okay. Of course, Tira's true goal is turning Pyrrha into the next host for [[Evil Weapon|Soul Edge]]. {{spoiler|She succeeds}}.
* In ''[[Mega Man 4 (Video Game)|Mega Man 4]]'', the benevolent Dr. Cossack has to pose as the [[Big Bad]] because Wily is holding his daughter hostage.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'', {{spoiler|Cid Raines}} is pushed into villainy by his fal'Cie masters.
* In ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|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 ''[[Blaz Blue]]: [[Blaz Blue Continuum Shift (Video Game)|Continuum Shift]]'', the ever-kind and compassionate [[Hospital Hottie]] Litchi Faye-Ling ended up in NOL thanks to the [[Complete Monster|ever-lovable]], [[For the Evulz|consummate]] [[Troll]] Hazama/{{spoiler|Yuuki Terumi}}, despite [[Only Sane Man|being able to keep her sound mind]] and resisting [[Devil in Plain Sight|Hazama himself]] TWICE on him preying on [[Love Martyr|her obsession with Arakune]] (her [[Fatal Flaw]])[[Bad Samaritan|by offering to cure Arakune]]. This was largely because of the corruption that she took to save Arakune alone was quickly catching up to her and she only had little time left until she loses her sanity or memory due to the corruption. So even if the decision was extremely questionable (and unfortunately pegs her as [[What an Idiot!|idiot]] because players are savvy enough that Hazama is not going to fulfill his bargain, and Litchi isn't [[Genre Savvy]]), she really had no choice but to join NOL except if she wants to just rot down, become a monster and eats the other people she loves.
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* In ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|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 Onon 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 Aa 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.
* ''[[Koihime Musou]]'':
** In the [[Visual Novel]] (first game), [[Hot Mom|Kouchuu]]/[[The Archer|Huang Zhong]] first ends up as Kazuto's enemy because Enshou/Yuan Shao is holding her daughter Riri as a hostage.
** 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 [[Forced Into Evil]] when subjugated by Orochi, with many blackmails to follow, be it their people in danger (Tokugawa), their leaders getting held hostage (Shu and Wu), etc. The exceptions include Maeda Keiji ([[Sympathy for Thethe Devil|feeling sympathetic]] [[Hidden Depths|on Orochi's true purpose]]), Sima Yi and Date Masamune ([[Smug Snake|Opportunists]], the latter probably got hit in [[Break the Haughty]] and lost faith in the constantly warring humanity), Fuuma Kotarou ([[Ax Crazy|Chaos-seeking like usual]]), Lu Bu ([[Blood Knight|looking for good fights]], this extends to [[Warriors: Legends of Troy|Achilles]] later) and Dong Zhuo ([[Card-Carrying Villain|because he's]] [[Complete Monster|a dick]])
** 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'.
 
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': A female troll (possessing clockwork [[Magick|majyyks]] and other powers) was nearly single-handedly responsible for making planet Alternia an antagonistic, caste-warfare-torn hellhole. She rained so much destruction on Alternia that history remembered her only as "The Demoness", and mythology remembered her as [[The Grim Reaper|Death's]] right-hand servant. And she did all of this because she was forced into it by a time-traveling, universe-eating demon.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* 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.
{{quote| "I am not a lackey! I... I have no choice."}}
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|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}}
 
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