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Not to be confused with [[Complete Monster]], although somebody can become this by fighting complete monsters. See also [[Cycle of Revenge]], [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]], [[You Are What You Hate]], and [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]. If this trope happens to a child, it can be used as a [[Freudian Excuse]]. Compare [[And Then John Was a Zombie]], where the character becomes a literal monster. [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]] is pretty much a sped-up version of this. Common in politics, as [[Reign of Terror]], [[Full-Circle Revolution]] and [[Meet the New Boss]] indicate. If the monster in question is an animal, that's [[Animal Nemesis]]. Subtrope of [[Slowly Slipping Into Evil]].
Not to be confused with ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]'', [[I Read That As|nor]] ''[[Monster Hunter]]''. ''[[He Who Fights Monsters (fanfic)|He Who Fights Monsters]]'', on the other hand, is indeed an example.
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* [[Space: Above and Beyond]] gives us Col. Ray Butts, who apparently was born mean and became meaner from being a Marine lifer—he's racist against [[In Vitros]], picks pointless fights with the Wildcards, antagonizes McQueen by taking the squad away from him for a mission he won't explain to anyone, and changes mission parameters mid-mission, again without any sort of explanation. It gets to the point where the squad briefly wonders if he might have killed his previous squad members when they fight a dead marine's body on the planet. {{spoiler|the squad was actually killed by chigs when they wanted to wait for reinforcements--causing Butts to leave them in disgust to do the mission on his own}}
* ''[[Cheese in the Trap]]'': To protect himself from those seeking to exploit him for being a rich man's son, Jung becomes a [[Manipulative Bastard]] whose actions also alienate and hurt those close to him.
* ''[[The Brothers Sun]]'': {{spoiler|The Boxers claim to want to kill all the Triad heads in order to free the people from oppression. Given that they're willing to attack people in their homes, use explosives to gain entry to a packed nightclub, murder cops who haven't been previously shown to be on the take, and attack with likely lethal intent a deputy DA, all that seems likely to happen if they succeed is the replacement of one evil with another.}}
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* The subreddit [https://www.reddit.com/r/StormfrontorSJW/ Stormfront or Social Justice Warrior?] collects examples of times when it gets alarmingly hard to tell whether a talking point comes from far-right fascist supremacists or the far-left radical progressives ostensibly opposing them.
* Looking at cases of radical progressives eating their own for not marching in lockstep, like JK Rowling with her previously well-established bona fides coming under fire for breaking away on transgender issues, one might wonder if they haven't learnt too well from fundamentalist, inquisitorial religion on purity testing and quashing dissent and heresy.
* Google used to have "don't be evil" as its motto and part of its corporate code of conduct, apparently a jab at its customer-exploiting competitors. Now it's one of the biggest [[Mega Corp]]s and [[NGO Superpower]]s, and criticisms of its behavior with regards to privacy and ethical concerns are legion. Unsurprisingly, [[w:Don't be evil|in Spring 2018 they very quietly removed any and all mentions of the "don't be evil" motto]] from company documents except for the final line of the code of conduct.
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