He Who Fights Monsters: Difference between revisions

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]].

 

 

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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.

 

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