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** Johnny Gat qualifies as well.

 

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' paladin Miko Miyazaki starts out as a narrow-minded, [[Holier Than Thou]] [[Knight Templar]] who the titular Order despise and even her own comrades tend to look for excuses to send her off on missions to distant lands that keep her out of town for long periods. Then she {{spoiler|overhears Lord Shojo talking to Roy and Belkar about their plans to do the dirty work behind the paladins' backs, ignores his [[I Did What I Had to Do|perfectly good arguments about why he had to do it,]] declares him guilty of treason and executes him on the spot. She's IMMEDIATELY stripped of her powers by the gods for murdering an unarmed octogenarian and goes into a psychotic breakdown when she refuses to accept that she could have been wrong.}}

** To be fair, The Order contains a known sociopath whose evilness is [[Fantastic Measurement System|measured]] in [[Godwin's Law|kilonazis]], and the rest often bend rules a bit. And there was lots of other evidence which could easily be misinterpreted by a certain type of mind.

** {{spoiler|Eridan was explicitly stated upon his introduction to have genocidal tendencies and slaughters the custodians of young trolls, leaving them defenceless against the many, many hazards of Alternia, on a regular basis. He has been a monster from day 1, but it was treated as a joke up until this point. It was foreshadowed in the sense that somebody beating you with a stick foreshadows you waking up with some lovely bruises tomorrow.}}

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has [[Deus Ex Machina|Petey]] using an opportunity to [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-07-01 collect first-hand information] on how step-by-step changes work.

 

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