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* Fate Testarossa of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' got stronger after her [[Heel Face Turn]] (getting proper training from Chrono [[All There in the Manual|in-between seasons]] helped). Same with Signum and Vita in the third season. Also played straight in StrikerS; when {{spoiler|Ginga Nakajima}} is brainwashed, she cannot use anything but her Inherent Skills.
** It's suggested in the manga that the Wolkenritter were holding back while fighting the heroes (possibly in order to not kill them), as each one has at least one ability they do not display until the final battle.
** The one who had the biggest promotion so far would be Nove, who went from a villain who lost all of her battles in ''[[Nanoha Striker S]]'', to a hero who achieved the fastest [[Defeat Means Friendship|befriending]] in the franchise in ''[[Nanoha Vivid]]''.
* Yusuke comments on this fact in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', talking about how Hiei is doing a lot better fighting for him than when he used to fight against him.
** The key difference is that the victory-or-death scenarios he faces with Yusuke force him to do desperate things to reinvent himself. He gains massive power by mastering the Dragon of the Darkness Flame, which most demons would never even attempt, because it's just as likely to kill them as their opponents.
** Several of Team Urameshi's old opponents from the Dark Tournament (Chu, Rinku, Jin, Toya, Suzuki, Shishiwakamaru) ally with Kurama and undergo [[Training From Hell]], becoming almost as powerful as Kurama himself.
* Beelzebumon from ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''. A pseudo-[[Deal with the Devil]] let him go from a non-threat to a [[Knight of Cerebus]] in a single jump, only to be [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|taken down hard]] once he crossed the line by {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion|killing Leomon]]}}. Making amends with the human partners he ran away from boosted him back up to Mega-level, with a [[Hand Cannon]] and a spiffy set of wings to boot.
*** [[Power of Love|"I've never felt this kind of power before...!"]]
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* Subverted in ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' when Mojo Jojo shows power he never had before when he teams with the Girls to beat down an alien bent on the destruction of Townsville, but this isn't because he found good inside himself, but because the girls said they found something more evil than him.
* Zim, from ''[[Invader Zim]]''. His job is to conquer humanity, but he's actually more successful in defending it.
* When Carl the Cockroach wizard was allied with [[Yin Yang Yo!|Yin and Yang]], he was incredibly competent. The siblings even lampshaded it.
* Occurs at various points in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' with the Brotherhood, who tend to be less than intimidating when they're playing antagonists. But whenever they need to team up, they all get a nice promotion- even Toad, the series' resident smart-assed coward, was able to help out against Magneto and an evolved Sabretooth. Their best moment as a team may be the series finale, where they arrive late to cover Kitty Pryde's team after they've been wiped by an upgraded Magneto (mind-controlled by Apocalypse), and manage to hold out own against him without losing a single member (with the other teams fighting Apocalypse's horsemen all suffering some defeats).
* Proves to be the case for {{spoiler|the title character}} in [[Megamind]].
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[[Category:Goodness Tropes]]
[[Category:Heel Face Index]]▼
[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
[[Category:Player Party]]
[[Category:Redemption Promotion]]
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