Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Difference between revisions

** This trope tends to recur throughout the manga adaptations of ''[[Digimon]]''. ''[[Digimon V-Tamer 01]]'' had [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Neo]] [[Jerkass|Saiba]], and ''Digimon Next'' had [[Hero-Killer|Shou]] [[Black Knight|Kahara]]. {{spoiler|They also got better at the end.}}

** Kiriha Aonuma from ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' is shown to be gentle as a child in his back story. His father {{spoiler|critiques that Kiriha must learn to be stronger, which leads to him being a [[Jerkass]]. He gets better as well.}}

* Sakurako {{spoiler|aka Youya}} from ''[[Sakura Gari]]'' was a sweet and adorable child, right until she witnessed the death of her mother under some [[Driven to Suicide|very screwed up circumstances]] {{spoiler|which turn out to be even more screwed up than they appear}}. She then became a seriously [[Creepy Child]], {{spoiler|eventually revealed to be a total [[Yandere (disambiguation)]].}}

* While the primary casts of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' are kids by most definition, Sakura Kyouko used to be a sweet, good [[Japanese Christian]] girl who only wanted to help her father in spreading the word of his God. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, when Minister Sakura figured out that Kyouko used magic to bring people to his church, he snapped, killed his family, and then committed suicide. Only Kyouko survived.}} No wonder she's such a misanthropic [[Jerkass]]. Also, Homura {{spoiler|used to be [[Adorkable]], but fighting the scheme of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]]}} warped her into a cold, lonely [[Anti-Hero]].

** Played straight with [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Redcloak]] and his close-knit family, though.

* {{spoiler|Richard}} from ''[[Looking for Group]]'' may qualify.

* ''[[Homestuck]]''

** [[Munchkin|Vriska Serket]] may [[Heel Face Revolving Door|play jump-rope]] with the [[Moral Event Horizon]], but as a kid she was ''[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005374 positively adorable]''.