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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Bandora from ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'' turned evil after her son was killed by a Tyrannosaurus. Eventually she went mad with power and forgot all about this until her son came [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]].
** Changed in the english version to her wanting to conquer the universe.
* Sam Winchester from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' starts out trying to make the best of his [[Blessed with Suck]]-y demon powers by using them to exorcise demons, hoping to avenge his brother's death at the hands of Lilith. Even when Dean comes [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], Sam remains obsessed with killing Lilith, thinking this will prevent the [[The End of the World as We Know It|Apocalypse]]. With Ruby as his mentor, Sam eventually {{spoiler|drinks [[Psycho Serum|demon blood]] to fuel his powers and gets addicted to the stuff. Dean stages a failed intervention and the brothers have a fight which ends in Sam trying to choke Dean and walking out on him. Sam then lets Ruby bleed a possessed woman to gain enough power to finally kill Lilith, knowing this should permanently alter him but expecting to die in the attempt, only to learn that Lilith's death was the final seal which had to be broken [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|to free Lucifer]].}}
* Used rather badly on ''[[Charmed]]'' with Cole. Shortly after being freed of his original demon side, he was involuntarily possessed by the power of the Source of All Evil, and though he tried to resist for a time, it quickly turned him into the new Source. After being vanquished, he came back from the dead and tried to use his powers to fight demons, [[Genre Blind|though by this time he really should've known better]]. The sisters seem to give him the full measure of blame for his actions.
* [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]: Morgana. Averted in that it isn't the power in question that makes her evil and forget her friends, it's her actions with it. Her first act of sabotage against the tyrannical King Uther is to seek vengeance for the death of Guinevere's father. Fast-forward three seasons and Morgana has successfully overthrown Uther and taken over Camelot - but when Gwen reminds her that she too has suffered under Uther's reign, Morgana replies: "I had forgotten."
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Many Chaos Space Marines in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' originally turned to Chaos because of some noble goal (or for self-preservation); but after thousands of years in the service of the Great Gods of Chaos, they have usually either forgotten all about it or use it as a flimsy justification for the atrocities they commit.
** Then again, many of the factions of WH40K who haven't fallen to the side of Chaos still uses almost identical justifications to [[Knight Templar|commit]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|horrible]] [[Fantastic Racism|atrocities]].
* At one point in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' the use of necromancy drove you insane, so that no matter why you started practicing it you ended up a would-be world conqueror with an army of the dead. This has been relaxed, with necromancy being dark, creepy, and mostly used by evil people, but it doesn't have to be.
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* Zouken Matou from ''[[Fate/stay night]]''. He originally began his hunt for the Holy Grail as a way to honor the woman he loved, Justica Von Einzbern. But as he grew older and began turning to more and more twisted magic to keep himself alive long enough to accomplish this, his soul began to rot and his mind went with it, leaving him a corrupt, ruthless madman obsessed with immortality.
* ''[[Dragon Quest IV]]'' has this happen to Psaro the Manslayer, who starts out thinking [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] due to how they treated his beloved Rose and sets out to ensure she'll never be hurt again... despite her constantly begging and pleading with him to stop. Things only get worse after {{spoiler|she's murdered by human thugs}}, causing him to declare he'll simply [[Kill'Em All]]. By the time the chosen ones confront him, he's used {{spoiler|the perfected Secret of Evolution}} and completely lost his mind, declaring that all he remembers is his name and his hatred of humankind.
* Arakune in ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' starts out as a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] version of scientist named Lotte Carmine, who wished to use the power of [[The Corruption|Boundary]] in order to achieve a discovery that would be beneficial to mankind in the long run... even at cost of a lot of human lives. He tapped onto it, and slowly turned into a man-eating [[Eldritch Abomination]] that couldn't remember anything except "Want to eat", especially the Azure Grimoire. He still remembered some of his best friends like Litchi, but that 'discovery beneficial to mankind' AKA his original intention? All forgotten.
* Riku goes through this in the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' game. He starts out using the darkness because he wants to retrieve Kairi's heart. This eventually takes second place to his jealousy of Sora - after taking the Keyblade, losing the Keyblade and getting his ass kicked, he's willing to open himself completely to the darkness if it means he can be stronger than Sora. [[Grand Theft Me|Big mistake.]]
* Lucien in ''[[Fable II]]''. He originally wanted to rebuild the Tattered Spire in order to revive his dead wife and daughter, and when he realizes that the protagonist is [[The Chosen One]] destined to stop him, he is visibly shaken when he has to {{spoiler|kill you and your sister.}} However after decades of building the spire on the back of slave labor and dark magic, he's completely forgotten his original purpose for building it, and only wants the power. {{spoiler|This is most obvious the second time he shoots you, in which he'll calmly state he just murdered your family in cold blood, and then kill you without a second glance.}}
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