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== [[Web Original]] ==
* While only "evil" in a tongue-in-cheek way, Artefact of ''[[Sankaku Complex]]'' was not always a depraved anime-yellow-journalist-slash-pornoblogger. His earlier writings were more gushing and humble in tone (in contrasts with his signature witty [[Deadpan Snarker]] style), recommending ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'' for learning Japanese, as well as promoting artists, works, or stores he likes. Compare old titles like "Yotsuba-to! – Ideal manga for learning Japanese?" to the typical "Ichiban Ushiro no Dai-Maoh Bukkake Milking Anime" common nowadays.
* Los Magnificos, the heroic defenders of Mexico City in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', made a deal with the Garodillos crime family to turn a blind eye to certain crimes in exchange for the crime family's assistance in policing the barrios they controlled of its more extreme elements, because the problems faced by those areas were too much for the heroes to handle on their own. And it worked, for a while. Sure, there was still drug-trafficking, but murders and rapes went down. Eventually, however, the members of Los Magnificos were little more than a superhuman enforcement arm for the Mexican mafia.
* Trace from ''[[Twokinds]]'' tried to resurrect his dead wife before black magic poisoning turned him into a power-hungry dictator. Or at least, that's what a character told him...
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' , {{spoiler|Sigmund Freud determines through hypnotism that Brain's desire to rule the world was actually created in him subversively and accidentally by the scientists at his lab. What Brain ''really'' wanted was to go back to his family, who lived in a can with a picture of the world on it. But his mind was warped by the experimentation to the point that all he could remember was his desire for that image of the world.}} Brain considers the possibility, but ultimately dismisses it and goes on as planned.
** Also, a combination of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] and [[Aesop Amnesia]] add up to this trope in the episode where Brain turns away from megalomania and vows to spend his life helping the victims of his obsession (first and foremost, Pinky). Despite Brain's best efforts to help prepare him, Pinky (as a tiny, dumb mouse) gets trampled and abused in the real world, prompting Brain to swear that he WILL take over the world, in order to make it a better place that would be fair and kind to people like Pinky. This motivation never comes up again, and Brain is back to abusing Pinky at will in the next episode.
* In ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', Asajj Ventress spent many of her early years training under a Jedi who treated her with respect and seemed like her happiest days of her life. Then her master gets killed, she goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]], Dooku recruits her, and she is now one of the most effective Jedi-killers in the Galaxy.
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