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A faction making a [[Face Heel Turn]] or [[Heel Face Turn]] qualifies only if its change of alignment leads to it no longer being a part of the system. If it's still a part of the system (although now in an antagonistic way), it's not this trope.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Sandman]]'', there are seven Endless: Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair and Delirium. The seventh Endless? Used to be Destruction, but he quit. {{spoiler|Turned out that he left because of Newton. He realized that the humans were only centuries away from discovering the nuclear bomb, and he didn't feel up for administrating that again.}}
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== [[Mythology]] ==
* There are [
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Old World of Darkness]] had several of these:
** The lost/extinct vampire clans in ''[[
*** There's a clan in the Sabbat sourcebook called the Harbingers of Skulls who are pretty obvious the Cappadocians, though. To the point one of their Stereotype Reactions is from a recently-deceased Giovanni: [[Curse Cut Short|"Oh, sh-"]]
** From ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Wraith: The Oblivion]]'' had a few Guilds that were dismantled by the Hierarchy for the sheer fact that their [[Functional Magic|Arcanoi]] were open to abuse and anarchy - the Alchemists (who practiced Flux, which allowed them to transform matter in the Skinlands), the Mnemoi (who practiced Mnemonsynis, which manipulated memories; they were originally judges before they did something ''very'' bad), and the Solicitors (who practiced Intimation, which involved manipulating wants and desires - which is powerful, as [[Unfinished Business|Passions and Fetters]] entirely define wraiths).
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* ''[[Vega Strike]]'': The Lightbearers.
* ''[[Golden Sun]]'': A lot is made about the Anemos tribe, of which two major characters are descendants and whose entire city apparently lifted off to become the Moon. Guess who ''doesn't'' show up in ''[[Dark Dawn]]''?
* The mythical 11th clan of S'pht, the S'pht'Kr from ''[[Marathon
* The Androsynth in [[Star Control]]. [[Berserk Button|Do not ask the Orz what they have done to them, and why.]]
* The fifth house, Hispania, in ''[[Freelancer]]''. What actually happened was their colony ship sputtered out before it reached a habitable planet (unlike the Liberty, Kusari, Bretonia, and Rhineland colony ships), so its survivors and descendants became space-faring pirate clans.
* The backstory to ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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