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* The Doctor, from ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Yeah, you might know him now as a goofy fun-loving guy who likes to save innocents, but his first incarnation wasn't nearly as nice. His very first story featured him kidnapping two humans because he didn't want them exposing his secret, and he often showed no qualms about killing people they encountered. Part of the change was definitely deliberate, as the writers wrote him becoming softer and kinder over his run, but part of the change is due to the change of the show's premise. When the Doctor started out he was a mysterious presence to intrigue the viewers and the show's ''real'' protagonists, the companions Ian and Barbara, whereas now much of the Doctor's back-story is known, and he often functions as the main hero.

** Note that the Jerkass persona can be chalked up to [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: the Doctor is only downright malicious in his first three stories and softens up afterwards, and his negative traits almost entirely disappear by the end of his first series. William Hartnell spends most of Season 2 playing an eccentric loveable grandfather figure who is constantly giggling and calling people "my dear boy".

* Ziva David from ''[[NCIS]]'' has in the past couple of seasons evolved softer qualities including a [[Big Brother Instinct|big sister instinct]] for McGee. Though it may be those aspects of her personality were always there and she needed to feel at home on the team.