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* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'': In Season 6, Zoey Morrison gets Ted's entire class to do this when he tells of his wanting to tear down the Arcadian.
** Barney does one in season 5 after breaking up with Robin (which is saying something, as he already ''was'' a pretty big jerkass, albeit one with a [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]). He goes back down to his pre-Robin level of jerkery in season 6 though.
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** Freddie takes a level in "iCan't Take It", while he is dating Sam, he edits Carly out of a webshow skit (something he never did even to Sam when they hated each other), and taunts her about being jealous of their relationship.
* Jade West of ''[[Victorious]]'' in the second season. In the fourth episode, she sabotages Tori in an effort to steal a role in a musical by forcing her to repeatedly donate blood Robbie needs for surgery, and in the fifth episode, she attempts to wreck the prom Tori created because Tori unwittingly held it on the same night as the one-man show Jade was planning. Possibly [[Justified Trope]] by the fact that Beck, who usually calms her evil side, hasn't been around as much this season.
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* In ''[[Condemned]]'', Ethan Thomas is a nice enough guy, a gifted investigator, but personality-wise, he was never too impolite, despite clearly being under some MAJOR stress. Come the sequel, Ethan's undergone about a year of alcoholism as well as some [[Jerkass]] power leveling. He curses all the time and is routinely impolite and distrustful towards everyone who tries to help him. This is in fact underlined by the change in his voice actor and character design (he went from an [[Ambiguously Brown]] SCU agent wearing a nondescript police uniform, to a rather less ambiguously Caucasian bum in grunge clothes). The personality change is possibly justified by the year of vagrancy and the events of the first game.
* [[Tales of Graces|Hubert Ozwell]] is regarded to be the king of this trope, and one of the biggest in-series trolls, in the ''Tales'' fandom. For those not in the know, he starts off as a weak, and easily-terrified little boy, but seven years down the line [[Took a Level In Badass|he takes about a million levels in badass]] due to {{spoiler|being adopted into the military-based Ozwell family}}. When he reunites with his older brother, Hubert reveals that {{spoiler|part of the alliance his new nation has with Windol is that they get Lhant, the brothers' homeland, and then Hubert proceeds to [[Limit Break|Blast Caliber]] Asbel into next week, exile him from Lhant, blow their mother off when she tries to intervene, and then sets himself up as the one running the shots}}. Yeah... Hubert becomes kind of a douche.
* Saïx from ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2|Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days]]'' goes from being the emotionless bastard we all know and love to smack around in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' to having his behavior borderline [[Complete Monster]] proportions in regards to Xion. Many were happy to learn that you get to fight him again near the end of the game. His beat down was much deserved. That's what happens when you talk smack about Xion like that. That's right, Roxas kicks your ass. This is especially true because Isa was a pretty decent guy in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]]''. The rest of the Org. doesn't really suffer any drastic personality changes beyond losing the ability to truly care about others, yet Isa goes from a stoic but reasonably friendly boy to the borderline [[Complete Monster]], cold-blooded Jerkass Saïx.
** Some fans have suggested from certain changes in Saix's appearance (the pointed ears, lightened hair color, and perhaps most ominously, yellow eyes) that Isa may have been corrupted by darkness ''before'' he turned into a Nobody, which would certainly explain a lot...
* Eric Sparrow from ''[[Tony Hawks Under Ground]]'' went from the Player's friend to the game's antagonist who was taking credit for everything you did.
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*** Cairne's son Baine did that last part. No all Garrosh did was send Magatha Grimtotem a letter that amounted to "I hope you burn in hell". What Garrosh ''did'' do to elevate his Jerkass status was whine to Baine about the honor he lost {{spoiler|after he killed Baine's father in less-than-honorable combat.}}
** Garrosh will be taking this trope to its logical conclusion in ''Mists of Pandaria''. {{spoiler|The final raid dungeon is going to be a siege on Orgrimmar itself by both Alliance and Horde, because apparently at some point in the expansion Garrosh does something [[Moral Event Horizon|''so horrible'' that it disgusts ''everybody'']].}}
* Palom was an overeager, boastful, and sort of annoying character in the original ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', but that was probably excusable on account of him being five years old. In ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* Before the [[Full Motion Video|FMV]] games, Admiral Tolwyn, from the ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' games and novels, was a gruff but overall fair person. Starting with WC3, though, he became Admiral Asshole (possibly due to [[Typecasting]] of [[Malcolm McDowell]], the actor that played him), and continued on to [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi]] in WC4. William Forstchen's [[Novelization|novelizations]] of those two games tried to lessen that a bit, but was limited by the game scripts he was writing from.
* Nathan Spencer in the 2009 ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' sequel.
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