Took a Level in Jerkass: Difference between revisions

* Arguably, Medaka of ''[[Medaka Box]]''. Since [[Bigger Bad|Ajimu]] has introduced five "''normal''" people to her, Medaka no longer views Zenkichi as someone special to her since he couldn't pass the first trial of a test she gave the normals. Then she actively tries to turn him into her enemy by acting cold and offensive just so she can see value in him again. Kind of sad considering it's a combination of her abnormality and her personality that causes her change like this since she can't understand failure or things from a "weak" perspective. She even goes as far as {{spoiler|using an abnormality that makes her weaker than Zenkichi and goes all out in a fight against him. Since Zenkichi isn't really willing to fight her at this point she mops the floor with him. However the abnormality she used is a "perfected version" of Kumagawa's Bookmaker and isn't meant for fighting, but for allowing the person affected to feel the world from the opponents perspective.}}

* Takanashi from ''[[Working]]'' is suddenly a lot gruffer in the second season. [[Justified]] in that dealing with [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|Inami]] will do that to you. Then inverted in that he becomes super-nice to her with even less explanation.

 

== Comic Books ==

* 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.

** 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.