Took a Level in Jerkass: Difference between revisions

** This is hardly the first time she does. At the start of season 2 she is stressing over her temporary death at the hands of the The Master, and her Jerkassness in that episode would impress [[Psycho for Hire|Faith]] at her worst. Later everyone took a level after Buffy flees Sunnydale at the end of the second season. Justified in the fourth season as a demon was stealing her soul. And in season five a magical retcon gives her a sister that is being pursued by a nigh-invincible Hellgod, her mother is dying, and her boyfriend is found cheating on her with vampire prostitutes and then flees town, so Buffy is epically not in a happy place.

** Speaking of Faith, she does this to a frightening degree after she accidentally kills someone, to the point where Buffy is happy to kill her. She gets better following her first [[Angel]] appearance, however, to the point that she's one of the ''nicer'' characters by the end of the television series.

* Seth Cohen from ''[[The OC]]'' becomes noticeably more self-absorbed in later episodes. Arguably this helped round out his character a bit more and explain his previously [[Cool Loser|inexplicable]] unpopularity.

* Nate from ''[[Six Feet Under]]'', even though the personality changes are very gradual and subtle. His idealistic, free-spirited nature doesn't mesh well with his family responsibilities in season 5.

* Walter White of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' becomes less and less sympathetic as the show goes on. [[Word of God|Vince Gilligan]] has confirmed this is deliberate.

* ''[[Roseanne]]'''s titular character started out as a gruff, but otherwise friendly and wisecracking blue-collar woman who loved her husband and kids, and slowly transformed into a cruel, selfish, sniping, raging, shrieking bitch with severe misandrist tendencies. On top of that, she was often portrayed as being in the right and getting away with being an asshole to everyone. Her daughter, Darlene, seemed to follow her into this mold. Given that this dovetailed with the men of the show (particularly Leon, Mark and David) becoming more and more pathetic, useless, and stupid, and that the show was practically written and run by Roseanne herself, it's a pretty clarifying look into her mindset at the time.

 

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