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When a certain (allegedly) non-villainous character starts getting explicitly dark character development, they are being painted into the
This new development can be either subtle or blatant, gradual or abrupt. The character can be an old friend of the protagonist, a friendly acquaintance, [[Broken Pedestal|a former Mentor]], or any other type of automatically respected person; the character can even be the actual protagonist. It can involve the revelations of dark deeds from the character's past, or manifest in new actions or attitudes which go against the established grain. In any of these cases, the audience is not supposed to suspect anything evil about this person; indeed, there may not ''be'' anything evil about them, at least initially.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* {{spoiler|Pretty much everyone}} in the first season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' approaches the corner very subtly, and they [[Heel Realization|realize]] it very abruptly.
* Quite a lot of ''[[Code Geass]]'' is about Lelouch trying not to paint himself into the
* [[Naruto|Sasuke.]] Originally he was just a slightly dark [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|blue oni]] [[The Woobie|woobie]], but the [[Smug Snake|actual]] [[Man Behind the Man|villains]] gave him a gentle push toward the corner, [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|and,]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|well...]]
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** The universe has made sure to give V another slap for the last action by revealing that {{spoiler|the family of black dragons and relatives he murdered were related to a large powerful family of wizards that really got around meaning V murdered people whose only sin was to sleep with a member of this family.}}
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', while Dr. Schlock was always more concerned with saving his own hide than anything else, still seemed like a pretty sympathetic guy until he took over [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|Hereti-Corp]]. After that, a storyline focusing on him was actually titled "A Year in the Life of a Villain."
* In ''[[The Wotch]]'', Miranda West has always been a [[Jerkass]], but when she {{spoiler|transforms Natasha Dahlet of DOLLY into a [[And I Must Scream|living, sentient dolly]]}} it's a pretty sinister act, even if it was delivered to a villain. Miranda's catapulting leap into the
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