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Compare [[Knight Templar]] and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]], which is where this trope often ends up. See also [[Anti-Villain]].
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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.
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* Delivered somewhat in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' (it turns out not quite as outright villainy, but as {{spoiler|[[Omniscient Morality License]]}} and {{spoiler|really bad youthful influences}}) via a surprising instance of [[Posthumous Character]].
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** The put-upon lab assistant in this film is given a similar treatment; he seems almost sympathetic until, suddenly and quite inexplicably, he cops a nasty attitude halfway through the movie, just in time for his [[Karmic Death]].
* [[Angel]], in Season Two
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* Peter from ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' is in and out of the Villain Corner like a grade-school dunce. In his first appearance, he's a blackmailer; afterward the show desperately tries to make him seem like a good guy (including mandatory [[Freudian Excuse]]). But then he has several more [[Kick the Dog]] moments, most notably when he helps a pedophile stalk somebody... and then an additional season of "no, he's really a decent guy." And after ''that'', (judging by promos) it looked like he was going to be evil again. But as it turns out, you can [[Never Trust a Trailer]], and after one episode of appearing to be evil it turns out he's still good.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' S4, one common complaint was that it was impossible to empathize with Sam for {{spoiler|betraying Dean and siding with Ruby}} because not enough was done to reveal his motivation for it. Ultimately, Sam was {{spoiler|briefly}} an example of this trope, and this point has been addressed in S5.
* {{spoiler|Gaeta}} in the finale season of the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', the wizard Vaarsuvius began showing signs of [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]] after the defeat at Azure City left [[Ambiguous Gender|him (her?)]] suffering from [[Bad Dreams]] over the [[My Greatest Failure|failure]] of hir arcane power to save the day. It started with being a [[Jerkass]] to the rest of the party, progressed to {{spoiler|casually murdering [[Smug Snake]] Daimyo Kubota and then threatening to kill Elan}}, and finally to a full-blown {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil]]}} that eventually led to a near {{spoiler|genocide of the Black Dragons}} that very nearly pushed hir over the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Fortunately, V shows signs of [[My God, What Have I Done?|desiring to redeem hirself]] at the end of the arc.
** 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."
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