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* [[Big Bad|Overlord]] from [[Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers]] has the more subdued version. He's a nigh-unstoppable Decepticon [[Dangerous Deserter|deserter]], whose main motive for desertion (or anything) was to goad Megatron into a one-on-one fight. He takes everything the Wreckers throw at him, {{spoiler|even getting reduced to a burning endo-skeleton}} and keeps going...until {{spoiler|Verity tells him that Megatron is dead, and the fight he spent his entire life preparing for will ''never happen''. After that, he doesn't even put up a fight as they cart him off to prison.}}

* In ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'', the opium smuggler Yorick befriends and falls for on the journey to Australia justifies her trade by reasoning that humanity is already doomed, and all she's doing is making people's lives easier by giving them an escape from this awful knowledge. Then, she [[Heel Realization|realizes]] that Yorick's survival means that humanity has hope after all, and all she's done is make things worse by creating further misery and despair. [[Driven to Suicide|She doesn't]] [[Redemption Equals Death|take it well]].

* This happens to [[Sinestro]] in [[Green Lantern]] throughout [[Blackest Night]], more than once. Sinestro, by his [[Knight Templar|nature]], is big on Authority being competent in their actions. So every time he learns new evidence that the Guardians Of The Universe are [[Neglectful Precursors|very, very, very, very incompetent]], he gets... a little upset. It's even worse for him because reminds him how the Guardians painted [[Only Sane Man|Abin Sir]] as a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] for daring to expose said incompetence.

* [[Doctor Doom]] suffered a pretty huge one in one story. At one point he had Reed Richards imprisoned in a torture room full of mirrors placed in such a way that the warped reflections would drive anyone crazy. At the start, he's classic arrogant gloating Doom. By the end of the story a few issues later, he's beating the crap out of Reed while screaming and ranting about how much he hates Reed. The fight takes them to the torture room, and Reed removes Doom's mask. Seeing thousands of warped reflections of his own scarred face drives Doom insane.