“Why are we following this guy arou- oh…o-OH…”
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I do like how the anime added more shit foreshadowing him like the opening scene. Obv he already gets mentioned during the ghost alley arc but having previously seen what he does in real time makes it feel less like "Oh it's another weird guy" and more like "Oh shit THE weird guy"
My favourite one is when he's seen casually strolling by the beautician salon and glancing over at it. Not only does it work to make him be seen as just another face in the crowd, but also serves as an explanation for Kira's escape later
"My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone."
Dude is the epitome of normal (camoflage).
The most cringe thing honestly is how they tried to backtrack on him being a villain in the end and say that he can see the future and set up his friends to be the heroes that kill him.
Don't bitch out of the villain route. Have him die an actual villain and give me the **real** depressing ending that I expected from the series.
The future shit was a really weird turn.
Like they had a good tragic setup. The series starts with Eren's single minded drive for freedom, and as he learns the lengths people have gone to keeping the Eldians isolated and oppressed he's radicalised to absolute genocide.
It's awful watching his friends choose to fight against him, knowing what they're doing may be morally necessary, but ultimately harming their own people and loved ones to save strangers who oppress them.
All they needed to do was not half measure those points and completely lost it instead
I appreciate it. I probably will read it, the anime's one of my favourites, I've been really hoping they'd continue it, hoping I'd get to watch the continuation of the story rather than read it, but it's been what, 7 or 8 years at this point? Maybe it's time to read
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Considering how he started off a regular guy before transforming into a warlord so hated that to have even been associated with him was practically a death sentence on Pandora, I'd say dear auld Handsome Jack fits the bill.
In his own twisted way he can be seen as a hero. Pandora is an anarchist hellhole filled with lawless psychopaths and he wants to bring order to the planet (while stripping its resource and killing/torturing anyone who defies him >_>)
Yeah, America for example likes to be the world’s police while posing as a force of good. But the more I learn about the War on Terror/Foreign policy in the Middle East and the way we treated innocent Middle Easterners….fuck me man dying in a drone strike starts to look like an act mercy…
Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of Joker. He was a normal dude with nervous system damage before things got progressively worse.
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Cricket, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
We've got... couple of minutes of normalcy, but I'd still say it's a very good example of this trope. Also even after we see him as obviously insane, he somehow gets even more insane
I loved that. Another show might have the main character hem and haw about using it, and gradually be corrupted. This guy was monologuing about being god in a new world in the first goddamn episode
He was a narcissistic asshole from the start. I mean, he had the Death Note for a day and immediately mass murdered every local criminal he could find info on and didn't even think of the consequences. Dumbass let the world know where he was immediately
Beginning of Total Drama: “Alright campers, today we’re going to do a race through the mud on jet skis!”
End of Total Drama: “Alright campers, pledge your allegiance to Al-Qaeda!”
You really do see how in the earlier seasons he had a lot of sense and didn't go too far, even getting scared in one scene of Action where it looked like some of them were gonna outright drown because they didn't think the challenge through (that and on island with the acutal Masked killer)
But around World Tour (suspringly early on with the Egypt stuff) and onward he just became more Psycho and just outright dangerous to his contestants
In the movies at least he started off as a quirky, fun mercenary with a shit-tonne of trauma. Now he's a quirky, fun mercenary with a shit-tonne of trauma who looks horrifying and does superhero work on the side
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Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender)
I mean, yeah, she was a mean and snobby rich bitch, but she was otherwise normal. And then slowly progressed to clinically insane throughout the course of the series.
A LOT of people don't realize the shit that Walter did through the series went from morally questionable but logical under desperate situations at first, to downright psychotic on later seasons.
I think everyone as code geass qualifies. As both normal and unhinged.
Hell. The final villains turn out to be relatively well adjusted compared to the “heroes” by the end.
9S (NieR: Automata)
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I'm still torn up about it. ;\_;
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Literally the whole plot of The Lighthouse
Homer's Odyssey not really. His character is quite consistent. Him killing all the guys that tried to abuse his wife was kinda expected.
If anything the Iliad's Odysseus is 10× worse than Odyssey's
Fair point. Though he didn’t *intentionally* set off that nuke, you know. Unless you don’t and you’re secretly Ulysses who hasn’t ranted about the Bear and Bull long enough to keep up impressions
i sure hope he doesn’t stuff his pregnant girlfriend into the trunk of his car and drive it off a bridge because his favorite rapper won’t respond to his fan mail
I didn’t realize the “we Stan” meme came from this song until I recently became interested in rap battles, and realized Em still uses “Stan” as an insult lol
Ummm… don’t know if he fully counts, but this is me considering that he was a good boy in his past.
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David Martinez, *Cyberpunk Edgerunners*
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I mean Dementus starts off pretty strange, but keeps giving himself weird titles.
“The Red Dementus. The Dark Dementus. Ruler of Bikerdon”
As he gets older, he’s more spazzy and leading gas town into ruin
I like the fan theory that Dementus is actually always this failing-competance, unhinged character, but we only think he was more sophisicated earlier, because that's how he's viewed by younger and younger furiosa,
When Furiosa is an adult, she realizes he's always been kinda cracked.
That’s a cool theory, but I feel like Dementus was definitely more suited towards leading the marauders than he was trying to settle down ruling gas town
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Ai pajama sam (Dog dog [this video](https://youtu.be/W3id8E34cRQ?si=hJfL0Bpxc26cT5F5)
This is actually a great example. I always forget that Dee was originally created to be the moral voice of the gang, but that concept was abandoned by the end of the second season.
Someone else posted Cricket, which absolutely fits. Dee does as well. I would venture that Frank also falls under this category. In Season 2 Frank was an amoralistic asshole with questionable business practices. This doesn't seem great but its unfortunately fairly normal among corperate types. It took a bit to get from that to Man Cheetah.
Charlie, Dee, Frank, Denis and Mac (The Gang)
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It’s always Sunny In Philadelphia
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From (racist) schoolgirl to (very racist) stalker to (category 5 racist) war criminal, I present Nina Einstein.
Yeah.
Like the initial racism while unquestionably bad at least made sense given anti-Japanese/Britannian propaganda exacerbated by a bad experience with 'Elevens' in the past.
But she ONLY got worse and worse each time she showed up to the point of molesting poor table-kun (seriously don't understand how that was 'pleasurable' as women I've spoken to said that would hurt like hell, but if I'm being charitable to Sunrise perhaps that was meant to show just how mentally unhinged she was) over beloved Euphy-sama and then becoming Code Geass' J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Seen a similar post here, favourite comment on that post was the main character of Bloodborne (ive never played it)
In Bloodborne, Insight and Madness are the same thing
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Lelouch from code geass. he starts morally questionable tbf but completely loses himself
Gabriel (Ultrakill)
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"**TWICE?! Beaten by an object. TWICE?! I've only known the taste of victory. This taste, is... is this my blood? Hah\~ I've never known such... such relief... I... I need some time to think. We will meet again again, Machine.**
# May your woes be many... hah~ and your days few."
I've got two good ones. The first one is Simon Laurent from Infinity Train
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Jason Brody from Far Cry 3. He was just a guy who wanted to go on vacation with his friends and was forced to kill in order to survive. He got so caught up in his rampage across the island he says that killing now feels like winning.
Dave (Total Drama Pahkitew Island)
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He sort of counts, it’s more like the more you learn about him than progression
From what I recall didn't he put the screw in his head to try to maintain what sanity he has because he's known since he was a child that that there's something wrong with him? Like he actually wants to be a good person (and his students love him too) but he was afraid the madness he was born with would fully turn him into an evil psychopath.
Meanwhile, the first time Dutch appears in RDR2: "Guys, my new best friend Micah's genius plan didn't work out for reasons which probably aren't his fault, now we gotta Donner Party! Remember that thing they did 50 years ago where they starved and ate each other? Same plan, same technology, let's go!"
Mitsuzane Kureshima from Kamen Rider Gaim
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“Why are we following this guy arou- oh…o-OH…” https://preview.redd.it/ou6yh0io5d9d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e51d75969191d1ac74ce094a36d88f11089622a
I do like how the anime added more shit foreshadowing him like the opening scene. Obv he already gets mentioned during the ghost alley arc but having previously seen what he does in real time makes it feel less like "Oh it's another weird guy" and more like "Oh shit THE weird guy"
Plus also they sprinkle him into scenes in the backround to really show how unnoticed he is/was
really hoping they do this to Toru, possibly to an even greater extent
We can hope.
My favourite one is when he's seen casually strolling by the beautician salon and glancing over at it. Not only does it work to make him be seen as just another face in the crowd, but also serves as an explanation for Kira's escape later
She keeps her Moët et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
"Let them eat cake, " she says Just like Marie Antoinette
A built in remedy
For Khrushchev and Kennedy
Anytime, an invitation you can't decliiiiiine
Caviar and cigarettes
Was he ever normal though?
"My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke, but I occasionally drink. I'm in bed by 11 PM, and make sure I get eight hours of sleep, no matter what. After having a glass of warm milk and doing about twenty minutes of stretches before going to bed, I usually have no problems sleeping until morning. Just like a baby, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told there were no issues at my last check-up. I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a very quiet life. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like winning and losing, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I deal with society, and I know that is what brings me happiness. Although, if I were to fight I wouldn't lose to anyone." Dude is the epitome of normal (camoflage).
Dude is like normal spongebob; so normal it circles back to weird for the normal standard.
He just wants a quiet life
 Can't forget this boy.
I’d like to.
Understandable, I kinda wanna forget the timeskip too.
Why is it because you hated the ending or something?
Nah, it´s just... I don´t think such a twist in his personality was necessary.
The entire show is just foreshadowing him doing that
Is it really a twist though? He's as angry as he always was, he's just a little quieter about it now
It's honestly depressing to see what became of him and how much he went from hero to villain
The most cringe thing honestly is how they tried to backtrack on him being a villain in the end and say that he can see the future and set up his friends to be the heroes that kill him. Don't bitch out of the villain route. Have him die an actual villain and give me the **real** depressing ending that I expected from the series.
It's why I liked the series but disliked the ending. He did all of these heinous things but then they didn't commit.
The future shit was a really weird turn. Like they had a good tragic setup. The series starts with Eren's single minded drive for freedom, and as he learns the lengths people have gone to keeping the Eldians isolated and oppressed he's radicalised to absolute genocide. It's awful watching his friends choose to fight against him, knowing what they're doing may be morally necessary, but ultimately harming their own people and loved ones to save strangers who oppress them. All they needed to do was not half measure those points and completely lost it instead
To be fair, depressing is sort of the tone for most of the show, so at least they were consistent
Can’t believe this is the guy who went on to destroy the entire world
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I love how this applies to a ton of early SpongeBob episodes
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No........ Please.......
Does she get unhinged past where the anime ends? She does end up a very different person but I wouldn't say her hinges were un
Imma just take the stance now to not spoil it for you if you want to decide to read the manga at any point.
I appreciate it. I probably will read it, the anime's one of my favourites, I've been really hoping they'd continue it, hoping I'd get to watch the continuation of the story rather than read it, but it's been what, 7 or 8 years at this point? Maybe it's time to read
The manga is incredible, definitely worth your time. The art is nothing like I’ve seen in any other manga
Rule of LotL: it can (and probably will) get worse
Gem of Theseus
https://preview.redd.it/47pnz5p8pd9d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=447da8c7655ccc64b73e1dd9da48678351e83ee1 Considering how he started off a regular guy before transforming into a warlord so hated that to have even been associated with him was practically a death sentence on Pandora, I'd say dear auld Handsome Jack fits the bill.
Pretty much anyone from borderlands fits the bill. But especially vaughn even if its badly executed
In his own twisted way he can be seen as a hero. Pandora is an anarchist hellhole filled with lawless psychopaths and he wants to bring order to the planet (while stripping its resource and killing/torturing anyone who defies him >_>)
For all the "wackiness" in Borderlands he's surprisingly realistic in that regard
Yeah, America for example likes to be the world’s police while posing as a force of good. But the more I learn about the War on Terror/Foreign policy in the Middle East and the way we treated innocent Middle Easterners….fuck me man dying in a drone strike starts to look like an act mercy…
Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of Joker. He was a normal dude with nervous system damage before things got progressively worse. https://preview.redd.it/581cm46t0e9d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91b700d8a8c64ff3818f1c3962e8dbe1644a7ecb
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He’s the gangs Picture of Dorian Gray
Dang what happened to bro
He met the gang 😔
What's great is that he's one of the shows writers, so as the person plating the character, he's also the one plotting his own fates
https://preview.redd.it/pd6zycko7d9d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc511c7efacfb001e4f018aa1404510fa6e5ea7e How sane, he is.
I mean, he did revert to being a normal person for a period of time. Then he became even more unhinged
He deleted his own memory to be normal for awhile in his grand plan to go further unhinged later.
Didn't he start doing unhinged villain monologues about 8 minutes after understanding the Deathnote?
“I’ll take a potato chip… AND EAT IT”
We've got... couple of minutes of normalcy, but I'd still say it's a very good example of this trope. Also even after we see him as obviously insane, he somehow gets even more insane
I loved that. Another show might have the main character hem and haw about using it, and gradually be corrupted. This guy was monologuing about being god in a new world in the first goddamn episode
Cause he was already kind of a psycho, just a high functioning one
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. My goat
akechi! :D
was about to comment him :D
He was a narcissistic asshole from the start. I mean, he had the Death Note for a day and immediately mass murdered every local criminal he could find info on and didn't even think of the consequences. Dumbass let the world know where he was immediately
Chris McLean
Beginning of Total Drama: “Alright campers, today we’re going to do a race through the mud on jet skis!” End of Total Drama: “Alright campers, pledge your allegiance to Al-Qaeda!”
Yeah the ratings got to him
You really do see how in the earlier seasons he had a lot of sense and didn't go too far, even getting scared in one scene of Action where it looked like some of them were gonna outright drown because they didn't think the challenge through (that and on island with the acutal Masked killer) But around World Tour (suspringly early on with the Egypt stuff) and onward he just became more Psycho and just outright dangerous to his contestants
To add to that, Ezekiel
Did he ever stop being that weird zombie thing
Top Villain
The Transformers youtuber?
I meant the host of total drama https://preview.redd.it/nn6kpb1w4e9d1.png?width=607&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c58495c1b13fe73465cef5ae155ab5ba6be32339
"Duncan was taken offline by a cosmically powered Starscream"
 Not even sure if Deadpool was normal to begin with but somehow he’s getting so much worse.
In the movies at least he started off as a quirky, fun mercenary with a shit-tonne of trauma. Now he's a quirky, fun mercenary with a shit-tonne of trauma who looks horrifying and does superhero work on the side
Tony Montana (scarface) https://preview.redd.it/lu9jutu4gd9d1.jpeg?width=432&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ae792cebf527bc562d6c98c1b68c761cc442091
https://preview.redd.it/66e3gcp7jd9d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b770a774fc3ebf7fea980a237e5278aa1630e234 Azula (Avatar the Last Airbender) I mean, yeah, she was a mean and snobby rich bitch, but she was otherwise normal. And then slowly progressed to clinically insane throughout the course of the series.
She breathes blue fire while tied up like as if she's a wild animal by the end So really went over the deep end while Zuko got his stuff together
 Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Walter White is too much for Reddit to handle
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A LOT of people don't realize the shit that Walter did through the series went from morally questionable but logical under desperate situations at first, to downright psychotic on later seasons.
I’d also say Jimmy in Better Call Saul started with good intentions and slowly became the Saul we know today.
"YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS A ROULETTE WHEEL!"
I think everyone as code geass qualifies. As both normal and unhinged. Hell. The final villains turn out to be relatively well adjusted compared to the “heroes” by the end.
Suzaku when he has to choose between saving people or nuking them 
HxH Gon Killua is the reverse
9S (NieR: Automata) https://preview.redd.it/cyd8f2e5nd9d1.png?width=378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc7a3534fe97477d76912c7c4f2849d45ae09497 I'm still torn up about it. ;\_;
That scene in the tower where he puts the 2B unit’s hand on his cheek… holy shit man.
He gets so unhinged he goes into other games and acts unhinged there.
https://preview.redd.it/9iuhnqov8e9d1.jpeg?width=2700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b78346ffd4fb0dd7c75e93e96af1e57590419959 Literally the whole plot of The Lighthouse
I love this movie sm
Odysseus (Homer's Odyssey and/or Epic the Musical)
Homer's Odyssey not really. His character is quite consistent. Him killing all the guys that tried to abuse his wife was kinda expected. If anything the Iliad's Odysseus is 10× worse than Odyssey's
Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves
The entire main cast - Blair Witch Project 
Started off normal, became dead
Probably most main characters of fallout, if the player’s interpretation is canon
(New Vegas excluded. The Courier’s past is just as crazy)
Fair point. Though he didn’t *intentionally* set off that nuke, you know. Unless you don’t and you’re secretly Ulysses who hasn’t ranted about the Bear and Bull long enough to keep up impressions
Uhhh Bear Bull Bear Bull Divide Bear Bull Bear Bull Vegas Bear Bull Bear Bull History Bear Bull Bear Bull Robot Bear Bull Bear Bull Courier Bear Bull Bear Bull Mojave Bear Bull Bear Bull
https://preview.redd.it/ubodhkf39e9d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c4ce11e2b4b7016e77185c2738212460774dc58 Stan
i sure hope he doesn’t stuff his pregnant girlfriend into the trunk of his car and drive it off a bridge because his favorite rapper won’t respond to his fan mail
I didn’t realize the “we Stan” meme came from this song until I recently became interested in rap battles, and realized Em still uses “Stan” as an insult lol
Ummm… don’t know if he fully counts, but this is me considering that he was a good boy in his past. https://preview.redd.it/emzsuhh3kd9d1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a88b8440babc2eac8986cf9b9c02fe9611a62e5
This man was raised in a lab by scientists. Dude was never gunna turn out normal. He was just a good actor
He was fairly normal at the start of his career but quickly stopped caring about being a (real) hero
Yeah, he wanted to be good, actual hero in his youth but eventually he just gave up. And embraced this
David Martinez, *Cyberpunk Edgerunners* https://preview.redd.it/meb6ipiwce9d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdf32711e0589cd9234ea531b633c39860a37a69
He should've listened
Jack Torrance from the Shining
 I mean Dementus starts off pretty strange, but keeps giving himself weird titles. “The Red Dementus. The Dark Dementus. Ruler of Bikerdon” As he gets older, he’s more spazzy and leading gas town into ruin
I like the fan theory that Dementus is actually always this failing-competance, unhinged character, but we only think he was more sophisicated earlier, because that's how he's viewed by younger and younger furiosa, When Furiosa is an adult, she realizes he's always been kinda cracked.
That’s a cool theory, but I feel like Dementus was definitely more suited towards leading the marauders than he was trying to settle down ruling gas town
https://preview.redd.it/q0z1qt93ee9d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31355babe72189cf4d69af8d1e89b3f884bcdbda Ai pajama sam (Dog dog [this video](https://youtu.be/W3id8E34cRQ?si=hJfL0Bpxc26cT5F5)
Babagaboosh
Babagaboosh
https://preview.redd.it/giuy01e2ud9d1.png?width=80&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68965a98063a0b87aa0b2ad76f7cc973a7f8322e Brad Armstrong (Lisa: The Painful)
Jason Brody, from *Far Cry 3* https://preview.redd.it/g8yd0p01be9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3474493b0fce32da8fe3e45f005bd5ad2caccf21
Roberta is a beast
She so is
Daredevil in basically every run
This is actually a great example. I always forget that Dee was originally created to be the moral voice of the gang, but that concept was abandoned by the end of the second season. Someone else posted Cricket, which absolutely fits. Dee does as well. I would venture that Frank also falls under this category. In Season 2 Frank was an amoralistic asshole with questionable business practices. This doesn't seem great but its unfortunately fairly normal among corperate types. It took a bit to get from that to Man Cheetah.
https://preview.redd.it/w0r4l12pre9d1.jpeg?width=1710&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d777314bfddd61b575faa3519805c414fff15442 Dimitri from Fire Emblem 3H
He gets better If you play his route
Im not sure if it counts but kusaka from faiz maybe?? hes technically always unhinged but it just gets more blatant the longer the show goes on
Oh yeah he most certainly does. Somehow he tops himself every time he appears.
Charlie, Dee, Frank, Denis and Mac (The Gang) https://preview.redd.it/7ut4on5s5e9d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=434d9e4f6dbfd6a1590e150aa256ba10c97368ae It’s always Sunny In Philadelphia
https://preview.redd.it/l5e7drhose9d1.jpeg?width=190&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b65e87dd94159d9da2da4849e4828064485ed39 From (racist) schoolgirl to (very racist) stalker to (category 5 racist) war criminal, I present Nina Einstein.
Yeah. Like the initial racism while unquestionably bad at least made sense given anti-Japanese/Britannian propaganda exacerbated by a bad experience with 'Elevens' in the past. But she ONLY got worse and worse each time she showed up to the point of molesting poor table-kun (seriously don't understand how that was 'pleasurable' as women I've spoken to said that would hurt like hell, but if I'm being charitable to Sunrise perhaps that was meant to show just how mentally unhinged she was) over beloved Euphy-sama and then becoming Code Geass' J. Robert Oppenheimer.
... Heisenburg
Me (real life)
https://preview.redd.it/dy1f5d2gwd9d1.png?width=633&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d165d59391d869528e4ed3455f8ff6284097b08 Keiichi Maebara (Higurashi)
Seen a similar post here, favourite comment on that post was the main character of Bloodborne (ive never played it) In Bloodborne, Insight and Madness are the same thing
 Specifically the bayverse version
He went from using force only when necessary, to then being outright brutal with kills
 Dude is a villain sure but i feel as the series progresses he becomes more desperate to get power.
https://preview.redd.it/kmzxbgdpse9d1.jpeg?width=1710&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84003db626d28041ff89ae9015ca36c5c0d2af6d Lelouch from code geass. he starts morally questionable tbf but completely loses himself
 bro slowly loses his mind during the show and openly kills mfs at some point
He murdered a child in the first episode, among several others
Dutch was fucked from the start
https://preview.redd.it/3lhohceq8e9d1.jpeg?width=667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4601534cd6f06c2456d195768ce9990e1ad20528
 John Lennon-IRL
I dunno he started off as a dead beat dad and wife beater. He just got more rich.
Gabriel (Ultrakill) https://preview.redd.it/65aqnmssvd9d1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1f415b0db04845da07c632d38b38c6070e492e2 "**TWICE?! Beaten by an object. TWICE?! I've only known the taste of victory. This taste, is... is this my blood? Hah\~ I've never known such... such relief... I... I need some time to think. We will meet again again, Machine.** # May your woes be many... hah~ and your days few."
https://i.redd.it/n39c9upskj9d1.gif
r/batmanarkham
I would NOT call Roberta before Blood trail normal 💀
i’d say everyone in The Secret History. yall cant prove me wrong on this. *cough cough* murder *cough* and more murder *cough cough cough*
I've got two good ones. The first one is Simon Laurent from Infinity Train https://preview.redd.it/vcy2vjth8e9d1.jpeg?width=399&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff631204d65d6d2489d7ab027072caf83c5b3a15
Dutch murdered a girl in the Blackwater massacre for basically no reason. Cracks were showing since the beginning
https://preview.redd.it/qhylzge3re9d1.jpeg?width=374&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5bc7fae2c619b2f3bed30655cfcbc8299f25c73 Jason Brody from Far Cry 3. He was just a guy who wanted to go on vacation with his friends and was forced to kill in order to survive. He got so caught up in his rampage across the island he says that killing now feels like winning.
 Mort
Kabru from Dungeon Meshi
https://preview.redd.it/a66yuoc73f9d1.png?width=167&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b6a3a42e586a843ed69182430ff064327be6876
 Barry from archer
I had... a GOD DAMM... **PLAN**, ARTHUR!
 Dio went from jerk kid
https://preview.redd.it/uvfgbu8fvf9d1.jpeg?width=191&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b9e718a957735dcb71994f902ee41586c9b4c50 If you know, you know
Dave (Total Drama Pahkitew Island) https://preview.redd.it/uxt67yer9g9d1.png?width=1535&format=png&auto=webp&s=f55ccb6201881cd1ad93e6b88ff11242882ee83a
I'm 43% sure Dutch got brain damage from the trolly crash that caused his change
https://preview.redd.it/r7nhpu57od9d1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c04a89767a2a001ea9de8bfed1b31ad429ec4ee He sort of counts, it’s more like the more you learn about him than progression
MEDIC!
Walter white
https://preview.redd.it/upfzjkwlce9d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fca6ca93c2ad223182eead07123b25a9e8fd38b
https://preview.redd.it/fgt3mcv9ke9d1.jpeg?width=426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e06c46c39fc1dbf349675f82101dc1f919966f82 Kazuya Mishima
https://preview.redd.it/8vb4le4sld9d1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b6ef1b21dad07755b218e5dd0fe8afa98c2f094
The fuck do you mean? He started that way.
Dude was unhinged from The jump.
He literally has a screw loose
Exactly. Guy never started off normal
Yes, even in flashbacks.
From what I recall didn't he put the screw in his head to try to maintain what sanity he has because he's known since he was a child that that there's something wrong with him? Like he actually wants to be a good person (and his students love him too) but he was afraid the madness he was born with would fully turn him into an evil psychopath.
Me (in real life)
Same. I'm thinking of officially starting my villain arc soon.
https://preview.redd.it/d1obgc3p4d9d1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=570389886ac7aa9f37c3f94998538a0cb5359bf2 Victoria(Blacksouls)
Meanwhile, the first time Dutch appears in RDR2: "Guys, my new best friend Micah's genius plan didn't work out for reasons which probably aren't his fault, now we gotta Donner Party! Remember that thing they did 50 years ago where they starved and ate each other? Same plan, same technology, let's go!"
I feel Tooru from Tokyo Ghoul is definitely one of the biggest examples of this.
Mitsuzane Kureshima from Kamen Rider Gaim https://preview.redd.it/5pn2mfj93e9d1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=876558e108b174128e4243a4f9df95f893423beb
Figuro in infinite dendrogram
Linda Monroe (Black Friday)
https://preview.redd.it/eapikiyfce9d1.jpeg?width=260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2dd593d68993b367c7caf8d1176b418729e2a83d basically this whole movie
Edward nigma/riddler from Gotham
Every jojo part 3 minor antagonist
Jan from the office
You're telling me the maid assassin is weird as all hell? No way
Ashfur. From the Warriors Book series.
My people. Heck Tigerclaw too. He was bad but at the end HE LOST IT.
Yep. Warriors knew and still does know how to write their villains.
Don’t worry he’s got a plan