Instead, he turned insane and went on a carefully calculated and controlled murdering spree. Otherwise, as Ryuk said, he probably would have gone on a killing rampage and then turned insane.
Death Note: Disaffected high school student Light Yagami and incompetent, unpopular corporate drone Kyosuke Higuchi each come across a simple notebook leading each to become notorious mass murderers and, in the case of one of them, GOD OF THE NEW WORLD.Then she got the power to turn a perfectly ordinary living room into a blender. Lucy in Elfen Lied was resigned to getting bullied by the other children at the orphanage for being a freak of nature.Niki from Urotsukidouji is a teenage loser with an improbably shitty life who becomes a super-powerful demon-man after making a Deal with the Devil of sorts.And in Great Mazinger he was handed over the command of the entire army of Mykene Empire. Forty years later he was trying to Take Over the World and enslaving the humankind with an army of Humongous Mecha. Thirty years later he was designing Doomsday Devices for Hitler and experimenting with human beings in Auschwitz. Hell from Mazinger Z started like an unwanted son born in a pauper, ordinary family was -psychologically and physically- abused by his mother, berated by his teachers and bullied by his classmates.
But his Perverse Sexual Lust for Kikyo grows so strong he makes a contract with demons and is transformed into the Big Bad. A bandit fails in his attempt to take over his band and ends up a crippled, burnt wreck of a man destined to live out the rest of his life in constant agony. He then makes a deal with the Ayakashi and becomes the series' most memorable villain Kaguro. Kuroda was once a Unskilled but Strong samurai with a streak for killing.
Originally a bike gang member, through a series of bizarre events he becomes an ultra-powerful telekinetic who morphs into a monstrosity worthy of the Cthulhu Mythos. Frequently, the details of this process are uncovered in the villain's Start of Darkness. Heroic versions may still find themselves wondering " Dude, Where's My Respect?". If the character was already a bad guy previously but never a serious one, it's Not So Harmless. This may owe itself to the shock value of the idea that anyone and anything could accidentally become the Big Bad it's much more comforting to believe that only long years of Card Carrying Villainy could possibly breed that kind of person.Ĭompare the Diabolus Ex Nihilo.
Through a series of unlikely coincidences, or through accidental or unknowing actions on the part of the Heroes themselves, or as a result of things which should never have happened - and in most alternate timelines don't happen, but just barely by the skin of their teeth, do happen - someone who might have stayed an insignificant nothing is transformed into a nightmare that grows and grows, absorbing the power to rend civilizations to dust and bring universes to their knees.įor some reason, it seems that From Nobody to Nightmare villains are always more powerful, terrifying, deadly, and threatening than your typical Diabolical Mastermind. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.Ī Sub-Trope of Start of Darkness that involves a non- Badass normal taking Over Nine Thousand levels in badass, whether instantly or over the course of a story, thus becoming essentially nothing but a giant walking, talking bucket of Nightmare Fuel. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace.
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