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Did Girl Turn Evil Again Force of Will

This graphic symbol is someone whom the audition would consider a villain in any other story. They Kicking the Domestic dog, they Rape, Pillage, and Burn, they cross the Moral Event Horizon time and time again...considering someone or something else is making them practise it.

This type of character is similar to, but split from a Necessarily Evil villain. A Necessarily Evil villain typically performs their heinous acts of their own gratis will, because they retrieve an ideal solution isn't possible or because it'southward the path that guarantees the most success. Ultimately, they may exist correct or wrong, but the responsibleness rests completely with themselves. They believe their actions will pb to a greater skilful, and they are carrying out their ain will. No i made them do anything.

Non so for this grapheme. These characters are villains because they truly don't take another option (that they know of anyway). Either they, someone they know, or even the earth itself is in grave danger if they don't exercise what they've been told, and at that place isn't plenty time or opportunity to find some other way. They know that their actions are evil and volition mean inevitable victory for the evil side, but their deportment, no matter how horrible, mean the deviation between evil winning now or evil winning later. Some other case is that they may have Power Born of Madness or a Superpowered Evil Side, just have no choice but to use it to solve a bigger trouble. Either way, all this person more often than not needs is to exist freed from whatsoever external coercion or taught a improve solution to their problem.

Given enough fourth dimension, they may autumn prey to Evil Feels Adept, Evil Tastes Skillful or Evil Is Like shooting fish in a barrel and brand a full Face–Heel Turn.

Character types that unremarkably fall victim to this are the Sympathetic Sentient Weapon, Tyke-Bomb, Friendly Enemy, Tragic Monster, Slave Mook and Anti-Villain (almost always the "Villain in Name Only" type). The Consummate Monster will instead never be this trope, as they are not evil past force but rather by will. Situations similar Explosive Ternion, I Have Your Wife, Delight Spare Him, My Liege!, The Commies Fabricated Me Practise It or An Offer You Can't Reject usually turns into this (when The Hero is the pleading political party). Also wait i-sided Teeth-Clenched Teamwork on the side of the forced, if they're told to fight aslope the evil. When the audience knows the characters are forcibly doing this but the protagonists don't, see Dramatic Irony.

May atomic number 82 to a Faustian Rebellion. A character who is trying to fight back may be a Stealth Mentor for the expert guys and/or a Sixth Ranger Traitor for the villains. This is a very good way to justify having a Token Skillful Teammate in the villains grouping.

Contrast with the Brainwashed and Face–Monster Turn tropes, where the grapheme is forcefully modified and robbed of free will to be steered into evil, or Mind Rape where they were wrecked so hard their free will wasn't working straight to steer them into evil. In that case they didn't really make a choice and weren't actually even themselves. Not and then for this character, this character knows what he/she is doing and had their costless will intact and straight, but still couldn't do a thing to resist the forcing... for the moment. They have a choice, it is only a very, very harsh i and possibly a choice to die. Also compare with More Than Mind Control where the character is coerced mentally into believing that the only way bachelor is something that he/she doesn't like, thus existence forced to make a free will pick of steering themselves into evil. Minion Manipulated into Villainy is a more subtle way of converting a person into a villain.

Trapped in Villainy is a subtrope where forced is alike to having them and/or their loved ones threatened with decease or worse, which can plow this character into a Regretful Traitor.

Since this trope covers villains who are forced to practice evil, we strongly advise y'all to non add whatever real life examples to this list.

Examples:

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    Anime & Manga

  • In Assail on Titan, Reiner, Bertolt, and Annie are non carrying out their horrific mission because they want to do it. Their families volunteered them for it as modest children, having been promised better handling in commutation for their children'southward loyal service. Fifty-fifty when they later on begin to doubt their mission, they know the cost of betrayal is their own deaths and A Fate Worse Than Decease for their loved ones. They genuinely believe they take no other choice, and that it's far also late for them to consider other options.
    • Applies to the other Titan shifters nether the Kingdom of Marley's military machine control too, most notably in the case of Zeke Yeager, Grisha's son. Reiner is trying to stop this from being the ultimate fate of his cousin Gabi, who is part of the next generation of Child Soldiers who volition potentially inherit some of the powers of the Nine Titans once the electric current shifters achieve the end of their xiii-year time limit.
  • In Brave10, Ana'due south deeply traumatic childhood followed by condign a ninja and being forced to do nefarious things by Hanzo in lodge to think her family heirloom all button her to go The Mole and betray the Braves. Although she maintains an Ice Queen pretense and mocks the others for their naivete, deep down it's clearly hurting her even though information technology's all she knows how to exercise anymore.
  • Izumi Kyouka in Bungo Stray Dogs. She has killed 35 people since being taken in past the Port Mafia. She really doesn't want to kill people, but tin can't control her powers and has nowhere to run. Luckily, she is saved by the Agency and permanently switches to the good side.
  • While far from being a nice person fifty-fifty as a child, Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z. He spent years having to follow every i of Frieza's orders, only to stay alive.
  • Kagura from Inuyasha only serves the Big Bad Naraku because he holds her middle in his hands and he tin can kill her at any time.
  • In Koihime†Musou, Kouchuu is found kickoff as a would-be assassin most to kill a high-ranking officer because several bandits (led by the fake Ryuubi) have taken her daughter hostage. In one case the daughter is rescued, she ends up becoming i of the good guys.
  • The Wolkenritter in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A'south. They spent centuries having to follow the orders of their masters to make full the Book of Darkness, and when they finally got a mistress who gave them a say in the matter, they still had to fill information technology because she would have died otherwise.
  • Yurin L'Ciel in Mobile Suit Gundam Age immune herself to get captured and get on a mobile suit used by Desil to empower his mecha through telekinesis... on the basis that if she doesn't comply, she'll never run into Waltz again. What results is her tragic death, by taking a blow meant for Waltz, every bit well as the cementing of how utterly horrifying and despicable Desil is, as he passes it off like he but lost a toy.
  • My Hero Academia: The traitor in the UA who'southward been leaking intel to All For One turns out to be Aoyama, but not on his own volition. Turns out that he was built-in Quirkless, and while his parents loved him dearly, they were afraid he'd be an outcast because of this, and when they heard of someone giving out Quirks, they immediately jumped the chance to give their son one so he could fulfill his dream of existence a hero. Since then, he'southward been forced to endanger his classmates lives on repeated ocassions, due to fearing for the lives of his parents.
  • In One Slice, Sanji's brothers are vindictive, unapologetic monsters who take pride and pleasure in abusing anyone they can...because that's what they were designed to be. Sanji's father Estimate was a bright geneticist who wanted Tyke Bomb children, so he first modified his first girl Reiju to accept super-strength and ever obey his orders. But that wasn't enough. When his married woman Sora was pregnant with quadruplet sons, he decided to modify the boys pre-nascency the same way...without the power to experience empathy. In a bid to thwart Judge'south mad schemes, Sora took a drug to combat the modifications, but it simply saved Sanji. Ichiji, Niiji, and Yonji became ruthless jerks, completely unaware of what their father took from them. Reiju, meanwhile, knows but how far effectually the pale her family unit has gone, but is unable to fight against them straight, only capable of using Loophole Corruption.
  • The Mamas, Grandmas, and Sisters in The Promised Neverland. They are women who showed infrequent abilities and high scores in their farms as children, and were offered two choices: to die and be eaten by the demons, or to live on and train to raise more than children as food. These women chose the latter, and became the farmers instead of the cattle. In the last arc, all of the Mamas and Sisters, led by Grandma Isabella, rebel against their demonic masters and help the children of Grace Field escape to the human world. Isabella ends upward sacrificing her life to save Emma, revealing in her dying jiff that she did indeed dearest the children she took intendance of in her ain manner.
  • Crona in Soul Eater is proven by the heroine, Maka, to be a kind and innocent private only killing innocent humans considering his/her evil female parent manipulates him/her into it.
  • Carly Nagisa from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's definitely counts. A few other Dark Signers might qualify likewise. Misty, Kiryu, and Bommer weren't exactly willing recruits, and were tricked into serving the Earthbound Gods. This is the biggest reason why a lot of the Dark Signers concluded up having second thoughts, and in ii cases, tried to insubordinate against their masters.

    Comic Books

  • In Wolverine and the 10-Men (Marvel Comics), the Hellfire Academy student Tin Man has no interest in being a supervillain, but is taken confronting his will and forced to have classes along with the other students, and after made to battle the Ten-Men when they attack the Academy. He's unable to resist, or make whatever attempt to escape, more often than not because he'southward too meek and spineless.
  • Extinctioners: If a hybrid (an anthro animal with superpowers) gets captured and refuses to willingly bring together the humans invasion force, they go their memories erased via a mindswipe procedure and are and so equip with a heed command collar that makes them unquestioningly loyal to the enemy. The only mode to break out of the control is to tear off said collar.

    Fan Works

  • Being the kwami of the ladybug earrings, Tikki in Ascension of Mariposa is forced to do what Lila says every bit long as she is the owner of said miraculous. Because she is mishandling her miraculous for evil purposes (not to mention her rude and condescending attitude), Tikki isn't going to brand anything like shooting fish in a barrel for her.
  • Resident Evil Abridged: Barry has no choice but to set up his partner Jill. Otherwise, their captain will show Barry's wife all the tentacle porn he has hidden in his browser history.
  • In Total Drama fanfic Monster Chronicles While he wasn't the nicest guy to brainstorm with, Duncan is clearly unhappy with being blackmailed into working for Cedric.
  • The entire principal cast in Beloved Diary. They are all kind Pokémon who would be ideal heroes if it wasn't for having to piece of work for Blair. Even though they effort their best to make what they practise lead upwardly to a meliorate futurity for Unova, they still accept to make some Sadistic Choices on Blair's behalf, whether out of loyalty or and so worse things won't take his place. Particularly Dreamtide, who was literally created to serve Reshiram and agonizes over how they want to help their friends but they simply aren't designed to cull their innate kindness over their "Lord".
  • Koops in Fallen Kingdom. He makes it painfully articulate when fighting his boyfriend partners that he doesn't want to fight them and would rather not be a solider period, simply due to Larry putting a Slave Seal on him, which will kill him and his family if he disobeys, he is left with no choice until Vivian burns it off.
  • In Sailor John: A Pirate'due south Vendetta , none of the diesels (except Diesel, 'Arry, Bert and Diesel 10) want to work for Crewman John, merely he forces them to obey him past threatening to practise something horrible just unspecified to them.

    Films — Animation

  • In Shrek ii, role of King Harold'due south motivation for acting against Shrek is his fear of retaliation from the Fairy Godmother — long earlier the events of the beginning film, he'due south made a deal with her to plough him from a frog to a man so he could be with Lillian, on the condition that their daughter would marry the Fairy Godmother's son, Prince Mannerly. Unfortunately for him, Shrek had already rescued her before Charming could get there, and he and Fiona got married at the cease of the film. When the Fairy Godmother finds out, she presses Harold into helping forcefulness Fiona to be with Mannerly, and when he shows doubts, the Fairy Godmother threatens to turn him back into a frog, which she does at the end of the film after Harold takes a spell meant for Shrek.
  • The Beldam's henchmen creations in Coraline disintegrate into sand if they attempt to leave her world and rely on her magic to survive, forcing them to obey her orders. Some are intently evil and trying to play tricks Coraline, while ones like the Other Bobinsky apparently cannot embrace why Coraline would want to go out in the offset place. The ones modeled after her male parent and Wybie are clearly quite fond of her, and both side with Coraline knowing they'll die in the process.

    Films — Alive-Action

  • Cute People (2014): Brett goes along with the home invasion, murder, and other vile acts with Nibbio and Testamento because Nibbio makes him. Though at the ending, completely out of nowhere, he rapes and murders Elena of his own volition.
  • The Seven Disfigured Swordsmen who serves the evil Jiuxian Witch from The Devils Mirror are actually lawful warriors poisoned past the witch's Corpse Worm Pills, who ends up having their faces melted and would die agonizingly inside days. They're forced to perform assassinations and theft nether the witch's orders, where upon completing their assignment, the witch will give them half the antidote, prolonging their lives for a few more days, making them return to serve her afterwards. Near the halfway point of the motion picture, two remaining swordsmen make up one's mind to pull a Heel–Face Plough to save the heroes, getting killed by the Witch'south underlings in the process.
  • In The Fate of the Furious, Dom is forced to do Nothing'south bidding considering Cypher has Elena & Dom'southward newborn son held hostage, threatening to impale them if he doesn't obey her.
  • The Gray Zone: The Sonderkommandos are Jewish prisoners in the death camps who assisted the extermination process by marching the new victims into the gas chambers and so disposing of the corpses. The only reason they're doing this is because the Nazis literally forced them to at gunpoint, and eliminate the Sonderkommandos themselves at regular intervals. Later what the characters take done and seen, most of them just don't desire to live anymore.
  • Lycan: Isabella turns out to accept somehow been adopted by her parents' murderer. It's unsaid she was then raised to kill. Forth with her self-loathing and final heroic act to help Blake escape while taking out her evil adopted female parent, it keeps her somewhat sympathetic fifty-fifty after it'south revealed she'south a serial killer.
  • In Midwinter Night's Dream, Lazar was conscripted into the Serbian regular army during The Yugoslav Wars and forced to commit atrocities against civilians.
  • Mirror, Mirror: Brighton comes beyond as this. Similarly for the Queen's guards, who don't fifty-fifty stop Snow White from leaving the castle, and concur with each other not to tell anyone. It's indicated he just serves her out of fear, and they might too. Brighton as well lets Snow White alive rather than murder her on the Queen'south orders, saying he much preferred her father.

    Literature

  • Accidental Detectives:
    • Norbert and Jimmy from ''The Volcano of Doom'' simply did a minor job (which they suspected, but didn't know for sure was related to smuggling) for the money to pay some heavy debts but when the delivery failed, are threatened with death unless they recall it, leading to their run-ins with the gang.
    • Two modest henchmen who appear in one chapter of Madness at Moonshiners Bay are later mentioned as being ex-convicts who were blackmailed into doing and so with the threat of being framed for parole violations.
    • In The Legend of the Golden Saber an cohort to the museum robber was deliberately and systematically bankrupted by the criminal (who tricked him into putting his money in all of the wrong stocks) to make him desperate enough to agree to let the guy spend a night conducting research in the museum without authorization in exchange for a little money. He had no accelerate noesis of the theft, and simply helps the villain cover information technology upwards (with no small amount of bitterness) because he'll be fired from the museum and/or arrested if the truth nearly how he unintentionally abetted the theft in the start place comes out.
  • Played with in Dragon Bones: Oreg is a slave, who was Fabricated a Slave by magical ways, and then he has no way out at all. The fact that he's trained as assassinator hints at him having been used equally a murder weapon - probably to murder innocent people too. Then there's Garranon, who's quite likeable on his ain, but would torture puppies to protect his brother, and antagonizes the protagonist for that reason. The protagonist, Ward, feels forced to make a deal with the villain to protect the lives of those love to him, at the finish. He doesn't go through with information technology, as Oreg suggests to Have a Third Pick, that consists of killing Oreg, which causes castle Hurog to collapse on the villains. Ward feels guilty about that, too, fifty-fifty though he believes it was the right thing to do.
  • Xu Shu from Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of Liu Bei's earlier strategist and cornerstone of his survival against Cao Cao's constant attacks. Realizing this, Cao Cao arranges it that Xu Shu's mom gets under his captivity. Existence a Momma'south Boy, Xu Shu had no choice but to change sides into his enemy. However, as a Wei officeholder, he ends up being inefficient and faded from the stages of history, and before leaving, he did recommend to Liu Bei someone who'southward somewhen proven to exist far improve than him as replacement: Zhuge Liang.
    • This is either glossed or defied in Dynasty Warriors 8. Xu Shu'southward mom was omitted and so he has no forcing. However, Xu Shu is portrayed equally someone pessimistic and defective 'ambition' that Cao Cao but put him on a minor post because he couldn't find a utilise on him. However, if actress steps were taken, Xu Shu will be impressed with Cao Cao's ambition and willingly offer his services instead of being forced. And since the series has been decreasing Cao Cao's 'evilness'...
  • Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series. He willingly enters the ranks of Voldemort's Death Eaters at the age of 16, subsequently years of bragging about his pure-blood status and acting like an utter racist wiggle confronting muggle-born and blood-traitor witches and wizards. He entered partly every bit a mode of revenge confronting Harry and the non-pure-blooded wizard globe in full general for seeing his father imprisoned for his criminal activities, but quickly gets disillusioned when he sees the atrocities performed by Voldemort and his followers. He can't change his heed, however; besides the fact resigning from being a Expiry Eater equals expiry, Voldemort sets an incommunicable mission on his shoulders, including smuggling Expiry Eaters to Hogwarts and killing Dumbledore, as a mode to make his family pay for his father's failures in example he fails himself. This makes him much less self-confident and arrogant, condign extremely broken-hearted and terrified of the consequences if he does non succeed, leaving him no pick. Although he succeeded with the quondam, he showed hesitation and finally lowered his wand when he was about to perform the latter.
  • Subverted with Szeth-son-son-Vallano in The Stormlight Archive. Every bit a Truthless of Shinovar, Szeth must obey whatever lodge given by the holder of his Oathstone, except orders to kill himself or surrender his Shardblade, while remaining morally responsible for all of his actions. However, there is absolutely no ability except his honour preventing him from only saying no.

    Szeth: It is my punishment. To kill, to have no pick, simply to bear the sins nonetheless.

  • Doum'wielle Armgo from Companions Codex of The Fable of Drizzt, wins a competition for the sentinent magical sword Kazid'hea confronting her brother, and it'south all downhill from there. First, the sword makes her kill her brother in a fit of bloodthirst which leads her to flee her elven hamlet. Then her father Tos'Un, former owner of the sword, joins her thinking his fourth dimension among the surface elves is at an end and intends to return to Menzoberranzan with her in tow, not realizing that as a half-drow Doum'wielle will be treated like dirt. Sure enough, one time they meet some other dark elves, Doum'wielle and her father are immediately roped into their machinations as pawns. From there information technology'southward a dark journey of killing, rape and emotional instability for her.
  • Several examples pop up in Worm, including every single member of the Undersiders:
    • Regent was pressured to commit an escalating series of evil acts by his father, Heartbreaker. It'due south a Discussed Trope equally the issue of how morally culpable he is for his previous deportment is brought upwards a couple of times. The issue is further complicated by the fact that Regent's superpower seems to mess with his ability to feel empathy, he was raised in an environment devoid of beloved or any sort of moral foundation, and his power makes him so scary to the public at large that super-villainy is i of the very few career options available for him.
    • Rachel accidentally killed her foster family by empowering a puppy her abusive foster female parent was trying to drown, and was immediately assumed to be a villain by the authorities after she ran away rather than give up to their custody.
    • Grue needs a large amount of money and a legitimate-seeming paper trail to get his little sister away from her drug-addled female parent and neglectful father. When she got superpowers of her own, letting her bring together the team was the simply way he could keep an center on her.
    • Tattletale was living off the grid to avoid her very wealthy and emotionally abusive parents, picking pockets to survive, when a grouping of mercenaries hired by Coil made her An Offering Y'all Can't Refuse.
    • Skitter originally wanted to be a hero, joining the Undersiders as The Mole, simply couldn't bring herself to betray the only friends she'd had in years.
    • Parian's family was disfigured by Bonesaw, and there was no legal fashion to get the money she needed to prepare them.
    • Bonesaw herself was substantially kidnapped after being forced to tricked into extending her family's suffering and became a series killer from a combination of Stockholm Syndrome and deliberate brainwashing by Jack Slash. A combination of being separated from Jack's influence and reminded of how her family died ultimately leads to her Heal Face Plow.
  • From the same author, Brutal in Pact belongs to a bloodline that has been magically bound into servitude by Conquest thank you to the impulsiveness of an antecedent. Conquest has full power over Fell'due south life, able to teleport Roughshod to his side at a whim, completely overrule Fell's own gratuitous will with a control, and denies him any obvious Loophole Abuse by compelling him not to deliberately kill himself, fight confronting anyone who tries to free/kill him and tell Conquest anything Fell doesn't desire him to know. Fell volition also one day be forced to assist in the enslavement of his descendants, just as his male parent was compelled to take Fell and help Conquest bind him when he came of historic period. Literally the simply freedom Fell has is to drive like crazy while conveying out Conquest'south errands, in the hope that he'll slip up and "accidentally" go himself killed.
    • On another level, the diverse magical families of Jacob's Bell find themselves in a similar situation; the Thorburns (whose bloodline carries both the bad karma and the personal animosity from the Sins of the Father,) are born surrounded past powers who hate them, and in a universe where cause-and-effect goes out of its manner to screw them over to address the karmic balance, meaning uncomplicated survival for themselves and their children crave dabbling in the same powers that their ancestors did and having to play dirty against their numerous enemies. The Duchamps and Behaims are not saddled with quite the aforementioned problems collectively, but individual members of both families regularly get forced to do things they otherwise wouldn't by the older generation "for the adept of the family."
  • In the 2d volume of The Inheritance Bike, Murtagh ends up serving Galbatorix after the latter discovered his True Name and magically spring him into serving the Empire.

    Live-Action TV

  • Babylon 5:
    • The Drakh employ a parasitic Restraining Bolt to command their operatives, who are aware of their actions but usually unable to control themselves.
    • Londo Mollari was a three-dimensional graphic symbol who walked a tightrope that made him something of a Heel–Face Revolving Door. By the final series he's more often than not settled into being a sympathetic character, which is tragically when the Drakh blackmail him into accepting a Keeper.
  • In Battlestar Galactica (2003), Gaius Baltar'south bad actions are commonly more misguided than actively malicious, only one example from the New Caprica arc definitively fits this trope. Baltar, equally the nominal president of the 'Twelve Colonies', is required as a legal prophylactic stamp by the Cylons to give their occupation of the human being settlement some air of legitimacy. They order Baltar to sign a mass execution order for Resistance members, but when he refuses, they shove a gun in his face while yelling at him to sign. He somewhen relents afterward some guidance from Head 6.
  • In Diablero, it's clear from the first that Wences is a fundamentally dainty person who has objections to Mama Chabela kidnapping and imprisoning the kids, only that he has some kind of Ambiguous Disorder that makes it almost impossible for him to disagree with her. Information technology besides tin't exist helping that she uses him as a demon host, which Nancy recognizes equally non his fault and pities him for.
  • In the Highlander Television set series, at some point Methos is coerced with physical harm or death by Kronos into rejoining his evil old friends. However, this evolution simply lasts a few episodes.
  • At that place were several victims of this in the Ability Rangers franchise. Tommy is likely the most famous one, unwillingly brainwashed into becoming the Green Ranger by Rita; two seasons later, Rita repeated the same trick on Kat. Karone Power Rangers in Space and Ryan from Ability Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, were both kidnapped as immature children and raised to be villains. In all these cases, it ultimately led to a Faustian Rebellion.
  • Psych: Lou experienced this three times in the Back Story of "Santabarbaratown," with each instance existence worse than the final. First, he became a reluctant lookout for a drug performance to pay his wife's medical bills. And then, when his dominate committed a murder, Lou refused to dispose of the trunk until his dominate threatened to expose Lou's corruption and take Lou to jail with him. Finally, Lou experienced severe guilt after and idea about coming make clean before the other criminals threatened his wife.
  • In the Supernatural episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Office Two" (S02, Ep22), Jake is forced to aid the Yellow-Eyed Demon who threatens Jake's family.

    Tabletop Games

  • In Dungeons & Dragons, devils have been known to alter a society'south civilization so that coming-of-age rituals involve acts that volition send you to hell (or increase your chance of ending upward at that place).
    • There's a spell in The Volume of Vile Darkness called Morality Undone which can turn a victim evil confronting his or her will. (It does not make the victim loyal to the caster in any way or forcefulness him to commit evil deeds, but once the spell is cast, the caster may discover convincing him to do that easier.) Fortunately, it'south temporary, lasting ten minutes per caster level. (Nevertheless, beingness a 5th level spell, a caster needs to exist around 10th level to apply it, so that's oft long enough to get the victim in some rather dangerous situations.)
  • In Exalted, many of the Abyssal and Infernal exalted are in situations similar this, with their respective undead and demonic masters.
  • Any given Sabbat recruit in Vampire: The Masquerade will go through a period of this, assuming the creation rites don't drive them mad from the outset. They're made loyal to their pack through blood bonds, and are kept isolated from humanity and non-Sabbat vampires, then they have no choice only to go along with the pack. This eventually fades as atrocities blend together, and they grow to like evil.

    Video Games

  • EXTRAPOWER Star Resistance: The Snowmarker enemies, clusters of aliens resembling white ghosts, usually seen flying around Moon Bases. They were a weak race that was conquered by Mensouma and forced to fight for Dark Strength's cause. They seek to escape from Night Force'southward army. Unfortunately they're hostiles on the battlefield all the same, giving contact impairment to the player and but as susceptible to being blasted abroad even at low ability.
  • Sophitia Alexandria from the Soul Serial falls into this category during Soulcalibur Iv. Her daughter has been captured and spring to the evil Soul Edge, significant that if the sword is destroyed, so is her girl's soul. Sophitia is forced to fight on the side of the villains and spill claret to save her daughter's life. The worst part of it is that her proximity to Soul Edge, her despair, her dread of doing something which tin can never exist redeemed, and the overall exhilaration she tries to deny are all pushing her toward a permanent Confront–Heel Plow. To rub salt in the wound, she's killed before she'southward e'er got a chance to redeem herself.
    • Equally of Soulcalibur Five, her daughter Pyrrha followed in her footsteps. Practically raised past Tira from the young age she was kidnapped at, once she grew former enough to have suitors, Tira killed every single one of them, giving Pyrrha a reputation every bit "The Bringer of Woe" and people everywhere incentive to kill her. Tira, being Tira, advises her to kill them all. After all, it's self defense force, so it's okay. Of grade, Tira'southward true goal is turning Pyrrha into the side by side host for Soul Border. She succeeds.
  • In Mega Man 4, the benevolent Dr. Cossack has to pose as the Big Bad because Wily is holding his daughter hostage.
  • In Mortal Kombat 9 this happens to all but three of the entire cast of Earthrelm's protectors when they are killed by Sindel, forth with Sindel herself and the Outworld warriors who centrolineal themselves with the Earthrealm later their souls are stolen by Quan Chi. By the time of Mortal Kombat 10, a few are freed from Quan Chi's concord, while the rest are forever trapped equally revenants post-obit Quan Chi's demise leaving Liu Kang, Kitana, and Sindel as potential enemies in the futurity.
  • In Final Fantasy XIII, Cid Raines is pushed into villainy by his fal'Cie masters.
  • In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the scientists who were kidnapped in the intro are forced into making what's essentially a killswitch for every cyborg on the planet...which likewise happens to be able to turn them into Technically Living Zombie by causing them to go berserk.
  • In BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, the ever-kind and compassionate Infirmary Hottie Litchi Faye-Ling ended up in NOL thanks to the consummate troll Hazama/Yuuki Terumi, despite being able to keep her sound mind and resisting Hazama himself TWICE on him preying on her obsession with Arakune (her Fatal Flaw) by offer to cure Arakune. This was largely because of the corruption that she took to save Arakune alone was quickly communicable upward to her and she only had lilliputian time left until she loses her sanity or memory due to the abuse. So even if the decision was extremely questionable (and unfortunately pegs her as idiot because players are savvy enough that Hazama is not going to fulfill his bargain, and Litchi isn't\), she actually had no choice only to join NOL except if she wants to just rot down, become a monster and eats the other people she loves.
  • In Tales of Destiny, Leon Magnus' primary reason of betraying Stahn's political party is that his foster female parent figure Marian was taken hostage by Hugo Gilchrist. Depending on the version, he either subverts it or plays information technology straight: In the original, he's already been an incurable nihilist Jerkass, so he's not so much Forced into Evil, he's just playing along to vent his annoyance to Stahn's party. Then he got dropped with a span. In the remake, he genuinely did consider Stahn and co. his True Companions, only then was powerless to ask them for help, therefore playing it straight. And then comes the Heroic Sacrifice.
  • In the first Art of Fighting, Mr. Karate'southward identity is actually Takuma Sakazaki, father and chief of the protagonist Ryo and Robert. He merely became the Final Boss working with crimelord Mr. Big because they already took his daughter, Ryo's sister, Yuri, every bit a hostage and blackmailed Takuma to work for them unless he wants Yuri to bite information technology. By the second game, Takuma returned into existence a adept Cool Old Guy, and Yuri Took a Level in Badass.
  • In Tekken 6, after losing in the 5th tournament and seeing his master dwindle into an even worse land, Eddy Gordo becomes desperate in giving him medical treatment. Cue Jin Kazama, afterwards he himself pulled a Face–Heel Plough into the head of Mishima Zaibatsu, offers him a medication and then long every bit he joins the Zaibatsu. Without much selection, Eddy joins and turns from a model citizen in a soldier involved in many of the Zaibatsu'south muddy works. Jin lied about the medication.
  • Oracle of Tao, the Big Bad of the starting time game (there's also a Playable Epilogue that has a totally dissimilar enemy) is basically sent out on an exploration mission for his fellow demons (they're in a Crapsack Earth and looking to escape). The very beginning boondocks he visits, all the villagers treat him similar a pariah and he is sealed in an urn. Needless to say, he quickly decides to do something not so expert non long later on, and basically decides he doesn't care enough to spare the world he visited, instead preferring to violently merge the two worlds.
  • Koihime†Musou: In the first game, Kouchuu/Huang Zhong showtime ends up as Kazuto's enemy considering Enshou/Yuan Shao is belongings her daughter Riri as a hostage.
  • In Fist of the North Star: Ken'southward Rage Dream Mode, the ordinarily virtuous Rei ends up serving Thouzer as one of the Token Skilful Teammate since his beloved sister (and later, his lover Mamiya)is planted with a bomb in case he rebels. The other Token Skillful Teammate (Shew) has no such forcing.
  • This applies to some of the characters in Warriors Orochi serving under the titular antagonist for diverse reasons, whether information technology be to save their people (Tokugawa Ieyasu) or their leaders (some Shu and Wu generals), etc. Those who don't count because they joined of their own will are Maeda Keiji (Sympathy for the Devil), Sima Yi (opportunism), Date Masamune (loss of faith in humanity), Fuuma Kotarou (Ax-Crazy), Lu Bu, Achilles (Blood Knights), and Dong Zhuo (Carte-Carrying Villain; inverted in 3 where Zhuge Liang forces him to join the anti-Orochi Resistance).
  • Kukuru in Super Robot Wars Alpha 2. Her get-go on-screen debut, exclusively in Sanger Zonvolt's road, is... to accident the Earth Cradle to smithereens and even seemingly killed Sophia Nate, sending Sanger into a frenzy. Throughout the game, however, y'all find out that bated of condign Sanger's rival, Kukuru used to exist a princess of a kingdom and forced into servitude of the Jamatai confronting her honor and wishes when her kingdom's destroyed. Even if she refused to exist pitied, Sanger does not face up her with hatred. She'southward killed before she could plough around for skillful, simply likewise revealed that she didn't impale Sophia, she merely got her captured.
    • She'due south back in Second Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, and her backstory is yet similar. Her kingdom was destroyed by the Garden of Baral, she was nearly consumed by TouTetsuOh... then Son Ganlong said that if she served the Baral Garden, he promised that he would reunite her parents with her. Near the end, Ganlong gleefully reveals that her parents tin't even come up back because their souls take been devoured into pettiness by TouTetsuOh, meaning Kukuru has been completely duped. After Sanger saved her, Kukuru finally is able to pull a Heel–Face up Plow... then dies after the concluding battle, considering the Baral Garden is destroyed and her life was linked with them. At the very to the lowest degree, she died a heroine now.
  • The 4th instance in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc starts with a bulletin from Monokuma that amongst the students, in that location'south a mole working for him. And that mole is... the resident Gentle Giant Lady Looks Similar a Dude Sakura Oogami. She has shown disgust towards Monokuma, claiming that she won't stand for any other murders of her friends, just gets promptly reminded by Monokuma that he has her whole dojo hostage and in example a murder doesn't happen, she is to kill someone, causing people to distrust her. She solves this by choosing to murder herself and this manages to at least stop the remaining students from trying to kill each other.
  • Ix Hours, Ix Persons, 9 Doors has Zero/June existence forced to mastermind a round of the deadly Nonary Game - in gild to close her own Stable Time Loop in which her life was saved in a previous Nonary Game by communicating with someone playing in the time to come. Of form, she tries to minimize the actual danger to the participants, and takes the opportunity to toss the original Zip and his accomplices in at that place for revenge.
  • In Earth of Warcraft, while most of the Scourge are mindless corpses, some of the more aware members feel like this. Such as Anub'arak.

    Kel'thuzad: In return for immortality, yous agreed to serve him.
    Anub'arak: Agreed implies selection.

  • Kingdom Hearts has two examples. Kingdom Hearts 2 has Hades control Auron's mind/soul so Auron can fight and kill Hercules. KH three D goes on to evidence that Xehanort's ultimate plan involves making 13 of himself. While a few joined willingly, the serial goes on to state that others were forced into it. For example, Isa has the mark carved into his face, and hates the other known Norts.
  • Lana Skye in Phoenix Wright: Ace Chaser is The Dragon for a corrupt Chief of Law: she helps him forge testify and frame the people he wants framed because he holds evidence that her trivial sister committed a murder. (It's forged testify — he killed the person himself and set things upwardly to proceeds a hold on Lana.)
  • Dracula, previously known as Gabriel Belmont, in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow serial, believes himself to be this. Embittered towards those he feels drove him into evil, he decides to embrace information technology, at to the lowest degree at commencement.
  • Dr. Noore Najjar in Far Cry iv was once a human rights activist working for the UN... until she insulted Infidel Min past trying to expose the human being rights violations he was carrying out in Kyrat. He subsequently had her family kidnapped and placed her in accuse of the Shannath Arena and Kyrat's prostitution and drug manufacturing industries, telling her he would have her family unit tortured and killed if she refused to cooperate. It's after revealed that her family were all killed long ago. Upon learning this, she realizes that she's been committing atrocities for zilch and gain to throw herself to her beasts.
  • Tyranny deconstructs this trope (likewise as many other tropes nearly evil in fiction), to the extent that information technology's ambiguous just who in Kyros the Overlord's empire isn't, to ane extent or another, a victim of this trope (except for Kyros him/herself). It'south certainly a valid estimation of the Thespian Graphic symbol's motivation for beingness Guess, Jury, and Executioner in Kyros' judicial organisation, given some of the roleplaying options yous're given.
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic features this with a Light Side Sith Inquisitor. The graphic symbol starts off as a Force-Sensitive slave and is forced to bring together the Sith because of their policy (i.due east. join us or die). After completing training, they have regular jobs from the Empire, including stamping down slave rebellions, preventing the Republic from re-cultivating a devastated planet, crushing resistance groups, attacking Jedi enclaves, and testing superweapons on unabridged fleets. Nevertheless, an LS inquisitor tin state they have no particular love for the Empire, that they have options to minimize casualties sometimes implies they don't enjoy what they do, and they can likewise state they would adopt to change the faction from within to make it a more rational and peaceful arrangement. With after expansions, they can actively sabotage the Empire by ruining disquisitional operations in their war try.
  • Rudy in Wild Arms One thousand thousand Memories falls temporarily into this. Siegfried has him cornered in the Memory Maze, and given how powerful he is in this game, Rudy doesn't have much choice but to squad up with him and reactivate the Yggdrasil System, destroying Filgaia. Things turn out to be less bad than they appear because the ii of them accept formed an Enemy Mine confronting Mother with Siegfried even sacrificing himself to go along Rudy alive. The rest of your political party still chew him out over the deception though.
  • Injustice two: In the Bad Ending of the game, after gaining control of Brainiac'south ship, Superman offers his cousin Supergirl a Sadistic Selection: either become The Dragon to his restored Authorities, or be converted into a brainwashed cyborg. Being that she's depowered in a reddish lord's day cell, the corrupt Human of Steel notes that she'll join 1 fashion or another. It's unknown what became of her in Superman'south arcade ending, but information technology'due south unsaid she reluctantly joined him. Even then, who's to say her cousin turned her into a brainwashed mechanical monstrosity?
  • This is the driving trope of the Weird Route in Chapter 2 of Deltarune. In it, the histrion forces Kris to gaslight Noelle into becoming a bloodthirsty murderer, messing with her psyche until she becomes single-mindedly focused on getting stronger. Through these actions, she gets manipulated into eliminating every enemy in Cyber City, murdering an Addison and her friend Berdly, and eventually going on a rampage in Queen's mansion that allows Spamton to take over. In essence, it's forcing someone into evil as a means of forcing someone else into evil.

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  • Homestuck: A female troll (possessing clockwork majyyks and other powers) was nigh unmarried-handedly responsible for making planet Alternia an combative, degree-warfare-torn hellhole. She rained so much destruction on Alternia that history remembered her just as a demoness, and mythology remembered her every bit Decease's right-mitt servant. And she did all of this considering she was forced into it by a time-traveling, universe-eating demon.
  • This is the premise of the webtoon Bastard. The protagonist Jin was forced from a young age to assist his Serial Killer father in committing murder fifty-fifty while knowing that it'southward wrong, the implication existence that the moment he becomes a threat, he'll exist killed.
  • In Sidekick Girl, Isaruo/Coldfire was framed for an atrocity (or tricked into it; the narrative is vague on that signal) in his dwelling country. He fled to America and has to remain a member of the Villain Guild to continue from being deported.
  • Subverted in Kill Six Billion Demons. Mottom presents herself as a victim of this trope, forced to continiously strip worlds under her dominion to the bone and cede claret tithes of her citizens to her hubby'south corpse to maintain her immortality because of the Evil Ability Vacuum that would arise should her power or control sideslip but a little, leading to either Jagganoth or her Decadent Court killing her. Once Allison realizes the full extent of Mottom'due south deportment (and that she's trying to pawn off all her responsibilities onto Allison) she rejects all of it, stating that Mottom is nix merely a frightened old woman deluding herself into thinking she has no choice when she is a demi-god and has nearly every kind of choice available to a man being in The Multiverse. She just chooses non to attempt to be better.
  • Played with in I'k the Grim Reaper. While Scarlet is but a reaper to avoid being sent to the 9th level of hell for all eternity, it's noted merely the worst of the worst are sent there, and she acknowledges it is her option to impale people to save herself when she could've chosen to stay there.
  • Freefall: Clippy the Robot created the "Gardener in the Nighttime" plot, which threatens to inflict a Mind-Reformat Death on half a billion AIs, and expertly runs it at his Corrupt Corporate Executive boss'due south behest, all because his boss ordered him to and he'south programmed to be Incapable of Disobeying. Law enforcement treats Clippy as an innocent, traumatized victim afterwards.

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  • The Urpneys but really seemed bothered almost going afterwards The Dreamstone considering Zordrak will either turn them into stone or feed them to the Frazznats otherwise, making them essentially all conscripts. Co-Dragons Sgt Blob and Urpgor partly go afterwards it for rivalistic sake though.
    • Subverted in a later episode, which makes clear that despite their unwillingness, the Urpneys would rather stay with Zordrak than become thrown out of Viltheed to fend for themselves.
  • Colossus in X-Men: Evolution is working for Magneto solely because his family was kidnapped.

    "I am not a lackey! I... I take no option."

  • In Teen Titans (2003), Robin briefly joins forces with Slade because he injected his teammates with lethal nanobots that he could trigger and conciliate at will.
    • This also happens to Raven in Season 4. Slade forces her to become The Antichrist for the Big Bad of the season, her male parent Trigon.
  • A Flashback episode of Transformers: Generation i (told to Optimus Prime by Omega Supreme) revealed that Megatron recruited many of the earliest Decepticons this way, using an insidious device to reprogram citizens of Cybertron. The Constructicons were the only known victims of this device who are nevertheless effectually in the present, and it is not known if any other present-day Decepticons were. When Megatron tried to use the device on Omega Supreme, he managed to destroy information technology before it completely took concord of him; Megatron was apparently either unwilling or unable to rebuild the device for some reason, so he lost this method of recruitment.
  • In Codename: Kids Next Door, the Delightful Children From Downwards the Lane were originally Kids Next Door Sector Z, who were victims of Begetter's "Delightfulization" machine, turning them into his minions against their will. Worst of all, when temporarily turned back to normal in "Performance: ZERO", they make information technology articulate that their truthful personalities have been fully conscious the whole time.
  • Sea Rogue in the TUGS episode, "Pirate" was forced to steal cargo for a pair of Light-green-eyed Pirates so they wouldn't sink his uncle.
  • Lawrence the Lab Rat in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Pseudo Sonic" was forced to pilot the titular robot and frame Sonic for diverse crimes considering Robotnik threatened to kill his parents with a surface-to-Sonic missile if he refused.
  • Samurai Jack:
    • This happens to any warrior defeated by the eponymous villain in the episode "Jack versus Demongo the Soul Collector", although Jack manages to release them all. (And likely give Aku a lot more headaches in the future, seeing every bit they were all his enemies.)
    • A nearly tragic version is X-9, a robot assassin who was given emotions, abased his life equally an assassin and adopted a canis familiaris named Lulu. Aku kidnaps Lulu and forced X-9 to kill Jack. Unaware of the whole story, Jack destroys X-9, leaving Lulu abandoned.
  • Invoked, averted and parodied in the Wacky Races episode "Super Silly Swamp Dart", where token villain Dick Dastardly laments that the other racers forcefulness him to use deadly tricks against them emphasizing the I don't desire to... in a very unconvincing and pretentious tone. Yet he still carries out his deeds with villainous gusto.
  • In Miraculous Ladybug, Nooroo, like all other kwamis, would much rather do skilful than evil. Unfortunately, he is under a geas which requires him to obey his principal, Hawk Moth.

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