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There are few things as deadly and unpredictable as curiosity. However, what's most dangerous about curiosity is its ability to impart a driving desire to know into a character. So when an evil character who cannot comprehend good is on the receiving end of kindness, love, or mercy, she will get an insistent and annoying urge to know just why the hero and his cadre have done such an inexplicable thing. There's no way this Worthy Opponent would do something as stupid as save or help an enemy, she'll reason. She'll assume he's being The Chess Master and is trying to manipulate her, perhaps foolishly expecting her to feel she "owes him one." Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })So it eats away at her. She'll "study" good to try and understand how the hero will turn such an unfathomably idiotic act to his benefit. As the obsession grows, she'll probably spy on the hero and slowly develop a bit of a crush. She'll try getting close to him and understanding his actions by donning a disguise and doing minor good things, only to discover to her horror that Good Feels Good and she's Becoming the Mask, until eventually she does a Heel–Face Turn. In a weird, unintentional and roundabout way, by helping her the hero has managed to manipulate her to his advantage. And they say good is dumb. This trope can exist between cultures as well as people of different morality. When people from two different cultures meet, a character from one culture may grow fascinated with the other over a small trinket, casual observation, or snippet of info. As he learns more the fascination grows, giving him a frame of reference with which to compare his own culture. This usually results in him realizing he's unhappy in his own culture, and leads to him defecting. Don't expect everyone on either side to be too thrilled about this. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Grew Beyond Their Programming. Examples: |
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The mechanic, but not the trope, is inverted in its spiritual ancestor, Changeling: The Dreaming, where delving into fae lore and power causes one to become less human and more fae but this is unquestionably a Bad Thing, as humanity is the natural state and the dream is the corrupting influence. | |
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Assassination Classroom: After losing his humanity, Koro-sensei, formerly the ruthless assassin known as the Reaper, realized he loved Aguri despite her human flaws and set out to honor her dying wish by teaching Class 3-E in her place. Teaching proves to be just as much a learning experience for him as he grows to love his students and use his abilities for something other than death and destruction for once in his life. | |
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In Death Takes a Holiday, Death, while on his holiday in the land of mortals, ends up loving the human race, and the fact that they get to feel love, joy, and anger whenever they want, makes him understand why they fear him so and make him want to be a part of it. However, he must go back to continue his duty as The Grim Reaper. | |
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In Super Dimension Fortress Macross, this along with Humanity Is Infectious caused three Zentradi spies to go native. Also a somewhat similar thing with The Ace on the Zentradi side who tries to study and defeat The Ace on the human side. They end up getting married and have a child. | |
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In Parasyte, Reiko's strong interest in humans, her kind, and emotions in general lead her to become more human, and grow to care for her son. | |
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In The Cartoon History of the Universe, a pagan Roman couple in the arena watch with fascination as a Christian martyr enthusiastically welcomes death by lion ("C'mon! What are you waiting for?"): | |
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In Power Rangers Mystic Force, Itassis wonders how the Power Rangers keep beating the Ten Terrors, as the Terrors are more powerful than the Rangers are. Being more of a Anti-Villain than the others, she goes to the Rangers and asks them their secret. They answer "courage", and she eventually abandons the Terrors to learn more. | |
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Steven Universe: Peridot starts to lean toward the Crystal Gems when she felt compassion for the first time while on Earth. She gets more curious on how much she can care for others and ends up experiencing more of what Earth has to offer. This (along with a heated confrontation with her boss) causes her to switch to Steven's side. Steven's own Missing Mom, Rose Quartz, had been said to have fallen in love with Earth life after she came to notice it around her and began exploring it out of curiosity. This becomes even more significant after the reveal that "Rose Quartz" was originally Pink Diamond, who first came to Earth as an Evil Overlord wannabe seeking to colonize the planet at first. |
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John Preston in Equilibrium is an interesting case. He was a loyal member of the Tetragrammaton, but he understands how people who aren't on emotion suppressants act, sort of intuiting emotion. After meeting a resistance member who reminded him of his dead wife, and killing his partner for going off the emotion inhibiting drugs, he accidentally-ish broke the morning vial emotion suppressants. Hello emotion! He later finds out that his son has been off the meds since Preston's wife's execution and has been successfully hiding it from even his own father. Then again, Preston didn't know his wife was off the meds too until too late. | |
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In the Pony POV Series Dark World Arc, this triggers Twilight Tragedy's Heel–Face Turn. She sees Apple Pie laugh at one of Discord's jokes despite said joke being about a horrible tragedy that had just been inflicted upon the poor filly. Tragedy is incapable of figuring out why, and her curiosity slowly overwhelms her. This also causes her to become curious about other things, like why she can't remember something Liarjack can. Being told what happened in Old Avalon during the Final Battle with Queen Cadance begins to trigger old memories buried for over a thousand years. When she finally talks to Apple Pie under the guise of an Earth Pony filly named Half Light Dawn, she finds herself asking other questions about various things that pique her curiosity about Apple Pie's family, gradually undermining her own beliefs on tragedy and other things. This results in a Villainous BSoD that causes her to retreat into her mind and confront herself, finally managing, with the help of Cadance's spirit (or her subconscious appearing to be her), she finally performs a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: Kentaurosmon of the Royal Knights is, at first, part of the faction that is trying to exterminate humanity for the sake of the Digital World. When he is defeated by Rina Shinomiya and her UlforceVeedramon, she invites him to come see the human world for himself and see if it's really worthy of being destroyed. He accepts and as a result, he becomes the only member of the anti-human faction to survive and side with the heroes at the end. | |
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This happens all the time in Chick Tracts. A la "Who is Jesus? Tell me more!" and a few panels later they're crying and begging for forgiveness. | |
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Teen Titans takes this for a much quicker spin than most. During Starfire's introduction, Robin is nice to her, and she is (understandably?) confused. He explains, and she claims the closest word her people have is "weak". Cue the middle of the episode, and she's seen the light. | |
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Child of the Storm has Maddie in the sequel. It drives her Character Development, even prior to her first appearance, and even helps trigger her Heel–Face Turn - though it should be noted that she's not exactly evil to begin with, more a tragic Tyke-Bomb and Living Weapon. Prior: She goes along with Gambit's affection for her and his coaxing her into experiencing things for herself/making her own path despite being entirely aware that it was initially feigned. After: She wonders about Harry (whose power is approaches her own and has green eyes just like hers) and Jean (who looks exactly like her, and has power matching hers), which results in greater interaction with Harry, engaging his Magnetic Hero tendencies and his belief in a better nature she didn't know she had. She's also puzzled by Mjolnir, and when it initially rebuffs her as 'Not Worthy', her instant response is to enquire 'what is Worthy?', which both shows her what it is to be Worthy, and that she has performed Worthy actions in the past - trying to protect Harry from the Red Room - which had been erased from her memory. |
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In The Mark of the Lion trilogy: In a roundabout way, Marcus’ confusion and curiosity about Hadassah’s Incorruptible Pure Pureness lead him to shape up from his profligate ways and to his eventual conversion to Christianity. | |
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Cassandra Cain in Angel of the Bat is said to have had some knowledge of Jesus and Christianity since she was a child living on the streets, but only becomes really interested after she rescues a priest being mugged and takes note of the way he almost immediately forgives his attackers. His philosophy sets her on the path that ultimate leads to her spirituality and Catholicism. | |
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In The Nightmare Before Christmas, Jack Skellington is deathly bored with running Halloween, so when he accidentally winds up in Christmasland he becomes morbidly curious as to how Christmas "works". Facing Blue-and-Orange Morality, he conducts experiments trying to measure the marigolds to quantify merriment, deduce generosity, and distill happiness. Eventually he embraces his image of the concept so thoroughly he tries to save Santa the hassle of running Christmas. It goes Horribly Wrong. In other words, this trope is deconstructed. Also, one should note that unlike most trope examples, Jack isn't evil. | |
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