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* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Gaara. He starts out AxCrazy but is now a nice mentally stable guy and is actively trying his best to help Naruto his friend who he once considered his enemy and tried to kill.

In {{Worm}} the government retains the services of a psychiatrist Called Ms. Yamada, who despite being a normal dealing with metahumans of all shapes, powers and stages of sanity manages to help a great deal of them. Her greatest effort is in the epilogues of the story, where she talks a villain contemplating killing ''everyone'' into becoming a hero.

* HayatoJin in ''GetterRobo'' starts out as an insane student activist-terrorist with brainwashed followers and gets drunk with power the first time he pilots Getter Robo itself. Though his ruthlessness stays with him through the entire Getter saga, he becomes more pragmatic and well-adjusted.

* River Tam on ''{{Firefly}}''. PlayedForDrama as itt just means her lucid periods get more frequent, so she's more often ''aware'' of her [[ReluctantPsycho insanity]].

* River Tam on ''{{Firefly}}''. Arguably deconstructed - it just means her lucid periods get more frequent, so she's more often ''aware'' of her [[ReluctantPsycho insanity]].

* VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent: Daniels can regain sanity by finding items, or completing puzzles. There's also a sanity potion which was cut from the game, but is available for mods.

* Wanda Maximoff from XMenEvolution, who was sent to an asylum by her father Magneto shortly after her mutant powers emerged. Magneto eventually has Mastermind [[MindRape mess with her head]], replacing all her bad memories with good ones so she believes he'd been a loving father. Ironically, she became less psycho and more kind and gentle towards others.

* You can try doing this in ''CallOfCthulhu'' (requires Psychology skill), but ultimately it's just [[CosmicHorrorStory delaying the inevitable]].

* Parker from {{Leverage}} fits this trope well. In the pilot, Nate actually says "Parker? She's insane!" And he means it. As the series progresses, she becomes more normal as a result of the [[TrueCompanions family bonding]] the team experiences as they run jobs together.

* Also invoked by Al and En from the Makaiju Filler Arc in ''SailorMoon'', when Al and En start out as {{Yandere}}, especially En. In the finale battle Al and En attack the sailor scouts with the intent to kill and seriously hurt them. It all gets better in the end, though, and Al and En leave Earth together and free of their bitterness and insanity.

* Wanda Maximoff from XMenEvolution, who was sent to an asylum by her father Magneto shortly after her mutant powers emerged. Magneto eventually has Mastermind [[MindRape mess with her head]], replacing all her bad memories with good ones so she believes he'd been a loving father. Ironically, she became less psycho and more kind and gental towards others.

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* Parker from {{Leverage}} fits this trope well. In the pilot, Nate actually says "Parker? She's insane!" And he means it. As the series progresses, she becomes more normal as a result of the [[{{Nakama}} family bonding]] the team experiences as they run jobs together.

* Nina Einstein of ''CodeGeass'' starts out sane, exhibits SanitySlippage and and then in the beginning of R2 recovers much of her sanity.
** Later scenes indicate that her insanity was not so much defeated as it was [[MoreThanMindControl redirected]]. [[spoiler:Near the end of the series is where she starts to actually recover.]]

* Nina Einstein of ''CodeGeass'' starts out sane, exhibits SanitySlippage and and then in the beginning of R2 recovers much of her sanity.

* Also invoked by Al and En from the Makaiju Filler Arc in ''SailorMoon'', when Al and En start out as {{Yandere}}, especially En. In the finale battle Al and En attack the sailor scouts with the intent to kill and seriously hurt them and it all gets better in the end, though, and Al and En leave Earth together and free of their Yandereness.

* Also invoked by Al and En from the Makaiju Filler Arc in ''SailorMoon'', when Al and En start out as {{Yandere}}, especially En. In the finale battle Al and En attack the sailor scouts with the intent to kill and seriously hurt them and It all gets better in the end, though, and Al and En leave Earth together and free of their Yandereness.

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* Nina Einstein of ''CodeGeass'' starts out sane, exhibits SanitySlippage and then ends up loosing her madness more or less later on.

Over the course of a story an insane character actually becomes less insane and more sane as time passes. The opposite of SanitySlippage. They may start out sane and insane though. The point of the trope is that they ultimately end up as more or less sane or saner.