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** Luke also joins the Empire in ''DarkEmpire''. That was initially a Xanatos Gambit to kill Palpatine, but Luke ended up falling to the Dark Side for real until his sister's love saved him and he went back to the New Republic. Who never brought up his defection and time as a Sith Apprentice again.

* In the ''{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' Brainiac 5 set-up Ultra Boy for a woman's murder, nearly killed Chameleon Boy, & was planning to destroy the entire universe, but he was crazy, spent 5 issues in an insane asylum, was cured & welcomed back to the team with open arms.

* In the first story arc of Ultimate X-Men, Cyclops joins Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil and helps him blow up civilian buildings (though he tries to give occupants time to escape). By the end of the arc, he's realized what an insane douchebag Magneto is and returns to the X-Men, and never are his actions called into question.

* Alan A Dale in the [[{{Robin Hood}} BBC's Robin Hood]] betrays the merry men throughout series 2. Makes a HeelFaceTurn in the penultimate episode and turns against Gisbourne and the Sheriff. Just in time to [[spoiler: die]] at the end of series 3 [[spoiler: due to the gang not trusting him]].

* Alan A Dale in the [[{{Robin Hood BBC}} BBC's Robin Hood]] betrays the merry men throughout series 2. Makes a HeelFaceTurn in the penultimate episode and turns against Gisbourne and the Sheriff. Just in time to [[spoiler: die]] at the end of series 3 [[spoiler: due to the gang not trusting him]].

* Alan A Dale in the [[{{Series: Robin Hood}} BBC's Robin Hood]] betrays the merry men throughout series 2. Makes a HeelFaceTurn in the penultimate episode and turns against Gisbourne and the Sheriff. Just in time to [[spoiler: die]] at the end of series 3 [[spoiler: due to the gang not trusting him]].

** The most blatant example is Luke's apprentice [[JediAcademyTrilogy Kyp Durron]], a former slave who turns to the dark side, destroys a star system, comes back, and eventually becomes a Jedi Master. Subverted in the paraquel ''I, Jedi'', where the protagonist repeatedly and with great alarm calls KarmaHoudini.

** Luke also joins the Empire in ''DarkEmpire''. That was initially a Xanatos Gambit to kill Palpatine, but Luke ended up falling to the Dark Side for real until his sister's love saved him and he went back to the New Republic.

* [[spoiler:Nash]] in ''{{Lunar}}: Silver Star Story Complete'' and all remakes/ {{Updated Rerelease}}s since (the original was a FakeDefector).

* In the ''LegionOfSuperHeroes'' Brainiac 5 set-up Ultra Boy for a woman's murder, nearly killed Chameleon Boy, & was planning to destroy the entire universe, but he was crazy, spent 5 issues in an insane asylum, was cured & welcomed back to the team with open arms.

* Exactly why the {{Nakama}} still lets [[YuGiOh Bakura]] approach within 100 feet of them, given that his evil side continiously takes over without warning, and all attempts to defeat it have been proven to work only for a short time or not at all, is unclear.

* In ''ExitFate'', the hero is declared a traitor by his home country at the beginning of the game and joins the other side to try to bring the war to a close with as little loss of life as possible. However, the fact that an enemy [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] is immediately accepted into the highest ranks of the military does not sit well with the corrupt politicians in charge, and they eventually fabricate an excuse to charge him with treason in a KangarooCourt. As a result, Daniel has to switch sides again; he's welcomed back with a lack of distrust that would be more surprising if it wasn't for the fact that the Kirgard leadership was in deep, ''deep'' trouble, and nothing he could do could possibly make their situation any worse.

* In ''ExitFate'', the hero is declared a traitor by his home country at the beginning of the game and joins the other side to try to bring the war to a close with as little loss of life as possible. However, the fact that an enemy [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] is immediately accepted into the highest ranks of the military does not sit well with the corrupt politicians in charge, and they eventually fabricate an excuse to charge him with treason in a KangarooCourt. As a result, Daniel has to switch sides again; he's welcomed back with a lack of distrust that would be more surprising if it wasn't for the fact that the Kirgard leadership was in deep, ''deep'' trouble, and nothing he could do could possibly make their situation any worse.