Basic Trope: A character accepts that a trait they are ashamed of or persecuted for is an integral part of them.
- Straight: Alice, having an identity crisis, comes to terms with who her real self is.
- Exaggerated: Alice, a clone of a person of demonic descent and looked after by criminal foster parents, has an entire encyclopedia's worth of identity issues and comes to terms with all of them.
- Downplayed: Alice, a member of an oppressed minority, stops feeling sorry for other people's treatment of her. She didn't have any problems with her own character specifically.
- Justified: Character Development gives Alice a boost in self-esteem that allows her to embrace her identity.
- Inverted: Alice is a Defector from Decadence - she's come to realize that her society approves of genuine evil.
- Subverted: Alice and the readers think she has Dark Is Not Evil themed powers; she realizes at the last second that her powers have some terrible side-effects, and uses them sparingly ever after.
- Double Subverted: In the Sequel, Alice finds out that her powers were corrupted, and with a littlenote work, they can be used for good once more.
- Parodied: Alice accepts the fact that she's a talking shark inside a human-shaped suit.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Internalized Categorism
- Enforced: Alice's character arc revolves around who she believes she is. A realisation to this effect is the only satisfying way to resolve the arc.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The 'Verse's Psychoactive Powers respond well to these kinds of epiphanies.
- Defied: Alice, somehow, finds a way to change or remove the trait she was ashamed of.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice, the Big Bad eventually realizes that Good Feels Good and she wants to redeem herself. However the town she terrorized won't have any of it. So Alice accepts who she is, the Big Bad who will never see the light. So afterwards she goes back to business as usual, except more sad than she was before.
- Played For Drama: Alice accepts who she is, a member of an some evil aliens. Her Friend, Bob tries to pull her out of this saying that she is really anything but a monster, he remembers that back when Alice isn't aware of her race's legacy that she would go ahead and help many others around her, alien or not, however Alice is convinced that she cannot fight fate.
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