Gone bad
Both terms in one sentence
- Thanks to his "average Joe gone bad" origin story and Zachary Quinto's great performance, he became an Ensemble Darkhorse as the villain of season one — and much like Michelle on Full House, this eventually turned against the show once the writers started pandering to Sylar's fans.
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Lawman Gone Bad: Howard Payne was a former member of the Atlanta PD bomb squad, who turned Mad Bomber after being forcibly retired, due to an accident which injured his hand.
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FBI-focused White Collar had a recurring villain in the first two seasons in OPR Agent Fowler who turned out to be a case of Lawman Gone Bad: his wife was killed and then he killed her assassin, leaving himself open to blackmail by the big bad.
Source: Internal Affairs
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