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| - A Sub-Trope of Start of Darkness that involves a non-Badass normal taking Over Nine Thousand levels in badass, whether instantly or over the course of a story, thus becoming essentially nothing but a giant walking, talking bucket of Nightmare Fuel. Compare the Diabolus Ex Nihilo. If the character was already a bad guy previously but never a serious one, it's Not So Harmless. Heroic versions may still find themselves wondering "Dude, Where's My Respect?". Frequently, the details of this process are uncovered in the villain's Start of Darkness. Examples of From Nobody to Nightmare include:
- Nobody to Nightmare is a TV Trope-popularized villainous event involving a character, either a hero or ordinary good guy whom either harmless/helpless, looked down upon, his/her existence was ignored (like Max Dillon), and worse, considered as an outcast or an individual that often being abused by other people that dislikes/hate them, either the Big Bad or merely minor villains in the story where they featured at. How an ordinary good guy become nightmarish villain in this scenario can be either:
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| - A Sub-Trope of Start of Darkness that involves a non-Badass normal taking Over Nine Thousand levels in badass, whether instantly or over the course of a story, thus becoming essentially nothing but a giant walking, talking bucket of Nightmare Fuel. Through a series of unlikely coincidences, or through accidental or unknowing actions on the part of the Heroes themselves, or as a result of things which should never have happened -- and in most alternate timelines don't happen, but just barely by the skin of their teeth, do happen -- someone who might have stayed an insignificant nothing is transformed into a nightmare that grows and grows, absorbing the power to rend civilizations to dust and bring universes to their knees. For some reason, it seems that From Nobody to Nightmare villains are always more powerful, terrifying, deadly, and threatening than your typical Diabolical Mastermind. This may owe itself to the shock value of the idea that anyone and anything could accidentally become the Big Bad; it's much more comforting to believe that only long years of Card Carrying Villainy could possibly breed that kind of person. Compare the Diabolus Ex Nihilo. If the character was already a bad guy previously but never a serious one, it's Not So Harmless. Heroic versions may still find themselves wondering "Dude, Where's My Respect?". Frequently, the details of this process are uncovered in the villain's Start of Darkness. Examples of From Nobody to Nightmare include:
- Nobody to Nightmare is a TV Trope-popularized villainous event involving a character, either a hero or ordinary good guy whom either harmless/helpless, looked down upon, his/her existence was ignored (like Max Dillon), and worse, considered as an outcast or an individual that often being abused by other people that dislikes/hate them, either the Big Bad or merely minor villains in the story where they featured at. How an ordinary good guy become nightmarish villain in this scenario can be either:
* Protagonist/other good guys' tragic mistake or other well-intentioned but disastrous acts that resulting them depressed and pushed to the dark side.
* Result of the Big Bad or other villain's evil acts that intended to either merely ruined their innocence; rewarding the character with violence and cruelty out of prejudice/fear/jealousy/sheer hatred; or more complex instance corrupted so he/she become their servant/disposable pawns.
* Feels dissastified with current life/status but choose go for the dark path to improved it.
* Becoming more and more villainous than he/she previously. In either way, when the fateful day where they turned to the dark side comes, they would cause particulary shocking event that horrifies everyone, be it either the hero, audience, and other people whom witnessed such event.
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