A character is somehow influenced or altered in some way from their original self to embrace a more evil and/or perverted persona. This can occur gradually overtime or in an instant.

As a visual cue artists will often change the character's taste in fashion, hairstyle, lifestyle, and demeanor to be more on the darker side of things such as:

• A darker color palette.
• Skimpier clothes, often invoking a gothic or BDSM aesthetic.
• Spikier clothes, even to the point of looking demonic.
• Loss of morals and inhibitions.
• A meaner personality.
• A tendency to do evil deeds.

In extreme cases, even their very body is affected as well and results in a physical transformation, which is often visualized as a physical manifestation of the corruption visibly spreading on their body until they're fully engulfed and changed.

Related tags:

• alternate_costume
• alternate_hairstyle
• alternate_color
• transformation

See also

• evil_twin - When the corrupted version of the character is depicted as its own separate character.
• purification - The process of uncorrupting a character or turning an evil character good.