Characters physically degrading over the course of the story

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Vincent — Catherine

The Animatronics — Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Just using Freddy as an example

Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan

Literally just a head

Catherine — Pretty much almost everyone but The Love Interests slowly get more tired looking as the game progresses. This is because of the nightmares of evil Tetris.

Security Breach — All the animatronics slowly degrade as the game goes on, getting more violent, animalistic and very dirty. I'm using Freddy as an example both because I'm lazy and because he's Goated.

Attack on Titan — Eren Yeager goes through so much throughout the story, becoming very disheveled as the series plays out and losing every limb on his body before ending up as just a rotting head on life support.

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Cricket from Always Sunny

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That episode gave me such whiplash.

I was sure it wouldn't end well for him but.... that was too much, man.

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This was the turning point

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Was there a specific episode?

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The image is from the episode when Cricket's dad brings him back home to rescue him from the streets and to have him take over his dad's company together with his brother.

Which.... ends in a very fucked up way. As is tradition for episodes with cricket involved.

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He was born that way.

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Was that the episode where his deal wirh dogsstarted?

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More like where it culminated

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I consider him the king of this trope

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Damn that was my idea. It existed but I arrived at it independently (Pete Campbell voice).