Hmm, Skyefire: Let me suggest adding 'Accelerator' to Team Knight in Tarnished Armor. I've been getting into To Aru Majutsu no Index lately, and he definitely qualifies.
We first meet him when we discover that he's been slaughtering literally thousands of clones of one of the series heroines, as part of an experiment to produce a higher-level ESPer... only to have him reform over a couple-three story arcs to the point where he becomes one of the main heroes of the cast.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
We first meet him when we discover that he's been slaughtering literally thousands of clones of one of the series heroines, as part of an experiment to produce a higher-level ESPer... only to have him reform over a couple-three story arcs to the point where he becomes one of the main heroes of the cast.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.