User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Shonen's Regimen and Tonic: January 2016/@comment-3030647-20160116063146/@comment-18812574-20160116070248

Yeah definitely, I have never really seen it used where it wasn't tragic in someway, and where it didn't signify defeat of the character on an internal level. Besides all the bad examples of non-changing series characters, that is. (Please ignore those, lol.)