Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

xhonzi said:
Can you name some, Puggo?

There are many different ways that someone can go bad. It can be due to addiction, seduction, power, insanity, chemicals, or other reasons.

Just for arguments sake, would you agree that most of those are external factors, and somewhat are not the choice of the character in question... therefore making him a tragic victim rather than a powerful villain?

Just off the top of my head, some movies/stories that use a variety of these themes would be The Hobbit, The Godfather, Animal Farm, The Invisible Man, The Fly, Re-animator, Requiem for a Dream, All the King's Men...

None of those (which I have seen/read) really present a fallen hero, right? Maybe some normal people gone bad... which is also a good thing, but still in something of a different class than what we'd expect from Star Wars. Or am I wrong?

By contrast, I still don't know why Anakin went bad.

The shcript told him to? ;)