Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150905032118/@comment-3581997-20150909000423

You mean if a character is tortured at length and becomes a villain because of it can that fury be held back? Yes it can occur, Magneto was in a concentration camp in WWII, his fury was derailed at first be Professor X so it can be avoided, though of-course that doesn't hold forever when he is convinced that all humans will eventually act like that. Albert Simon was sent to the tower of London where he had similar experiences, it causes him to eventually take up black magic to spite the Church but he initially is held back by his friend Jovis and ends up using his black arts for good, though he eventually cracks for different reasons but when he does the malice of his time under torture adds to his collective blood-letting.

So yes, that can, and has happened in other works.