Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

Good guy turns bad. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Air-Vent Passageway Darker and Edgier Historical Villain Upgrade Cool Old Lady Super Strength Knight Templar Honor Before Reason Chekhov's Gun Parental Substitute The Stoner Make It Look Like an Accident Badass Normal Taking You with Me Big Fancy House Laughing Mad Abhorrent Admirer Ominous Latin Chanting Brainless Beauty Apocalypse How Laser-Guided Karma Punny Name Fanservice Extra Accidental Murder Humiliation Conga 20 Minutes into the Future Dual Wielding Australian Movies The Lancer Straight Gay Killed Mid-Sentence Dogged Nice Guy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A Minor Kidroduction The Ghost Costume Porn Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Canon Foreigner Historical-Domain Character Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Shower Scene Bunny-Ears Lawyer Offscreen Moment of Awesome Training Montage Lampshade Hanging Establishing Character Moment Shoot the Shaggy Dog Those Two Guys Video Credits Vomit Indiscretion Shot Department of Redundancy Department My Greatest Failure Obstructive Bureaucrat My Beloved Smother Kill 'em All Did Not Get the Girl Missing Mom An Arm and a Leg The Faceless Mistaken for Gay Cool Car Bond One-Liner Evil Sounds Deep Only a Flesh Wound Bond Villain Stupidity Bloody Hilarious Wham Shot Russian Films Artistic License – Law Mundane Made Awesome The Oner Leaning on the Fourth Wall Darkest Hour Silence Is Golden Villain Ball Depraved Bisexual Horror Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie All Just a Dream Adorkable Together in Death The '90s Guile Hero Moment Killer Only One Name Canadian Movies Film Noir Race Against the Clock Sadistic Choice Never Trust a Trailer Big Bad Artistic License – Gun Safety Villain Protagonist Antagonist Title Drill Sergeant Nasty Precision F-Strike Irony Author Avatar Man on Fire Soundtrack Dissonance Manic Pixie Dream Girl Faux Affably Evil Guns Akimbo Bottomless Magazines Disney Villain Death Pre-Asskicking One-Liner N-Word Privileges Unwitting Instigator of Doom Poor Communication Kills Horror Comedy Captain Obvious Informed Ability Bound and Gagged Action Girl You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Romantic False Lead Babies Ever After Everyone Has Standards Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Deconstruction Distracted by the Sexy And Starring Femme Fatale Call-Back Red Right Hand Police Brutality Big-Bad Ensemble You Have Failed Me Daddy's Girl And the Adventure Continues Anguished Declaration of Love The Dog Bites Back Market-Based Title Kids Are Cruel Time Skip Drowning My Sorrows Maybe Ever After The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Real Life Worthy Opponent Made of Iron In Name Only Let's Get Dangerous! Famous Last Words Adaptational Badass Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Kill It with Fire Drives Like Crazy Affably Evil Meaningful Name Properly Paranoid Hate Sink Mooks Villainous Breakdown Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Action Survivor Small Name, Big Ego Police are Useless As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ambiguous Disorder Call-Forward Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Mood Whiplash Star-Crossed Lovers No Antagonist Ironic Echo A Date with Rosie Palms Camera Abuse Fingore Authority Equals Asskicking Daylight Horror Book-Ends Historical In-Joke Meet Cute I Have Your Wife Faking the Dead Reckless Gun Usage Science Fiction Films Fake Shemp Retired Badass Badass Bookworm Deus ex Machina Silent Movie Storming the Castle Pyrrhic Victory Imagine Spot Chekhov's Skill Butt-Monkey Karma Houdini Lighter and Softer The '60s Gold Digger Evil Counterpart Plucky Comic Relief Alas, Poor Villain Cool Guns As the Good Book Says... Adapted Out Title Drop World of Ham Due to the Dead An Axe to Grind Adaptational Villainy Narrator Nice Hat Decoy Protagonist "Shaggy Dog" Story Easily Forgiven Male Frontal Nudity Deadpan Snarker Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Off with His Head! Berserk Button For the Evulz Face–Heel Turn Hypocrite Crazy Jealous Guy Hidden Depths Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass One Steve Limit Real Life Writes the Plot Here We Go Again! All for Nothing Gorn Henpecked Husband Implacable Man Lock and Load Montage The Ditz May–December Romance Bland-Name Product Love Triangle Despair Event Horizon Agony of the Feet Cat Scare The End... Or Is It? Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Rich Bitch Death by Adaptation Happily Married Blatant Lies It's Personal An Aesop Your Cheating Heart Abusive Parents A God Am I Major Injury Underreaction Hair-Trigger Temper Male Gaze Chase Scene I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Composite Character Psychopathic Manchild Sequel Escalation Kick the Son of a Bitch The Casanova The Big Guy Cassandra Truth Arranged Marriage Re-Cut Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Truth in Television Left the Background Music On Visual Pun Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Put on a Bus Children Are Innocent Big Damn Heroes Big Eater Extremely Short Timespan Amoral Attorney Creator Cameo Playing Gertrude Very Loosely Based on a True Story Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Friend to All Children Not Using the "Z" Word Took a Level in Badass Extreme Doormat My God, What Have I Done? Jitter Cam Country Matters NO INDOOR VOICE Superhero Mr. Exposition Trailers Always Spoil Bloodless Carnage The Stoic Hong Kong Films The Musical Slasher Smile Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Men Are the Expendable Gender Scenery Porn A Father to His Men Flashback War Is Hell No-Sell Gilligan Cut Running Gag Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Even Evil Has Standards Stealth Hi/Bye Kubrick Stare One-Word Title The Ace Slasher Movie Red Herring Mexican Standoff As You Know Pragmatic Villainy This Is Gonna Suck Fan Disservice British Films Stealth Pun Biopic Greater-Scope Villain Dull Surprise The Great Depression Sole Survivor The Bad Guy Wins Hero of Another Story Intergenerational Friendship Final Girl Dying Moment of Awesome The Alcoholic Funny Foreigner Nothing Is Scarier Hero Antagonist Retirony Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Demoted to Extra Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Mole Immune to Bullets Married to the Job Important Haircut Vacation Films Break the Haughty Last-Name Basis Broken Bird Shell-Shocked Veteran Fate Worse than Death Animal Motifs Improvised Weapon Sir Swears-a-Lot How We Got Here Facial Horror Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Unreliable Narrator Awesome, but Impractical Thriller Jump Scare Breaking the Fourth Wall Continuity Nod Toplessness from the Back Betty and Veronica All Girls Want Bad Boys Shipper on Deck Race Lift Index of Film Westerns More Dakka Dirty Old Man Mind Screw The Chessmaster Not So Different Covers Always Lie Chiaroscuro Mystery and Detective Films There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pre-Mortem One-Liner Adaptational Heroism Good Is Not Nice Heroes Want Redheads Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Serious Business The '80s Failed a Spot Check Rated M for Manly No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Stinger Self-Deprecation He Knows Too Much Improbable Weapon User Large Ham "The Reason You Suck" Speech Redshirt Army Manly Tears Disguised in Drag All There in the Script Frame-Up Off-into-the-Distance Ending Reality Is Unrealistic Actor Allusion Word of God Neck Snap Psycho for Hire Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Villain Opening Scene Sci-Fi Horror Disney Death Grievous Bottley Harm Cold-Blooded Torture Sealed Evil in a Can Never My Fault Evil Brit Defrosting Ice Queen Fatal Flaw Amusing Injuries Your Head A-Splode Deliberately Monochrome Madness Mantra Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – History And I Must Scream What You Are in the Dark Determinator Demonic Possession Random Events Plot Early Installment Weirdness Bowdlerise Refuge in Audacity Get Out! Gainax Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Damsel in Distress What the Hell, Hero? Light Is Not Good Product Placement Defiant to the End Anachronism Stew From Bad to Worse The Hero The Atoner Jerk Jock Vampire Fiction In Medias Res Dutch Angle Once More, with Clarity! Dirty Cop Soft Glass Fun with Acronyms Black Dude Dies First Same Language Dub Eureka Moment Would Hit a Girl Yandere Names to Run Away from Really Fast Not What It Looks Like Reality Ensues Bald of Evil Ambiguous Ending I Need a Freaking Drink MacGuffin Fantastic Racism Cowboy Cop Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bi the Way Stuff Blowing Up The Film of the Book Creepy Child Wham Line Hypocritical Humor Annoying Younger Sibling Belligerent Sexual Tension Token Minority Pay Evil unto Evil Stock Footage Fatal Family Photo Cat Fight Tranquil Fury Aluminum Christmas Trees Determinator aka: The Determinator Not So Above It All Deal with the Devil Ship Tease Overprotective Dad Morality Pet Anti-Hero Heel Realization O.O.C. Is Serious Business Suspiciously Similar Substitute Took a Level in Jerkass Really Gets Around Spared by the Adaptation Homage Brutal Honesty Suspiciously Specific Denial Alliterative Name Pretty in Mink Public Domain Feature Films Music Stories Kick the Dog Parental Incest Dirty Coward Pet the Dog Loophole Abuse Better to Die than Be Killed Adaptation Name Change Well-Intentioned Extremist Captain Ersatz The Sociopath Four-Temperament Ensemble Film Series The '70s Mugging the Monster Parental Neglect Ripped from the Headlines Bloodier and Gorier The Brute Our Zombies Are Different Manchild Adaptation Dye-Job The Reveal Author Appeal Deliberate Values Dissonance Big Bad Duumvirate The Chick Contrived Coincidence Match Cut Fantasy Films Leave the Camera Running Downer Ending Malevolent Masked Men Adaptation Distillation Villain with Good Publicity Skewed Priorities Mercy Kill Spell My Name with an "S" Alpha Bitch Five-Man Band Badass Boast The Cameo Gratuitous English For Want of a Nail Rule of Cool Dark and Troubled Past Neck Lift Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Wrong Genre Savvy Papa Wolf Undying Loyalty Dark Reprise Insane Troll Logic Novelization Twist Ending Translation Convention Red Shirt Wounded Gazelle Gambit Recycled IN SPACE! Crazy-Prepared Slashed Throat Those Wacky Nazis Auto Erotica Anyone Can Die I Did What I Had to Do Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Jerk with a Heart of Gold Parental Abandonment All There in the Manual Shirtless Scene Epic Fail Military and Warfare Films Cool Shades Age Lift It Can Think Rewatch Bonus Not Even Bothering with the Accent Sanity Slippage Line-of-Sight Name Riddle for the Ages Fanservice Sequel Hook Broken Aesop Black Comedy Vomit Discretion Shot Freudian Excuse Never Found the Body Politically Incorrect Villain Whole Plot Reference The Mafia Made of Explodium She Cleans Up Nicely Closed Circle Sinister Minister Pimped-Out Dress Broken Pedestal Badass Grandpa Ass Shove Attempted Rape Chekhov's Gunman Heterosexual Life-Partners Ghost Fiction Catapult Nightmare Disproportionate Retribution Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bittersweet Ending The Alleged Car Actually Pretty Funny Only Known by Their Nickname Ascended Extra Beauty Is Never Tarnished Camp Gay Artistic License – Military La Résistance Slap-Slap-Kiss Ambiguously Gay Take That! Car Fu Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene BFG Serial Killer Disappeared Dad Evil-Detecting Dog Mighty Whitey Stylistic Suck All Men Are Perverts A.I. Is a Crapshoot Jerkass Has a Point Outrun the Fireball Loads and Loads of Characters Hope Spot Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Fish out of Water Every Car Is a Pinto Credits Gag Manipulative Bastard Rape as Drama Insistent Terminology One-Man Army Pretty Little Headshots Stepford Smiler The '50s Spanner in the Works Improbable Aiming Skills What Happened to the Mouse? Adults Are Useless Leitmotif Dumb Blonde "Well Done, Son!" Guy Character Development Monumental Damage Knife Nut Cruel and Unusual Death Blood Knight Animal Title Index Blackmail Evil vs. Evil Affectionate Parody The X of Y Rule of Symbolism Be Careful What You Wish For Room Full of Crazy Gender Flip Interrupted Suicide Christmas Movies Index Cluster F-Bomb Exactly What It Says on the Tin Red Eyes, Take Warning Bait-and-Switch Brother–Sister Incest Batman Gambit Face Death with Dignity Gone Horribly Right Retcon Woman Scorned The Place Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptation Expansion Woman in White Chewing the Scenery No Ending Dressing as the Enemy Flipping the Bird Genre Shift Film Noir Index Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Intrepid Reporter Red Oni, Blue Oni Enemy Mine Adult Fear Protagonist Title Wicked Cultured Unspoken Plan Guarantee Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Action Prologue Artistic License – Biology Foreshadowing Documentary Driven to Suicide Works Set in World War II Exact Words Naïve Newcomer Japanese Films Victoria's Secret Compartment Shown Their Work After the End Take a Third Option Beard of Evil Freeze-Frame Bonus Corpsing Ms. Fanservice Television Movie Index Noodle Incident Not Quite Dead French Films Casting Gag Eye Scream Reasonable Authority Figure Bullying a Dragon Paper-Thin Disguise Fire-Forged Friends Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Needs Wiki Magic Love Idiot Ball Eiffel Tower Effect Break the Cutie Heroic Sacrifice Combat Pragmatist Wretched Hive Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Obviously Evil Diabolus ex Machina Developing Doomed Characters Dramatic Gun Cock Zombie Stories Karmic Death Older Than They Look Genre Throwback Earn Your Happy Ending timeperiod Nice Guy Advertised Extra The Power of Love Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Becoming the Mask Anti-Villain Artistic License – Geography From Nobody to Nightmare Rasputinian Death Non-Indicative Name Action Genre Genre Savvy Celebrity Paradox Sassy Black Woman Our Vampires Are Different Central Theme Love at First Sight Crucified Hero Shot Destination Defenestration The Quiet One The Smurfette Principle Brick Joke Badass Longcoat Ungrateful Bastard True Companions Arch-Enemy Fiery Redhead Bury Your Gays Sacrificial Lion Suddenly SHOUTING! Rule of Three Bilingual Bonus Eagleland Hollywood Darkness Offscreen Teleportation Bad "Bad Acting" Curse Cut Short Up to Eleven Dark Is Not Evil Black Comedy Rape Framing Device Reality Has No Subtitles Does Not Like Shoes Smoking Is Cool Bolivian Army Ending The Cavalry Historical Hero Upgrade Stalker with a Crush Scenery Gorn Motor Mouth Setting Update Meaningful Background Event Calling the Old Man Out Death Glare Martial Arts Movie Grey and Gray Morality Have a Gay Old Time Groin Attack Expy Only in It for the Money The Bully Sports Stories Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Is Petty Anachronic Order Shut Up, Hannibal! Aside Glance Gory Discretion Shot Bring My Brown Pants Even Evil Has Loved Ones Almost Kiss Funny Background Event Death by Irony Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Oh, Crap! She's Got Legs Instant Death Bullet Conspicuous CG Danny Peary Cult Movies List Shout-Out Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Tempting Fate Spiritual Successor Empathic Environment Tap on the Head Punch-Clock Villain Would Hurt a Child Romantic Comedy Fat Bastard No Celebrities Were Harmed Hell Is That Noise Black and Gray Morality Meaningful Echo Unusual Euphemism Card-Carrying Villain Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mad Scientist The Un-Reveal It's All About Me It Will Never Catch On Throwing Your Sword Always Works Does This Remind You of Anything? In the Back Scare Chord Evil Laugh Comically Missing the Point Heroic BSoD Roaring Rampage of Revenge Blood from the Mouth The Smart Guy Plot Hole Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Too Dumb to Live Didn't Think This Through Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Fourth Date Marriage Psychological Thriller Tagline Bad Boss No Name Given Peek-a-Boo Corpse '80s Hair Eldritch Abomination Not So Stoic The Dragon Beware the Nice Ones Revenge Mythology Gag Bavarian Fire Drill The Dreaded Body Horror Unusually Uninteresting Sight Death by Sex No OSHA Compliance Based on a True Story Badass in a Nice Suit The Hero Dies As Himself Dramedy Foregone Conclusion Early-Bird Cameo Posthumous Character Taking the Bullet Half the Man He Used to Be Epic Movie Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Mama Bear Cain and Abel Dwindling Party Armor-Piercing Question Boom, Headshot! Scary Black Man Jerkass Crapsack World Handicapped Badass Dropped a Bridge on Him Award-Bait Song Ax-Crazy Dramatic Irony Rousing Speech Getting Crap Past the Radar Naked People Are Funny Redemption Equals Death Villain Song Sexy Discretion Shot B-Movie Domestic Abuse Overly Long Gag Catch-Phrase Show Within a Show folderlabel Smug Snake No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Corrupt Corporate Executive Totally Radical Green-Eyed Monster Hollywood Law Hoist by His Own Petard Expository Hairstyle Change Black Best Friend Big "NO!" Humans Are Bastards Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Brother Instinct Evil Plan Italian Films Heel–Face Turn Dies Wide Open Big Applesauce Obfuscating Stupidity Eyepatch of Power I'm a Humanitarian Drugs Are Bad Bar Brawl Spiteful Spit Dissonant Serenity Fainting Curb-Stomp Battle The Starscream Evil Is Hammy Double Entendre Asshole Victim The Vamp Cool Old Guy Death of a Child "Awesome McCool" Name German Films Insult Backfire Foil Animated Credits Opening Coming-of-Age Story Cloudcuckoolander Beta Couple Double-Meaning Title Back from the Dead The Remake You Killed My Father Rule of Funny Those Two Bad Guys Death Seeker Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mr. Fanservice The Voiceless Accidental Misnaming The Lost Lenore Creative Closing Credits He Who Fights Monsters Logo Joke Say My Name Arc Words Bare Your Midriff Only Sane Man The Load Vitriolic Best Buds Dark Action Girl Pragmatic Adaptation