Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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