Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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