Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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