Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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