Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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