Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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