Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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