Tropescilloscope: Face–Heel Turn

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

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