Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

Bad guy turns good. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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