Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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Names to Run Away from Really Fast Genre Throwback Alpha Bitch As Himself Decoy Protagonist Curse Cut Short Left the Background Music On Vitriolic Best Buds Historical In-Joke Be Careful What You Wish For Closed Circle Get Out! Military and Warfare Films Adorkable Cluster F-Bomb Determinator Music Stories Rasputinian Death Meaningful Background Event I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Black Best Friend Antagonist Title Genre Shift A Father to His Men Time Skip Taking the Bullet Parental Incest Abusive Parents Retirony Pyrrhic Victory Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Toplessness from the Back Calling the Old Man Out Christmas Movies Index Very Loosely Based on a True Story Deus ex Machina Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Faceless Dropped a Bridge on Him Amoral Attorney La Résistance Homage Big Damn Heroes Agony of the Feet Eldritch Abomination Big Brother Instinct Taking You with Me Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Eye Scream Moment Killer Obstructive Bureaucrat Blood Knight Fourth Date Marriage Mooks Big Applesauce Creepy Child The Lost Lenore Idiot Ball Adaptation Distillation Have a Gay Old Time Biopic Damsel in Distress MacGuffin The Dreaded Small Name, Big Ego Exactly What It Says on the Tin Establishing Character Moment Sinister Minister Adaptation Name Change Tranquil Fury Evil Brit My Greatest Failure Stealth Hi/Bye Disguised in Drag Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fantasy Films Sports Stories Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane French Films Scenery Gorn Evil Plan Sassy Black Woman Re-Cut Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Scary Black Man Here We Go Again! Composite Character Darkest Hour Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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German Films Every Car Is a Pinto Framing Device Bittersweet Ending Take a Third Option Almost Kiss Dirty Coward The '70s Wham Line Hollywood Law Age Lift Television Movie Index No OSHA Compliance Sacrificial Lion Corpsing Broken Pedestal Red Shirt Documentary Actor Allusion Hair-Trigger Temper The Mafia Woman in White There Is No Kill Like Overkill Non-Indicative Name Chiaroscuro Call-Back Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Casanova Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jitter Cam Smug Snake Guile Hero Dirty Cop Henpecked Husband Death of a Child Artistic License – Geography Plucky Comic Relief 20 Minutes into the Future Cool Shades Bilingual Bonus Book-Ends Bolivian Army Ending Karma Houdini Recycled IN SPACE! Developing Doomed Characters Camp Gay The Alcoholic Historical Hero Upgrade Half the Man He Used to Be Anyone Can Die Adaptation Expansion Irony Kick the Dog Adaptational Heroism Wham Shot Off with His Head! Dual Wielding Demonic Possession Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Deadpan Snarker Improbable Weapon User Pay Evil unto Evil Actually Pretty Funny All Girls Want Bad Boys Drowning My Sorrows Continuity Nod The '80s After the End Celebrity Paradox Papa Wolf Bi the Way Kill 'em All Fake Shemp Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Oh, Crap! Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Laugh Grievous Bottley Harm For the Evulz Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mr. Fanservice Nice Hat Easily Forgiven Department of Redundancy Department Sequel Escalation Politically Incorrect Villain Vacation Films Freeze-Frame Bonus Instant Death Bullet Leaning on the Fourth Wall Beauty Is Never Tarnished Sir Swears-a-Lot Say My Name How We Got Here Chase Scene Abhorrent Admirer Affectionate Parody Imagine Spot Riddle for the Ages Hong Kong Films British Films No-Sell Meaningful Name Expy Death by Irony Revenge Hidden Depths The '90s Film Noir N-Word Privileges Creative Closing Credits Vampire Fiction Stepford Smiler Bond Villain Stupidity Mundane Made Awesome Fish out of Water Asshole Victim Offscreen Teleportation Crazy Jealous Guy The Ace An Arm and a Leg Big Eater Bullying a Dragon Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? "Well Done, Son!" Guy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Those Two Guys Adaptational Villainy Hollywood Darkness Friend to All Children Manic Pixie Dream Girl The Sociopath Fainting The Dragon Wrong Genre Savvy Deliberately Monochrome Cowboy Cop It's All About Me Bland-Name Product Bury Your Gays Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Shell-Shocked Veteran No Ending All Men Are Perverts Black Comedy Stalker with a Crush Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Even Evil Has Loved Ones Disappeared Dad Only in It for the Money Ripped from the Headlines Double Entendre The Brute Rewatch Bonus Bond One-Liner Badass in a Nice Suit Once More, with Clarity! Took a Level in Badass Police Brutality Retired Badass Retcon Room Full of Crazy Rule of Symbolism Stock Footage Male Frontal Nudity I Did What I Had to Do This Is Gonna Suck Improbable Aiming Skills Ghost Fiction Word of God Death Glare Big Bad Duumvirate Big-Bad Ensemble Extremely Short Timespan Would Hit a Girl Mad Scientist Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Gender Flip Knife Nut Interrupted Suicide The Cameo Rousing Speech Market-Based Title Maybe Ever After Unusual Euphemism Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sequel Hook Kill It with Fire