Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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