Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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Is a Crapshoot Neck Snap Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dying Moment of Awesome Russian Films Berserk Button Breaking the Fourth Wall Stealth Hi/Bye Playing Gertrude Villain Protagonist A Father to His Men As Long as It Sounds Foreign Deconstruction Bavarian Fire Drill Mind Screw I Did What I Had to Do Kill It with Fire Creator Cameo Fiery Redhead Once More, with Clarity! Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Animal Motifs Brother–Sister Incest Becoming the Mask Dark Reprise Visual Pun Final Girl Monumental Damage Off-into-the-Distance Ending Exact Words One Steve Limit Take a Third Option Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Wicked Cultured Mad Scientist Married to the Job Blatant Lies Insult Backfire Slap-Slap-Kiss Chase Scene Overly Long Gag Your Cheating Heart Fanservice Affably Evil Bowdlerise Face–Heel Turn Blood Knight Meet Cute Hidden Depths The Film of the Book Not So Different Meaningful Name Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Scenery Porn Documentary Rousing Speech Ironic Echo Guile Hero Insistent Terminology Homage Frame-Up Imagine Spot Anti-Hero Bond One-Liner Adaptation Name Change Hong Kong Films Insane Troll Logic Horror Films Downer Ending Jerk Jock Death by Irony Only in It for the Money Big Applesauce Big "NO!" Roger Ebert: Great Movies List He Knows Too Much Villain Ball Didn't Think This Through Instant Death Bullet Asshole Victim The Vamp Outrun the Fireball Gratuitous English Jerk with a Heart of Gold Wretched Hive Black Dude Dies First The Mole Darker and Edgier "Awesome McCool" Name Bare Your Midriff Big Eater Rule of Symbolism A God Am I "Shaggy Dog" Story All Girls Want Bad Boys All There in the Manual Slasher Movie Adaptation Dye-Job Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Meaningful Echo Morality Pet Character Development Mercy Kill Politically Incorrect Villain Determinator Major Injury Underreaction Hair-Trigger Temper Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Plot Hole The Smurfette Principle Funny Background Event You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Mama Bear Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Adapted Out Peek-a-Boo Corpse Reality Has No Subtitles Bolivian Army Ending Adaptation Expansion Reality Ensues Improbable Aiming Skills Hooker with a Heart of Gold '80s Hair Eureka Moment Naked People Are Funny Wrong Genre Savvy Science Fiction Films Get Out! Vampire Fiction Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Darkest Hour Groin Attack Storming the Castle Police Brutality Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Rich Bitch Faking the Dead Calling the Old Man Out Henpecked Husband Determinator aka: The Determinator Abhorrent Admirer Fan Disservice From Bad to Worse All Men Are Perverts Heterosexual Life-Partners Based on a True Story Aside Glance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Posthumous Character I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Disguised in Drag Paper-Thin Disguise Evil Sounds Deep Noodle Incident "Where Are They Now?" 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They Really Do Love Each Other No OSHA Compliance Christmas Movies Index Heroic Sacrifice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Kick the Dog Bloodless Carnage Stock Footage Extreme Doormat Conspicuous CG Double-Meaning Title MacGuffin BFG Despair Event Horizon Hope Spot Bloody Hilarious Ominous Latin Chanting timeperiod Bunny-Ears Lawyer Race Lift Psycho for Hire Agony of the Feet Handicapped Badass Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Nice Hat Precision F-Strike Bald of Evil Captain Ersatz Genre Throwback Unreliable Narrator Sir Swears-a-Lot Big Bad Duumvirate Break the Haughty Adaptational Heroism Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Beta Couple Not So Stoic Diabolus ex Machina Punny Name Room Full of Crazy Rule of Three World of Ham Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Undying Loyalty Canadian Movies Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fate Worse than Death Bait-and-Switch The Sociopath Romantic False Lead Worthy Opponent Taking You with Me Hoist by His Own Petard Guns Akimbo Large Ham Market-Based Title Arc Words No-Holds-Barred Beatdown From Nobody to Nightmare For Want of a Nail Curb-Stomp Battle Suspiciously Similar Substitute Spanner in the Works Lock and Load Montage The Lost Lenore Plucky Comic Relief Action Prologue Failed a Spot Check Earn Your Happy Ending Narrator Children Are Innocent Humiliation Conga Product Placement Bloodier and Gorier Sacrificial Lion B-Movie Retired Badass Awesome, but Impractical Missing Mom Sequel Hook The Stoner A Minor Kidroduction Unusual Euphemism Spell My Name with an "S" Grey and Gray Morality Curse Cut Short Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Offscreen Teleportation Annoying Younger Sibling Not So Above It All An Aesop Ghost Fiction Anyone Can Die Chewing the Scenery Bi the Way Pragmatic Adaptation Killed Mid-Sentence Shipper on Deck Author Appeal Hypocrite Boom, Headshot! 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Parental Neglect It's Personal Dressing as the Enemy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Closed Circle Slasher Smile Adult Fear Captain Obvious Madness Mantra Music Stories Important Haircut The Alleged Car Fun with Acronyms Country Matters Funny Foreigner Attempted Rape O.O.C. Is Serious Business Death of a Child Fish out of Water Heel Realization In Medias Res Totally Radical Flipping the Bird The Big Guy Same Language Dub Twist Ending Contrived Coincidence Artistic License – Military Badass in a Nice Suit Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Properly Paranoid Sealed Evil in a Can Truth in Television Ambiguous Ending Demonic Possession Mighty Whitey Dark and Troubled Past Jump Scare An Axe to Grind Car Fu Martial Arts Movie Say My Name Does Not Like Shoes Mundane Made Awesome Light Is Not Good True Companions Bound and Gagged Department of Redundancy Department Unusually Uninteresting Sight Word of God Better to Die than Be Killed Ungrateful Bastard Needs Wiki Magic Love Bring My Brown Pants Vomit Discretion Shot As You Know Brainless Beauty Maybe Ever After The Cameo There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pre-Mortem One-Liner Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Drugs Are Bad Mr. Fanservice Stalker with a Crush Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Half the Man He Used to Be Epic Fail Neck Lift The Power of Love What the Hell, Hero? 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