Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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