Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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Fan Disservice Mercy Kill The Stinger Cain and Abel Fainting A Father to His Men Knight Templar Villain Song Freudian Excuse Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Ax-Crazy Jump Scare Evil Is Petty Bloodier and Gorier Action Genre Stylistic Suck Ship Tease Adaptational Attractiveness Male Frontal Nudity Loads and Loads of Characters Leave the Camera Running Costume Porn Stealth Hi/Bye Beauty Is Never Tarnished Roaring Rampage of Revenge Wretched Hive One-Man Army Interrupted Suicide Tempting Fate Amoral Attorney Cat Scare Fanservice Left the Background Music On Dies Wide Open World of Ham Disproportionate Retribution Those Two Guys Psychological Thriller Distracted by the Sexy Index of Film Westerns Shipper on Deck Bilingual Bonus Black Best Friend Names to Run Away from Really Fast Cassandra Truth Becoming the Mask Credits Gag Imagine Spot Take a Third Option Heroic Sacrifice Agony of the Feet Dirty Coward Get Out! Dirty Old Man Abusive Parents Deal with the Devil Slasher Smile Tap on the Head A Minor Kidroduction Brainless Beauty Straight Gay Downer Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Toplessness from the Back Off-into-the-Distance Ending Body Horror Card-Carrying Villain Badass Normal Well-Intentioned Extremist The Faceless Evil Sounds Deep Animal Motifs Retired Badass Those Two Bad Guys Up to Eleven Dropped a Bridge on Him Blackmail War Is Hell Adapted Out The Smart Guy Insult Backfire Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sanity Slippage Silence Is Golden Would Hurt a Child Laughing Mad Once More, with Clarity! Actor Allusion Manchild Spiteful Spit Scare Chord Mistaken for Gay Bar Brawl Hypocritical Humor Artistic License – History Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Police Brutality Driven to Suicide Skewed Priorities Continuity Nod Pretty in Mink Early Installment Weirdness Only Known by Their Nickname Spanner in the Works Creator Cameo Dramatic Gun Cock Suspiciously Specific Denial Everyone Has Standards My Greatest Failure Mama Bear Bald of Evil Deus ex Machina Flipping the Bird Your Head A-Splode Pyrrhic Victory As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dual Wielding Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pet the Dog Rated M for Manly Pragmatic Adaptation Serious Business Bland-Name Product Thriller Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Make It Look Like an Accident Politically Incorrect Villain The Lost Lenore Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Rich Bitch Playing Gertrude '80s Hair Match Cut Male Gaze Neck Snap Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mighty Whitey Papa Wolf Asshole Victim Alliterative Name Foil Refuge in Audacity Daylight Horror Advertised Extra Kubrick Stare I Have Your Wife Only Sane Man Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Random Events Plot Bury Your Gays The Big Guy Never Found the Body Beta Couple Race Against the Clock Punny Name Meaningful Echo Let's Get Dangerous! Eureka Moment The Atoner Drives Like Crazy Destination Defenestration Intergenerational Friendship Decoy Protagonist N-Word Privileges Dark Is Not Evil All Men Are Perverts Slasher Movie Rule of Three Cold-Blooded Torture The Brute Outrun the Fireball I Need a Freaking Drink Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Genre Shift Reality Has No Subtitles Shell-Shocked Veteran Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Ditz Eldritch Abomination My God, What Have I Done? A God Am I Dark Action Girl Never My Fault Spared by the Adaptation Large Ham Cat Fight Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Smoking Is Cool Insistent Terminology Foreshadowing Air-Vent Passageway Brother–Sister Incest Casting Gag Wrong Genre Savvy Poor Communication Kills Bi the Way Those Wacky Nazis Rewatch Bonus Artistic License – Law As You Know Market-Based Title Double Entendre Cool Old Guy NO INDOOR VOICE Expy The Dreaded Affably Evil Call-Back Re-Cut Monumental Damage The Place Femme Fatale Book-Ends Put on a Bus The Ghost Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Overprotective Dad Jitter Cam Cluster F-Bomb The X of Y Closed Circle Cruel and Unusual Death Motor Mouth Hair-Trigger Temper Pre-Mortem One-Liner Obstructive Bureaucrat Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Empathic Environment The Power of Love Early-Bird Cameo Japanese Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Despair Event Horizon No Ending Leaning on the Fourth Wall Neck Lift All Girls Want Bad Boys Retcon Obfuscating Stupidity Hero of Another Story Mr. Fanservice It's Personal Eye Scream In Medias Res Cowboy Cop Broken Aesop Blatant Lies Genre Throwback He Who Fights Monsters Alas, Poor Villain Expository Hairstyle Change Gone Horribly Right Darker and Edgier Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bottomless Magazines Crucified Hero Shot Artistic License – Physics Men Are the Expendable Gender No Name Given Death by Sex Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Stepford Smiler Video Credits Riddle for the Ages Tranquil Fury Important Haircut Epic Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mind Screw Ambiguous Disorder Love Triangle Shout-Out Same Language Dub Historical Villain Upgrade Offscreen Teleportation And Starring In Name Only Death of a Child Exactly What It Says on the Tin Horror Comedy Catapult Nightmare Major Injury Underreaction Kill It with Fire Artistic License – Military British Films Big Eater Captain Ersatz Film Noir Index Visual Pun Hoist by His Own Petard Cool Car Character Development Deadpan Snarker Plot Hole Parental Abandonment Idiot Ball Obviously Evil Horror Films Department of Redundancy Department The Vamp Karmic Death Mystery and Detective Films Bond One-Liner Too Dumb to Live Reality Ensues Epic Fail Sexy Discretion Shot Didn't Think This Through Unresolved Sexual Tension Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Works Set in World War II An Aesop Dark and Troubled Past Good Is Not Nice Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fate Worse than Death I'm a Humanitarian Deliberate Values Dissonance Sassy Black Woman BFG Meaningful Background Event Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Here We Go Again! 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Adaptational Heroism Malevolent Masked Men "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bullying a Dragon All Just a Dream Older Than They Look Bad Boss Television Movie Index Almost Kiss Domestic Abuse Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Accidental Misnaming Setting Update Guns Akimbo Made of Iron Documentary Fantastic Racism Soft Glass Eagleland Arch-Enemy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Diabolus ex Machina Dark Reprise Wham Shot Kill 'em All Nice Guy Dramedy Naked People Are Funny All There in the Manual Scenery Porn Twist Ending Science Fiction Films Depraved Bisexual Slap-Slap-Kiss Half the Man He Used to Be Canon Foreigner Ambiguous Ending The Cameo Star-Crossed Lovers Leitmotif Every Car Is a Pinto Paper-Thin Disguise It Can Think Truth in Television Reality Is Unrealistic Bloodless Carnage Amusing Injuries Chekhov's Gunman Blood from the Mouth Mugging the Monster The Hero Overly Long Gag The Dragon Mooks Friend to All Children Red Oni, Blue Oni As Himself Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Comically Missing the Point Superhero A Date with Rosie Palms And the Adventure Continues Moment Killer Defrosting Ice Queen Serial Killer Foregone Conclusion Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heel Realization A.I. Is a Crapshoot Did Not Get the Girl Anyone Can Die Parental Neglect Super Strength Fanservice Extra Not So Different Big Bad Duumvirate Crazy Jealous Guy Room Full of Crazy Gory Discretion Shot Heroes Want Redheads Face Death with Dignity Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Precision F-Strike For Want of a Nail Hell Is That Noise Laser-Guided Karma Not Quite Dead Mundane Made Awesome Sequel Escalation Brick Joke The '90s Sci-Fi Horror Posthumous Character Not So Above It All Historical In-Joke Reckless Gun Usage Dying Moment of Awesome He Knows Too Much Heterosexual Life-Partners Adult Fear Damsel in Distress Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Curse Cut Short Grievous Bottley Harm It Will Never Catch On Authority Equals Asskicking Vitriolic Best Buds Drowning My Sorrows Disappeared Dad Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Death Glare Improbable Aiming Skills Eiffel Tower Effect Title Drop Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Stock Footage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Establishing Character Moment Ominous Latin Chanting Knife Nut Badass Bookworm Not So Stoic Danny Peary Cult Movies List Karma Houdini The Mafia Easily Forgiven Slashed Throat No-Sell Final Girl Back from the Dead Revenge Corpsing Recycled IN SPACE! Taking the Bullet Sealed Evil in a Can Mr. Exposition Dumb Blonde The Bad Guy Wins Heel–Face Turn True Companions Pimped-Out Dress Red Right Hand Jerk Jock Hong Kong Films Martial Arts Movie Greater-Scope Villain Villain Protagonist Last-Name Basis Immune to Bullets The Mole The Casanova Take That! Took a Level in Jerkass Product Placement Anti-Hero Ms. Fanservice Plucky Comic Relief Framing Device Bound and Gagged Public Domain Feature Films Auto Erotica Extreme Doormat May–December Romance Happily Married German Films Black Comedy Redemption Equals Death Big Applesauce Even Evil Has Standards Oh, Crap! Irony Hidden Depths Bowdlerise Death by Adaptation Parental Substitute The Stoner Humans Are Bastards Shower Scene Roger Ebert: Great Movies List An Arm and a Leg Creative Closing Credits The Stoic And I Must Scream Suddenly SHOUTING! Villain Opening Scene Apocalypse How Adaptational Badass Meet Cute Killed Mid-Sentence Stuff Blowing Up Composite Character You Killed My Father Hollywood Darkness Ungrateful Bastard Translation Convention Action Survivor Vampire Fiction Cool Old Lady Ambiguously Gay Tagline Faux Affably Evil Broken Pedestal Evil Counterpart Dissonant Serenity Does This Remind You of Anything? Military and Warfare Films Wicked Cultured The Great Depression Wham Line Alpha Bitch Adults Are Useless Rousing Speech Meaningful Name Berserk Button Brutal Honesty Vacation Films Annoying Younger Sibling Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bunny-Ears Lawyer Romantic False Lead Defiant to the End Ripped from the Headlines Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Taking You with Me Morality Pet Italian Films The Ace Bloody Hilarious One-Word Title Zombie Stories Author Avatar Villain with Good Publicity Jerkass Light Is Not Good Ironic Echo The Load Covers Always Lie Big Damn Heroes Intrepid Reporter Big Brother Instinct Kick the Son of a Bitch The Bully Evil Plan Man on Fire Shoot the Shaggy Dog Contrived Coincidence Anachronism Stew Bittersweet Ending Betty and Veronica Armor-Piercing Question Victoria's Secret Compartment French Films The '60s Non-Indicative Name Deconstruction Bait-and-Switch Demoted to Extra Small Name, Big Ego "Well Done, Son!" Guy Break the Haughty Adaptation Expansion Naïve Newcomer Insane Troll Logic Dramatic Irony Race Lift Butt-Monkey Celebrity Paradox Really Gets Around Crapsack World Improbable Weapon User Beware the Nice Ones No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Shown Their Work Face–Heel Turn Facial Horror Shut Up, Hannibal! Getting Crap Past the Radar Badass Longcoat B-Movie Captain Obvious Not What It Looks Like Totally Radical It's All About Me Sole Survivor Catch-Phrase Abhorrent Admirer Dirty Cop Freeze-Frame Bonus Maybe Ever After Implacable Man Heroic BSoD Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rape as Drama Bavarian Fire Drill Your Cheating Heart What You Are in the Dark Sadistic Choice The Chessmaster Chase Scene Guile Hero Soundtrack Dissonance Sir Swears-a-Lot Anti-Villain Smug Snake The End... Or Is It? Biopic After the End I Want My Beloved to Be Happy "Awesome McCool" Name Awesome, but Impractical Adaptational Villainy Fun with Acronyms Handicapped Badass Black Comedy Rape Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Lock and Load Montage Country Matters Pragmatic Villainy Loophole Abuse Groin Attack