Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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