Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

More Tropes Unspoken Plan Guarantee Book-Ends Animal Title Index Plot Hole Failed a Spot Check Break the Haughty Bavarian Fire Drill Catapult Nightmare Not Quite Dead Science Fiction Films True Companions Moment Killer Married to the Job Defrosting Ice Queen Fun with Acronyms Black and Gray Morality Evil Is Petty Card-Carrying Villain A God Am I Darker and Edgier Last-Name Basis Leave the Camera Running Cain and Abel Only a Flesh Wound Red Oni, Blue Oni Historical In-Joke Disney Death The Reveal Love at First Sight Author Avatar Stealth Pun Blood from the Mouth Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Ripped from the Headlines Title Drop Karma Houdini Death by Adaptation Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Time Skip The Hero Dies Pragmatic Adaptation Redemption Equals Death Camera Abuse Dirty Old Man Never Found the Body Not So Different Adapted Out Bottomless Magazines Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dying Moment of Awesome Crazy-Prepared Annoying Younger Sibling Four-Temperament Ensemble Bilingual Bonus Gold Digger Knife Nut Sassy Black Woman Jerk with a Heart of Gold Hair-Trigger Temper Manic Pixie Dream Girl Death of a Child Easily Forgiven Fiery Redhead Femme Fatale Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Refuge in Audacity Foregone Conclusion Sequel Hook The Voiceless Accidental Misnaming I Need a Freaking Drink Abhorrent Admirer Scenery Gorn Advertised Extra Left the Background Music On Serious Business He Who Fights Monsters The Cameo Cool Shades Our Zombies Are Different Parental Abandonment Re-Cut Not What It Looks Like Does This Remind You of Anything? Breaking the Fourth Wall Bait-and-Switch Slasher Movie Nothing Is Scarier Country Matters Spiteful Spit Bad Boss Death by Irony The Casanova Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Beta Couple Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Five-Man Band Apocalypse How Star-Crossed Lovers The Big Guy Made of Iron It's Personal Blackmail Batman Gambit Brainless Beauty 20 Minutes into the Future The Faceless Genre Shift Sole Survivor Black Dude Dies First Index of Film Westerns Mr. Fanservice Poor Communication Kills It's All About Me A.I. Is a Crapshoot Reality Has No Subtitles Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Television Movie Index Grievous Bottley Harm Jerkass Has a Point Bland-Name Product Real Life Arc Words Vampire Fiction Ambiguous Ending Male Frontal Nudity Super Strength Mad Scientist Calling the Old Man Out My Beloved Smother Historical-Domain Character Danny Peary Cult Movies List Creepy Child Informed Ability I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Armor-Piercing Question Grey and Gray Morality Undying Loyalty Deliberate Values Dissonance Canadian Movies Romantic False Lead Aluminum Christmas Trees Chewing the Scenery Very Loosely Based on a True Story Anachronism Stew Ambiguous Disorder This Is Gonna Suck Evil Brit Loophole Abuse Coming-of-Age Story Determinator aka: The Determinator Monumental Damage The Chick Heroic Sacrifice Betty and Veronica Older Than They Look Up to Eleven Fatal Family Photo Taking the Bullet Tap on the Head Adaptational Villainy Intrepid Reporter British Films Match Cut Unwitting Instigator of Doom Tagline Broken Aesop Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Casting Gag Thriller Madness Mantra Sacrificial Lion Rich Bitch The Cavalry You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Ironic Echo Bloody Hilarious Meet Cute You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Unreliable Narrator Central Theme Reality Is Unrealistic Karmic Death Despair Event Horizon Lampshade Hanging Intergenerational Friendship Historical Hero Upgrade Freudian Excuse Chekhov's Gun Overprotective Dad No Antagonist Same Language Dub Even Evil Has Standards German Films Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Really Gets Around Obstructive Bureaucrat Training Montage Oh, Crap! Mercy Kill Big Applesauce Noodle Incident Documentary Protagonist Title For Want of a Nail Bond One-Liner Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Psychological Thriller Adaptational Badass Air-Vent Passageway Big Damn Heroes Defiant to the End Yandere Translation Convention Adorkable Implacable Man Slashed Throat Mama Bear Wham Line Villainous Breakdown Self-Deprecation Villain with Good Publicity Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Call-Forward Evil-Detecting Dog Rape as Drama All for Nothing Mexican Standoff Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Big Bad Duumvirate What the Hell, Hero? Slap-Slap-Kiss Meaningful Name Dutch Angle O.O.C. Is Serious Business As Himself Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bury Your Gays Green-Eyed Monster And the Adventure Continues Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Damsel in Distress Henpecked Husband Call-Back No Ending Love Triangle No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Posthumous Character Evil Laugh Unusually Uninteresting Sight A Father to His Men Sir Swears-a-Lot Random Events Plot Hoist by His Own Petard In Medias Res Revenge Maybe Ever After Sadistic Choice Playing Gertrude Immune to Bullets Affably Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Musical Romantic Comedy You Have Failed Me Twist Ending Creative Closing Credits The Stoic Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Friend to All Children The Mole Never My Fault Covers Always Lie Badass Boast The Quiet One Punny Name Anguished Declaration of Love All Men Are Perverts Wretched Hive Precision F-Strike Kill 'em All Made of Explodium Pay Evil unto Evil Small Name, Big Ego Take That! Good Is Not Nice Shipper on Deck Dropped a Bridge on Him Fat Bastard Laughing Mad Daylight Horror Attempted Rape The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Lighter and Softer The Alcoholic Didn't Think This Through Ascended Extra Department of Redundancy Department Badass Grandpa Scenery Porn Make It Look Like an Accident Cool Guns Imagine Spot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Race Lift Pretty in Mink An Axe to Grind As the Good Book Says... 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Dull Surprise Novelization Famous Last Words Affectionate Parody World of Ham Epic Fail Rule of Symbolism It Can Think Hope Spot Took a Level in Badass Developing Doomed Characters Neck Lift Curse Cut Short '80s Hair Deliberately Monochrome Fanservice Extra Dies Wide Open Animated Credits Opening Greater-Scope Villain Mood Whiplash Gratuitous English Naked People Are Funny The Sociopath Shell-Shocked Veteran Token Minority Dramatic Gun Cock Bi the Way Together in Death Conspicuous CG Let's Get Dangerous! Cold-Blooded Torture Spared by the Adaptation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Pragmatic Villainy Bond Villain Stupidity Ghost Fiction Rasputinian Death Decoy Protagonist Disney Villain Death Blatant Lies Facial Horror Put on a Bus War Is Hell Manchild Here We Go Again! Amusing Injuries Works Set in World War II Fantasy Films Awesome, but Impractical Getting Crap Past the Radar Would Hurt a Child Redshirt Army Visual Pun Hidden Depths Author Appeal Dirty Coward Lock and Load Montage The '70s Pimped-Out Dress Have a Gay Old Time "The Reason You Suck" Speech Action Girl Beauty Is Never Tarnished Dogged Nice Guy Parental Substitute Aside Glance Empathic Environment Genre Savvy Mind Screw Accidental Murder My Greatest Failure Rewatch Bonus Narrator Eagleland Drives Like Crazy Bowdlerise Slasher Smile Badass Bookworm Adaptation Distillation Plucky Comic Relief Closed Circle The Hero A Minor Kidroduction Jerkass Black Comedy Rape Properly Paranoid Cat Fight Once More, with Clarity! Your Cheating Heart Shown Their Work Hero Antagonist Off with His Head! Idiot Ball Tranquil Fury The Bully Hollywood Darkness Dark Action Girl Unusual Euphemism Hong Kong Films How We Got Here Hero of Another Story Stealth Hi/Bye Large Ham Adult Fear Black Best Friend Ms. Fanservice Sanity Slippage Action Genre Handicapped Badass Bound and Gagged Roaring Rampage of Revenge Offscreen Moment of Awesome For the Evulz Disguised in Drag Asshole Victim Depraved Bisexual Trailers Always Spoil The Ditz Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Berserk Button Fatal Flaw Adults Are Useless Car Fu Mooks Ungrateful Bastard Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Stuff Blowing Up Creator Cameo Frame-Up Leitmotif Soft Glass Evil Is Hammy Happily Married BFG Butt-Monkey Never Trust a Trailer Rule of Three Killed Mid-Sentence Break the Cutie Spell My Name with an "S" Only Sane Man Cloudcuckoolander Dirty Cop The Mafia Scare Chord The Dragon Death Glare Toplessness from the Back Jump Scare Unresolved Sexual Tension Expository Hairstyle Change My God, What Have I Done? Worthy Opponent Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Humiliation Conga Composite Character Big Bad Totally Radical Arch-Enemy Chiaroscuro Domestic Abuse Male Gaze Back from the Dead Rule of Cool Demonic Possession Ass Shove Victoria's Secret Compartment Foreshadowing Peek-a-Boo Corpse Face Death with Dignity Obfuscating Stupidity The Power of Love Cluster F-Bomb Italian Films Freeze-Frame Bonus Vomit Discretion Shot Half the Man He Used to Be Actually Pretty Funny Becoming the Mask Loads and Loads of Characters Dark Reprise Film Noir Index Superhero Would Hit a Girl N-Word Privileges Only in It for the Money Scary Black Man Deal with the Devil Adaptation Name Change One-Man Army Black Comedy Obviously Evil Sci-Fi Horror He Knows Too Much Gilligan Cut Dramatic Irony Not So Stoic Interrupted Suicide Pre-Mortem One-Liner Suspiciously Specific Denial Almost Kiss Corpsing Actor Allusion Paper-Thin Disguise Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Skill Canon Foreigner Hypocrite Early-Bird Cameo Villain Ball Nice Guy Motor Mouth Psycho for Hire The Stoner Instant Death Bullet One-Word Title Taking You with Me Sequel Escalation Eye Scream Soundtrack Dissonance Better to Die than Be Killed Deadpan Snarker Took a Level in Jerkass Whole Plot Reference Mistaken for Gay Setting Update Downer Ending Pyrrhic Victory A Date with Rosie Palms Man on Fire Evil Sounds Deep La Résistance Boom, Headshot! The Oner Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Exact Words Silent Movie Overly Long Gag timeperiod What Happened to the Mouse? In the Back The Dreaded Face–Heel Turn Shout-Out Funny Background Event Those Wacky Nazis Big Brother Instinct Say My Name Sealed Evil in a Can And Starring Punch-Clock Villain The Un-Reveal Important Haircut Film Series Bloodless Carnage Laser-Guided Karma Brick Joke Knight Templar Crucified Hero Shot Disappeared Dad Jitter Cam Ship Tease Retired Badass Faux Affably Evil Body Horror Not Using the "Z" Word The Bad Guy Wins Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Spanner in the Works Flipping the Bird Insane Troll Logic Improbable Aiming Skills All Just a Dream Anti-Villain Death by Sex Parental Incest Malevolent Masked Men Heterosexual Life-Partners Final Girl Kubrick Stare Eldritch Abomination Bittersweet Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mythology Gag Brother–Sister Incest I'm a Humanitarian Faking the Dead Market-Based Title Establishing Character Moment Irony Age Lift Enemy Mine Adaptation Dye-Job Gender Flip Too Dumb to Live Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Humans Are Bastards Dumb Blonde Gorn Comically Missing the Point Kick the Dog Catch-Phrase "Shaggy Dog" Story Only Known by Their Nickname Fan Disservice What You Are in the Dark Heel Realization Did Not Get the Girl Guile Hero Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Expy Ax-Crazy Skewed Priorities Cruel and Unusual Death Crazy Jealous Guy Word of God The '90s The Atoner Kill It with Fire Anti-Hero Sinister Minister Fanservice Anyone Can Die Improvised Weapon Badass Normal Horror Films Neck Snap The '60s Double Entendre Wounded Gazelle Gambit Driven to Suicide Politically Incorrect Villain Character Development Vacation Films Running Gag Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Continuity Nod Credits Gag Reasonable Authority Figure Outrun the Fireball Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stock Footage Logo Joke I Have Your Wife The Smurfette Principle French Films Woman in White Mugging the Monster The Starscream Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Foil Due to the Dead There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mr. Exposition The '80s Manipulative Bastard Japanese Films The Dog Bites Back Police are Useless "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cool Old Guy Groin Attack Rule of Funny Mighty Whitey Authority Equals Asskicking Cowboy Cop No Good Deed Goes Unpunished You Killed My Father From Bad to Worse Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Chessmaster Red Herring Darkest Hour No-Sell Storming the Castle Dissonant Serenity Animal Motifs Race Against the Clock Parental Neglect Everyone Has Standards Red Right Hand Shut Up, Hannibal! Not So Above It All Smug Snake Corrupt Corporate Executive Fantastic Racism Bald of Evil Disproportionate Retribution The Vamp Action Survivor Kids Are Cruel Historical Villain Upgrade Dark and Troubled Past Homage folderlabel The Great Depression Crapsack World Recycled IN SPACE!