Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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