Tropescilloscope: Heel–Face Turn

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

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