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* ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': Throughout Season 2, the intention to carry out a full redemption with [[spoiler: Ward]] is very apparent to the fans. Those who can't wait and those who are against it. The teams that refuses to forgive him would fit into the latter category.

* ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'': Throughout Season 2 so far, the intention to carry out a full redemption with [[spoiler: Ward]] is very apparent to the fans. Those who can't wait and those who are against it. The teams that refuses to forgive him would fit into the latter category.

** "Hey, Rassilon! Thanks for sticking those [[TerribleTicking drums]] in my head so you could escape the Time War. By the way, in a few seconds you're ''all'' [[AssimilationPlot going to be me]] - ah. Well, that didn't work out, but you still owe me your lives, so I guess - wait, breaking the Time Lock means letting out a bunch of cosmic horrors? My kind of worl - oh, even we can't survive all of them? And your escape plan means destroying the universe and becoming pure thought? Fantastic, take me with - what do you mean, "diseased?" Oh, and now you're trying to kill the Doctor. ''That'' was a mistake."

** Angel himself, the no-good Irish lad turned into a bloodsucking demon turned into a mourning atoner still in the demon's body. At one point, during a complex sting operation, he pretended to have turned evil again and then had to pretend pretending to be charming Buffy's mother. That's ''five'' stacked layers simultaneously!

* ''{{Chuck}}'':

** And the tradition is carried on by Joseph Adama in ''{{Caprica}}''. One week he's Daniel Greystone's best friend, the next he's sending his brother to [[RevengeByProxy kill Daniel's wife]]. One week he's recovering from Tamara's death, the next he's diving into a VR game to desperately try and find her. One week he's a stable, loving father, the next he's shooting up virtual drugs.

* ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'': Throughout Season 2 so far, the intention to carry out a full redemption with [[spoiler: Ward]] is very apparent to the fans. Those who can't wait and those who are against it. The teams that reuses to forgive him would fit into the latter category.

* ''Series/BeingHumanRemake'': While Aidan is currently TheAtoner, flashbacks reveal that he has gone through multiple bouts of being this and the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire before JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and becoming a remorse bloodsucker again.

* ''Series/Alias'': Arvin Sloane for four-and-a-half seasons of the show.

** In Season 9, Gadreel's allegiance is all over the place. He starts out as a guardian in Heaven, then he lets Lucifer inside and is punished for his crime. After his unexpected release he tries to atone by [[spoiler:helping Dean save Sam]], only to be convinced by the conniving Metatron to join his new army. He joins the Winchesters again, but [[spoiler:the vengeful Dean is [[HeelFaceDoorSlam having none of it]]. Gadreel eventually helps Castiel infiltrate Heaven but fails and commits suicide in a final act of atonement.]]

** Gaius Baltar was even worse. The plot kept jerking him around from TheAtoner to LesCollaborateurs. Not entirely his fault, since he had a phantom cylon in his head for most of the series, but still, would it have killed him to show some backbone once in a while? Signaled by his recurrent BeardOfEvil: clean-shaven, he was TheAtoner, sometimes even TheWoobie. With stubble, he was a DirtyCoward, and usually a SmugSnake as well. On rare occassions when he actually ''groomed'' his beard, [[ManipulativeBastard watch out]].

* ''DarkOracle'': [[SmugSnake Omen]] suffered badly from this, due to a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder comboed with a desire for {{Revenge}} and an unfortunate tendency towards partnering with those who were stronger and more evil than him. He's a villain at first, manipulating Cally as part of a plot for revenge on Doyle. He then tries to help Cally get rid of the comic book (partly out of a crush on her and partly out of a desire to hurt her EvilTwin, Violet) and gets trapped in comic world for his trouble. He returns, and helps BigBadWannabe Vern trap Lance in the comic world, pretends to help Cally get him out while secretly working for Lance's EvilTwin Blaze whom he actually frees, and then ''finally'' pulls a HeelFaceTurn and [[spoiler:dies helping Cally free Lance and get rid of Blaze and Violet]]. Jeez man.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In-universe example. In the episode with the holonovel about the Maquis mutinity, Tom Paris switches sides whenever it's convenient. Holo-Chakotay wises up fast [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything and sends him off to a position where he doesn't matter to the story.]]

** Although Castiel is unarguably trying to be the good guy, he appears to have been trapped in this revolving door since his first appearance. He starts out as the angel that rescued Dean from Hell, but then it's revealed the angels have plans for Dean and expect him to do exactly as they say even when their plans are morally ambiguous to say the least. Castiel starts to have doubts and sympathise with Dean, eventually twisting the rules to help Dean. But then he gets dragged off to Heaven and forced back into line, betraying Anna and setting Sam free to go start the Apocalypse, before he betrays Heaven for good and sides with Dean a couple of episodes later. He spends most of the fifth season on the Face side of things, but appears to have jumped back into the revolving door as of season 6. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Crowley, but he does so in order to fight Raphael and prevent the apocalypse from re-starting. In order to carry out his plan though, he is forced to lie to and manipulate the Winchesters while carrying out some pretty morally ambiguous schemes. He undoes some of the worst ones though rather than risk the Winchesters, but ultimately finishes the season on a Heel note, having absorbed millions of souls from Purgatory and declared himself the new God. He seemed to come back to himself within an episode or so of the seventh season and asked for forgiveness only to be taken over by Leviathans who then, a few episodes later, appeared to liquefy him. About halfway through the season, he turned up again with amnesia. He got his memory back and took the broken wall in Sam's mind onto himself, effectively bringing Sam back to normal, but landing himself with an incredibly messed up head. As of the end of Season 7, he seems to be on the Face side, having made a HeroicSacrifice. As of the middle of Season 8, he's apparently back to Heel, being BrainwashedAndCrazy for Naomi. In the episode "Goodbye, Stranger", he leaves both sides behind and goes off on his own. Expect this section to expand continually.]]

** In Season 9, Gadreel's allegiance is all over the place. He starts out as a gardian in Heaven, then he lets Lucifer inside and is punished for his crime. After his unexpected release he tries to atone by [[spoiler:helping Dean save Sam]], only to be convinced by the conniving Metatron to join his new army. He joins the Winchesters again, but [[spoiler:the vengeful Dean is [[HeelFaceDoorSlam having none of it]]. Gadreel eventually helps Castiel infiltrate Heaven but fails and commits suicide in a final act of atonement.]]

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':

** Although Castiel is unarguably trying to be the good guy, he appears to have been trapped in this revolving door since his first appearance. He starts out as the angel that rescued Dean from Hell, but then it's revealed the angels have plans from Dean and expect him to do exactly as they say even when their plans are morally ambiguous to say the least. Castiel starts to have doubts and sympathise with Dean, eventually twisting the rules to help Dean. But then he gets dragged off to Heaven and forced back into line, betraying Anna and setting Sam free to go start the Apocalypse, before he betrays Heaven for good and sides with Dean a couple of episodes later. He spends most of the fifth season on the Face side of things, but appears to have jumped back into the revolving door as of season 6. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Crowley, but he does so in order to fight Raphael and prevent the apocalypse from re-starting. In order to carry out his plan though, he is forced to lie to and manipulate the Winchesters while carrying out some pretty morally ambiguous schemes. He undoes some of the worst ones though rather than risk the Winchesters, but ultimately finishes the season on a Heel note, having absorbed millions of souls from Purgatory and declared himself the new God. He seemed to come back to himself within an episode or so of the seventh season and asked for forgiveness only to be taken over by Leviathans who then, a few episodes later, appeared to liquefy him. About halfway through the season, he turned up again with amnesia. He got his memory back and took the broken wall in Sam's mind onto himself, effectively bringing Sam back to normal, but landing himself with an incredibly messed up head. As of the end of Season 7, he seems to be on the Face side, having made a HeroicSacrifice. As of the middle of Season 8, he's apparently back to Heel, being BrainwashedAndCrazy for Naomi. In the episode "Goodbye, Stranger", he leaves both sides behind and goes off on his own. Expect this section to expand continually.]]

* ''AmericanGothic'': [[FemmeFatale Selena Coombs]] certainly seems to be riding one of these, or perhaps a seesaw. Aside from the moments when we see the weakening of her evil resolve and the good heart shining through (particularly the episode "Potato Boy"), the last several episodes of the series involve her repeatedly switching sides. It's hard to tell exactly who she's lying to at any given moment--Buck, Dr. Peele, or Caleb.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Although Castiel is unarguably trying to be the good guy, he appears to have been trapped in this revolving door since his first appearance. He starts out as the angel that rescued Dean from Hell, but then it's revealed the angels have plans from Dean and expect him to do exactly as they say even when their plans are morally ambiguous to say the least. Castiel starts to have doubts and sympathise with Dean, eventually twisting the rules to help Dean. But then he gets dragged off to Heaven and forced back into line, betraying Anna and setting Sam free to go start the Apocalypse, before he betrays Heaven for good and sides with Dean a couple of episodes later. He spends most of the fifth season on the Face side of things, but appears to have jumped back into the revolving door as of season 6. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Crowley, but he does so in order to fight Raphael and prevent the apocalypse from re-starting. In order to carry out his plan though, he is forced to lie to and manipulate the Winchesters while carrying out some pretty morally ambiguous schemes. He undoes some of the worst ones though rather than risk the Winchesters, but ultimately finishes the season on a Heel note, having absorbed millions of souls from Purgatory and declared himself the new God. He seemed to come back to himself within an episode or so of the seventh season and asked for forgiveness only to be taken over by Leviathans who then, a few episodes later, appeared to liquefy him. About halfway through the season, he turned up again with amnesia. He got his memory back and took the broken wall in Sam's mind onto himself, effectively bringing Sam back to normal, but landing himself with an incredibly messed up head. As of the end of Season 7, he seems to be on the Face side, having made a HeroicSacrifice. As of the middle of Season 8, he's apparently back to Heel, being BrainwashedAndCrazy for Naomi. In the episode "Goodbye, Stranger", he leaves both sides behind and goes off on his own. Expect this section to expand continually.]]

* ''UglyBetty'': Wilhelmina Slater.
* ''TheVampireDiaries'':

** Faith went from thinking being a Slayer was awesome, to discovering she really enjoyed killing and hurting people, to being freaked over Buffy wanting to kill her and wanting revenge for killing her father figure, to a HeelRealization, to a FakeHeelTurn, undergoes a full HeelFaceTurn in the last part of Buffy Season 7, to TheResenter UnFavourite in the comics, to a kinda sorta reformed Slayer, after attempting to kill Buffy [[RunningGag again]]. At last count she's playing watchdog for Series/{{Angel}}.

** Callisto worked with Xena almost as often as she worked against her. Xena and Gabrielle, however, were ''never'' under the impression that Callisto wouldn't betray them. Xena was so sure of it, she once based her entire {{plan}} to save Gabrielle's life on Callisto's imminent betrayal.

** Tess Mercer wasn't much better in Seasons 8 and 9, going back and forth between hero worshipper, WellIntentionedExtremist, and TheBaroness. She finally settles on Face.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Due to the aggressively gray morality of the show, somebody either does a full 180, or is set up to look like they have, in almost every episode. The worst offender is probably Ben.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Londo Mollari takes a few spins through the door as the series progresses.

* ''KamenRider555'': Kiba Yuuji switches back and forth between helping and hating humankind several times during the story.

* ''{{Chuck}}'': [[spoiler:Jill is discovered to be a Fulcrum agent but says she was forced to, Chuck then sees that she was going to kill Sarah and arrests her in another episode, but then Chuck finds out that Jill was telling the truth and lets her go.]]

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Has Rumplestiltskin, whose unresolved personal issues and guilt over his chronic cowardice, trying repeatedly to redeem himself with Belle, who becomes his MoralityPet. [[spoiler: After her memory is wiped,]] his focus returns solely to [[spoiler: finding his son]]. After finding out that [[spoiler: Henry is his grandson, making a good majority of the main cast his family as well]], his motives and intentions become increasingly more ambiguous.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Nate Walker [[spoiler: or Jason Neville]].

* ''TheVampireDiaries'': Damon pretty much lives inside the revolving door. Of late he has been ostensibly a good guy, at least in terms of larger motivations, but he still always seems to find time to relapse and kill people to keep things interesting.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Although Castiel is unarguably trying to be the good guy, he appears to have been trapped in this revolving door since his first appearance. He starts out as the angel that rescued Dean from Hell, but then it's revealed the angels have plans from Dean and expect him to do exactly as they say even when their plans are morally ambiguous to say the least. Castiel starts to have doubts and sympathise with Dean, eventually twisting the rules to help Dean. But then he gets dragged off to Heaven and forced back into line, betraying Anna and setting Sam free to go start the Apocalypse, before he betrays Heaven for good and sides with Dean a couple of episodes later. He spends most of the fifth season on the Face side of things, but appears to have jumped back into the revolving door as of season 6. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Crowley, but he does so in order to fight Raphael and prevent the apocalypse from re-starting. In order to carry out his plan though, he is forced to lie to and manipulate the Winchesters while carrying out some pretty morally ambiguous schemes. He undoes some of the worst ones though rather than risk the Winchesters, but ultimately finishes the season on a Heel note, having absorbed millions of souls from Purgatory and declared himself the new God. He seemed to come back to himself within an episode or so of the seventh season and asked for forgiveness only to be taken over by Leviathans who then, a few episodes later, appeared to liquefy him. About halfway through the season, he turned up again with amnesia. He got his memory back and took the broken wall in Sam's mind onto himself, effectively bringing Sam back to normal, but landing himself with an incredibly messed up head. As of the end of Season 7, he seems to be on the Face side, having made a HeroicSacrifice. As of the middle of Season 8, he's apparently back to Heel, being BrainwashedAndCrazy for Naomi. In the episode "Goodbye, Stranger", he leaves both sides behind and goes off on his own.]]

* In the Seventh Season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', [[spoiler:Tony Almeida]] made this trope into a true artform: [[spoiler:He joined a mercenary group while working with Bill and Chloe to expose a massive web of corruption while actually working for an OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness in order to get to Alan Wilson the Ultimate [[TheManBehindTheMan Man Behind The Man]] in order to execute a RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the death of Michelle.]]

* ''Series/TeenWolf'': Viewers can look forward to seeing whether Derek is going to be a good guy or a bad guy in any given episode. He is never genuinely evil though.
* ''XenaWarriorPrincess'':
** Callisto worked with Xena almost as often as she worked against her. Xena and Gabrielle, however, were ''never'' under the impression that Callisto wouldn't betray them. Xena was so sure of it, she once based her entire {{plan}} to save Gabrielle's life on Callisto's imminent betrayal.
** Ares too. However, his were far more erratic and done over a much longer span of time.
* Although Castiel of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is unarguably trying to be the good guy, he appears to have been trapped in this revolving door since his first appearance. He starts out as the angel that rescued Dean from Hell, but then it's revealed the angels have plans from Dean and expect him to do exactly as they say even when their plans are morally ambiguous to say the least. Castiel starts to have doubts and sympathise with Dean, eventually twisting the rules to help Dean. But then he gets dragged off to Heaven and forced back into line, betraying Anna and setting Sam free to go start the Apocalypse, before he betrays Heaven for good and sides with Dean a couple of episodes later. He spends most of the fifth season on the Face side of things, but appears to have jumped back into the revolving door as of season 6. [[spoiler:He makes a deal with Crowley, but he does so in order to fight Raphael and prevent the apocalypse from re-starting. In order to carry out his plan though, he is forced to lie to and manipulate the Winchesters while carrying out some pretty morally ambiguous schemes. He undoes some of the worst ones though rather than risk the Winchesters, but ultimately finishes the season on a Heel note, having absorbed millions of souls from Purgatory and declared himself the new God. He seemed to come back to himself within an episode or so of the seventh season and asked for forgiveness only to be taken over by Leviathans who then, a few episodes later, appeared to liquefy him. About halfway through the season, he turned up again with amnesia. He got his memory back and took the broken wall in Sam's mind onto himself, effectively bringing Sam back to normal, but landing himself with an incredibly messed up head. As of the end of Season 7, he seems to be on the Face side, having made a HeroicSacrifice. As of the middle of Season 8, he's apparently back to Heel, being BrainwashedAndCrazy for Naomi. In the episode "Goodbye, Stranger", he leaves both sides behind and goes off on his own.]]
* Due to the aggressively gray morality of the show, somebody either does a full 180, or is set up to look like they have, in almost every episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}''. The worst offender is probably Ben.

* [[FemmeFatale Selena Coombs]] of ''AmericanGothic'' certainly seems to be riding one of these, or perhaps a seesaw. Aside from the moments when we see the weakening of her evil resolve and the good heart shining through (particularly the episode "Potato Boy"), the last several episodes of the series involve her repeatedly switching sides. It's hard to tell exactly who she's lying to at any given moment--Buck, Dr. Peele, or Caleb.
* Max on ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' did this is one episode, taking Justin's side, then Alex's side, then back, depending on who looked most likely to win the weekly conflict at that exact moment. He also announced to both siblings when we was doing this.
* Damon from ''TheVampireDiaries'' pretty much lives inside the revolving door. Of late he has been ostensibly a good guy, at least in terms of larger motivations, but he still always seems to find time to relapse and kill people to keep things interesting.
** Also Isobel. Really, you never know whose side that girl is on.
* John Abruzzi from ''PrisonBreak'' Also Mahone whose loyalties remain murky up until the end of the series.

* Kiba Yuuji from ''KamenRider555'' switches back and forth between helping and hating humankind several times during the story.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'':
** Boomer: [[spoiler:First she's Cylon sleeper agent, then she doesn't want to be one, then she fails to overcome her programming and shoots Admiral Adama. Then she tries to make peace between Cylons and humans and, failing that, she tries to kill her counterpart's daughter and betrays her model number, causing a civil war. Then she has a change of heart and escapes with the Final Cylon when the others want surgically to remove her brain. Then, faced with execution for causing the Cylon civil war, she knocks out another Cylon to take her place in the brig while abducting Athena's baby to use as a hostage in her escape plan which ultimately ''cripples the battlestar''. Then she starts having second thoughts after bonding with Hera. Make up your damn mind, woman! If you weren't so flaky maybe more people would like you. At least Athena [[RedemptionEqualsDeath killed her]] after she returned Hera before she had the chance to change her mind again.]] To be fair, though, her constant mind-changing isn't entirely unjustified. [[spoiler: if you flew all the way to some middle of ass nowhere planet to bond with the humans, only to have them start suicide bombing you, and then, on top of that, the man you love has married and is having a baby with the girl who shot you, then, well, you'd probably be a little peeved too.]] It's also worth noting that at least one set of those Heel Face Turns was faked ([[spoiler:Rescuing Ellen was entirely a front so that she could kidnap Hera.]])
** It's mentioned several times by other Cylon models that this is a characteristic of the Eights, in that they're easily swayed. Even Athena calls them on it. In fact Athena's fanatical devotion to the Colonial cause may be an attempt to compensate for this perceived weakness in herself. That and the fact that the slightest indication of treachery would get her thrown out an airlock.
** Gaius Baltar was even worse. The plot kept jerking him around from TheAtoner to LesCollaborateurs. Not entirely his fault, since he had a phantom cylon in his head for most of the series, but still, would it have killed him to show some backbone once in a while? Signaled by his recurrent BeardOfEvil: clean-shaven, he was TheAtoner, sometimes even TheWoobie. With stubble, he was a DirtyCoward, and usually a SmugSnake as well. On rare occassions when he actually ''groomed'' his beard, [[ManipulativeBastard watch out]].
** And the tradition is carried on by Joseph Adama in ''{{Caprica}}''. One week he's Daniel Greystone's best friend, the next he's sending his brother to [[RevengeByProxy kill Daniel's wife]]. One week he's recovering from Tamara's death, the next he's diving into a VR game to desperately try and find her. One week he's a stable, loving father, the next he's shooting up virtual drugs.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
** Puck and Santana do this in varying degrees.
** Since the end of the first season, [[BigBad Sue]] seems to be doing it quite a bit too.
** And as of the end of the second season, Jesse has it going for him as well.
* Garak from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' tends to do these at least twice per episode. He's a bastard, he has some really compelling characteristics, he's really amazingly... no wait, he's a bastard again. End credits. However, Garak rarely turned against the main cast - [[WellIntentionedExtremist he usually just did things]] [[TokenEvilTeammate that they considered morally objectionable]] [[IDidWhatIHadToDo on their behalf]].
* ''{{Chuck}}'': [[spoiler:Jill is discovered to be a Fulcrum agent but says she was forced to, Chuck then sees that she was going to kill Sarah and arrests her in another episode, but then Chuck finds out that Jill was telling the truth and lets her go.]]
** An even better example now is [[spoiler:Chuck's mother]] in season 4. We had 5 episodes ambiguously building her up to be possibly good and working undercover, or possibly working for the bad guys. The sixth episode of the season has her appear and swear her innocence, seeking help to stop a dangerous weapon from getting out, only for her to betray everyone. Except, it turns out all of this, including [[spoiler:shooting Chuck because she assumed he was wearing a bulletproof vest]], was part of her {{plan}} in order to fool the bad guys. Casey then tracks down evidence that her entire cover story is a lie and she really did join the villain years ago. In the seventh episode, she once again claims she can prove her innocence and sends Chuck on an episode-long mission to find the proof. [[spoiler:Except, this was all part of an even more brilliant gambit, as she was in fact tricking Chuck all along in order to bring herself and her boss to Orion's base and blow it up with Chuck and Sarah inside. ...AND THEN SHE SECRETLY HELPS THEM TO ESCAPE.]] That's at least six trips through the revolving door in two episodes, and nobody's entirely sure whose side she's on.
** As it turns out [[spoiler:the good guy's she's taking volkoff off from the inside]]
* ''UglyBetty'': Wilhelmina Slater
* In-universe example in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In the episode with the holonovel about the Maquis mutinity, Tom Paris switches sides whenever it's convenient. Holo-Chakotay wises up fast [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything and sends him off to a position where he doesn't matter to the story.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Master does this quite frequently, partly because the fans love him and partly to demonstrate that he's just like the Doctor, only evil. Simm acts like this in ''The End of Time'', but Ainley does it most dizzyingly in "The Five Doctors", going from "help the Doctor" to "help the bad guys" a handful of times in one story. Also the Ainley Master seems rather hurt that the various versions of the Doctor all suspect his motives.
** "Hey, Rassilon! Thanks for sticking those [[TerribleTicking drums]] in my head so you could escape the Time War. By the way, in a few seconds you're ''all'' [[AssimilationPlot going to be me]] - ah. Well, that didn't work out, but you still owe me your lives, so I guess - wait, breaking the Time Lock means letting out a bunch of cosmic horrors? My kind of worl - oh, even we can't survive all of them? And your escape plan means destroying the universe and becoming pure thought? Fantastic, take me with - what do you mean, "diseased?" Oh, and now you're trying to kill the Doctor. ''That'' was a mistake."
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** Lionel Luthor starts off ''moderately'' evil, becomes/[[RetCon is retconned to be]] completely evil, goes to prison, [[FreakyFriday temporarily switches bodies with Clark]] and thereby absorbs some of his strong moral fibre (making him into a good guy), is convinced to readopt his villainous ways by an EvilTwin of Lex Luthor, and then spends several seasons stumbling drunkenly along the line between good and evil out of lust for Martha, before temporary possession by Jor-El converts him to the side of good [[spoiler: until Lex throws him off of a building and he dies]].
** Tess Mercer wasn't much better in Seasons 8 and 9, going back and forth between hero worshipper, WellIntentionedExtremist, and TheBaroness. She finally settles on Face.
* Krycek of ''Series/TheXFiles'' fame, probably why he was known as "Ratboy" among the Fandom.
* Londo Mollari in ''Series/BabylonFive'' takes a few spins through the door as the series progresses.
* [[SmugSnake Omen]] on ''DarkOracle'' suffered badly from this, due to a bad case of ChronicBackstabbingDisorder comboed with a desire for {{Revenge}} and an unfortunate tendency towards partnering with those who were stronger and more evil than him. He's a villain at first, manipulating Cally as part of a plot for revenge on Doyle. He then tries to help Cally get rid of the comic book (partly out of a crush on her and partly out of a desire to hurt her EvilTwin, Violet) and gets trapped in comic world for his trouble. He returns, and helps BigBadWannabe Vern trap Lance in the comic world, pretends to help Cally get him out while secretly working for Lance's EvilTwin Blaze whom he actually frees, and then ''finally'' pulls a HeelFaceTurn and [[spoiler:dies helping Cally free Lance and get rid of Blaze and Violet]]. Jeez man.
* Chris Keller on ''{{Oz}}''.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Nate Walker [[spoiler: or Jason Neville]].
* ''Series/{{OnceUponATime}}'' has Rumplestiltskin, whose unresolved personal issues and guilt over his chronic cowardice, trying repeatedly to redeem himself with Belle, who becomes his MoralityPet. [[spoiler: After her memory is wiped,]] his focus returns solely to [[spoiler: finding his son]]. After finding out that [[spoiler: Henry is his grandson, making a good majority of the main cast his family as well]], his motives and intentions become increasingly more ambiguous.
** [[spoiler: Regina]] enters the revolving door in Season 2, desperately trying anything to win back [[spoiler: her surrogate son]].