History HeelFaceTurn / WesternAnimation

* Sasha and Grime in ''WesternAnimation/Amphibia'' although they stage their coop in the Season 2 finale, they qucikly learned that King Andrias is evil Tyrant who is planning to used the Calamity Box to takeover the multiverse, the two decided to put one for real and help Anne, the Plantars, Marcy, and Frobo to stop Andrias the two even tried to hold him allowing Anne and Plantars escape, but are easily defeated. [[spoiler:The Season 3 intro shows them gathering the people of Wartwood to stop Andrias.]]

** Silver Shill from the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyfriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith Leap of Faith]]". As his name would imply, he acted as TheShill for the [[SnakeOilSalesman Flim Flam Brothers]] before being inspired by Applejack to come clean.

** Flappy Bob rebels against the Pixies after finding out they were using him for their 37 year-old plan to take over Fairy World and becomes the fun-happy clown he was meant.

* ''WesternAnimation/Dragamonz'' has the hero Dax's friend [[spoiler: Boaragon forcibly undergo a FaceHeelTurn near the end of the first season]]. It's only after he and Dax [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim fight]], that [[spoiler: Boaragon]] returns to the side of good.

** [[spoiler: Chad in the second to last episode of the series once he reveals he was GoodAllAlong as the [=KND=]'s ReverseMole.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The events of Season 2 episode [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E15TheHonorableOnes "The Honorable Ones"]] end up triggering one for [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]]. [[spoiler:By the beginning of Season 3, after a TimeSkip, he's become a ReverseMole in the Empire. At the end of the season, after being exposed, he manages to escape and properly join the rebels.]]

** Zuko is one of the most iconic examples in fiction. Initially double subverted, when he's given tons of reasons to change sides in the second season finale, including the encounter with the AllLovingHero Aang, his blooming friendship with Katara, and being put through hell all season by his sister Azula, who is prompting him to come home. It seems like Zuko will turn good... and then he doesn't, choosing to attack Aang instead and go home to the Fire Nation as a war hero. [[WhamEpisode Wham!]] [[spoiler: Remorse from that decision prompts him into a genuine Heel Face Turn half a season later in "Day of the Black Sun", and Zuko being Zuko, he takes the time for CallingTheOldManOut before he leaves. He goes on to become TrueCompanions with the rest of the Gaang and a key figure in taking down his father and sister.]]

** "Gorgeous Grampa" played this trope closer to its origins, as Abe's wrestling character, a notorious [[TheFightingNarcissist Narcissist]] {{heel}} called "Gorgeous Godfrey" turns into a {{face}} named "Honest Abe" right in the ring when he found out Bart was loving the heel lifestyle a bit too much.

* The entire dingo family in ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' at the start of season 2. Shifty Dingo pulls a big one in the Mother's Day episode where he helps reunite Nutsy with her long lost father.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Makuu pulls one in Season 2, as he starts working to become a better leader for the crocodiles and the Pride Lands. Later, in season 3, all the animals of the Outlands make one.

** In ''Day Of The Departed'', Morro opts to warn Sensei Wu about Yang's plan to kill the ninja and take their place among the living instead of fighting him like the other resurrected villains. The reason for his sudden HeelFaceTurn traces back to the circumstances of his death as a ghost in season 5, in which he [[RedemptionEqualsDeath rejects Wu's offer to save him from the Preeminent]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', [[spoiler:after season 1's BigBad Baron Draxum (who created the Turtles in this iteration) is defeated, Mikey, seeing Draxum as part of the TMNT family in spite of everything, saves Draxum from destitution and helps him turn over a new leaf -- and good thing, too, since Draxum is now a powerful ally to the Turtles, having gotten them out of dire situations a number of times]].

* The entire plot of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' came about because Adora, when confronted with the atrocities committed by the Horde, refused to go back to them and stayed in Bright Moon instead. [[spoiler:And in season 4, Scorpia realises that between Catra's betrayal of Entrapta and the deal her family made with the Horde being [[AllTakeAndNoGive pretty awful]], she can't stay in the Fright Zone, and eventually makes it to Bright Moon, joins the Princess Alliance, and befriends Frosta and Perfuma.]]
** [[spoiler: In season 5, Catra in a case of LoveRedeems from Adora, followed by Wrong Hordak during the season and ultimately, Hordak in the GrandFinale after Adora manages to free him from Horde Prime's control.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The events of season 2 episode [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E15TheHonorableOnes "The Honorable Ones"]] end up triggering one for [[spoiler:Agent Kallus]]. [[spoiler:By the beginning of season 3, after a TimeSkip, he's become a ReverseMole in the Empire. At the end of the season, after being exposed, he manages to escape and properly join the rebels.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has Terra in Season Two (her [[Comicbook/TeenTitans comics counterpart]] had no such turn), but this is after a time as TheMole and then a FaceHeelTurn, helping Slade achieve near victory. She's the one who ends up killing Slade, but ends up performing a HeroicSacrifice proving that RedemptionEqualsDeath (or Redemption Equals [[TakenForGranite Turning To Stone]]...it is a children/family show, after all).
** Jinx also performs a Heel Face Turn towards the end of season five, thanks to being thrown into a DatingCatwoman-ish scenario with Kid Flash (and the fact that [[BrokenPedestal her villainous idol treated her like crap]]; Madame Rouge [[NiceJobFixingItVillain lives to regret that decision]]). She even acts as a DoubleAgent for the heroes during the FinalBattle.

** Subverted for Lotor, whose siding with Team Voltron in season 5 turned out to be a facade in season 6 when he was [[EvilAllAlong revealed to have been harvesting quintessence from surviving Alteans prior to the show]].
** Played straight with Acxa in the three-year gap between season 6 and 7, who refused to take part in Zethrid and Ezor's plans to become space pirates with the intent of torturing prisoners; instead opting to find her own path, which results in her helping Team Voltron and later joining the Voltron Coalition.
** In season 8, [[spoiler: Zethrid and Ezor redeems themselves and in the end joins the Blade of Marmora along with Lahn, the Beta Traz Warden, the Altean Empire and the Galra Empire, while it's a DeathEqualsRedemption for both Zarkon and Lotor in the five-part finale along with a RedemptionEqualsDeath for Honerva in the same finale]].

** Princess Celestia tasked the main characters with reforming the former chaos spirit [[AntiHero Discord]]. Much to everyone's surprise, even Discord's, they pulled it off -- although this is less of a reform and more of an easy truce. In the Season 4 finale, Discord is tempted by Lord Tirek into doing a FaceHeelTurn, but once again makes another HeelFaceTurn due to mixture of regret, being RewardedAsATraitorDeserves, and Twilight acknowledging him as a friend, which leads to Tirek's defeat.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Makuu pulls one in Season 2, as he starts working to become a better leader for the crocodiles and the Pride Lands.

** Double subverted with Prince Zuko. He's given tons of reasons to change sides in the second season finale, including the encounter with the AllLovingHero Aang, his blooming friendship with Katara, and being put through hell all season by his sister Azula, who is prompting him to come home. It seems like Zuko will turn good... and then he doesn't, choosing to attack Aang instead and go home to the Fire Nation as a war hero. [[WhamEpisode Wham!]] [[spoiler:Remorse from that decision prompts him into a genuine Heel Face Turn half a season later in "Day of the Black Sun", and Zuko being Zuko, he takes the time for CallingTheOldManOut before he leaves.]]

* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' with Soren. He was never "evil," but he does get tasked by his father Viren to report that the princes have died, and if he finds them alive, "he would know what to do." Even after not going through with that, Soren still stays with his father during his invasion into Xadia (albeit after some slight mutiny saving Ezran from prison). However, notices that his father was starting to become more monstrous and forcing others to become so as well, and he ends up leaving his father and joining who he believes is the true king: Ezran. His sister Claudia began on a similar path... [[FaceHeelTurn but the way she's going is much darker.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', [[spoiler:after season 1's BigBad Baron Draxum is defeated, Mikey, seeing Draxum as part of the TMNT family in spite of everything, saves Draxum from destitution and helps him turn over a new leaf -- and good thing, too, since Draxum is now a powerful ally to the Turtles, having gotten them out of dire situations a number of times]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', [[spoiler:after season 1's BigBad Baron Draxum is defeated, Mikey, seeing Draxum as part of the TMNT family in spite of everything, saves him from destitution and helps him turn over a new leaf -- and good thing, too, since Draxum is now a powerful ally to the Turtles, having gotten them out of dire situations a number of times]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', [[spoiler:after season 1's BigBad Baron Draxum is defeated, Mikey, seeing Draxum as part of the TMNT family in spite of everything, helps him turn over a new leaf]].

* Kronk, the PunchClockVillain in ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' switches sides after his boss Yzma's irate YouHaveFailedMe speech culminates with an attack on [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking his beloved spinach-puff recipe.]]