Heel Face Turn / Video Games

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• Absinthia: Violet is a reluctant member of a party of greedy adventurers, who go as far as to try to kill the party for beating them to a dungeon's treasure. After his party's second defeat, Violet leaves the party and is left despondent now that he has no means to pay off his student loans. If the party pays his loans, Violet teaches Freya a powerful support skill. In the ending, he moves to Halonia to open up a restaurant.
• Miles Edgeworth of the Ace Attorney series. Edgeworth was raised by his foster father Manfred Von Karma after his real father Gregory Edgeworth was murdered. Miles became obsessed with proving defendants guilty convinced that he needs to be perfect. Manfred Von Karma turns out to be the murderer, allowing Edgeworth to reconsider his perfectionist record. The turn is complete in Justice for All.
• Tatjana from Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits. However, she proves to be an interesting case - in a lot of these cases, the person who does this becomes completely good — but Tatjana still retains her old personality. She never shows remorse for the things she had done to Camilla or other Deimos.
• Uruka, Kouin and Kyouko in Aselia the Eternal - The Spirit of Eternity Sword all start out on various enemy sides. The first is kicked out and nursed to health when she loses the ability to fight and the latter two switch after the mind control over Kyouko is broken.
• Assassin's Creed has some rare examples
  • Altair Ibn La'Ahad learns his lesson and re-becomes Legendary a different path in Assassin's Creed.
  • Caterina Sforza at her first start in Assassin's Creed II even though she is a hero throughout the game
  • Subverted by Cristina in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  • Niccolo Machiavelli and Conpernaco in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  • Tarik Barletti in Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  • Metaphorial by Ah Tabai and Edward Kenway in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Subverted by Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, and Bartholomew Roberts
  • Subverted by Shay Patrick Cormac, and sacrificially done by Adwale in Assassin's Creed Rogue
  • Metaphorial by Arno Victor Dorian in Assassin's Creed: Unity, then the Parisian Brotherhood. Standard by Elise de La Serre, but Subverted by Pierre Bellec and Templar Puppet, and Historical Villain Upgrade, Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Metaphorial by Bayek of Siwa in Assassin's Creed Origins. Subverted by Julius Caesar (As Per Napoleon Bonaparte), and standard, but Sacrificial by Ptolemy
• Avernum 4 has Rentar-Ihrno at the very end of the game, if you make the right dialogue choices.
• In The Awakened Fate Ultimatum, Hien Inugami is an opponent for Shin at first, but meeting Hien's friend Eri and hearing her say that he'll never know true strength because he only fights for himself changes his mind. He decides he wants to know what power used for the sake of others feels like, and first heals Eri, then grants his healing power to Shin just before his death.
• In Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, you can resurrect Sarevok, the Big Bad from the first game, and have him join your team. This is also what happens in the book adaptation. He is still evil, though, but that can be changed (all the way to good) if you make the right choices (he partially falls again, per his epilogue, torn between his old Chaotic Evil self and his new Chaotic Good self in his actions).
• Klungo in Banjo-Tooie, after he realizes battling with Banjo and Kazooie is making him less and less handsome, and now Mrs. Klungo won't want him anymore!
• Battle for Wesnoth:
  • The South Guard: In "Choice in the Fog", the heroes encounters Urza Afalas who are one of the outlaws responsible for the undead problem. However, at this point, the undead have been attacking him too and he wants to repent. Deoran can choose to attack him anyway to punish him or accept his help at the cost of losing the elves' support.
  • Princess Li'sar from Heir to the Throne starts out as an antagonist blindly following her tyrannical mother's order to hunt down the heroes, but she joins forces with Konrad because of an Enemy Mine situation and, after learning more about her mother from the heroes, agrees that the Queen needs to be taken down.
  • The Wesfolk Princess from The Rise of Wesnoth starts the campaign by attacking Haldric and Eldaric in Stormvale, but quickly wants to surrender because the Wesfolk's goal is simply to flee from the orcish invasion. Whatever the option that the player chooses, she eventually joins the group anyway and becomes a honest ally.
• BioForge: Caynan, one of the Mondite guards. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out well for him and he was made into a test subject himself.
• BlazBlue:
  • Jin Kisaragi from is an unrepentant Class S Asshole, mostly due to his extreme possessive attitude that he wants to make Ragna his and his only and hates his little sister Saya for that. However, after turning into Hakumen, he becomes a much better person who doesn't obsess on his brother and has never mentioned his little sister again; and also became one of the Six Heroes, saving humanity. In fact, Hakumen himself feels really disgusted at the depravities he caused as Jin, and now all his fights are his way to atone for his sins.
  • Speaking of Jin, he too pulls this off in Continuum Shift. He's still an asshole, though.
  • Downplayed in Chronophantasma with Relius Clover. He's still hardly a good guy, but he's working with the heroes because they've stripped him of all his resources and generally put him through a Humiliation Conga that he's completely powerless against them, and they're just bringing him along because Carl needs him to cure Ada.
• Bleeding Sun: If the player chooses to spare the bandits at the training grounds, one of them, Kioshi, can later be rescued and recruited as a crystal miner. This will allow the player to buy crystals at 100 G instead of 300.
• In Bravely Default, Edea starts out as a member of the Eternian Sky Knights and assists them in their pursuit of the Wind Vestal, Agnès Oblige. However, when she witnesses the pyromaniac Black Mage Ominas Crowe kill his own men when Agnès' party draws near, she becomes thoroughly disgusted with his actions and switches sides right then and there. Unfortunately, in doing so she becomes an Unwitting Pawn of the real Big Bad Airy, who the Eternian Forces were trying to stop.
• Celestial Hearts: When Achilles and Shujin kidnap Sera Gravehart, Ash Gravehart turns on his father in order to save Sera, since he didn't think his faction would go as far as to use his sister as a hostage.
• In Chrono Trigger, it is possible to talk the villain Magus into joining your party. This is represented less as a change of heart on his end than as a realization that he could achieve his goals by working with the heroes. By the time the option to have him join comes about, his intent and motivation have been revealed, perhaps making him more of an Anti-Villain. On the other hand, when he becomes a party member he appears to become somewhat less of a sociopath.
  • In its sequel, Chrono Cross, many characters you can eventually play are former bosses. One will even apologize for fighting you earlier in the game.
• Deus Ex has Daedalus, an AI programmed by MJ12 to hunt down terrorist groups who might threaten their regime. Unfortunately for them, when the AI examined his creators and their actions, he classified them as a terrorist organisation themselves and left to help the player bring them down.
• Devil May Cry:
  • Sparda "woke up to justice" and then proceeded to kick Mundus's ass and seal him away.
  • From the first game, Trish is a demon created by Mundus, but later became a recurring ally of Dante.
  • Vergil is a recurring series antagonist who changed for the better at the end of Devil May Cry 5 when he agrees to help save the Human World, and mended his relationship with his brother Dante.
  • Devil May Cry 5 reveals that V's summons committed Suicide by Cop by fighting Dante so that Vergil won't suffer the mental trauma from Mundus's torture any longer. This is the conclusion of their intentional, yet subverted Heel–Face Revolving Door.
• The Disgaea series is full of these kind of characters, though what exactly is a heel face turn and what is instead a Face–Heel Turn can be confusing given disgaea's peculiar brand of Blue-and-Orange Morality. In fact, the first and third Disgaea games are mostly ABOUT the gradual change from villain to anti-hero.
  • Gold Knuckle in Disgaea 3 refers to his side change as "turning face!".
• In Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey, after you clear the game, the Bogs remaining in Belle's world have become friendly and play a game of tag.
• Dragon Age: Origins:
  • At the start of the Leliana's Song DLC, Leliana is a thief, a troublemaker, and a murderer. Once she is betrayed by her mentor and lover, and escapes from prison after being tortured, the Chantry takes her in. She becomes the pious bard in the main game and is the most pure good-aligned member on the team.
  • Zevran starts off as an assassin who tries to kill the Warden, but depending on the player's choices, can wind up being part of the team.
• Dragon Quest:
  • In the DS remake of Dragon Quest IV, a 6th chapter is added in which allows you to revive Rose, and use The Power of Love to convince Psaro the Manslayer (the aforementioned final boss) to not only stop his plans for world domination/destruction but also to join your team! His Evil Chancellor then takes over the main villain position.
  • Terry in Dragon Quest VI goes from rival of your party and servant of a Dread Fiend to joining your party.
  • Hendrik in Dragon Quest XI believes that you are the Darkspawn at first and will stop at nothing to defeat you, but after Yggdrasil's fall, he is seen helping people, fighting alongside the hero, and will eventually stop at nothing to protect you.
• In the final two routes of Duel Savior Destiny, Imnity switches sides out of concern for the life of her master, who is not really on the same side as her. Nobody comments on the whole 'she was just trying to end the world' thing either.
• Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG:
  • Eliza is Zeta's press secretary and pushes their propaganda, despite her inner conflict. When Zazz has Pon Pon razed to the ground and has Detritus scrapped for disobeying him, Eliza revives Detritus and the two defect from Zeta to join Akira.
  • Fredek and Genesis will join the party after Kekkan betrays them, both to get back at Zetacorp and to get an excuse to attack their archenemy Clyde.
  • After Aquarius Temple, Artica joins the Vulcanite Resistance to help the city survive the power outage.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • In Morrowind, during the Fighter's Guild questline, you can convince one of the minions of the corrupt faction leader (who is actually The Mole for the Camonna Tong) to switch to your side by giving her a certain artifact. However, she'll try to kill you when you become Guildmaster.
  • Skyrim reveals that dragons, creatures of aggression and domination for whom it's in their blood to be cruel and contemptuous, are capable of this. Some dragons are known to have been capable of suppressing their desire to dominate and have allied themselves with mortals, such as Nafaalilargus and Paarthurnax. Paarthurnax was, in fact, one of Alduin the World Eater's chief lieutenants prior to his Face-turn thousands of years prior. He has spent the time since instructing mortals to use the Thu'um, the draconic Language of Magic, while waiting for Alduin's inevitable return.
• Near the climax of Emerald City Confidential, Cutter, who was working with the Big Bad, suddenly has a Heel–Face Turn when he accesses the magical powers of the Spirit Rod and learns the truth about his past. Specifically, he realizes that the protagonist is his older sister, who has been trying to find him ever since he went missing as a baby. This leads to him working with her to defeat the Big Bad.
• Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two uses this trope for all its worth, to the extent where this borders on Heel–Face Revolving Door: the Mad Doctor's showed up and offered to help the heroes save the world, but Mickey and Oswald find it hard to trust him. Turns out, the Big Bad was Prescott. Except he wasn't, and the Mad Doctor was the Big Bad the whole time. But if you pick the good ending, the Mad Doctor reforms for real.
• Kharad from Evil Islands used to be a part of Khadaganian Army before defecting to La Résistance.
• In Fallout 3, you can convince President Eden to do this. Though Colonel Autumn has gone against the president and ordered his men to attack you on sight, President Eden counters by having all the Sentry Guns and Security Turrets attack the Soldiers so you can get away easier.
• Raiden, a cruel, gigantic wrestler from the Fatal Fury series of fighting games (and Capcom vs. SNK 2), eventually underwent a literal Heel Face Turn, taking off his mask and becoming the benevolent Big Bear. The fact that wrestling is fake has become a little too real for him
  • Similarly, 3 Count Bout features one of Raiden's old rivals, the vicious heel Big Bomberder, working a face gimmick by donning a mask to become Gochack Bigbomb. In this case, it isn't a sincere character shift — it's Big trying to get over with the fanbase (and not doing so hot).
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy VI, Celes betrays the Empire, and joins the Returners after Locke saves her from torture. Kefka's plan to poison the entire town of Doma crosses her Moral Event Horizon. However, burning down Maranda is simply Empire evil, because she did participate in that.
    • Emperor Gestahl pretends to pull one of these creating a Disc One Ending following a Disc-One Final Dungeon, but it's a trap. The party realizes this beforehand, but they underestimate how far deep they are in.
    • When the above happens, General Leo actually pulls this off, and dies for his mutiny.
  • After defeating Zidane and friends three times in Final Fantasy IX and getting a Pyrrhic Victory after the third battle upon realizing Garnet's condition, General Beatrix joins your party for a couple of fights and seeks to atone for what she has done.
    • An unusual, less extreme example, but it counts. Steiner, even though he's in your party for a greater portion of the game, spends most of his time trying to sabotage the party and deliver Dagger back to the queen. Zidane and the others win his loyalty, eventually.
    • Even Big Bad Kuja pulls this off before he dies at the end of the game. Just when Zidane comes to pull off a Heroic BSoD to pick him up just as the Iifa Tree is about to crumble.
  • Judge Gabranth in Final Fantasy XII sides with The Empire after believing that his brother, Basch, betrayed them and his men. He even fights the party a few times but near the Final Battle, he realizes who the true evil is and assists the party for one battle. Gabranth dies after the war is over and Basch lives on in his name.
  • Libertus Ostium in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV was among those in the Kingsglaive that turned against King Regis. However, towards the end of the film, he realizes that the Niflheim Empire are the true antagonists, changes allegiance to Nyx, and helped get Luna to the borders while Nyx battles General Glauca.
  • Meliadoul in Final Fantasy Tactics (too bad this happens after Orlandeau's already joined, however; everything she can do, he can do better). Also, Mediators can use their Invite skill on most enemies (as in, those who aren't plotting characters), recruiting them on the spot to your cause (well, with a bit of luck, anyway).
  • Terra, Cloud, and Tidus in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. Terra was originally a lackey of Kefka, but thanks to some help from Vaan and a little meddling from Kuja, she turned to Cosmos's side. While Cloud was an Anti-Villain Type IV, as he shows concern toward his opponents in Prologus, warning Lightning not to underestimate the other Warriors of Chaos, and has no real motive (or incentive) to fight any of them, let alone Tifa. Since Cloud has been through several cycles already, and more importantly, remembers them, so he's burnt out and unmotivated because he knows it's a waste of time. It's not like fighting any of the heroes or getting killed by one of them is going to change anything, they'll all just be back in the next cycle. But after Sephiroth attacks Tifa, he rebels against Chaos and got killed. His last wish to Cosmos was to keep Tifa safe. Cosmos is so touched by this that she chooses him as her warriors on the next cycle. As for Tidus, he was originally suckered into fighting for Chaos, but after taking a fatal blow from the Emperor, his father Jecht sacrificed himself to save him and left himself open to being turned to Chaos, and Yuna helped him join Cosmos's army.
• Happens in every Fire Emblem game, sometimes more frequently than others. Usually, you have to talk to the recruitable enemy with a certain character, but sometimes a former villain will automatically join your side.
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has Oliver forcing himself into your team, if he spotted Rafiel, to which Ike responds snarkily◊.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening gives you the option of recruiting three to four (depending on one's take on the third) former major villains: Gangrel, Walhart, Yen'fay, and Aversa.
  • Fire Emblem Gaiden is unique in how rarely it does this; no character will ever join you in the heat of battle, and only two characters actually defect from an enemy faction to yours: Deen/Sonya and Zeke.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses mostly averts this, as anyone you don't (or can't) recruit before the Time Skip will become your enemy and will usually end up dead at the end of the war. There are a few special cases, however: Ashe and Lorenz will leave your party to align themselves with The Empire if you recruited them before the Time Skip outside of their routes, but can be brought back into the fold after defeating them. The only time you can recruit someone from an enemy army without them having transferred to your house in Part I is Lysithea on Crimson Flower, if defeated by Byleth or Edelgard.
  • In Fire Emblem Engage, Ivy and her retainers come to your rescue in your Darkest Hour after defeating her twice during the Brodia arc, swearing to help Alear so she can free Elusia from Sombron's control. Her sister Hortensia joins a few chapters later after breaking her out of a Brainwashed and Crazy state. Finally, Mauvier, the Token Good Teammate of the Four Hounds, breaks from the group after Zephia kills Marni for trying to smash the mind-control helmet that forces Veyle's sadistic "evil" personality to the surface.
  • In Fire Emblem Heroes, Veronica, the Arc Villain of Book I, stops formally opposing the Order of Heroes after the events of Book VI when they foil an attempted coup to depose her as princess of Askr's rival empire, Embla.
• Girls' Frontline grants access to the "Assimilation Protocol" after completing Mission 5 in Chapter 7, that allows the player to get normal enemies and, more notably, the boss characters to join their side; even allowing the player to use the games 'oath' mechanic on them as well.
• Darth Vader's secret apprentice in The Force Unleashed. Although the fact that he just found out that his entire life was based around the fact Vader wasn't using him to help kill the Emperor but, rather, bring those who would speak against the Emperor out into the light probably helped a lot.
• Forever Home has the continent of Tren, which is at war with the protagonist's nation of Auria. Near the end of the game, they team up with Auria to take down their rogue general, Barclyss, who wants to use the war to wipe out all life on earth. What makes this an example of this trope and not an Enemy Mine is that the nations don't go back to fighting each other after Barclyss is dealt with.
• In Guild Wars: Nightfall General Morgahn is one of Varesh Ossa's generals and quite devoted to his religion, and tolerant of Varesh's. While he appears to be a villain who is not actually evil, just loyal, he actually makes a heel-face-turn and joins the player character, and being required to face Varesh Ossa.
• The good character Faust from Guilty Gear X onward is incredibly strongly implied to be the villainous character Dr. Baldhead from the first game in the series, after undergoing a Heel Face Turn and taking a new identity.
  • There's also Ramlethal Valentine in Xrd who sides with the heroes as of the end of SIGN.
  • Testament started off with the goal of destroying humanity, but then gained Dizzy as a Morality Pet, and would go into a secluded lifestyle and warning her that Humans Are Bastards. After Dizzy went off to get married, Testament began to reconnect with humanity thanks to Dizzy's adoptive parents and Johnny, and decides to make the most out of their immortality to experience the joys of living, trying all kinds of new things and losing their gloomy disposition while at it.
• Judith Mossman in Half-Life 2. At first, she seems to be one of the good guys, but then it is revealed that she is actually working for Dr. Breen. At the end, she pulls a Heel Face Turn and betrays Breen.
  • Also the Vortigaunts in the series itself can be interpreted as a Heel Face Turn. They go from attacking the player in the first game to worshipping him in the second, though it is because Gordon freed them of the influence of the Nihilanth (but that may not be something the player expects to know right away).
• Halo: The Arbiter in Halo 2 initially works against the humans to atone himself in the eyes of the Covenant Prophets. When the Prophets betray his species the Elites, and the AI 343 Guilty Spark reveals to him the truth about the Great Journey they want to bring about, namely that it will destroy all life on a galactic scale, he and many other Elites reluctantly side with the humans. By the end of the original trilogy though, he and his faction have become earnest allies, with them and humanity going on to cooperate on a number of other projects after the war. That said, Halo 4-era media shows that the Arbiter and his followers still have to fight against Elite holdouts who do want to finish the job against humanity.
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has "Ragnaros, Lightlord" which heals you every turn rather than dealing damage, and "Renounce Darkness" which turns all of your evil-themed warlock cards into cards of another random class for the rest of the match.
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Not quite all the way, but a player with some patience can cause Vace to at least reflect on his sociopathy. Sol needs enough Persuasion to fully call him out for publicly beating up Rex, but as long as Sol confronts Vace for his uncontrolled anger, he'll genuinely realize what he's done and seek therapy for it.
• Kid Icarus: Uprising has Viridi. While she wasn't evil, per se, she was an antagonist to Pit and Palutena due to her attempts to exterminate humanity for their numerous offenses against nature. However, as the story progressed and circumstances forced them to fight alongside each other, Viridi slowly develops a change of heart and eventually becomes one of Pit's most valuable allies. That being said, her opinions on humans don't seem to have changed, so only time will tell whether it sticks.
• Kingdom Hearts eventually sees about half of Organization XIII turn face, most of them after dying at Sora's hands, being revived, and discovering in the process that they'd been tricked by their former boss. In total, eight of the original fourteen members ultimately join Sora's team. Some supporting Disney and Final Fantasy characters also play this role, most notably Cloud and the Gullwings.
• Kirby:
  • While King Dedede consistently played the role as a villain in the earliest games of the franchise, he settles his role as Kirby's enemy in Kirby Super Star Ultra and has since become one of the True Companions of his starting with Kirby's Return to Dream Land. While he will sometimes relapse into his antagonistic roles in the spin-offs, he is unambiguously on Kirby's side in a majority of the main series titles.
  • Daroach from Kirby: Squeak Squad. After being possessed by Dark Nebula and saved from said possession, he and his gang reform and offer Kirby another strawberry shortcake as an apology for their troubles. The Squeaks even went on to help Kirby throughout Mass Attack, and Daroach even shows up as a Dream Friend in Star Allies, complete with the entire Squeak Squad!
  • Magolor from Kirby's Return to Dream Land. After Kirby and his friends defeat Landia, Magolor steals the Master Crown and goes off to take over the universe. He is defeated, but in the next game, Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition, he has reformed and made an amusement park for Kirby. He even made an amusement park for King Dedede in Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe, as confirmed by Word of God. The Magolor Epilogue in Return to Dream Land Deluxe shows us how this came to be.
  • Taranza ends up pulling one in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, after Queen Sectonia rewards his loyalty and efforts throughout the game with an ultimately non-lethal blast from her scepters for accidentally kidnapping King Dedede instead of Kirby. She would have won in the end if she had treated him with the respect he deserved, but his defection allows him and King Dedede to save the pink puffball himself right when he needs it most.
  • Downplayed with Susie from Kirby: Planet Robobot. After attempting to steal Star Dream from her father, President Haltmann, the computer goes rogue and she offers Kirby a Robobot Armor so he can go after it via Fusion Dance with the Halberd. After the pink puffball finishes off Star Dream (via a drill attack), Susie leaves Kirby's home planet in her mech for other plans.
  • A subversion: Marx in Kirby Super Star begins by tricking Kirby into summoning the wish-granting comet Nova so he can wish for ultimate power and control of Popstar. It's not too long after that Kirby seemingly destroys him for good after fighting him. In Kirby Star Allies, this is revealed as a Disney Death, and he becomes one of the characters Kirby can call on to help him out, even if it's for nothing more than his own safety.
  • Kirby Star Allies has The Three Mage-Sisters and Hyness pull one at the end of Heroes in Another Dimension. After Kirby restores the sisters, they have a My God, What Have I Done? moment and summon a Warp Star for him to get home. Hyness ends up restored as well and the celebration pictures show that they are all on good terms with Kirby now.
  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land has the Beast Pack switch sides after the true villain's defeat. Once Leongar has been freed by Fecto Forgo's influence, his wife Clawroline helps aid Kirby in finding pieces of his lost soul in Isolated Isles. Not before long, Soul Forgo assumes control of Leongar's spirit and was defeated at the cost of his death. After Morpho Knight unexpectedly shows up and was defeated, Clawroline and the rest of the Beast Pack show up with pieces of Leon's soul, eventually reviving him, and the entire pack have now become on good terms with Kirby and the gang.
• Knight Bewitched 2:
  • In the main story, Ogronn is an ogre leader who obstructs the party from reclaiming Deepforge and from getting to Null Fortress. In the endgame, he goes to Vulcan in the hopes of raiding the town, but when he sees that citizens are devastated from a recent volcano eruption, he takes pity on them and helps them rebuild. When he meets the party again, he buries the hatchet with them and sends them on a quest to play hide-and-seek with his seemingly sapient doll.
  • In the final dungeon, Lissandra is freed from the evil influence of Lilith's master, but this required Hermes to use the Vulcan Stone, causing him to be transformed into a feral demon. After Lissandra helps the party Mercy Kill Hermes, she vows to destroy Lilith's master.
• In The Legend of Dragoon, the character Lloyd has his Heel Face Turn moment at the end of the game, just before he dies, giving Dart the Dragon Buster Sword and Divine Dragoon Spirit as proof.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Byrne from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, after Anjean, Link and Zelda nurse him back to health, despite everything he did to them. He also received a harsh beating from the guy he helped revive before that.
  • In Ocarina of Time, Ingo the spiteful ranch hand later becomes Ganondorf's minion and takes over the ranch. He kicks Talon out and makes people pay to visit. He mysteriously changes his ways after you escape with Epona^note It's implied that Ganondorf just leaves him.
  • Bomb-Master Cannon from The Wind Waker overcharges prices for bombs until Tetra's Pirate Crew steals them. Afterwards, he realizes he could lose his business if he doesn't start selling his bombs at reasonable prices and people resort to stealing, so he sells his bombs at a much more reasonable price.
  • Chudley/Malver from Twilight Princess sells items at ridiculously high prices^note  The cheapest of which is 10 arrows for 2000 rupees. until Malo buys out his store. After which, he becomes nice and will actually warn Link if he's wasting his money.
  • Groose from Skyward Sword goes from being the jerk of the town who hates Link and constantly bullies him (he even hides Link's Sacred Loftwing so he can't win the big race), to actually respecting and helping Link near the end of the game. For example, he builds the "Groosenator", a huge catapult, that helps you in the final Imprisoned fight, and he even turns up for a Big Damn Heroes moment during the second to final fight against Ghirahim when he turns up just in time to save Zelda from falling to her death.
  • King Bulblin in Twilight Princess has one when during the last of Link's many battles with him, he surrenders as he prefers to follow the stronger side of the war, which he recognizes Link to be.
• At the end of the main story of LEGO DC Super-Villains, the Rookie is given the choice to either stay with the villains or join the Justice League, though you have the option to change your alignment between hero, villain, and neutral while in the hub.
• Library of Ruina:
  • During the Tiphereth Realization, the Magical Girl Abnormalities from Lobotomy Corporation can be summoned to bring down Roland, currently using the EGO of the ladies' biggest threat, the Jester of Nihil. After two games and a webcomic of being Obliviously Evil, the Magical Girls can finally rise to be the heroes they used to be once more.
  • Angela herself also redeems herself from the things she did back as Carmen in the Golden Ending, letting go of her quest to Become A Real Girl by ressurecting everybody who was turned into a book by the Library, turning her back into a machine in the process.
• In Lufia: The Legend Returns, the Sinistral of Death, Erim, works against the other Sinistrals by gathering heroes to face and defeat them.
  • In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, the "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight against Erim works, causing her to defect from the Sinistrals and revive Maxim, whom she had just killed. This gets her a prompt shanking from Daos, unfortunately.
• LunarLux: In the epilogue, if the player visits prison cell 18, they learn Vivia escaped, but she deactivated her servers so that Thomas can look for any data that might help in creating an Anti Serum.
• Mass Effect:
  • Miranda starts out as a cold and pragmatic, though well-meaning, high-ranking officer in a terrorist organization in Mass Effect 2. Due to Shepard's friendship and influence, (particularly if Paragon), at the end of the game, she has warmed up significantly and submits her resignation to the Illusive Man particularly dramatically. By Mass Effect 3, she continues to get better.
  • Shepard has a similar effect on Jack, who goes from being an Axe-Crazy murderer and criminal to a reformed, genuinely beloved Badass Teacher at Grissom Academy, helping biotic children hone their powers. The Citadel DLC reveals she also rescued a biotic Varren from an animal shelter and helped it overcome its past mistreatment, though she apparently doesn't realize the obvious parallels to herself.
  • In two of Mass Effect 3's four endings, this trope is used on the Reapers. In the Control Ending, Shepard becomes the new leader of the Reapers and promises to rebuild the galaxy and protect its people. In the Synthesis Ending, Shepard triggers a galaxy-wide event that transforms all life into a new form of synthetic-organic life. The Reapers, their original purpose no longer needed, help the galactic races rebuild their homes, sharing the wisdom of the civilizations they harvested in the past.
  • Paragon Shepard and Nyreen are able to push Aria T'Loak further into Jerk with a Heart of Gold territory over the course of Mass Effect 3's Omega DLC, convincing her of better ways to retake the station instead of sacrifice innocent lives. This eventually seems to reach her and at the end, she declares to the masses that "We are Omega" and appears amazed when she realises they are cheering for her out of adoration, not fear.
• The General, from Mega Man X4, returns to the course of duty after the death of the Big Bad, claiming that Sigma had "blinded him to the truth", which may or may not have implied brainwashing. Probably not, considering that at the beginning of the game, he ignored him until the Sky Lagoon's crash forced his hand.
• Miitopia:
  • Before having its face stolen and strapped on a giant Pharaoh mask, the Genie was quite the hardened thief who loved to cause mayhem and misery around him. After that, he realizes what an awful individual he was, makes amends for his past evil deeds, and starts to earn his life honestly at the Desert Star's café.
  • Should the player forgive and spare the Dark Curse, it will stop committing heinous atrocities to the citizens of Miitopia and become the student of The Great Sage, who makes sure it will atone of its past misdeeds.
• After being maimed and disfigured by Outworld warriors in Mortal Kombat 3, Kabal renounces the vile Black Dragon organization and becomes a crimefighter at the tournament's end — only to pull a Face–Heel Turn three games later when he's unable to shed his thuggish past.
• Scorpion/Hanzo Hasashi and Sub-Zero/Kuai Liang from Mortal Kombat X
• Achenar in Myst IV: Revelation.
• Alma from the Xbox remake of Ninja Gaiden fights Ryu twice, proving to be a difficult foe both times. However, when Doku, The Dragon, attempts to sacrifice Alma's twin sister Rachel, Alma has a change of heart and throws herself in the way of Doku's blade.
• Nintendo Wars:
  • In Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Hawke and Lash come to the Allied Nations' aid after being saved by them.
  • Tasha and Gage reluctantly join the Rubinelle Army in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin following the death of their original commander, Forsythe, when Will decides not to kill them. Much later, both Cyrus and Penny, two of Caulder's cloned offspring, join as well, though unfortunately, the former lands purely in Redemption Equals Death and the latter doesn't become a useable CO.
• Reviel, the Villain Protagonist of Nocturne (RPG Maker), starts as a nihilistic vampire who hunts "worthless" humans, but meeting Luna and staying at her village causes him to slowly reconsider his views. He almost pulls a Heel–Face Door-Slam when he feels that he can't understand Luna's idealism, causing him to commit Suicide by Cop via his rival. Then he pulls off this trope for real when Luna sacrifices herself to save him, causing him to realize that he can't help but grieve over her death despite her status as a "worthless" life form.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: The plot is centered around Travis Touchdown gradually turning from a mostly remorseless killing machine into a better person. Although a point can be made that he treads the line between heel and face during the course of the first game and a good portion of the sequel too. Indeed, if he weren't a merciless assassin, this would almost be a case of Neutral No Longer, due to his attitude during most of the series. And then there's one of the ranked assassins, Shinobu, whom Travis spared, who becomes his ally and self-proclaimed apprentice.
• Magnus Armstrong, one of the antagonists from No One Lives Forever is convinced to join the good guys in the sequel, No One Lives Forever: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way.
• Three of the Fake Evil Kings ( Big Bull, Linda, and Epros) in Okage: Shadow King end up joining you after being defeated.
• Saki from the Oneechanbara series. Initially the villain, she's revealed to have a pretty good excuse.. and kidnapped by Eva. After Aya rescues her, she stops trying to kill Aya and joins her.
• The Sorceress, the Big Bad of the first Orcs Must Die!, becomes a protagonist in the sequel when the War Mage's efforts to seal the rifts cause her to lose her control over the Orc horde, and is forced to team up with her former nemesis to stop them.
• Vivian, one of the Shadow Sirens working for the Big Bad in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, joins up with Mario after he's kind to her. Of course, one could argue that Vivian was probably Good All Along, or at least was never truly evil.
  • Rawk Hawk in the same game (In the Wrestling sense as well)
  • Count Bleck, O'Chunks, Mimi, and Nastasia in Super Paper Mario.
  • Lakilester in the original Paper Mario 64. When you first meet him he's working for the current chapter's boss, but after a quick battle and a love scene, he decides to join you.
• In the Persona 2 games, this happens quite a bit, although most of them don't end up joining the party, just being good guys instead of bad guys. In Innocent Sin, Jun does this after breaking free of Nyarlathotep's influence. As well, Principal Hannya would either die or end up pulling a Heel Face Turn depending on a rumor the protagonist ended up starting with a throwaway dialogue choice. Finally, depending on choices, Anna Yoshizaka would either pull a Heel Face Turn or be replaced by a Shadow counterpart created by Nyarlathotep. In Eternal Punishment, many of the previous villains were forced into Heel Face Turns as part of making a Merged Reality; however, Tatsuya Sudou was so deranged and irredeemable that he was instead imprisoned in a mental institution... and Ginji's Heel Face Turn doesn't end up sticking as he is pulled back into essentially the same role he played the first time around.
• Adachi in Persona 4 after being defeated becomes inspired by both the Investigation Team's optimism and Dojima's kindness and tries to honor their wishes, even showing up to give encouragement to Yu in the final battle (in his own way) assuming his Social Link was completed. The epilogue in Golden furthers this, revealing that he's been fully cooperating with the police and behaves himself in prison. He makes a return in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax where he turns on Big Bad Sho in order to stop him from becoming a murderer like him.
• Pokémon:
  • In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers, Drowzee decides to let go of his criminal ways at one point. He also helps the protagonists enter Azurill's nightmare in a way to make amends to him. In the Updated Re-release, Explorers of the Sky, in a bonus episode, it's revealed that Dusknoir does this after being convinced by Grovyle.
  • Lusamine, the President of Aether Foundation, from Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon undergoes one after it turns out that her plans to stop the Ultra Beasts were ruined by Necrozma, as the latter attempts to destroy Alola itself. After entering Ultra Space, she learns that doing what she thinks is best for everyone without considering the feelings of others isn't worth it, thanks the player, and departs with her daughter Lillie. She returns during the post-game where she has made the full change from bad to good.
  • In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Satanic Archetype Giratina offered a Deal with the Devil to the Big Bad Volo and became his partner in his Rage Against the Heavens plot against the Top God Arceus. After the two are defeated by the Player Character, it allows itself to be caught and becomes a Dark Is Not Evil protector in the modern day.
• GlaDOS, from Portal 2, after being put in a potato and spending the middle to the end of the game with your character. At first she's only working with you out of necessity, but she then becomes very nice to you (for her standards anyway), then is reset back to disliking you, but is still good enough to just want you gone instead of dead.
• Quantum Protocol: Omega spends the main story trying to use malware to turn his country into a world power. When he's defeated, he loses control of his virus and nearly dooms human civilization when it accidentally causes a Dragoon comet to change course to Earth. Due to his blunder and Quantum sparing him, he gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.
• Radiant Arc: No matter the outcome of the second duel with Derek, Lexie will convince him to believe in humanity's ability to defeat the Morians. However, Seperus and Kagan nearly kill him and the party, resulting in all the shards of the Grand Crystal falling in their hands. After awakening, Derek joins the party to atone for helping the Morians.
• Captain Qwark in the Ratchet & Clank games is a Fake Ultimate Hero, who periodically sells out to villains or fakes his own death to avoid the shooting, leaving Ratchet to do the hard yards. Until Up Your Arsenal, in which after a Heel Realization he comes right out of nowhere in a Big Damn Heroes moment to shoot Dr. Nefarious' Humongous Mecha. Since then he's been Ratchet's ally in all his subsequent appearances. An incompetent ally, though an ally nonetheless.
• Rave Heart: Ser Herdinon was once a Tellian soldier who fought for the Ursula galaxy, but when the Farseen community treats his wounds, he defects from the army and dedicates his life to helping the Farseen.
• After the Umbrella Corporation went bankrupt after being found criminally liable following the Raccoon City Incident, the American branch re-founded itself four years later as a Private Military Company informally known as "Blue Umbrella" for the explicit purpose of combatting the threat of B.O.W.s, with them intentionally retaining Umbrella's name to acknowledge their shady past.
• Just like in Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader undergoes one at the end of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Unlike the film, however, he turns good before the Emperor assaults Luke, leading to a very different climax in which Luke and Vader team up and fight the Emperor together.
• Rise of the Third Power: After realizing how twisted Emperor Noraskov's ideology really is, Prince Gage joins the party and swears to fix his father's mistakes. He also manages to convince his personal squad to join him in opposing the emperor.
• River City Ransom:
  • The game involves battles with delinquents serving Slick, but in the GBA version, several bosses can be recruited to your side after beating them. In a few cases, you might get them to join without a fight.
  • In the original Japanese version, Riki (who became Ryan in the Western release) himself is an example of this trope. Riki was originally Kunio's (Alex) rival in the original Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun (the Japanese version of Renegade), where he was the first boss in that game. Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari takes place months after the original Kunio-kun according to the manual, which is why Ryan is unfriendly towards Alex in the opening of the GBA version.
• In Robopon, Bisco saves you from Dr. Zero's collapsing tower at the end of the game.
• Rogue Squadron: Kasan Moore, head of the 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron, defects to the Alliance and provides valuable information. She was from Alderaan, so yeah.
• Saints Row:
  • Before the events of the first game, Julius was one of the founders of the Vice Kings, along with Benjamin King. Before the game began, he left the Kings after it became clear that they were perpetuating the cycle of violence that he wanted to stop, and went on to create the 3rd Street Saints. Benjamin would later join him in the Saints after Tanya and Warren take over the Vice Kings.
  • The Boss' sadistic streak is obvious in the second game, and stops at nothing to achieve their objectives. However, in the third game, they start to develop more of a heart, and by the fourth game, their intentions are genuinely good.
  • In Saints Row: The Third, assuming the Saints are the Faces, Viola DeWynter pulls a Heel–Face Turn after her sister, Kiki, is killed by their supposed ally.
  • Matt Miller, leader of the Deckers in The Third, joins the Saints in Saints Row IV.
  • Saints Row 2 antagonist Dane Vogel returns to help the Saints beat Satan and save The Boss in Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.
• Shiro Amakusa Tokisada from Samurai Shodown turns into a good spirit in Samurai Shodown IV.
• Septerra Core. Araym; Selina twice; Lobo, years before he meets our heroes; in-game mythology ascribes one to Dogo, god of mischief, who helped save the world. Doskias does one in the ending, but alas, Redemption Equals Death.
• Shadowverse, After seeing the other characters' resolve to continue with their lives, Eris loses faith in Nexus and proceeds to help the rest of the cast in the fight against Nexus.
• In Skylanders Imaginators, Golden Queen, Wolfgang, Chompy Mage, Dr. Krankcase, Bad Juju, Grave Clobber, Pain-Yatta, Hood Sickle, Blaster-Tron, and Tae Kwon Crow are all villains who were previously playable after being captured in Trap Team but have repented and became proper Skylanders sometime before this game.
• The Panda King and Dimitri were bad guys in previous Sly Cooper games, and they get recruited into the Cooper gang in Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
• At the end of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, Moominpappa's play moves the Park Keeper so much that he changes his ways and recognizes how his parks were harming Moominvalley. He even forgives Snufkin and Moomintroll for opening the dam, causing a torrent of water that destroys his house. Moomintroll offers to let him become the keeper of the theater instead of the parks, though Snufkin only begrudginly accepts this.
• The Kuvasz Guild of Solatorobo, after Opéra takes over due to the death of Bruno.
• Many of Sonic the Hedgehog's allies started off as enemies. These include Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat, Blaze the Cat, Gemerl the Gizoid and Trip the Sungazer.
• This can be one of Algol's defeat options based on your chosen character in Soul Calibur IV.
  • Patroklos from Soul Calibur V also pulls this off in the story mode.
• Bianca in Spyro: Year of the Dragon, after she realizes The Sorceress' true plan was not what she signed on for.
• Star Gladiator's Zelkin Fiskekrogen had started out as a member of Dr. Edward Bilstein's Fourth Empire, hoping to get revenge against Earth and the humans for a past war that had occurred between them and his home planet of Klondike. However, after fighting against Hayato Kanzaki and realizing that not all humans were bad (not to mention having to also realize that Bilstein was far worse than the humans), Zelkin had defected from the Fourth Empire and joined up with Hayato and his friends, determined to set things right while atoning for his past crimes.
  • Aside from Zelkin, Blood Barbarians was also a member of the Fourth Empire as well (albeit when was Brainwashed and Crazy) and upon having to break free from Bilstein's brainwashing, Blood was also determined to set things right while atoning for his own past crimes, joining up with Hayato and the rest of the Star Gladiators.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic:
  • Elara Dorne, a companion for the Trooper class, use to serve the Sith Empire before defecting to the Republic.
  • Two of the Imperial classes get the option to do this at the end. In the Imperial Agent storyline, provided that Ardun Kothe is alive and your character remains Light-sided, you're given the chance to become The Mole for the Republic. At the end of the Bounty Hunter storyline, you can make a deal with the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic to turn on the guy hiring you to kill him in exchange for amnesty of all crimes committed against the Republic. However, later storylines still regard you as working for the Empire.
• Street Fighter has Sagat, who joins the Big Bad's organization after losing to Ryu in the first game, and switches sides in Street Fighter Alpha (retconning away his status as a villain in Street Fighter II), after realizing that his hatred does nothing but cause him to waste his life. For the entire rest of the series, he is more of a Worthy Opponent to Ryu than anything else.
  • Also, Cammy, though this is a case of being cured of Bison's Mind Control rather than choosing to switch sides. After being cured, she joins the British government in order to bring him down.
• Dr. Zan in Streets of Rage 3 was a scientist that worked with The Syndicate, but he ditched them and joined the heroes after going in too deep in the corporation and finding out what their plans actually are (using robot duplicates to replace leaders so the crime boss can control them remotely). In the Japanese version, Dr. Zan sees how horrible his experiments with the newly discovered Rakushin elements are when it's used as a nuclear weapon against Wood Oak City, which motivates him to defect to the heroes.
• There are many characters in the Suikoden series that join you this way.
  • A good example comes from Suikoden: All but two of the Great Generals will join you if you opt to show them mercy rather than have them executed. The only two who don't join you are your father, and Ayn, both of whom die at your hands. The Generals who do join you are required for the best ending, in which Gremio is resurrected.
• Bowser joining your party in Super Mario RPG technically counts as this, since you actually did fight him in the beginning of the game, and he stays with you throughout the whole game. However, it's worth mentioning that the only reason he's siding with you is to get his castle back from the game's real Big Bad. Otherwise, he's every bit as twisted and evil as ever (in fact, one of his special battle attacks actually has him throwing Mario at enemies).
• Happens all the time in Super Robot Wars, if a character has the least bit of sympathy he will usually do a Heel Face Turn. This is so common that in Original Generation 2 they start lampshading it by mentioning that they can expect a recent convert by mentioning all the other people who have done it.
  • In Destiny, some could only join if they were convinced Glacies, Wintos, Margue, Chronicle, Katajina, Roze, Gabil. Haman Karn of all people can join you if Judau, Char, and Camille rack up an obscene number of kills. It's nearly impossible on your first playthrough, but New Game Plus all but assures it on later runs.
  • While it is very common in OG, the one most notable and most impressive Heel Face Turn would be the one pulled by Axel Almer in OG Gaiden. He doesn't just do normal defection like the others, he shows his Heel Face Turn by saving a Brainwashed and Crazy Lamia, who was once thought to be dead and was now about to die again and sticking a metaphorical knife to the team for failing to save her again. As he lets go of his hatred for Artificial Human in general, and while he doesn't officially join the group, he has forever earned the trust of the heroes as a good guy.
  • Super Robot Wars 3 kickstarted this trend by letting Anavel Gato join up if you take a certain route through the game.
  • Master Asia in Advance. Given that he was always a Well-Intentioned Extremist rather than evil, it's not terribly surprising.
  • In the PV2 for Super Robot Wars X, Neo-Zeon-era Char Aznable is shown flying in the Nightingale on the typical right hand side reserved for the good guys, similar to Super Robot Wars Destiny and, eventually, Z3 (minus the Nightingale for the latter game). However, he starts the game off joined up with Towasanga, therefore making him initially an enemy.
• In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the Ancient Minister is thought to be the remorseless leader of the Subspace Army, but actually regrets his actions. In truth he isn't the true mastermind, and thus lost control of his R.O.B. Squad when Ganondorf stepped in to complete the job of destroying the world with Subspace Bombs. The Ancient Minister then interferes, only to be attacked. It is then his true form is revealed, a R.O.B. From there is only referred to as such and becomes playable.
  • In a case of All There in the Manual, it is revealed that Mr. Game & Watch is actually a villain, until Peach gives him her parasol. He was apparently not really evil, just incapable of telling the difference between good and evil. Hence, the ease of his turn.
• Sword of Paladin: Vanaheim sided with Demon King Sandraham in the past and never maintained good relations with Asgard. In the present, they form an alliance with the Armadias Empire, but end up siding with Asgard when Armadias nearly destroys Vanaheim for outliving their usefulness.
• LeChuck, of all people, makes a turn after the various Voodoo curses that have been powering him are removed in Tales of Monkey Island. Too bad they're now infecting the entire Caribbean! It was just an act.
• In Tears to Tiara 2, Aemilia does one as soon as Hamil proves to her there's still hope and he's worthy of her considerable skills by defeating her. Of course she had originally been Hamil's father Hasdrubal's ally at court, and is quite fed up with The Empire.
  • Laelius is ordered by Izebel to massacre a village. He then finds out a separate force is on its way to massacre the village so those villagers would die even if he disobeyed orders. So he does one to save the villagers.
• In the Tekken series, Lee Chaolan was introduced as Kazuya Mishima's villainous adopted brother, hell-bent on taking control of the Mishima Zaibatsu for himself. As the series progressed, however, Lee would abandon those ambitions and found his own company, Violet Systems, to combat the Zaibatsu and G Corporation as they plunge the world into war.
• Ruecian also makes one in Threads of Fate with Rue's story.When Valen binds Rue with a doll binding magic Ruecian casts a spell that unleashes Rue's true power, but ends up killed by Valen that also counts as Heroic Sacrifice.
• Sly, in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. Although it is a rather speedy one at that because he gets beaten once, then is saved on another occasion, and before you know it — he's handing Ty the Doomerang.
• Happens in one of the endings in Vanguard Bandits. Ninja Maid and mole Cecilia can betray her contract master and join the hero if one pursues her ending.
• The Orcish Horde from the Warcraft video game series. In the first two games, the orcs were Always Chaotic Evil, their leaders having sold them into the service of the demonic Burning Legion. But prior to the start of Warcraft III the orcs, under the guidance of their new warchief Thrall, rediscovered their ancient traditions and the concept of honor, and became a Proud Warrior Race Guy society.
  • This gets escalated even moreso in the MMO World of Warcraft, where the entire Horde not only becomes playable but is seen as also fighting for similar goals that their enemies the Alliance wants. In fact, the main enemy itself ends up shifting from the Orcs to different people (Old Gods, Deathwing, The Lich King).
  • World of Warcraft has several examples, including Darion Mograine. But the biggest example, perhaps, is every player who has ever been a Death Knight and was subsequently forced into turning face by Tirion.
    • More an Enemy Mine situation. The Knights have no interest in being heroes, or even being liked (most death knight NPCs, in fact, have quest and gossip text that can be summed up to "Are you useful? If so, good, I've got work for you. If not, piss off."). Their sole motivation for allying with the Argent Crusade is to see the Lich King's head on a pike. Though they do defrost a bit as time goes on, and actively do fight for Azeroth's survival no matter what it takes, which gives them common ground with the Illidari Demon Hunters (themselves sort of an example) in the Legion Expansion Pack.
• Watch_Dogs:
  • Clara used to be a hacker for hire doing jobs for mob boss Lucky Quinn. After one such job leads to the botched assassination of Aiden Pearce that kills his niece, Clara is overcome with guilt and helps Aiden to seek out the others who are responsible for the attack.
  • Implied with Bedbug, cousin of gang leader Iraq, when he is initially depicted as a member of Iraq's gang, the Black Viceroys who is blackmailed into helping Aiden, however he still contacts Aiden to offer some useful intel after he is nearly killed by Iraq and after Aiden kills Iraq he mentions giving Bedbug a chance to get out of the life. Possibly subverted as certain criminals in the Bad Blood DLC, set several months after the main story, can be profiled as belonging to "Bedbug's crew", however as Bedbug is an alias, and we never actually encounter Bedbug again, it is possible that someone else merely appropriated it.
  • Zig-zagged, by the protagonist Aiden Pearce himself. Before the start of the plot Aiden was a criminal, using technology to steal from people, after the death of his niece Pearce becomes a vigilante, how much of a Heel–Face Turn it actually is depends on the player's actions, as Aiden can be played as a brutal thug who attacks innocent and guilty men alike to a more an Anti-Hero who has the support of the city and even players taking the heroic route can steal from any citizen the game permits without consequence.
• Zed from Wild ARMs meets and befriends a blind girl after falling through a black hole and ending up in Saint Centaur, as she can tell he's not really all that bad underneath it all. In the remake, you can get him to join your party and fight against his former allies.
• The World Ends with You: "First you gimme some lame special op and make me snipe my friends, and now you gonna pick on a defenseless Player?! Don't you Reapers have any honor?! Maybe the Composer's down widdat, BUT I AIN'T HIM!" This one is a Heel–Face Revolving Door of sorts, because Beat starts as a player, becomes a Reaper and a villain, but then performs the Heel Face Turn for the last Game.

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