History HeelFaceRevolvingDoor / TheDCU

* [[Characters/TeenTitans2003Terra Terra]], from the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. She started off good, but after a HannibalLecture from [[ManipulativeBastard Slade]] in her first outing with the team, mingled with her own paranoia, she mistakenly believed Beast Boy had gone behind her back and told Robin about her PowerIncontinence, so she ran away from the Titans. Off-screen, she hooked up with Slade, [[FaceHeelTurn agreeing to become his agent in exchange for his help in honing and controlling her powers, going so far as to become a spy inside the Titans after he was done training her]]. During her time as TheMole, she fell for Beast Boy and tried to manipulate events so he wouldn't be captured/killed by Slade when she finally betrayed the team, but Slade appeared before them when they were on their date and revealed to Beast Boy that Terra was his double agent. Beast Boy angrily telling Terra that she didn't have or deserve any friends [[HeelFaceDoorSlam made Terra push aside any guilt and throw herself wholeheartedly into being Slade's minion]]. As a result, she fought and seemingly killed the Titans, but they escaped, rallied and attacked her. The combination of nearly losing to them, [[YouHaveFailedMe Slade's abusive treatment for failing]], and a KirkSummation from Beast Boy all pushed her to make a final HeelFaceTurn and resulted in a HeroicSacrifice.

* Terra, from the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''. She started off good, but after a HannibalLecture from [[ManipulativeBastard Slade]] in her first outing with the team, mingled with her own paranoia, she mistakenly believed Beast Boy had gone behind her back and told Robin about her PowerIncontinence, so she ran away from the Titans. Off-screen, she hooked up with Slade, [[FaceHeelTurn agreeing to become his agent in exchange for his help in honing and controlling her powers, going so far as to become a spy inside the Titans after he was done training her]]. During her time as TheMole, she fell for Beast Boy and tried to manipulate events so he wouldn't be captured/killed by Slade when she finally betrayed the team, but Slade appeared before them when they were on their date and revealed to Beast Boy that Terra was his double agent. Beast Boy angrily telling Terra that she didn't have or deserve any friends [[HeelFaceDoorSlam made Terra push aside any guilt and throw herself wholeheartedly into being Slade's minion]]. As a result, she fought and seemingly killed the Titans, but they escaped, rallied and attacked her. The combination of nearly losing to them, [[YouHaveFailedMe Slade's abusive treatment for failing]], and a KirkSummation from Beast Boy all pushed her to make a final HeelFaceTurn and resulted in a HeroicSacrifice.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villain ComicBook/TwoFace literally flips a coin to determine whether he'll do something good or bad. Harley Quinn has also had more than one failed reformation, mostly due to her lingering, err, ''affections'' for ComicBook/TheJoker -- himself probably the Batman villain ''least'' likely to have a HeelFaceTurn. Despite this, she's shown to be welcomed by the ''Justice League'' in ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis''.
** Whenever Harley has [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn her own series]], the writers work around this by generally reserving her homicidal tendencies for ''other villains''. Good guys and innocent victims usually end up knocked out or BoundAndGagged at worst. {{Asshole Victim}}s on the other hand....

** In his very first appearance, Two-Face had captured Batman and was throwing the coin for whether to kill or free him. Batman asked what if the coin stood on its edge? and got Two-Face to agree to surrender and submit to plastic surgery and therapy. The coin -- substituted by Batman for the real coin -- stood on its edge, and Two-Face returned to a normal life. However, he was later injured again and returned to his life as Two-Face.

** In [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand No Man's Land]] an act of ungodly luck makes Two-Face a good guy for what looks like weeks if not months. He agrees to help Renee Montoya to try and take care of the weaker people in the city; injured, old, children, etc. Each time he helps he flips a coin, according to Montoya he apparently flips the "good" side over 100 times......in a row. It's possible that the implication there was that Two-Face was cheating. Perhaps he had honestly (temporarily) reformed, but pretended it was all the coin's fault (so he'd have an excuse if he ever turned evil again). And if that's not it, maybe Batman or Montoya just slipped him a weighted coin.

* This Trope could also be named The ComicBook/BlackAdam. He started out as a champion of his people in ancient times named Mighty Adam (that's good) then became a brutal dictator and conqueror when his family was killed by a supervillain (that's bad) then millennia later attempted to reform and even joined the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica (that's good) then became a not-so-brutal dictator of his country again (NOT the bad part) and later joined a Society of Villains to ensure their safety (that's bad). After said Society betrayed him, he later fought against them when they tried to take over Metropolis (that's good) then went back to being a harsh dictator with plans to form a new Axis Powers coalition (that's bad). When he gained a new family he tried to go back to his old heroic ways and traveled the world fighting evil alongside them (that's good). When this family was killed by supervillains he went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, ''murdered an entire country'', and fought every superhero on Earth (that's bad, but awesome). Most recently, his wife CameBackWrong and started turning his people into dirt and he tried to defend them [[spoiler: leading to a truly bizarre situation with ''Black Adam'' defending innocents from the ''corrupted [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] and Mary Marvel'']] (that's good.) Then he got turned into a statue alongside his wife for his troubles [[spoiler: and an oh so ominous shadowy figure wants to make them his champions...(that's bad)]]. At least there's a free choice of toppings (that's good)...that contain potassium benzoate (...that's bad). By the Power of Shazam, that is one busy revolving door.
** [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Mary Marvel]] herself applies in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', starting out good, getting corrupted by Black Adam's power, doing a HeelFaceTurn, gaining her old powers back, and then moronically deciding to accept Black Adam's power and turn evil again after Darkseid has a friendly chat with her ([[http://readrant.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/couch-got-an-empty-spot-with-your-name-on-it-girl.jpg no, that's not a euphemism]]). And then she [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments beats up Donna Troy]] [[GrievousHarmWithABody using Kyle Rayner as a club]], among other evulz. If you're wondering, this is just one reason for why 90% of the events of ''Countdown'' are subjected to a blanket decree of LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain both [[CanonDiscontinuity in canon]] and [[FanonDiscontinuity out.]]
* Captain Boomerang Jr. from Franchise/TheDCU. He started out as his father's replacement in [[ComicBook/TheFlash The Rogues]], then tried his hand at being a hero as a member of Nightwing's Outsiders. When he and Dick got into an argument about what to do with Chemo, the living chemical weapon that destroyed Bludhaven, they got into a fight and Owen absconded with Chemo to join the Suicide Squad. In ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', Owen's desire to be with his father again overrode his morals. He fed people to his zombie father, wrongly believing that this would revive him. Including women and children, [[EvenEvilHasStandards which prompted Captain Cold and the other Rogues to kill him.]] Cold lampshaded Owen's Revolving Door nature, saying he was like a boomerang going back and forth everywhere.
* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has been this for decades. Though she had settled on "antihero" in the 90's, the 2011 once again made her an AntiVillain who occasionally does good things.
* The Enchantress (June Moon) was introduced in Creator/DCComics' ''Strange Adventures'' as a heroine. Then she became a ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} villain in ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily''. Following from that, she became a member of the Forgotten Villains, and then she joined the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, at which point it was established that June was a good person but the Enchantress was her SuperpoweredEvilSide. In ''Day of Judgement'', Enchantress is an amoral character who has to be pressurised into saving the world from Hell. During this the Enchantress is "killed", leaving June Moon. Later, in a ''JLA'' miniseries, they're merged together to form Soulsinger, and then separated again, but the powers stay with June, giving us the heroic Enchantress seen in ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}''.
* Dr. Alchemy/Mr. Element (Al Desmond) showed signs of this during the Silver Age of ''Franchise/TheFlash''. He reformed after his first appearances, took up a white-collar job, and became good friends with Barry Allen, even attending his wedding. Meanwhile he was pulled back into evil, or sometimes just framed for it, by everything from Professor Zoom (twice!) to the fluctuations of a distant star to the machinations of a psychic twin (who turned out to be his own split personality given shape post-Crisis).
* ComicBook/LadyShiva wavers between anti-hero or villain.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

** ComicBook/HerculesUnbound does try to be heroic most of the time, but often by the standards of Ancient Greek mythology, making him come off as an outright villain to modern sensibilities. While he does occasionally get it right it never seems to last.

* ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} has been this for decades. Though she had settled on "antihero" in the 90's, the [[ComicBook/New52 modern age]] once again made her an AntiVillain who occasionally does good things.
* The Enchantress (June Moon) was introduced in Creator/DCComics' ''Strange Adventures'' as a heroine. Then she became a ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} villain. Following from that, she became a member of the Forgotten Villains, and then she joined the ComicBook/SuicideSquad, at which point it was established that June was a good person but the Enchantress was her SuperpoweredEvilSide. In ''Day of Judgement'', Enchantress is an amoral character who has to be pressurised into saving the world from Hell. During this the Enchantress is "killed", leaving June Moon. Later, in a ''JLA'' miniseries, they're merged together to form Soulsinger, and then separated again, but the powers stay with June, giving us the heroic Enchantress seen in ''ComicBook/{{Shadowpact}}''.

* Professor Emil Hamilton was introduced to ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics as a MadScientist who attacked Superman after ComicBook/LexLuthor took credit for his inventions, in order to [[TheyCalledMeMad show them all]]! After responding well to therapy, he became Superman's science advisor. When [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] started taking on that role, Emil went mad again and became the villain Overmind, although he blamed this on being taken over by B-13 technology through his [[ArtificialLimbs robot arm]]. Once this was dealt with, he and John Henry worked together, thanks to Emil's better understanding of B-13 tech. Then he became convinced that Superman's powers were sucking energy from the Sun and reducing the viable lifespan of the Earth, so he became the WellIntentionedExtremist villain Ruin and crossed the MoralEventHorizon by targeting Clark's loved ones. And that was the last time we saw him before ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}''.
** And now in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', he appears to have reformed again, describing working on Jimmy Olsen's [[Creator/JackKirby Whiz Wagon]] vehicle as occupational therapy.

*** Whenever Harley has [[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn her own series]], the writers work around this by generally reserving her homicidal tendencies for ''other villains''. Good guys and innocent victims usually end up knocked out or BoundAndGagged at worst. {{Asshole Victim}}s on the other hand....

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Despite his short tenure Dodge's desire to be special leads to him stealing a prototype teleporter which he uses to try and become a hero. When he screws that up he blames it on Robin and becomes a villain who sells fatal experimental drugs to finance his "revenge". Then after one of the villains he recruits for his revenge plot takes over from him and the Teen Titans have all but defeated his crew he switches sides claiming to have always wanted to be a hero and seems to die in a teleporter accident fighting the mutineer.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villain ComicBook/TwoFace literally flips a coin to determine whether he'll do something good or bad. Harley Quinn has also had more than one failed reformation, mostly due to her lingering, err, ''affections'' for ComicBook/TheJoker -- himself probably the Batman villain ''least'' likely to have a HeelFaceTurn.

* Terra, from the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. She started off good, but after a HannibalLecture from [[ManipulativeBastard Slade]] in her first outing with the team, mingled with her own paranoia, she mistakenly believed Beast Boy had gone behind her back and told Robin about her PowerIncontinence, so she ran away from the Titans. Off-screen, she hooked up with Slade, [[FaceHeelTurn agreeing to become his agent in exchange for his help in honing and controlling her powers, going so far as to become a spy inside the Titans after he was done training her]]. During her time as TheMole, she fell for Beast Boy and tried to manipulate events so he wouldn't be captured/killed by Slade when she finally betrayed the team, but Slade appeared before them when they were on their date and revealed to Beast Boy that Terra was his double agent. Beast Boy angrily telling Terra that she didn't have or deserve any friends [[HeelFaceDoorSlam made Terra push aside any guilt and throw herself wholeheartedly into being Slade's minion]]. As a result, she fought and seemingly killed the Titans, but they escaped, rallied and attacked her. The combination of nearly losing to them, [[YouHaveFailedMe Slade's abusive treatment for failing]], and a KirkSummation from Beast Boy all pushed her to make a final HeelFaceTurn and resulted in a HeroicSacrifice.

!!Franchise/TheDCU

** ComicBook/HerculesUnbound does try to be heroic most of the time, but often by the standards of Ancient Greek mythology, making him come off as an outright villain to modern sensibilities. While he does occasionally get it right it never seems to last.