History Main / HeelFaceRevolvingDoor

* ''WebAnimation/{{Anon}}'': Evan has gone through the revolving door many times, going from being in love with Chelsea one minute to plotting how to destroy her life the next.

%%* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' version of Rumpelstiltskin between 3 and 4.

->'''Elizabeth:''' Whose side is Jack on?\\
'''Will:''' At the moment?
-->-- ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

* Wanda Macimoff over the course of multiple projects of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': She starts out as a villain along her twin brother Pietro in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', willingly working for both HYDRA and Ultron before both join forces with the Avengers to stop Ultron's attempt to destroy the whole humankind. After her brother's death she joins the Avengers and remains a member of the team for ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Post-''Endgame'', she becomes a de facto VillainProtagonist in the Disney+-series ''Series/WandaVision'', holding a whole town hostage before regretting her choice and freeing the people. Her next appearance in a movie, ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' sees her as the main antagonist, being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupted by the]] [[ArtifactOfDoom dark magical book Darkhold]]. [[spoiler: She takes another Heel-Face in the end, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath seemingly giving her life destroying the Darkhold]].]]

* Wanda Macimoff over the course of multiple projects of the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': She starts out as a villain along her twin brother Pietro in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltrom'', willingly working for both HYDRA and Ultron before both join forces with the Avengers to stop Ultron's attempt to destroy the whole humankind. After her brother's death she joins the Avengers and remains a member of the team for ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''AvengersEndgame''. Post-''Endgame'', she becomes a de facto VillainProtagonist in the Disney+-series ''Series/WandaVision'', holding a whole town hostage before regretting her choice and freeing the people. Her next appearance in a movie, ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'' sees her as the main antagonist, being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupted by the]] [[ArtifactOfDoom dark magical book Darkhold]]. [[spoiler: She takes another Heel-Face in the end, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath seemingly giving her life destroying the Darkhold]].]]

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} goes through this pretty much every other movie. He was undoubtedly an unstoppable menace in the first few installments, but as the original series continued to drag on, it slowly turned him from Villain to AntiHero to outright Hero. This was reset in ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'', where he was a villainous monster once again, and ever since he has been more consistent as either a Villain or Anti-Hero.[[note]]For those interested, here's the breakdown in chronological order, not counting anime or spinoffs: [[Film/Godzilla1954 villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain villain,]] [[Film/KingKongVsGodzilla villain,]] [[Film/MothraVsGodzilla villain,]] [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster anti-hero,]] [[Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster anti-hero,]] [[Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep neutral,]] [[Film/SonOfGodzilla hero,]] [[Film/DestroyAllMonsters hero,]] [[Film/AllMonstersAttack hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsGigan hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsMegalon hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla hero,]] [[Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla hero,]] [[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsBiollante villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsKingGhidorah villain journey to anti-hero to villain again,]] [[Film/GodzillaAndMothraTheBattleForEarth villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzillaII anti-villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla anti-hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah anti-hero,]] [[Film/Godzilla1998 villain,]] [[Film/Godzilla2000 anti-hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus anti-hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaFinalWars hero,]] [[Film/Godzilla2014 anti-hero,]] [[Film/ShinGodzilla villain,]] [[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 hero,]] [[Film/GodzillaVsKong anti-hero.]] Whoo! Any of those words still have meaning to you?[[/note]]

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} goes through this pretty much every other movie. He was undoubtedly an unstoppable menace in the first few installments, but as the original series continued to drag on, it slowly turned him from Villain to AntiHero to outright Hero. This was reset in ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'', where he was a villainous monster once again, and ever since he has been more consistent as either a Villain or Anti-Hero.

** Tarvek Sturmvoraus alternates between helpful, heroic, not-entirely-trusted sidekick and toadying, evil, certainly-not-trusted minion when heroine Agatha Heterodyne and villain The Other start grappling for control of [[GrandTheftMe Agatha's body]]. He makes the switch every few ''pages'', eventually caught red-handed by the Other. Even this doesn't stop him from serving his own purposes, eventually betraying everybody. ''Absolutely [[GambitPileup Everybody.]]'' Including his own father and his treacherous sister. And it seems that ''his'' goal is to use Agatha (or a lookalike), his claim to a royal ancestor, and a story out of mythology and opera to not only rule Europe but do it to cheering crowds. Now it appears it MAY be a more sincere HeelFaceTurn and he genuinely wants to help Agatha. For now.
** Gil's manservant [[BattleButler Wooster]] may have changed allegiances from his [[spoiler:British spymasters]] to Gil and then possibly from Gil to Agatha -- or he never abandoned his first loyalties. Given the way Sparks influence non-Sparks, it's not entirely clear.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Vriska Serket manages to do this without ever technically changing sides, switching back and forth from VillainProtagonist to SociopathicHero. She [[KickTheDog kicks the proverbial dog]] (usually her personal ButtMonkey, Tavros) on a regular basis, but also has some [[PetTheDog nicer]] moments, especially when it comes to [[MoralityPet John]]. She's a SmugSnake most of the time, but occasionally [[BeneathTheMask her mask will start to slip]], revealing crippling self-hatred that she tries to cover up by being a JerkAss. She has a massive body count, but [[AbusiveParents an excuse]] [[HorrorHunger for it]], and while she's the TokenEvilTeammate for most of the trolls' session, [[spoiler:she very well might be ''less'' evil than the other two contenders for that title later, who are respectively AxCrazy and planning to betray the group to the BigBad]]. [[WordOfGod The author says]] he [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste intended for her]] to be a BaseBreakingCharacter.

* The 1st Edition of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had druids doing the same thing as Lord Gro, though in the name of "balance". They dropped this when they realized that it gives all druids ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** In 2nd Edition this was instead used for the petitioners of the [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} Outlands]]. It seems to have been subsequently dropped.

* Wrestling/BobbyHeenan was this in WCW during the [=nWo=] era. He abhorred the [=nWo=] and would bury them on commentary whenever he could, but he still tended to side with non-[=nWo=] heels.

* ''{{Machinima/Anon}}'': Evan has gone through the revolving door many times, going from being in love with Chelsea one minute to plotting how to destroy her life the next.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue:'' Agent Washington has had a few trips through the revolving door. He starts off firmly on the side of the Director of Project Freelancer, defending and trusting him more than just about anybody else. When he learns the truth about the origins of the AIs the agents use, he secretly begins working against Project Freelancer. Then, after getting sent to prison due to the mysterious disappearance of critical evidence that would prove he was on the side of good (thanks to a certain Blue's idiocy), he agrees to work with the Meta (the villain of season 6) to get the evidence back. Although he expected the Meta to betray him, he didn't expect the Reds and Blues to help and forgive him after what he'd done; he realizes his mistake and remains with them ever after.

* ''Machinima/SmashKing'' does this with [[spoiler:Zelda and Mewtwo]]. It's not too clear on what side [[spoiler:Zelda]]'s on, as they appear to be involved in a lot of dirty business, but seem to want to help everyone. [[spoiler:Mewtwo]] starts off working with Ganondorf, then begins warming up to Bowser and wants to see his life improve, having doubts on whether Ganon's plan is right and if he should help him go through with achieving it. Then he's killed by Ganondorf, yet wrongfully believes it was Bowser who killed him: his soul possesses Lucario, and he rejoins Ganon (although he has his own ulterior motives), only to betray Ganon again and forgive Bowser.

* The flavor text of the "Gigo" series of ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' cards tells the progression of a character who starts innocent as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gigobyte Gigobyte]] but is destined to be tainted by evil, becoming [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Jigabyte Jigabyte]], is reformed and comes back as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gagagigo Gagagigo]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becomes so obsessed with power to fight evil]] he [[FallenHero turns evil once more]] as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Giga_Gagagigo Giga Gagagigo]], ultimately becoming a soulless power-driven evildoer once more as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gogiga_Gagagigo Gogiga Gagagigo]], and is finally reformed once more as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gagagigo_the_Risen Gagagigo the Risen]]. This is all tied together with numerous ''more'' cards, and the entire progression can be [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gigo found here]].

* Sir Lancelot in the third ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' film. He starts off on the heroes' side, [[spoiler: then pulls a FaceHeelTurn when he mistakes the tablet of Akmenrah for the {{Holy Grail}} and steals it endangering the lives of the exhibits including his own.]] However, [[spoiler: [[TomatoInTheMirror when he learns that he is just a wax statue]] and watches the exhibits dying out, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and returns the tablet to Larry.]]

* Loki seems to have this problem as of ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. He spent the first part of his adult life fighting for Asgard, which, [[spoiler: [[DarkAndTroubledPast at that time, at least]]]], played the role of peacekeeper and protector of the nine realms. However, since [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad]] after [[InternalizedCategorism learning he is a Frost Giant]], he has [[BigBad mostly played the role of antagonist.]] In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', however, he [[spoiler: [[EnemyMine helped Thor save the universe]] and [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas avenged Frigga's death]]]], and during ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', the damage he helped cause[[spoiler: to the nine realms was mostly due to [[ItsAllAboutMe inaction as the ruler of Asgard]] [[IHaveNoSon and the actions he took to get back at his father]]]] rather than the [[EvilPlan deliberate malice that characterized his past appearances.]] However, during the course of the third film, he does [[spoiler: [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray Thor again to no one's surprise]], but in the end decides to come back last minute to help save the citizens of Asgard.]] At one point, when Bruce Banner asks him if he still wants to kill everyone like he did the last time they met, he even admits that [[AxCrazy it changes from moment to moment.]] He also seems very confused about whether he still wants Thor dead while he is watching the gladiator match between Thor and the Hulk, alternately cheering when the Hulk hurts his brother, jumping up in concern when he hurts him too much, pretending he isn't concerned, and then cheering the Hulk some more, all in the ridiculously short time span of a few minutes. The constant side-switching appears to be due to the fact that the character himself is very confused, in this case.

** In ''Eerie Cuties'', she's usually a villain and serves as [[AloofDarkhairedGirl Layla's]] primary {{antagonist}}. Which was seen in her attempts to steal Layla's [[spoiler: ex-]]boyfriend, Kade Whiteclaw, and when she went so far as to cast a spell on her; leaving Layla flat-chested, [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/art_scholarship_-_interlude_(guest_strip)_2_of_4 simply because she snarked on her]] and Melissa couldn't think of a comeback. She was briefly antagonistic toward Brooke as well, after [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/let_me_make_this_up_to_you manipulating Brooke's boyfriend]], Ace, into going out with her -- simply because [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/wheatgrass_juice she was starved of male attention]] and he literally happened to be the first one that walked by. When she finally learned he already had a girlfriend, Melissa decided she'd steal him from Brooke [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/other_girlfriend so she could revel in her tears.]]
** ''Magick Chicks'' casts her in a somewhat better light, since the crux of the comic is about reforming Melissa -- between the mysterious girl [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/tis_but_a_trifle appearing in her dreams]], [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/the_magic_thingy_agrees Tiffany coaching her]] and the magick wand [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/stupid_magick_stick acting as her conscience.]] She even got her very own BigDamnHeroes moment, by saving Tiffany and Faith from a pair of possessed students. Despite all this, she's determined not to change and continues to fall back into old habits. But it seems that it's working regardless, as Tandy's truth massage caused Mel to realize [[spoiler: that [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/quite_popular she's begun to care more about her friends than popularity]]]].

* Nicolae of ''Website/GaiaOnline'' tends to do whatever gives him the most benefit at the moment, be it con artistry, theft, assisting players in ''[=zOMG!=]'' or [[spoiler: accepting a hit job on Gino Gambino, which he then takes every opportunity to sabotage]].

** Gil's manservant [[BattleButler Wooster]] may have changed allegiances from his [[spoiler: British spymasters]] to Gil and then possibly from Gil to Agatha -- or he never abandoned his first loyalties. Given the way Sparks influence non-Sparks, it's not entirely clear.

** Eridan Ampora was introduced as a genocidal racist. Then, it was shown that he was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain that didn't ''really'' want to kill his friends or upset [[MoralityPet Feferi]]. Then, he passed the DespairEventHorizon, [[spoiler: killed Feferi, and attempted to join up with the BigBad, and was killed by another friend he killed brought BackFromTheDead]]. Afterwards, he's apparently trying to help [[spoiler: Jake English]] and apologize to Feferi but has remained sarcastic and mean throughout all of this.

** http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6721353

* ''WebVideo/ResidentEvilAbridged'': {{Justified}}, since Barry's being blackmailed to betray his team. So he alternates between saving Jill's life one moment, to [[LuredIntoATrap setting her up]] the next. But he ultimately ends up siding with Chris and Jill, once [[spoiler: Wesker]] is defeated.
* ''Machinima/SmashKing'' does this with [[spoiler: Zelda and Mewtwo]]. It's not too clear on what side [[spoiler: Zelda]]'s on, as they appear to be involved in a lot of dirty business, but seem to want to help everyone. [[spoiler: Mewtwo]] starts off working with Ganondorf, then begins warming up to Bowser and wants to see his life improve, having doubts on whether Ganon's plan is right and if he should help him go through with achieving it. Then he's killed by Ganondorf, yet wrongfully believes it was Bowser who killed him: his soul possesses Lucario, and he rejoins Ganon (although he has his own ulterior motives), only to betray Ganon again and forgive Bowser.

* In [[Music/DongBangShinKi DBSK]]'s music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTev-dfmpyo&feature=related Before]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY9EsuPWHp0&feature=related U Go]]" had a friend of Yunho and Changmin do this. First, he joined the police force with Yunho and Changmin. Then for an unknown reason, he was TheMole for the mafia. After he accidentally shot Yunho and was caught by Changmin, he decided to quit. A year later, he was forced to kill Changmin when the mafia held his [[IllGirl sick sister]] hostage. By the time things were over and after Yunho and Changmin found out the truth, they could never fully trust him again.

Compare ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (which is more about switching between grey groups than white-to-black or visa versa), WildCard (where the character isn't strongly on anybody's side ever), UnscrupulousHero (a character who is unambiguously on the heroic side), the DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent (he never changes sides, but no one is sure what side he's really on), and FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome (when a character changes only to revert back). See FakeDefector for when a villain fakes a HeelFaceTurn, only to return to being evil after his goal is achieved. See MoralPragmatist for a character who switches sides to whomever is best suited to help their plans. Contrast AllegianceAffirmation (where a character confirms where their loyalties lie).

* In ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNEverAfter'', Rumpelstiltskin starts out evil and later turns good. In the sequel he's back to being evil. Though this may be more a case of NegativeContinuity, since they don't give an explanation for why he's gone back to being evil.

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} goes through this pretty much every other movie. He was undoubtedly an unstoppable menace in the first few installments, but as the original series continued to drag on, it slowly turned him from Villain to AntiHero to outright Hero. This was reset in ''[[Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla Godzilla 1985]]'', where he was a villainous monster once again, and ever since he has been more consistent as either a Villain or Anti Hero.

* [[AlphaBitch Sharpay Evans]] in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. She seemed to have turned "good" at the end of the first film, but in the second she is even worse than before. In the third, she is "in it to win it". While she was scheming some more in her spinoff, she turned out to have been played herself.

** Almost all the characters in the second and third movie do this because by then, ''everyone'' is either a pirate or an evil merchant (another sort of pirate). In the third movie, a group of merchants say that they simply ally with the highest bidder.

* ''Film/SuperCop2'' has the main villain being David, the LoveInterest of the heroine Jessica who appears to be a fellow member of the police force with Jessica, but turns out to be an informant for the international crime lord Roger. But he is still dedicated to Jessica with intentions to betray Roger, only to have Roger betray him first. All this eventually results into his RedemptionEqualsDeath.
* Loki seems to have this problem as of ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' . He spent the first part of his adult life fighting for Asgard, which, [[spoiler: [[DarkAndTroubledPast at that time, at least]]]], played the role of peacekeeper and protector of the nine realms. However, since [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going mad]] after [[InternalizedCategorism learning he is a Frost Giant]], he has [[BigBad mostly played the role of antagonist.]] In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', however, he [[spoiler: [[EnemyMine helped Thor save the universe]] and [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas avenged Frigga's death]]]], and during ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', the damage he helped cause[[spoiler: to the nine realms was mostly due to [[ItsAllAboutMe inaction as the ruler of Asgard]] [[IHaveNoSon and the actions he took to get back at his father]]]] rather than the [[EvilPlan deliberate malice that characterized his past appearances.]] However, during the course of the third film, he does [[spoiler: [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray Thor again to no one's surprise]], but in the end decides to come back last minute to help save the citizens of Asgard.]] At one point, when Bruce Banner asks him if he still wants to kill everyone like he did the last time they met, he even admits that [[AxCrazy it changes from moment to moment.]] He also seems very confused about whether he still wants Thor dead while he is watching the gladiator match between Thor and the Hulk, alternately cheering when the Hulk hurts his brother, jumping up in concern when he hurts him too much, pretending he isn't concerned, and then cheering the Hulk some more, all in the ridiculously short time span of a few minutes. The constant side-switching appears to be due to the fact that the character himself is very confused, in this case.

** In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', Magneto temporarily sides with Apocalypse, but in the end Professor X persuades him and Storm to turn on Apocalypse.
** Once again in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' (the last film in the series), though to a lesser extent. Magneto and several other mutants conspire to kill Jean when they think she is out of control, but at the end he and Charles apparently reconcile.

** It's also not unheard of for a lesser star in WWE to play a different role on a live event to what they are on TV. For example someone might work a live event as a heel when they're a face on TV - which is sometimes an indicator that they might be heading for the turn on TV. For example in 2011 Wrestling/{{R|onKillings}}-Truth turned heel while in the UK but still appeared as a face for the rest of the European tour. Also if a heel is wrestling a live event in their hometown, they might [[AHeroToHisHometown appear as a face exclusively for one night]]. {{Wrestling/Sheamus}} was heel during his first US Championship reign and wrestled Daniel Bryan on the European tour - but worked as a face just for the Dublin show. Ditto for Wrestling/WadeBarrett working against Justin Gabriel in the UK.

* Wrestling/KurtAngle is also notorious for turning about once a year. The problem with him is that he is most effective playing a heel, but his immense wrestling talent, the gold medal, and all around [=Badass=] qualities sometimes result in Face reactions even when playing a heel, thus resulting in the bookers [[HeelFaceTurn turning him face]]. Then he does his [[AllAmericanFace bland face routine]] until his crowd reactions wane, and [[FaceHeelTurn then he turns heel again]]. This effect was {{lampshaded}} during an interview where he stated he was uncomfortable around "[[PoliticallyIncorrectHero the black people]]" and that [[BlasphemousBoast he could make Jesus tap out]] to prove that he would still get cheered ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ydZDLLtp8Y he was right]]).

** Also averted by Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr. Has never been a heel. He may have been sort of considered a heel, sort of, in the WCW faction "The Filthy Animals" but even then the stable was more of a tweener thing, and he was not at it that long before becoming a full fledged face again.

** Not even ''Wrestling/JeffHardy'' was immune. And at the time he could have been second in-line for being the Ricky Steamboat of his generation, having only been heel once.

** Another odd case with Vince occurred in 1999, where he was a heel going up against "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness, led by an also-heel Undertaker, heading into ''[=WrestleMania=] XV''. He soon turned face when Undertaker started threatening his family, but again turned heel when he was revealed to be the Higher Power behind the Ministry, and remained there until he was forced to "leave" after ''Fully Loaded''. Again, Vince turned face when he returned a few weeks later to oppose main event heel Wrestling/TripleH and stayed face until ''[=WrestleMania=] 2000'', when he aligned himself with The Game.
** During the infamous Invasion storyline, Vince was initially a heel and gloated about taking over WCW, only to have the rug pulled out from under him by his son Shane. Shane was cheered for buying WCW. However, during the Invasion proper, Vince and WWE were the faces and the the WCW/ECW alliance headed by his children were heels. It all ended with Vince and his team lead by Kurt Angle defeating the Alliance headed by Shane, Stephanie, and Steve Austin (who'd defected halfway through). The very next night after the Invasion ended, Vince and Angle turned heel and Austin turned face.

* This is a staple of the booking style of Wrestling/VinceRusso. Russo really wanted to embrace GreyAndGrayMorality in the business, feeling like there should be more levels than simply pure good or pure evil, since life in general is complex that way. Unfortunately, either due to Russo's weak writing skills or pro wrestling being [[WorldOfHam a business that simply cannot do subtlety that well,]] creating complex characters with those shades of gray was nearly impossible and it simply turned into characters pinballing between 100% Face and 100% Heel on a nearly weekly basis.

*** Wrestling/{{Chyna}} had this particularly bad during this time. When she was on her own she stood up for women's rights. When she was with DX she would punch guys in the groin to score a cheap win for Triple H. Sometimes she would switch from one role to the other multiple times on the same show. Once she won the Intercontinental title however, she was quietly phased away from Triple H and stayed face. Notably at the 1999 ''Rebellion'' PPV[[note]]exclusive to the UK[[/note]] she was a face in her match against Jeff Jarrett but was still Triple H's heel manager later in the night.

* Four the first four years of Ring Warrior's Battling Bombshells division, [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] was basically TheFace and pretty much always a face on [[GirlsNightOutEpisode dedicated women's shows]] and other special events. However, she was frequently used as a heel on Ring Warriors' main television show. It was the opposite in the World Wrestling League, where she was mainly used as a heel by their affiliates in the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and the 50 states. Footage of her misdeeds was aired in order to hype a purely WWL show running in Puerto Rico, [[AHeroToHisHometown which did nothing to stop the fans from giving her a warm welcome]].

* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan / Bryan Danielson]] is this in later years. He underwent a ridiculously short two-week heel run in January of 2014 by joining Wrestling/TheWyattFamily. He joined up, served Bray for two weeks, then betrayed him a cage match amidst a thunderous "YES!" chant.[[note]]It's been said that this all came about due to a rise in popularity of the "YES!" chants at sporting events, [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants so WWE would have been fools to not let Bryan be face]].[[/note]] After being cleared to be in the ring and turn heel with his "New Daniel Brian" Planet's Champion gimmick, he turned face after a few months after Rowan betrayed him. When joining AEW as Bryan Danielson, he started out as a face, but became heel when facing Adam Page. Then, turned face again after losing to Jon Moxley, become a part of the Blackpool Combat Club, and feud with the recently heel-turned Chris Jericho.
* Wrestling/JerryLawler: "The King" was a face in USWA at the same time he was a hated heel in the WWF. Also, when the WWF (and later WWE) had shows in the Memphis area, he always wrestled … as a face, with a one-night storyline contrived against a top heel in the company. The next show, he'd be friends with the heel again. Despite his current face leaning commentary style on WWE Raw and live pay-per-view events, Lawler always reverts to his classic heel-style commentary for the WWE's video game releases, playing the antagonizer to whomever is the face commentator (usually Wrestling/JimRoss or Wrestling/MichaelCole). He also has played the "heel" role in re-creating classic commentary for some of the video game releases, including ''WWE 2K14'', where, for instance, he read Wrestling/JesseVentura's lines in providing color commentary for the Hulk Hogan-Wrestling/KingKongBundy steel cage match at Wrestling/WrestleMania 2 (while Jim Ross was Lord Alfred Hayes).
** One humorous thing to note about Lawler; regardless of his status as a Face or Heel commentator, if there was a Hart in the ring (also regardless of their Face/Heel status) The King would takes shots at Stu Hart (father of Bret Hart, along with others).

* The apocryphal ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' RPG from Palladium has the Zentraedi as this trope. They were enemies during the First Robotech War, but had some who defected to the Earth forces and helped destroy Dolza's fleet. In between the First and Second Robotech War, the Zentraedi on Earth return to their belligerent ways, leading to the Malcontent Uprisings where many of them are hunted down and killed. The RPG states that some of the renegade Zentraedi did surive the Malcontent Uprisings [[ContinuitySnarl contrary to what was stated in the also apocryphal Robotech novels.]] Those surviving Zentraedi then again aided human resistance during the Invid invasion as they were created to fight the Invid.

** ''Magick Chicks'' casts her in a somewhat better light, since the crux of the comic is about reforming Melissa -- between the mysterious girl [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/tis_but_a_trifle appearing in her dreams]], [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/the_magic_thingy_agrees Tiffany coaching her]] and the magick wand [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/stupid_magick_stick acting as her conscience.]] She even got her very own BigDamnHeroes moment, by saving Tiffany and Faith from a pair of possessed students. Despite all this, she's determined not to change and continues to fall back into old habit. But it seems that it's working regardless, as Tandy's truth massage caused Mel to realize [[spoiler: that [[http://www.magickchicks.com/strips-mc/quite_popular she's begun to care more about her friends than popularity]]]].

** Tarvek Sturmvoraus alternates between helpful, heroic, not-entirely-trusted sidekick and toadying, evil, certainly-not-trusted minion when heroine Agatha Heterodyne and villain The Other start grappling for control of [[GrandTheftMe Agatha's body]]. He makes the switch every few ''pages'', eventually caught red-handed by the Other. Even this doesn't stop him from serving his own purposes, eventually betraying everybody. ''Absolutely [[GambitPileup Everybody.]]'' Including his own father and his treacherous sister. And it seems that ''his'' goal is to use Agatha (or a lookalike), his claim to a royal ancestor, and a story out of mythology and opera to not only rule Europe, but do it to cheering crowds. Now it appears it MAY be a more sincere HeelFaceTurn and he genuinely wants to help Agatha. For now.

** Eridan Ampora was introduced as a genocidal racist. Then, it was shown that he was an IneffectualSympatheticVillain that didn't ''really'' want to kill his friends or upset [[MoralityPet Feferi]]. Then, he passed the DespairEventHorizon, [[spoiler: killed Feferi, and attempted to join up with the BigBad, and was killed by another friend he killed brought BackFromTheDead]]. Afterwards, he's apparently trying to help [[spoiler: Jake English]] and apologize to Feferi, but has remained sarcastic and mean throughout all of this.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea is an emotional basket case who will switch sides with very little provocation. It's probably safe to describe her as ChaoticNeutral.

* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' is set in a MMORPG with established factions and changing an avatar's faction is possible.
** The guild of Gaea Amirers, made of Coalition players, is convinced that Gaea, an Empire player, is actually a DoubleAgent for the Coalition and want to assisst her. However, any action on their part favoring Gaea also favors the Empire. This makes its members basically switch sides each time they run into Gaea.
** Starting Season 4 / the fourth novel, the player behind [[spoiler:Gaea herself]] is technically constantly switching sides: [[spoiler:she performed a Face Heel Turn from her guildmates' point of view with her main avatar, but kept her secondary one in the same faction as said guildmates. The guildmates in question happen to be understaffed enough to let her tag along. She however tends to work only for her own advancement, which has lead to one of her avatars to be working against its own side at least once.]]

* Definitely occurs, to pretty much everybody, in the ''Prolecto'' series. Starts with the standard virus induced FaceHeelTurn, then most of the Succubi switch to Faces, then a few switch to WellIntentionedExtremist, then they switch back, then one of the Faces goes Heel...Then some people who stayed Heel go face. A couple actually qualify as {{Hazy Feel Turn}}s, actually.

* ''Machinima/SmashKing'' does this with [[spoiler: Zelda and Mewtwo]]. It's not to clear on what side [[spoiler: Zelda]]'s on, as they appears to be involved in a lot of dirty business, but seem to want to help everyone. [[spoiler: Mewtwo]] starts off working with Ganondorf, then begins warming up to Bowser and wants to see his life improve, having doubts on whether Ganon's plan is right and if he should help him go through with achieving it. Then he's killed by Ganondorf, yet wrongfully believes it was Bowser who killed him: his soul possesses Lucario, and he rejoins Ganon (although he has his own ulterior motives), only to betray Ganon again and forgive Bowser.

* Definitely occurs, to pretty much everybody, in the ''Prolecto'' series. Starts with the standard virus induced FaceHeelTurn, then most of the Succubi switch to Faces, then a few switch to WellIntentionedExtremist, then they switch back, then one of the Faces goes Heel...Then some people who stayed Heel go face. A couple actually qualify as HazyFeelTurns, actually.

Compare ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (which is more about switching between grey groups than white-to-black or visa versa), WildCard (where the character isn't strongly on anybody's side ever), UnscrupulousHero (a character who is unambiguously on the heroic side), the DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent (he never changes sides, but no one is sure what side he's really on), and FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome (when a character changes and develops only to revert back). See FakeDefector for when a villain fakes a HeelFaceTurn, only to return to being evil after his goal is achieved. See MoralPragmatist for a character who switches sides to whomever is best suited to help their plans. Contrast AllegianceAffirmation (where a character confirms where their loyalties lie).

Compare ChronicBackstabbingDisorder (which is more about switching between grey groups than white-to-black or visa versa), WildCard (where the character isn't strongly on anybody's side ever), UnscrupulousHero (a character who is unambiguously on the heroic side) and the DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent (he never changes sides, but no one is sure what side he's really on). See FakeDefector for when a villain fakes a HeelFaceTurn, only to return to being evil after his goal is achieved. See MoralPragmatist for a character who switches sides to whomever is best suited to help their plans. Contrast AllegianceAffirmation (where a character confirms where their loyalties lie).

** Averted by Wrestling/RickySteamboat, who never once [[FaceHeelTurn turned heel]] during his career, due to being such a natural face. To give an idea of how good of a face he was (or how horrible of a heel he would have been), Steamboat's real name is [[AwesomeMcCoolName Richard Blood]], and yet he had to use a different name because that was a heel's name.

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* [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] underwent a ridiculously short two-week heel run in January of 2014 by joining Wrestling/TheWyattFamily. He joined up, served Bray for two weeks, then betrayed him a cage match amidst a thunderous "YES!" chant.[[note]]It's been said that this all came about due to a rise in popularity of the "YES!" chants at sporting events, [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants so WWE would have been fools to not let Bryan be face]].[[/note]]