History Main / MookFaceTurn

Very closely related to HelpFaceTurn. See also GoodAllAlong, and TalkingYourWayOut.

** A straighter example from the series finale comes after the Dominion glasses a Cardassian city, ''pour encourager les autres'', [[UnderStatement which backfires.]] Colonel Kira and some members of LaResistance are caught up in a firefight that abruptly ends when two Cardassian soldiers gun down the Jem'Hadar in vengeance, and shortly thereafter the Cardassian element of the system defence fleet follows suit in the middle of fighting off the joint Federation/Klingon taskforce that had been attempting to invade them. Nice Job Breaking It BigBad!

* ''{{Farscape}}'' had the CapuletCounterpart variation with Aeryn Sun. Later done again in "PK Tech Girl" with Gilina. In her case she returned again to save John's hiney when he got captured, but their budding romance was cut short. What? Being a MauveShirt on an AnyoneCanDie show is risky business! (Sad business, too)
* Happens with Jayne in ''{{Firefly}}'', who Mal bribes into his team with better pay and his own bunk. Mal was so persuasive that Jayne shot his former employer!

* ''GundamWing: [[TheMovie Endless Waltz]]'': When it's revealed that [[ManipulativeBastard Dekim Barton]] only cares about himself and manipulating his entire army by invoking the name of the late Treize Khushrenada, a nearby mook draws his gun, shoots Dekim dead, and then apologizes for betraying Treize's ideals.

* She's not exactly a mook, but Jinx of ''TeenTitans'' has one of these thanks to the surprisingly sweet attention Kid Flash keeps giving her.

* In ''Moonraker'', JamesBond tricks Hugo Drax into [[EvilGloating talking about his plan]] to exterminate everybody who doesn't fit into his genetically perfect "master race" [[RightInFrontOfMe in front of Jaws]], who then turns against the villains. Seeing his bespectacled, short, and somewhat plain looking girlfriend standing beside the supermodel-level women that make up the female half of Drax's group didn't hurt, either.
* In ''A View To A Kill'', the villain Max Zorin goes ahead and floods the mines fully aware that the workers and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] Mayday are down there. Mayday and Bond survive, on discovering her betrayal and seeing her dead friends, she helps Bond remove the bomb and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself taking it out when it explodes.

* This was actually a ''power'' of the titular child [[TheMessiah messiah]] in ''The Golden Child.''
** In the opening sequence where the villain kidnaps him with the help of mongol mooks, one accidentally touches the child's hand, looks up with a [[EpiphanyTherapy contrite expression]], and charges at the head baddy.

* This was actually a ''power'' of the titular child [[TheMessiah messiah]] in ''The Golden Child.'' In the opening sequence where the villain kidnaps him with the help of mongol mooks, one accidentally touches the child's hand, looks up with a [[EpiphanyTherapy contrite expression]], and charges at the head baddy.

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If ''that'' doesn't work, just bribe them. Filthy lucre can work remarkably well on the morally flexible, and just because you're heroes doesn't mean you can't [[FlawExploitation exploit the inherent flaws of evil.]] If the villain keeps ThePaidForHarem nearby, seducing the concubines or appealing to their [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold good nature]] usually works. Or just tricking them into getting the key; they aren't usually very bright.

* In ''Moonraker'', JamesBond [[RumplestiltskinPloy tricks Hugo Drax into talking about his plan]] to exterminate everybody who doesn't fit into his genetically perfect "master race" in front of Jaws, who then turns against the villains. Seeing his bespectacled, short, and somewhat plain looking girlfriend standing beside the supermodel-level women that make up the female half of Drax's group didn't hurt, either.

* Played with in OrderOfTheStick: One of the common Hobgoblins is found by a Paladin Black Ops Team (yes, this is as heartless as it sounds) on the wrong side of the whip in an Azure City slave camp because he was racist towards one of the normal goblin immigrants. He pleads to defect sides. The paladins proceed to lead him to the edge of the rooftop and throw him off.

No, seriously. Half the time they're part of a WeirdTradeUnion or are {{Punch Clock Villain}}s and otherwise normal people. Ask them if they know what their boss did to [[YouHaveFailedMe Bob,]] or [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes plans to do to their family]]. Do they know the scar behind their left ear contains a [[VillainOverride mind control device?]] How about that their boss [[InvoluntarySuicideMechanism can remote activate]] a CyanidePill he had installed during their last trip to the dentist if things go south?

If that doesn't scare 'em straight, then ask them about their wife and kids, hobbies, or sports team. An ounce of CharacterDevelopment will make them a MauveShirt and get them to do a HeelFaceTurn faster than you can say [[SignedUpForTheDental "No Dental".]]

* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/011025c Helping Chadling]]

* In ''[[MetalGear Metal Gear Solid 3]]'', When Snake is imprisoned, one tactic you can try is chatting up and bonding with the guard. Although the guard won't let you out or switch sides, you can see the code to open your cell door on the back of a picture he's showing you, and out of sympathy he may also hand you a pack of cigarettes you were carrying -- which, if you got them before here, are actually concealed weapons loaded with an incapacitating gas.

* In ''Iron Monkey'', the crooked Governor's chief of police, Chief Fox, starts growing disaffected with his work after seeing the Governor order an innocent boy imprisoned just to force his father, martial arts master Wong Kaye-Ying, to stay in town and battle the Iron Monkey. After Wong Kaye-Ying decides to ally with the Iron Monkey, the monstrously evil Imperial Minister orders Wong's son to be publicly tortured to draw both his father and the Iron Monkey into an immediate rescue attempt. At this, Chief Fox just plain flips out and tries to both single-handedly rescue the boy, and then kill his way through the Imperial Minister's [[TheDragon Dragon]] and accompanying mooks. Being just a mook, he obviously fails, but he most certainly did try.