History Main / MookFaceTurn

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, [[SexFaceTurn 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.

* Scar manages to make the hyenas angry in ''Disney/TheLionKing'' by blaming them for Mufasa's death while they were in earshot. Not a good time to subvert the DisneyVillainDeath.
* In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'', Zira's lionesses abandon her and join the Pridelanders after she threatens to kill her own daughter for not fighting.

-->-- [[Literature/ActsOfTheApostles Acts 16:25-30]], [[Literature/TheBible NKJV]]

** It's completely in line with the comics, too. ComicBook/TheFlash has an odd relationship with his RoguesGallery.

* Blaggut in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ''The Bellmaker'' is eventually pushed too far by Captain Slipp [[spoiler:after Slipp kills Mellus. Blaggut snaps and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome strangles Slipp]], then goes back to the Abbey to confess]].
* In Creator/BenCounter's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/HorusHeresy'' novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', Sindermann escapes the deck he's confined to by pleading to go to the medical deck to say goodbye to an old friend.

** In ''Film/AViewToAKill'', 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 she was betrayed, and also seeing her dead friends, she helps Bond remove the bomb and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself taking it out when it explodes.

** In ''Film/AViewToAKill'', 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.

** Half-way through ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' where after [[spoiler:Emmeryn's HeroicSacrifice, the Plegian Army deserts their king ''enmasse''.]]

* In the VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft novel ''TheShatteringPreludeToCataclysm'', Stormsong leads a band of Grimtotem sent in to assassinate Baine Bloodhoof, but instead slips out and warns Baine about the plot, having believed that his leader Magatha [[MoralEventHorizon went too far]] by [[spoiler:killing Baine's father, the High Chieftain Cairne, whom Stormsong had respected despite sometimes disagreeing with]]. Stormsong then helps Baine escape and assists him in his quest to oust Magatha. After Baine succeeds, he exiles the Grimtotem except for those who swear loyalty to him, knowing that some of them did so for self-serving reasons and deciding to watch over them.

* A very spoilery example in VideoGame/TheLastGuardian, [[spoiler:our friend [[PetMonstrosity Trico]] was one of many beasts controlled by the Master of the Valley (a sort of {{Magitek}} A.I that controls Trico's kind via signals picked up by their horns) when Trico was returning with [[TheProtagonist the boy]] for him to be [[HumanResources processed]], he was struck by lightning and crashes into a mountainside breaking his horns in the process. With his horns broken he can no longer be controlled and becomes the boy's friend and the two eventually end up destroying the master.]]

* In Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', Tumnus was supposed to kidnap Humans for Jadis if he ever met them. He was already very displeased with Jadis when he met Lucy, and they became fast friends. He let her return. Jadis found out and [[TakenForGranite executed him]]. [[spoiler:He got better. He was with the Narnian envoy to Calormen in ''The Horse and his Boy''.]]

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', the Elric brothers are able to recruit all four Chimera soldiers from Central out from under [[SociopathicSoldier Kimblee]]. Al does it by making them remember that they are still humans and can try to get their bodies back; the ones Ed gets don't mind being chimeras as much, but join him because he saved their lives after Kimblee [[WeHaveReserves blew them all up]].

--> "General, this is... [[DefectorFromDecadence our]] [[InsigniaRipOffRitual answer]]."

* During a battle between Spider-Man and [[spoiler: the latest Director of SHIELD]], Norman Osborn in ''FanFic/BecauseImNotPopularIllTryToGoOutWithAHero'' is when a single [[spoiler:SHIELD agent]] begins shooting Osborn, realizing that he isn't a hero.

** half-way through ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' where after [[spoiler:Emmeryn's HeroicSacrifice, the Plegian Army deserts their king ''enmasse''.]]

** It's completely in line with the comics, too. TheFlash has an odd relationship with his RoguesGallery.

* Hack and Slash, the TerribleTrio of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', abandon their master Megabyte in Season 3 for being incompetent. They are then rebuilt by Phong, the mentor, and from then on treat him as their new master.

* In ''Film/IronMonkey'', 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.

* Sylvia seems to be doing this with a pair of Mecha-Mooks in the ''ViewtifulJoe'' anime.

* Wheelie in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''.

* This works especially well on bad guys who keep their minions in line through fear. In an episode of ''TransformersAnimated'', a villain with metal-melting acid powers coerced the Dinobots into doing his dirty work, then ordered them to his aid when he was incapacitated. When Prowl pointed out that he couldn't harm them in his current position, they swiftly turned on their former master.

* During one of the battles midway through ''ShiningForce II'', One of the Pegasus Knights in the enemy force inexplicably has an actual name. Sure enough, a few rounds into the battle, he decides to switch sides.

* Kasan Moor of ''RogueSquadron'' starts out as an elite TIE Interceptor pilot for the Empire, but defects to Rogue Squadron, after the Empire used the Death Star on her home planet of Alderaan.