Deadly Change-of-Heart: Difference between revisions

** Not sure if this counts—Megatron was just trying to keep himself from being, as Carly put it, " {{spoiler|[[Memetic Mutation|Sentinel's Bitch]]}}". Odds are he would have killed Optimus as soon as he was done with {{spoiler|Sentinel}} if Optimus hadn't dealt with him first.

* In ''[[Four Lions]]'' one of the protagonists panicked and no longer wanted to be a suicide bomber, so he tried to turn himself in to the police. While he was yelling about how his costume was filled with explosives but he wasn't going to blow himself up, {{spoiler|one of his friends blew him up to stop him giving the rest of them away.}}

 

== Literature ==

** Probably does not apply. While Jacen had realized that he'd made a number of mistakes, he had no intention of turning back. It's just that what he was trying to do at the time of his death was a good thing.

* In [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s ''[[Doctor Faustus]]'', Faustus begins to regret his decision to make a deal with the devil right before he dies and is carried off to hell.

** Another possible example from the book would be the fate of Regulus Black, a former Death Eater who sacrificed his life in an attempt to destroy [[Big Bad|Voldemort's]] [[Soul Jar|Horcrux]] after realises just [[Complete Monster|how bad]] Voldemort was. Unfortunately, not only did Voldemort have more than the one Horcrux, but his accomplice was unable to destroy the one he did get - and because no one knew what he'd done, Dumbledore still ended up being horribly wounded pointlessly trying to retrieve it from the original hiding place.

** Before it even happened in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Dumbledore states that Harry sparing Pettigrew's life would give Pettigrew a chance to do the same later on; [[Wild Mass Guessing|so it could be that Pettigrew was willing to let his Evil Hand kill him before he did anything foolish]].

* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', Ankh had been on a series wide [[Heel Face Turn]] as he grew closer to Eiji and Hina. This actually happened to him ''twice''. The first time was when he was absorbed by his [[Evil Counterpart]]. Soon, after he [[Face Heel Turn]]ed, he considered [[Face Heel Revolving Door|going back]], but then {{spoiler|Dr. Maki mortally wounds him. He dies after helping Eiji destroy him.}}

* This happens to Cole in the fourth season of ''[[Charmed]]''. He finds a wizard willing to take the Source's powers, thus freeing him from being possessed but Phoebe appears on the scene and kills the wizard before he can take the powers. Cole is killed in the next episode.

 

== Music ==

* A heartbreaking example in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]: Chains of Olympus''. After [[Big Bad|Persephone]] reveals her [[Evil Plan|scheme to undo reality]], Kratos ends up slaughtering the pure souls of Elysuim in order to gain his powers back that he can stop both her and [[The Dragon|Atlas]]. The price he ends up paying is '''very''' high; in order to save the world and the underworld, he would never see Calliope again.

** The quicktime event where Kratos must push away his daughter and embrace his monstrous self again is possibly the most [[Tear Jerker|heartbreaking]] use of this type of gameplay ever created.

* Zigzagged with Charlie from ''[[Don't Starve]]''. As seen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjbOJBfk5U&t=1s the trailer for the sequel], she tries to redeem herself by rescuing Wilson from the Nightmare Throne, only to be corrupted by it herself. Although, it seems very likely her darker personality was influencing her with the ''intent'' to claim the Throne's power.

 

** More accurately, he chased them for one season, had two relatively neutral encounters, betrayed an almost-not-really-there possibility of alliance, was absent from their lives for about half a season, and ''then'' turned up wanting to be their friend. Special in that he wasn't able to do this until after experiencing the shock of doing the thing that makes them unable and unwilling to trust him. And then the feet-burning thing.

* In ''[[ReBoot]]'', the treacherous binome Cyrus was on the point of a [[Heel Face Turn]] at the end of "Firewall" after the protagonists guided him through saving the day from the [[Monster of the Week|Game Cube Of The Week]]. He was in the middle of being lauded as a hero when the [[Big Bad]] showed up and had his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|goons]] drag him onto their side of the eponymous impenetrable wall; a couple episodes later he was shown about to be executed. {{spoiler|One of the goons set him free, but he still didn't show up again until a cameo at the end of the season.}}

** Done again in the episode "Crocker Shocker", where Mr. Crocker is put under hypnosis by a desperate therapist to erase his belief in fairies. Among the changes he undergoes, he loses his hunchback look and his ears move from his neck to his head. Unfortunately, it turns out that Fairy Magic is powered by Crocker's fairy believing spazz attacks, so Timmy had to get him to change back to his old self. You know the universe is unfair when one person's sanity has to be sacrificed.

* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Terra makes a [[Face Heel Turn]] and joins Slade, becoming [[The Mole]] to the Titans. However, due to getting close to the Titans, she ends up regretting her actions, but doesn't dare to fully betray Slade, so she just tries to spare Beast Boy, taking him on a date while Slade's army infiltrate the Titan Tower. Slade tracks Terra and Beast Boy down, revealing the truth to Beast Boy. An apologetic Terra breaks down sobbing, saying she's sorry and pleads with Beast Boy to forgive her, reminding him he said they'll be friends no matter what. [[What an Idiot!|An angry Beast Boy responds with "Slade's right. You don't HAVE any friends."]] As a result, Terra fully embraces being Slade's apprentice and becomes truly ''evil'', and Beast Boy [[My God, What Have I Done?|ends up kicking himself over slamming the door in her face earlier.]] In the end, however, Terra makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] after all...[[Heroic Sacrifice|but with a cost.]]

* In ''[[Transformers Prime]]'', [[The Starscream|Starscream]] gets so sick of the being the Decepticon's [[Chew Toy]] that he tries to defect to the Autobots. Note that Starscream is not in any way repentant, he just figures he has a better chance on their side. Once it's revealed that Starscream killed [[Sacrificial Lion|Cliffjumper]], [[Action Girl|Arcee]] goes ballistic and tries to [[You Killed My Father|avenge her dead partner.]] Starscream is driven off, and is convinced that he should become a neutral party in the war.

 

== Real Life ==