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=== '''WARNING:''' While Heel Face Door Slam does not always involve a [[Death Tropes|character's death]], it often does, so here be [[Spoiler|Spoilers]]. ===
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** Though how much deciding that you're only going to murder one more person for money counts as a [[Heel Face Turn]] is a matter of some dispute.
** The samurai doesn't appear to feel remorseful and the bookie doesn't appear to force the samurai into one last fight. The samurai wants to earn enough money to care for his family and the fight with Usagi just happens to be the one that would give the samurai enough Ryo to live a quiet, peaceful life with his wife and child. The samurai fights this last fight not because the bookie is forcing him to, but because he wants more Ryo.
* In ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' Mac Gargan, a.k.a. the Scorpion, ends up wandering the sewers at one point, depressed but with a clearer head than he had had for a long time. Eventually, his sanity starts to return, and he is about to make a [[Heel Face Turn]] when Spider-Man {{spoiler|having depression issues of his own, finds Gargan and [[What the Hell, Hero?|attacks him savagely ignoring Gargan's pleas that he had changed.]] Gargan then goes crazy again to save himself and continues his life of super-villain debauchery, first as Scorpion, and later as a new Venom}}.
* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'': V4 has a wretchedly sadistic example in Sun Boy, a long-standing Legionnaire who'd been seduced into being the public face of the evil Earthgov. Faced with an impending disaster, he tried to put his costume back on and save the city, only to a) meet with public scorn and b) be caught in the explosion of a fusion reactor. Wait, we're not done: due to his powers, the explosion didn't kill him (actually, due to his powers [[Did Not Do the Research|the explosion shouldn't even have touched him]]; oh well); instead it left him a mangled, screaming, ''burning'' wreck. He then spent the next ''year and a half'' on life-support, in agonizing pain and reliving his worst memories, until finally he was [[Mercy Kill|shot]] by his lover/[[The Handler|handler]] (who then killed herself). That door slammed so hard it ''broke''.
* In ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'', during the Battle of St Petersburg, a random [[Mook]] suddenly had a change of heart and shoved a machine gun operator out of the way to stop him firing on the Romanov forces. Immediately afterwards, Jena, unaware of what he had just done, stabbed him in the chest.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Smeagol's literal [[Heel Face Turn|face turn]] on the stairs of Cirith Ungol. Smeagol's gentle touch of Frodo's knee is [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|misinterpreted by Sam]] as an attack on his master (or molestation, as Sam's wording of it implies.) This marks the last point in the book where Smeagol had a chance at redemption...<ref>But Frodo's "faith" in Gollum is rewarded when Gollum ends up destroying the Ring anyway, and Sam also makes up for his earlier mistake by sparing Gollum when he has a chance to kill him, which helps result in said destruction of the Ring.</ref>
** Wormtongue appears to have one of these in the penultimate chapter. You can sense that he really does want to leave Saruman, but as he's hesitating, Saruman mocks him. This drives him to kill Saruman, and then the hobbits kill him.
* In ''[[The Stand]]'', an especially ironic example is the story of Nadine Cross, who spent her whole life believing she had to save her virginity for [[Dream Weaver|Randall Flagg]], who is revealed to be [[The Antichrist]]; when she falls in love with good guy [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|Larry Underwood]] she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her to remove the spell, after he has fallen in love with someone else. When [[Friend or Idol Decision|he refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'', Londo temporarily walks away from his dealings with Morden, until his lover is murdered and he asks Morden for help in getting revenge. {{spoiler|In fact, [[Manipulative Bastard|Morden was behind the murder, in order to manipulate Londo into doing just that.]]}}
** When Londo learns the truth, he becomes [[The Atoner]], but gets the door slammed on his face again and again. Eventually, he plans a {{spoiler|[[Thanatos Gambit]]}} with the only people who still believe in him: [[Morality Chain|Vir Cotto]] and [[Fire
* There was an early episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' where Xena, after encountering some of her former warriors back from her days as a [[Blood Knight]], convinces one of them that her commitment to reform is genuine. Later on in the episode, that guy sacrifices his life to save her. Fast forward to a different episode, where Xena is asked by Hades himself to go to the underworld, because evil has achieved a Karma Inversion: all the blessed people who used to play in the Elysium Fields have been sent to Tartarus, and all the evil folks condemned to Tartarus are partying in Elysium. When she gets there, she finds her dead friend, and realizes that if he's in Elysium ''now'', he must have been in Tartarus before. He confirms it, saying something like "One sacrifice wasn't enough to make up for a lifetime of evil." In the end however, he's allowed to stay in Elysium for good after helping save Hades.
* Boomer of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', who [[Heel Face Revolving Door|switched sides more time than this entry will try to document]], finally got the door slammed on her as the series approached the end. After {{spoiler|faking a [[Heel Face Turn]]}} and returning {{spoiler|Ellen}} to the fleet, she {{spoiler|steals Hera and returns to the Cylons. However, Boomer and Hera bond and she feels immense regret for what she's done, so she takes Hera and returns her to Athena, her real mother. Athena, sick of Boomer's bullshit, shoots her. At least Boomer was savvy enough to realize returning Hera was going to be the last thing she does}}.
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* In ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat]]'', this happens to Cyrax, who gets a chapter in Story Mode showing his signs of turning good, ditching the Lin Kuei over the Cyber Initiative. Then he got captured and roboticized off-screen.
** [[Late Arrival Spoiler|Elder Sub-Zero dies at Scorpion's hand and his soul descends into the Netherrealm to become Noob Saibot]] (as foreshadowed in ''Mythologies'' and revealed in ''Deception''). Raiden tries to avert this in ''9'' by striking a deal with Scorpion (if Scorpion doesn't kill Sub-Zero, he'll ask the Elder Gods to restore Scorpion's family to life), but Quan Chi, being the [[Manipulative Bastard|asshole]] that he is [[Blatant Lies|creates false images of Sub-Zero killing Scorpion's wife and child]], causing Scorpion to lash out and kill his nemesis in anger anyway. So, not only does the younger Sub-Zero get dragged into the picture alongside Smoke ''again'', but his older brother [[Came Back Wrong|returns to life]] as Noob Saibot ''again''. This also comes with the unfortunate side-effect of Scorpion playing Quan Chi's lapdog, something that Raiden calls him out on (in the original timeline, Scorpion learned that Quan Chi, and ''not'' either of the Sub-Zero brothers killed his family, and chased Quan Chi through the Netherrealm after ''4'', beating the tar out of him).
** Also, Sindel. True to ''[[Mortal Kombat 3 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 3]]'', she's brought [[Back From the Dead]] as a part of Shao Kahn's [[Evil Plan]], [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]. In the original timeline, she was able to break free of her mind control and was reunited with her daughter Kitana and their allies. {{spoiler|Here, Shao Kahn empowers her with Shang Tsung's soul, allowing her to ''[[Kill
* [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]] has Officer Hernandez, the third, [[The Voiceless|silent]] member of C.R.A.S.H (Well, not completely silent. The one time he speaks is on the phone with C.J. warning him that C.R.A.S.H is going to make sure he stays in Los Santos and works with them.) who acts as a Foil to the loudmouthed [[Big Bad|Tenpenny]] and [[Jerkass|Pulaski.]] Eventually however, he got fed up with [[Dirty Cop|Tenpenny and Pulaski's ways]] sometime offscreen as his final cutscene is of Tenpenny beating him with a shovel for being a snitch, and having C.J. dig his grave at gunpoint. Hernandez isn't dead though, and he gets back up to try and tackle Pulaski, only to get shot, finally dying.
** The Introduction DVD expands on this. Hernandez speaks in it, telling a story about how he had to make a difficult decision between letting a man beat his crack addicted wife, or jailing the man and leaving the obviously unsuitable for children wife with their kids, establishing himself as a cop with morals. The other two cops scoff at that being a difficult decision, telling him that they're gonna be making difficult decisions on a regular basis. Later on, they force him to personally shoot a cop who had evidence proving that Tenpenny and Pulaski were crooked, so he can "be a fucking man." It makes Hernandez's death all the more tragic, as he was pretty much one of the handful of good cops in the whole series.
* {{spoiler|Gaspard}} in ''[[Dark Cloud (Video Game)|Dark Cloud]] 2'' realizes that he's lost his way after a [[Not So Different]] moment with the hero and decides to quit serving the [[Big Bad]] and back out of the conflict entirely, expressing a wish to see the end of the heroes' journey and maybe end his own with them. Unfortunately for him, the [[Big Bad]] pulls a [[Villain Override]] out of spite and the heroes are reluctantly forced to kill him.
* {{spoiler|Specialist Cross}} in ''[[Prototype (Video Game)|Prototype]]'' helps Alex Mercer defeat Blackwatch in the later half of the game. {{spoiler|He is killed by the Supreme Hunter before he gets the chance reveals his true identity to Alex}}.
* [[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion]]: The Meherun's Razor DLC involves a mad wizard seeking an artifact weapon as part of his bid to invade Cyrodil. Deep inside his fortress, you encounter Khajiit workers bussed in by the wizard to help work his mines and outfit his army. Of course, they attack you on sight just like everyone else, despite the fact that they're not wearing armor and most of them have nothing but hoes and rakes to attack you with. While poking around, you can find a letter home by one of the workers saying that they hate Cyrodil and the work sucks, but [[Money, Dear Boy|the money's too good]]. It also mentions that they're planning rebelling on at very least against the head smith in the near future. Of course, that worker is probably dead now...
** Much like the [[Penny Arcade]] example below, there's a lot of talk about missing the recipient of the letter and sending them needed money.
* In [[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]], the Blades want you to do this to {{spoiler|Paarthunax, the dragon leader of the Graybeards, for his past crimes... nevermind the fact that the only reason the atrocities were thwarted was because of his eventual notion that these mortals are worth something, and teaching them how to overcome Alduin.}}
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* [[Trigger Star]] has [http://www.triggerstar.com/index.php?strip_id=68 this.]
** In Avocado's defense, that was the most competent he's ever been at anything.
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has a definite example in v4, with minor player {{spoiler|Remy Kim}}. After leaving behind one person to die in a dangerzone after stabbing him and then also stabbing a battered girl, he runs into Sarah Tan, his friend from school, and has a [[Heel Realization]]. He vows to protect her, and it ''looks'' like she might be a [[Morality Pet]] - type figure... but not only is she angry at him for his actions, but he promptly gets [[Boom Headshot|headshotted]] [[Killed Mid
** Lyn Burbank spends her early part of the game trying to play the game after killing her cousin, and even after she joins a group to repay being rescued from a [[Villainous Breakdown|nervous breakdown]], it eventually falls apart, ending in her [[Mercy Kill|MercyKilling]] one of the members and pulling a gun on the other one before leaving him behind, going on to return to playing the game. After she gets caught and [[Cold
** Non-death variant; Reiko Ishida, after her murder of {{spoiler|Carol Burke}} among other things, becomes more hesitant to play the game, and once she finds her girlfriend Sarah Xu, she's obviously happy. However when {{spoiler|the escape boats arrive}} she is denied going with Sarah, on the basis that she was playing the game to begin with. It ends with {{spoiler|Sarah going on the escape boat (though reluctantly) and Reiko staying}}.
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* Taken to ridiculous extremes in the ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' [[Made for TV Movie|TV movie]] Channel Chasers. At the end of the movie, Timmy's [[Sadist Teacher]] Mr. Crocker was seen coming out of therapy, cured of his obsession with fairies and decides to turn his life around. He even discovered cold fusion! Then, [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|even though he had nothing to do with the plot]] (in fact his very appearance was probably just to show he's a [[Cosmic Plaything]]), Timmy's wish that nobody remembers anything that happened from when the film began affected him, returning him to his fairy-obsessed self who tosses his cold fusion generator away because he doesn't know what it is anymore.
** 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.
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