Face Heel Double Turn: Difference between revisions

We're all familiar with the [[Face Heel Turn]] and the [[Heel Face Turn]] as well as all the sub tropes that go with them. However, there is the rare occasion when one character undergoes a [[Heel Face Turn]] while another does a [[Face Heel Turn]] almost simultaneously: that is the [['''Face Heel Double Turn]]'''. This comes in many forms, particularly in a whodunnit mystery. For example, the [[Red Herring]] is revealed to be good all along while the real suspect is exposed. Or perhaps in a war the hardass [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] isn't so nasty after all while a seemingly nice and innocent soldier turns out to be [[The Mole]] or [[The Big Bad]]. Of course, this trope isn't just restricted to finding out one character was good all along while the other was bad; it can refer to characters changing roles in a storyline.

The Trope Namer comes from [[Professional Wrestling]], where two wrestlers will switch face and heel roles during an actual angle or match. It should be noted that it doesn't count if there are two faces and one turns heel or vice versa -- bothversa—both have to switch roles. Also note that despite the name, it needn't be confined to just two characters. The "double" part refers to two roles switching around.

* ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' follows the [[Red Herring]] example above. Sirius Black is, for most of the book, presented as an evil mass murderer who {{spoiler|betrayed Harry's parents}} and murdered his childhood friend Peter Pettigrew. Then comes [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|Peter betrayed Harry's parents and framed Sirius}}.

* Both Catherine (the elder) and Heathcliff go through the [[Face Heel Revolving Door]] several times in ''[[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' that include bits where Catherine is a bitch for marrying Edgar and abandoning Heathcliff but then he's the bad guy for stirring up trouble and ruining her happy marriage while she's pregnant.

* The third season of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' has {{spoiler|Isabella}} rejecting the Outlaws in favour of Prince John while {{spoiler|Guy of Gisborne}} is gradually redeemed.

* On Bound for Glory 10.10.10., [[Hulk Hogan]], Jeff Jarrett, [[Jeff Hardy]], and Eric Bischoff all turned heel together revealing themselves and Abyss to have conspired together to wrest control of [[TNA]] from Dixie Carter, naming their subsequent group Immortal. Suddenly the deception that [[Wrestler/Sting (wrestling)|Sting]], [[Kevin Nash]], and D'Angelo Dinero were talking about when they were rabble-rousing against Hogan and Bischoff made perfect sense.

* Depending on the player, ''[[Star Wars]]'': ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Videovideo Gamegame)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' can go this way, with {{spoiler|Revan}} becoming increasingly Light while {{spoiler|Bastila}} falls to the Dark Side.