Heel Face Revolving Door: Difference between revisions

** Also the same case for The shrek version of Rumpelstiltskin between 3 and 4.

* [[Godzilla]] goes through this pretty much every other movie. He was undoubtedly an unstoppable menace in the first few installments, but as the original series continued to drag on, it slowly turned him from Villain to [[Anti-Hero]] to outright Hero. This was reset in ''Godzilla 1985'', where he was a villainous monster once again, and ever since he has been more consistent as either a Villain or Anti Hero.

 

== Literature ==

* Jeb Batchelder of the ''[[Maximum Ride]]'' books. Went from [[Mad Scientist]] to helpful parental figure {{spoiler|back to mad scientist, and he's been attempting to play the father figure again lately.}}

** It's arguable that he's {{spoiler|been good the whole time}} and that {{spoiler|his daughter}} Max refuses to let go of her hatred and accept that.

* Computer Jack from [[Gone (novel)]]. He starts out the series as part of Caine's group, mostly out of fear. He seems to be considering a [[Heel Face Turn]] for a while, but Diana has to threaten him to get him to go tell Sam, the hero, how to survive his fifteenth birthday, saying that it's "time to do the right thing, even if it is for the wrong reason." He spends the first half of book 2 obviously on Sam's side, until Diana shows up and convinces him to pull a [[Face Heel Turn]] and help Caine again. She does this by promising him "the ultimate technological challenge". He spends all of a few chapters on Caine's side, turns off the power permanently, and helps Caine remove uranium from the nuclear power plant. He's already wondering why he came back. He seems to disappear for a few scenes so that Sam and Caine can experience [[Enemy Mine]] and team up against Drake, and then he's back on Sam's side. He stays on Sam's side through the entire third book, but he is also sick and not really in on the action at all. And there are still 3 more books to come.

* In ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'''s [[Novelization]], Anakin Skywalker veers between Palpatine and the Jedi in a way that's much less sudden than how it seems in the movie, even leaning several times back towards the Light Side. [[It Was His Sled|We all know where he ended up]], obviously, but the pull of doing what Obi-Wan - who wants him to defend and protect people - and Padme - who wants to love and be loved - want are as strong as doing what Palpatine wants. It's just that Palpatine knew there was a contest going on and worked to throw it, though there were some tricky moments. Notably, after waking up on the slab and hearing that he's killed his wife, Anakin ''immediately'' tries to kill Palpatine with the Force - but he's so much weaker than he used to be that he can't, and then he doesn't want to anymore. Palpatine's the only thing remotely like an ally he has.

** The 1st Edition had druids doing the same thing as Lord Gro, though in the name of "balance". They dropped this when they realized that it gives all druids [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]].

** In 2nd Edition this was instead used for the petitioners of the [[Planescape|Outlands]]. It seems to have been subsequently dropped. the rilmani still play it straight, however, constantly switching sides to maintain the [[Balance Between Good and Evil]], as well as between Law and Chaos.

** Half-giants in the ''[[Dark Sun]]'' setting have one of the weirdest alignment systems in the overall game. Like all intelligent beings in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', their alignments consist of two factors, ethics (Law and Chaos) and morals (Good and Evil); ''one'' of these factors is fixed, but the other is mutable, and is randomly determined every day. Thus, a Lawful half-giant might could be Lawful Good one day, Lawful Evil the next, and be Good again the day after that.

 

== Music ==