Citations:heel-face turns

English citations of heel-face turns

• 2017, Malcah Effron, Brian Johnson, The Function of Evil across Disciplinary Contexts, →ISBN, page 56:

  At first glance, most recent villains who undergo a Heel-Face Turn, and several of their (anti-)heroic counterparts, seem to fit this definition of evil.

• 2018, Silje Elisabeth Slettetveit, The Wizard Walk, →ISBN, page 217:

  He made a heel-face turn mood-wise.

• 2018 July 26, Kate Gardner, “What Character Has Your Favorite Redemption Arc?”, in The Mary Sue:

  His heel-face-turn was short lived, though; he died shortly afterwards, in the arms of his son, and only received peace on the spectral plane.

• 2018 December 21, Larry Ryan, “Time for Jose to turn underdog”, in Irish Examiner:

  Or the man who did more than most to turn professional football into a WWE-style pantomime of over-wrought theatrics and scripted malevolence, could yet perform the most audacious heel-face turn of them all.

• 2018 December 25, Alex Fox, “Government Shutdowns Are Good and Easy to Win—Just Like Trade Wars”, in Social News Daily:

  After insisting that he would “proudly” take responsibility for the shutdown, he executed an expert and predictable heel-face turn and blamed it on Congressional Democrats.

• 2019 February 1, Luke Reilly, “Long Time Fast & Furious Writer Explains What Makes the Series Special”, in IGN:

  Now, I’m a massive fan of Jason Statham, and have been since Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, but how do you go about continuing to manage this heel-face turn with Shaw?

• 2019 February 4, Brandon Jones, “Fast & Furious: Redemption Requires Revelation – The Case Against Deckard Shaw”, in LRM:

  Two movies later, Shaw does a heel-face turn in Fate of the Furious, going from murderer of a character I genuinely enjoyed, to trying to murder all of the FF family throughout the subsequent movie, to BBQing with the FF family on a New York rooftop (as they strangely name a baby after his still living uncle when they should have named him Paul!…I digress), to headlining his own spinoff series.