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The Turncoat is the guy who switches sides at some point to help out the other side. Can be a hero who turns bad, or a bad guy who suddenly decides to help the good guys, but usually it's just anyone who thinks that the switch will benefit them personally. If they're discovered to have been on the "other" side the whole time, they're The Mole. If they're faking their switch, they're a Fake Defector. If they switch back and forth, they're going through the Heel–Face Revolving Door. There are several possible motivations. Someone who decides that their side is corrupt or otherwise unworthy may become a Defector from Decadence; someone who simply wants to end up on the winning team may decide that I Fight for the Strongest Side!. It's interesting to note the origins of the phrase "turn coat". Back in the day (we're talking horse and musket age) soldiers defecting to the other side would turn their coats around so the liner would face the outside, to indicate they were not a soldier of the enemy. Of course, one only did this when you were far enough away from your own lines, lest you fall victim to Friendly Fire for treason. Turncoat has almost universally negative connotations: calling someone a turncoat is roughly equivalent to calling them a traitor, scoundrel, self-serving jerk, or other bad names. It's rare to find someone called a turncoat with good implications, though the trope can refer to bad guys becoming good guys just as often as the opposite. Compare Opportunistic Bastard, Wild Card, Dirty Coward and Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Not to be confused with The Dresden Files novel Turn Coat. |
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The Black Arrow: Sir Daniel Brackley constantly changed sides during the Wars of the Roses, profiting every side. During the Battle of Risingham, he is insistently asked by his Lancastrian "allies" to join the battle, but he tries and stalls for time until it is clear who is winning, and he nearly changes sides when it looks like the House of York is crushing them. | |
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Bleach: Uryuu Ishida goes from being an enemy of Ichigo and the shinigami to an ally... albeit with loopholes helping him along the way to protect his pride. Aizen, Gin and Tousen betray Soul Society to join Hueco Mundo. Then Aizen betrays Hueco Mundo and Tousen. Aizen and Gin betray each other. In the Zanpakutou Arc, Byakuya betrays the shinigami to side with the rebelling zanpakutou. He's actually a Fake Defector. |
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Fire Emblem: Many recruitable characters start out on the enemy side, but can either be persuaded to join by your Lord character persuading them that their cause is wrong, your Lord character giving them a fat sack of cash, or a friend/relative/lover asking them to switch sides. Some examples include Beowulf from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, who will turn against his employers if someone carrying 10,000 gold talks to him, and Tharja from Fire Emblem: Awakening, a Plegian Dark Mage who finds herself disillusioned with her home nation and can join up with the Shepherds if Chrom talks to her. Treason in the heroes' home country or allies is also common. Binding Blade is particularly rife with this. Several lords in the so-called Lycian League throw in with Bern when it invades. A huge chunk of Ostia's army also betrays their land after Marquess Hector is killed and plot to kill his daughter Lilina. (They fail.) The morality of defecting to the player's side is a matter of some weight. Unsympathetic enemies tend to be contemptuous of their former allies as having been useless all along, while more sympathetic antagonists tend to be outraged at their friends' lack of loyalty to their country. |
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Iago in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, which gets a Lampshade Hanging in House of Mouse where Depending on the Writer, Iago is either Jafar's henchman or Aladdin's sidekick. | |
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In The Hour of the Dragon, Publio turns on Conan because Conan's presence might reveal that his wealth springs from dealing with Conan when he was a corsair. | |
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Harry Potter: Peter Pettigrew, who sold out two of his best friends, Lily and James Potter, to Voldemort, and then framed a third friend, Sirius Black, for the whole thing. He considered turning back (just a little bit!) after Harry Potter saved his life, but the mere thought of betraying Voldemort caused his magical prosthetic arm to strangle him. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown: Raimundo once betrayed his friends and joined Wuya. He later returned to them. Omi would later join Chase Young but that was justified by a Wu's effect. Raimundo also joined forces with Hannibal Roy Bean but in that case, he was just a Fake Defector. | |
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Played for laugh in Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. When Nepgear is tricked to switch side to Vert, a notification told everyone that "Nepgear gained Turncoat affinity!" | |
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The Dresden Files novel Turncoat. However, the true traitor isn't exposed until the end. | |
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The 4th Touhou M-1 Grand Prix had Utsuho, Orin, Satori & Koishi swap partners. | |
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Tower of God: Rapdevil switches sides from Prince's team to Kim Lurker's defectors. | |
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In Discworld, Nobby Nobbs is famous in times of war for exactly this. He hovers around the edge of the battlefield, swiping boots off the fallen soldiers and will just move in with whoever he thinks is winning. The generals used his uniform as an indicator to tell who was winning. | |
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Final Fantasy VII: Reeve Tuesti, controlling Cait Sith is The Mole for the bad guys at first, but quickly swaps sides wholeheartedly once he's found out, even taking a risk for the party through sacrificing one of his puppets for their cause. | |
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Inuyasha: Kagura desired her freedom from her enslavement to Naraku. As the story develops, she helps Sesshoumaru against Naraku more and more and begins to aid Inuyasha's group against him, too. When she takes active measures to save Kohaku's life, Naraku finally ends hers. | |
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Beyblade: Kai Hiwatari switches sides six times. First, he's part of the antagonistic Blade Sharks. Then he joins the Bladebreakers (first switch). Then he switches sides and joins the Demolition Boys (a Face–Heel Turn, and switch #2). Then he switches sides again and rejoins the Bladebreakers (three). He stays with them until he goes over to the Blitzkrieg Boys (the Demolition Boys renamed, and switch number four). His next move is to join the bad guys of season three, BEGA (five). Of course, he realizes the error of his ways and switches back again (six). | |
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This happens a few times in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Faro Argyus in Season 1 episode "Cloak of Darkness". He secretly works under Asajj Ventress to free Nute Gunray from Jedi custody. Clonetrooper Slick in Season 1 episode "The Hidden Enemy". It's revealed Slick was tired of being a 'slave' to the Jedi and decides to join forces with the Separatists. Pong Krell in the Umbara arc of Season 4, who leads the 501st in the Battle of Umbara. Turns out he was turning armies of clones against each other. |
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Played with in regard to the vampire Durkon in The Order of the Stick. When he's first turned, he is a thrall to Malack, the vampire who created him, and is forced to fight against his former allies. After his creator's destruction restores his free will, he immediately joins back up with his friends. Except it's a ruse— a vampire in the OotS-verse isn't the same person they were when alive, but a malevolent spirit masquerading as them, with the original personality a helpless witness. Durkon's vampiric spirit is actually the High Priest of Hel, and while the audience is shown this almost immediately, it takes a while for the rest of the characters to catch on. | |
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Justin Law in Soul Eater defects from the DWMA to become a devotee to the Kishin. | |
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In All Fall Down, Pronto becomes this in exchange for a new pair of legs. | |
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Zevran from Dragon Age: Origins may join your party after you foil his attempt to assassinate you for Loghain. If he does, depending on his Relationship Values, he might later turn around and rejoin the enemy. | |
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Treason in the heroes' home country or allies is also common. Binding Blade is particularly rife with this. Several lords in the so-called Lycian League throw in with Bern when it invades. A huge chunk of Ostia's army also betrays their land after Marquess Hector is killed and plot to kill his daughter Lilina. (They fail.) | |
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The X-Files: AD Walter Skinner started a bit shady and it looked like he was working with the Cancer Man. He turned out to be one of the few good guys at the FBI and trusted ally for Mulder and Scully. Episode "S.R. 819" paints him as a turncoat who seeks benefits for himself. He has a touching scene in hospital where he tells Scully he wishes to be helpful. Yet at the end of the episode, he refuses to support Mulder and Scully's quest. | |
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Melchior in Sodom and Gomorrah is already a self-serving schemer before he and his fellow Hebrews reach the title cities, but he completely turns traitor after first directing Prince Astaroth in his aggressive pursuit of Lot's daughter Shuah, then willingly joins the Sodomites and passes on intel about the Hebrews' defences against a possible attack by the Elamites (who are in league with Astaroth). The Hebrew elders are incensed to discover he has turned traitor and declare that he is dead to them. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Tohru's Heel–Face Turn at the end of Season 1. | |
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Richard Cameron from Dead Poets Society, who is worried about getting caught in the Society's off-campus secret parties, and informs Dean Nolan of the Society's activities after Neil's suicide, resulting in Keating's forced resignation from the Welton teaching staff. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula joins forces with the imprisoned Long Feng and takes control of his Dai Li agents to capture the Avatar, overthrow the king, and free Long Feng from prison. Once the Earth Kingdom is under their control, Long Feng wants to dump her and rule by himself. However, during the time of her leadership, the Dai Li have come to greatly appreciate the ability and ruthlessness of Azula, so they just ignore his order to capture her, waiting for them to prove who is more worthy of their loyalty. Azula wins, easily. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In the final episode, the Cardassian ships turn on their Dominion allies and aid the Federation Alliance fleet. Though the fact that one of their major cities on their homeworld had been wiped from the face of the planet might have had something to do with it. Gul Dukat fits this trope alone, when he realizes that the military is going to be overthrown he switches to back the civilians ("Way of the Warrior") | |
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Tales of Symphonia: Yuan switches from allying with the heroes to trying to kill them so often even the other characters comment on how hard it is to keep track. It makes sense, as he's a double agent within the villains' organization, and leads his own organization opposing the villains that is easily confused with said villains. So he never really switches sides, just motives. Pretty much half of the cast betrays Lloyd at one point or another. Which makes you wonder just how naive he is. | |
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Zebra Girl: Lampshaded after Sam has already berated the gangsters for using cheesy movie plot lines. | |
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Final Fantasy II: Count Borghen betrayed Fynn to the Empire, becoming a general and leading to the assault that starts off the game. | |
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Final Fantasy IV: Kain Highwind switches sides four times throughout the course of the game. He was under More than Mind Control from about one hour into the game to about one hour until the end of the game. Golbez just liked to screw with the heroes by slackening his control on Kain. | |
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Terra from Teen Titans (2003) manages to be both this and the mole. She starts off on the Titans side but is swayed over to Slade at the promise of him helping her control her powers, she then comes back and joins the team as The Mole. | |
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Quirrell's school armies start allowing these a few games in. The idea of being a spy is sufficiently appealing that it very quickly devolves into absolute chaos, and the armies turn into three flocks of wolves — Draco and Hermione struggle to keep their armies in line, while Harry thrives. This turns out to be Quirrell's setup for a very poor message of "fascism is good, actually". Of course, he is Voldemort, so we're not actually meant to agree with him. | |
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Lost: Juliet turned good while Michael turned bad and then good again. Ben often is in a Heel–Face Revolving Door, depending on who's side he's on at that moment and what his present goal is. He undergoes a final Heel–Face Turn in the final episode, after Hurley offers him a second chance at redemption, as his Number Two while he settles into the role as new protector of the Island. |
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In Rogues in the House, Conan's Back Story includes being betrayed by a woman. After he's out of prison, he tracks her down and (since she is a woman) abducts her to drop her in a cesspit. | |
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In "The Scarlet Citadel" Amalrus, who lured Conan into an inverted Cavalry Betrayal. | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Any troops you build up in a city but haven't purchased yet can be bought up by anyone who takes the city from you. Those Archangels you've been saving your gems for can become reinforcements for your enemies' armies. Heroes who have been defeated in battle (i.e., haven't fled or surrendered) return to the pool of heroes that anyone, including your enemies, can recruit from, with all their levels and artifacts. The same happens if they do flee or surrender, and you don't re-hire them by the end of the week. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire is filled with these. Particularly sellswords, who will abandon battle and even turn against those who hired them and join the enemy if the tide is against them. Theon Greyjoy is dubbed Theon Turncloak by the Northeners after he rejoins his family and betrays Robb. On Robb's side is also Lord Roose Bolton and Lord Walder Frey. They betray the Starks at the Red Wedding, when in a shocking violation of guest right the Freys kill his mother and most of his army, Roose personally murdering Robb. Because rule of the Stormlands is contested early on by three different members of House Baratheon, it becomes something of a Running Gag for any given Stormlord to rapidly change sides due to changing circumstances. Given the cynicism of the series, those that do not switch sides end up suffering for not being able to adapt. The Second Sons once sworn themselves to Daenerys, then they switched sides with Yunkai when they lay siege to Meereen. Then its revealed they were playing Fake Defector, and were really on Daenerys side all along. "The Princess and the Queen", an in-universe history about a civil war between two branches of the Targaryen dynasty (the Greens and the Blacks), has Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White. They are dragonseeds (illegitimate descendants of those with Valyrian blood), who are recruited to become dragonriders by the Black claimant, Rhaenyra. However they betray her army at Tumbleton, joining the Greens for unknown reasons. Later they prove treacherous to the Greens, planning to seize power themselves. This leads to the Greens murdering them. |
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The Lord of Bembibre: In the former Castilian civil war, the Count of Lemos betrayed the Queen MarÃa to join the Infante Don Juan when he realized what side was clearly going to lose. | |
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The Bible: In 2nd Samuel, Ishbosheth's military captain Abner, who supported him when he became king of most of Israel after his father King Saul had died, decided to defect and turn over the entire kingdom to its rightful God-anointed ruler David (who ruled over Judah at the time) when Ishbosheth accused him of sleeping with his father's concubine and Abner took offense to that. | |
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Many recruitable characters start out on the enemy side, but can either be persuaded to join by your Lord character persuading them that their cause is wrong, your Lord character giving them a fat sack of cash, or a friend/relative/lover asking them to switch sides. Some examples include Beowulf from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, who will turn against his employers if someone carrying 10,000 gold talks to him, and Tharja from Fire Emblem: Awakening, a Plegian Dark Mage who finds herself disillusioned with her home nation and can join up with the Shepherds if Chrom talks to her. | |
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Victoria: Though Lieutenant-Governor Asa Bowen was loyal to Governor Adams personally during the civil war, he comes to disagree with the newly independent Confederation's politics, as well as the growing power of the military clique around Chief of Staff John Rumford and shadowy elder statesman William Kraft. Eventually, under the influence of his mistress, he joins the mutinous "Deep Green" faction and leads a coup attempt against the constitutional government. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: Not that Kallor made the most trustworthy impression beforehand, but his betrayal still comes as a bit of a shock to his superiors. Nobody thought that he would willingly join the Crippled God just to get a shot at Silverfox. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: In Ben Counter's Horus Heresy novel Galaxy In Flames, Lucius motivated by envy of how Tarvitz took command, betrays the last survivors of Horus's treacherous attack. | |
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In Harald, the leader of King James's secret police betrays him when James makes a Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Grid Legends: Lara acts as this for Seneca right before the final race, she does so to expose the McKanes for illegally modifying their cars to keep Nathan as Ravenwest's top driver. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004) has Vio, a Fake Defector, and Shadow, who pulls a Heel–Face Turn and helps the heroes. | |
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Flarejet in Transformers: Operation Combination, a Decepticon who used to be an Autobot and a friend of Firefoad | |
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Survival of the Fittest: Julie Mikan, who started off Heel did a Heel–Face Turn then managed another Face–Heel Turn. | |
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John Carter of Mars: In Chessmen of Mars, the ancient I-Gos is perpetually praising his days. So thorough is his admiration that he changes his loyalties on realizing who is The Hero. | |
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Little Giants: Spike Hammersmith when he leaves the Little Giants and plays for the Cowboys after initially joining the Giants because Danny fibbed and said he was Kevin. Considering how he was tricked into joining the Little Giants in the first place, can anyone really hold it against Spike? | |
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Phantom Doctrine includes this as a gameplay mechanic: if you capture an enemy agent and have the appropriate technology, you can make them into a sleeper agent and release them to work for you at certain times and in certain ways. Of course, you have to be careful, because the same can happen to your agents (unless they have the perk "Loyal", which prevents any brainwashing). In the CIA storyline, Fender is considered a Turncoat, to the point of the Cabal using that as his codename after he betrays them, but it's clear to the player early on that he's been brainwashed against his will: the key in the game is to find out how, and more importantly, why. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith (Face-Heel, then Heel-Face) and Spike (Heel-Face, then Face-Heel, then back Heel-Face). Not to mention Angel (Heel-Face when he got a soul, Face-Heel when he lost it, etc. ad nauseum). Also Andrew (Heel-Face) and Anya (Heel-Face, brief Face-Heel, then back to Heel-Face). | |
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In Shōgi, captured pieces change sides. | |
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Esmer in The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is chronically unable to choose a side, to the annoyance of everyone involved. He has the rare distinction of being able to switch sides several times a day and the personal power to pull it off. | |
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