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Comic Books
Finn: Ice King, what's the deal? I thought we made some personal breakthroughs last time!
Jake: Why you even gotta get sassy, man?
Finn: Seriously! You act like you're all cool for like a whole couple months and then BAM: back to type!
Jake: Why you even gotta get sassy, man?
Finn: Seriously! You act like you're all cool for like a whole couple months and then BAM: back to type!
Fan Works
Asajj Ventress: Traitor!
Slick: Triple crosser.
Slick: Triple crosser.
Film — Animated
Chief Luggins: I don't get you guys. You're good, then you're bad, then you're sort of good, then really bad. Ugh, it's hard to keep up!
Wolf: Yep, yep. That's fair. I get it. We're all over the place.
Wolf: Yep, yep. That's fair. I get it. We're all over the place.
Film — Live-Action
Bruce Banner: So, last time I saw you, you were trying to kill everybody. Where are you at these days?
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Literature
"I don't give a shit about politics. I don't care who is in power, what party wants to make a balls-up of everything. But I know people like you. I have been meeting them all my life. You would serve Hitler, your type. Or Mussolini, or the OAS if it suited you. Or anybody. Regimes change, but bastards like you never change..." He was shouting, limping towards the man with the gun whose snout had not quavered a millimetre in the hand that held it.
"You want me to take a Sith whose trustworthiness seems to depend on the time of day, the season, and the phases of whatever moons happen to be nearby, on a potentially dangerous mission to the Sith homeworld?"
— Luke Skywalker, regarding Vestara Khai, Fate of the Jedi: Ascension
Live-Action TV
Cavil: Boomer's my pet Eight. She's seen the light of reason. And an Eight can make a passionate ally.
D'Anna: Until she sees something shiny.
D'Anna: Until she sees something shiny.
Will: I thought we were friends.
Sue: That got boring.
Sue: That got boring.
— Glee
Podcasts
This is Mystique understanding that she's popular enough with the fans that she should pivot to superheroism...and after that period, Mystique is never really a pure villain again. She has moments where she betrays people because she's...into betraying people. But she's really just out for herself and Destiny and Rogue.
— Connor Goldsmith, Cerebro
Video Games
"What? Naesala and the Ravens of Kilvas betrayed us? Again?"
Ranulf, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
"Just because we fought together once doesn't mean we're all buddy-buddy now."
"Oh, what the fuck?! I can't keep track of how many times this guy has changed sides!"
—Toru Higashi about Jin Kuwana, Lost Judgment
Web Original
Another sweet thing is that Godzilla is completely unpredictable, and, as such, represents the Ultimate Duality of Awesome: When he leaves the warm beaches of Monster Island and emerges from the dark waters near the Japanese coastline, you don't know if he's there to smash orphanages or save the universe from a rampaging giant space monster who shoots lasers out of its forehead and spits acid on hot Japanese babes. That's just how he rolls. One minute he's Earth's saviour, the next minute he's grabbing handfuls of cheering humans and grinding them between his massive, pointy teeth.
As another ideological bad guy, Magneto is very susceptible to the "lesser of two evils" motif's pull. To him, the ultimate evil would always be mankind, and if that meant siding with the X-Men, he could swallow it. But with the switching back and forth and the dying all the time, keeping track of whether he's good or bad is so hard it makes your kidneys bleed.
— John Parker, "When Bad Guys Go Good: The Reformed Supervillain in Comics"
I don't think Carter has ever really had much of a handle on Kersh. This was a chance for him to step out of the shadows and pledge his allegiance to Mulder and the X-Files but instead he remains very much on the fence, as usual...Like most of Carter's authority figures, it isn't a case of bring morally ambiguous but doing whatever the plot requires of you.
— Joe Ford on The X-Files
on The X-Files Web Video
"Godzilla is one of the weirdest characters in existence for simultaneously being a hero and a villain. And I don't mean in an Anti-Hero sense. I mean in a 'Hmm, today I feel like killing lots of people. Yesterday, I felt like doing a funny dance in outer space!'"
— Linkara, on Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #1
[Big Show] has turned heel and face twenty times. Exactly twenty times! That's mental! That averages at just under one turn for every year of his career, and remember he had a year off. That moves just beyond "whimsical" into "fickle", beyond "fickle" into "irrational", and beyond "irrational" into "downright schizophrenic."
He's turned more than a windmill rolling down [BLEEP]-ing mountain, and his somewhat transient morality has become a running joke amongst the fans. It's good for a few yucks, but ultimately, his flip-flop past has crippled the Big Show's credibility as a character for the audience to get behind, especially when the last few turns have just sort of happened without much acknowledgement on camera. After all, who is The Big Show? A lovable giant or a scary ogre? Who is he right now? Who are you, Paul Wight? Who are you?
He's turned more than a windmill rolling down [BLEEP]-ing mountain, and his somewhat transient morality has become a running joke amongst the fans. It's good for a few yucks, but ultimately, his flip-flop past has crippled the Big Show's credibility as a character for the audience to get behind, especially when the last few turns have just sort of happened without much acknowledgement on camera. After all, who is The Big Show? A lovable giant or a scary ogre? Who is he right now? Who are you, Paul Wight? Who are you?
— Adam Blampied of WhatCulture Wrestling, "10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Big Show"
Western Animation
"Not much changes around here... except for the occasional allegiance."
— Rattrap to Dinobot, Beast Wars
"Timmy, eh? Well, he did help me find my long-lost son. But, then again, he tried to thwart my attempt to bulldoze Dimmsdale Flats. He also got in the way of getting the Striker Z race car. Then again, it was a screaming metal deathtrap. On the other hand..."
— Doug Dimmadome (Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome), The Fairly OddParents!
"I guess some people never change. Or they quickly change and then quickly change back."
—Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Team Homer"