Evil Character Become A Hero

[Bartmanhomer]

Imagine An Evil Rogue who didn't care about anything but himself left the party to do his own thing. However, a gang of Orcs kidnapped his former team. After the rogue found out about it he soon realized that his former party treated him like family. So he went to hero mode and rescue his former team and saved the day. And he reunited with his former team. This is a hypothetical situation. Does this ever happen in your games?

[Buufreak]

Never heard of an antihero, I take it. Yes. This happens. Often.

[PoeticallyPsyco]

Oh yeah, the evil character with redeeming qualities is a classic group of archetypes, and loyalty to friends is probably the most common redeeming quality for use in PCs.

Turning Good/Neutral after the realization is strictly optional.

[Kelb_Panthera]

Evil mortals are generally still people. They have some understanding of the value of friends, family, allies, and rivals even if they don't give it as much weight as neutral or good characters typically might. It might be as much a "nobody gets to screw with those guys but me" mentality but it's not at all out of the character of most people, no matter how vile they might otherwise be, to seek to protect those that they're close to or feel they have some obligation toward.

Not caring at all would both be peculiar and a little disturbing to most people and actually relishing a dark fate for former comrades is resesrved for only the most vile and inhuman of characters, provided those comrades weren't themselves evil and callous toward the character in question.

[MaxiDuRaritry]

Meh. One of my favorite characters was Lawful Evil. He joined up with the (mostly Good) party out of mutual convenience against a superior foe, watched as they repeatedly protected him against the enemies he made before joining the party so he could help them with theirs. After several months, he found himself coming to appreciate and even like them, despite being generally pretty curmudgeonly in general. To the point where he actually put himself in actual danger (which he was absolutely loath to do, in general) for them. He rationalized it (very loudly) as protecting his investment in them. But inside, he had to admit, even to himself, that he liked the goodie eight-shoes that was the rest of the party (four of which were horseshoes, because centaur).

Yeah, it happens. So long as one isn't a monstrous undead or fiend or something, anyway. And even that happens once in a great while. (And all the time, if you're a dual-wielding drow.)