Top 30 Times Superheroes Went Bad

It is not hard to argue thatThe Dark Phoenix.The Dark Phoenix Saga is Jean Grey's most memorable moment in X-Men history.

It started in X-Men #129.X-Men #129.Mastermind seduced Jean into becoming the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club. When Mastermind's hold on Jean failed, she took the full power of the Phoenix and became the Dark Phoenix. During her rampage, she flew into space and killed an entire planet of sentient life. Jean chose to disintegrate herself instead of continuing her madness while her human side remained in control.

Jason Todd was a cranky kid. As the second Robin, he lived in the shadow of Dick Grayson and had a bad home life before becoming Bruce Wayne's ward. Fans hated his attitude and voted to kill him inDeath in the Family..

While Angel was with X-Factor, the Marauder Harpoon crippled his wings during theMutant Massacre.After the wings developed gangrene, Warren's business-enemy signed the documents to amputate them. Grief-stricken, he planned to travel in his private jet. Before the jet exploded, Apocalypse whisked Warren away.

During Marvel's Secret Wars storyline, Peter Parker got a new black costume. The costume turned out to be a living symbiote. It looked cool but made Peter a jerk. With Mr. Fantastic's help, Parker forced off the costume and removed its bad effects.

"What if Superman, instead of being nice, was the world's biggest dick?" is a popular question for alternate Big Blue versions. This has happened before, like inSuperman: Red Son. Earth 2.or the end of the first season ofJustice League.

After Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, had a nervous breakdown from losing her sons, she used chaos magic. Several random attacks appeared to come from other enemies, destroying the Avengers and killing Ant-Man, Vision, and Hawkeye. After the dust settled, her father, Magneto, whisked her away.

In an alternate timeline, a nuclear explosion destroys the world, killing most heroes. The Hulk survives. Using Bruce Banner's intellect and his growing Hulk powers, he takes control of the world with an iron fist. He chose the name Maestro and ruled his kingdom called Dystopia.

Back in 1994, Hal Jordan's Green Lantern lacked interest. DC Comics destroyed Hal's hometown Coast City. They made him kill everyone in the Green Lantern Corps and turn him into the mad villain Parallax. Although he did good, like reigniting the Earth's sun, he also caused much terror. That is a midlife crisis!

Onslaught is the psionic persona created from Professor X's consciousnessand Magneto.Building tensions surrounded the X-Men and anti-mutant feelings reached a peak. Hatred, anger, and suppressed negative feelings showed up as Onslaught.

The Avengers sacrificed themselves to stop Onslaught. They sent themselves to a pocket universe. Onslaught unleashed it there.Onslaught unleashedit unleashed his worse torment on humanity.Heroes Reborn

Wolverine faced tougher struggles than most heroes for a long time. In the mid-1990s, Magneto did what everyone thought. He painfully stripped the adamantium from Wolverine's body. This action, plus other events, made Wolverine regress into a feral, animalistic state. They also stopped drawing him with a nose; that was an insult.

Sinestro started as good and served the Green Lantern Corps. He trained Hal Jordan. Jordan later saw Sinestro's total control over his home planet. Punishment sent Sinestro to the Antimatter universe.

Cyclops experienced constant pushing around. He was bullied as a child. Then his first wife died. His second wife became a demon. Wolverine tried to sleep with his wife. She died again. Plus, Emma Frost talks to him in a condescending tone.

So whenthe Phoenix ForceThe Phoenix Force returns to Earth. Scott Summers sees this as a chance to boost the mutant population. The Avengers view this as another chance for the Phoenix to destroy everything on Earth. Tony Stark invents a weapon. This weapon scatters the Phoenix Force into five X-Men bodies. Cyclops defeats the other four and accidentally kills Professor X.

The combined X-Men and Avengers forces bring him down. Now he is (sort of) better.

Fans of Batman in the '90s remember the classicKnightfallthe storyline where Bane breaks Bruce Wayne's back over his knee. While Bruce recovered, he asked Jean Paul Valley, then Azrael, to take over the cape and cowl.

After Marvel'sAXISThe AXIS event flipped the hero's personalities. Stark protected himself after everyone went back to normal. He essentially became evil Steve Jobs, creating an app offering beauty, health, and immortality. Then he started charging $100 a day for it. Tony Stark can be a ruthless businessman, but he crossed into super villain territory.

InThor: The Reigning, Thor took over Asgard leadership and merged it with New York City, killing tens of thousands of humans and Asgardians. Though it looks like a perfect place, factions fight against him. This version of Thor was later shown to be from an alternate timeline.

Superboy Prime is an alternate version of Superboy. This Superboy comes from an Earth with no superheroes, similar to ours, where other heroes existed as comic book characters. His reality ended during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.Crisis on Infinite Earths.Prime, he got trapped in a paradise dimension and went insane.

John Walker took Captain America's role after Steve Rodgers left, failing to meet Rodgers' standards. Walker became emotionally unstable and brutal; he even killed a villain. When Rodgers returned as Captain America, Walker became the U.S. Agent.

Another.Age of Apocalypse.In an alternate timeline, the Dark Beast worked for Mr. Sinister in his breeding pens. Before that timeline ended, Dark Beast moved to the main Marvel Universe. He hid in the sewers there and created the Morlocks. He pretended to be a normal, nicer Beast before the Onslaught storyline.Onslaught.story line.

Illyana Rasputin constantly faced dark magic attacks. When Belasco wanted her, he pulled her into his hell dimension and turned her into the semi-demonic Darkchilde. In this form, she stole some of Pixie's soul.

In DC Comics's Final Crisis, Earth joins the doomsday singularity. Darkseid wins. The whole world goes to hell. Wonder Woman becomes the leader of Darkseid's Female Furies. She gets an ugly dog face.

Yelena Belova was Marvel's second Black Widow. The Black Widow program activated Belova, which trained the original, Natasha Romanova. Natasha convinced her to stop that pursuit and live for herself.

After Betty Ross died, her father, Thunderbolt Ross, put her body in cryonic stasis. He asked The Leader and MODOK for help. They helped by using the same procedure that made him the Red Hulk. They brainwashed her, put her in an aggressive state, and unleashed her on the world.

She then caused trouble for her father and Bruce Banner in her Hulked out form.

After his sister, Illyana, was the first victim of the Legacy Virus, Colossus left the X-Men to join Magneto's Acolytes. Still angry at Professor X for his part in his sister's death, Colossus fought the X-Men on Avalon.

Most Captain Marvel takes Billy Batson as the core trying to do right. However, in Kingdom Come,Kingdom Come.Billy is under Lex Luthor's control. The villain uses The Big Red Cheese as his right hand man.

During the final battle, Superman's heroes fight Batman's rebels and many villains. Luthor sends Captain Marvel to stop Superman. Alex Ross's art shows Captain Marvel with a huge grin over a burnt Superman.

Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #159Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #159Dracula bites and transforms Storm, then attacks the X-Men.

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One popular X-Men story line involvesAge of Apocalypse.In this alternate reality, Xavier dies before starting the X-Men. This splits everyone between good and evil. Havok and Cyclops work for Mr. Sinister. Alex Summers acts more emotionally volatile than his brother, showing violent outbursts while serving as a Prelate.

When Cyclops loves the rebel Jean Grey and starts freeing prisoners, Alex exposes his brother as a traitor. He later tracks the couple and kills Jean.

Sunfire, a former X-Men and Big Hero 6 member, lay in a hospital missing limbs and powers. Apocalypse arrived, offering to restore his limbs and powers if Sunfire became the newHorseman of Famine.. Shiro accepts and attacks the X-Men with the other Horsemen.

This one is confusing. After Hank Hall (Hawk) uses the Monarch armor, Nathaniel Adam puts it on. Everything seems fine until he goes insane and blows up half of Bludhaven.

After Mary Marvel gets Black Adam's powers, corruption makes the character more violent and questionable. She works with Eclipso and runs errands for Darkseid duringFinal Crisis., the New God Desaad possesses her, and she acts as one of Darkseid's Female Furies.

Danielle Moonstar was an original New Mutant. She seemed to betray the team by joining the Mutant Liberation Front. Actually, she worked for S.H.E.L.D. During this time, she clashed with many heroes, including former teammates.