Who Was the Last Hero To Became a Truly Great Villain?

[JudicatorPrime]

So I gather that it's only the alternate reality version of characters that go super bad. A shame, really.

[joebleau]

Lifebringer back to Galactus

[Lukmendes]

So I gather that it's only the alternate reality version of characters that go super bad. A shame, really.

Yeah, perhaps cases like Maxwell Lord are the best you can get, someone who was good, but not a super-hero, who became evil, and I guess a case of that in Marvel is Madelyne Pryor.

[Thirteen]

Yeah, perhaps cases like Maxwell Lord are the best you can get, someone who was good, but not a super-hero, who became evil, and I guess a case of that in Marvel is Madelyne Pryor.

I was going to mention Madelyne Pryor as the closest we have to hero turned villain.

So I gather that it's only the alternate reality version of characters that go super bad. A shame, really.

Other attempts never stick for the main timeline characters, though some had potential...

[Baron of Faltine]

Yeah, perhaps cases like Maxwell Lord are the best you can get, someone who was good, but not a super-hero, who became evil, and I guess a case of that in Marvel is Madelyne Pryor.

Yeah...in the case of the big two they are kind of stuck between a rock and hard place. Thye cannot have a popular character do too bivouac monstrous action beyond redemption but at same times they face/heel/face turn proved to be enough popular to prompt it being used times and times again.

[Thirteen]

John Walker/Super-Patriot's dark turn as Captain America almost made it but then they pulled him back to being merely an @$$hole hero as USAgent.

[JudicatorPrime]

Yeah, perhaps cases like Maxwell Lord are the best you can get, someone who was good, but not a super-hero, who became evil, and I guess a case of that in Marvel is Madelyne Pryor.

Except Madelyne falls under the clone/doppelganger disqualifier, so even she's out. Maybe if Marvel had taken my advice years ago and established that Madelyne was Jean's identical twin sister and not her clone. But oh well.

[Nomads1]

John Walker/Super-Patriot's dark turn as Captain America almost made it but then they pulled him back to being merely an @$$hole hero as USAgent.

To this day, that is still my favorite Captain America storyline. Waid and Garney's first run comes in close second.

Peace

[Thirteen]

Jack Monroe/Nomad's stint as the serial killer Scourge in THUNDERBOLTS was inspired re-purposing of a character that fell into limbo.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Monroe_(Earth-616)