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From the freedom - fight Captain America to the Friendly Neighborhood Spider - Man , the heroes of Marvel bear as symbolisation of hope and peace . However , not all heroes stay on infallible in the face of evil . With just the right push , even the most noble of Marvel ’s character can knuckle under to the darkness .
When a hero decrease from seemliness , buff count on in revulsion . But a deeper appreciation for their previous heroics is also form . finally , most hero - turned - villains encounter their style back to the righteous path . While Marvel has often explored these moment of lost morality , some heroes lessen harder than others . Here are 10 Marvel heroes who desolate their just nature to become villains .
1Johnny Blaze, The King of Hell
Damnation: Johnny Blaze - Ghost Riderby Christopher Sebela and Phil Noto
Johnny set out hunting down the other Ghost Riders to take exception them for their feeling of Vengeance , but when Blaze turn to his brother and fellow Ghost Rider , Danny Ketch , for help with his delegacy , Ketch rejects him . disquieted that his brother had fallen too far , Danny attempt to reason out with the King of Hell , who promptly returns to Earth tostrip his brother of his Spirit of Vengeance . Danny would later give as the Spirit of Corruption to purge the demonic vim from his brother for good .
A new Ghost Rider variant , the All - Rider , challenges the iconic character ’s other versions for the most powerful spirit of vengeance .
2Angel/Archangel (Warren Worthington III)
X-Factor #18by Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson
Once known as Angel , a livid - wing idol of justice , Warren Worthington wasa founding phallus of the first category of X - Men . During Louise and Walter Simson’sX - Factorseries , Angel ’s wings become critically injured and later amputated . Feeling lost and without purpose , Warren is approached by Apocalypse with an go to restore him , Apocalypse rewrite his mutated geneticscausing Warren ’s skin to wrench blue and new razor astute metallic element wing to burgeon forth from his back .
Nowdubbed Archangel , Warren assumes the office of the Horseman of Deathand de facto leader of Apocalypse ’s lieutenant in battle against his former friends and mate . Archangel would eventually return to the X - gentleman after consider that he had stimulate the death of Iceman , one of Warren ’s former friends .
3Chasm (Ben Reilly)
The Amazing Spider-Man #93by Mark Bagley, Patrick Gleason, and Sara Pichelli
Ben Reilly has last an incredibly tragical lifespan . A clone of Spider - Mandesigned by the Jackal to replace the Wall - Crawler , Reilly was born with all the memories of Peter Parker ( unaware he was even a clone ) . When the truth is exposed , Ben adopts the assumed name “ Scarlet Spider ” and assumes a like role as his genetic pal . Reilly finally lands a line withthe Beyond Corporation as a corporate - patronize Spider - Man , and is horror-struck to discover they are slowly stripping him of his treasured memory as Peter .
wreck by a ruinous identity crisis , Reilly lure Spider - Man into a ambush in an attempt to slip the store from Peter Parker entirely . Even in defeat , ' Chasm ' is defeated and transform him into an enhanced psionic force of destruction . Chasm ’s singular goal as a villain is a simple one : take back Peter Parker ’s memory .
4The Maker (Ultimate Reed Richards)
Ultimate Comics: Ultimates #30by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Carmine Di Giandomenico
Much like his 616 counterpart , the Ultimate Reed Richards ’s life follow a familiar pattern . However , this reading of Reed ’s aliveness changes for the worst when Kang the Conqueror ( on the Q.T. a future interpretation of Sue Storm ) bear witness Mr. Fantastic a premonition of the Multiverse ’s upcoming death . ram to rage , Reed lay to rest himself in his body of work hoping to find any way to terminate the events ofSecret Warsfrom happening .
Driven by this single function , I. A. Richards , now named " The Maker , " fakes his dying , vote out his family , and unleash a unholy host on Earth-1610.After the penetration of the Ultimate Universe , the Maker now live in the 616 existence where he seek to set up a new multiversal guild with an authoritarian fist .
5Alex Wilder
Runaways #17by Brian K Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
When the young Alex Wilder key out that his parent are part of an eldritch religious cult called Pride , he gather the children of the other members and the chemical group flee . Dubbing themselves the Runaways , the squad is originally formed to oppose their parents . But a year into the series ' publication , Alex reveal the true statement : he learned of his parents ' evil long before , spending a year researching the furore , and planning his unfeigned delegation .
Discovering double-crosser within the cult planned to kill his parents , Alex instigates thecreation of the Runawaysto amass enough ability to bring through his parents , by kill the two treasonable families ( include their minor ) . Wilder , still committed to his original plan , proceed to monitor his honest-to-god ally in hopes of being accepted into the paradise that the Pride ’s true eldritch leaders promised .
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6Red Hulk (Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross)
Hulk #1by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness
A once respect Air Force Lieutenant General , Thaddeus “ Thunderbolt ” Ross has been a long - time leading incompatible force-out for the Hulk and the rest of the da Gamma - power menagerie . Despite being a frequent foe of the Hulks , Ross ’s finish were primitively imposing ones ; he must protect the innocent from the threat of future Hulk rampages . InThe Incredible Hulk # 466by Peter David and Adam Kubert , Thunderbolt Ross ’s integral living collapses when his daughter Betty , already dying from exposure to the Hulk ’s gamma radiation , is bolt down by the Abomination . Thaddeus sink into a vicious battle with depression and dipsomania until presented with an opportunity to demand his retaliation .
Duringthe upshot ofWorld War Hulk , Ross teams up with the villainous M.O.D.O.K. , the Leader , and the Hulk ’s former friend , Doc Samson . Together , the team siphons some of Bruce Banner ’s gamma powers and transplants the vigour into Thunderbolt Ross . Thaddeus transforms into a intimate hulking creature with bright crimson hide calling himself the “ Red Hulk . ”Having completely rejected the arrangement of jurisprudence he once defend , Red Hulk would stay an broker of chaos fueled by his hunger for revenge and the death of the Hulk .
7Beast (Hank McCoy)
Wolverine #27by Benjamin Percy and Juan José Ryp
Another founding appendage of the X - Men , Hank McCoy , AKA Beast , has long been weigh a diplomat and peaceful political militant for mutant right . But in his pursuit of judge , McCoy has often turned his back against his better moral judgment . The worst of his crimes come during his land tenure as leader of the Krakoan intelligence service refer X - Force .
As X - Force ’s leader , Beast grows obsessed with the security measures of the mutant nation , on the Q.T. turn to more radical agency to secure the sovereign state ’s exemption . InWolverine # 27,Hank putting to death Wolverineand uses the Krakoan reincarnation procedure to create a primal edition of his former friend , Weapon X revisit . Soon armed with a little ground forces of Weapon - X Wolverines , Beast lethally turns against the X - Force once they discover his extremist intrigue .
8Blade (Eric Brooks)
Blood Hunt #1by Jed Mackay and Pepe Larraz
Introduced inTomb of Dracula # 10by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan , Blade has persist Marvel ’s greatest vampire hunter for over five decades . Part human and part lamia , Blade has all the abilities of a lamia without the heavy effect of the curse . That is , until recently .
Launching Marvel’sBlood Huntevent , it is revealed that Blade has yield to his vampiric disposition and now leads a new grouping of god - likevampires called the Bloodcovenplunging the Earth into eternal darkness , allowing for a full - muff lamia revolution . To protect his regime , the lamia - huntsman - turned - vampire - leader aim Earth ’s mightiest heroes as his first victims to be turned into tool of the dark .
Marvel ’s line between valorousness and villainy is often a thin one , but watching a villain spurn their evil past can be a heartwarming experience .
9The Goblin Queen (Madelyne Pryor)
Uncanny X-Men #234by Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri
Unbeknownst to herself when this character first debuted , Madelyne Pryor is the clon of famous X - Men extremity Jean Grey . design by Mister Sinisteras a prick to conceive a child with water flea that could afterwards serve Sinister ’s needs , Madelyne ’s creation was reduced to nothing when the truth of her origin is uncover inX - component # 1by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice . When Cyclops teach Madelyne is not Jean Grey , he abandon her and their fry to reunite with Jean . Madelyne , garbled , set about to follow but is shot down by Mister SInister as he takes her baby from her die arm .
Maddy survives this encounter but is left with nothing but question . In her dreams , Maddy is approached by a demon named S’ym . Feeding off of her grief , S’ym latches onto Madelyne ’s gall toward the X - man and imbues her with his demonic dark energies . Now warped by blackened legerdemain , Madelyne currently reigns as the Goblin Queen of Limbo .
10Captain America (Steve Rogers)
Captain America: Steve Rogers #1by Nick Spencer and Jesus Saiz
No hero represent the American ideals of “ Life , Liberty , and the pursuit of Happiness ” better than Captain America . However , everything changed for Cap during the highly controversialSecret Empireevent . As it becomes well - sleep together that the Nazi establishment Hydra had covertly infect all degree of the United States authorities , Rogers reveals one of the most lurid twists in modern comics when he delivers an iconic , “ Hail Hydra . ”
Once an anti - fascistic icon who was able to land a punch on Hitler , Captain America turned against everything he stood for , leave readers baffled by his sudden change . It ’s disclose inCaptain America : Steve Rogers # 2that this version of the First Avenger is actually an alternate - timeline version of the torpedo whose existence had been write over his original ego . make by Hydra and by the power of a sentient Cosmic Cube , the new iteration ofCap was a covert agent for the Nazi scientist organizationwell - before his service in World War II .
