10 Times Superheroes Became Public Enemy Number One

10. The X-Men - Avengers Vs. X-Men

There are plenty of times that the X-Men have found themselves on the wrong end of the law. Indeed, the very nature of their powers means that many of their members ended up in conflict with authorities pretty much as soon as they gained their special abilities.

However, some cases of the X-Men's run-ins with the law and popular public opinion are more dramatic than others. Take, for example, the case of Avengers vs. X-Men, where the the uncanny group absorb the Phoenix Force and gain even more power from it. This is more than a little unnerving for the rest of Marvel's superheroes, as the Phoenix Force essentially gives them all massive god complexes.

After the X-Men get steadily more and more out of hand, the Avengers are finally tasked to deal with them, defeating the power-drunk team with the help of Hope Summers and the Scarlet Witch. Cyclops - the team's ringleader - would be arrested and placed into a special facility equipped to deal with his powers, although the other renegade X-Men would escape capture.