10 Best Times Superheroes Became Villains
9. Superman's Regime - Injustice: Gods Among Us
DC have a long and storied tradition of Elseworlds comics, but one of the best to emerge in recent memory didn't come from the comics medium at all.
Developed by NetherRealm Studios in 2013, Injustice: Gods Among Us gave DC fans a glimpse of what a world where Superman became a tyrant would actually look like. The results were horrifying, as the Man of Steel ruthlessly stamped out all forms of resistance wherever it emerged, to the point of even murdering Billy Batson in one of the most brutal sequences in DC history ever committed to screens.
The Injustice-verse is brutally unforgiving, and illustrative of how straight-up scary it is to contemplate how certain heroes could turn evil given the necessary push. In this case, it's because the Joker destroys the entirety of Metropolis and tricks Supes into murdering a pregnant Lois Lane, which prompts him to start his own fascist dictatorship alongside the most fickle figures amongst the JLA.
Batman then heads up a resistance of his own, and the results are pretty spellbinding - whether you're playing the game or reading the Tom Taylor comic.