10 Best Times Supervillains Switched Sides
2. Doctor Doom - Iron Man
Again, sort of like Lex Luthor, you wouldn't really expect Doctor Doom to turn good. Everything about him just screams pure villainy, and yet, for all the theatrics and third-person posturing, Doctor Doom does have a soft spot.
He's teamed up with Doctor Strange to save his mother's soul from Mephisto in Hell, and collaborated with the Fantastic Four to avert the dastardly advances of the Council of Reeds. However, his most recent act of heroism came in the wake of 2016's Civil War II, where Tony Stark was defeated by Captain Marvel. Sensing a void, Victor decides to become a brand-new version of Iron Man, combining magic and science to prove to the world that he's a changed man.
The series, written by Brian Bendis with art by Alex Maleev, was just the new direction Doctor Doom needed, but the best thing about it was that it felt genuine. This wasn't just a sudden out-of-character switch for Marvel's master of the dark arts, but instead a fully-developed change that had been bubbling beneath the surface for some time.
Needless to say, we're counting down the days until Doom takes on Iron Man's armour again.