10 Comic Book Villains Who Became Heroes

The decision to make M.O.D.O.K. a hero in the 2014 run of Secret Avengers is one of the more unusual - although fantastic - ones, especially as at this point the floating head had been a major villain for roughly 50 years. This is the exact reason his presence works so well in the comic, as it is continually unclear whether M.O.D.O.K. is working for the heroes, or if he’s pretending to do so to hide his own motives.

In spite of continually being called out for his past, M.O.D.O.K. ends up being arguably the most heroic member of the team, as ultimately without his help the entire world would have come to an end – which is a pretty good claim to heroic fame when you only stopped being a bad guy, like, two weeks beforehand.

Weirder still, not only is M.O.D.O.K. a hero in the comic, he’s a hero with a heroic love interest - or, well, as heroic as you can call Maria Hill.