10 Moments Comic Book Characters Realised THEY Were The Villain
8. Zatanna - Identity Crisis #1-7 (2004)
Zatanna is a magician with the ability to perform spells by shouting incantations backwards. For all the good she's done for the world, her most infamous moment still haunts her. When Doctor Light broke into the Watchtower and read a dossier on the team, he intended to expose their real names to the supervillain community. To keep the League's identities a secret, Zatanna erased Light's memory, lobotomising him in the process.
You could potentially forgive Zatanna's actions if this was an isolated incident. But it wasn't. When Batman discovered what Zatanna had done, the wand-wielding wizard erased his memory as well.
Shortly after, the tophat-wearing sorceress used her magic to reset Catwoman's personality, expunging all her evil desires. When Catwoman learned this, she had a nervous breakdown since she could no longer trust her memories or motives.
If you thought Zatanna would've learned her lesson to stop messing with people's minds, she didn't. Immediately after she 'fixed' Catwoman, she mind-wiped Film Freak and Angle Man since they had uncovered Catwoman's true identity. Only after Batman confronted Zatanna about her actions did she realise how utterly immoral she was behaving.