10 Times Comic Book Heroes Became Villains (In A Big Way)

This may tow the line between being a villain and just being angry, but when you’re a being as powerful as the Scarlet Witch there isn’t much wiggle room for semantics.

After suffering a mental breakdown, Wanda Maximoff’s powers start to become so powerful that even Professor X and Doctor Strange can't restrain her. Terrified by what she could do, the Avengers and the X-Men debate whether or not to kill her, as that’s essentially the only way to stop her from going all nuclear on creation.

Having heard this her brother, Quiksilver, basically tells her to “make a reality where everyone’s happy”, which he believes would, you know, make everyone happy. Everything seems good at first; Peter Parker is married to his first love Gwen Stacey and good ol’ Cap’n America is enjoying life as a retired veteran. Then Wolverine ruins it all by actually remembering everything and goes on a crusade to set the world the way it was.

Eventually other heroes also remember this, engaging in a huge fight that pushes Scarlet Witch to utter the phrase “No more mutants”, which wipes out roughly 90% of Homo Superior’s superb powers from existence. Not only did she steal the powers of all those people on the planet; she did so across the multiverse. That means, in Marvel’s world, that there could have been a version of me with powers, like being able to produce spiced rum out of thin air, and she stole them. Not cool, Wanda, not cool.