Originally posted by abhilegend
Superman as a pure villain wouldn't work, I agree upon that. But its true for any hero. A pure villain batman wouldn't work either. Heck, most villains don't work on pure villainy.
Batman would be Prometheus, as someone else stated. Which would be pretty badass. Superman would be like a less interesting Sentry.
Originally posted by maxivitopowe
Spidey
Also terrible. His powerset would become way more worthless.
Surfer: unimaginable, especially if the polarity of his evil matches his former pacificity. Aso, deadliest monologues in existence.
Superman: what abhi said: the "greatest hero of earth finally succumbing to evil and that's in itself a terrifying thought."
Reed Richards: creates the necessary Whatever Device.
Re: Which hero would make the best villian if their moral compass was suddenly flipped?
Originally posted by maxivitopowe
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Superman no contest. If Superman became pure evil, no force in the universe could stop him and he would have all the allies in the world with little resistance of good.
He would be all that is in universe.
'Superman:Red Son' gives a pretty good picture of Superman as a sort-of villain, and it's not a boring characterisation at all. Watching him evolve from a communist stooge into an uber-facist makes for a great comic read, actually much scarier than the usual 'villainish' nonsense seen in almost all comic books. Sort of like a cross between Hitler and Stalin who can melt people just by looking at them, and who keeps the population compliant by burning out bits of troublemakers' brains and leaving them as drooling automatons.
Originally posted by deathslash
Isn't Pym already a villain ?beating his wife, creating Ultron, and being a dick to several character seems like what supervillains do.
Thor and Loki's reaction to Pym inviting Loki into the Avengers was priceless.
"He's insane! Absolutely insane!"
"So it would appear.."
Bruce Banner.
Have him flip the switch to Maestro mode along with Hulk, and use that insane IQ of his to develop nothing but Tech designed to make Hulk more powerful.
Banner has a line up of Tech Toys that would make Stark blush. Adding them into Hulk's armor, and then turning morality off, would make for a ridiculously overpowered villain.
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