History AdaptationalVillainy / Comicbooks

* The basic theme of ''Comicbook/MichaelCray'' is Cray hunting down the [[Comicbook/TheWildStorm Wild Storm]] universe counterparts of the Comicbook/JusticeLeague, who are all complete monsters.

** Vampirella herself in more... non-legit... works, where she usually is an evil vampire rather than a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire. (Probably not a good example, as this more falls under CriticalResearchFailure or even Couldn't Care Less.)
* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEllis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] became obsessed with survival on the island and now [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunts people]] to see if they deserve to live; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and [[SerialNumbersFiledOff lawyer-friendly]] equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham'': In a world where Catwoman and Batman have [[{{Elseworld}} switched places]], with the former becoming a vigilante superhero after her wealthy parents were killed, you'd think Batman would be a mere GentlemanThief who often flirts with the female protagonist... he's more of a deranged SerialKiller who murders the Joker in his first scene before offing the rest of Catwoman's RoguesGallery to prevent them from stealing his spotlight. He's also revealed to be the one to have killed Selina Kyle's parents ForTheEvulz. The whole DatingCatwoman angle is invoked when Bruce seduces Selina, then murders her best friend before trying to kill her as well.

* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham'': In a world where Catwoman and Batman have [[{{Elseworld}} switched places]], with the former becoming a vigilante superhero after her wealthy parents were killed, you'd think Batman would be a mere GentlemanThief who often flirts with the female protagonist... he's more of a deranged SerialKiller who murders the Joker in his first scene before offing the rest of Catwoman's RoguesGallery to prevent them from stealing his spotlight. He's also revealed to be the one to have killed Selina's parents ForTheEvulz. The whole DatingCatwoman angle is invoked when Bruce seduces Selina Kyle, then murders her best friend before trying to kill her as well.

* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham'': In a world where Catwoman and Batman have [[{{Elseworld}} switched places]], with the former becoming a vigilante superhero after her parents were killed, you'd think Batman would be a mere GentlemanThief who often flirts with the female protagonist... he's more of a deranged SerialKiller who murders the Joker in his first scene before offing the rest of Catwoman's RoguesGallery to prevent them from stealing his spotlight. He's also revealed to be the one to have killed Selina's parents ForTheEvulz. The whole DatingCatwoman angle is invoked when Bruce seduces Selina Kyle, then murders her best friend before trying to kill her as well.

** Vampirella herself in more... non-legit... works, where she usually is an evil vampire rather than an FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire. (Probably not a good example, as this more falls under CriticalResearchFailure or even Couldn't Care Less.)

* ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}: Very explicitely Pantha in the 2018 run (although she never was a nice kitty in the first place). Also Vampirella herself in more...non-legit...works, where she usually is an evil vampire. (Probably not a good example, as this more falls under CriticalResearchFailure or even Couldn't Care Less.)

* ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}: Guardian of Gotham'': In a world where Catwoman and Batman have [[{{Elseworld}} switched places]], with the former becoming a vigilante superhero after her parents were killed, you'd think Batman would be a mere GentlemanThief... he's more of a deranged SerialKiller who murders the Joker in his first scene before offing the rest of Catwoman's RoguesGallery to prevent them from stealing his spotlight. The whole DatingCatwoman angle is invoked when Bruce seduces Selina Kyle, then murders her best friend before trying to kill her as well.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEllis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] became obsessed with survival on the island and now [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunts people]] to see if they deserve to live; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEllis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] became obsessed with survival on the island and now [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunts people]] to see if they deserve to live; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a selfish prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEllis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] went crazy on the island and now [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunts people]] with a bow on his private reserve; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a selfish prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEllis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] went crazy on the island and now hunts people with a bow on his private reserve; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a selfish prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenEillis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comicbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] went crazy on the island and now hunts people with a bow on his private reserve; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SplitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a selfish prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ''The Wild Storm: Michael Cray'', a spinoff of Creator/WarrenWillis' reboot of the ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}}'' universe follows the eponomyous Cray fighting psychotic and murderous alternate universe versions of DC heroes. [[Comcbook/GreenArrow Oliver Queen]] went crazy on the island and now hunts people with a bow on his private reserve; [[Comicbook/{{Flash}} Barry Allen]] is a paranoid lunatic with a SpitPersonality who uses his SuperSpeed to murder anyone working to develop ArtificialIntelligence; [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} Arthur Curry]] is a mutant fish monster and lawyer-friendly equivalent of [[CthulhuMythos Dagon]]; Comicbook/JohnConstantine is a sociopathic dark wizard and even more of a selfish prick than his mainstream equivalent; and [[Comicbook/WonderWoman Diana Prince]] is a CorruptCorporateExecutive and religious zealot planning to unleash the Old Gods on the world who gets her powers from [=LexCorp=] experimental super-steroids.

* ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}: Very explicitely Pantha in the 2018 run (although she never was a nice kitty in the first place). Also Vampirella herself in more...non-legit...works, where she usually is an evil vampire. (Probably not a good example, as this more falls under CriticalResearchFailure or even Couldn't Care Less.)

* In ''Literature/{{The Dark Tower}}'' novels, John Farson is an ambiguous figure who never appears on the page. He's responsible for the destruction of Gilead... but his numerous followers call him The Good Man, and for all we know he may have had legitimate grievances with the gunslingers. In the comics, we actually get to see him, and he's a psychopathic tyrant who decapitates prisoners to play baseball with their heads.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'':
** Chaos, who is depicted as a transformed and already villainous Drakon Prosecutor with no sympathetic backstory or clear motivation. In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', he is a mutated Chao who was previously peaceful, only turning violent when all of his Chao friends were massacred by the Knuckles Tribe, under the leadership of Chief Pachacamac. Tikal the Echidna, who Chaos tortures in the comic, was his friend in the game, and the two leave in peace after Chaos is calmed down.
** Robotnik himself, while still maintaining some of his comical pathos from the games and other incarnations, is far more evil and void of redeeming aspects, gaining a similar dictator role as his ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground Underground]]'' counterpart, then he becomes even worse than his game and other incarnations by [[OmnicidalManiac trying to destroy Mobius outright]].
** Super Sonic is a psychopath - in the games, he was an alternate form of Sonic as opposed to a full-blown SplitPersonality ([[SuperpoweredEvilSide and a nasty one at that]]).

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', Breezie the Hedgehog was a robot Dr. Robotnik made who had a HeelFaceTurn after falling in love with Sonic. In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', she was out-and-out a villain who worked with Dr. Eggman as part of a scheme to destroy Sonic and later became a VillainWithGoodPublicity, messing with everyone while being unable to be touched.
** According to their Japanese-only bios, Bean and Bark from ''Sonic the Fighters'' are friends of ''Sonic'''s. They're both friendly characters and Bark is an outright GentleGiant. The Archie writers mistook them for villainous and made them into a TerribleTrio with Nack.

** Even Sonic himself to [[AdaptationalJerkass an extent]], who is a much bigger {{Jerkass}}.

** Veronica is somewhere between this and AdaptationalJerkass. She is not very sympathetic. She and Betty are friends in the [[Franchise/ArchieComics main comics]] and she's varying degrees of SpoiledSweet, however here she's a total bully who was AllTakeAndNoGive in her former friendship with Betty. They mostly get along poorly.

* The ComicBook/{{New 52}}

* ''Batman: Damned'', a sequel to the ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'' comic, reveals the nastiest depiction of Bruce Wayne's family this side of the Telltale Games adaptation. Thomas Wayne is a shameless philanderer who picks up women in young Bruce's presence and threatens to divorce Martha when she confronts him on it. Martha, in response, hires a hitman to have Thomas assassinated so she can get the Wayne fortune before the divorce is finalized - the implication being that the hitman was Joe Chill. No wonder Batman is even more messed up here than his mainstream depiction.

** The residents of Themyscira has always had its share of misandrists and {{Straw Feminist}}s, but their attitude had gradually descended over the years from an isolationist community who just wanted to keep men away, to man-hates with a few bad apples, to having a legit excuse for hating men (being the spirits of women who were murdered by abusive spouses), to the New 52, where they have truly become evil, [[ConceiveAndKill seducing and murdering men in order to reproduce]] and engaging in child slave trading. [[http://www.geekscape.net/how-dc-comics-forced-one-lifelong-wonder-woman-fan-to-quit-buying-her-comic not all fans were pleased.]] The New 52 explanation has been retconned away with ComicBook/DCRebirth by revealing that everything Diana knew of them was actually a lie.
** Heracles in the modern adaptation is portrayed as a villain who raped Hippolyta (instead of just seducing her). He becomes TheAtoner, however.

** [[spoiler:At the time of the comic's release, Harley Quinn was still a villain and Joker's gleeful sidekick in the mainstream continuity, but her tragic elements are omitted in this canon.]]

* Pre-Crisis ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics would see Morgan Edge as a ruthless businessman, but was overall a BenevolentBoss to his employees, though a clone impersonating him did have ties to Intergang and Darkseid. ComicBook/PostCrisis, Edge was a CorruptCorporateExecutive with genuine ties to Integrant.

** Even Sonic himself to [[AdaptationalJerkass an extent]], who is a much bigger {{Jerkass}}. Also Super Sonic is a psychopath - in the games, he was an alternate form of Sonic as opposed to a full-blown SplitPersonality ([[SuperpoweredEvilSide and a nasty one at that]]).

* Pre-Crisis ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comics would see Morgan Edge as a ruthless businessman, but was overall a BenevolentBoss to his employees, though a clone impersonating him did have ties to Intergang and Darkseid. ComicBook/PostCrisis, Edge was a CorruptCorporateExecutive with genuine ties to Intergang.

* IDW's ''Star Trek: Countdown To Darkness'', set in the [[AlternateTimeline Alternate Reality]] between ''Film/StarTrek'' (2009) and ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' features the new timeline's version of the original ''Enterprise's'' first captain in the prime reality, [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Robert_April Robert April]]. [[spoiler: He FaceHeelTurn[=s=] into a rogue AntiVillain, hijacking the new ''Enterprise'' in order to save an alien species from extinction.]]

* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Universe:
** ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'':
*** [[spoiler:Reed Richards]], a hero in the original [[ComicBook/FantasticFour comics]], becomes a major villain.
*** Agatha Harkness is [[spoiler:an ancient hydra monster]] who plans on destroying the world, rather than any kind of friendly mentor figure like she was in the main continuity.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'':
*** ComicBook/NickFury is self-serving and corrupt, willing to violate the Constitution and throw people under the bus to maintain his power and for his own means.
*** In the mainstream Marvel universe, the Hulk is generally an innocent character, only attacking when provoked. Here, he's Bruce Banner's id run amok, murders people, and is a cannibal.
*** [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] in, a NeverLiveItDown moment, struck [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet van Dyne]] in the middle of a breakdown and deeply regrets it. Here, in a bad case of CharacterExaggeration, he frequently beat her and [[spoiler:after being tossed out of the Ultimates, he eventually helped Black Widow and the Liberators.]]
*** [[spoiler: Black Widow is basically a reversal of her original counterpart, who started off as an evil Russian spy before reforming and becoming an Avenger. Here, she's introduced as a seemingly heroic defender of justice, but turns out to be a murderous traitor acting as TheMole for the Liberators]].
** Also, Jean [=DeWolff=], a heroic female police officer in the original ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' comics, was made a corrupt double-agent working for the Kingpin in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''. [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] also worked for the Kingpin, albeit he was blackmailed into it.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'':
*** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, rather than an AntiHero who follows a strict code, starts out as an amoral mercenary who literally only joins the team so he can sleep with Jean Grey, and murders people for personal convenience rather than in self-defense or a sense of justice. [[HeelFaceTurn He gets better]].
*** John Wraith is a [[RaceLift white]] [[AdaptationSpeciesChange human]] who's in charge of the Weapon X project and frequently abuses his captives, which included teenagers.
*** [[spoiler:Moira [=MacTaggert=] made a drug with Wolverine's blood and sided with the Brotherhood.]]
*** ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and ComicBook/ScarletWitch were willing servants of Magneto and hadn't abandoned their views of mutant supremacy, only joining the Ultimates for protection from Magneto. [[spoiler:Quicksilver also arranged the death of Magneto and sold other mutants into slavery.]]

*** While Nathaniel Richards, father of the ComicBook/FantasticFour's Reed Richards, is a HeroWithAnFInGood and a MysteriousParent, [[AdaptationalNameChange Gary]] Richards of ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' was a former JerkJock and is abusive to Reed, [[AdaptationalDumbass frowning on Reed's intelligence]].