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* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': Hellboy is basically all about this trope. Hellboy himself, obviously, derives his power from his demonic ancestry, and was [[AntiAntiChrist supposed to bring about]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, but was raised by a kindly professor and chose to be good instead.

** Then there are guys like Random from ''ComicBook/XFactor''. Random has the charming ability to [[ArmCannon turn his arms into guns]].[[note]]Technically, he can change to any form he can imagine, he just doesn't see why he'd ever need a different one.[[/note]] He can generate dozens of barrels from one arm and just start blasting away. Sure, he comes from UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}, but he is actually meant to be a TotallyRadical, happy-go-lucky guy who shoots a lot of people every day. You don't see him much these days, for a few reasons; one of them is that he has basically the same power and personality as the despicable villain Bushwhacker. He was eventually subjected to a {{Retcon}} that said he'd been EvilAllAlong, working for Beast's EvilTwin.

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', when a teenage boy's mutant powers first manifest, he discovers that his only power is to unconsciously vaporize all living tissue within a mile. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Without realizing it until it was far too late, he became responsible for hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths]], including those of his mother, his dog, his girlfriend, and every single person in his school. To prevent the nature of this incident from becoming public (and thus, demonizing all mutants irrevocably), he had to be put down by Wolverine, whose healing factor kept him from being vaporized. Wolverine does ''not'' enjoy doing it.

* ''ComicBook/The99'' has Darr the Afflicter, a wheelchair-bound young man who has the ability to inflict pain upon others, and Wakila the Guardian, a little girl whose powers cause abusers to feel all the pain they've inflicted upon others.
* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'''s Purple Girl/Persuasion had a rough start but has consistently been one of the good guys since, despite the mind-control powers she inherited from her evil father. Though she eventually did a heel turn and became the WellIntentionedExtremist villain the Purple Woman. As of ''ComicBook/JessicaJones: Purple Daughter'', she appears fully reformed and as the trusted friend of an organizer for a support group of her father's victims.

* ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' plays with this trope; ComicBook/TheAvengers recruit and train several teenagers with either bad powers or budding sociopathy to specifically prevent them from turning into supervillains.

* Terrence Ward a.k.a. "Trauma" from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'' is this trope personified. He has the power to physically change himself into anyone's deepest fear. This certainly makes him a formidable opponent in combat, but the most interesting use of this power is for therapeutic purposes. As an aspiring therapist, he could help troubled individuals to literally face their fears, or otherwise put their minds at ease with it. An example: Henry Gyrich is terrified of falling victim to Alzheimer's Disease. [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment Trauma then changes into Gyrich's deceased father as he remembers him]].

* At one point in the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' side comic books, Razorbeast is infected by Angolmois energy, a powerfully corruptive, evil force that mutates its victims into savage berserkers. No surprise, since it's the raw essence of ''Unicron''. He still has enough of his senses to turn his newfound power and fury against the Predacons as well as Unicron's heralds and use his mutation-enhanced strength for the forces of good, but [[spoiler:it doesn't last once he runs out of unquestionable enemies to fight and his best friend has to put him down before he endangers humans or Maximals]].
* The scarab of the ComicBook/BlueBeetle is revealed to be an agent of the Reach, an ancient enemy of the ComicBook/{{Green Lantern}}s who created the scarab as a planet-killing weapon that bonds to and takes control of its hosts. Thankfully for everyone, the one that fell to Earth got damaged and couldn't properly activate, allowing its host Jaime Reyes free will. Even more fortunately, Jaime is a NiceGuy who categorically refuses to use the Scarab to kill -- which poses a problem, since the Scarab isn't configured for not killing, but he makes it work as a hero. [[spoiler:He eventually manages to get through to the Scarab itself, which betrays the Reach and joins Jaime in heroing.]]
* Roop from ''ComicBook/{{Briar}}'' has shown an affinity for [[{{Necromancer}} necromancy]], even [[spoiler:successfully resurrecting Captain Bly]]. Nonetheless, he is a quiet and kind person.

* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', necromancers summon all sorts of nasty monsters from beyond the Veil to unleash hell on Earth. One of the most dangerous is a True Primordial, whose very appearance can kill standard humans. Allistor, a necromancer uneasily allied with the Vigil, has bound a True Primordial to his daughter and uses its power to keep other necromancers and monsters from doing more damage.

* Ratman from ''ComicBook/{{Elementals}}'' is a wererat and started out as a criminal, mostly because his rat-like qualities and rattothropy made him unpopular. He quickly changed sides after he developed a crush on Becky, who he subsequently strove to protect.
* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} is a former knight of the Round Table with a demon trapped inside him. He is pretty much a good guy, and one of ComicBook/{{Batman}}'s friends.
* Comicbook/GhostRider, the Spirit of Vengeance, is a monstrous being empowered by the Devil whose exploits involve a whole lot of serial MindRape. He's one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, thanks largely to a generous dose of PayEvilUntoEvil and to his altruistic actions towards anyone who ''isn't'' [[AssholeVictim on his hit list]]. That MindRape ability? It's useless against people who ''aren't'' evil. The pain inflicted is based on how many sins/crimes the target has committed. It's basically divine punishment, in the sense that you can't hide what you did. However, he did use this on a clown who had been forced to pretend to be evil as he was working undercover.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' is basically all about this trope. Hellboy himself, obviously, derives his power from his demonic ancestry, and was [[AntiAntiChrist supposed to bring about]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, but was raised by a kindly professor and chose to be good instead.

* The Creator/DCComics character Mister Bones, first appearing in ''ComicBook/InfinityInc''. He is a [[DemBones walking skeleton]] (his skin and organs are transparent) and he has a deadly "cyanide touch" that can kill almost anyone he comes in contact with. Needless to say, he began as a villain. However, he has since reformed and is now the director of the DEO, a government department that deals with superheroes. He may not be unambiguously heroic, but is typically on the side of the good guys, or at least not actively against them. A big part of this is because his most famous victim, Skyman, was killed when Solomon Grundy ''forced'' Bones to touch him. Bones was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply traumatized]] by the incident and it helped lead to his HeelRealization.

* ComicBook/ManThing is incredibly strong and [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]]. Also, if you know fear, his touch will cause you to burst into mystical flame and die. Suffice it to say, he's [[HorrifyingHero utterly terrifying to behold]]. Technically, Man-Thing isn't really a hero; he's usually not even ''sapient''. That said, only villains tend to be burned by the touch of Man-Thing. You would think that a victim who went from being assaulted by criminals to having a HumanoidAbomination show up would be the ''most'' terrified, and thus attract Man-Thing's attack instincts, but in practice, it's villains' fear of justice that draws him.
* Laurel Darkhaven of ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' uses her power to telekinetically manipulate small objects to kill people... but her final act is to use those powers to make soil fertile again.
* Nico Minoru from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has a dark magic spell-casting staff that emerges whenever she bleeds. She's also the kindhearted leader of the group who is noted to be too trusting.
* Phobos, God of Fear, Son of War, in ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' is a CreepyChild with fear-based powers. He's an unambiguously heroic character, though he does cause a panic when he breaks into the White House during the ComicBook/{{Siege}} event at the end of ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. It turns out that he just wants to talk to the President about the cost of lives that putting Osborn in charge has caused (including the life of his father, Ares). Since the president has naturally been evacuated, he leaves a note on the desk in the Oval Office... written in what looks like blue crayon. And that's after seeing Ares ripped in half on national television. Some people would call that restraint, for a god.
* ComicBook/{{Spawn}} is a HumanoidAbomination whose powers involve a large amount of BodyHorror, demonic abilities, and, much like ComicBook/GhostRider, he got them from a DealWithTheDevil. While morally ambiguous, he is one of the closest thing to a good guy in his universe, and while he gruesomely murders his enemies, most of them [[AssholeVictim have it coming big time]].

** After [[DeadGuyJunior Normie Osborn]] bonds with the [[Characters/MarvelComicsVenom Venom]] symbiote in ''Comicbook/SpiderGirl'', he manages to convince it to undergo a HeelFaceTurn.

* Johnny Alpha in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' has MindRape among his powers, and he is TheHero.
* ComicBook/{{Raven|DCComics}}, from several of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic incarnations, is the daughter of the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] Trigon and intended to serve in destroying the world. Instead, [[AntiAntiChrist she opposes him]] and fights for good with the other Titans.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' has awareness of everyone's backstory and secret identity, and later becomes a RealityWarper. [[FutureMeScaresMe Future Gwen]] states that's the universe trying to tell her to turn bad. She refuses to turn to the dark side.

** Rogue's touch can put people in comas (usually temporary, but sometimes ''permanently''). She started out as a villain, but threw herself on the X-Men's mercy when the psychic echoes of ComicBook/MsMarvel's personality threatened to drive her insane; after spending some time with the team, she soon developed into a hero in her own right.

* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' has a minor antagonist named Melter who is a kindhearted guy and really wants to help people, but his power is to ''melt them''. It doesn't help that the superhero team he assembles features mostly antiheroes and psychos and that their influence starts to get to him. Once he breaks off with them, he ends up in the hands of [[ComicBook/IronMan the Mandarin]], who leads him to a full FaceHeelTurn.

** ComicBook/{{Toxin}} is a morally upright police officer who [[ClothesMakeTheManiac ends up with a symbiote]] and decides to use it to do good.
** After [[DeadGuyJunior Normie Osborn]] bonds with the ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote in ''Comicbook/SpiderGirl'', he manages to convince it to undergo a HeelFaceTurn.
** [[Characters/VenomEddieBrock Eddie Brock]] pulls a HeelFaceTurn as well and becomes Anti-Venom. Then he loses the Anti-Venom symbiote and becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist on a quest to destroy all symbiotes... which lasts about five seconds before he becomes Toxin's new host.

** The Venom symbiote was originally a very clear-cut example of this trope; while most of its species were straight up parasites, this particular one genuinely cared about its hosts and did not attempt to control them. It was happy to be a hero with Peter, but when Peter rejected it (he was spooked about the symbiote being alive and puppeteering his body while he slept), it ended up bonding with the unstable Eddie Brock, and their combined hatred of Peter twisted the symbiote into a monster. After a long time and both parties getting over their ''many'' issues, Eddie and Venom have reunited as heroes.

** Toxin is a morally upright police officer who [[ClothesMakeTheManiac ends up with a symbiote]] and decides to use it to do good.

** Eddie Brock pulls a HeelFaceTurn as well and becomes Anti-Venom. Then he loses the Anti-Venom symbiote and becomes a WellIntentionedExtremist on a quest to destroy all symbiotes... which lasts about five seconds before he becomes Toxin's new host.
** The US army chose Flash Thompson to become the Venom symbiote's latest host, putting it to use in the service of his country. Eventually, he made the transition into a superhero (unlike Normie, Flash hasn't convinced the symbiote to change; he does his best to keep it in check through willpower and drug-induced sedation).

** After being "inverted" in ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', Carnage makes a HeelFaceTurn. Having spent most of his life as a bloodthirsty psycho, [[HeroWithAnFInGood he's not very good at being good]], but bless him, he's trying.

* Terrence Ward, a.k.a. "Trauma," from ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'', is this trope personified. He has the power to physically change himself into anyone's deepest fear. This certainly makes him a formidable opponent in combat, but the most interesting use of this power is for therapeutic purposes. As an aspiring therapist, he could help troubled individuals to literally face their fears, or otherwise put their minds at ease with it. An example: Henry Gyrich is terrified of falling victim to Alzheimer's Disease. [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment Trauma then changes into Gyrich's deceased father as he remembers him]].
-->"It's not in you, son... You're clean. Such a good boy, sticking with me to the very end..."
* Laurel Darkhaven of ''ComicBook/RisingStars'' used her power to telekinetically manipulate small objects to kill people... but her final act was to use those powers to make soil fertile again.

* Roop from ''ComicBook/{{Briar}}'' has shown an affinity for [[{{Necromancer}} necromancy]], even [[spoiler: successfully resurrecting Captain Bly]]. Nonetheless, he is a quiet and kind person.

** Wither was an example until his FaceHeelTurn. The poor guy had an even worse case of PowerIncontinence than Rogue's, [[MakeThemRot decaying anything he touched]], including his girlfriend. X-villain Selene, whose immortality makes her mostly immune to Wither's powers, seduced him and added Wither to her coven by convincing him that the nature of his power made him a natural predator.
** So was the more popular ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, whose touch could put people in comas (usually temporary, but sometimes ''permanently''). She started out as a villain, but threw herself on the X-Men's mercy when the psychic echoes of [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers Ms. Marvel]]'s personality threatened to drive her insane; after spending some time with the team, she soon developed into a hero in her own right.
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', when a teenage boy's mutant powers first manifest, he discovers that his only power is to unconsciously vaporize all living tissue within a mile. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Without realizing it until it was far too late, he became responsible for hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths]], including those of his mother, his dog, his girlfriend, and every single person in his school. To prevent the nature of this incident from becoming public (and thus, demonizing all mutants irrevocably), he had to be put down by Wolverine, whose healing factor kept him from being vaporized. Wolverine did NOT enjoy doing it.
** During the Punisher's "Angelic" phase, he had a run-in with Wolverine where they tried to stop a special Morlock with the power to spread death around her, killing anyone around her without a healing factor. To stop her from reaching the surface and killing the whole of New York, Wolverine and Punisher tried to stop her and in the end the angels called her to heaven. The worst part was that she wasn't evil: she was sealed in a tube by her parents when she was a child due to her powers and just wanted to be free, seeing people trying to help her as devils and people trying to kill her as angels.
* ''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'' has awareness of everyone's backstory and secret identity, and later becomes a RealityWarper. [[FutureMeScaresMe Future Gwen]] states that's the universe trying to tell her to turn bad. She refuses to turn to the dark side.
* ''ComicBook/{{Raven}}'', from several of the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' comic incarnations, is the daughter of the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] Trigon and intended to serve in destroying the world. Instead, [[AntiAntiChrist she opposes him]] and fights for good with the other Titans.
* The DC character Mister Bones. He is a [[DemBones walking skeleton]] (his skin and organs are transparent) and he has a deadly "cyanide touch" that can kill almost anyone he comes in contact with. Needless to say, he began as a villain. However, he has since reformed and is now the director of the DEO, a government department that deals with superheroes. He may not be unambiguously heroic, but is typically on the side of the good guys, or at least not actively against them. A big part of this is because his most famous victim, Skyman, was killed when [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]] ''forced'' Bones to touch him. Bones was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply traumatized]] by the incident and it helped lead to his HeelRealization.
* Phobos, God of Fear, Son of War, in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is a CreepyChild with fear based powers. He's an unambiguously heroic character. Though he did cause a panic when he broke into the White House during the ComicBook/{{Siege}} event at the end of ComicBook/DarkReign. It turns out he just wanted to talk to the president about the cost of lives that putting Osborn in charge had caused (including the life of his father, ComicBook/{{Ares|Marvel}}). Since the president was naturally evacuated, he left a note on the desk in the Oval office... written in what looks like blue crayon. And that was after seeing Ares ripped in half on national television. Some people would call that restraint, for a god.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Toxin is a morally upright police officer that [[ClothesMakeTheManiac ends up with a symbiote]] and decides to use it to do good.
** After [[DeadGuyJunior Normie]] [[LegacyCharacter Osborn]] bonds with the Venom-symbiote in ''Comicbook/SpiderGirl'' he manages to convince it to undergo a HeelFaceTurn.
** In 616 [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Eddie Brock]] pulled a HeelFaceTurn as well and became Anti-Venom. And then he lost the Anti-Venom symbiote and became a WellIntentionedExtremist on a quest to destroy all symbiotes. ...Which lasted about five seconds before he became Toxin's new host.
** The US army chose Flash Thompson to become the Venom symbiote's latest host, putting it to use in the service of his country. Eventually, he made the transition into a superhero (unlike Normie, Flash hasn't convinced the symbiote to change; he does his best to keep it in check through willpower and drug-induced sedation).
** The Venom symbiote was originally a very clear-cut example of this trope; while most of its species were straight up parasites, this particular one genuinely cared about its hosts and did not attempt to control them. It was happy to be a hero with Peter, but when Peter rejected it (he was spooked about the symbiote being alive and puppeteering his body while he slept), it ended up bonding with the unstable Eddie Brock, and their combined hatred of Peter twisted the symbiote into a monster. After a long time and both parties getting over their ''many'' issues, Eddie and Venom have reunited as heroes.
** After being "inverted" in ''ComicBook/{{AXIS}}'', ComicBook/{{Carnage}} makes a HeelFaceTurn. Having spent most of his life as a bloodthirsty psycho, [[HeroWithAnFInGood he's not very good at being good]], but bless him, he's trying.
* The scarab of the ComicBook/BlueBeetle is revealed to be an agent of the Reach, an ancient enemy of the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s who created the scarab as a planet-killing weapon that bonds to and takes control of its hosts. Thankfully for everyone, the one that fell to Earth got damaged and couldn't properly activate, allowing its host Jaime Reyes free will. Even more fortunately, Jaime is a NiceGuy who categorically refuses to use the Scarab to kill- which poses a problem, since the Scarab isn't configured for not killing, but he makes it work as a hero. [[spoiler: He eventually manages to get through to the Scarab itself, which betrays the Reach and joins Jaime in heroing.]]
* The king of [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhumans]], ComicBook/BlackBolt, can level a city, cause distant dormant volcanoes to become active once more, shake entire continents apart and generate tremors on the far side of the planet ''with a whisper''. In fact, if he hadn't undergone rigorous mental training to prevent himself from uttering even the smallest sound (even while asleep) entire planets could be lost with a mere utterance of noise. He's got a power that an evil OmnicidalManiac dreams of.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** [[{{Plaguemaster}} Infectious Lass]], a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, causes plagues wherever she goes, but is really a nice person.
** During the Legion's [[CrisisCrossover pre-Zero Hour]], a young man from the present named Jamm was attacked by [[ToServeMan a spinal-fluid-sucking space parasite]] and inadvertently given mind control powers. At first he used his powers for his own amusement, including [[PowerPerversionPotential getting various female characters to strip]]. [[ComesGreatResponsibility After getting an abject lesson in responsibility from the Legion]], he returned to our time. Later, he and a band of other superpowered parasite victims encountered the heroes made comatose by a supersized parasite. [[http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p278/lammal412/Jamm1.jpg Shaken, Jamm commanded the heroes to awaken, thus saving their lives.]]
* Comicbook/GhostRider, the Spirit of Vengeance, is a monstrous being empowered by the Devil whose exploits involve a whole lot of serial MindRape. He's one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, thanks largely to a generous dose of PayEvilUntoEvil and to his altruistic actions towards anyone who ''isn't'' [[AssholeVictim on his hit list]]. That MindRape ability? It's useless against people who AREN'T evil. The pain inflicted is based on how many sins / crimes the target has committed. So it's basically divine punishment, in the sense that you can't hide what you did. However he did use this on a clown who had been forced to pretend to be evil as he was working undercover.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' is basically all about this trope. Hellboy himself, obviously, derives his power from his demonic ancestry, and was [[AntiAntiChrist supposed to bring about]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, but was raised by a kindly professor and chose to be good instead.
** Liz Sherman has the power to burn things with her mind. When she was young she accidentally killed a dozen people including her family. For a while, she believed her power was evil, but later she learns to control it.
** The spinoff series ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'' has Dr. Johann Krauss, a ghostly German scientist with the power to communicate with the dead and possess inanimate objects. He uses his powers to fight evil.
* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} from Franchise/TheDCU is a former knight of the Round Table with a demon trapped inside him. He is pretty much a good guy, and one of Batman's friends.
* ComicBook/{{Spawn}} is a HumanoidAbomination whose powers involve a large amount of BodyHorror, demonic abilities, and, much like Ghost Rider, he got them from a DealWithTheDevil. While morally ambiguous, he is one of the closest thing to a good guy in his universe, and while he gruesomely murders his enemies, most of them [[AssholeVictim have it coming big time]].
* Ratman from ''ComicBook/{{Elementals}}'' is a wererat and started out as a criminal, mostly because his rat-like qualities and rattothropy made him unpopular. He quickly changed sides after he developed a crush on Becky, who he subsequently strove to protect.
* In ''ComicBook/CommonGrounds''...you'd think a guy like the Acidic Jew would be a bad guy, right? Acid touch and all that? But no. He concentrates as hard as he can to keep his powers at bay, and is always there to help in the event of crisis; he saved dozens of lives after the Oklahoma City bombings.
* Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/ManThing is incredibly strong and nigh invulnerable. Also, if you know fear, his touch will cause you to burst into mystical flame and die. Suffice it to say, he's utterly terrifying to behold. He's a good guy who had his own long running series. (Technically, Man-Thing isn't really a hero. He's usually not even ''sapient''. That said, only villains tend to be burned by the touch of Man-Thing. You would think that a victim who went from being assaulted by criminals to having a HumanoidAbomination show up would be the ''most'' terrified, and thus attract Man-Thing's attack instincts, but in practice, it's villains' fear of justice that draws him.)
** Then there are guys like Random. Random has the charming ability to turn his arms into guns[[note]]Technically, he can change to any form he can imagine, he just doesn't see why he'd ever need a different one[[/note]]. He can generate dozens of barrels from one arm and just start blasting away. Sure, he comes from UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|OfComicBooks}}, but he is actually meant to be a TotallyRadical, happy-go-lucky guy who shoots a lot of people every day. He was on Comicbook/XFactor. You don't see him much these days, for a few reasons; one of them is that he has basically the same power and personality as despicable villain Bushwhacker. He was eventually subjected to a {{Retcon}} that said he'd been EvilAllAlong, working for Beast's EvilTwin.
** The (second) Scorpion, Carmilla Black, has a TouchOfDeath, but later learns that [[spoiler:this power is both the only thing stopping her from being mind controlled by terrorist group A.I.M. and the only thing able to defeat their biological weapon]].
* ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' plays with this trope; ComicBook/TheAvengers recruit and train several teenagers with either bad powers or budding sociopathy to specifically prevent them from turning into supervillains. How they eventually deal with this remains to be seen.
-->'''Mettle:''' ''"Look at us. Big monster guy, the human electric chair, poison gas girl, assassin chick, t-rex boy, and Chernobyl in Abercrombie and Fitch. One wrong move and any one of us could be a murderer."''
* ComicBook/AlphaFlight's Purple Girl/Persuasion had a rough start, but has consistently been one of the good guys since, despite the mind control powers she inherited from her evil father. Though she eventually did a heel turn and became the WellIntentionedExtremist villain the Purple Woman. As of ''Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter'', she appears fully reformed and as the trusted friend of an organizer for a support group of her fathers victims.
* Nico Minoru from ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' has a dark magic spell casting staff that emerges whenever she bleeds. She's also the kindhearted leader of the group who is noted to be too trusting.
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange: Very few people seem to remember his official title at first was not "Master of the Mystic Arts" but "Master of the ''Dark'' Arts" and he was very often invoking names of demons and evil beings to lend him power, until various adventures haven't set him against them. Even today, when him using dark magic is portrayed in more morally ambiguous light, he is a good guy who isn't afraid of fighting fire with fire.
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' had a minor antagonist named Melter who is a kindhearted guy and really wants to help people, but his power is to ''melt them''. It didn't help that the superhero team he assembled featured mostly antiheroes and psychos and that their influence started to get to him. And once he broke off with them, he ended up in the hands of [[ComicBook/IronMan Mandarin]] who led him to full FaceHeelTurn.
* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', necromancers summon all sorts of nasty monsters from beyond the Veil to unleash hell on Earth. One of the most dangerous is a True Primordial, whose very appearance can kill standard humans. Allistor, a necromancer uneasily allied with the Vigil, has bound a True Primordial to his daughter and uses its power to keep other necromancers and monsters from doing more damage.
* ''ComicBook/{{The 99}}'' has Darr the Afflicter, a wheelchair-bound young man who has the ability to inflict pain upon others, and Wakila the Guardian, a little girl whose powers cause abusers to feel all the pain they've inflicted upon others.
* At one point in the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' side comic books, Razorbeast is infected by Angolmois energy, a powerfully corruptive, evil force that mutates its victims into savage berserkers. No surprise, since it's the raw essence of ''Unicron''. He still has enough of his senses to turn his newfound power and fury against the Predacons as well as Unicron's heralds and use his mutation-enhanced strength for the forces of good, but [[spoiler:it doesn't last once he runs out of unquestionable enemies to fight and his best friend has to put him down before he endangers humans or Maximals]].

* At one point in the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'' side comic books, Razorbeast is infected by Angolmois energy, a powerfully corruptive, evil force that mutates its victims into savage berserkers. No surprise, since it's the raw essence of ''Unicron''. He still has enough of his senses to turn his newfound power and fury against the Predacons as well as Unicron's heralds and use his mutation-enhanced strength for the forces of good, but [[spoiler:it doesn't last once he runs out of unquestionable enemies to fight and his best friend has to put him down before he endangers humans or Maximals]].

* Phobos, God of Fear, Son of War, in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is a CreepyChild with fear based powers. He's an unambiguously heroic character. Though he did cause a panic when he broke into the White House during the ComicBook/{{Siege}} event at the end of ComicBook/DarkReign. It turns out he just wanted to talk to the president about the cost of lives that putting Osborn in charge had caused (including the life of his father, ComicBook/{{Ares}}). Since the president was naturally evacuated, he left a note on the desk in the Oval office... written in what looks like blue crayon. And that was after seeing Ares ripped in half on national television. Some people would call that restraint, for a god.

* The scarab of the ComicBook/BlueBeetle is revealed to be an agent of the Reach, an ancient enemy of the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s who created the scarab as part of a hive mind that controls the wearer. Fortunately, the Blue Beetle's scarab gets separated from the hive mind, manages to develop a sense of self thanks to the good heart of its wearer Jaime Reyes, and becomes a sentient being of good.

* The DC character Mister Bones. He is a [[DemBones walking skeleton]] (his skin and organs are transparent) and he has a deadly "cyanide touch" that can kill almost anyone he comes in contact with. Needless to say, he began as a villain. However, he has since reformed and is now the director of the DEO, a government department that deals with superheroes. He may not be unambiguously heroic, but is typically on the side of the good guys, or at least not actively against them. A big part of this is because his most famous victim, Skyman, was killed when ComicBook/SolomonGrundy ''forced'' Bones to touch him. Bones was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone deeply traumatized]] by the incident and it helped lead to his HeelRealization.