History EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': Before [[CameBackWrong his transformation into Thorn]], dialogue hints that mobster Sal Carbone gets along well with his niece Rosalie. He's also upset when his RedShirt nephew Marco (the son of an otherwise unmentioned third Carbone sibling) is killed while his brother Julius cares more about how Marco and his companions accomplished their objective before dying.

* In the Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} comic ''Tales of the Vampires'', one story is about a man who is the father of a toddler is turned into a vampire, however he genuinely continues to love his son and raises the young boy just like any other father. The story shows that the vampire is ''not'' a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, he does still seek out humans to feed on and likely kills many, but the son is exempt no matter how much time passes. The story ends on a tragic note; the son eventually grows old and gets back in touch with his father, who once again takes care of him as the son's health grows frail. Then one night as the son is near death, a Slayer bursts into the room and before either father or son can react or say anything, she slays the vampire, only realizing that the vampire was no danger to the old man afterwards.

** The ''Hearts and Minds'' miniseries of the 2008 [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW IDW continuity]] shows that part of Major Bludd's motivation to continue working for Cobra is the affluent lifestyle he is able to provide for his family by doing so.

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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** During DC's One Year Later event, several minor ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains were killed off, one of them a mutated biologist named Orca. During the storyline, it's revealed that Orca was married to a normal human, who's interviewed by the police regarding the circumstances around her death. While a little humor is taken from the relationship (the man remarking that he had a thing for [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_orca.jpg big women]]) the pain of loss is treated seriously.
** Mr. Freeze loves his wife Nora more than anything in the world, and every single crime he commits - no matter how atrocious - is done with the end goal of curing her illness and saving her life. (It should be noted that the nobility of his intentions varies DependingOntheWriter, especially during his ComicBook/New52 incarnation.)
** ''ComicBook/PoisonIvy'' mostly [[MisanthropeSupreme thinks humans are worthless scum deserving of death]], but really does love ComicBook/HarleyQuinn.
** While this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent on era and writer]], ComicBook/RasAlGhul usually truly loves his daughter ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul. Subverted with his other children, who are almost always shunned.
*** Likewise, Talia al Ghul truly cares for her son, Damian, in spite of his allegiance to the Bat-Family (though, again, this largely depends on the continuity).
** The General, a ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' villain, cares for his brother and sister even if he doesn't really get along with them. When he accidentally kills them he blames Robin for their deaths and becomes considerably more dangerous, almost dipping all of Gotham back into a violent gang war and killing anyone who matches his profile for Robin's secret identity.
* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Convergence}} Convergence: Green Lantern - Parallax #2]]'', Hal/Parallax is very pissed when Electropolis' princess and her army attack Kyle.
* ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, the world's greatest marksman, an unrepentant assassin, sends the money from his hits to his daughter. Comicbook/SecretSix basically has a team of villains forming their own kind-of family.
* For all his flaws and failings, Slade Wilson aka {{ComicBook/Deathstroke}} does genuinely love his children and his butler Billy Wintergreen. Especially in ComicBook/DeathstrokeRebirth. However, he is a ''terrible'' father; Wintergreen notes that Slade is incapable of expressing his affection for his surviving children in anything approaching a healthy way, and he has no compunctions about lying, manipulating, or endangering them, either.
* Franchise/TheFlash:
** The Rogues are a close-knit group of criminals who act as a family, albeit a dysfunctional one. They originally got together just out of practicality, and a few of the guys couldn't stand the others. But over time, they realized that they're all the family any of them has. This trope is actually the reason Captain Cold, who had been retired at that point, reformed the Rogues after they disbanded; his only family, his sister Lisa, had just been killed. While he ends up expanding the Rogues to include the newer groups also calling themselves the Rogues, he still only considered the core group (himself, Heatwave, Weather Wizard, and the legacy versions of the Trickster, Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang) as the real Rogues and his family. Among all the Rogues, they will repeatedly state that their group is just a working group and they have no attachment to each other, but they have repeatedly shown that is not the case.
** The second Reverse-Flash, Hunter Zolomon, is noticeable for this. While he believe that heroes who've suffered tragedy will come out stronger, and that loved ones are a distraction, he himself still sees the third Flash (Wally West) as a friend, despite the fact that Hunter ''caused Wally's wife to miscarry''. Speaking of which, the quickest way to incur Hunter's wrath is to threaten his ex-wife [[CurbStompBattle as the Rogues learned]].
* ''ComicBook/NewGods'': Despite being a GodOfEvil, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} did truly love his first wife Suli, which is why [[EvilMatriarch his mother]] had Desaad poison her-to ensure she couldn't pull off a LoveRedeems and Darkseid would become a tyrant. [[GoneHorriblyRight It worked alright]], [[LaserGuidedKarma as Darkseid had Desaad poison her]]. This love he had for Suli is the main reason why he always brings back Kalibak [[TheUnFavourite despite his contempt for his incompetence]].
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'', as word spreads about Superman's death, someone in prison initially rejoices, [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead but he's quickly shut up by other inmates]] who remembered Superman saving some of their relatives.
** Pre-Crisis ''ComicBook/LexLuthor'' is as big a bastard as they come, but he loves his family deeply. In the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' strips he goes to extraordinary lengths to prevent his sister Lena and her son from discovering their blood relationship. Supergirl herself states he only looks like a decent human being around his family. In ''Adventure Comics'' Vol. 1 issue #388:
--->'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' But it was a white lie! Luthor doesn't want Val to live with the stigma of having a master criminal for an uncle! This was his one decent act in a lifetime of crime!
** Syrene is a despicable, power-hungry sorceress, but she really loved her father Ambra. After gaining quasi-omnipotence in ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'', her first action is to attempt to kill his murderer.
** ''ComicBook/SuperboyPrime'': Despite the atrocities Superboy-Prime commits, he still very much loves his parents Jerry and Naomi Kent and his girlfriend and childhood friend Laurie Lemmon. This ends up a {{deconstruction}} however, as the love he has for them becomes dark and twisted. When he finally comes home to Earth Prime and reunites with his loved ones, he is shocked to discover they have read ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', and ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' - Legion of 3 Worlds, and are now terrified of him. It is implied that he killed Laurie Lemmon and his parents let him live with them out of fear. Despite becoming more possessive and controlling of his parents, he still wishes they loved him like they did before and he regrets killing Laurie. Later subverted, however, when Laurie returns with her arm in a cast, implying that Clark merely broke her arm in his fit of anger. It's implied they reconciled after this.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'':
** In her original appearances, Tara "Terra" Markov was eventually revealed to be a cruel, cold-hearted girl with no redeeming qualities. Despite this, she seems to have a genuine sweet spot for her older brother Brion.
** Cheshire has been shown to care her daughter Lian DependingOnTheWriter.
* ''ComicBook/{{Terra}}'': Richard Faulkner and Veronica are both incredibly amoral self absorbed people, but they really do care for each other and Veronica being killed by her exposure to Quixium sends Richard spiraling into madness.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'', Lady Shilling, the sister of Tomahawk's Archenemy [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] [[EvilBrit Shilling]], adopts the identity of the Hood to seek revenge on Tomahawk after he causes her brother's death.
* In ''ComicBook/Trinity2008'', Enigma (the antimatter universe Riddler) is a smug, manipulative bastard who sets in motion a plan to steal cosmic power that throws the whole universe off balance so that he can save his daughter's life.
* During the ''Uncle Sam and the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DC}}'' miniseries, Lester Colt grew disillusioned with working under the [[PresidentEvil Administration]] after being sent to kill an Intergang drug runner at his five-year-old grandson's birthday party.
* In ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'', the assassin Y'Smalla is driven by a fanatical level of hatred for Travis Morgan because Morgan killed the man that she loved during is war against the New Atlanteans.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** Ares loves his children, even if they're not always on the same page as him and don't always appreciate the things he does to look out for them. Harmonia has outright worked against him at points but even during this period he gladly gave her a protected place to live. The exception seems to be Hippolyta and her sisters, and not all writers stick to the canon of Ares being their father.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Circe, who hates humanity as a whole, loves her daughter Lyta, so when Lyta ends up in the care of the Amazons and beyond Circe's reach her hatred of the Amazons is greatly multiplied.

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* Creator/MarvelComics villains Absorbing Man and Titania are both mean, violent thugs, but are [[UnholyMatrimony married]] and genuinely love one another. Averted in terms of Absorbing Man's ex, who is Stonewall's mother. Stonewall is the result of Creel raping Jerry's mother, and Creel doesn't care for Stonewall either.
* {{ComicBook/Daredevil}} and Franchise/SpiderMan foe [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Kingpin]] is a ruthless ManipulativeBastard mob boss who rules the New York underworld with an iron fist. However he deeply loves his wife and son, even after both tried to murder him. They both died, which has done nothing but make him more cold and bitter. He later fell in love with a woman named Marta and tried to leave the business to be with her. When Lady Bullseye and the Hand killed Marta, Fisk came back to New York ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge with a vengeance]]''.
** This aspect of Kingpin's character is a plot point in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''; it's revealed that the Ultimate version of Wilson's wife fell into a mysterious coma before the start of the story. Kingpin uses his resources to care for her and strictly refuses to allow any discussion of criminal activity in front of her ("She's an ill woman. She doesn't need her head filled with our ugliness."). After a particularly difficult storyline, Daredevil decides that the only thing a man like him would understand is [[spoiler:the murder of his wife,]] and Spider-Man has to try and convince him that [[spoiler:enacting this plan would make them as bad as each other]].
** It's also subverted: Kingpin's beloved niece, Samantha, is kidnapped by a rival gangster named Fade that is attempting to muscle in on Fisk's territory. Fade intends to use the poor girl as leverage against her uncle, and an enraged Fisk pays a healthy ransom to ensure her safe return. Fade also agrees to give Samantha a letter from her mother to help comfort her before her release. Unfortunately for Fade, the letter was doctored with the trigger scent, and "Samantha" is actually Comicbook/{{X 23}}...
** Kingpin also has a real best friend, Miles Morales (no, not [[ComicBook/MilesMorales that]] one), who saved his life in prison. When he wanted to drop the gangster life, Kingpin helped to {{Unperson}} him, and when his wife died, he gave him the means to reunite with her alternate version in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe.
* Another Daredevil foe Bullet, a professional assassin, has an autistic son named Lance. Lance is the one thing in the world Bullet cares for and he'll do anything to protect him.
* Yet another Daredevil example is Purple Man, who has ''six'' children (all are from different mothers, all have inherited a weaker variant of his powers, and one has actually become a supervillain herself). He genuinely loves each and every one of them and has made multiple attempts to forge a bond with them. In a rather disturbing twist on this trope, finding out about his first daughter actually made him an even worse person; before he was happy to retire from supervillainy and just used his powers to live a life of comfort and hedonism. After he learned of her, he decided to come out of retirement and started pulling far bigger crimes than he ever committed before, as he believes he can win her affection and respect by doing so.
** He also used to have a wife, whom he really did love. However when she learned about his powers and that he had used them to pressure her into marrying him quicker, she understandably flipped out and left him, which simply made him even more bitter and amoral. Given Purple Man's [[DisproportionateRetribution usual]] [[MoodSwinger tendencies]], it says a lot that he actually let her leave and didn't pursue or harm her.
** On the other hand, he had no compunction using his powers on the five Purple Children, despite his claim that the reason he sought them out and basically kidnapped them was to be loved ''without'' using his powers (and also because with all their powers together, they could rule entire countries). Their response to this [[spoiler: was to use their combined powers to make him walk in front of a train]].
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom's adoration of his deceased mother, Cynthia, is possibly his only unambiguously good trait. Not only that, but he simply adores Valeria Richards, and swore on the moment of her birth (which he aided in), that he would defend her with his life, and that anyone who sought to do her harm would have to deal with his wrath. In this case, Valeria cares for him as well. The girl's first word as a baby was "Doom."
** To a lesser extent, DependingOnTheWriter, Doom feels the same way about the people of Latveria. Threaten them, you will suffer Doom's wrath.
* The Comicbook/FantasticFour villain the Puppet Master is a vile and evil man, but his one good trait is that he genuinely loves his stepdaughter Alicia. He initially planned to crash Alicia's wedding to Johnny Storm by killing the groom, but couldn't go through with it after seeing how happy she was[[note]]Though this "Alicia" would later turn out to be a Skrull impostor.[[/note]].
* ComicBook/TheHood is a textbook example of this trope, using some of the proceeds from his criminal activities to pay for his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother's care]] while also supporting his pregnant girlfriend Sara. The main vilurin the Hood "fights" during his first mini also counts; he loves his family greatly and was trying to find a mutant to be part of his supervillain squad because his daughter was one and asked him to hire some more.
* ''{{ComicBook/Sabretooth}}'' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas loved his mother]], one of his enemies even referring to him as a mama's boy given the extent of Creed's doting on her in the nursing home when he visits. The only others Creed really bonded to were love interests, ''{{ComicBook/Mystique}}'', [[SatelliteLoveInterest Holly]], and [[SatelliteLoveInterest Bonnie]]. He thought about settling down with Holly, and going away with Bonnie. Sadly both died not long after they got together. He & Mystique were off-and-on since 2010, and were shown to be very affectionate when they were together.
** ''ComicBook/WeaponX2017'' reveals that Creed genuinely loves his normal human son Graydon (whom he had with Mystique) and despite Graydon despising him, Sabretooth saves his son from {{Hell}} after his mother Mystique [[OffingTheOffspring killed him]].
* Speaking of Mystique, the one person she loves more than anyone is definitely her girlfriend Destiny, who's the one person Mystique has never once betrayed. When Destiny died, Mystique went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and went on to care for her biological son ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} and adoptive daughter ComicBook/{{Rogue}} greatly, even performing a HeroicSacrifice once for them. But with even with all that said, she has no qualms about [[EvilMatriarch hurting and betraying them]].
* Zig-zagged with ComicBook/{{Thanos}} and his adoptive daughter ComicBook/{{Gamora}}. He treats her far, far better than his other children but he still has no qualms about putting her through TrainingFromHell and almost killed her when she betrayed him for Adam Warlock. Regardless, Thanos’s few PetTheDog and PapaWolf moments are concerning Gamora, meaning she’s likely one of the few things he cares about (after [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of course).
* Another villain couple from Creator/MarvelComics, Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight are the [[UnholyMatrimony married]] members of the Black Order who have been shown to be in a ''genuinely'' loving and affectionate relationship despite being sadistic genocidal monsters to everyone else. They prefer fighting as a BattleCouple and coordinate their attacks while referring to each other by [[SickeninglySweethearts pet names]] such as 'my love' and 'dear midnight'; something that they continue to do in the ''[[ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender Avengers: No Surrender]]'' event. Proxima has displayed [[VillainousBSOD great despair]] or anger whenever Corvus has fallen in battle (even though she [[LoveMakesYouDumb knows]] that her husband is effectively immortal and will regenerate given some time); while Corvus has shown to [[InLoveWithYourCarnage admire]] and indulge his wife's BloodKnight tendencies with gifts of 'first blood' whenever she wants.
* Despite General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross[=/=]ComicBook/RedHulk being a [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains type III]] AntiVillain, it is clear that he loves his daughter Betty. From what we've seen in flashbacks, he loved Betty's mother Karen too; her death from cancer left him emotionally devastated.
* [[Franchise/SpiderMan The Sandman]] apparently had a mother he loved too much to let her know he lived a life of crime, so he changed his name to Flint Marko. When he was [[spoiler:bitten and seemingly killed by Venom]], he asked Spider-Man to tell his mother he was sorry for not being a good-guy. He also has a daughter named Keemia (or at least he believes himself to be her father) whom he is deeply protective of (although he may have killed her mother and then blotted out the memory). [[RealityEnsues She was later taken away from him by Child Protective Services due to his kidnapping her]]. Since Spider-Man was involved, this has made the feud between the two more personal and bitter than it ever was before.
* ComicBook/NormanOsborn genuinely loved his deceased wife. Whether he loves his son or not depends on the writer.
* Spider-Man villain and mobster Tombstone is pretty ruthless in the business but, as shown in ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', he still deeply loves and cares about his daughter. In a rare instance of the loved ones also being villainous, said daughter is [[spoiler:Janice Lincoln, the supervillain known as Beetle]]; she also is shown to love her father. In another twist on this trope, [[spoiler:Janice]] was well-aware of her father's lifestyle and business (in fact it was partly what inspired her to become a supervillain, much to Tombstone's consternation) but still had a fairly normal childhood.
* In the Spider-Man comic "The Coming of Chaos", Spider-Man discovers that ComicBook/{{Loki}} has a mortal daughter named Tess Black (among [[ReallyGetsAround hundreds of others]]). Tess gets possessed by a powerful agent known as Morwen - who is a threat to Loki's power. If he didn't care about Tess, he would have killed her in order to stop Morwen. But apparently, he does not neglect his children, and at first demands Tess's release. When that fails, he asks for Spider-Man's help to save her, they go through a difficult process in order to get Tess back alive which causes more problems, and at the end of it Loki admits that he owes Spider-Man a debt for helping him save her. Yep, the God of Mischief and resident MagnificentBastard is a PapaWolf. Who knew?
** Loki makes a point of not having loved ones close who would provide easy targets for his many enemies (he wipes Tess' memory for one), so to what extent he would go to save them is rarely shown... then his innocent and good-ish child version told his only friend ([[LoveInterests possibly more]]) that he would ''rather see the nine worlds burn'' than [[LoveMakesYouEvil to lose her again]]. And he meant it too - he actually postponed the world-saving to save her.
* Kang the Conqueror and his love for Princess Ravonna. He even sought out the ComicBook/FantasticFour, his ''archenemies'', in order to save her from a traitor.
* In another example from Spider-Man's rogues gallery, Adrian Toomes, the Vulture, has a little grandson whom he adores. When the kid developed a brain tumor, Toomes went on a crime spree to try and make enough money to pay for treatment, but was thwarted by Spider-Man. He was so enraged that he put Spidey in the hospital over it. It was later revealed that he also has a granddaughter named Tiana, and that he used to leave her and her mother some of the money from his heists to help make up for [[DisappearedDad his son having abandoned them]].
* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (though "evil" may be [[NobleDemon stretching it]] with him) famously has his three children ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Polaris}}, all of whom he deeply loves even when they're aiding Comicbook/TheAvengers and X-Men against his schemes. His also genuinely loved his deceased wife and became a villain expressly because of losing his family in the Holocaust (in fact being separated from his mother is what caused his powers to activate). When he is forced kill Scarlet Witch during the attack on the Avengers in ''[[Comicbook/OldManLogan Old Man Hawkeye]]'', he genuinely ''cries''.
** His ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' incarnation, who is '''far''' more despicable, also qualifies, though it's ''very'' downplayed. He does love and favor Wanda, though his favoritism toward his daughter is treated as a ''bad'' thing, plus he [[spoiler:unleashes ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}} in response to her possible death]].
* Though not necessarily evil, ComicBook/EmmaFrost is usually depicted as one of the more cold, [[PragmaticHero pragmatic]] and morally gray members of the Comicbook/XMen. Despite this:
** She cares deeply for her daughters/clones the ComicBook/StepfordCuckoos, and vows revenge on {{ComicBook/Jean Grey}} and the Phoenix for killing the other thousands of them in ''Phoenix: Warsong''.
** She's also cares for her students, and even killed her own sister after said sister's actions resulted in the death of Synch in ''Comicbook/GenerationX''. When a bunch of the students were killed by William Stryker's forces after ''Comicbook/HouseOfM'', she was devastated.
** Finally, her FaceHeelTurn in ''Comicbook/DeathOfX'' and ''Comicbook/InhumansVsXMen'' was due to her grief over the death of her lover Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}, for which she blamed Comicbook/TheInhumans.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Blob pleaded with Magneto at one point to bring his daughter Firestar and her mother to the Savage Lands to protect them from danger, despite them wanting nothing to do with him. He even had an life insurance policy in place to take care of Firestar and her mother after he died on the condition they also take care of his illegitimate son from another relationship.

* During the ''Uncle Sam and the ComicBook/FreedomFighters'' miniseries, Lester Colt grew disillusioned with working under the [[PresidentEvil Administration]] after being sent to kill an Intergang drug runner at his five-year-old grandson's birthday party.

** ComicBook/Mr.Freeze loves his wife Nora more than anything in the world, and every single crime he commits - no matter how atrocious - is done with the end goal of curing her illness and saving her life. (It should be noted that the nobility of his intentions varies DependingOntheWriter, especially during his New52 incarnation.)

** Mr. Freeze's goal is to protect and revive his wife. This is controversially averted in the ComicBook/New52, where it is retconned that Mr. Freeze never had a wife, and the frozen person he obsesses after who was frozen before he was even born, rendering him into just another generic lunatic psychopath with no redeeming traits. Thankfully, ComicBook/DCRebirth undid this.

** SelfDemonstrating/SuperboyPrime: Despite the atrocities Superboy-Prime commits, he still very much loves his parents Jerry and Naomi Kent and his girlfriend and childhood friend Laurie Lemmon. This ends up a {{deconstruction}} however, as the love he has for them becomes dark and twisted. When he finally comes home to Earth Prime and reunites with his loved ones, he is shocked to discover they have read ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'', ''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'', ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', and ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' - Legion of 3 Worlds, and are now terrified of him. It is implied that he killed Laurie Lemmon and his parents let him live with them out of fear. Despite becoming more possessive and controlling of his parents, he still wishes they loved him like they did before and he regrets killing Laurie. Later subverted, however, when Laurie returns with her arm in a cast, implying that Clark merely broke her arm in his fit of anger. It's implied they reconciled after this.

* A collection of [[Franchise/GIJoe GI JOE comics]] detailing backstories of characters shows that part of Major Bludd's motivation to continue working for COBRA is the affluent lifestyle he is able to provide for his family by doing so.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': In her original appearances, Tara "Terra" Markov was eventually revealed to be a cruel, cold-hearted girl with no redeeming qualities. Despite this, she seems to have a genuine sweet spot for her older brother Brion.

** ''ComicBook/PoisonIvy'' mostly [[MisanthropeSupreme thinks humans are worthless scum deserving of death]], but really does love Comicbook/HarleyQuinn.
** While this is [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent on era and writer]], ComicBook/RasAlGhul usually truly loves his daughter Talia.

* ''ComicBook/Dynamo5'': Female mother and daughter supervillain team Chrysalis and Synergy appear to be close to each other, and Chrysalis claims to have been in love with Captain Dynamo, the father of her daughter Synergy.

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (though "evil" may be [[NobleDemon stretching it]] with him) famously has his children ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/{{Polaris}} his three children, all of whom he deeply loves even when they're aiding Comicbook/TheAvengers and X-Men against his schemes. His also genuinely loved his deceased wife and became a villain expressly because of losing his family in the Holocaust (in fact being separated from his mother is what caused his powers to activate). When he is forced kill Scarlet Witch during the attack on the Avengers in ''[[Comicbook/OldManLogan Old Man Hawkeye]]'', he genuinely ''cries''.

** Mr. Freeze's goal is to protect and revive his wife. This is controversially averted in the ComicBook/New52, where it is retconned that Mr. Freeze never had a wife, and the frozen person he obsesses after who was frozen before he was even born, rendering him into just another generic lunatic psychopath with no redeeming traits.

** During DC's One Year Later event, several minor ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villains were killed off, one of them a mutated biologist named Orca. During the storyline, it's revealed that Orca was married to a normal human, who's interviewed by the police regarding the circumstances around her death. While a little humor is taken from the relationship (the man remarking that he had a thing for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orca_batman.jpg big women]]) the pain of loss is treated seriously.