History MagnificentBastard / Comicbooks

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}''

* ComicBook/Elsewhere2017: [[HistoricalDomainCharacter D. B. Cooper]] is the thief who stole thousands from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, transported to an alternate world where he keeps all the same thievery but with a DeadpanSnarker demeanour. He helps Amelia to defeat Lord Kragen but sneaks away from the group during the battle to steal thousands from a castle vault before escaping. Eventually Amelia finds him and brings him back into the group, and when they arrive back on Earth and are captured by the Government, he is able to completely avoid any psychological examination and even manages to pit his psychiatrists against each other.

* ''ComicBook/DreddFuries'', by Arthur Wyatt: In this sequel to ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', the "Techie" is a former minion of Ma-Ma forced into the life of crime. Starting off as meek and cowardly, the Techie [[TookALevelInBadass becomes more cunning, effective and fearless]]. Taking the name of Bill Huxley, the Techie managed to build a family, only for Judge Dredd to cause him to be fired from his work, forcing him to turn to crime again. Assisting the Erinyes Crew to enter the Penthouse to kill the guards and steal a Pearl, Techie immediately became reluctant when he discovered that Pearl was a little girl. Taking the situation into his control, Techie has the Erinyes Crew follow him and when they try to get rid of him effortlessly defeats them by unleashing the factory's robots on them, alerting the Judges to their location, while he leaves Pearl to be rescued. In the end, the Techie hacks all of the bank accounts of the Erinyes Crew and steals their connections and wealth, taunting them before their deaths and evades the Judges, using his newfound power to take care of his family from afar.
* ''ComicBook/TheEaglesOfRome'': Ermanamer/Arminius is a prince of the Cherusci who is sent as a hostage to Rome to ensure his tribe's loyalty. Growing up among a Roman family, Arminius becomes SwornBrothers with Marcus Valerius Falco, spending their young years [[TheSpartanWay training to be warriors]] and living a carefree life bedding women, getting into fights, and watching horse races. When Marcus is planning to throw away his career by running away with a girl he fell in love with, Arminius arranges to break them up. Becoming an officer in the staff of General Varus at the Rhine frontier, Ermanamer serves Rome's interests while secretly never having lost his sense of patriotism, biding his time by becoming an accomplice in a plot by Varus and one of his other officers, Lepidus, to overthrow Augustus himself. Marcus, who has arrived with instructions to spy on his brother, is found out by Ermanamer within days of his arrival and is later [[FrameUp framed for the murder of Varus' lover Nektarios]]. Ermanamer also takes his beloved Thusnelda away from her disapproving father Segestes, eloping with her and making Segestes appear unreliable to the Romans in the process. Setting out to free Germania from Roman rule and fulfill a prophecy given to him by a woods witch, Ermanamer establishes himself as leader of the tribes before luring the Roman army into a trap at Teutoburg Forest. Having successfully wiped out three legions of the most powerful army in the world, [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Ermanamer is crowned King of the Germanii]].

** [[WellIntentionedExtremist Rudolph Conners]], aka "[[VillainWithGoodPublicity Robot]]", is the leader of the Teen Team. Coming into prominence following Omni-Man's murder of the original Guardians of the Globe, Robot used his ingenuity to accomplish his own goals while defending the Earth from various threats, used the Mauler Twins to rebuild his body only to turn on them afterwards, and instigated a successful slave revolt against the Flaxans while trapped in their dimension. Resentful of Mark for being given credit for helping rebuild after Dinosaurus' final attack while his efforts go unnoticed, and fearing what Mark could become upon witnessing a evil version of Invincible in an [[MirrorUniverse alternate dimension]], Robot sought to unify the world under his banner. Trapping Invincible in the alternate Earth, Robot launches a coup against the Global Defense Agency and purges of many of Earth's heroes, leading to Robot effectively [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the Earth]]. Under his rule war and poverty are almost completely eradicated, his efforts causing any potential resistance to fizzle out and forcing Invincible to leave Earth. Even after his defeat following a fatal error, Invincible, seeing that Robot has benefited humanity, preserved his brain to allow Robot to continue guiding humanity from the shadows, but restrained enough to prevent him from seeking absolute power again.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd: Mega-City Zero'':
** Judge Berger is daughter of two botanists, who survived through the events of Necropolis, when the Dark Judges took over Mega-City One and started massacring people by the millions. Witnessing her parents deaths, Berger saw everything as a proof that the Justice System was flawed and needed to be fixed. Becoming a Judge, Berger tries everything she can to try to fix the system and reduce the crime rate, only for her ideas to be constantly rejected, leading to her coming across the drug "Green" and modifying it, sneaking it inside the Justice Department and unleashing it upon the city, transforming the entirety of Mega-City One into grass and merging the minds of all its inhabitants, including herself, with everyone being helpless to stop her. Taking full control of the "Green" and building her "perfect world" there, where crime was near nonexistent and everyone was happy, Berger later earns a full trust of Lolo, while later dominating Dredd upon meeting him and unleashing the copies of his rouge gallery to show him how chaotic was the "old" world.
** "Annual: The Red Judges": Chief Judge Goodman was the past head of the Justice Department, when the Justice System was only first being implemented. Summoning the newest Judge Estevez, he leads the squad of Red Judges through him to wipe out all the resistance to the system. Though Red Judges took heavy losses, he managed to succeed in their goal, Goodman then sent them to the Decompress, while then revealing to Estevez that he knew about his criminal past and orders him to go with the Red Judges, seemingly to transport criminals to Titan, while in reality he was ordered to blow up the place and annihilate the Red Judges completely, with all the criminals and staff deemed "collateral damage". As soon as it was over, Goodman wipes out any mention of Estevez and Red Judges from the database, effectively erasing the Red Judges from history for a long time.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Adrian Veidt, alias Ozymandias, is a former member of the Minutemen, the most brilliant man alive and the architect of every wrong in the plot [[WellIntentionedExtremist for a just cause]]. A self-made millionaire who built his entire fortune from the ground up after giving away his vast inheritance, Veidt uses his vast resources as a cover for an elaborate plot to force peace upon the world in the brink of nuclear war, meticulously silencing every loose end in the way. Veidt discredits the omnipotent Dr. Manhattan and drives him off Earth after framing him for giving people cancer, and assassinates those who find out too much about his plan, from Moloch to the Comedian, all while effortlessly playing the part of a VillainWithGoodPublicity. Veidt, through research into genetic development and teleportation, creates a monstrous alien creature he drops on New York, killing millions, all to frame it as the attack of alien invaders and thus force the world's leaders to cooperate again an imaginary bigger threat before they can destroy each other. Ultimately, Veidt's plan is a success, executing his master stroke thirty-five minutes before it can ever be intercepted, afterwards proclaiming he'll thrust the world upward into a utopia of his own design. Calculated, unfettered, and ruthless while still remaining human enough to feel remorse over the horrors he's committed, Ozymandias is one of the most intelligent and morally complex characters to have come out of [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the Dark Age]].