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* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'': In ''ComicBook/NightwingNew52'', set in the ''ComicBook/New52'' universe, Anthony Zucco actually does try to turn his life around to be a good role model for his son Brian... then he learns that his wife and son left him and he decides to embrace being evil.



* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Venom symbiote is cleansed of its hatred and rage in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and becomes a heroic Agent of the Cosmos... only to have its cleansing undone by [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Mercurio]] in ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'' and has a momentary and unwilling return to villainy, before reuniting with his former host, Eddie Brock and staying as a benevolent, if very violent hero.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The Venom symbiote is cleansed of its hatred and rage in ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2013'' and becomes a heroic Agent of the Cosmos... only to have its cleansing undone by [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Mercurio]] in ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'' and has a momentary and unwilling return to villainy, before reuniting with his former host, Eddie Brock and staying as a benevolent, if very violent hero.
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* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', the ''very'' {{Anti Hero}}ic, if not outright villainous, ComicBook/BlackAdam decides to start flying straight under the influence of his two new {{Morality Pet}}s and turns his dominion Kahndaq into a rather utopian place. Then, [[spoiler:both Morality Pets are killed by the Intergang. And one of them suffers a HeroicBSOD on top of that, instructing Adam to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]] Which he does, becoming the most wanted mass-murderer on the planet for a while.
* This is the CentralTheme for the Annual # 1 of the ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', with four stories:

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* In ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', the ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'': The ''very'' {{Anti Hero}}ic, if not outright villainous, ComicBook/BlackAdam decides to start flying straight under the influence of his two new {{Morality Pet}}s and turns his dominion Kahndaq into a rather utopian place. Then, [[spoiler:both Morality Pets are killed by the Intergang. And one of them suffers a HeroicBSOD on top of that, instructing Adam to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]] Which he does, becoming the most wanted mass-murderer on the planet for a while.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': This is the CentralTheme for the Annual # 1 of the ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures'', with four stories:



* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} enemy The Gladiator (no relation to the ''Franchise/XMen'' character) had redeemed himself for a time, but between the manipulations of Alexander Bont and Mr. Fear, his original HeelFaceTurn was undone after Melvin is forced back into a life of crime by the former threatening his family and the latter driving him insane with his fear chemicals.
* Since he's something of an {{Expy}} of Creator/ClintEastwood's characters, Saint of Killers in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' gets a backstory about his life as a retired outlaw and gunslinger. Things rapidly go awry in fashion very similar to what befalls Eastwood's character in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''. See the Film section for more details.
* The ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote is cleansed of its hatred and rage in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' and becomes a heroic Agent of the Cosmos... only to have its cleansing undone by [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Mercurio]] in ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'' and has a momentary and unwilling return to villainy, before reuniting with his former host, Eddie Brock and staying as a benevolent, if very violent hero.

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* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} enemy ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': The Gladiator (no relation to the ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' character) had redeemed himself for a time, but between the manipulations of Alexander Bont and Mr. Fear, his original HeelFaceTurn was undone after Melvin is forced back into a life of crime by the former threatening his family and the latter driving him insane with his fear chemicals.
* ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'': Since he's something of an {{Expy}} of Creator/ClintEastwood's characters, Saint of Killers in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' gets a backstory about his life as a retired outlaw and gunslinger. Things rapidly go awry in fashion very similar to what befalls Eastwood's character in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''. See the Film section for more details.
* ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': The ComicBook/{{Venom}} Venom symbiote is cleansed of its hatred and rage in ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' and becomes a heroic Agent of the Cosmos... only to have its cleansing undone by [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Mercurio]] in ''ComicBook/VenomSpaceKnight'' and has a momentary and unwilling return to villainy, before reuniting with his former host, Eddie Brock and staying as a benevolent, if very violent hero.

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