History AntiHero / MarvelUniverse

* ComicBook/IronMan. Originally a full-fledged hero, if soometimes a bit of a {{Jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (if a goodhearted one)]], he has been operating in an increasingly grey moral area in recent years. His actions in ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' in particular are severely appalling, and that's not even getting into his stints as a member of ComicBook/TheIlluminati. He's become nicer since then, mainly due to a certain Creator/RobertDowneyJr [[Film/IronMan performance]] affecting the comic version.

** Devil Hulk: TerrorHero and WellIntentionedExtremist. He isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything, as he dispenses justice in his own brutal way. Case in point, in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', after Banner gets shot in the head by an obviously-terrified gunman trying to rob a convenience store to pay his debts, Hulk awakens in the dead of night and chases after him. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what happens to the guy]], but we cut back to him after the fact and his body is so destroyed that if he ever wakes up, he'll never walk again.

** Savage Hulk: KnightInSourArmor or PragmaticHero. Extremely noble, well-intended, loyal, heroic, constantly persecuted without understanding why, only wants to be loved and have friends, but cannot understand the society around him, protector of all oppressed peoples around the universe, will be inconsolable after watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' or seeing a dead bunny, and strictly a force for good as long as somebody (like his former father figure Comicbook/DoctorStrange, or own, as opposed to Banner's, "the greatest love of his life" Queen Jarella) gives him a comprehensible direction. Basically the most pure-hearted and genuinely heroic version, but non-constructively constantly hunted like an animal due to his sheer scale of power without the maturity to handle it properly. Nowadays, tends to usually be treated more kindly by other heroes when he shows up.

* The ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} were villains who wanted to pass as heroes, only to discover that GoodFeelsGood and ditching their megalomaniac boss ComicBook/BaronZemo. While still not below using ruthless tactics, their moral changes went to "good guys" (Songbird and Mach-1, helped by them falling for each other), "at times good guy" (Techno, who was still with Zemo when the team turned on him, and is often just out for himself), and "why am I supposed to be good?" (Moonstone, a PsychoPsychologist whose ambition and selfishness always makes her fall into darker paths).

!!Films

** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’s still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.

!!Films

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!!Live-Action TV
* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': If you become a victim of Kilgrave, you want to do what ''he'' wants you to do, whether or not it's what ''you'' want to do. When his victims talk about their ordeal afterward, many, Jessica herself included, mention how they were hating inside their minds all the while.
** In an example not directly related to (though still caused by) Kilgrave's mind control, an ambulance driver who picked up Kilgrave was forced to give him both of his kidneys, and as a result suffered a severe stroke that gave him extensive brain damage. When Jessica finds him, he is stuck in a wheelchair and being cared for by his somewhat creepy mother. He manages to get enough control over himself to ask Jessica to put him out of his misery.
* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** Everybody who was in the town of Westview when [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff]] created [[EldritchLocation the Hex]] was subjected to her [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] magic, and had their personality overwritten to become "characters" in her sitcom fantasy. [[spoiler:Underneath, they are fully aware that they are Wanda's puppets and are absolutely miserable and terrified, as Norm reveals in episode five upon being briefly freed from the brainwashing. Monica, who was brainwashed upon entering Westview only to be ejected and freed from it later, adds that they're also all feeling Wanda's overwhelming grief at Vision's death thanks to her psychic influence. When the Hex is undone in the finale and Westview is brought back to normal, every one of them is ''pissed off'' at Wanda for what she did to them.]]
** This is also how Wanda [[spoiler:punishes the BigBad Agatha Harkness after defeating and depowering her, forcing her to become "Agnes the NosyNeighbor", the character she disguised herself as while in the Hex, for real. Given what Agatha saw Wanda do to the rest of Westview, she is horrified by her fate.]]

* Daimon Hellstrom: The ComicBook/SonOfSatan. The BadassCrew he joins in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'' is very much an AntiHeroTeam, including ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire and ComicBook/WerewolfByNight.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is a NobleDemon SociopathicHero. When he does good, doesn't do it out of ChronicHeroSyndrome: it's for personal gain (money, revenge, fame, women, or satisfying a whim), to placate his feelings of guilt, or because higher powers manipulate him into doing so. He once saved the world from losing its free will to an alien, mass-hypnotizing entity. In his first ongoing series, he flies into a psychotic rage whenever someone removes his mask (his "face") or infiltrates his house. He WouldntHurtAChild, but he's completely disrespectful of adult life, downright sadistic, and willing to do pretty bad stuff for money. His self-justification is that his cancer-based HealingFactor makes his brain so messed up that he's completely insane and not responsible for his actions. He's both a HeroicComedicSociopath and a SociopathicHero.
** In later years, Deadpool has become more heroic compared to his old status as a NominalHero. To the point where he was the OnlySaneMan and the conscience of the X-Men's Black Ops squad under Wolverine who thought that killing the kid who was Apocalypses' reincarnation is just wrong. Throughout the arc, he became more and more heroic too via CharacterDevelopment, and even convinced the kid to join the Jean School for the Gifted so he can use his powers for good instead of evil.

** ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} was originally an ClassicalAntiHero or KnightInSourArmor, but then drifted to UnscrupulousHero or GuileHero when assembling ComicBook/XForce, although he later reconsidered. He seems to have settled at CrazyPrepared badass under Creator/WarrenEllis and others.

* ComicBook/{{Cable}}, Deadpool's former {{Heterosexual Life Partner|s}}, debuted as a NinetiesAntiHero. As he became more intrinsically entwined with the Summers' TangledFamilyTree, he mellowed out... slightly. He still bounces back and forth, DependingOnTheWriter and what book he's in. Even at his most heroic, he's still a big believer in the ends justifying the means.
* ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} was originally an ClassicalAntiHero or KnightInSourArmor, but then drifted to UnscrupulousHero or GuileHero when assembling ComicBook/XForce, although he later reconsidered. He seems to have settled at CrazyPrepared badass under Creator/WarrenEllis and others.

* Franchise/SpiderMan himself [[CharacterizationMarchesOn originally]] could be quite the self-serving jerkass at times. In one comic he gatecrashed [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Johnny Storm]]’s house party and picked a fight with Johnny just because he was jealous of the attention the latter got. Fans however complained to Stan about Spidey’s jerky behaviour in the fan mail section and soon Spider-Man’s negative traits were dropped and he became the AllLovingHero we know him as today. Although [[DependingOnTheWriter certain writers]] (such as [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott]]) turn him into a flawed AntiHero and even a AntiVillain when ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]] in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''.
* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'' -- Namor the Sub-Mariner, since the beginning. He's a month older than Batman, but nowhere near as influential. Usually moving between this and being an Anti-Villain.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’s still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.

** Angelo Fortunato, ComicBook/MacGargan, and Lee Price are all villains, and exceptionally [[AxCrazy insane]] ones at that.

* Franchise/SpiderMan himself [[CharacterizationMarchesOn originally]] could be quite the self-serving jerkass at times. In one comic he gatecrashed [[Characters/FantasticFourTheFantasticFour Johnny Storm]]’s house party and picked a fight with Johnny just because he was jealous of the attention the latter got. Fans however complained to Stan about Spidey’s jerky behaviour in the fan mail section and soon Spider-Man’s negative traits were dropped and he became the AllLovingHero we know him as today. Although [[DependingOnTheWriter certain writers]] (such as [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slot]]) turn him into a flawed AntiHero and even a AntiVillain when ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]] in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''.

* Franchise/SpiderMan himself [[CharacterizationMarchesOn originally]] could be quite the self serving jerkass at times. In one comic he gatecrashed [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]]’s house party and picked a fight with Johnny just because he was jealous of the attention the latter got. Fans however complained to Stan about Spidey’s jerky behaviour in the fan mail section and soon Spider-Man’s negative traits were dropped and he became the AllLovingHero we know him as today. Although [[DependingOnTheWriter certain writers]] (such as [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slot]]) turn him into a flawed AntiHero and even a AntiVillain when ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]] in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''.

* Daimon Hellstrom: The ComicBook/SonOfSatan. The BadassCrew he joins in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'' is a ''team'' of antiheroes, including ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire and ComicBook/WerewolfByNight.

* ComicBook/IronMan. Originally a full-fledged hero, if soometimes a bit of a {{Jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (if a goodhearted one)]], he has been operating in an increasingly grey moral area in recent years. His actions in ComicBook/CivilWar in particular are severely appalling, and that's not even getting into his stints as a member of ComicBook/TheIlluminati. He’s become nicer since then, mainly due to a certain Creator/RobertDowneyJr [[Film/IronMan performance]] affecting the comic version.

** Green Scar: Roughly a PragmaticHero on Sakaar/basically a more responsible version of the Savage Hulk. Views are split about whether he was provoked into UnscrupulousHero or NominalHero during ''World War Hulk'' (compare a sovereign nation being annihilated, and then strictly retaliating by going after those responsible, without any Hiroshima or civilian casualties involved), although despite his RoaringRampageOfRevenge casuing very inconsiderate property damage, he is still less bloodthirsty than the majority of pragmatic heroes.
** Devil Hulk: TerrorHero and WellIntentionedExtremist. He isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything, as he dispenses justice in his own brutal way. Case in point, after Banner gets shot in the head by an obviously-terrified gunman trying to rob a convenience store to pay his debts, Hulk awakens in the dead of night and chases after him. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what happens to the guy]], but we cut back to him after the fact and his body is so destroyed that if he ever wakes up, he'll never walk again.

* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, while always up to stop a bad guy and capable of empathy and loyalty, frequently leaves a trail of destruction on his path (though [[NoEndorHolocaust Marvel claims it's usually without victims]]) and clashes with other heroes. It's even worse in incarnations such as Joe Fixit, an amoral hedonistic mob enforcer; the Green Scar, who in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that breaks both people and properties; and the ComicBook/ImmortalHulk, who isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything. Hulk’s allies and family aren’t much better. His cousin ComicBook/SheHulk was this originally before becoming nicer but is still terrifying on a rampage, his wife Betty Ross once a sweet young woman is now violent and bitter DarkActionGirl, his son Skaar is a bloodthirsty sword wielding savage who joins the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' and his best friend and former KidSidekick Rick Jones becomes a destructive monster before being cured, getting killed, and resurrected as a creepy yellow-eyed gamma zombie.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, when he does good, doesn't do it out of ChronicHeroSyndrome: it's for personal gain (money, revenge, fame, women, or satisfying a whim), to placate his feelings of guilt, or because higher powers manipulate him into doing so. He once saved the world from losing its free will to an alien, mass-hypnotizing entity. In his first ongoing series, he flies into a psychotic rage whenever someone removes his mask (his "face") or infiltrates his house. He WouldntHurtAChild, but he's completely disrespectful of adult life, downright sadistic, and willing to do pretty bad stuff for money. His self-justification is that his cancer-based HealingFactor makes his brain so messed up that he's completely insane and not responsible for his actions. He's both a HeroicComedicSociopath and a SociopathicHero.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, while always up to stop a bad guy and capable of empathy and loyalty, frequently leaves a trail of destruction on his path (though [[NoEndorHolocaust Marvel claims it's usually without victims]]) and clashes with other heroes. It's even worse in incarnations such as Joe Fixit, an amoral hedonistic mob enforcer; the Green Scar, who in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that breaks both people and properties; and the ComicBook/ImmortalHulk, who isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything. Hulk’s allies and family aren’t much better. His cousin ComicBook/SheHulk was this originally before becoming nicer but is still terrifying on a rampage, his wife Betty Ross once a sweet young woman is now violent and bitter DarkActionGirl, his son Skaar is a bloodthirsty sword wielding savage who joins the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' and his best friend and former KidSidekick Rick Jones becomes a destructive monster before being cured, getting killed, and resurrected as a creepy yellow-eyed gamma zombie.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, while always up to stop a bad guy and capable of empathy and loyalty, frequently leaves a trail of destruction on his path (though [[NoEndorHolocaust Marvel claims it's usually without victims]]) and clashes with other heroes. It's even worse in incarnations such as Joe Fixit, an amoral hedonistic mob enforcer; the Green Scar, who in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that breaks both people and properties; and the ComicBook/ImmortalHulk, who isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything. Hulk’s allies and family aren’t much better. His cousin ComicBook/SheHulk was this originally before becoming nicer but is still terrifying on a rampage, his wife ComicBook/BettyRoss once a sweet young woman is now violent and bitter DarkActionGirl, his son Skaar is a bloodthirsty sword wielding savage who joins the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' and his best friend and former KidSidekick Rick Jones becomes a destructive monster before being cured, getting killed, and resurrected as a creepy yellow-eyed gamma zombie.

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, while always up to stop a bad guy and capable of empathy and loyalty, frequently leaves a trail of destruction on his path (though [[NoEndorHolocaust Marvel claims it's usually without victims]]) and clashes with other heroes. It's even worse in incarnations such as Joe Fixit, an amoral hedonistic mob enforcer; the Green Scar, who in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge that breaks both people and properties; and the Comicbook/ImmortalHulk, who isn't called "Devil Hulk" for anything. Hulk’s allies and family aren’t much better. His cousin ComicBook/SheHulk was this originally before becoming nicer but is still terrifying on a rampage, his wife ComicBook/BettyRoss once a sweet young woman is now violent and bitter DarkActionGirl, his son Skaar is a bloodthirsty sword wielding savage who joins the ''ComicBook/DarkAvengers'' and his best friend and former KidSidekick Rick Jones becomes a destructive monster before being cured, getting killed, and resurrected as a creepy yellow-eyed gamma zombie.
* ComicBook/IronMan. Originally a full-fledged hero, if soometimes a bit of a {{Jerkass}} [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (if a goodhearted one)]], he has been operating in an increasingly grey moral area in recent years. His actions in Comicbook/CivilWar in particular are severely appalling, and that's not even getting into his stints as a member of ComicBook/TheIlluminati. He’s become nicer since then, mainly due to a certain Creator/RobertDowneyJr [[Film/IronMan performance]] affecting the comic version.
* Comicbook/MoonKnight, occasional hero, frequently just a crazy bastard.
* Comicbook/ThePunisher is a BadassNormal, [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoat-wearing]] VigilanteMan who often uses extreme amounts of violence to combat criminals. Why do super heroes fight ''super'' villains? Because the Punisher shot the lesser ones. Even more so in [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX the MAX series]], which has neither super villains nor super heroes. On one occasion, the Punisher killed [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique two pimps, crippled four and stabbed another one in the eye in order to get information]], only to find out that they didn't have it. Later in the same story, he disembowels a human trafficker, among other things. However, as an Anti''hero'' he's ultimately on the side of good, going after evildoers specifically to punish them for their actions against the innocent, as opposed to the evildoers themselves who spill innocent blood for profit and/or fun, and he ''does'' [[PetTheDog show kindness]] on several occasions, especially towards children.
* Franchise/SpiderMan himself [[CharacterizationMarchesOn originally]] could be quite the self serving jerkass at times. In one comic he gatecrashed [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]]’s house party and picked a fight with Johnny just because he was jealous of the attention the latter got. Fans however complained to Stan about Spidey’s jerky behaviour in the fan mail section and soon Spider-Man’s negative traits were dropped and he became the AllLovingHero we know him as today. Although [[DependingOnTheWriter certain writers]] (such as [[ComicBook/DanSlottSpiderMan Dan Slot]]) turn him into a flawed AntiHero and even a AntiVillain when ComicBook/DoctorOctopus [[GrandTheftMe took over his body]] in ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan''.
* ''Comicbook/SubMariner'' -- Namor the Sub-Mariner, since the beginning. He's a month older than Batman, but nowhere near as influential. Usually moving between this and being an Anti-Villain.
* The Comicbook/{{Thunderbolts}} were villains who wanted to pass as heroes, only to discover that GoodFeelsGood and ditching their megalomaniac boss ComicBook/BaronZemo. While still not below using ruthless tactics, their moral changes went to "good guys" (Songbird and Mach-1, helped by them falling for each other), "at times good guy" (Techno, who was still with Zemo when the team turned on him, and is often just out for himself), and "why am I supposed to be good?" (Moonstone, a PsychoPsychologist whose ambition and selfishness always makes her fall into darker paths).

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’s still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’a still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.

* ComicBook/DaimonHellstrom: The Son of Satan. The BadassCrew he joins in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'' is a ''team'' of antiheroes, including ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire and ComicBook/WerewolfByNight.

* Daimon Hellstrom: The ComicBook/SonOfSatan. The BadassCrew he joins in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'' is a ''team'' of antiheroes, including ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire and ComicBook/WerewolfByNight.

* Daimon Hellstrom: The Son of Satan. The BadassCrew he joins in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies 3'' is a ''team'' of antiheroes, including ComicBook/{{Morbius}} the Living Vampire and ComicBook/WerewolfByNight.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’a still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.

* Franchise/{{Wolverine}}, has the occasional gentle moments usually inspired by either a MoralityPet or {{Love Interest|s}} but he’a still TheBerserker of the X-Men for a good reason and has one of the biggest bodycounts in Marvel. As he says in his SignatureLine: “I’m the best there is at what I do, but what I do best isn’t very nice”.