History EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / MarvelUniverse

** 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''.

* 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]].
** When Ben Grimm and Alicia finally got married in the 2010s, Puppet Master took radioactive clay and sent the ''Immortal Hulk'' after the Thing. The only thing that deterred him from his control of the most ''evil and scary version of the Hulk'' was when Alicia was endangered. Unfortunately this meant that the most evil and scary version of the Hulk was still uninhibited and felt like fighting the Thing anyway..
* 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 wife 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).
* Speaking of Thanos, his EliteMooks 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). 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's '''far''' more despicable, also qualifies, though it's ''very'' downplayed. Emphasis on downplayed because 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 Stepford Cuckoos, 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.
* Played surprisingly straight with Viper/Madame Hydra. Despite her partnership and romantic relationship with the Silver Samurai, early stories claimed that she was incapable of feeling love for anyone. More recent stories revealed that she was genuinely in love with the Samurai and still misses him. She also views her frequent foe Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew as the closest think she has to a family, displaying some affection for her.

* ''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.

** 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''.

* 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.

** 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]].

* 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]].

* [[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.