hero/villain

There have been many villains who later became heroes; Hawkeye, Catwoman, etc.

Besides the original Huntress in the DCU are there any other characters who were heroes and became villains?

People who started as villains, had brief or ambiguous hero careers before returning to villainy, i.e. Venom, don't count.

Anybody?

Also don't count heroes who became temporary villains only to return to the good side.

Hawk, Obsidian, Brainwave Jr.

I wouldn't call Catwoman a hero in any of her incarnations, though in several of them she did reform and cease being a 'villain'.

Hangman (Archie) Modred The Mystic The original Marvel Boy

And heroes to villains back to heroes: Sargon The Sorcerer Quicksilver Yellowjacket (Hank Pym) Snapper Carr

To many changes there, I think, for the terms to be useful.

He was villain (though dupe) then hero then villain then hero.

Nobody's mentioned the obvious yet: Hal Jordon.

There are people here who can tell you much more about this than I can.

Don't follow the Xbooks much, but my understanding is that Mystique might be one, and maybe that Marrow person (a young woman with the mutant ability to turn into a large, smooth-skinned vegetable). And possible Emma Frost.

The Order was a short series that completely failed to deal with the complexity of right and wrong when it had Dr Strange, the Silver Surfer and Namor become evil.

Hulk was I suppose a hero and became I suppose a villain. Then there's people like Elektra, Punisher and to a lesser extent Wolverine. I don't know what the Black Widow did before she defected or whatever, I doubt it would have met with the approval of the public at large.

I know it's not what you asked, but either Sandman or Hydroman had a run where he 'crossed over'. Also, what was pre-#76 Thunderbolts about - wasn't it this? Maybe the current series is, too, I don't know.

Of course, if by 'evil' you mean someone who breaks into dwellings, tresspasses, assaults and terrorises those who have not been proven guilty in a court of law (and are therefore innocent) and lives a life of violence, deceit and evasion, then there's a lot of it about in superhero circles. I think 'going armed so as to cause terror' is a crime in some places, that'd put a lot of superheroes out of action in one stroke of a pen. Current DD is exploring this as we speak. Previously, he's been a forger and maybe a murderer. I consider him a good man.

Similarly, concealing a mass-murdering fugitive from the forces of the law is maybe an evil act, so there goes Professor X in the Ultimate Xmen. Having said that, the team sent out to bring him in are concealing their knowledge of the government's role in the death of three hundred people, and maybe that's a bit evil too.

I think the best comics are those that look at the idea of good versus evil in a more creative way.

Just had a weird thought - most of the people I read about in comics who smack people around are superheroes. But most of the people I have come into contact with who smack people around are habitually violent men on the fringes of criminality, who terrorise those they know. Superheroes may be the only habitually violent good people I know of, and they're fictional.

He's back to being a hero, so he doesn't count.

Hawkeye, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Rogue, Mystique, White Queen etc.

Phoenix / Dark Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men 135-136 Hal Jordan in Zero Hour Quicksilver (although presumably mind controlled by Maximus) Scarlet Witch (twice; mind controlled by Chuthu in Avengers and Immortus in AWC) Iron Man (in the Crossing storyline which was 'fixed' using time travel) Vision (who tried to take over the world in an Avengers / WCA crossover) Moondragon (who presumably became convinced after the Korvac Saga of the need for people of great power to take control of mankind for its own good)

Oops. Well then that leaves Dr. Druid who died before he could redeem himself.

Havok

<<Besides the original Huntress in the DCU are there any othercharacters who were heroes and became villains?>>

The first (Golden Age) Huntress. the one in the tiger-skin outfit and married to The Sportsman, was always a villain.

The later Huntresses (Helena Wayne pre-Crisis, Helena Bertinelli post-Crisis, et al) were always heroes.