Favorite bad-guy-turned-good-guy

[Lizardon]

Favourite bad guy turned good guy?

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Go Go Power Rangers!

 

[Johann610]

Magus kicked all kinds of ass. DEfinitely the one who could solo Lavos.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I'd have to say Vegeta. He was suppose to die and Goku let him live. Since then, DBZ wouldn't have been the same without Vegeta.

 

[J8keM0ney]

Also I feel lonely and sad that I appear to be the only person using a book... Q_Q

not true

Death's mistress, from Sword of Truth. btw, the thread title should probably contain a spoiler warning.

This was from a book series, as was the song of fire and ice, tho that one came after your post

 

[Solid Reece]

Superbii Squalo from KHR.

He cut off his hand, then attached that sword to it, and flies around on a shark while screaming at the top of his lungs. How can you not like someone like that?

I never knew he cut of his own hand but it never gets tiring to have him yelling at Yamamoto for being too soft.

I'll have to say Xanxas. Even though he is still against Tsuna, He becomes good in his own way

skip to 6:12

Xanxas still wants Tsuna dead but for the rest of the anime at lest he is a good guy like Hibersan.(I cant spell his name correct}

 

[RaffB]

Harry Maybourne from Stargate SG-1 that guy was grade A arsehole to begin with but ended up being a pretty decent guy later on in the series.

That dude is bloody brilliant. One of my favorite characters from SG-1.

 

[PleaseDele]

Favourite bad guy turned good guy?

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Go Go Power Rangers!

So close but still ninja'd
But yeah Green Ranger takes the cake.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Starts off bad, then kinda becomes good and ends up being one of the more bad ass characters I've seen.

 

[RaffB]

Lasciel/Lash from the Dresden files.

...and ive just realised i cant say a damned thing about her, without massive spoilers.

 

[CommanderL]

Harry Maybourne from Stargate SG-1 that guy was grade A arsehole to begin with but ended up being a pretty decent guy later on in the series.

I am going with this along with captain crais from farscape and of course vegata and piccolo

 

[gabycms]

SPOILER... i guess but douse Severus snape counts as he was never actually evil just kind of a jerk

Definitely Snape, my favorite character from all the movies (half way through the books now)

 

[Valkaris]

Vader, a million times Vader.

 

[Space Spoons]

Spoiler

He was my favorite back then, and he's still my favorite today. The guy practically embodies the "enemy who becomes ally" trope, at least for anyone who grew up in the 90's.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Snape. he's all over the fucking shop. i'm not sure WHO he was actually working for, and i doubt he did either.

 

[Space Spoons]

Snape. he's all over the fucking shop. i'm not sure WHO he was actually working for, and i doubt he did either.

In the end, Snape was working for Lily, and only for Lily.

 

[brunothepig]

Spoiler: Avatar:The Last Airbender

Zuko. Great character arc that one, even when I called it from the start it was still a believable journey from villain to hero, which made it great to watch even knowing where he'd end up.

Vegeta. Don't even need spoiler tags for that. Oh, also Piccolo. My two favourite characters... I wonder if them being evil has anything to do with that.

Spoiler: Harry Potter (like anyone doesn't know)

Severus Snape. Shock! You might argue that he was never evil. But ah ah ah. He was. That was before Harry was even born, but he was a loyal Death Eater until Lily was killed.

Naruto has a few good ones... Gaara is my favourite, Zabuza is mentioned above. And there's a couple of arcs in the anime filler.

 

[FunctionZ]

Vegeta. Pretty sure everyone else I knew who grew up and watched DBZ would say the same.

 

[LimitedPunctuation]

DEATH'S HAND
that is all.

 

[-KC-]

Gaara from Naruto only one that comes to my mind.

 

[Aurgelmir]

Huh. Nobody for Venom? He immediately came to mind when I saw the thread title.


I thought that might have been one of the better examples in nerd-dom. Though, Zuko is probably the best recent example I can think of.

Though Venom is the one again off again Villain, so I am not sure he counts. (I am counting all incarnations of Venom here, just because you didn't state which one you mean )