“I’m not a hero.”

“You still saved me. You came back for me- you’ve been there for me.”

[Speaker 1] sighs aggravatedly. Just because xe wont turn xir back doesn’t make xir hero material.

“You can’t depend on anyone else, okay? I’m not a hero, or a good person, or whatever. But if I don’t do something, I can’t trust that someone else will do it late. So I do.”

“So there’s a lot of dead people.” says the hero. “I still stopped you. I still saved the city.”

“Who the fuck are you.” the villain grinds out “Who are you! You can’t be the hero. You can’t be xir-!”

“Oh no dear villain, I am. I’ve never been very good you see- I’m just doing what my lover would’ve wanted. A hero. Saving as many people as I can. Killing zir killer!”

“I just don’t get why you hate [antagonist] so much,” admits the hero to xir mentor, frustrated “ze has reasons to do as ze does, just as we do. Just because I can sympathize with that doesn’t mean I won’t do what’s needed.”

“It’s dangerous to humanize your enemy.”

“It’s dangerous to not.”

“There’s no real point to it, i suppose. To continuing. But what’s the point to any of this.” the hero said, gazing at the villain. “The point is, I believe in what I’m doing, even if no one else does. So turn the public against me. I’ll know the truth- I won’t stop.”

The villains lips raised in a snarl.

“I’ll kill you, if I have to. I’ll kill you, and your team, and your friends and family. I will.”

“Little hero isn’t so good after all?”

“I’ve never been good. Good is something I do. That goes for bad as well.”

Supervillain Origin Stories

For Realzies This Time

I wanted desperately to become a hero, but I found that I could not operate within the laws because there’s simply too much evil in the world to deal with legally

I tried to become a hero, but the nature of my powers inherently set me up to become a villain

Spite

Turns out vigilantism is a slippery slope, and eventually I became the monster I so desperately wanted to eradicate.

I have information the government/other heroes want, and resorted to a life of supervilliany to protect it.

I have a few loved ones I would destroy the world to protect. Looks like I’m going to have to go through with it.

I’m desperately ill with a disease that’s killing my younger siblings. They don’t know I have it as well, and I’m running out of time to find a cure for us. Supervillainy was the only thing I could do.

My powers have skewed my moral code enough that I don’t realize that what I’m doing is wrong