Ultimately, superheroes and supervillains aren’t really all that different. As movies like The Lego Batman Movie touched on in perhaps a more light-hearted way, villains and heroes really aren’t complete without one another. They share a passion, for better or for worse, and the only ones that can truly understand what they are going through are one another.
In the Marvel universe, there are quite a few villainous characters who have fallen for the heroes in their stories. Through countless Marvel movies, several standout villains have fallen head over heels in love with Marvel superheroes, proving that love truly does transcend all.
10 Elektra Falls In Love With Daredevil Every Time Without Fail
No matter if it’s in the comics, the television shows, or the movies, Elektra Natchios and Matt Murdock will end up finding each other. They always end up falling in love, and it always turns out badly for them.
Elektra’s moral compass is just too out of whack for Daredevil to ever continuously tolerate. While they have a passionate love affair whenever they’re together, they’re ultimately incompatible as an actual couple. They may love one another, a point that even Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil TV show explored, but they aren’t really good for one another.
9 The Dark Phoenix Loved Cyclops Before & During Her Time As A Bad Guy
When Wolverine first met the X-Men in the initial X-Men movie trilogy, he encountered the Phoenix and Cyclops after they were already romantically involved with one another. As such, there was always a sort of love triangle, even though Jean and Scott were the ones actually in the relationship.
They were even engaged, had relationships in the original timeline and the new one, and were one of the main couples of the entire franchise. However, Jean Grey went bad and turned into the Dark Phoenix while they were still together. She was so overwhelmed seeing Cyclops when she came back that she destroyed him.
8 The Dark Phoenix Also Loved Wolverine So Much That Only He Could Stop Her In The End
The Dark Phoenix’s love for Cyclops and how she destroyed him was part of her downfall, but her love for Wolverine was part of her almost-redemption. After the Dark Phoenix went totally off the wall and the military had to be called in to try and stop her, it became clear that nobody was going to be able to get close enough to Jean to actually stop her.
However, there was one person left that Jean loved: Logan. Logan was still alive, and the fact that Jean loved him enabled him to get close enough in her moment of lucidity for her to tell him to kill her.
7 The Winter Soldier Literally & Figuratively Fell For Captain America — & Vice Versa
In the 1940s, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes were inseparable, as the movies themselves show. When Bucky Barnes literally fell off of a train in Captain America: The First Avenger and died on Steve’s watch, Steve felt immense guilt. However, Bucky didn’t actually die; instead, he was brainwashed and turned into a villainous weapon of HYDRA called the Winter Soldier.
He was reintroduced to Steve’s story in Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Steve’s villain. However, over the course of the movie, the two of them fell for each other all over again — literally and figuratively, just as they had in the past.
6 Mystique Was In Love With Beast Before She Was A Villain & After
The X-Men prequel movies introduced a few interesting new relationships to the X-Men movie universe, including a relationship that would last for several movies between Mystique and Beast. Although their relationship begins before Raven becomes a villain, it does continue after she becomes one.
Even after she runs away with Magneto and works with him for a while, Hank still loves her. When she comes back, the two of them rekindle their relationship and continue it for some time — until Jean Grey makes her return and kills Mystique, this time. Whether or not Mystique was a villain or not at the time, she was always in love with Beast.
5 Magneto Always Came Back To Professor X In The End
Raven’s adoptive brother in the X-Men movies, Charles Xavier, has his own relationship that lasts over multiple movies. In fact, the relationship between Professor X and Magneto is fairly consistent throughout every movie in the X-Men universe — as well as pretty much every interpretation of the characters.
The two of them are partners in every way and more than best friends. Not only is their relationship the main story arc of the prequel movies, but Dark Phoenix even saw them coming back together. Magneto, despite everything, returned to Professor X and offered him a home once again. Even when the tables were turned, Magneto still fell for Professor X over and over.
4 Gamora Fell In Love With Star-Lord & Realized She Could Be A Hero, Too
While Gamora is most commonly considered to be a hero, this wasn’t always the case. Before she was one of the Guardians of the Galaxy, she actually fought against the team. She had been adopted by Thanos and worked for him and his villainous ways. In fact, Thanos loved and praised Gamora more than any of his other children because she was so skilled at doing what he wanted.
However, when Gamora met Star-Lord and started to fall for him, she realized there was somewhere else she could go — and somebody else she could be. She fell in love and realized she didn’t have to be the villain. She could be anyone she wanted to be, even if she wanted to become the hero.
3 Doctor Doom Always Has His Eye On The Invisible Woman
In many interpretations of Doctor Doom, he usually has some sort of flirtatious interest in the Invisible Woman. Sometimes, he’s just interested in her because Mr. Fantastic is in love with her, and Victor von Doom and Reed Richards always have to have what the other one has.
In the Fantastic Four movies, the plots have always flirted with the idea of him kind of having a thing for her, but they have never fully committed to the concept. However, with the news that the Fantastic Four are entering the MCU still fresh in everyone’s mind, as well as rumors that Doctor Doom will play a major role in the franchise starting to bubble up, fans wonder if Doctor Doom may just fall for the Invisible Woman all over again.
2 The Venom Symbiote Is Interested Enough In Eddie Brock To Kiss Him
A truly exhilarating moment in the newest Venom movie saw Eddie Brock actually kissing the Venom symbiote. Eddie Brock is most frequently the host body for the Venom symbiote, and this movie showed the two of them working together as buddies. They both are somewhat lonely guys that don’t really get along with others, and they take comfort in one another.
In the climax of the film, the Venom symbiote needs to get back into his body, and so kisses Eddie in order to rejoin with him. The two of them fall for each other over the course of the movie. So much so, in fact, that by the end of the film they choose to remain together — and both of their lives are made all the better for it.
1 Scarlet Witch & Vision Have Been At Odds Longer Than They’ve Been In Love
When the Scarlet Witch was first introduced to the MCU, she was a villain. Arguably, she has never achieved full hero status. Despite being made a member of the main Avengers team in the MCU, she has constantly caused destructive problems for them. She even went so far as to be one of the protagonists and one of the antagonists of her own show, WandaVision.
However, Vision was introduced initially to stop Ultron, whom Wanda was helping. Despite the fact that Wanda started out as a villain for Vision to stop, she fell in love with him, and the two of them had a loving relationship that lasted for a while on screen.
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