[El Blanco]

They have been for a while. There are some charecters who are Greek style tragedies. Although, histories tend to get rewritten. Magneto started out as just trying to live in peace with mutants and was pushed too far. Cobra Commander was a car salesman whose bussiness went under and the brother he worshipped was killed while drunk driving.

You are by no means meant to like or excuse their actions, but you understand why some of them went over the edge and can see how good men can go wrong.