User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 6 - When Light Turns to Dark/@comment-1618941-20140515014347

When I was watching, and the What If? series got a mention, I was sure for a moment that "What If Professor X Had Become the Juggernaut?" was going to get a mention.

That was a memorable one for me, where Xavier spent years pulling himself out of the cave collapse (that Cain Marko had escaped from in that reality), and led mutant kind to revolution over humanity when he finally emerged. If I recall correctly, it had Xavier as the prime villain, while Magneto found himself supplanted as the rogue leader of mutants and stood against him.

Superhero comicbooks usually aren't very convincing with their descent into darkness stories, I find. That's one of the things I found more peripheral comics like Alien Legion always held the edge on. There was a book that had a hero turn to substance abuse, kill an innocent woman as a result (thanks to a hallucination), and was subsequently given some kind of sci-fi partial lobotomy as a more lenient sentence than execution for his crime. Mind you that comic book also had a cut-throat murderer in its ranks of heroes... :D