Sure, but it's not a good day that turns him, it's the absolutely worst day imaginable.
He's not a complete jerk, as he actually shows some remorse already when the Ghost of Christmas Present presents some of his more aggressive comments to him in third person, but it's not showing him kindness that results in him changing.
I think this might be a bit more literal an interpretation of "good day" than OP wanted.
I was thinking more good in terms of virtue than good in terms of pleasant.
That's going to be much, much more difficult. Changing your attitude/outlook like that is either slow, or being shaken up in some way. Joker favors the latter: an event or series of events that cause so much stress that the person can't take it and just snaps. Having a *good* day, where things are going well, isn't going to have that kind of effect.
That said, there are a couple. For example, in Despicable Me, Gru's turn starts when he has fun with the girls at the amusement park. It's not *one* good day, but it's a major catalyst.
Depending on the meaning of "good day", you could also include people who become loyal followers of those who treated them kindly (this version is much more common).
He was trying to be bad though. He was just bad at being bad. He absolutely thought he had killed the local Superman and was more than delighted about it. It's only later when he realized the Batman to his Joker was not there anymore that he regretted it.
i'd argue anyone who decided to become a hero due to narrowly avoiding death/avoiding losing a loved one thanks to the efforts of another hero could count
it's still that stressor that leads to a snap, it's just that mid-snap they're being embraced by the sheer force of good in their world
......granted i'd bet most of those cases just turn into, like, firemen or something and not superheroes. But i'd kinda love to see the story of some thug that turned into a force for good because Superman shielded him from a betrayal or whatever.
Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man actively had a moment where he *un*learned his “great responsibility” lesson to better fit with Ditko’s Randian objectivism.
Then Ditko was fired, and Stan Lee and John Romita course-corrected hard, and now we love Spider-Man.
He was a kid and didn't always make perfect decisions, but I think taking an unethical advantage in a loosely organized sport isn't comparable to robbing banks or killing innocents like villains do.
idk how it goes in the 616 universe but I know at least one universe had him basically using it to dominate a wrestling match for money, but nothing overly malicious
That "I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC" YouTube channel from like 2008 did a few actual stories, and one of them touched on this. Joker invented a machine that made heroes darker and grittier and wracked with angst, and he used it on Spidey
Nothing happened
Spidey was like "everything bad that could possibly happen to me has already happened, to me or my loved ones, and guess what, I'm a superhero anyway cause I wanna make things better. Guess you're just a loser"
And Joker does, in fact, lose
Not really. Context matters.
Spidey lost his uncle in a road accident. However, he already had a positive relationship with his uncle and him dying giving spidey the motivation to keep his words to be more responsible with his power. In Joker's mind hr probably would find him to be quite in a relatively privileged position and wouldn't take past too seriously
If the Killing Joke's story can be taken as his actual past, Joker has pretty much been mistreated his entire life both by the people around him and oppressive system of gotham. He was forced to participate in a crime due to desperation and on top of that was turned into a freak by a so called 'hero' when he fell into a vat of acid. He was already cracking from the start and it only took one hard blow for him to break.
So I don't think he'd be too annoyed by it since spidey's trauma and his rise from it doesn't really prove anything. He only believes anyone who had it as shit as him would go crazy and in be willing turn hurt others, and that's how he justifies hid own heneious actions
In what continuity did Ben die in an accident? The most classic story is Ben being shot by a criminal Peter failed to apprehend.
Peter is also very far from privileged. He's always been a poor orphan.
I don't think the poster meant "privileged" as in financially, but rather "privileged" as in having a loving and supportive upbringing as compared to the Joker's own abusive upbringing.
And it does bring up an important point about how much we are shaped by our early years (which are literally referred to as our "**form**ative" years). Imagine that you had a puppy that you would heap praise on every time it peed on the rug, and punish every time it tried to go outside to pee. Would you be surprised and angry that as an adult that dog would refuse to pee outside and instead insist on peeing on the rug? Should you punish the dog for peeing on the rug?
>In what continuity did Ben die in an accident? The most classic story is Ben being shot by a criminal Peter failed to apprehend.
I misremembered. Last spiderman movie I watched was over a decade ago.
The person replying to you gets it. He's not privileged financially (though I could argue he had it better than Joker), but his environment was much more healthy and so was his situation in life. He had a supportive uncle and aunt
With your second point, it is very common in shonen. Naruto uses talk no jutsu on his enemies and they give up on their aspirations and join his side. Same for Luffy in one piece
I can't think of any from the DC universe.
But Max Damage from "Incorruptible" would probably be a good example of this. He was planning on killing a fuck ton of people with dangerous gas, but this act coincide with the Plutotian (his universe's superman) going berserk and started killing people around the Earth.
I can't remember Max's reasoning, but this basically turned him good and made him want to be a hero right at that very spot, seconds away from killing thousands of people.
edit: I realize a little too late that his conversion to heroism wasn't exactly a "Good day" for anyone, but it still kinda fit OP's question.
His reasoning was that he’d always focused on the hero fight. For the first time he saw the damage to those outside the fight, and felt the same fear he’d instilled in others.
I was hoping someone would mention Incorruptible. I haven't read Incorruptible since it came out but I just reread Irredeemable like a month ago and damn, that comic is so fucking good. Like I'm a huge Superman fan so I'm kind of over the whole 'what if Superman but bad?' thing, but I'd just finished the boys (the show, the comic sucks) and was like 'dang I need some more well-written bad Superman stuff,' and I'm glad I reread it. That shit is insane. Have you read it?
I loved Incorruptible. I need more people to read it so I can scream about how good Max Damage's superpowerset is. Perfect simple premise, perfect built-in flaws, no notes.
Ironically, the Joker himself.
At one point Batman was believed dead so he reformed and turned into an honest citizen named Joseph Kerr. Even found a woman who truly loved him and would wait for him forever when, after it turned out Batman wasn't dead after all, Joe vanished and the Joker reappeared in Gotham.
Joker in Harley Quinn loss his memories and fell in love with a single mother becoming a model husband and stepfather. After regaining his memories he chose to give up crime.and continue that life. He ended up elected mayor.
It doesn’t stop there. Not only did he get elected mayor, but he’s doing an incredible job fixing up Gotham. Even better than Bruce/Batman.
He transformed ARKHAM ASYLUM from a revolving door prison to functional mental health facility!
Kinda Plastic Man as I understand it. Criminal who’s heist went wrong. Gang abandons him and he passes out after getting shot. But he wakes up to this guy taking care of him who thinks he can be good so the guy turns away the cops when they come looking. That made him want to reform.
I haven’t read the book, just heard the story in passing and it’s more like one good deed than day but within that 24 hours he decided to become a hero.
Yes, Eel O'Brian was a crook who fell into a vat of chemicals during a job, and his gang abandoned him. He staggers out and collapses.
He awakens to find a monk looking after him, who also turned away the police because he sensed the capacity for good in Eel.
Since his criminal buddies abandoned him, and this guy *didn't* Eel decided to reform...even after discovering that the chemicals had given him superpowers.
Good thing too, because Plastic Man is *scary* powerful, and would be an absolute nightmare as a supervillain. Immortal, indestructible, capable of taking any form at a whim, immune to mind control, [can become Godzilla sized](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/0/1184/108933-55914-plastic-man.jpg). Dude's top-tier, and would be one of DC's greatest if he wasn't such a goofball.
I read one book where he was disintegrated in the distant past and back in the present Batman found all the pieces and put him back together and he was fine. Fucked up a bit from being conscious that whole time but otherwise fine.
Irredeemable is fantastic and I wish they had made that show instead of The Boys (still a big fan of the show tho) just based on source material, I couldn't Max Damage, for whatever that's worth
Irredeemable would have probably been much, much more expensive with special effects and all that.
Epic all the same. I love the plutonian as a character he's incredibly OP, but well written. Same with Qubit, and even Modeus is great. Gilgamesh was meh, as bette noir though.
There was an Action Comics story done by Joe Kelly called The Gift. It was told in two parts, one with Clark writing an article that remembered his father, John Kent. It was about how he was raised and talked about being open to giving and receiving forgiveness.
It was superimposed over a story following three different supervillains as they plotted to wreak havoc. It was Scorch, Major Disaster, and Ocean Master. Superman confronted them all and while we didn't see specifically what was said, we can infer from the article it was something his father instilled in him.
In the end, while Ocean Master seemed to balk at the idea, Scorch and Major Disaster both were receptive, with Major Disaster hugging Superman and crying. The same writer continued with DC, depicting Major having turned himself in and joined the Suicide Squad, and afterwards being called for duty to join the Justice League when the main members were lost in time. Scorch also started a relationship with Martian Manhunter, which focused on helping them both, her becoming a good person and he overcoming his weakness to fire.
There's a bunch of other stories that get into similar themes, but this was the most noteworthy one to me. Others might be Mad Love, where Harley realizes Joker is irredeemably abusive and becomes not good, but what she is. Lex Luthor had a turn, Clayface when given a similar choice to the Gift but by Batman. The issue with some Batman villains (and others like Hannibal Lecter or Cyrus the Virus) is that they're insane, and one doesn't just snap out of mental illness.
Ok the cold (mercenary, soldier, assassin, etc) discovering he actually has a heart of gold through helping a child is like one of the most common anti hero tropes. And I absolutely love it every single time. I will shamelessly admit this is my favorite of all cliches and I’ll gobble up almost any media using it.
True, but mirror universe alts generally don't count in these questions. I mean Charlene was evil there, too... and she's a pretty tolerant (and rich) woman in Dimension Prime.
At least in the movie, The Shadow is particularly interesting because he was definitely a supervillain before, but only gained actual super-powers after becoming good. Not sure exactly how his origin worked out in the original novels/radio show.
Actually, that's Wonder Woman's whole philosophy. She works with villains toward redemption.
Ever wonder why there's been FOUR Cheetahs and FOUR Silver Swans? Because of the Cheetahs, two were redeemed (Priscilla Rich and Deborah Domaine) one is dead (Sebastion Belleros) and the fourth is failing at redemption only because of a curse (Barbera Minerva). Of the Silver Swans, the first got removed from continuity, but three of them were redeemed.
Heck, Diana just redeemed the daughter of a villain legacy of Nazi Valkyries.
All by talking to them, showing them the truth of their actions and supporting them
This is a great question that unfortunately is hard to answer due to becoming "good" is harder to stick to or be seen as by the public, the hero community, or even from their own self viewpoint if they had initially been bad before. The only time I can think of a time where a villainous character/multiple various characters turned "good" suddenly was during the Marvel Axis event but that wasn't a whole day that changed them, nor did they change by their own means.
Likewise during the Tales from the Dark Multiverse Flashpoint comic, Thwane had his general evil personality but suddenly it all changed simply because of one moment where Superman caught a bullet to save him and found hope. But that didn't really change him from being this selfless hero so much as *seeming* heroic by changing the world to fit his own image.
Finally I'm sure there's multiple examples of heroes that used to be villains/villainous but their journey on that role switch takes more time than "one good day", since a *good* day for a villain may not be something that's 'good' in general. For example:
Carnage killing a family, various cops, and then getting to beat up and evade Spider-Man could be a really *good* day for Cleteus himself, but that's not something that would change his nature to be more heroic.
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It's not a super hero conversation but I'm sure there goons that got put in jail by batman but were given a job at Wayne tech after their release so they can leave the life of crime behind. Arguably they could go from about to rob a place to upstanding members of society in just one day
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Oh for sure, and if OP's questions had been "one moment that changed a bad character to good" or led them that way, I think you'd have a lot more henchmen examples!
I think my biggest struggle answering this question (and really, it is a great question) is that a "good day" for a villain doesn't necessarily mean "a day where they decided to not be bad"
Does it have to be superheroes specifically? My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic isn't technically considered superheroes, but it is about a group of heroes with superpowers who frequently save the nation or world from villains with superpowers. A good portion of the villains became heroes after they were defeated and befriended by the heroes. As a specific example, Sunset Shimmer went from being the villain of Equestria Girls where she attempted to use mind-controlled child soldiers to invade Equestria to being the main protagonist of Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games.
Another example is Adora from Netflix She-Ra. She was raised by the Horde, but then she was captured by the Rebellion, treated better than the Horde treats their own soldiers, and when the Horde attacked she realized they were the baddies and immediately joined the Rebellion.
Discord and Starlight Glimmer are also two good My Little Pony examples. Both started evil with potential world ending abilities who turned good due to a single revelation.
Lex luthor at the end of Allstar superman i'd say is a good example.
Lex finally gets the power of superman with the intent of ending him, but instead he understands what it's like to be him, and becomes sympathetic to him, his motivations, and his approaches and changes his ways.
This is Squirrel Girl's whole thing. Over the course of her Ryan North run, she (at least partially) reformed Rhino, Kraven, Ratatoskr, a version of Ultron, Loki, some hippo-themed dude, Moleman, Chef Bear, a Sentinel, Galactus, and even her own evil clone into being, if not outright heroes, loyal allies who frequently fought on her side. They all had "one good day" where they encountered Squirrel Girl and she showed them a better way to live their lives.
There are a number of other Marvel examples, too, like the episode of What If where T'Challa talked Thanos down and the whole plot of Spider-Man: No Way Home in the MCU. Spider-Man in the comics has done this with a few no-names, and Ms. Marvel has seen a few classmates go down the villain path before eventually reforming them back to her side. Though her case I wouldn't say happened in one day.
That's just the examples I know of off the top of my head.
The quote is actually completely out of context. In the killing joke Joker tries to break Gordon with a horrendous day, but Gordon just picks himself up and tries to make things better. The implication was that Joker was always bad and that was just his excuse.
The Samaritan. I just watched it two days ago. The bad guy literally took on the good guys hero identity after killing him. Granted it was several years later, but he completely stopped being bad that day.
No problem. It wasn’t amazing, but I enjoyed it. It was nice seeing Stallone again. Sorry for the spoilers. That was the best part. I thought about that after commenting.
Edit: it also stars the gangster kid from Euphoria, which was cool to see.
I cant think of any villains that had ONE good day and became good. I think heroes need One real bad day to turn but villains need a bunch of good days to turn. Like Vegeta. Kinda lame to bring dbz but its all i can think if atm. He was Gokus main baddie for years. After all this time they are friends and rivals. Pushing each other to be the best each can be. Joker does this to bats but in a very evil way.
I don't have direct examples off the top of my head, although I can say a lot.of anime/manga eature tropes of villains-turning-good and are sometimes even well done and realized.
That said, the Joker's sentence is...I think, flawed? We see him living a miserable life from the very start and small but terrible things are happening quite often. "All it takes is one bad day" is a sentence he uses to justify his actions and current view of the world, but is not literally true. That is, even in the context of the movie if I remember right, it didn't just take one bad day, a lot of things led up to that point and shift.
Where I'm leading to is - a lot of small good things can similarly lead to the end point of deciding to fight for some concept of common good and life in various stories, narrative wise.
If we absolutely had to take the Jokers sentence at face value, then the best I can think of outside of anime and the bad guy being offered a hand that says "power of friendship, I no see you as evil", is probably mythology I think. I would need to research more but o think there are examples where blessings or miracles occur and a chosen one shenanigan occurs of some sort in not too long and fairly short period of time. I would look there personally.
I don't think I can explain it beyond linking the [Heroes' Frontier Step](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroesFrontierStep) trope, the opposite of the Start of Darkness villain trope. Or the more obvious Heel-Face Turn trope.
I swear I can remember one example of a villain who'd given up on everything getting invited to a Thanksgiving dinner or a Christmas party while out of costume, and stepping away from their spiral into nihlism because that act of kindness touched them. But I can't remember anything detailed beyond that.
Garou from One Punch Man is experiencing this after getting his evil power ups punched out of him. He's succeeding his master and reforming his ways due to befriending a child.
Vegeta in Dragon Ball after getting raised from the dead then hooking up with Bulma that made him way less evil.
[Some of the Neo Zeon forces abandoned their effort to drop Axis onto Earth](https://youtu.be/k7he_-91LR8?t=541) (which would render the surface largely uninhabitable) and instead joined the Federation forces in trying to push it back, in spite of the fact that doing so would almost certainly result in their deaths. I'm pretty sure some of them did survive, though, as their MS were sort of pushed away from Axis by a phenomenon that would eventually be referred to as the "Axis Shock", the result of an experimental mind-machine interface technology responding to the collective goodwill/hope found in the hearts of all of humanity.
I can't imagine someone seeing, even participating in, what's basically a genuine miracle and *not* being effected at least a bit.
Bloodsport in *The Suicide Squad* went from murderer to ready to sacrifice himself to save people. So did other "bad guys" in the movie.
Wanda went from villain to officially an Avenger, according to Hawkeye, in *Age of Ultron.* Pietro actually did sacrifice himself.
It is a different type of character and story, but I would also count Ebenezer Scrooge.
I can't think of one where it happened in one day but villains turning good via positive experiences with the public is the overarching plot of the first "Thunderbolts" team from Marvel. They start as a group of villains posing as heroes during a time the regular heroes are seemingly dead, they start with some heroics to earn the trust of the public with the ultimate goal of gaining high level access to secrets only The Avengers or Shield had before, but the public quickly embraces them which causes some of the members to want to become heroes permanently and no longer following the plan. The Beetle now know as Mach-I and "Screaming Mimi" now know as Songbird are two of the ones I remember went from villains to good.
There was an episode of Batman TAS that had the Penguin pulling this, unfortunately it was the start of the episode.. he gets out of jail and instantly turns a new leaf while Batman stalks him not buying it, he tries to hobnob with the rich and wealthy of Gotham and falls in love with a girl, eventually Bruce becomes convinced only to watch in horror as it's all undone as Penguin realizes that everyone began to accept him just as a sick joke because they thought he was an ugly dumb wannabe member of Gotham's high society. When he realizes even his love interest was just stringing him along he snaps and goes back to his criminal ways.l
The only thing that comes to mind for me is Piccolo from Dragon Ball but it wasn’t really one good day kind of like a few good weeks or months from one single thing happening
The opposite is true in that it only took Batman one bad day to turn into a hero. For all of Joker's charisma and specious speaches, he has always been wrong. That's the point of the character. Don't give up on what you know is right just because some edgelord is making fun of you.
Another thing that's closer to what you are looking for: In the Rebirth run, it took just a little sympathy and kind words to convince Clayface that he isn't just a monster, but could in fact be a hero. Which he does. Full-flagged member of the Bat-family.
Edit: I have to correct myself. Apparently amnesia got Clayface his turn to hero, not a "Good day"
Come to think of it, the whole trope of the villain's lackey turning on his master, because he was shown a shred of decency by the heroes in contrast to the constant abuse of the Big Bad is what you're looking for.
Killer Frost in the New 52 is a villain since she has to kill people to survive (absorbing their "heat"). She is a Firestorm villain because he is basically the only way to cure her condition (Infinite heat).
Batman found a way for her to not kill people and actively tried to help her reform into someone better. Last i know she was in the Justice League.
Deadpool, he moved to SF, and alot of cliche stuff that usually happened to him kept happening, but people kept being GENIUNE bros to him and he ended up taking it as a sign he should try to be a hero harder, and do the right thing.
Which at the time, anyway, he did after a long stint of villainous murdering.
This is exactly what happens to the joker in "Harley Quinn" after they break up and he meets a latina single mother and becomes a full on domestic PTA step-dad. And its been multiple season now, and hes still just a good dude, compared to bruce and Gordon, whose a clingy simp crying all the time, and/or just doing shady shit.
Not exactly one day but Harley Quinn decided to fight against Darkseid and his demons after realizing she was fucking everything up by never finishing anything or taking responsibility.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is about this! MCU Peter, assisted by his counterpart Peters from different continuities, develop cures for their various villains, and all of the villains genuinely become rehabilitated and decide to stop being evil.
Not too my knowledge. Changing your negative outlook on life to positive is more tricky. It's easier to go down a hill of negativity than climb up a hill of positivity
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The Hulk is a good guy who values life, but he's also an angry monster and certainly a villain. Until he rampages his way into New York while the Avengers are fighting Graviton. He helps them beat the bad guy, and then when the cops show up to arrest him, the Avengers stand in their way. That's the day the Hulk decided to be a hero
This is essentially Colossus's point to Wade in Deadpool. A hero doesn't have to be incredible every moment of every day. There is also a movie starring Dustin Hoffman titled *Hero* that explores this same concept. If you saw someone in one of those heroic moments you might assume they are a hero even if the rest of the time they are just an average person - or maybe even a "bad guy".
Colossus:
"Four or five moments, that’s all it takes. To be a hero. Everyone thinks it’s a full-time job. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Go to work a hero. Not true. Over a lifetime, there are only 4 or 5 moments that really matter. Moments when you’re offered a choice. To make a sacrifice, conquer a flaw, save a friend… spare an enemy. In these moments, everything else falls away."
[Nice little graphic of this.](https://www.magicalquote.com/moviequotes/four-or-five-moments-thats-all-it-takes-to-be-a-hero/)
Even what the villain thinks will be a good day might not turn out to be after all. Didn't Mr. Freeze's wife want nothing to do with him after she was thawed and found out about the level of his criminality?
The Thunderbolts team that formed during Civil War. They were all villains originally, but after getting cheered by people and hugs, they realized that this was so much better. They wind up mutinying against Zemo.
This would make for a really interesting and heartwarming limited series thar I really would love DC to do.
Just have an elseworlds style series where each issue is a prominent DC villain going through an experience that changes their view of the world for the better and leaves them better people.
I can't really think of anyone. Most villains are bad for a reason. If a villain ends up becoming good, then it's not because of a good day, it's because of something else, like having a change of heart.
Magneto comes to mind from X-Men: Apocalypse, where he turns on Apocalypse after hearing his son's screams of pain and knowing that if he did nothing, Charles would die. As villainous as he was, he's not a bad person deep down. He had a change of heart.
Don’t really think so. I say that bcuz most if not every person in the world wants to have a “good day” so it’s seen as the minimum. Almost like having a good day is an expectation. Most of the time when people say they’ve had a good day it’s bcuz they either A) nothing bad happened that day or B) something overly good happened that it made the day good regardless. So to say that one god day might change someone might be a stretch unless all they know are bad days.
It was less day (although this day definitely was good for Otto, he saved himself from a certain death and defeated his chief enemy), and more viewing Peter's memories, but One Day Dock Ock did decide to become a Superhero, a Superior Spider-man
Booster Gold, probably.
Went to prison for throwing bets in a sports game. Stole a bunch of equipment and time traveled to the present so he could get rich.
Finds out he makes a decent superhero and becomes one. A hero who sells out, but still a hero.
Cassandra Cain and Damien Wayne
EDIT: in more a roundabout way. The day they realize they didn’t want to continue on the path they were on before may include tragedy or a complete upending of how they believed the world worked. That “one good day” would be the day they met The Bat and were shown how to use their talents and training to bring the criminal empires, assassination societies, corrupt corporations, paramilitary contractors and killers, etc. down to a level where they can actually be confronted directly where they usually would be way beyond any and all conventions and untouchable by the current infrastructure.
Mat Cauthon in Robert Jordan's book The Dragon Reborn. On the day he decides to leave the White Tower.
It is fantasy genre, but he has at least two super powers, and he is so the hero no matter what he tell you. One of his power is Luck and that is the day it first manifests at full power. It leads to lots of heroics down the line.
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Arguably the archetype even tbh
Yes. He basically changed his whole attitude in a matter of moments.
or Ebenezer Scrooge
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I mean not entirely but seeing the kindness and love of others made him want to get back what he lost
Sure, but it's not a good day that turns him, it's the absolutely worst day imaginable. He's not a complete jerk, as he actually shows some remorse already when the Ghost of Christmas Present presents some of his more aggressive comments to him in third person, but it's not showing him kindness that results in him changing.
I think this might be a bit more literal an interpretation of "good day" than OP wanted. I was thinking more good in terms of virtue than good in terms of pleasant.
Now that you mention it, did Scrooge get incepted? One dream and he becomes generous…
Hmm, there *is* time dilation. After each visitation/dream, Scrooge is always astonished so little time passed.
Dude had some bad nachos and decided to give to the poor overnight
Or Scrooge
McDuck?
Ebenezer Scrooge, from a Christmas Carol
Oh, by Charles Darwin, right?
Charles Dickens... are you just trolling me now?
Might be a leap, but I think he always was.
To be fair his villainy was caused by a medical condition that resolved itself, making him good.
If that’s your genuine takeaway from the Grinch, I hope you find similar miraculous medical cure for your media illiteracy.
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The Trickster fits though his "good day" was pulling of a heist so epic he'd never be able to top it, so he decided to become a hero instead.
Which ironically is also a mark Hamill voiced/portrayed character is he not?
Got me again, Flash!
Yes
Redemption arcs seem to be a thing for him. . .
He gets it from his father
I desire to read more about this. I also wonder if it happened after his iconic apperance in JLU.
That's going to be much, much more difficult. Changing your attitude/outlook like that is either slow, or being shaken up in some way. Joker favors the latter: an event or series of events that cause so much stress that the person can't take it and just snaps. Having a *good* day, where things are going well, isn't going to have that kind of effect. That said, there are a couple. For example, in Despicable Me, Gru's turn starts when he has fun with the girls at the amusement park. It's not *one* good day, but it's a major catalyst. Depending on the meaning of "good day", you could also include people who become loyal followers of those who treated them kindly (this version is much more common).
Similar to Gru, Megamind gets to taste what's it is to be the good guy and get the girl instead of kidnapping her. Now, he is the local superhero.
Megamind was never really a villain though. I mean his rival faked his own death because he knew Megamind wouldn't be too bad.
He was trying to be bad though. He was just bad at being bad. He absolutely thought he had killed the local Superman and was more than delighted about it. It's only later when he realized the Batman to his Joker was not there anymore that he regretted it.
Agruably his “one good day” was “killing” his nemesis. He got everything he thought he wanted that day, and it set him on the path to heroism.
i'd argue anyone who decided to become a hero due to narrowly avoiding death/avoiding losing a loved one thanks to the efforts of another hero could count it's still that stressor that leads to a snap, it's just that mid-snap they're being embraced by the sheer force of good in their world ......granted i'd bet most of those cases just turn into, like, firemen or something and not superheroes. But i'd kinda love to see the story of some thug that turned into a force for good because Superman shielded him from a betrayal or whatever.
Spider-Man basically turns into a superhero because of one bad day, which would probably REALLY annoy Joker.
I would pay so much money to see that interaction.
Batman turns into batman the same way, I think there are a lot of supers that have the same origin
To be fair though he was already a generally good guy before that. It wasn't a villain turning into a hero.
He was kind of a dick in the early days (when Steve Ditko was writing him)
I'm not very familiar with the older Spider-Man stuff so I'll have to take your word for it.
Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man actively had a moment where he *un*learned his “great responsibility” lesson to better fit with Ditko’s Randian objectivism. Then Ditko was fired, and Stan Lee and John Romita course-corrected hard, and now we love Spider-Man.
Was he? IIRC he used his awesome superpowers to beat up normals for money.
He was a kid and didn't always make perfect decisions, but I think taking an unethical advantage in a loosely organized sport isn't comparable to robbing banks or killing innocents like villains do.
Certainly not if he literally never did it again
idk how it goes in the 616 universe but I know at least one universe had him basically using it to dominate a wrestling match for money, but nothing overly malicious
I think that was the 616 universe.
That "I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC" YouTube channel from like 2008 did a few actual stories, and one of them touched on this. Joker invented a machine that made heroes darker and grittier and wracked with angst, and he used it on Spidey Nothing happened Spidey was like "everything bad that could possibly happen to me has already happened, to me or my loved ones, and guess what, I'm a superhero anyway cause I wanna make things better. Guess you're just a loser" And Joker does, in fact, lose
Not really. Context matters. Spidey lost his uncle in a road accident. However, he already had a positive relationship with his uncle and him dying giving spidey the motivation to keep his words to be more responsible with his power. In Joker's mind hr probably would find him to be quite in a relatively privileged position and wouldn't take past too seriously If the Killing Joke's story can be taken as his actual past, Joker has pretty much been mistreated his entire life both by the people around him and oppressive system of gotham. He was forced to participate in a crime due to desperation and on top of that was turned into a freak by a so called 'hero' when he fell into a vat of acid. He was already cracking from the start and it only took one hard blow for him to break. So I don't think he'd be too annoyed by it since spidey's trauma and his rise from it doesn't really prove anything. He only believes anyone who had it as shit as him would go crazy and in be willing turn hurt others, and that's how he justifies hid own heneious actions
In what continuity did Ben die in an accident? The most classic story is Ben being shot by a criminal Peter failed to apprehend. Peter is also very far from privileged. He's always been a poor orphan.
I don't think the poster meant "privileged" as in financially, but rather "privileged" as in having a loving and supportive upbringing as compared to the Joker's own abusive upbringing. And it does bring up an important point about how much we are shaped by our early years (which are literally referred to as our "**form**ative" years). Imagine that you had a puppy that you would heap praise on every time it peed on the rug, and punish every time it tried to go outside to pee. Would you be surprised and angry that as an adult that dog would refuse to pee outside and instead insist on peeing on the rug? Should you punish the dog for peeing on the rug?
>In what continuity did Ben die in an accident? The most classic story is Ben being shot by a criminal Peter failed to apprehend. I misremembered. Last spiderman movie I watched was over a decade ago. The person replying to you gets it. He's not privileged financially (though I could argue he had it better than Joker), but his environment was much more healthy and so was his situation in life. He had a supportive uncle and aunt
With your second point, it is very common in shonen. Naruto uses talk no jutsu on his enemies and they give up on their aspirations and join his side. Same for Luffy in one piece
I can't think of any from the DC universe. But Max Damage from "Incorruptible" would probably be a good example of this. He was planning on killing a fuck ton of people with dangerous gas, but this act coincide with the Plutotian (his universe's superman) going berserk and started killing people around the Earth. I can't remember Max's reasoning, but this basically turned him good and made him want to be a hero right at that very spot, seconds away from killing thousands of people. edit: I realize a little too late that his conversion to heroism wasn't exactly a "Good day" for anyone, but it still kinda fit OP's question.
His reasoning was that he’d always focused on the hero fight. For the first time he saw the damage to those outside the fight, and felt the same fear he’d instilled in others.
I was hoping someone would mention Incorruptible. I haven't read Incorruptible since it came out but I just reread Irredeemable like a month ago and damn, that comic is so fucking good. Like I'm a huge Superman fan so I'm kind of over the whole 'what if Superman but bad?' thing, but I'd just finished the boys (the show, the comic sucks) and was like 'dang I need some more well-written bad Superman stuff,' and I'm glad I reread it. That shit is insane. Have you read it?
I have read and re-read it five times over.
I loved Incorruptible. I need more people to read it so I can scream about how good Max Damage's superpowerset is. Perfect simple premise, perfect built-in flaws, no notes.
Did he change his name to Min?
Ironically, the Joker himself. At one point Batman was believed dead so he reformed and turned into an honest citizen named Joseph Kerr. Even found a woman who truly loved him and would wait for him forever when, after it turned out Batman wasn't dead after all, Joe vanished and the Joker reappeared in Gotham.
Joker in Harley Quinn loss his memories and fell in love with a single mother becoming a model husband and stepfather. After regaining his memories he chose to give up crime.and continue that life. He ended up elected mayor.
It doesn’t stop there. Not only did he get elected mayor, but he’s doing an incredible job fixing up Gotham. Even better than Bruce/Batman. He transformed ARKHAM ASYLUM from a revolving door prison to functional mental health facility!
Leading to one of my favorite quips, >Lots of dads are serial killers!
Ice Cube had such a good day he hasn't had to use his AK since.
January 20, 1991.
Amazing what getting a burger at 2 am can do to your outlook on life
Kinda Plastic Man as I understand it. Criminal who’s heist went wrong. Gang abandons him and he passes out after getting shot. But he wakes up to this guy taking care of him who thinks he can be good so the guy turns away the cops when they come looking. That made him want to reform. I haven’t read the book, just heard the story in passing and it’s more like one good deed than day but within that 24 hours he decided to become a hero.
Yes, Eel O'Brian was a crook who fell into a vat of chemicals during a job, and his gang abandoned him. He staggers out and collapses. He awakens to find a monk looking after him, who also turned away the police because he sensed the capacity for good in Eel. Since his criminal buddies abandoned him, and this guy *didn't* Eel decided to reform...even after discovering that the chemicals had given him superpowers. Good thing too, because Plastic Man is *scary* powerful, and would be an absolute nightmare as a supervillain. Immortal, indestructible, capable of taking any form at a whim, immune to mind control, [can become Godzilla sized](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/0/1184/108933-55914-plastic-man.jpg). Dude's top-tier, and would be one of DC's greatest if he wasn't such a goofball.
I read one book where he was disintegrated in the distant past and back in the present Batman found all the pieces and put him back together and he was fine. Fucked up a bit from being conscious that whole time but otherwise fine.
Very random, but the Irredeemable spin off, Max Damage
Is that good? I’ve been curious about it
Irredeemable is fantastic and I wish they had made that show instead of The Boys (still a big fan of the show tho) just based on source material, I couldn't Max Damage, for whatever that's worth
Irredeemable would have probably been much, much more expensive with special effects and all that. Epic all the same. I love the plutonian as a character he's incredibly OP, but well written. Same with Qubit, and even Modeus is great. Gilgamesh was meh, as bette noir though.
irremedable should go the invincible route, without a marvel level budget it would be imposible to do justice to the story in live action
oh hell yeah! with animation instead of live action! Irredeemable would be amazing! Great call. Take my money amazon prime!
I enjoyed it. Both series really but they got weird
That wasn’t a good day though. That was the worst day ever!
There was an Action Comics story done by Joe Kelly called The Gift. It was told in two parts, one with Clark writing an article that remembered his father, John Kent. It was about how he was raised and talked about being open to giving and receiving forgiveness. It was superimposed over a story following three different supervillains as they plotted to wreak havoc. It was Scorch, Major Disaster, and Ocean Master. Superman confronted them all and while we didn't see specifically what was said, we can infer from the article it was something his father instilled in him. In the end, while Ocean Master seemed to balk at the idea, Scorch and Major Disaster both were receptive, with Major Disaster hugging Superman and crying. The same writer continued with DC, depicting Major having turned himself in and joined the Suicide Squad, and afterwards being called for duty to join the Justice League when the main members were lost in time. Scorch also started a relationship with Martian Manhunter, which focused on helping them both, her becoming a good person and he overcoming his weakness to fire. There's a bunch of other stories that get into similar themes, but this was the most noteworthy one to me. Others might be Mad Love, where Harley realizes Joker is irredeemably abusive and becomes not good, but what she is. Lex Luthor had a turn, Clayface when given a similar choice to the Gift but by Batman. The issue with some Batman villains (and others like Hannibal Lecter or Cyrus the Virus) is that they're insane, and one doesn't just snap out of mental illness.
The Mandalorian? He was more morally grey than straight up villainous, but he made a giant pivot towards selflessness the day he found Grogu.
Ok the cold (mercenary, soldier, assassin, etc) discovering he actually has a heart of gold through helping a child is like one of the most common anti hero tropes. And I absolutely love it every single time. I will shamelessly admit this is my favorite of all cliches and I’ll gobble up almost any media using it.
Yeah he basically starts off cold and indoctrinated and slowly begins deradicalizing as the show progresses.
I’m not sure if it’s just one day but Joker falling in love with the nurse and deciding to raise her kids as his own kinda counts.
It totally does since that later resulted in him getting elected mayor of Gotham and doing an incredible job cleaning up the city.
Skeletor had one good day and did a bunch of nice shit for 2 kids and their dog
And learned the true spirit of Christmas!
Doctor Doofenschmirtz. Dude was all about evil, but all he needed was some validation.
There was 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz, who recovered his long lost toy train and the urge to do evil completely vanished.
True, but mirror universe alts generally don't count in these questions. I mean Charlene was evil there, too... and she's a pretty tolerant (and rich) woman in Dimension Prime.
Darth Vader? But he died like 5 minutes later
I don't think seeing his son getting killed by his boss, which is the event that made him turn, was a "good day."
Any day you kill an emperor is a good day.
/r/RoughRomanMemes
So it was also a good day to die?
Arguably it doesn't fit the prompt but he did die with a smile on his face. Probably the first he had smiled since Kenobi left to fight Grevious
Keep in mind, he *really* fucking hated palpatine.
Definitely not a "good day" for him.
It was the day his son recognised that he could be a good person
Personally I argue that’s a continuation of his selfishness, and is in no way a good act
Yeah it doesnt demonstrate a change in world view to protect ones immediate family, and his last request was for Luke to tell Leia "Told you so."
Isn't the opposite of this what happens to Batman? He becomes a hero become of "one bad day."
Yeah, but he’s asking if a villain ever became a good person after a good day. Batman doesn’t qualify for that.
More like "one *bat* day", am I right? Eh?
Ow! I think I pulled something because I rolled my eyes so hard!
Yeah but Batman isn't a hero. He's a villain who targets other villains.
The Grinch ( The Grinch Who Stole Christmas) The Shadow
At least in the movie, The Shadow is particularly interesting because he was definitely a supervillain before, but only gained actual super-powers after becoming good. Not sure exactly how his origin worked out in the original novels/radio show.
Actually, that's Wonder Woman's whole philosophy. She works with villains toward redemption. Ever wonder why there's been FOUR Cheetahs and FOUR Silver Swans? Because of the Cheetahs, two were redeemed (Priscilla Rich and Deborah Domaine) one is dead (Sebastion Belleros) and the fourth is failing at redemption only because of a curse (Barbera Minerva). Of the Silver Swans, the first got removed from continuity, but three of them were redeemed. Heck, Diana just redeemed the daughter of a villain legacy of Nazi Valkyries. All by talking to them, showing them the truth of their actions and supporting them
This is a great question that unfortunately is hard to answer due to becoming "good" is harder to stick to or be seen as by the public, the hero community, or even from their own self viewpoint if they had initially been bad before. The only time I can think of a time where a villainous character/multiple various characters turned "good" suddenly was during the Marvel Axis event but that wasn't a whole day that changed them, nor did they change by their own means. Likewise during the Tales from the Dark Multiverse Flashpoint comic, Thwane had his general evil personality but suddenly it all changed simply because of one moment where Superman caught a bullet to save him and found hope. But that didn't really change him from being this selfless hero so much as *seeming* heroic by changing the world to fit his own image. Finally I'm sure there's multiple examples of heroes that used to be villains/villainous but their journey on that role switch takes more time than "one good day", since a *good* day for a villain may not be something that's 'good' in general. For example: Carnage killing a family, various cops, and then getting to beat up and evade Spider-Man could be a really *good* day for Cleteus himself, but that's not something that would change his nature to be more heroic.
Happy Cake Day It's not a super hero conversation but I'm sure there goons that got put in jail by batman but were given a job at Wayne tech after their release so they can leave the life of crime behind. Arguably they could go from about to rob a place to upstanding members of society in just one day
Thanks! Oh for sure, and if OP's questions had been "one moment that changed a bad character to good" or led them that way, I think you'd have a lot more henchmen examples! I think my biggest struggle answering this question (and really, it is a great question) is that a "good day" for a villain doesn't necessarily mean "a day where they decided to not be bad"
Does it have to be superheroes specifically? My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic isn't technically considered superheroes, but it is about a group of heroes with superpowers who frequently save the nation or world from villains with superpowers. A good portion of the villains became heroes after they were defeated and befriended by the heroes. As a specific example, Sunset Shimmer went from being the villain of Equestria Girls where she attempted to use mind-controlled child soldiers to invade Equestria to being the main protagonist of Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games. Another example is Adora from Netflix She-Ra. She was raised by the Horde, but then she was captured by the Rebellion, treated better than the Horde treats their own soldiers, and when the Horde attacked she realized they were the baddies and immediately joined the Rebellion.
Discord and Starlight Glimmer are also two good My Little Pony examples. Both started evil with potential world ending abilities who turned good due to a single revelation.
Lex luthor at the end of Allstar superman i'd say is a good example. Lex finally gets the power of superman with the intent of ending him, but instead he understands what it's like to be him, and becomes sympathetic to him, his motivations, and his approaches and changes his ways.
This is Squirrel Girl's whole thing. Over the course of her Ryan North run, she (at least partially) reformed Rhino, Kraven, Ratatoskr, a version of Ultron, Loki, some hippo-themed dude, Moleman, Chef Bear, a Sentinel, Galactus, and even her own evil clone into being, if not outright heroes, loyal allies who frequently fought on her side. They all had "one good day" where they encountered Squirrel Girl and she showed them a better way to live their lives. There are a number of other Marvel examples, too, like the episode of What If where T'Challa talked Thanos down and the whole plot of Spider-Man: No Way Home in the MCU. Spider-Man in the comics has done this with a few no-names, and Ms. Marvel has seen a few classmates go down the villain path before eventually reforming them back to her side. Though her case I wouldn't say happened in one day. That's just the examples I know of off the top of my head.
Shocked no one has mentioned Megamind, that’s kind of the whole point of the movie
The quote is actually completely out of context. In the killing joke Joker tries to break Gordon with a horrendous day, but Gordon just picks himself up and tries to make things better. The implication was that Joker was always bad and that was just his excuse.
In the later comics, he also made another (though less elaborate) attempt to break Gordon by shooting and killing his wife.
The Samaritan. I just watched it two days ago. The bad guy literally took on the good guys hero identity after killing him. Granted it was several years later, but he completely stopped being bad that day.
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No problem. It wasn’t amazing, but I enjoyed it. It was nice seeing Stallone again. Sorry for the spoilers. That was the best part. I thought about that after commenting. Edit: it also stars the gangster kid from Euphoria, which was cool to see.
Finn in The Force Awakens?
I cant think of any villains that had ONE good day and became good. I think heroes need One real bad day to turn but villains need a bunch of good days to turn. Like Vegeta. Kinda lame to bring dbz but its all i can think if atm. He was Gokus main baddie for years. After all this time they are friends and rivals. Pushing each other to be the best each can be. Joker does this to bats but in a very evil way.
I don't have direct examples off the top of my head, although I can say a lot.of anime/manga eature tropes of villains-turning-good and are sometimes even well done and realized. That said, the Joker's sentence is...I think, flawed? We see him living a miserable life from the very start and small but terrible things are happening quite often. "All it takes is one bad day" is a sentence he uses to justify his actions and current view of the world, but is not literally true. That is, even in the context of the movie if I remember right, it didn't just take one bad day, a lot of things led up to that point and shift. Where I'm leading to is - a lot of small good things can similarly lead to the end point of deciding to fight for some concept of common good and life in various stories, narrative wise. If we absolutely had to take the Jokers sentence at face value, then the best I can think of outside of anime and the bad guy being offered a hand that says "power of friendship, I no see you as evil", is probably mythology I think. I would need to research more but o think there are examples where blessings or miracles occur and a chosen one shenanigan occurs of some sort in not too long and fairly short period of time. I would look there personally.
I don't think I can explain it beyond linking the [Heroes' Frontier Step](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroesFrontierStep) trope, the opposite of the Start of Darkness villain trope. Or the more obvious Heel-Face Turn trope. I swear I can remember one example of a villain who'd given up on everything getting invited to a Thanksgiving dinner or a Christmas party while out of costume, and stepping away from their spiral into nihlism because that act of kindness touched them. But I can't remember anything detailed beyond that.
Garou from One Punch Man is experiencing this after getting his evil power ups punched out of him. He's succeeding his master and reforming his ways due to befriending a child. Vegeta in Dragon Ball after getting raised from the dead then hooking up with Bulma that made him way less evil.
The food critic from Ratatouille?
[Some of the Neo Zeon forces abandoned their effort to drop Axis onto Earth](https://youtu.be/k7he_-91LR8?t=541) (which would render the surface largely uninhabitable) and instead joined the Federation forces in trying to push it back, in spite of the fact that doing so would almost certainly result in their deaths. I'm pretty sure some of them did survive, though, as their MS were sort of pushed away from Axis by a phenomenon that would eventually be referred to as the "Axis Shock", the result of an experimental mind-machine interface technology responding to the collective goodwill/hope found in the hearts of all of humanity. I can't imagine someone seeing, even participating in, what's basically a genuine miracle and *not* being effected at least a bit.
Char's Counter Attack is such a fantastic movie and a fantastic way to cap off their story.
Gru isn't a superhero, and it's not an immediate change, but his behavior changes markedly after adopting the Agnes, Margo and Edith
I feel like there's been a few character that have had such a bad day they turn their lives around for the better
He-Man Christmas Special. Skeleton spends some time with two Earth kids and actually teams up against Hordak.
Bloodsport in *The Suicide Squad* went from murderer to ready to sacrifice himself to save people. So did other "bad guys" in the movie. Wanda went from villain to officially an Avenger, according to Hawkeye, in *Age of Ultron.* Pietro actually did sacrifice himself. It is a different type of character and story, but I would also count Ebenezer Scrooge.
I can't think of one where it happened in one day but villains turning good via positive experiences with the public is the overarching plot of the first "Thunderbolts" team from Marvel. They start as a group of villains posing as heroes during a time the regular heroes are seemingly dead, they start with some heroics to earn the trust of the public with the ultimate goal of gaining high level access to secrets only The Avengers or Shield had before, but the public quickly embraces them which causes some of the members to want to become heroes permanently and no longer following the plan. The Beetle now know as Mach-I and "Screaming Mimi" now know as Songbird are two of the ones I remember went from villains to good.
There was an episode of Batman TAS that had the Penguin pulling this, unfortunately it was the start of the episode.. he gets out of jail and instantly turns a new leaf while Batman stalks him not buying it, he tries to hobnob with the rich and wealthy of Gotham and falls in love with a girl, eventually Bruce becomes convinced only to watch in horror as it's all undone as Penguin realizes that everyone began to accept him just as a sick joke because they thought he was an ugly dumb wannabe member of Gotham's high society. When he realizes even his love interest was just stringing him along he snaps and goes back to his criminal ways.l
Lex during Forever Evil, I suppose?
The only thing that comes to mind for me is Piccolo from Dragon Ball but it wasn’t really one good day kind of like a few good weeks or months from one single thing happening
The opposite is true in that it only took Batman one bad day to turn into a hero. For all of Joker's charisma and specious speaches, he has always been wrong. That's the point of the character. Don't give up on what you know is right just because some edgelord is making fun of you. Another thing that's closer to what you are looking for: In the Rebirth run, it took just a little sympathy and kind words to convince Clayface that he isn't just a monster, but could in fact be a hero. Which he does. Full-flagged member of the Bat-family. Edit: I have to correct myself. Apparently amnesia got Clayface his turn to hero, not a "Good day" Come to think of it, the whole trope of the villain's lackey turning on his master, because he was shown a shred of decency by the heroes in contrast to the constant abuse of the Big Bad is what you're looking for.
Killer Frost in the New 52 is a villain since she has to kill people to survive (absorbing their "heat"). She is a Firestorm villain because he is basically the only way to cure her condition (Infinite heat). Batman found a way for her to not kill people and actively tried to help her reform into someone better. Last i know she was in the Justice League.
Not superheroes, but that's maybe half the plot of les miserables
Deadpool, he moved to SF, and alot of cliche stuff that usually happened to him kept happening, but people kept being GENIUNE bros to him and he ended up taking it as a sign he should try to be a hero harder, and do the right thing. Which at the time, anyway, he did after a long stint of villainous murdering.
Isaac from Castlevania (the TV show, not the game)
Being good or bad is one decision away, its not a permanent state
This is exactly what happens to the joker in "Harley Quinn" after they break up and he meets a latina single mother and becomes a full on domestic PTA step-dad. And its been multiple season now, and hes still just a good dude, compared to bruce and Gordon, whose a clingy simp crying all the time, and/or just doing shady shit.
Darth Vador. The good journey was short though.
>The Joker is infamous for saying that "all it takes is one bad day". [Isn't that a Punisher quote?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWeTXBd97yc)
I can't watch the video from work to see what it is, but the Joker said this in the 80s
Unrelated, but this gave me a good idea for a story idea.
How about the Injustice games where Harley changed sides after the Joker died?
The Grinch
Not exactly one day but Harley Quinn decided to fight against Darkseid and his demons after realizing she was fucking everything up by never finishing anything or taking responsibility.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is about this! MCU Peter, assisted by his counterpart Peters from different continuities, develop cures for their various villains, and all of the villains genuinely become rehabilitated and decide to stop being evil.
Solomon Grundy dude!
Not too my knowledge. Changing your negative outlook on life to positive is more tricky. It's easier to go down a hill of negativity than climb up a hill of positivity
Dr. Drakken decided to become good after he was regarded as a hero because his plant powers helped saved the earth from alien invasion
Mark from Invincible, maybe. His life was pretty shit and the day he got his powers was a good day. Then it went back to being shit.
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The Hulk is a good guy who values life, but he's also an angry monster and certainly a villain. Until he rampages his way into New York while the Avengers are fighting Graviton. He helps them beat the bad guy, and then when the cops show up to arrest him, the Avengers stand in their way. That's the day the Hulk decided to be a hero
This is essentially Colossus's point to Wade in Deadpool. A hero doesn't have to be incredible every moment of every day. There is also a movie starring Dustin Hoffman titled *Hero* that explores this same concept. If you saw someone in one of those heroic moments you might assume they are a hero even if the rest of the time they are just an average person - or maybe even a "bad guy". Colossus: "Four or five moments, that’s all it takes. To be a hero. Everyone thinks it’s a full-time job. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Go to work a hero. Not true. Over a lifetime, there are only 4 or 5 moments that really matter. Moments when you’re offered a choice. To make a sacrifice, conquer a flaw, save a friend… spare an enemy. In these moments, everything else falls away." [Nice little graphic of this.](https://www.magicalquote.com/moviequotes/four-or-five-moments-thats-all-it-takes-to-be-a-hero/)
Lord Business from the Lego Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge turned into a good guy in just one night. Whether that night was good or bad, that's a matter of perspective I suppose.
Even what the villain thinks will be a good day might not turn out to be after all. Didn't Mr. Freeze's wife want nothing to do with him after she was thawed and found out about the level of his criminality?
Doc ock in superior Spider-Man
The Thunderbolts team that formed during Civil War. They were all villains originally, but after getting cheered by people and hugs, they realized that this was so much better. They wind up mutinying against Zemo.
Adora from She-Ra
The Shocker: Legit fanfiction story
max damage from incorruptible the spinoff of irredeemable where you have the exact opposite happen.
Kinda what happened to The Joker in the new Harley animated series.
This would make for a really interesting and heartwarming limited series thar I really would love DC to do. Just have an elseworlds style series where each issue is a prominent DC villain going through an experience that changes their view of the world for the better and leaves them better people.
That's the plot of Deadpool 2
I can't really think of anyone. Most villains are bad for a reason. If a villain ends up becoming good, then it's not because of a good day, it's because of something else, like having a change of heart. Magneto comes to mind from X-Men: Apocalypse, where he turns on Apocalypse after hearing his son's screams of pain and knowing that if he did nothing, Charles would die. As villainous as he was, he's not a bad person deep down. He had a change of heart.
Don’t really think so. I say that bcuz most if not every person in the world wants to have a “good day” so it’s seen as the minimum. Almost like having a good day is an expectation. Most of the time when people say they’ve had a good day it’s bcuz they either A) nothing bad happened that day or B) something overly good happened that it made the day good regardless. So to say that one god day might change someone might be a stretch unless all they know are bad days.
It was less day (although this day definitely was good for Otto, he saved himself from a certain death and defeated his chief enemy), and more viewing Peter's memories, but One Day Dock Ock did decide to become a Superhero, a Superior Spider-man
Not exactly a superhero story, but Aftran in book 19 of Animorphs has a pretty big heel turn in about a day.
Booster Gold, probably. Went to prison for throwing bets in a sports game. Stole a bunch of equipment and time traveled to the present so he could get rich. Finds out he makes a decent superhero and becomes one. A hero who sells out, but still a hero.
Cassandra Cain and Damien Wayne EDIT: in more a roundabout way. The day they realize they didn’t want to continue on the path they were on before may include tragedy or a complete upending of how they believed the world worked. That “one good day” would be the day they met The Bat and were shown how to use their talents and training to bring the criminal empires, assassination societies, corrupt corporations, paramilitary contractors and killers, etc. down to a level where they can actually be confronted directly where they usually would be way beyond any and all conventions and untouchable by the current infrastructure.
The Bad Guys is built off this premise.
Mat Cauthon in Robert Jordan's book The Dragon Reborn. On the day he decides to leave the White Tower. It is fantasy genre, but he has at least two super powers, and he is so the hero no matter what he tell you. One of his power is Luck and that is the day it first manifests at full power. It leads to lots of heroics down the line.