A genuinely good hero gets crushed by responsibility and slowly goes insane

[u/Outrageous_Gene_7652]

Hal Jordan (Green Lantern): Civilian life in shambles, overworked superhero life, spiralling mental health for years and unable to cope with the fact that he was'nt able to save his city because he was on another mission, Hal loses his mind, literally trying to bring back the dead, killing the entire corp and later literally erasing space and time to rewrite the universe

Zero (To Be Hero X): Being the first hero of the world and being worshipped for being so since he was 10, Zero achieved Godhood as a 15 year old but ultimately the pressure got to him and he went mad at 17 and nearly caused the end of humanity.

[u/Jolly_Weight3699]

The Immortal in Invincible (TITLE CARD)

Even in the normal timeline, we see that he is losing it when his partner dies, but it's even more clear when he is left as the ruler of earth by Mark, and it ends up with him becoming a Dictator obsessed with control over a very long period of time.

[u/Moist-Singer9219 → u/Jolly_Weight3699]

The Immortal is proof that living forever doesn’t mean you can handle losing everything, and watching grief slowly turn him into the very thing he fights is tragic as hell.