Reed Richards
In an attempt to explain Reed Richards being a giant bag of dicks during Civil War, I have manufactured the following headcanon:
Reed was actually originally evil, and Doom was actually originally good; this reality is the result of Franklin Richards being unable to deal with his father's evilness, but being too young to account for all the factors and too much shaped by his upbringing to know how to make his father entirely good. This is why Reed is a bag of dicks yet ostensibly, somehow, a hero, who gets away with his occasional epic douchiness no matter how douchey it is, and also why Reed has done nothing particularly useful for society with his science-like, say, curing cancer-whereas Doom is a philanthropist and a respected sovereign. Also why Doom is envious of Reed despite being the aforementioned plus near to Reed's equal in science, and why Reed is persecuted but still yearns for the greater good while at the same time power tripping enough to think he has the right to enact decisions on behalf of the entire planet based on mathematical projections of the future that weren't even peer-reviewed, and why Reed can't fix Ben (because evil!Reed was holding it over Ben instead of actually trying). I… may have thought too much and come up with a lot of other details also.
But. Seriously. Reed was the only character I never forgave after Civil War, because I really don't think he got character derailed in the slightest.
Reed was actually originally evil, and Doom was actually originally good; this reality is the result of Franklin Richards being unable to deal with his father's evilness, but being too young to account for all the factors and too much shaped by his upbringing to know how to make his father entirely good. This is why Reed is a bag of dicks yet ostensibly, somehow, a hero, who gets away with his occasional epic douchiness no matter how douchey it is, and also why Reed has done nothing particularly useful for society with his science-like, say, curing cancer-whereas Doom is a philanthropist and a respected sovereign. Also why Doom is envious of Reed despite being the aforementioned plus near to Reed's equal in science, and why Reed is persecuted but still yearns for the greater good while at the same time power tripping enough to think he has the right to enact decisions on behalf of the entire planet based on mathematical projections of the future that weren't even peer-reviewed, and why Reed can't fix Ben (because evil!Reed was holding it over Ben instead of actually trying). I… may have thought too much and come up with a lot of other details also.
But. Seriously. Reed was the only character I never forgave after Civil War, because I really don't think he got character derailed in the slightest.