Thread:Inferno Pendragon/@comment-4751060-20150327162559/@comment-1705775-20150327163140

no.. if a "hero" is obsessed purely with power they are a villain protagonist : a hero is meant to have some sort of moral balance.. a megalomaniac has no moral balance because they do anything for power.

a "heroic megalomaniac" makes about as much sense as a "heroic psychopath" : just because some heroes have shown megalomaniac / psychotic traits does NOT mean that trait is "heroic", hell it is often a trait that is made deliberately to make the hero more antagonistic (and thus more "human")

a "heroic megalomaniac" is basically Justice Lord Superman.. who is not a hero at all.. used to be, but the moment a hero starts to say "screw it" to morals, they become a villain.. unless said hero was an anti-hero or a "modern" hero.. but anti-heroes still have *some* morals (and megalomania has none).

a "modern" hero will do horrible things (such as New 52 and so on) but these are, again, heroes designed to be antagonistic.. you aren't meant to admire their actions (such as how Iron Man went insane lately and started harming innocents, you aren't meant to side with him, he's a bad guy.. just happens to be the main character).