Trowa is just a moral compass away from being a villain anyway. All it would take would be the same ruthlessness, the same manipulative tendencies, and no underlying concern for innocents and bystanders. (And this is why there are several people in Milliways Trowa gets along with well, understands pretty thoroughly, and does not trust an inch. He's well aware that if your worldview makes sense to him, he's not gonna trust you unless he also has clear indications of similar morality.)
River, too, just requires a moral compass flip. (And also has a lot of people she gets along with but doesn't trust, although with somewhat different dynamics than Trowa.) It's canon anyway that gunslingers have one foot in society and one foot in the vicious lawless outside, and it's only a combination of trained morality and careful self-control that keeps them on the side of the angels. River as a villain is basically an Operative working for herself.
Alternately: River never escaped from the Academy. Maybe Simon didn't get her messages, maybe he tried to break her out and failed and died or was imprisoned, but either way, River is a psychic assassin tool of the less savory sectors of her government. She does what she's told, and she's viciously effective, and then she goes back to her quarters and the doctors and the soothers and her fellow graduated students.
Regan... hmm. I mean, Regan would be a friendly, warm, polite, amoral backstabbing businesslady out for number one no matter who got hurt along the way. She and evil!Gabriel would make a hell of a power couple!
Thor as a supervillain would be kind of terrifying. (In the movieverse. In the comicsverse... uh, it's happened, and anyway the comicsverse has a vastly larger roster of both heroes and villains.) But he's basically indestructible, he can fly, he can electrocute anything he likes, he's got a terrible temper -- there's a reason he can face off against the Hulk. The only saving grace is that he's pretty easy to manipulate.
A lot of how this went down would depend on whether others of Asgard were fighting against him too, or if nobody cared -- whether this was a Thor-Loki swap, basically, or if the entirety of Asgard was evil or didn't care in the least if Midgard got smashed to bits. (You can make a case that Asgard doesn't particularly care anyway, although that's not how I play it, but in the movie they have a certain willingness to intercede low-level and to make up for what one of their own royal family has done.)
Clare would be an Awakened One. It's always a possibility hanging over every warrior's head; she comes close, a couple of times.
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River, too, just requires a moral compass flip. (And also has a lot of people she gets along with but doesn't trust, although with somewhat different dynamics than Trowa.) It's canon anyway that gunslingers have one foot in society and one foot in the vicious lawless outside, and it's only a combination of trained morality and careful self-control that keeps them on the side of the angels. River as a villain is basically an Operative working for herself.
Alternately: River never escaped from the Academy. Maybe Simon didn't get her messages, maybe he tried to break her out and failed and died or was imprisoned, but either way, River is a psychic assassin tool of the less savory sectors of her government. She does what she's told, and she's viciously effective, and then she goes back to her quarters and the doctors and the soothers and her fellow graduated students.
Regan... hmm. I mean, Regan would be a friendly, warm, polite, amoral backstabbing businesslady out for number one no matter who got hurt along the way. She and evil!Gabriel would make a hell of a power couple!
Thor as a supervillain would be kind of terrifying. (In the movieverse. In the comicsverse... uh, it's happened, and anyway the comicsverse has a vastly larger roster of both heroes and villains.) But he's basically indestructible, he can fly, he can electrocute anything he likes, he's got a terrible temper -- there's a reason he can face off against the Hulk. The only saving grace is that he's pretty easy to manipulate.
A lot of how this went down would depend on whether others of Asgard were fighting against him too, or if nobody cared -- whether this was a Thor-Loki swap, basically, or if the entirety of Asgard was evil or didn't care in the least if Midgard got smashed to bits. (You can make a case that Asgard doesn't particularly care anyway, although that's not how I play it, but in the movie they have a certain willingness to intercede low-level and to make up for what one of their own royal family has done.)
Clare would be an Awakened One. It's always a possibility hanging over every warrior's head; she comes close, a couple of times.