10 Video Game Heroes Who Could Easily Be Villains

8) Gex

There aren’t many anthropomorphized geckos in gaming history, and so it may seem a shame to knock the heroic credentials of the most famous of them.

TV-loving super sleuth Gex, however, certainly has the type of backstory that would make him an intriguing villain as well. Hiding a grieving past behind a carefree love of entertainment, Gex could quite easily have slipped into a spiral of angry despair and sought revenge against the people responsible for his father’s death.

When then given the opportunity to become the face of Rez’s plot for world domination, Gex could easily have let his grief get the better of him and become an acrobatic evil like none other. Sadly, however, this does beg the question of just who may want to stand against the smart-alec lizard.