
Although it’s common for every hero to have an evil counterpart, Johnny Storm, who is quite popular, hasn’t experienced that yet, unlike his family members. There are variations of the Fantastic Four where they’ve fought and characters posing as the Inhuman Torch, but those instances felt like loopholes. The closest we’ve come to an evil version of Johnny was introduced in “Dark Reign: Fantastic Four” #2, when Reed Richards was using his portal to peek into other dimensions, accidentally transporting the team into their alternate selves. One such counterpart was Pirate Captain Johnny Storm, a heartless pirate who sailed through the skies on a flying galleon, putting aside his usual pirate duties to act as a privateer and muscle to deter the invading Skrull army. He didn’t seem to commit any crimes, but he wreaked havoc without mercy, abandoned the Thing to die callously, and was generally boorish. While he wasn’t the compassionate, self-sacrificing Torch we’re familiar with, he also wasn’t evil enough to rank higher on this list.