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9 Actors Who Have Played Both Superheroes And Supervillains

You often hear actors talk about how it is much more fun to play villains, as they get to explore different, often more intense, methods of acting than they do when portraying good guys. Meanwhile, some actors love playing the heroes. They are the main characters, after all. Then, of course, there are those that like to keep things fresh and will happily play both the greatest hero and the most menacing of villains.

2) Jim Carrey

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Generally speaking, those on this list have one superhero role that is more famous than the other. Not Jim Carrey, however, whose turns as superhero and supervillain are two of his most well known parts.

1994 was the year that catapulted Carrey into stardom as he starred in a trio of hits – Ace Venture, Dumb and Dumber and The Mask. The latter, based on the Dark Horse comic series, saw the actor at his rubbery-faced best as a man with all the powers of a cartoon character. Just one year later, Carrey swapped The Mask’s yellow zoot suit for form-hugging green spandex as The Riddler, who worked with Tommy Lee Jones’ Two-Face to bring Val Kilmer’s Dark Knight down in Batman Forever.

Carrey also returned to the superhero game much more recently in 2013’s Kick-Ass 2, where he starred as the Captain America-parodying Colonel Stars and Stripes.

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