Wouldn’t most superhero’s or adventurers become evil, due to the corrupting power of power?

Wouldn’t most superhero’s or adventurers become evil, due to the corrupting power of power?

depends on the setting

No shit. Most adventurers and vigilantes in real life, even when they start with good intentions, either start as or eventually become assholes.

They do. It's just that most of them end up biting it to righteous heroes. The ratio is anywhere from 1 to 4 to 1 to 15 or so heroes to the villain. Kinda of like comic book superheroes.

If heroes are as cynically minded as you, sure.

For adventurers: there are gods above them who hold them in check, so they never have a final fall. They typically will retire from the world, becoming a powerful recluse with their vast fortune and mighty magic items. After their main journey is concluded, little more remains, they have seen the breadth their existence can reach and the domains that it cannot. (Certain adventurers may seek to reach those higher domains, but such apotheosis is difficult at the best of times, and may lead to evil.)
For superheroes: yes they usually go evil, at least for a storyline or two.

The whole "Power Corrupts" thing is mostly because most people who seek power (and are successful) are usually self-serving shitheads who are willing to do more backstabbing to get what they want.

If people got their powers randomly (Like in X-Men) then there'd probably be way less "evil" people then you're expecting

You either die a hero...

or die a villain?

You're ignoring the Dunbar's Number angle.

Regardless of whether or not you sought out the power in the first place, there's a point after which you're just not going to be able to care about people because they're too far removed from your situation.

I wouldn't trust even a decent person with Professor X's powers. It's the kind of thing that's so abusable in so many little ways it's guaranteed to erode anyone's sense of morality.

You're going to abuse Professor X's powers? Good luck, because any time you-- AAAAAAAAARRRGH!

What is magnetio’s helmet made out of?

Cause that would be the first thing I would invest in in that world

Especially once you know the kinds of things people are thinking.

Child pornography. It's not that Charles can't look through it, it's that doing so is just very, very unpleasant and he's convinced that the government is monitoring Cerebro and just waiting for a chance to van him.

Power doesn't corrupt.

It just lets you be the asshole you always wanted to be in the first place.

Power allow you to do thing you never done before. Would you finally be brave enough to be a good person?

>Would you finally be brave enough to be a good person?
No, but I would be brave enough to be a complete shitbag the second that I could avoid the consequences of doing so.

I’d pull a Plato to be honest.

Act as though my powers don’t exist.

"getting away with things" isn't being brave, it's being cowardly while thinking you can avoid consequences

shut up lex luthor

I don't know about evil but you can bet I would use my powers to gain power. Probably leader of some country.

>"Listen up pigs, I'm your queen now so worship me and I might show mercy."

"power corrupting" is a meme. It's just that the corrupt tend to seek power more than the non-corrupt.

Most real life vigilantes just want to beat people up but the military is to cerebral for them or it kicked them out already.
Aka, arseholes, like you said.

where on the good guy to asshole scale would you say are biker vigilantes who make pedos disappear

No worries, professor - I, Martian Manhunter, will- AAAAAAAAH

Well, if they don't have a good reason not to be at least neutral evil, they should be.
Other than boy scouts, who wouldn't rob a bank the second they get powerful enough, it's in the human nature, if there is a shorter easy path, it will go for it.
This can affect the background of the characters, maybe they're good because everybody else is evil and wants to cleanse it, maybe they made a mistake and want to repent, maybe they're religious, it's certainly better than he's good because it's what it is.

Everybody has some sort of situation they want to avoid. If you had a power that helped you avoid, say, getting scolded by your boss for something that wasn't actually your fault, it's really easy to justify to oneself there's nothing wrong into avoiding it. I mean, he is an asshole, it wasn't your fault, why wouldn't I use my powers to get out of that? It's really easy to justify such an action. But as one gets used to that way of thinking, it quickly gets worse, as little by little one may start justifying bigger things.

get outta here tolkien

Storytelling and worldbuilding in fantasy has free pass for cutting corners or being naive and simplistic. Absolute goods and absolute evils can exist if you wish.

So...

Magic did it?