Born

The Dire series is amazing.Basically a Doctor Doom type bad guy. They start out on the street with Amnesia during a world wide blackout, and slowly build there way up to being one of the most feared Villains in the world.I loved the way the amnesia was eventually explained. A noteworthy fact about this series: It started out as Worm fanfiction!The “original” was a story where the titular character got dimensionally displaced into worm and proceeded to be op and muck up canon (pretty standard for fanfics).

the Doctor Dire series, which was spun off a Worm fanfic to begin with. AU where Tesla won the electricity wars and all forms of superpowers coexist at once. Follows the PoV of an Anti-Villain (for example: she tries to blow up the Yellowstone Caldera, but in a controlled way so that it wouldn't be catastrophic -> heroes stop her and pacify the volcanic activity permanently) who deliberately gave herself brain damage to lock her identity away. Six books, all on Amazon. Start with DIRE:BORN.

Strong Female Protagonist. A webcomic with an amusing message that might as well be an AU of Worm. Follows the life of an open cape of the Brute persuasion who semi-retired after getting tired of the PR aspect of superheroics. There's a severe undercurrent of fridge horror related to power expressions and the (as yet unrevealed) origins of powers themselves.

u/NickedYou May 06 ‘19
Seconding Strong Female Protagonist. While not as constantly dark and disturbing and depressing as the Wormverse, it still goes places many wouldn't, and it's interesting to explore moral ambiguity in a world that has gone less to shit.