Are you the person who would save the burning village or be the one to throw the match into the wood store, the one to cut the chain on the door of the church, or the one throwing the key to the chain down the well. Do you have a price, or are you pure of corruption, would you do anything for power or work hard to rise to the top?
Think about it, would like to see how many Villains there are and how many Heros.
Would you really turn down a large sum of money to burn down a village?
It would seem as if I'm the only full-out "good guy" here. Imagine that.
Anyway, in regards to an earlier comment, I think I know why people prefer being evil; first, it is just about everyone's fantasy to destroy certain morons--be it your "superiors" at work or random imbeciles that found a way to piss you off--with superpowers. The primary complaint, however, is that Heroes never get rewarded for their troubles. EVER. They risk their lives battling countless otherworldly monstrosities, saving the lives of thousands, all they get in return is a figurative pat on the back after which the populace goes on as if nothing had happened and the conquering Hero fades into obscurity once more.
Reading that, one has to wonder why I prefer to be a Hero. The answer is simple; my mindset and conscience won't let me be anything else. To my logic, mindless destruction is just that--mindless. There's no reason to do it, so why go through the trouble of fighting off the cops and then going into hiding as the military is called in? And any capital gain is transitory, because you will die eventually, and what good will ill-gotten money do you then? At least as a Hero, one is capable of going out with the knowledge that they made the world a better place.
I think the term for that is "Lawful Evil." In case you're not a nerd, that basically translates into being completely evil, but following laws or a code of ethics out of fear of punishment (for the former) or pride of power (for the latter.) Personally, I've always been more of a Neutral Good guy ("the concerns of Law and Chaos do not moderate the need for good") because of my deeply embedded "nice-guy" programming. The concpept of being evil for evil's sake never made any sense to me, so I've always ended up doing what's right out of instinct.