Just to expand on what I said above, technically, Luke may have committed worse acts in terms of quantity while serving Palpatine than Quin did while serving Dooku. Luke was indirectly responsible for very possibly hundreds or thousands of deaths of Republic and Mon Cal soldiers during the Battle of Mon Calamari. He technically did command certain Imperial personnel while the battle was in progress and could be held accountable (he held himself accountable at least) for particular losses on the Republic force's side. His intentions, however, were to sabotage the Imperial efforts, in which he succeeded as he provided the codes necessary to disable the World Devastators that were thrashing the New Republic military. So although those would be indirect killings that Luke could be faulted for, they are more numerous than Quin's killings. Quin personally carried out assassinations, but his sheer death count is definitely lower than Luke's. So I guess the subject of who made worse decisions while struggling with the dark side is debatable.
"Compassion is a Jedi's strength."
"And how compassionate is it to the friends and relatives of Kyp's victims to see him free and exalted?"
The Jedi Master regarded me warily. "The blood of millions is on my hands, too. The crew of the Death Star. The people slain while I served the Emperor reborn."
I sat forward, resting my elbows on my knees. "The Death Star was a military installation and self-defense, pure and simple. While you served the Emperor, yes, people did die—but you sabotaged the Imperial effort, saving the lives of many more than you killed. In a time when all choices are evil, choosing the least of the evils is a virtue."
--Taken from I, Jedi
Now, relating to Luke only nearly falling to the dark side, several sources have stated this outright (although some have also identified that he turned to the dark side without much exposition on the circumstances of his fall or how submerged in it he became, if he truly did at all). Most notably, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia points out that Luke merely drew close to the dark side without becoming one with it. Additionally, by Luke's own admission, he has his own doubts that he did in actuality turn to the dark side while learning from Palpatine.
Like other Jedi in the past, Skywalker thought he could learn about and destroy the dark side of the Force by facing it from within. Until Leia arrived and confronted him, he didn't realize how close he had come to being totally corrupted by the dark side.
--Taken from The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
"Good. It was supposed to." Mara took a deep breath, and Luke could sense her reluctance. "Look, you're the one in the middle of this. You're the one who has to make the final call on what's going on. But if you want my reading, it all started with that little jaunt you took out to Byss about nine years ago. Where you faced—whatever it was you faced out there."
Luke shivered. "The reborn Emperor."
"Or whatever," Mara said with an odd touch of impatience. "Personally, I'm not convinced it was really him. But that's beside the point. The point was that you decided—stupidly and rather arrogantly, in my opinion—that the best way to stop him would be for you to pretend to join up and let him teach you some of his dark side techniques."
"But I didn't really go over to the dark side," Luke protested, trying to remember those dark days. "I mean, I don't think I did."
Mara shook her head. "Debatable; but it almost doesn't matter. One way or the other, you still willingly dabbled in it. And from that point on, it colored everything you did."
One of Master Yoda's pronouncements floated up from his memory. If once you start down the dark path, his old teacher had warned, forever will it dominate your destiny. "It did, too, didn't it?" he murmured, half to himself, as all the errors and mistakes and, yes, the arrogance of the past nine years rose accusingly before his eyes. "What was I thinking?"
"You weren't thinking," Mara said, an odd mixture of impatience and compassion swirling together in her voice and emotions. "You were reacting, trying to save everyone and do everything. And in the process you came within a split blaster bolt of destroying yourself."
--Taken from Vision of the Future
But anyway, on the topic, reposting a couple of my comments from CL:
For Grievous, I want to say Metallo, but I am hardly an expert on Corben. So this comparison could be wrong (maybe Phantom or Morpheus or someone who has read more Superman comics than I have can clarify this). As I understand it, Corben was in a car accident, after which he was operated on and laced with cybernetics. The scientist who operated on him chose kryptonite as his power source specifically because he intended for Corben to be a weapon against Superman, whom the scientist considered a threat to the world. This caused Corben to start a vendetta against Superman as his humanity was stolen from him because of him. From what I understand, in at least one incarnation, Corben was also a member of the military. That being the case, these factors compare to Grievous fairly well. Grevious was a respected Kalee general whose homeworld was in constant battle against the Huk. Dooku sabotaged a flight that Grievous had, an accident he blamed on the Jedi and the Republic, leaving him nearly fatally injured. While being sustained in a bacta tank, Grievous was asked by San Hill if he wanted to be remade and serve the Separatists, being promised that the CIS would free his world if he did, which he agreed to. Grievous was left without much humanity but abhorred the notion that he is a droid. The underlying premise is that he was made mostly machine and was misled to attack an enemy that never actually did anything wrong to him, which, if I am not mistaken (though I might be), is similar to Metallo.
For Durge, Sabretooth might be similar enough. Both are soldiers, both have absolutely no regard for life (they enjoy taking lives, for that matter), both fight their nemeses (Wolverine for Creed; Mandos and Jedi for Durge) purely for the sake of fighting their nemeses, both have comparable attitudes (generally sardonic), both have personal animosities toward a certain person/people, both are long-lived, both have healing factors (obvious similarity). There are probably some other parallels that could be drawn.
There are probably better answers than these though.
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