So, I was Idolized by the NCR. I had been to Michael Angelo's earlier, but hadn't bothered to trigger his quest. I decided about 20 hours later to go and finally do it, and while I'm walking around his shop, an NCR MP comes out of nowhere and says something about "nobody ****s with the NCR!" and attacks me. I kill him and two assistants of Michael Angelo who turned hostile for some reason, now I'm a Dark Hero. I suppose it's possible that it had something to do with me previously (about 30 minutes before visiting him) doing the Helios One mission and routing the power to Archimedes II, but I didn't kill the NCR (even though I did set it to kill them all and then set it back).