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Zeus posted...

Yellow posted...

It annoys me when they're so good they refuse to kill someone who gets away and murders 12 people every repeatedly. At that point they're just kind of pansies.

One time? Totally fine. 7 times? That's just poor writing.

Few problems with that attitude:

1) Rule of law. Vigilantes want a pretty tight line where they're outside of the law yet law enforcement generally doesn't come after them. However, the second they start killing people, they become a target for law enforcement.

2) Moral codes and the slippery slope. If a hero has never murdered anybody, it's obviously going to be a much harder decision. And, in general, their attitude of righting wrongs includes not doing wrong.

3) It's up to the system. It's not the hero's responsibility to either punish or carry out punishments.

the authority got away with it. but then again who the fuck was gonna stop them, for the most part they where a OP version of the justice league. they rode around on a ship that in the blink of a eye they could just leave that universe. and due to the ships technology they all had the powers of teleportation, all they had to do was say "door" and a portal would pop up that would pretty much take them wherever they wanted.

I liked the authority comics, they where different in that they had no reoccurring villains as they most of the time killed them. though in once case they had the doctor (reality bending powers) turn a dude into a chicken then dropped him off at a farm full of hillbillies that they knew had sex with their livestock, chickens included
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Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"