Honestly,how much better would superheroes lives be if they just killed their villains? I mean villains that did terrible shit like Green Goblin,Joker and others, not the villains who are just low tier or goofs.8
Killing super villains
it's important to execute murderers, but it's the job of the courts.
if courts won't do their jobs, the government needs to be petitioned and ultimately overthrown if they continue to refuse to carry out justice.
I have a similar question; Who's the scariest hero/anti-hero to run into? The boogeyman type where thugs realized they really fucked up. Spawn? The Punisher? Red Hood?
Where do we draw the line between 'needs to die' and low tier?
Punisher. Ever since Under the hood Jason’s turned into edgy nightwing. Punisher kills and tortures his victims, sometimes for hours on end. Jason’s just an overgrown robin with daddy issues.
The Punisher.
Foes of Spiderman had an issue about this.
Petty assholes who are obsessed with messing with the hero at every possible opportunity in a really personal and fucked up way and won't ever quit.
Extrajudicial killings are a crime. Superheroes would quickly become hunted by the police and the whole alphabet and seen as nothing but serial killers.
I'd argue a pissed off Spider-Man is more terrifying than Frank. You ever see what happens when Peter is done fucking around? He beats The Rhino to a bloody pulp, and the silence is unsettling.
Spidey has moods, Frank has a mood. Whenever Frank shows up it's a fight to survive, with Spidey, chances of dying are low even when hes in rage mode
>Honestly,how much better would superheroes lives be if they just killed their villains?
Not at all. Writers would just make new fucking villains, who would continue doing the horrible things the previous villains were doing.
Frank once literally gutted a man in such a surgical way to keep him alive while he strung out his instestines in front of him and wrapped them around a tree to see how far they stretched in MAX.
Spider-man’s got nothing on Frank.
For me, it would be an villain that you cannot reliably expect to be contained or punished by the authorities.
If they killed 11 people but you are pretty sure that once he is behind bars he will stay there, that's the courts job to handle.
But if he killed 3 people and has the ability to turn people to dust just by looking at them and you have him at your mercy? You take the shot. They are never going to be able to keep this guy under wraps for long, and it will only take one mistake for him to kill a LOT of people. You have the chance to end this now, and you can't be certain you will be so lucky again in the future, maybe next time he disintegrates you before you get the chance. So you kill him, and make sure the matter is settled. Because otherwise the consequences are on you.
Assholes who murder people like it's no tomorrow, rapists and pedophiles, cannibal monsters that stopped being sentient, members of the Church of Scientology
Frank kills low-level thugs and mafia mooks that no one cares about with no powers.
Spidey actually has to fight people who have a chance.
I used to be a strong proponent of Batman's no-kill rule, and I still believe in it, but I now unironically believe he should kill the Joker. If we accept the conceits that:
>Joker is the most dangerous man alive
>Batman is the only person who can stop him
>no prison or asylum can hold the Joker, and when he gets out, he WILL kill again
then Batman just looks like a fucking retard letting this shit go on for eighty years. I believe it would actually be within his code to kill him. Ra's al Ghul is the only other borderline case and I thought it was neat when Tomasi had Batman straight-up threaten to murder him.
Then Supervillains would just move to places like Portland then. All they have to do is cater their villainy to "fight fascists" and Superheroes can't do a thing to stop them.
Yeah I forgot how spooky Hulk can be. Just look at the first issue of Immortal Hulk, where it's set up like a horror movie.
How about heroes invest in their comunities improve schoolings actually find the root causes of villainy many of these criminals are often mentally ill
Killing outside of self defense is still murder
Doesn't work that my friend kill one another takes their place criminals kill each all the time why would some hero doing it change anything? why not actually do things to improve comunities that actually work like providing a strong social safety nets cleaning up trash youth programs better schooling work programs how come heroes never actually try solving social issues?
Because in this political climate, social issues are not as clear cut as you think, and it's full of political heroes and villains (Note: not actual heroes or villains on the inside) and one man's demon is another man's saviour, etc etc.