Is there a comic book with a proactive hero or team of heroes who takes on villains proactively instead of waiting to...

A hero can only be a hero if there is an enemy to fight. An enemy can only make themselves known if they have performed an evil or destructive act. In a time of piece, heroes are unnecessary. Even the Punisher is technically reactive. Sure, he's actively hunting criminals down to dispense his justice, but he wouldn't have anyone to hunt in the first place if they didn't commit a crime first. The criminal must always make the first move, because it's only once they've committed a crime that they become a criminal. If you're going out of your way to instigate conflict, then at that point you, yourself, become the very villain who threatens the peace.

Eh, Punisher i guess?
Is this Fate

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No, and every attempt at such a thing has failed because nobody can figure out what the fuck being proactive means in the context of crime fighting. About the furthest you can go is attacking criminal supply lines and such, but that's something all heroes do anyway. Fuck is a "proactive" hero supposed to actually do, profile a bunch of people who have the potential to be criminals and beat them up before they can do anything?

Didn't Marvel have a whole event about that?

Ultimates(2015)

civil war 2. Made everyone look like shit.

not quite.
Imagine this, hero wants to make the world a better place, thus he uses his super powers to stop global warming. Villain is a psychopath who enjoys people dooming themselves and wants to stop the hero from getting rid of global warming.

Hero acts, villains reacts, then they fight

X-Force, Uncanny X-Force, and New Avengers/Avengers Hickman run

Jojo part 5

Robin (Damian Wayne) secretly captured criminals who kept escaping Arkham and locked them up in a secret prison with no plan to free them

This, and the sequel.
Stay away from this.

Lost of heroes prefer to be radioactive actually

>Going after people who have not committed any crimes yet.
That’d make them criminals.

Not unless they're the Toxic Avengers.

Or building something nice that the villain wants to stop because of reasons.

They tried to do that with Cry for Justice and it went horribly wrong.

Dedicating your life to being a hero who fights evil, in and of itself, is stupid.

Be a hero when the situation calls for it, do the right thing, help people when they need it. But when there's no need for that at the moment... just chill, and have fun doing what you love. If what you love to do as a hobby is merely "help people" then you're at a dead end.

Thanks!

>An enemy can only make themselves known if they have performed an evil or destructive act.
Or hero made investigation and found out that villain planning something evil.
So detective/investigator would be proactive hero.

The mindset behind a villain is usually "I am going to change the world into my own idea of a better one". The mindset behind a hero is usually "I am going to protect this world from any threats to it." A villain is inherently proactive and a hero is inherently reactive. A hero can only be a hero in times of crisis and a villain is he one who initiates the time of crisis.

I suppose a proactive hero could appear at charity events and such, you know have a race with the Flash for charity.
But people really aren't interested in that and mostly those can only serve as side parts of the story, as the frame or setup to the rest of the story.

I think heroes also need strong personal motivations such as say, Spider-man's money problems.
Then you can have Spidey being pro-active about seeking money to support his family.

I think the real problem though is most writers are ballless hacks.

Proactive is a buzzword

Planetary is fairly proactive, but their proaction is all for the sake of getting around a villain team so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.