"The Psychology Of Super Heroes" or "The Depravity Of Super Villains"

[phil_]

This is the comic Aero is referencing.

Also, Trigger is going to adapt a book called "Inou-Battle in the Usually Daze" (which is a hell of a title) into an anime. From what little I've read of the comic (namely, chapter one), it's about teenagers with powers that rival any Cape choosing not to do anything with them, because being able to end world hunger, war, and disease is a pretty heavy responsibility and it's just easier not to because what if you screw up? It should be fun.

I can talk about nothing but anime, and I'm sorry.

[Aerozord]

Thats what I liked about Spider-Man, he got super powers and his first thought was "how can I use this to make money and impress chicks"

[Seil]

Batman's answer to just straight up murdering the Joker. (Under The Red Hood movie spoilers)

[Seil]

What if you save someone who doesn't want to be saved?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

And not just Joker but also his reason for not killing anyone intentionally.

[Locke cole]

Then I suppose the question becomes: Why ever put Joker back into Arkham? He's proven not only nigh-impossible to cure, but also dangerous to attempt to do so on (look at what happened to Dr. Harleen Quinzel). I'm pretty sure a city like Gotham would've brought up death row as a possibility by now, what with the uncounted people he's killed.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

Then I suppose the question becomes: Why ever put Joker back into Arkham? He's proven not only nigh-impossible to cure, but also dangerous to attempt to do so on (look at what happened to Dr. Harleen Quinzel). I'm pretty sure a city like Gotham would've brought up death row as a possibility by now, what with the uncounted people he's killed.

This has always been a justice system issue not a batman one. The justification is "insanity plea excuses him from the death penalty". Yes in the real world that has some obvious limits and insane or not if you are a serial killer you get the axe.

There was a story once where Gotham did get fed up and sentenced him to death. It kicked off some big event, don't remember what it was though.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Krylo

But super heroes don't really do good. They protect the status quo. They do neutral.

Superman could end pretty much every and any war instantly with minimal casualties, but he refuses to do so. Batman could put an instant end to political corruption with the tools at his disposal, but he chooses not to. Tony Stark or Reed Richards, probably even Peter Parker, could, with their minds, end the energy crisis, world hunger, and most space exploration issues--none of them do so.

All Super Heroes do is keep things going exactly as they have been.

I feel like that's dramatically discounting the good of just straight up helping people. Saving them from burning buildings and disasters and whatnot. It's one of the big things that separates vigilantes from Superheroes. Reed Richards and Tony Stark might not technically be Capital S Superheroes in any case. Further, Every superhero doesn't have infinitely useful capabilities and resources, Many of them go against the status quo for good or ill, lots of them both fight crime and attempt to tackle major social issues. And finally, the "status quo" within their narrative is not always the same as the one in our world.

[Aerozord]

You know its kind of a selfish thing for us to demand more than what they do. These are people risking their lives to do things ranging from rescuing people from natural disasters to stopping universe destroying monsters. Lets say they do just refuse to use their gifts to constantly help people, doesn't this person who just stopped Galactus from murdering us deserve a life? A chance to not worry about everyone else?

Apply this to people that in the real world that save lives. Imagine yelling at a doctor for spending time with his family instead of performing surgery whenever he isn't eating or sleeping. You cant say they don't do good just because they aren't enslaving themselves to humanity.

Except for Spider-Man, cause thats kind of his schtick