Comment on A FYI from Skeletor
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 5 hours agoMost countries like to at least pretend universal rule of law is a thing. How much “collateral damage” each country would accept would depend on national culture and how much the super heroes accepted government oversight, but I don’t see any government tolerating the average comic book hero as they are portraited.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
I wasn’t asking for permission from the local government.
Like how people get fines for things like feeding the homeless. A superhero can just say go fuck yourself to law enforcement.
Actually could be an interesting hero/villain idea. Lawful evil hero sucking the cocks of government and chaotic good villain feeding the poor.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 4 hours ago
At this point they would probably be seen as supervillains by most people, especially if they are routinely destroying half of the city they are “saving”.
scops@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Haven’t read the comics yet, but the show Invincible has an interesting deconstruction of this topic. When Mark comes on the scene, superheroes are popular and generally seen as virtuous.
Mark and his opponent are so much more powerful than any other heroes who came before and he’s unable to stop their battle from destroying huge chunks of a city and killing thousands.
The government understands his limits and the elevated stakes, but the people on the ground vilify Mark and he has to deal with his guilt and their hatred throughout the series.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 hours ago
It is a bit of an older troupe, 1970’s at least. Hero saves city, but few knew of the villains plot. Hero run out of town, and villain runs wild.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Cyclops being picked up by a sentinel