@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agoSuper hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.message-square80fedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down116
arrow-up1184arrow-down1message-squareSuper hero movies should have more scenes of them accidentally maiming people just because of the sheer amount of power they weild.@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink7•3 months agoBut even in The Boys it’s just the bad guys doing that. The dark reality is that the good guys need to watch themselves too.
minus-squareBinettelinkfedilink10•3 months ago Spoiler for the latest season and the spinoff They don’t mostly because they know the risk. In Gen V, the main character gets her powers by accidentally killing her parents. And in the latest season, Huey’s dad kills a bunch of patients because of his confusion due to dementia.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦linkfedilink1•3 months agoThe “good” Supes also occasionally have to deal with collateral damage they cause spoiler Like Starlight accidentally blinding a bystander when stopping a robbery, which then comes back to haunt her
minus-square@Zahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•3 months agoThat was such a bullshit copout. Like, yeah she blinded someone, which is horrible in its own right, but in the story if Starlight hadn’t acted then the woman would have been dead instead of blind. I’d take that trade any day.
minus-square@CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoSuper Crooks has this, iirc there’s even a comment at one point about the heroes having a bigger body count than the villains.
But even in The Boys it’s just the bad guys doing that.
The dark reality is that the good guys need to watch themselves too.
Spoiler for the latest season and the spinoff
They don’t mostly because they know the risk.
In Gen V, the main character gets her powers by accidentally killing her parents.
And in the latest season, Huey’s dad kills a bunch of patients because of his confusion due to dementia.
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The “good” Supes also occasionally have to deal with collateral damage they cause
spoiler
Like Starlight accidentally blinding a bystander when stopping a robbery, which then comes back to haunt her
That was such a bullshit copout. Like, yeah she blinded someone, which is horrible in its own right, but in the story if Starlight hadn’t acted then the woman would have been dead instead of blind. I’d take that trade any day.
Super Crooks has this, iirc there’s even a comment at one point about the heroes having a bigger body count than the villains.