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"Candy gram for Mongo..."

Perfection.

As for the debate, I think better policies could be instituted for DC and Marvel writers in dealing with this issue of inflexible morality and "Joker Immunity" villains, but I'd say the best thing to be done is showcase a more complex world in a stand-alone original universe.

If I ever do get to script an ongoing, my "metas" would be all over the morality scale, but usually aligned by their power level. Living gods ala Superman would hold themselves to a high moral standard of behavior (and invariably suffer an emotional/mental cost because of it) while low-power or Badass Normal heroes would be very open to permanently offing villains (usually if they're walking WMDs with no compunction against killing innocents and causing property damage; legislation would probably back them up).

New villains needed all the time? Good. It's like real-world crime-fighting. Bust one crime boss, another rises. Large operations become too easy to bust up, smaller local gangs proliferate. And the whole time there's the personal cost of living in this complicated world for character development.

But yeah, most of the DCU/MarvelU couldn't handle that level of complexity (though I wish it could).