Man, Dreamwidth needs an "upvote" button :) I can't stand the "it's the superhero's fault for not killing bad guys" argument. It assumes that superheroes have all the power, and poor lil' human society can't do anything.

And of course the real reason Osborne or the Joker or whoever is constantly getting out and killing people is meta-textual. The comic writers want to do yet another Osborne or Joker or whoever storyline, the marketing people want to put those faces on more lunchboxes, and so on.

Trying to make in-universe people "to blame" for meta-textual stuff is just silly.