ILLUMINATI: Personal responsibility

[starwolf_oakley]

Oracle once wondered if the Bat-family was culpable for the Joker's crimes since they never did anything permanent to stop him. Here's a few pages from the NEW AVENGERS: ILLUMINATI special where a similar discussion about culpability is discussed.





First, a page where the Black Panther shows how smart he is.



T'Challa's smart, but... The problem with the general public of the Marvel Universe is that they are idiots. Some of the smarter idiots are worried superheroes might subjugate those they protect. This isn't Tony's intention here. He just wants to subjugate other superheroes. Which he eventually does. Idiot.

The full two-page spread of Hill and Stark's conversation.



Spider-Man has a simple reason for not killing Osborn: Neither Aunt May nor Uncle Ben would like it. And Spider-Man is now the *only* Marvel Superhero who thinks killing people is wrong.

Comments

[hybrid2]

This is so stupid.

The heroes do theyre jobs right and stop the criminals.

It's the justice system that dont.

What is it with Mrvel always blaming other's insted of the peoples actualy responcible?
Like Speedball insted of Nitro.

I bet most people in the MU dont even know about Nitro.

[icon_uk]

Actually, since the fight at... wherever the place was... was televised, they would know about Nitro, which makes the blanket blaming of Speedball, Namorita and the others even more ludicrous as an explanation.

[freezer]

I always figured that was a hamfisted Iraq War parallel: Can't find the guy we actually want (Bin Laden Nitro) so we'll put our energy into nailing this secondary target (Saddam Speedball) and hope no one notices they moved the goalposts.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

Osama > Saddam was moving the goalpost a ways to the right. Nitro > Speedy is moving them into another stadium. Like one used for basketball.

[vitruvian23]

No, it's like blaming the US troops who failed to catch Bin Laden on the Afghan/Pakistani border for the next terror attack.

[darkblade]

What's sad is that I've heard people use this justification.