It's not any lack of realism that I'm taking issue with, sure the government uses drones, and in this ficitional world it'd be entirely reasonable for them to take an interest in superhumans. My problem is that it might not fit well conceptually into the DCU, depending on how far they go with the concept (how evil the government is and how many operatives the have, etc) and it could wind up being a situation where you have to wonder why the Justice League or someone else of that level doesn't step in to stop some cartoonishly evil dudes. It's sort of like the bothersome fridge logic that's up until recently had dudes like Captain America and Iron Man remain relatively uninvolved in mutant issues. It's wouldn't necessarily take anything away from the book, but I think it could still give the Movement/Green Team a weird sense that it's either disconnected from the rest of the DCU, or everyone outside of those titles is somehow an idiot who's failed to notice that a "toxic government" is using :"super-human lackeys to force order upon the populace" which sounds like the sort o thing that a lot of superheroes would take issue with. Plus I tend to find government superhumans, especially the vaguely evil kind to be boring and would rather not have them wandering around my books. I prefer things to be kept light.
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Date: 2013-02-09 04:40 pm (UTC)It's sort of like the bothersome fridge logic that's up until recently had dudes like Captain America and Iron Man remain relatively uninvolved in mutant issues. It's wouldn't necessarily take anything away from the book, but I think it could still give the Movement/Green Team a weird sense that it's either disconnected from the rest of the DCU, or everyone outside of those titles is somehow an idiot who's failed to notice that a "toxic government" is using :"super-human lackeys to force order upon the populace" which sounds like the sort o thing that a lot of superheroes would take issue with.
Plus I tend to find government superhumans, especially the vaguely evil kind to be boring and would rather not have them wandering around my books. I prefer things to be kept light.