If we dig deeper, then applying human laws to the actions of a divine being seem a little silly. And then things get even more cray cray because I'm pretty sure we can counter that claim with another claim.
Er, yes.
We can counter that claim with the claim that if Wonder Woman were put on trial for this, there are some defenses her counsel could use which stood a chance of convincing the judge/jury/whatever to rule in her favour, and some which wouldn't.
And saying "I'm a divine being, so therefore I don't have to follow your stupid laws, nyah!" falls into the latter category.
The choice she made I think defines her. Superman would've dragged the arc another issue in search of an alternative to killing if the tables were turned. Batman, knowing him, would've been prepared with his anti-mind control spray. Diana, as part of the JL (which regularly fights evil), kills him after having her life threatened and appeals ignored. She isn't some neck snapping killjoy.
Hang on, read that over again and tell me again that Diana's solution was the only one, because you seem to be admitting that it isn't. Or, at the very least, that you aren't completely sure it is.
If Diana's solution were the only one that resulted in Superman being freed and Lord's threat neutralized, then you would have written "Superman would have looked for an alternative to killing...and he would have died, because there wasn't one and the other Superman that Lord had taken control of would kill him while he was looking." Or you'd have written "Batman would look at his arsenal for something which could break Lord's hold over Superman, and he would have gotten killed by Superman while he was wasting time looking, because nothing short of killing Lord could break that hold."
You are acknowledging that there are different ways this could have been dealt with, perhaps even resolved with the good guys winning and Lord staying alive, but that Diana didn't bother with those approaches--did not even consider them for a second, because that's not her style.
Her style is to break Lord's neck. And break Grendel's neck in Secret Six. And put an axe through Ares' head, killing him too. And kill a sentient android in a cage fight. And who knows how many other killings that happened before and after the time I was following the character during Simone's run on her title.
She doesn't always kill, and sometimes she'll even try to save villains. But she nevertheless has killed when she didn't have to, on more than one occasion. Which, IMO, is not cool
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Er, yes.
We can counter that claim with the claim that if Wonder Woman were put on trial for this, there are some defenses her counsel could use which stood a chance of convincing the judge/jury/whatever to rule in her favour, and some which wouldn't.
And saying "I'm a divine being, so therefore I don't have to follow your stupid laws, nyah!" falls into the latter category.
The choice she made I think defines her. Superman would've dragged the arc another issue in search of an alternative to killing if the tables were turned. Batman, knowing him, would've been prepared with his anti-mind control spray. Diana, as part of the JL (which regularly fights evil), kills him after having her life threatened and appeals ignored. She isn't some neck snapping killjoy.
Hang on, read that over again and tell me again that Diana's solution was the only one, because you seem to be admitting that it isn't. Or, at the very least, that you aren't completely sure it is.
If Diana's solution were the only one that resulted in Superman being freed and Lord's threat neutralized, then you would have written "Superman would have looked for an alternative to killing...and he would have died, because there wasn't one and the other Superman that Lord had taken control of would kill him while he was looking." Or you'd have written "Batman would look at his arsenal for something which could break Lord's hold over Superman, and he would have gotten killed by Superman while he was wasting time looking, because nothing short of killing Lord could break that hold."
You are acknowledging that there are different ways this could have been dealt with, perhaps even resolved with the good guys winning and Lord staying alive, but that Diana didn't bother with those approaches--did not even consider them for a second, because that's not her style.
Her style is to break Lord's neck. And break Grendel's neck in Secret Six. And put an axe through Ares' head, killing him too. And kill a sentient android in a cage fight. And who knows how many other killings that happened before and after the time I was following the character during Simone's run on her title.
She doesn't always kill, and sometimes she'll even try to save villains. But she nevertheless has killed when she didn't have to, on more than one occasion. Which, IMO, is not cool