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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5677797" data-attributes="member: 54707">Maybe my real point about Superman was being  misunderstood. Or I wasn't stating or defining it well.  As for me I'm not talking about making Superman an  anti-hero. Or dangerous (as in he will attack and harm you) to innocents, or  even necessarily towards the good guys. I'm talking about making him truly  dangerous to evil characters.  Someone evil characters would actually fear  because he is for once actually dangerous to them. I wouldn't mind at all seeing  him kill some mass murderers, terrorists, and unreformable supervillains who  constantly endanger and slaughter the public. And I'd like to see him do this  without wrecking an entire city or even a building to accomplish his  end.  But to other villains I'd like to see him  considered dangerous as well.  You can be dangerous you know and your word still  be good. You can be dangerous without scaring everyone (you just scare the hell  out of the people who need to be scared of you). You can be dangerous and still  operate right out in the open.   A good soldier is very dangerous to the enemy, but  to anyone he protects, he's a guardian. A good cop is dangerous to criminals,  but defends the public. But neither are anti-heroes. They're just dangerous. Bad  guys don't screw with them unless they come prepared to lose their own  lives.   That was my point. That if a criminal harms  someone or goes after Superman himself they don't say to themselves, "oh well,  if this all goes wrong it's okay, what's the worst Superman will do, save me too  and throw me in jail? He's safe enough."   And generally speaking that's always been  true.  Safe and dangerous are very different things, but  good and dangerous are not necessarily different things.  Defending the weak, the innocent, the helpless and  the like is good.  Treating everyone the same way and of equal value,  be they good or evil, be they children or mass murders, or child molesters or  serial killers, as being of equal value or of deserving of the same number of  chances is not good in my opinion because it allows the evil to prey upon the  good without fear of real consequences.   Because when good has no teeth of any kind evil  flourishes on the flesh of the innocent.  I want Superman to have teeth. The kind of teeth  that a German Shepherd has (or a Grizzly Bear has) that makes a wolf say, "Wait  just a second, is this really worth my life or a crippling lifelong injury? Is  this the (Super) Man I really wanna pick a fight with?"  And I'm hopeful that's what Superman will become.  Not an anti-hero.But a dangerous one. I hope a lot of the DC characters will use their abilities in new and creative ways. Batman has often been the innovator, out of necessity, but I hope many of the characters now will start innovating heavily.</blockquote>

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