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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8931289" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Sure re: necessity, and it should make sense and be coherent.</p><p></p><p>Ideas come from places, ideas spread. This is the history of humanity and would be the history of all thinking beings beyond the most bizarre. People respond to threats - though weirdly D&D people have never responded to dragons/monsters in any coherent way. If they did I'd expect a lot more "Monster Hunter"-style stuff going on (esp. the heavy weaponry used to defend towns and so on). Oddly enough Japanese fantasy has tended to be far more rational and coherent re: monsters than Western fantasy.</p><p></p><p>Also, no prisons don't ever <em>have </em>to be built. That's a huge and ahistorical assumption. Prisons (rather than dungeons/towers/cells primarily used for political prisoners/hostages) are a rare feature in human history. They're a constant of the 20th century and appear a lot from the 1700s onwards, but before that? They're usually pretty rare. In most cases you simply execute someone.</p><p></p><p>And thus it would be with superheroes. They wouldn't be contained - it would be nearly impossible in most cases - they'd just be killed. And not via justice or judicial systems, either - via the military and intelligence agencies and so on, or their medieval predecessors. Or the superheroes would simply rule the world (most likely) and kill each other. Best case maybe people would do some kind of "Phantom Zone" deal and shift them to other realities or planes of existence, but as soon as a bad one managed to work their way back, killing would be back on the menu.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8931289, member: 18"] Sure re: necessity, and it should make sense and be coherent. Ideas come from places, ideas spread. This is the history of humanity and would be the history of all thinking beings beyond the most bizarre. People respond to threats - though weirdly D&D people have never responded to dragons/monsters in any coherent way. If they did I'd expect a lot more "Monster Hunter"-style stuff going on (esp. the heavy weaponry used to defend towns and so on). Oddly enough Japanese fantasy has tended to be far more rational and coherent re: monsters than Western fantasy. Also, no prisons don't ever [I]have [/I]to be built. That's a huge and ahistorical assumption. Prisons (rather than dungeons/towers/cells primarily used for political prisoners/hostages) are a rare feature in human history. They're a constant of the 20th century and appear a lot from the 1700s onwards, but before that? They're usually pretty rare. In most cases you simply execute someone. And thus it would be with superheroes. They wouldn't be contained - it would be nearly impossible in most cases - they'd just be killed. And not via justice or judicial systems, either - via the military and intelligence agencies and so on, or their medieval predecessors. Or the superheroes would simply rule the world (most likely) and kill each other. Best case maybe people would do some kind of "Phantom Zone" deal and shift them to other realities or planes of existence, but as soon as a bad one managed to work their way back, killing would be back on the menu. [/QUOTE]
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