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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9637404" data-attributes="member: 7026594">The ones who don't engage in fisticuffs usually still use their powers to fight crime or directly neutralize foes.  Whether that be Kitty Pryde phasing through someone to stun them, or Dr. Manhattan being able to blip an enemy's weapon or their whole physical being out of existence.  Or make himself a hundred feet tall and stomp Vietnamese tanks like an angry giant/god.  Even the ones with the most attenuated relationship with violence (say Professor X telepathically stunning or disabling people, or Destiny from The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants using her precog powers to aid the team) are still using their abilities to help defeat their foes.The mentions of pulp heroes once again bring Watchman up, because Moore includes a bunch of older pre-Super costumed vigilantes among his roster of characters.  For example the original Nite Owl, who had no powers but hand to hand combat and acrobatics skills, and is similar to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_(character)" target="_blank">The Phantom</a>.  The second Nite Owl is the Batman/Blue Beetle analogue.There's definitely a blurry line between the pulp adventurer heroes and powered superheroes, since the original wave of costumed crime fighters were an intermediary form, basically.  Ja?</blockquote>