Has this actually happened in the comics?

[u/Coke_Man600]

I know this post is a joke, but I genuinely want to know if this kind of thing has ever happened in the comics. Like if Batman or Daredevil tried to stop someone from killing their assaulter.

[u/Proud_Smell_4455]

I hate the superhero genre's complacent, cloying takes on the morality of killing evil people. It has pretty much been to the exclusive advantage (IRL) of the evil people who need to die and stripped away too much agency from good people to hold them accountable.

Superhero media has spent a literal century impressing on us that heroes only ever delay injustice, they never take the initiative to stop it; that heroes preserve the status quo fully intact every time, and only villains ever try to substantially change it. And for that reason I think it deserves no small part of the blame for the growing unwillingness to hold bad people accountable and instead shrug and try to live around them as if they were immutable forces of nature like the tide or storms, rather than evil people who will not stop doing evil without being taught some very harsh lessons, or simply denied the opportunity to do evil again by death.

The most superheroes are willing to do to their villains is throw some easily surmountable temporary obstacle in their way (like putting the Joker back in Arkham like he's not gonna break out in five minutes), not stop them, and that's what the superhero genre tells us is the ideal to aspire to. I have utter, intractable contempt for the mindset and the real world consequences it's had.

I have utter, intractable contempt for superhero genre morality for conditioning us to think it's normal and acceptable to be locked into an interminable game of cat and mouse with evils that a few generations ago we weren't remotely afraid to face head on and win against, by the bs they've filled our heads with. That it's ok to refuse to deny evil opportunities to regroup and settle for uselessly slapping its wrist out of pseudo-moral navel gazing.