Thread 149703614

HE'S SUPERMAN

Now I have to kill you.

He's SUPER at stealing the copper wiring in yo house

>>149703614 (OP)
what I love about this is that it feels like it's a Batman plot, but no, they used Superman and went right to the most brutal resolution possible

>>149703614 (OP)
Imagine if he said: He’s Batman

>>149703614 (OP)
HE'S A FAMILY GUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz9WYxVQXZc

>>149703614 (OP)
>villains that repeatedly try to kill everyone and some likely have killed people
>thrown in jail again and again
>corrupt cop that's a killer
>end of the episode gets gassed
It feels like being a supervillain gets you special privileges.

>>149703666
This. A fairly progressive liberal leaning city like Metropolis having a death penalty to begin with always felt off to me. Always felt more of a Gotham thing desu

>>149703973
>It feels like being a supervillain gets you special privileges
it's the privilege of the writers not being allowed to kill of popular villain characters as opposed to a one-shot goon

>>149704002
you can be liberal about some things and conservative on others.

>>149703973
>It feels like being a supervillain gets you special privileges.

Because it does. Only the main characters matter.

>>149703666
It feels like a story the Superman radio show would have done very early or very late in its run (it was much more kid friendly in the middle) and I’ve always wondered if that was intentional or it just worked out that way.

>>149704002
the death penalty used to be something both sides agreed on until the left lost their fucking minds and became the party of criminals and illegals

>>149704569
Come on anon, not here.

>>149704002
>death penality
>gotham thing
kek
lol
lmao even

>>149703614 (OP)
>city protected by a demigod AND you get the death penalty
sounds like a pretty good deal

>>149703614 (OP)
We never see a death penalty in Gotham Feels bad.
At the very least heaps of Henchman should have gotten it

>>149703614 (OP)
No wonder Metropolis doesn't have issues with drugs and gang violence like Gotham does in this universe. The streets are even free of trash!

>>149704569
Too high of a percentage of people on Death Row are actually innocent.

>>149705159
Yeah mostly they just get super science gone wrong and techno junkies. Which isn't terrific I suppose but tech villains if nothing else tend to be a bit more directed and not the average joe's problem.

>>149703973
the government keeps supervillains alive and in prison in case they need to do one of those triple X type situations.

>>149703678
ha ha ha

>>149703973
Supervillains can potentially do some good for the world if they turned their lives around.
Magneto could build skyscrapers in a few days if he wasn't obsessed with murdering humanity, Luthor could cure cancer if he wasn't obsessed with killing Superman.
Of course there are some villains where it make no sense for them to still be alive like Joker.

>>149703973
To play Devil's advocate, Lex Luthor has a vested interest in keeping supervillains alive.

>>149705076
>>149705159
>get caught littering in city park
>the friendly neighborhood beat cop smiles and summarily executes you on the spot

>>149705181
in this episode superman literally uses his powers to clear an innocent man and get the real killer executed

>>149705560
Yeah, that's ONE case out THOUSANDS, if not more, and they had Superman helping, to boot

>>149704549
Or the old tv show.

>>149705159
Metropolis must be in a red state.

>>149705642
IIRC Metropolis is in New York, while Gotham is in New Jersey

>>149704103
BE A BIG BE A BIG BE A BIG SHOT

>>149705828
It's weird that I can't not picture either not being somewhere in the north east

>>149705227
I think a robot going crazy and causing property damage is better than a nog getting young girls hooked on drugs and turning them out.

>>149704002
The funniest thing is Metropolis and Gotham are usually portrayed as pretty close to each other, sometimes just across the bay, yet bright and shiny Metropolis has the death penalty and dark gritty Gotham doesn’t.

>>149705903
Nah. They have insurance for that. Get out of the way, wait for Superman to sort things out and enjoy a nice claim.

>>149705828
>while Gotham is in New Jersey
Damn, no wonder it's such a shithole.

>>149706262
I thought it was based on LA

>>149704002
Didn't you ever wonder why Gotham was a cesspool of sin while Metropolis was a thriving place?

>>149704002
Turns out the liberals run the shitty hellhole Batman lives in while Metropolis has the hanging judges.

I never post links but this was genuinely funny and this a good place for it
https://youtu.be/Jz9WYxVQXZc?si=S8aQWYaHuvudIFOo

>>149704569
This
>>149705181
Then the correct response is to raise the standards for evidence, not to stop taking out the trash. Besides, every "innocent" person who's found themselves on death row isn't truly innocent. You don't get anywhere near that far in if you're actually an innocent person.

NO HE IS NOT
HE WILL NEVER BE US

>>149705578
are you telling me there are thousands of innocent people on death row? not a single one of them actually did a crime?

>>149703678
Just watched this earlier, it was fricking sweet!

>>149707949
I love this page so much.

>>149705181
>Too high of a percentage of people on Death Row are actually innocent.
I want to see evidence on this.

>>149705446
>Magneto could build skyscrapers in a few days if he wasn't obsessed with murdering humanity,
You WANT to see all those construction workers unemployed?

Seems to me there was a time when the FF were down-and-out and The Thing applied for a construction job. He was turned down (Don't recall why. Not being a Union member?) until he intervened and saved a guy's life.

>>149705828
As of the creators themselves, Metropolis is Toronto/Cleveland. Though, I could see Lois and Perry being New Yorkers.

>>149708661
>Metropolis is Toronto/Cleveland.
My Aunt Petunia it is

>>149705903
>>149705943

>>149707439
Metropolis is (relatively) crime-free BECAUSE Superman lives there. You'll be captured before you can even rob a gumball machine.
Batman will get you -- eventually -- but Serious threats keep him occupied most of the time. So long as you rob bodegas during daylight hours, your crime spree can continue for quite some time.

Y'know how much of a difference super-beings can make? This picture is a perfect example of Before and After.

>>149708678
Clevelands Layout and culture (keep in mind we'r talking about Pre-Rustbelt Cleveland, not the meme it is in modern times), Toronto's Skyline. You ain't arguing with me, you're arguing with Siegel and Shuster.

>>149704058
>you can be normal sometimes but a fascist other times
Not how it works.

>>149709253
It's called nuance, worthless direction brain

>>149708944
I don't disagree with your concept of Metropolis, but are there any comics that actually explore this? "Superman Year One" sort of thing?
My read was that Metropolis was always relatively nice to begin with and just got better after Superman arrived. Unlike Gotham where it went from unliveable to "liveable with an asterisk".

I imagined Metropolis as Chicago or Chicago-adjacent, since it's only a couple states away from Kansas.

>>149709253
Oh
In that case, I'll be fascist about all the things

>>149703614 (OP)
He is?

>>149704002
Cities don't determine death penalty that's up to the state you idiot

>>149704002
You only think it's progressive because it's portrayed as being a pretty cool place and you associate your political beliefs with all that's good in the world and your opponents beliefs with all that's bad.

>>149704569
That's because of the percentage of the population that commits the most crimes is the percent they want to increase. If we just gassed them then things would naturally work themselves out.

>>149704002
Y'know what, you make a good point.

>>149708747
>crime doesn't have a knock on effect for the rest of society
Fucking pencil pushing economists

>>149708944
>Wanted List on the right becomes the guy shoplifting earlier becoming Employee of the Month
That’s cute.