Yeah, it's not really a bad idea, honestly -- if there's middle ground. Hell, the whole superhero community's acted on the occasional warning vision or magical prediction voodoo or whatever before.
If someone could've...if someone could've predicted that Annihilus was going to invade from the Negative Zone, we could've tossed whole armies and a ton of superheroes at him right at the Crunch.
[Before a single world fell. Before the Corps shrank down to a Corps of one.]
For the other stuff, we could just have heroes set up around potential crimes to ambush the criminals when the crimes actually start counting as being actually in progress. If someone gets pinched on attempted murder, the victim is saved, the perpetrator still does some time, and they're still doing it for something they actually did instead of what they might have done. The attempt alone is a crime.
[He rolls his eyes, not that anyone can see it.]
But that's actually reasonable and they're them. It's always about egos, not finding something that works.
[Maybe if they hadn't been such uncooperative idiots they could've found middle ground on Registration, too, decided to build the Avengers Academy right off the bat, to train the younger heroes more formally sooner.]
I just wish someone would step up the way somebody always used to, to set everyone straight. Cap used to do it all the damn time and now that he gets involved in the infighting, too, now who is there? Spidey gets all wrapped up in it, too.
[Who could step forward and take on that kind of authority? Who had enough moral standing and attachments to other heroes in the community that people would respect what they had to say? Who could provide them all with a voice of reason? And be a hard enough hitter that they couldn't just swat them away, that could hold their own if any idiots picked a fight -- oh.]
[Huh.]
[They always tried to drag him in, too. "Pick a side." Like there were even supposed to be sides at all. But he didn't need to pick any sides and he didn't want to.]
Guess I got another thing to add to my "What I'm Gonna Do When I Get Home" to-do list. If it's all still going on, at least.
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If someone could've...if someone could've predicted that Annihilus was going to invade from the Negative Zone, we could've tossed whole armies and a ton of superheroes at him right at the Crunch.
[Before a single world fell. Before the Corps shrank down to a Corps of one.]
For the other stuff, we could just have heroes set up around potential crimes to ambush the criminals when the crimes actually start counting as being actually in progress. If someone gets pinched on attempted murder, the victim is saved, the perpetrator still does some time, and they're still doing it for something they actually did instead of what they might have done. The attempt alone is a crime.
[He rolls his eyes, not that anyone can see it.]
But that's actually reasonable and they're them. It's always about egos, not finding something that works.
[Maybe if they hadn't been such uncooperative idiots they could've found middle ground on Registration, too, decided to build the Avengers Academy right off the bat, to train the younger heroes more formally sooner.]
I just wish someone would step up the way somebody always used to, to set everyone straight. Cap used to do it all the damn time and now that he gets involved in the infighting, too, now who is there? Spidey gets all wrapped up in it, too.
[Who could step forward and take on that kind of authority? Who had enough moral standing and attachments to other heroes in the community that people would respect what they had to say? Who could provide them all with a voice of reason? And be a hard enough hitter that they couldn't just swat them away, that could hold their own if any idiots picked a fight -- oh.]
[Huh.]
[They always tried to drag him in, too. "Pick a side." Like there were even supposed to be sides at all. But he didn't need to pick any sides and he didn't want to.]
Guess I got another thing to add to my "What I'm Gonna Do When I Get Home" to-do list. If it's all still going on, at least.