In a fictional world where the alternative is someone blowing up the planet, I assure you, it does work, as the planet in said fictional world still exists. It probably also helps that it is also written to work in this fictional world and that collateral damage is limited to non-existent.
In the real world, we don’t see as many people threatening to blow up the planet, and generally the social contract that gives the government a monopoly on force works out pretty well for resolving issues such as dudes being assholes. When the government doesn’t uphold its end of the social contract, then folks gotta take force into their own hands. Hence Ken McElroy (who I linked along with Luigi, btw.) though there are others, like The Secret Six, and Gary Plauché.
In that fictional world the bad guys only exist to fight Batman.
In the real world vigalantee justice doesn’t work. I mentioned the one time and you did link him. McElroy . But again that only worked because it was one guy who needed to be killed. It wouldn’t have worked if it was an organization or society that needed challenging.
I’ll look up your other examples if you want but I can follow that with all the times it just caused cycles of revenge instead of change for good.
Violence breed’s violence. Vigilante justice doesn’t work. Even in Batman. The writers write villains specifically to attack Batman. Because his existence breeds violence in that universe.
In a fictional world where the alternative is someone blowing up the planet, I assure you, it does work, as the planet in said fictional world still exists. It probably also helps that it is also written to work in this fictional world and that collateral damage is limited to non-existent.
In the real world, we don’t see as many people threatening to blow up the planet, and generally the social contract that gives the government a monopoly on force works out pretty well for resolving issues such as dudes being assholes. When the government doesn’t uphold its end of the social contract, then folks gotta take force into their own hands. Hence Ken McElroy (who I linked along with Luigi, btw.) though there are others, like The Secret Six, and Gary Plauché.
In that fictional world the bad guys only exist to fight Batman.
In the real world vigalantee justice doesn’t work. I mentioned the one time and you did link him. McElroy . But again that only worked because it was one guy who needed to be killed. It wouldn’t have worked if it was an organization or society that needed challenging.
I’ll look up your other examples if you want but I can follow that with all the times it just caused cycles of revenge instead of change for good.
Violence breed’s violence. Vigilante justice doesn’t work. Even in Batman. The writers write villains specifically to attack Batman. Because his existence breeds violence in that universe.