So I was listening to children talk about comic book heroes
and two things came to my mind. Now they are totally unrelated but they both
are very good questions if you ask me. I know these are fictional worlds so the
thought of me thinking of these things are illogical in the first place but I
think in the future storytellers in the comic book world can build upon at
least one of these questions in film.
Question 1: Who are the lawyers of these super villains?
The original question that came to my mind was how long are
their sentences, but then I question, well who’s fighting for them to get off?
The entire concept of Villains having lawyers isn’t quite strange since when it
comes to the profession of law, they’re pretty much in it for the money. I
don’t blame them because people have to feed their families and who am I to
judge ones means of feeding their family if they aren’t taking from me and
mine. I would assume that these Villains
would pay very heftily due to the amount of money they usually have, so I’m
pretty sure they would get some of the best lawyers. The interesting part about
all of this is, Super Heroes don’t technically work for the law, which means
all of the damage they’ve been doing against the villains wont really hold up
in court. Neither will the evidence they’ve accumulated. Also what would these
villains be charged with? How many counts of murder, attempted murder, assault,
armed robbery, etc. I mean the list would go on. There’s an endless amount of
charges that be could added but how many of them would hold in court? Would
there be a trial by jury as well? I could really see how a lot of these
villains could easily beat their cases. You would have witnesses and tons of
evidence to bring someone like this down and I think its hard to even pin all
of these charges on one person. Characters like Harvey Dent and Matt Murdoch
were lawyers but they represented the innocent. Their job was to prosecute
these villains and I don’t think they did the best job at that. In a lot of instances,
I’ve seen these villains beat their cases. Lets say they don’t beat the case,
how long is their sentence? It doesn’t seem like with these charges they would
ever get out of the jail, but we often see them back in the streets doing crime
again. I will acknowledge that most of
the time that these villains be breaking out of prison but wouldn’t you think
that at some point they would up their security on these prisons. Like they
should have special containment for each villain. Arkham Asylum does a terrible
job at keeping prisoners seeing that they escape all the time. Another question
who would do the funding to upgrade these prisons ? With so many villains on
the regular you’d think that Arkham would be filled to maximum potential. Hey
man I’m really just posing questions. I can really see why these villains
really be out free all of the time.
Question 2: What does an insurance company cover in Comic
Book cities?
For example, if you’ve ever seen Man of Steel, you see the
damage that Superman and Zod cause to the city of Metropolis? It’s ridiculous.
Honestly, if I was an insurance company that was providing coverage for those
buildings I would have different clauses defining the specifics of supernatural
destruction. Who knows how often Superman is going to fight someone from his
home planet? Who knows how often Loki is going to come to New York and destroy
the city? You see how often Spiderman is fighting crime in his own
neighborhood. In the Marvel universe alone, there are tons of Heroes and
Villains with a home base in New York, as an insurance company how would I ever
make a profit if I’m consistently paying out claims for these buildings.
Insurance is more so a gamble and the gamble is always supposed to work in the
companies favor in the long run but with so many claims a month, hell even per
day, I could see companies running out of business really quickly. Now we’re
all thinking that yes, the companies could just charge more per monthly premium
to the point where they would still make a profit but then it would be to the
point where these owners of the buildings would rather go without insurance
than pay it. I mean it would make sense to fix the damage yourself at a cheaper
rate than regularly pay for insurance at such a cost that you could’ve fixed it
yourself in the long run. What if there was like a clause that only covered the
damage of the super villain? Lets say Zod knocked Superman into a wall,
technically Superman caused that damage, or when he takes off, that’s damage as
well Superman is causing. Would that be considered damage by the hero which
means it wouldn’t be covered in the insurance? How would that work for the
Hulk, because literally all the Hulk does is smash things. The world also knows
the Hulk’s secret identity so would they like, force Bruce Banner to pay for
all of the damages or does he just like go about his day. Humans have yet to
create anything to contain the Hulk so like who or what would challenge him if
he was to say otherwise ? Who would even enforce the Hulk paying for the
destruction that he caused? Would there be Hulk insurance? Also the government
also pays insurance premiums as well so would they open policies on the heroes?
Like saying any destruction that these particular heroes cause, the government
would pay for it through their insurance. If that was the case there would have
to be a list of heroes that signed off to be about apart of this program making
them non liable for their actions. At the same time this would make these
heroes government assets. Basically I’m referring to the Sokovia Accords from
Captain America: Civil War. Even in that movie they reference that the Avengers
did $400 billion dollars of damages in the imaginary city of Sokovia. I wonder
who was responsible to pay for that? Would it be the United Nations or what? I
think that eventually insurance companies as a whole would just give up on the
entire idea of things like this.
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