September 05, 2019

Who are the Lawyers for Villains?


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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