Beware the Nice Ones/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

* Subverted at least twice in [[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]]'' comics (perhaps to be expected, featuring as it does the ultimate [[The Cape|Nice Guy]]):

** An issue of ''[[Superman]]'' entitled 'What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?' sees Superman challenged by a [[Darker and Edgier]] superteam who aren't afraid to kill and maim their enemies, and deride Superman as a moral weakling who's past it and afraid to deal with issues [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|'properly']]. Eventually, challenging Superman to a fight, they pound and pound and seemingly break him -- but, in a completely unstoppable explosion of pure superhuman rage, he seemingly destroys and kills each one of them, and uses his X-ray vision to completely destroy the tumor in the head of his opponent that was giving him his powers. However, it's revealed that Superman was ''still'' holding back. Each member of the 'dark' team is alive and well (if somewhat battered) and the leader's powers still remain, and he has merely given them "a psychic concussion" -- because, as he explains to the leader, he wanted to give them a sense of what it felt to be powerless under such unstoppable brutality (namely, [[Not So Different|the feeling their victims had]] and a sense of what it would be like if he was ''actually'' like that). It wouldn't be pretty.