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** Possibly averted in that several of the objections raised to her actions were actually valid. (The Lasso of Truth can only determine what the subject sincerely believes to be true, which is not necessarily what actually ''is'' true. Maxwell Lord is demonstrably incapable of using his powers while he is unconscious, meaning that options short of death existed to at least temporarily restrain him from affecting Superman. Wonder Woman did not adequately test Lord's theory that the psychic triggers in Superman's head were impossible for a superheroic telepath to remove before using that theory as a justification for his death.) |
** Possibly averted in that several of the objections raised to her actions were actually valid. (The Lasso of Truth can only determine what the subject sincerely believes to be true, which is not necessarily what actually ''is'' true. Maxwell Lord is demonstrably incapable of using his powers while he is unconscious, meaning that options short of death existed to at least temporarily restrain him from affecting Superman. Wonder Woman did not adequately test Lord's theory that the psychic triggers in Superman's head were impossible for a superheroic telepath to remove before using that theory as a justification for his death.) |
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*** Probably because letting Lord cause Armageddon while they futzed around with experiments involving various bits of telepathy, all to preserve the life of a murderer who was, again, trying to bring about Armageddon, would have been really friggin' dumb. |
*** Probably because letting Lord cause Armageddon while they futzed around with experiments involving various bits of telepathy, all to preserve the life of a murderer who was, again, trying to bring about Armageddon, would have been really friggin' dumb. |
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**** Errr, wasn't the entire point of the complaint 'Wonder Woman killed that guy because it was the easiest thing to do, not the only thing she could possibly do'? All you've done is confirm that. |
**** Errr, wasn't the entire point of the complaint 'Wonder Woman killed that guy because it was the easiest thing to do, not the only thing she could possibly do'? All you've done is confirm that. Also, how exactly is he supposed to 'cause Armageddon' while he's ''unconscious''? Again, the man can't use his powers if he's not awake. |
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* [[The Punisher]] seems to run into this occasionally, depending on how he's being handled and whether he's in his own book or not. Usually in his own book, he's taking out major drug and arms traffickers, mobsters, and other people that could quite possibly rate the death sentence anyway. Outside of his own book, just to make sure that his war on crime is Designated Evil, some writers actually have him killing ''white-collar embezzlers''. |
* [[The Punisher]] seems to run into this occasionally, depending on how he's being handled and whether he's in his own book or not. Usually in his own book, he's taking out major drug and arms traffickers, mobsters, and other people that could quite possibly rate the death sentence anyway. Outside of his own book, just to make sure that his war on crime is Designated Evil, some writers actually have him killing ''white-collar embezzlers''. |
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