Vigilante Man: Difference between revisions

** In the movie ''Punisher: Warzone'', the "victims are always guilty" rule was notably averted: near the beginning of the movie, he discovers that one of the people he killed was actually an undercover FBI agent with a family. He feels so guilty about it that he offers said agents widow a bag full of mafia money, as well as the chance to shoot him.

* Rorschach of ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]] of this trope, as well as the [[Anti-Hero]] in general. He is not presented as a good person and the police disdain him -- in fact, they hate him almost as much as the criminals do.

* Truth in advertising: [[DC Comics]]' Adrian Chase--a district attorney, and later judge, who hunted down and killed crooks who got off--was named simply The Vigilante.

** Though Chase eventually became a [[Deconstruction]] of vigilante justice, and ended up committing suicide due to his guilt over the increasing violence of his methods and actions.

* Victor Ray from ''[[100 Bullets]]'' kills criminals in his spare time to balance out the awful things he does on behalf of Agent Graves

* [[Depending on the Writer|Depending on the story]], Paperinik (Donald Duck's superhero alter ego in some Italian stories) may have this as his reason to hunt down criminals: Duckburg has a serious criminality problem (seriously, how is that the Beagle Boys manage to get free in a lawful way?!), and an unstoppable sadistic superhero going to extreme lengths to humiliate and beat you up after catching you in the act or getting proof and a confession ([[Justified Trope|justifying]] the fact his victims are always guilty: he makes sure, and those times he was wrong he found out before beating up the supposed criminal) tend to keep the problem manageable. In those stories he's also a wanted criminal due various spectacular thefts he committed at the start of his career to punish Donald's bullies (the very first being the money-filled bed Scrooge was sleeping on: the sacks of money were ''too easy'' for him), but most of the police doesn't want to arrest him due a combination him catching an insane amount of criminals and leaving them on their step and mercilessly humiliating the ones who actually try and arrest him (one memorable occasion had him fooling two cops into breaking into the bedroom of the chief of the police. [[Hilarity Ensued]]).

 

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