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****** Furthermore, Maxwell Lord was, and is, a complete monster. While Zatanna got vetoed and banned from mindwiping anyone because, last time she did, she turned Doctor Light into "Rapist McRape, the Rapist Therapist", Maxwell Lord proved during the [[Brightest Day]] storyline to be not above killing superpowered children, getting Magog explode in a crowded city just to get a [[Kingdom Come]] thrown at the JLI and sending his creations to get some petty revenge over [[Wonder Woman]] herself while claiming to be the world's savior. Basically, he was in Diana's eyes a deeply disturbed man handling the most powerful humanoid on Earth. And she doesn't seem pained by killing him, but rather by the realization that Brother Eye, broadcasting her actions without relaying the context, actually turned her mission to spread peace in the Patriarch World into an instant failure.
****** An important and often overlooked factor here is that she used the Lasso of Truth - the thing that makes it literally impossible to lie - on Maxwell Lord and asked him how to free Superman from his control (after Max had forced Superman to beat Batman to a pulp and told Wonder Woman that he planned to use Superman to kill his enemies) and Max's response was [http://league.jmkprime.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/max21-e1274448357871.jpg "Kill me."] Max point blank told her that the ''only'' way to save release Superman from a life as Max's personal assassin was to kill him, and the lasso guaranteed that he wasn't lying (it's possible there was some way to do it that Max was unaware of - like powerful magic - but clearly just knocking Max out wasn't enough). As mentioned, the reason it was controversial was that footage of her snapping Max's neck while Max was tied up was broadcast out of context, making her look like a murderer.
******* Another important and often overlooked factor is that people who under the Lasso of Truth answer questions literally. Sure, knocking Max out does not release Superman from his control. That's entirely true. But an unconscious Maxwell Lord is still ''unable to give Superman new orders'' (and Superman is currently not under ''any'' orders), which is a question Diana didn't think to ask him and therefore didn't get a Lasso-answer for. And if Max can't give Superman new orders (such as 'start killing again') then you have time to look for another solution, like the previously mentioned powerful magic, or a powerful telepath undoing what was done, or a way to coerce Maxwell Lord into undoing his controls, or etc. The law enforcement rules of engagement are that you use lethal force to remove an ''immediate'' threat to human life, not a distant threat. Once Max is KTFO'ed the threat is no longer immediate, and once he is removed to a location where he's unable to give Superman new orders (such as, oh, a mind-shielded isolation cell) the threat isn't even remotely proximate and you have all the time in the world to find a way to unfuck Superman's head. Therefore, Maxwell Lord's death was not strictly necessary and ''that'' is where the objections from some fans are coming from.
* Aquaman exists in the same universe as Wonder Woman, right? So where does Poseidon fit into all this?
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