Heroes with rogue’s galleries are better franchise material then heroes without.

[TheRay]

Maybe writers could try to make the plots to where heroes can't just blast away their problems. Like, for instance, Superman can't just beat up a corrupt politician without reasonable cause or backlash, nor would he want. His powers help him but don't instantly solve the matter of others being involved, which he'd care about

Isn't that just basically any of the "Trial of..." stories?

[LordMikel]

Oh, well, someone else can always try again. it's not like comics don't repeat stuff.

I haven't read Priest's JL that much. What happened in it?

Superheroes stand around while refugees are dying and getting shot.
Villains: You can't do nothing cause if you do then war will happen.
Superheroes stand around more. "we have to do something, but we can't."
Villains: Ok, you all can pay us, and we will help.
Refugees pay villains to protect them, villains do.
Villains: You superheroes are lame.

That was like 2 or 3 issues there.

[CosmiComic]

Isn't that just basically any of the "Trial of..." stories?

I guess so.

Superheroes stand around while refugees are dying and getting shot.
Villains: You can't do nothing cause if you do then war will happen.
Superheroes stand around more. "we have to do something, but we can't."
Villains: Ok, you all can pay us, and we will help.
Refugees pay villains to protect them, villains do.
Villains: You superheroes are lame.

That was like 2 or 3 issues there.

That doesn't sound great. Still, I think it could go deeper than that. In real life, people don't necessarily give up just because situations are difficult.

[TheRay]

Because the heroes surrender, usually, and try to defeat the charges.

[williamtheday]

Yeah like Superman doesn't really take on Corrupt Politician #1 as often as he did when he first started, and that's probably just a shame.

Taking on corrupt pols is more Clark Kent's job as a journalist.

[CosmiComic]

Taking on corrupt pols is more Clark Kent's job as a journalist.

I always thought journalism is a job one could incorporate into being a superhero

[TheRay]

Taking on corrupt pols is more Clark Kent's job as a journalist.

Perhaps, but more often Clark Kent will write stories about the adventures of Superman.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Honestly, it seems like most writers need to go back to school and learn about how to make some damn foils.

Most villains these days feel like junk thrown against a wall. It it sticks, it sticks!

Geoff Johns uses way too much ultra violence, but his JSA and Flash were excellent for having villains that actually served as foils to flesh out the heroes, to add something to the story.

[TheRay]

Arrow seemed to make a specialty of this.

Which rogues did they use from other heroes?

[The Cool Thatguy]

Which rogues did they use from other heroes?

Almost everyone who wasn't Merlyn.

[TheRay]

Clock King, Brick, and Cupid are GA rogues aren't they?

[The Cool Thatguy]

Clock King, Brick, and Cupid are GA rogues aren't they?

And Vertigo.

But not Ras, the League of Assassins, Nyssa, Talia, Brother Blood, Prometheus, Murmer, Captain Boomerang, etc.

[TheRay]

I'd still say they use a good mix.

[The Cool Thatguy]

I'd still say they use a good mix.

To each their own. It felt more like a poor man's Batman, as it went on

[TheRay]

People say that about comics GA, so I'm not sure how much I really care about that criticism.