Originally Posted by
t hedge coke
I think reactive stories are fun. Heck, vigilantes or rogue cops or whatever are fun in stories. The woman who's had too much. The man who won't back down. I want to see Rambo *$%& up cops. You want to see Django kill almost everyone in that stately house. I want to see Spider-Man swing by and kick a mugger in the head. Because these are fiction. But, it's also nice to see a superhero talk out a problem, submit to authority in the proper situations, pass out cups of coffee after pulling people out of a burning building, or just checking if a building is empty before knocking it over on top of the Hulk.
Viceral, direct, reactionary action has its pleasures, but so does seeing a hero be decent to someone and not act like a total asshat all the time.