Superhero settings where the heroes have a realistic appoach to killing

[1505627]

I find superman's stance on killing to be realistic "If i don't need to kill, i won't kill"

Sometimes.
I mean, Goku would have been just fine with letting Frieza go.

The way i see it, He's perfectly willing to kill to when a fight, but not after he's won the fight. And trying to kill him isn't really that much of a turn off to him

I mean, 90 percent of his friends have tried to kill him, one even succeeded.

[Ood Omega]

Not a superhero exactly but Paul Kersey from the Novel/Film Deathwish.

[Ace]

Wonder Woman killing Max Lord when the guy gains telepathic control of Superman and gets lassoed into admitting he'll stop sending Supes after other heroes.

There's the Authority in general. And Mr. Majestic.

Captain America, being a soldier, has of course killed during the war. He doesn't like to kill in modern day but he will do so if he has no other options left. At one point he punched a terrorist so hard that he broke the dude's neck. And the time he decapitated Baron Blood.

The TMNT actually "killled" the Shredder the the first time they ever fought him. They stabbed him through the stomach, knocked him off the building they were fighting on, and blew him up with his own grenade; in-between, they gave him the chance to commit seppuku. They even went down into the alleyway where he fell to see if he survived and just found the remains of his armor. 'Course, Shredder shows back up again later on and I don't think it's ever explained how he survived.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Except when they play him up as a psycho and use him as a reason as to why heroes shouldn't kill.

I always thought he was kind of a douche either way.

"Screw due process I'm killing you all!"

Anyway, the good guys in Naruto don't have any problem with killing their opponents. And in Bleach it's only Ichigo who keeps away from killing the guys he fights.

[mailedbypostman1]

Anyway, the good guys in Naruto don't have any problem with killing their opponents.

Well, they are assassins.

[1505627]

I always thought he was kind of a douche either way.

"Screw due process I'm killing you all!"

Anyway, the good guys in Naruto don't have any problem with killing their opponents. And in Bleach it's only Ichigo who keeps away from killing the guys he fights.

In my experience many shonen protags are chill about killing in battle

[StupidMoniker]

The Boys by Garth Ennis

[Guy1]

'Course, Shredder shows back up again later on and I don't think it's ever explained how he survived.

Ninja.

[Legato]

Anyway, the good guys in Naruto don't have any problem with killing their opponents.

They're ninjas. Just saying

[Dark Soul # 7]

The Boys by Garth Ennis

I would dispute The Boys being realistic. It's more of a critical satire of the superhero dominated medium with parody-characters than anything else.

[The Drunkard Kid]

"Heroes" in Empowered are pretty cool with offing people who cross certain lines. Heck, the villains have codes of conduct for dealing with captured heroes so that they don't get mauled for getting too fresh.

[Sharpandpointies]

The TMNT actually "killled" the Shredder the the first time they ever fought him. They stabbed him through the stomach, knocked him off the building they were fighting on, and blew him up with his own grenade; in-between, they gave him the chance to commit seppuku. They even went down into the alleyway where he fell to see if he survived and just found the remains of his armor. 'Course, Shredder shows back up again later on and I don't think it's ever explained how he survived.

Classic Japanese thing - the Foot clan fed his remains to these special worms they breed. When the worms eat, they learn from the digested DNA. They form colonies. The colonies basically become another being.

In this case, Oroku Saki.

All this is explained in the final comic of the 'Return to New York' arc, by the Shredder himself. Just before he picks up a couple of swords and has at it with Leo.

Edit: I say classic Japanese thing, because I've seen quite a few instances of mystic worms inside people's bodies granting immortality in Japanese entertainment. Blade of the Immortal springs to mind, obviously, but there are others.

[Kirika]

While I've already brought up Goku before, does anyone remember how as a child, he did kill quite a few people? Something I never really got, what made him suddenly care if people who crossed him would die?

[Surtur]

While I've already brought up Goku before, does anyone remember how as a child, he did kill quite a few people? Something I never really got, what made him suddenly care if people who crossed him would die?

Who knows, maybe he himself dying changed him?

[Addams]

Know any good examples of this? Universes where the heroes are pretty okay killing in understandable situations or when dealing with villains/people who they have every good reason to kill. They don't have to be punisher-type characters, just willing to do what anyone would do in the real world on the grounds of making sense, instead of the bullshit logic that has been used comics before.

Lol, you call that "realistic" ?