"Yeah? And I've seen cops fight Shark-men and aliens to protect innocent people. Seen normal people pulling together to help each other when the sun went out and the world looked like it was ending."
He went on, "Maybe it was just a crappy town full of crappy people, but it doesn't mean everyone's crappy in every town on every world ever. I've got anecdotal experience, too, or else I'd have had the drive to do the hero thing beaten out of me ages ago. Some people are unbelievably good to the point of probably being slightly insane, and since telling them apart from the jerks isn't one of my superpowers, I tend to just play it safe and prevent the world-ending, world-enslaving stuff from happening. Which is would the supervillains and alien invaders and stuff would do if given free reign. They've tried."
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He went on, "Maybe it was just a crappy town full of crappy people, but it doesn't mean everyone's crappy in every town on every world ever. I've got anecdotal experience, too, or else I'd have had the drive to do the hero thing beaten out of me ages ago. Some people are unbelievably good to the point of probably being slightly insane, and since telling them apart from the jerks isn't one of my superpowers, I tend to just play it safe and prevent the world-ending, world-enslaving stuff from happening. Which is would the supervillains and alien invaders and stuff would do if given free reign. They've tried."