Am I the only one who thinks this would actually be a really interesting hero to see in action? (Comic book action, anyway)
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this would make a good story unironically. guy can only βchargeβ his powers via murder. so he chooses to be a dexter like guy who only kills baddies.
A lot more interesting if only (relative) innocents count.
or heβs given a name and has to hunt them down. and has lived through all sorts of eras so it gets both easier to find the person and harder.
Or make it so the sides can't be too imbalanced (easy decision), so the bigger the heroic feat, the more "innocent" sacrifices needed.
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/50413055 posted a writing prompt inspired by it
So heβs basically a warlock
So: Superman + Deathnote.
Later seasons get real interesting for what crime qualifies as deserving death.
Is that a tumor on his r thigh or just where superheros keep their cellphone in their spandex?
Final Fantasy authors designing their science-based "hard magic" system like:
Reminds me of Cole MacGrath from the Infamous: Festival of Blood DLC. You are a hero but you have to kill and eat people because you are a vampire.
In less heroic examples, Kratos in the original games can heal by killing bystanders and Captain Titus in Space Marine gets healed when you execute an enemy with your chainsaw sword.
Edit: a few more that come to mind are Denji from Chainsaw man as Denji heals by drinking the blood of people he kills, Doom Slayer who also heals by killing demons, and V1 from Ultrakill who also heals from the blood of their enemies.
Or he could place a parent on that ship and then fuck the other parent. Doesn't have to kill
err.... wat
Ugh, sorry, Jensen Huang's alt keeps showing up around here and making comments like this.
Would you fuck your father to save your mother.
If yes, put your mum on the ship, and then... do what you have to do.
Doesn't have to always be trolleys
Jesus christ...
well obviously he could just walk over the water to the ship, but he wasn't available.
Look, it's either Trolley Man or Would You Rather Man, you don't get to to choose...
Or do you...? Hmm
I would rather not think about this
Oh sure - when Trolley Man turns up everyone's like "Ooh what an interesting quandry!", but as soon as Would You Rather Man turns up its all "No thank you"
He fucks his parents so you don't have to, without having to kill any innocent bystanders, but he's too repulsive for you? I don't understand this world
The guy in the "Trade Offer" meme had long hair and a beard. Was he Jesus all along?
Maybe he just needs a whole magazine of shopping trolleys to activate his powers?

Yeah, he should be Trolley Problem Man.
There's a trolley rolling down a track that splits into two - on one, which the trolley is going towards, there is a single person who's tied up on the track, and on the other there's 3 tied up people.
There's a lever next to the track that has a 50% chance to stop the train
Would you pull it?

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