[UA] Corrupt and Co-opt?

[Andrew Ducker]

Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 2:35:47 PM, Gareth wrote:

GH> I vaguely remember one of the Authority story arcs being along those lines.
GH> Evil genius tries to destroy world. Heroes defeat evil genius' forces, break 
GH> into evil genius HQ, and say "we're here to stop you." Evil genius says "ah 
GH> bugger. I've turned into one of those world-shaking threats you people deal 
GH> with."
GH> Heroes say "yeah...but you're a genius. We're going to deal with you by 
GH> recruiting you."

GH> (anybody want to fill in the details?)

The main detail is that they couldn't defeat the bad guy without major
loss of life. He had _hundreds_ of superpowered people at his command.
They would have got him eventually, but in doing so they'd have killed
millions of people. So they offered him a deal, putting his smarts to
good use. Lots of people on the message boards felt this was the
cowardly way out, but as Mark Millar pointed out, countries do this
_all the time_.  There's acceptable losses and unacceptable losses.

Andy D
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