This is on the assumption that you're capable of taking the bullet and continuing to fight. Obviously if you're just as squishy as the intended target then this doesn't work. But if you're just as squishy as the intended target then you probably CAN'T knock them out of the way either.
While this is true, from an operational and moral standpoint I don't give a whole lot of weight to someone who has been taken hostage until they are have been removed in time and space from the hostage taker. For the same reason I think what happened to Patty Hearst was more of a miscarriage of justice then actual justice. Identifying with the kidnapper becomes a survival strategy. I don't give a lot of weight to the Giovanni consenting after the fact.
Being part of an advantaged social class like many officers were historically, with your social class mirrored and recognised by the other side. So you can be singled out for special consideration and treatment, instead of being expected to die ignominiously like all the other riff raff, who just don't matter like you do.
I think you underestimate how fast bullets travel. If you've heard the shot and you haven't started moving yet, it's already too late. If you're in motion before the trigger is pulled, the shooter has an opportunity to adjust their aim -- or worse, even, to NOT shoot (or take a SECOND shot) until you've expended your momentum and the intended target is on the ground because you just knocked them over. Good job making it worse, hero.
Seconding this: One of those special considerations is ransom -- if you can capture an enemy noble/commander alive, you can hold them hostage until you get suitable compensation.
Lantern Xor isn't used to getting nice things.
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I was going to say that this one was correct, then I discovered that I was transatlanticating.
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Everyone else is pretty much wearing what they had when the SI left. Wallace and Richard have had to get slightly larger costumes, but that's it.
He's a guy the Stormwatch and The Authority. He started interesting, being a Human altered by aliens so that he was adapted for living in cities. Then the God-moding retcons started.
At present there are no Star Sapphires. There are Zamarons who use the violet light, and there's whatever luckless alien woman is getting exposed to the Star Sapphire gem currently. Precisely how they end up behaving depends on the individual and the situation. If Jordan had been upfront about his second job things would have gone rather differently.
He's currently under Dox's command, much to Dox's bemusement.
That comic came way after his initial introduction.
Any idea which episode that was? I'm guessing it was in DCAU.
Likewise, only one or two of Edna Mode's examples had anything whatsoever to do with the capes those heroes were wearing, the rest would have happened anyway, or possibly shouldn't have happened at all the way they were depicted.
Uncomfortable, actually, but thank you for drawing my attention to it.
Edna was a bored artist. She wasn't banning capes because of danger, she was banning capes because she was bored of them and wanted to innovate. The examples were just excuses.
Also "Out of the corner"
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Does Kaldur use his water bearers or something else? Because I swear the Trident got trashed in the Oceanus episode.
Superman the Animated series, season 3; Knight Time. He also thrashes Bane, who is just a tad surprised. And outmatched.
Is that what kids from the Vega sector are calling it these days?
