Firebird, a Worm AU/Xover?

Oh, it's fair enough to say you want super powers for yourself. There's few that wouldn't. But that's opening up the possibility for everyone else to have them. One wrong person getting the wrong power could screw everything up.
 
I wouldn't mind if everyone had the power of super health.

That would solve a lot of problems.
Yes, that's a great example. For me. I'd love to have even more of the world starving to death through overpopulation due to lack of additional food supply to cope with the decrease in deaths freeing up space for births.

Alternatively, unemployment, housing, energy, or something else.

... We're off topic, aren't we. I think I'll just finish by saying I think giving anyone the ability to put themselves above anyone else for arbitrary/random reasons is a bad idea.
 
Yes, that's a great example. For me. I'd love to have even more of the world starving to death through overpopulation due to lack of additional food supply to cope with the decrease in deaths freeing up space for births.

Wow. I thought I was the only person sitting and dreaming of mass deaths due to overpopulation and praying for the day. Good to see I'm not alone!
 
IRL murder is illegal, in Worm murder is illegal. Why? Because murder is morally/ethically wrong and disruptive to society.
IRL profiting from crime is illegal. Why? It isn't just because the profits gained from crimes are considered illegally obtained/damages of the crimes committed. That would fall under moral/ethical wrongness and disruption of society. It's because crime is morally/ethically wrong and disruptive to society so it cannot be incentivized in any way. You may not keep the money you mugged a man for, you may not keep the insurance money you killed for, you may not keep the money given to you by your drug-dealing financial supporter, and you may not loot criminals because that incentivizes criminality. Not because it always benefits a criminal, but because Crime is not allowed to pay, and you've just turned a profit from somebody committing a crime. On top of that, that money you took is evidence and/or forfeited to the state because it is either illegally obtained or damages of the crimes committed. There is a reason criminal organizations launder their money.

And this is why when the police use civil forfeiture laws to take away suspected criminals' money they burn it instead of spending it.
 
Is this sarcasm? Because I don't think that is true, cause police actions and such.

No, it wasn't sarcasm. that was also sarcasm.

My point was that allowing heroes to take villains' money isn't any more inherently "crime pays" than allowing the police to take criminals' money. It's also ridiculous to suggest that taking criminals' money away "incentivizes criminality".
 
No, it wasn't sarcasm. that was also sarcasm.

My point was that allowing heroes to take villains' money isn't any more inherently "crime pays" than allowing the police to take criminals' money. It's also ridiculous to suggest that taking criminals' money away "incentivizes criminality".

We need a tag or something, The difference , hopefully, is that the police are a more transparent organization.

Imagine that villain A robs a bank

Hero B "finds" Villain A's hide out a Captures the money, but Villian A "escapes".

Under the proposed spoils laws the money is now legally Hero B's.

Villain A and Hero B are the same person and they have the money free and clear, and all it cost was one disposable costume.

Or you could sell low quality drugs directly to the police.
 
My point was that allowing heroes to take villains' money isn't any more inherently "crime pays" than allowing the police to take criminals' money. It's also ridiculous to suggest that taking criminals' money away "incentivizes criminality".
I think Police departments don't generally keep the money they confiscate locally, and they certainly don't just stuff it into the pockets of the responding officer, so there's a pretty large difference between police seizure and a vigilante taking your stuff in terms of incentives.

As a note on incentives, I've seen some stories recently about counties which fund their services disproportionately via fines and ticketing fees. The incentivized behavior does not seem like a good thing.
 
We need a tag or something, The difference , hopefully, is that the police are a more transparent organization.

Imagine that villain A robs a bank

Hero B "finds" Villain A's hide out a Captures the money, but Villian A "escapes".

Under the proposed spoils laws the money is now legally Hero B's.

Villain A and Hero B are the same person and they have the money free and clear, and all it cost was one disposable costume.

Or you could sell low quality drugs directly to the police.
That's why there'd be hard limits on the amounts of money. As well as likely the source of the money. I mean no one is going to let you walk out with 100K that was taken from the bank that morning, but keeping the few hundred the dealer got from his costumers before you took him down is fair game. I mean even if they don't officially let that happen, no one is going to make an issue if the heroes slip the money in their pockets after the arrest.
 
I will be DEEPLY disappointed if Taylor does not, at some point, issue 'the line'. Marvel fans who are also x-men fans will know what I'm talking about. For the rest, here it is...*clears throat dramatically*

"I am Fire, And Life Incarnate! Now and forever....I AM PHOENIX!!!"

Chills. Every time. Gods, the oringial Pheonix Saga was AWESOMEsauce....at least, before the crappy retcons...
 
Oh hi, guys, what's going on here-

Okay, are we really jonesing this hard for a new chapter? I just put up on Saturday!

To hopefully(hah) quell this... I'm not going into minutiae about how Taylor theoretically might or might not be capable of supporting herself if she were to run away or whatever started this. Suffice to say, if she does, I'm sure, given what has been demonstrated in the story so far, that it should be pretty easy to determine how she could avoid slumming on someone's couch. EB isn't irl, we don't have superheroes(how I wish we did), or a government funded organization to manage said superheroes. The legal system for dealing with them is completely alien to us so postulating on what looting from criminal laws are here irl means absolutely nothing to the story.

Want me to mention how you've shown us she'll support herself at first?
 
Color me surprised. What's the over-under on Spider-Ben?

In the immediate future? Not likely, ever ? I would say it approaches absolute certainty. The only question is if will turn out that uncle Ben was Norman Osborn's lover or if aunt May will make a deal with Satan to bring him back.

*grabs your shirt with trembling fingers* That abomination, that spawn of hackneyed writing and poor storytelling is NOT CANON! I DENY her, do you hear me??? DEEE NAIIIIII!

*pantpant* Sorry. *lets go of shirt* It's a hot button.

Which one? SpiderGwen or GwenCarnage?

Want me to mention how you've shown us she'll support herself at first?

Didn't she use her pre-cog to win on scratch off tickets?
 
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Money can only get you so far when you're 15. And pretty much everywhere you can go with it is pretty seedy. Turning 18 grants you a magical power to make people stop giving nearly as many fucks about what you're doing and who you are.
 
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