With great power comes great responsibility- force and deadly force in the Marvel Universe

I recently read a Captain America story in which he reprimands his then partner Nomad(Jack Monroe) for using excessive force to subdue a stick up man-pointing out that with his enhanced strength he could easily have have maimed or even killed the hoodlum.

Given that not just Cap or Nomad but Spider-Man, Wolverine and other heroes could easily kill(albeit unintentionally in the first three cases, but quite deliberately in Wolverine's case given his adamantium claws) not just "ordinary" criminals( muggers and purse snatchers) but also their super powered enemies such as Magneto or Dr Doom, I am amazed how rarely the whole issue of "unnecessary force" is raised in regards to heroes and their powers- true, they are not cops who in real life can be brought up on charges of brutality or unnecessary force by Internal Affairs , disciplined and even not just fired but prosecuted criminally( pace the LAPD officers who were photographed beating Rodney King in 1991), but shouldn't be some kind of peer review for these cases?- "quis custodiet, custodiet?" as Juvenal would have put it- translated from Latin this means "who guards the guards or polices the police?"

So what do you think?

Terry

No because they dont always know who the hero is or how to get to them and cant catch most of the heroes

Who Watches The Watchmen?

Sounds like you would support Iron Man and the registration act that caused The Civil War.

True enough, try suing Wolverine or Spider-Man( before they joined the Avengers) or even Daredevil but even if no formal legal consequences result, there should still be consequences for the irresponsibile use of force by heroes!

Terry

Heroes in the Marvel Universe do tend to run solo on their own but in The Big Two, the superhero community seems to uphold to its own standards. Or they're monitored by SHIELD as applies to The Avengers and mainstream New York heroes. Likewise, the DCU is represented by ARGUS and Pre New 52, they were allied with the government and United Nations too. A little unrealistic perhaps but there has been a relationship between superheroes and the law enforcement agencies in comics. Of course, those relationships can be broken and technically ordinary police are ill equipped to deal with superhuman threats. So charging a hero with use of excessive force can be difficult.