Villains outclassed by the hero

[The Borg Queen]

Wonder Woman...how was the Cheetah ever a threat to her?

If you mean the Pre-Crisis Priscilla Rich Cheetah (crazy lady in a cat costume), I completely agree.

The Post-Crisis Barbara Minerva version is a far superior threat (when Will Pfeiffer isn't having her get one-punched by Batman or beaten up by Catwoman).

I thought Will Pfeiffer was Catwoman?

Oh wait, that's Michelle.

 

[CommodoreKong]

The reason the authorities don't go after Batman and Superman for being vigilante's is because they don't kill people. As soon as they do, all that ends. Pretty hard to save the world when the most of the world is trying to hunt you down.

Superman wouldn't have a huge problem with that as long as there isn't much Kryptonite in the world.

It might be a little bit tougher on Batman. I assume that's going to be a major part of the next movie.

 

[Hermiod]

A perfect example, shame it's been entirely erased now.

On occasion, Spider-Man has held off the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men on his own. He's better than 99% of his rogues gallery.

 

[ElScoob]

On the subject of the Flash's Rogues' Gallery... there was a story a while back, I want to think it was in Bill Messner-Loebs' run, where some of the Rogues were musing on the late Barry Allen and how brilliantly he had managed to focus the Rogues' attention on him--a man whose powers made him pretty well invulnerable to anything they could dish out--instead of allowing them to pursue other criminal ventures that might get innocent people hurt.

Interesting way to look at things, I thought.

 

[TheArsenal]

The reason the authorities don't go after Batman and Superman for being vigilante's is because they don't kill people. As soon as they do, all that ends. Pretty hard to save the world when the most of the world is trying to hunt you down.

Yep. These are god like beings who dispense justice outside the law through hidden identities. Imagine that for a moment. They are only tolerated because they are a defense against other god like beings who break the law. I would imagine in a world like that, people being as they are, fear and loathing of these super-beings sits not too far under the thin surface of their admiration. They already destroy cities and sometimes entire countries during dust ups. When Superman throws a Taxi cab at someone, that cab driver is not real happy about losing several days wages. Nor is they guy who has no place to live for weeks/months after Power Girl punches some villain through his hard earned New York apartment. There would have to be mass feeling of "who do these people thing they are?"

Once these guys start killing, what tentative welcome they do have would be very quickly worn out.

 

[CaptainCanada]

By that same token, after the Joker's Nth murder spree, those people might be going "why don't they just finish him off?"

 

[TheArsenal]

The Joker keeps landing in Arkham and not the electric chair. My guess is he is viewed as a glaring lapse in the criminal justice system more than anything the vigilantes are doing.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Anyway, the reaction's not that uniform; Kate Spencer ices any villain she fights who is sufficiently murderous, and she's extremely popular with the public (she's even on the Birds of Prey, although they've got Helena Bertinelli/Huntress too, so Oracle has been okay with that before).