History Awesome / Anarky

** When Anarky mistakenly funds a terrorist when he thought he was donating to a propagandist for social change, Anarky, a civilian detective named Joe Patatoe, and Batman, are each captured and strapped to a blip rigged to explode over the city of Gotham. With Batman knocked out entirely, Anarky manages to free himself and then Joe. Given the situation, there's no way to disable the bomb, or escape without abandoning Batman or and Gotham to its fate. Anarky takes responsibility for the events, turns to Joe and apologizes, then says they have to steer the blimp out to sea. [[spoiler: They stay aboard just long enough to save the city, before Anarky cuts Joe and Batman loose. He, however, is tangled in the rigging rope, and dies alone having saved everyone.]] [[spoiler: Until he is revealed to have survived in ''Anarky'' No.1 two years later.]]

Here are some examples of Anarky doing that. They may not be as incredible as being faster than a speeding bullet, or being more powerful than a locomotive, but here they are.

** When a group of homeless men find their slum community, "Cardboard City", taken over by a bank and demolished to create a new banking headquarters, they aren't given any compensation or a new place to live. Each is simply left to stew in misery on the sidewalk next to the dirt lot they once called home. That is until Anarky rouses them with a speech, reminding them they still have dignity. [[spoiler: The men break into the construction grounds and run riot, destroying the bank's new home as the bank destroyed had theirs. They're so confident, they don't even flinch when Batman shows up to stop them, and courageously fight Batman in Anarky's defense.]]

** When Anarky takes several business men hostage and broadcasts a show trial of their corruption, each man defends himself on the basis that he did nothing '''illegal'''. [[spoiler: No dice there. Anarky points out that while they aren't technically criminal, they certainly are ethically the bad guys. Even with Bruce Wayne as their appointed defender, nothing Bruce says can polish the men's reputation in the face of the public, who are shown to be increasingly on Anarky's side.]] So when Anarky puts the face of each man in the hands of the public, sets computer-controlled bombs before them, and asks the public to call a phone number for guilty to activate the explosions, we can expect that he has crossed the MoralEventHorizon. [[spoiler: But not so fast. Anarky still has his own ethical standards, and the bombs are revealed to have been duds. The whole show trial was intended to raise public consciousness, and while extremist, was never a truly dangerous scenario.]]