YMMV / What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?

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• Moral Event Horizon: The Elite cross this in their first battle when they carelessly cause the deaths of thousands of civilians. It was to stop a giant Killer Gorilla, but it proves them to be Hypocrites who don't care about causing collateral damage if it means throwing their ideology around.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The premise behind The Elite. They are superpowered mass murderers who will fight against villains but have absolutely no concern for the normal people they crush underfoot. Manchester Black at one point wants to kill the families of several villains they stopped. Even their ship suffers at their hand - it didn't like what they were doing, so Manchester Black had it lobotomized. No negotiations, no trying to reason with it, just chop out part of its brain.
  • Even if he's faking it, it doesn't make Superman pretending to throw away his morality any less scary. This is added to by the harsh, ugly shot of Superman looming over Black, making him look more like a monster than the Man of Steel. And that's the point — Superman is showing what it would look like if he weren't the moral correcting influence on the DCU.

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