Thread by @diversetechgeek

From June 2020: How to avoid or minimize using the police in superhero stories? diversetechgeek.com/how-to-avoid-m… #superheroes #police #TBT #ThrowbackThursday

For the TLDR crowd, the options:
- “High stakes” adventures focus
- Low stakes adventures or being Good Samaritans
- Kids (or rare adults) learning how to be superheroes
- police tied heroes switch jobs (such as private investigators)
- focus on the heroes’ private lives

- the heroes play judge jury and executioner
- the heroes are regulated by state, federal or global authorities
- the villains are too powerful or difficult to arrest
- in-universe policing reforms shown

That said, the police seem very engrained in the Big Two, plus characters like the Joker or Doc Ock are too popular to avoid using.

Also, conservative/libertarian superhero fans would be foaming at the mouth livid at the idea of permanently showing Commissioner Gordon the door (or switching jobs). Since gay people merely existing is already seen as “politics”/“woke”…