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Enda80
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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 Posted - 06/08/2010 : 5:30:10 PM
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http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/what_would_superman_do_judge_gives_heroic_examples_in_ruling_against_lawyer/
"He also wrote that DeFilippo "must be reminded that Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega), The Shadow (Lamont Cranston) and Superman (Clark Kent) each had an alter-ego but was, in fact, only one person who understood the difference between right and wrong and, unlike the defendant, never sought to disavow responsibility for their own actions."
DId this judge not bother to see even the 1994 film version of The Shadow or the 1998 Zorro movie? Zorro and the Shadow worked outside of the law. As Max Allan Collins pointed out in Amazing Heroes#119, they adopted alter egos since the cops would have arrested them on the spot (and in Zorro's case, the Spanish army would have executed him). In other words, they adopted dual identities to shield themselves from the consequences of their actions. Only later on did the idea of "to protect my loved ones" come up when the genre started growing more self-consciously juvenile (which will unfortunately continue, since eight Harry Potter movies will have reached theaters in the last ten years while few R-rated adventure films have reached theaters in the US in the same decade).
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