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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
Yes and no. There's a whole spectrum of attitudes toward heroism. Maverick's flat out crazy, and Agnes or Lloyd have the positions they do because they care about the business side (it is, literally, their job). But among the heroes, you can go from Tiger's "we're heroes who happen to be salarymen" to Bunny's "we're salarymen who happen to be heroes".
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Agreed. The system has room for sincere heroism as we see with how Kotetsu approaches it. I also get the sense that Sky High is in it more for the heroism than the "It's a living" aspect.
The biggest problem with the system really isn't at the hero level, actually. It's at the level of Maverick, Agnes, or Lloyd.
Crude as it is, there's a cold logic to Agnes being excited and thrilled when a Jake Martinez or Lunatic shows up and poses a real threat. They're obviously going to attract more attention than random thug No. 2156 would. It
will help the ratings. And that's where the system gets very dicey...
The moral conflicts are worse for the people running Hero TV than it is for the heroes themselves. The heroes can just focus on stopping Jake, stopping Lunatic, or catching the random thug of the day. The guys running Hero TV must feel awfully tempted to create their own Jakes, and set them loose...