wandering a bit off topic here
For example, there have been stories about the fallout from Clark "killing" Johnny Corbin as Metallo. Not everyone agrees with the conclusions drawn in those stories, but that doesn't mean the authors are wrong to present them, as long as everybody remembers that opionions are like armpits and everybody has a couple of them.
(Slight thread hijacking here.)
The problem that I have with assigning Clark the blame for Corbin's death is two-fold. One, Corbin was still alive after Clark melted his legs. He was immobile and malfunctioning, yes, but not dead. He didn't actually die until Vale pulled the Kryptonite out of his chest.
And that brings me to my second point. Johnny Corbin had been mortally wounded and already would have been dead had he not been transplanted (without his consent, mind you) into that robotic body. At that point, he was no longer fully human, and his brain was existing on life support. No heart, no digestive system, no warmth to his metal skin, nothing but his brain. Lucy quickly realized he wasn't human anymore. Vale's removal of the Kryptonite was little different from someone unplugging a respirator or external heart pump on a quadraplegic patient. It's killing, I agree, but Superman didn't do it. Vale did.
Not sure which fics Terry is referring to, but I'm one of those people who has written about this issue, although in a different way from what Terry has described.
What I tired to do was to present the issue from several points of view, imagining how different L & C characters would react to Corbin's death - so Clark, Mayson, Lois, Perry, even the District Attorney, all had a different way of looking at the same event - was there a crime? I tried to have each react and explore the issue in a way that was consistent with his/her character as I thought they were presented in the show (excpet the DA whom we never saw). I don't think any one of the opinions or reactions came across as "right" or "wrong" so to speak. At least I hope not.
Anyway 5 opinions (including a version of Terry's) of one event in one story.
Is this hijacking this thread, btw? If so, apologies.
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