"Here's a small charge for stopping that meteor."

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So, I've been watching Lois&Clark, and just got to the episode where the guy gets Superman's powers and starts using them irresponsibly.
(...which isn't really specific enough. Uh, the episode in the second season when that happens.)

And Superman sits him down and gives him a stern talking-to about "right and wrong", which in this case basically means "Do not charge people $37.50 every time you save their life!"

Question for people reading this: is it okay to charge people for doing the superhero thing?

On the one hand, you have Clark Kent, and Buffy Summers, who'd be appalled at the idea.
Then there are people like Angel, who does that every week.
And then there's Peter Parker, who doesn't exactly charge any money, but still uses his superhero identity as a great way to make extra cash, by selling photos of Spiderman.

...I can't really decide who I agree with.

So, what do people think?

Comments

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Actually, Sunnydale is a fairly small town, it probably only has the one cemetery, and as far as I've heard the predator-prey numbers work out pretty consistent with what's shown in the show.

The real question is, what happens elsewhere? If Buffy's in Sunnydale, how is Cleveland going? Is Sunnydale somehow special? Or is there a curse associated with the Slayer, that bad things will happen around her? Or, as you suggest, is the rest of the country going really badly, with the government impotent to deal with the problem for some reason?


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Sunnydale is a fairly small town, it probably only has the one cemetery

...actually, no.

It has twelve.

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Twelve cemeteries in a town of 38,500? That seems a little excessive... I guess they do have an unusually high mysterious death rate, but still...

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