>If the Hulk were a killer he would have to be executed.  It would be horrible to allow him to live.  And lets not forget to kill all the super-villains, too.

Wow. 25 years ago, the company killed off an X-Men favorite using the rationale that anything less would be unfair to the story and the fans. *If I'm remembering my Phoenix: The Untold Story one-shot correctly.... times sure change.

If the Hulk were a killer he would have to be executed.  It would be horrible to allow him to live

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You mean like Ultimate Hulk?  The one everyone here hates?  He killed and was sentenced to death.  He was supposedly executed but somehow escpaed.

Matt, Jeff - See, the Capt Stacy storyline is an example of the collateral damage story done right. Ock kills Stacy and leaves Spider-Man to take the blame in the media, and Peter feels guilty because if not for him, Stacy wouldn't have been there to be killed.

However, while the hero feels regret about it, and while he could have done something different, the fact is, he didn't actually kill anyone. It would be like saying Pete murdered Uncle Ben - his inaction caused Ben to die, but he did not kill him.

There's a subtle difference in that, as Spider-Man moved forward from those points, he vowed to do everything he could to save people. He didn't want to feel regret, and it made him realize that with his great power, there must also come greater responsibility.

Hulk, on the other hand, is actually accused of directly killing people. Intentional or not, there's no way back from that.

Transformers the Movie - PERFECT EXAMPLE!

The villains kill several heroes - on the Autobot shuttle and in Autobot City.

The heroes defeat several villains, leaving them in such bad shape they are jettisoned by their own side during evacuation. Those villains are remolded into newer ones by Unicron.

So... several villains need to be totally overhauled as a result of the heroes actions, and several heroes DIE as a result of the villains actions. Good guys. Bad guys. Which side doesn't kill?

David -

The bad guys killed - the good guys didn't. Hulk is good.

several villains need to be totally overhauled as a result of the heroes actions

not really.  the villains probably would have been repaired had they been brought back to Cybertron.  they were dumped from the ship partly as a power play by Starscream.  the over-haul was to remake them to serve Unicron's plans.  the over-haul was the result of Starscream's actions, not the heroes.