A world without evil?

Evil is really a matter of perspective. Which is why it weird me out so much that Arachnos refers to themselves as "Villains" and their enemies as "Heroes".

It makes "Captain Mako, Hero of Sharkhead Isle" seem almost sane...

Almost.

But that's beside the point. Even if we did somehow manage to eradicate every single villain group in the game, then new villain groups would show up. Some (not all) formerly good people would become corrupted, aliens could invade, another extradimensional portal could open up, et cetera.

And even then, completely eradicating all that is evil would require massive genocide/reprogramming, which is evil in itself. It's a paradox.

I honestly don't think you 'could' defeat all the big name threats.

The only reason the 'Conference of evil' didn't even get past the initial meeting was because Nemesis was his usual idiotic self, if he'd have kept his ego in check there might have been something which could be born from that meeting...

Admittedly there is a major flaw in the conference of evil plan, villains don't generally get along well...let alone villain organisations, each one is out for the biggest share.

Villains are rarely unified, which is what seperates them from heroes. Heroes will band together and team up to defeat a problem greater than their own skills can, Villains will go it alone and try to take out the threat on their lonesome due to them wanting all the glory and evil recognition.

Arachnos and The Council are the 'rule the world types' and meglomaniacs never get along well with sharing, especially when Arachnos is a splinter group of the Council, old rivalries die hard.

Freakshow and the Carnival of Shadows are the 'watch the world burn' type group, they're both out to have destructive fun and either steal souls or loot, pillage, burn and generally cause havok. They make great pawns when you point them in a direction and let them go but they're not really awesome allies as they're far too whimsical and unpredictable to be relied on.

Malta (with the help of the Knives of Artemis) seek to control super powered beings, they're not going to get along well with ANY group and at most will make use of them as pawns.

Circle of Thorns...well...they're not likely to ally with anyone due to their old 'we're really millenia old spirits stealing bodies and practicing arcane arts...' schtick. They want to return to their former glory as world rulers and don't want anyone to stand in their way, hero or villain.

It's interesting that up until level 30 all the gangs are interconnected. Skulls, Trolls and the Family are all linked through the sale and use of Superadine while the competing cartel is formed from the Hellions, Outcasts, Warriors and Tsoo all deal with Rage and mystical artifacts (do NOT mix Rage and Superadine...the effects are unpleasant to say the least).

Past level 30 the threats seem...more fragmented with no real connection to each other.

Of course there's two evils you can't really defeat...Radio and Television, the two fight but neither can really wipe out the other despite the actions each one takes (Radio doesn't stop existing because you've beaten up an Stereo that attacks with Sonic blasts, that's just a manifestation the same way TV wouldn't stop if you blew up a television that attacked with Illusions).

How do you defeat villains like that? They are pervasive, ever present and somewhat malign entities that exist just beyond the fringes of human conception whose insiduous tentacles have spread far enough that if some righteous hero tried to ban television the general public would call him nuts and being force to give up their television for 'the greater good' comes across as if they're trying to supress freedom...

There simply is no way to defeat 'all evil' even if the villains we defeated were permenatly killed off....you're left with threats that are far more subtle and secretive but slowly working to use people in a war between them because they can't be killed off...an unending battle between the Radio waves and the Satellite beams that nobody could stop until 'The Internet' decides it's time to show those old timers that they're not needed in the modern world...then it becomes a three way battle...

World War One....


The war to end all wars.......


How'd that work out anyway?


A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for.

If all of the "great evils" are destroyed never to return, there still WILL be evil. It will be just a redefinition of what IS evil...


...like jaywalking, or something.

My heroes? (As well as a number of my villains who are a little far off from evil)

Akuma Ryu: Would marry his girlfriend, take night classes and eventually become a teacher of some kind. (Either history or martial arts)

Sakura Tenshi: Would found a school for magical girls to learn how to be more than just Sailor Moon with different power sets.

Revi: Probably start an autoshop.

Kadin: Might work for her.

Redcoat: Take night classes and eventually practice medicine, like he wanted to before his grandfather pressured him into becoming a hero.

Operative Roosevelt: Depends on how the person who takes over the Rogue Isles runs things. If they're an idiot, he'll run for President himself, if they're doing a good job, he'll return to retirement with his wife.

Midnight Frosts: Start out working for Wizards of the Coast on making DnD books, eventually would make his own game systems, move into video game development, eventually starts his own MMORPG.

Tenshi Ryu: Joins the Mythbusters.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

If there were no evil?

The world would be a much safer and boring place.

the Devouring Earth is just another offshoot of humanity

they'd have to go too