GBrutality

really liked this.
honestly; yes, evil should win sometimes. a hero has to win a lot or else he's just a bad hero. not like an anti-hero, just overall bad at his job. same goes for a villain. being a hero is hard, sure. being a legitimate threat to super detectives, teams of super powered beings or a single person that get power from the damn sun is a little intimidating. being a menace is not simple. 
when villains do win though, it should be for something that is important. it should stick. death is a joke in comics. not every villain should have this capability. the shocker shouldn't win. ever. but, calculating ones or unbelievably powerful ones or threats that are at a level that can ravage just about anything should. want to know why the joker is everyones favorite villain? and you can't deny he isn't. i'm way more a marvel guy than dc by miles, but the joker is a better villain than just about every single marvel one. because when that guy gets out of arkham, IT! SUCKS! jason todd? murdered (they may have brought him back, but he sort of created a new villain). gordon? tortured to the point of almost no return. barbara gordon? crippled. when he's around  shit goes wrong. not for 12 issues. for good. he could be out for five minutes. some villains break out, start a club of villains, right away start making a scene. batman is order, joker is chaos. you can predict batman's methods; but he's the best tactician so beating him is still difficult. joker's only method is utter calamity by any means necessary. i know, tangent about one person. but that's kind of the point. magneto, luthor, green goblin, doomsday, their things don't stay forever. gwen stacy may still be gone, but the whole point at the end of that arc was that spider-man kind of killed the green goblin. he didn't pull the trigger, but he loaded that gun sort of spiel. they should be allowed to win and not retconned as soon as possible for BS reasons. there are those that heroes will say, "hey remember when thanos had that infinity gauntlet? that was a bitch!" but that was a situation that in the end was handled. it's a memory of a rough time. every time you see oracle in that wheelchair, and not in a batgirl costume you can't help but think would anyone REALLY blame batman and start wanting his head for killing the one guy that might as well be wearing a neon-lit necklace in the shape of a noose that reads "come on, i dare you"? not saying i want him to die, but whenever it's brought up you got people nagging batman, "no way batman, you'll never be the same again". the same ain't getting results. he never has to do it again! because bane, croc, whoever doesn't go around doing random spurts of genocide. huge digression i know, i guess that's the point though. i went on a gigantic tangent because that's a bad guy who did things that took and everyone can still talk about it. it affects all of those characters. the guys that ultimately lose somehow, someway everything, they're never that interesting because well, what are they gonna do that's not gonna be fixed by alternate timelines, time travel, or leaving the country and biding your time?