User blog comment:Regulus22/Action V Reaction/@comment-5656020-20130125213723/@comment-34954086-20130125231444

Not about fighting, more about the mentality and strategic positioning. Active planning several steps ahead of the opponent, planning a number of contingencies. In a fight, this translates to "set routines" where you have a number of followup attacks which you utilise according to how your opponent moves.

Compare to the reactive style where their plans develop according to how the opponent reacts. This takes longer as it requires you to think on the go and gives more of an opening compared to having an array of counters already thought up.

Take Aqualad's actions in Failsafe, their plan formed accordingly to the threats they faced, it ended great for him. The Light meanwhile I'd consider to be the best at the Active Tactic, with every forseeable win for the Team in season one being a calculated path for them getting what they want, their active planning surpassed the Justice League's[Batman] reactive missions led by the reactive Aqualad.

Then Nightwing, his leadership in Failsafe was thought out to do the most damage, and take advantage of the little hope even though he knew there was none. Reactive would have been Kid Flash in his attempts to save Artemis and the others. He planned for the more likely conclusion with bombs. Now in season two, his stategies for the infiltration have been fairly active. He's trying to gain knowledge of the Partner before it's a Real issue. Batman and them knew about Darkseid Partner, did they do anything about that?