Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130218203024/@comment-69.117.58.49-20130219022605

Regulus22 wrote:

69.117.58.49 wrote:

Ratrangerm wrote: Since it was discussed in the previous thread, I'll continue it here:

What people are forgetting about the Reach and the Scarab is the two times Blue Beetle has been revealed to the public as responsible for something was in times in which he was going against another aggressor. Thus the Reach can portray things as Beetle protecting the public from other threats.

The public has never seen Blue Beetle go solely on the offensive, only to respond to a threat or to help other people. The Reach can claim either as "peaceful" intent.

"Peaceful" does not mean that when somebody attacks you, you give no response and keep holding up two fingers. Yet the scarab is still a weapon, whatever it is being used for. Just because you are using a gun to defend yourself against a murder doesn't mean that it is any less a weapon than if you used it to assasinate the president. Fists are/were classified as weapons in France. You can't persecute someone for possessing such a weapon when it's a part of them, as with the Reach it's as bonded as the hand to a Frenchman, only when used as such. My original point was simply that everyone in the YJ universe is overlooking the fact that the reach claimed to be unable to stop warworld, yet provided BB with the weapon that he used... to stop warworld. Not really about peaceful intentions or prosecuting anyone. (But a fist is something naturally present on humans and has uses other than a scarab. A weaponized scarab is not naturally present and doesn't really have any practical use other than as a weapon or mode of transportation. It was also designed as a weapon.)