"Are we really in control of Captain Walker? Or do we merely represent the last vestige of self-awareness in his increasingly damaged mind as he railroads us into committing atrocities, and our distrust and fear of him grows in parallel to that of the men in his command as he weakly tries to rationalize to both them and us until we feel as disconnected from him as the rest of reality and... (sigh) Do you remember when shooters were about killing demons from hell? Those were good days."
"The thing about these sorts of superhero deconstructions is that they have two repeated qualities ad nauseam: One, the failure to acknowledge that we already have a term for those who use extraordinary powers to commit horrible crimes: supervillains. And two, they always push their stories into edgelord, grotesque extremes to try to make us be on the side of those who hate superheroes. It's not enough for a corrupted superhero to just be greedy or prejudiced or a bit cruel. Superheroes are either naive idiots that just stepped out of a Silver Age comic, or they're pedophiles who bathe in the blood of puppies that they had sex with earlier that day and are ready to graphically torture people for page after page before sleeping on a bed made of dead kittens and laughing maniacally about how they can get away with anything because who would be stupid enough to actually think that someone is interested in helping people, amirite? And there are plenty of deconstructions out there that work: Watchmen, Squadron Supreme, The Mighty, Kingdom Come, just off the top of my head! But these kind of stories turn superheroes into the kind of people that even Cenobites would say, "Dude, could you tone it down a bit?" There's certainly a place and an audience for these kind of stories, but it's not me! I frickin' love superheroes, and I reject outright deconstructions like Marshal Law or The Boys, stuff made by people who hate them. It's not for me."
— Linkara deconstructing superhero deconstructions, in his review of Pinhead vs Marshal Law
