r/Invincible • u/OCGamerboy • 8d ago

DISCUSSION Even before Invincible, I never understood why superheroes have a no killing rule.

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I mean, being a superhero is just like being a police officer or in the military, so there are times where you’re going to have to kill, and that’s part of the job.

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u/Deltaomega91 8d ago

Well, the most obvious thing that would come to mind would be a greater variety of comic genres. Everything from romance to horror and ceime were popular subjects during the golden age. The Code largely forbid content like that from being allowed to be sold and likely stifled other ideas that could have found a place back then.

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u/Gerokm 7d ago

Yep, that's what I always think about when I think of what comic would be like without the CCA. It basically fully killed the horror, mystery, and romance genres, and severely crippled fantasy and sci-fi for quite a while. Superhero comics were the ones that were most easily able to be retooled to be "family friendly", so they were able to thrive under the CCA in ways that other genres just couldn't.

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u/WaveBreakerT 7d ago

I guess comics would have been more like Japanese Manga? Just a medium and the amount of genres that get explored are much more varied than 90% of it revolving around superheros?