10 Times Superheroes Did The Wrong Thing For The Right Reason
7. Kingdom Come’s Kansas Gulag
On Earth-22, The “Gulag” was the nickname given to the Superhuman Rehabilitation Facility that Superman created to house and re-educate those violent young superhumans who refused to comply when Superman and the earlier generation of heroes returned. The facility was created with the intention of housing people for months. However, within two weeks, it was beyond capacity. The prisoners revolted and a brainwashed Captain Marvel breached the escape-proof walls. The American government sent a nuclear bomb which Marvel detonated in the air. It still killed most of the people there.
Superman created a ticking time bomb. He put the worst, most violent beings on the planet into one place. He forgot that not everyone was impressed by or could be intimidated by him. Some of the members of this new generation just didn’t care about anything. Even life or death.
Superman had to come back and teach the new generation what it means to be a hero. So many of them were indistinguishable from the villains they fought. They would fight for fighting's sake and not care about the collateral damage. Superman at his best is both inspirational and aspirational and he needed to step away from the farm to remind them of that.