User blog comment:Zachary Willaim Barringer/Proposal for Removal from Category: Purely Good Here on Heroes Wiki: Fa Mulan/@comment-1705775-20190706034322/@comment-1705775-20190706082134

Superman will try and kill Darkseid, Goku eventually gets serious and kills his foes when they become too dangerous.. Pure Good are reluctant to kill but it doesn't mean they don't when it is absolutely necessary, even Batman.. who kind of invented the modern "no kill" policy has at times had to kill or seriously think about killing Joker.

if a Pure Good does not do everything in his or her power to protect the innocent then they no longer embody Good in its purest form.

Batman: "how many people have I killed by letting you live?" (to Joker).

the difference between Pure Good and Evil Exterminator is pretty simple really - exterminators like Punisher, Shiva etc give one chance.. if the enemy does not respond to this chance - they are gone, no mercy.. a Pure Good will give multiple chances to the enemy - eventually there comes a point where they have to stop and go for the kill.

Superman Doomsday (the animated cartoon) shows this perfectly.. Superman kept trying to take Doomsday down but eventually he had to go for the kill when Doomsday went to kill a little girl on the streets - Superman knew that he had a choice.. kill the monster or have the monster kill everyone.. Doomsday couldn't be redeemed, would never stop killing.. so it had to be done.

same deal with guys like Shan Yu - they can not be reasoned with, thus it is the responsibility of a hero to end them.