Genshie wrote...
Quething wrote...
Neither is Garrus. He's sort of trying for Space Punisher. Definitely a Marvel hero anyway. DC's pretty obsessive about Killing Is Morally Wrong Always and Batman is that theory's patron saint.
I hope she teases him about it. I love Ash when she's teasing.
Offtopic but returning to Ash again: What do you mean? Garrus doesn't really kill intentionally in the first place unless it is self defense. The only time Garrus really just wants to kill with no remorse is during his loyalty mission (and you can prevent this) and the way he puts the scare on his targets is exactly what Batman does.
Garrus tries to kill dudes in cold blood in both his loyalty missions, actually. He takes glee in announcing every headshot, and certainly doesn't seek nonviolent solutions in combat. His entire thing on Omega was building his own private hit squad to kill gang members. His reaction to the hostage situation where you first meet him is to shoot a guy in the face and it's so blatantly unnecessary that Shep can bite his head off for it. And Batman does not kill, ever. Not in self-defense. Not when it's the only way to save the lives of
other people. He would slice his own son through the neck with a batarang (nonlethally of course) rather than let said son shoot the Joker to save a dozen hostages.*
Honestly Garrus is about as close to a sane, reasonably heroic Punisher as you can get. He's a lost, hurt man who's reaction to his realization of suffering in the world is to take the hurt to the bad guys, take them down so they can't do it again. He even does the poetic justice thing, as per his Shadow Broker dossier.
Ash, to try to be on-topic for a minute... actually I can't really think of a Big Two hero that maps to Ash at all. Huntress maybe...? She's got similar issues in terms of a black family name and spending a long time trying to find the one person who takes her seriously and sees her potential (not that any Shep is as awesome as Oracle, but...) and she's got a similar history of being maligned by the fanbase and universe for having an "unheroic" or "evil" worldview.
* No, Jason wasn't trying to save hostages when Bruce cut him, but I sincerely hope nobody who's read any Batman in the last twenty years would try to argue that it would have made a difference.