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That is, arguably, legally accurate in most states because the self-defense exemptions do not apply to proactive vigilante activity. If you're actively going out and hunting down criminals, you cannot appeal to self defense; as far as the law is concerned, you are yourself a criminal engaging in...

Not an unreasonable hypothesis, but I really don't think it works because the two halves fundamentally contradict each other.

That *might* apply to the Protectorate, but people justifiably fearing and distrusting capes would lead to less restricted ROE for the PRT, not putting them under largely the same crippling restrictions.

As far as the Wormverse, the fundamental bizarreness is that Protectorate / PRT orders are pretty much that they're not allowed to use lethal force at all unless there's a formal Kill Order, which is absolutely nonsensical for a bona fide law enforcement agency. In real-life terms, law...

I disagree. Western films were a dominant genre in the movie industry from the 1930s through the 1950s, and were very clearly fading from popularity by the 1960s, although to be fair a number of very good Westerns were still produced in those twilight years. Blazing Saddles was in 1974, and...

I think deconstruction is less a "death throe" and more a response to content in a genre becoming stale, cliche, and increasingly riddled with insultingly obvious plot holes -- case in point, literally every DC-based movie other than Batman Begins and Wonder Woman.

The original source for that entire universe is the Japanese video game Biohazard, which was developed by Capcom for the PlayStation and retitled Resident Evil for its North American release due to copyright issues.

Uh, wait a minute there. Umbrella Corporation is from Asian media.