Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161128203912/@comment-27144409-20161203174348

KNN005 wrote: Couldn't they just go become assassins like Merc and his father were? They could be sellswords, right? There's work out there for them killing Grimm for money! WHY NOT BECOME HUNTERS!? If they're so good at fighting why not do that? Why kill people who've done nothing to them? It's stupid in my eyes, not just cowardly. But I guess if Raven really thinks that's okay, then she's not the person I thought she was. Like Cinder, the sooner she goes down, the better. Why don't Captain Cold, Whiplash, Mirror Master, Blizzard, Penguin, Firefly, Mister Freeze, Gru, or any of the numerous villains who make their own tech, have successfully reverse-engineered stolen tech that has been "lost" (meaning they are the only ones who can deliver in a timely manner), or have subordinates who make the toys go to work for/with governments and/or businesses? With their tech they could make legitamate fortunes (depending on which versions you use).

Why don't Livewire, Electro, Killer Frost, Clayface, or any of the countless metahuman villains in fiction go to work for private interests, governments, or the public as heroes? Why don't the majority of the other lantern corps join the Green Lanterns as spcae cops?

Why does anyone try to enter the criminal world as a criminal equivalent of joe schmoe when they live in Gotham or Marvel's New York?

Multiple reasons.

Personal issues, plot, greed, preference, plot, desperation, anger, plot...