His internal aggravated roar over the stupid no-killing rule is snarly enough to almost sound inhuman.
Ugh, what is it with superheroes and their not-killing-people fixation?!
This could probably be considered an exception to the stupid rule, but given that they've been handed the option of just humiliating their enemies, he can't really justify killing them. They're mostly civilians and with how good a fighter he is, there's no way he could make the case that he was outmatched and needed to be that brutal to save his own life or save Carolina's. He absolutely can put these people down without killing them and without giving away that he knows how to fight.
So instead of picking up a katana, he picks up a bo, and grabs and tosses her a baseball bat. Those will be easier to hurt people with while still faking that they don't know anything about fighting. He starts swinging the bo more like a bat than using it the way he should.
It's pretty obvious that this whole thing is to weed out Scipos not comfortable with attacking civilians or to ferret us out by accidentally showing off we've got actual moves but it's like they forgot that knee caps are a thing, he says, casually slamming the bow into the kneecap of one of the other wannabe cultists.
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Ugh, what is it with superheroes and their not-killing-people fixation?!
This could probably be considered an exception to the stupid rule, but given that they've been handed the option of just humiliating their enemies, he can't really justify killing them. They're mostly civilians and with how good a fighter he is, there's no way he could make the case that he was outmatched and needed to be that brutal to save his own life or save Carolina's. He absolutely can put these people down without killing them and without giving away that he knows how to fight.
So instead of picking up a katana, he picks up a bo, and grabs and tosses her a baseball bat. Those will be easier to hurt people with while still faking that they don't know anything about fighting. He starts swinging the bo more like a bat than using it the way he should.
It's pretty obvious that this whole thing is to weed out Scipos not comfortable with attacking civilians or to ferret us out by accidentally showing off we've got actual moves but it's like they forgot that knee caps are a thing, he says, casually slamming the bow into the kneecap of one of the other wannabe cultists.