"'Course it could've. It didn't because he chose for it not to."
He shook his head.
"I could've tried to be the supreme conqueror of Earth because I was sick of the other heroes infighting and wanted to establish some kind of multi-world regime that would prevent intergalactic crises. You could've broken free of Parallax and decided you had the right idea while possessed and kept doing evil."
It all came down to choice.
"That's how evil works, Hal. There's always a 'could've.' If someone's evil, there's always the good they didn't choose. The fact it exists, that they had that option and turned away from it, is what makes 'em evil in the first place."
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He shook his head.
"I could've tried to be the supreme conqueror of Earth because I was sick of the other heroes infighting and wanted to establish some kind of multi-world regime that would prevent intergalactic crises. You could've broken free of Parallax and decided you had the right idea while possessed and kept doing evil."
It all came down to choice.
"That's how evil works, Hal. There's always a 'could've.' If someone's evil, there's always the good they didn't choose. The fact it exists, that they had that option and turned away from it, is what makes 'em evil in the first place."