How was a city like Brockton Bay supposed to pay its respects to all the heroes, villains and miscellaneous others that died to protect it?  Until about five years ago, the answer had been a funeral.

Makes sense… so what replaced it?

Also, does Taylor not know the term “rogue” for non-hero/villain parahumans? I don’t think she used it to describe Parian either – if I remember correctly, she just said that she wasn’t a hero or villain. I’ll have to go check.

Ah, never mind, she did both:

“Parian.  She was local, and she wasn’t hero or villain.  A rogue, who only used her powers for business or entertainment.”

It really hadn’t worked out.

Oh. I suppose the sheer amount of grieving people from either side of the hero-villain spectrum, as well as the amount of space needed to bury all the corpses, not to mention the costs of the whole thing on top of repairs… could become troublesome.

On the surface, it was a great idea, had made for an amazing scene.  Grand speeches about great moments of true selflessness from even despicable villains, good guys doing the most heroic of sacrifices.

Oh, absolutely. It sounds great in theory.

Except problems started to stack up.  Could the people in charge of the event really let someone stand up and give a eulogy for someone like Kaiser?  If they did, you earned the wrath of the dozens or hundreds of people who’d had their lives changed for the worse by Empire Eighty-Eight.

…good point.

While I’m not the type to get infuriated by this kind of thing, I wouldn’t exactly be happy with some sort of official endorsement of a eulogy for Anders Behring Breivik either.

For those who don’t remember, that’s not an ABB gag. I’m talking about the most hated man in Norway, a man who singlehandedly killed 77 people in one day, most of them teens. I previously brought him up during 1.4 (here and here) and in 2.3.