u/ShortRecover4365

My English isn't that strong for novels yet, so I have to keep a dictionary open while reading. It makes things a bit slow and challenging, but I think it's good practice for improving my English too.

thsts why I'm asking this question

I'm looking for characters who are still classified as human within their own story/universe — even if they have superpowers, enhancements, or supernatural abilities — as opposed to aliens, gods, demons, mutants-as-a-separate-species, etc.

To clarify what counts:

The character must be canonically human (or explicitly self-identify as human) in their series, not a human-looking alien or hybrid.

Superpowers, magic, cybernetics, or supernatural training are fine, as long as the character's species/origin is still "human."

Feel free to include multiverse/multi-medium picks (anime, manga, comics, games, novels) — just specify the source.

Look, I get why people's knee-jerk reaction is "he kills people, that's bad, case closed." But if you actually sit with the character instead of the vibes around him, the ethics hold up way better than people give him credit for.

Start with who he actually kills. Not random people, not people who made a mistake once. Cartel bosses. Traffickers. Serial killers. Dirty cops who use the badge to keep doing it legally. These are people who have already shown you, over and over, exactly what they'll do the second nobody's stopping them. Frank isn't guessing about future crimes, he's responding to an established pattern.

And the origin isn't just sad backstory window dressing, it's the whole point of the character. His family's killers walked. Not because they were innocent, but because the system has more soft spots than people want to admit — technicalities, bribes, connections, whatever. That's not a one-off tragedy in the Marvel universe, it's basically the default outcome every time a rich or connected villain gets arrested. How many times has a Kingpin-tier guy gotten out on a legal loophole and gone right back to hurting people? At some point "just trust the process" stops being the responsible take and starts being willful blindness to a process that keeps failing the same way.

People love bringing up Batman's no-kill rule like it's the obvious moral high ground, but be honest, how's that working out? The Joker breaks out and racks up another body count basically every year. Refusing to kill isn't automatically the ethical choice if it just means the killing gets outsourced to whoever he murders next month. Frank's whole logic is closer to just war thinking than "murder is fun actually" — force has to be necessary, has to be proportional, and has to actually prevent more harm than it causes.

And honestly, the thing that makes Frank interesting isn't even the killing, it's that he doesn't lie to himself about it. He's not out here calling himself a hero. He knows exactly what he's chosen to become and what it's cost him. That kind of self-awareness is rare for a vigilante archetype that usually needs to believe it's still "good."

Doesn't mean the guy's mentally well, doesn't mean I'd want him living next door. But "moral" and "healthy" aren't the same category, and judged on actual outcomes and who's actually getting hurt, his code is more restrained and more consistent than half the "heroes" who get a pass because they punch instead of shoot.

Let's say our favorite bald hero gets suddenly transported into a typical isekai setting — one of those medieval fantasy worlds where slavery is normalized, slave markets operate openly, and nobles or merchants treat people as property (think the kind of setup we see in Shield Hero or Mushoku Tensei).

Given Saitama's personality — his overwhelming physical power, his complete indifference to social hierarchies and status, and his tendency to act on simple moral instinct rather than calculated strategy — how do you think he'd actually respond to encountering this system?

Some things worth considering:

Would he even register slavery as a "problem to solve," or would his boredom/apathy mean he'd just wander past it like everything else, until it directly annoyed him?

If he did intervene, would it be a slow-burn character arc, or would he just punch the entire institution into oblivion in one scene because that's simply how OPM handles obstacles?

How would his total lack of interest in fame, power, or politics change the outcome compared to more "traditional" isekai protagonists who often gain status and then hesitate to use it?

Would slavers and nobles even register as threats to him, or would the whole conflict resolve anticlimactically — which, ironically, is the whole joke of his character?

Curious to hear takes on this, especially compared to how other overpowered isekai protagonists tend to either ignore slavery entirely or slowly become reluctant abolitionists over dozens of chapters.

is it a skeleton knight and reincarnated as a sword type or Mushoku Tensei and shield hero in Regard to slavery .

Would your character treat 'legal' as a synonym for 'just' — or would they actively hunt for injustices hiding behind legitimate laws? And once they have the power to act, do they crown themselves and build an empire, or fix the rot and walk away?"