Editing Vigilantes (section)

==Notable Examples==
*[[Chevalier]] started as vigilante with a personal grudge, and had to choose between revenge and future.<ref name="I24 e4">Chevalier felt strangely calm as he spoke, “Not like that.  Alexandria caught up with me at the very end.  When I was trying to decide what I’d do with him.  She told me she’d stand by and let me kill the guy, if I really had to, but I’d go to jail afterwards.  That, or I could come with her.  Come ''here''.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>
*[[Shadow Stalker]]<ref name="Cast2.5">'''Shadow Stalker [...]'''–  Once a cape with a vigilante bent, Shadow Stalker was caught after having nearly killed a man, pinning him to a wall with her crossbow bolts, and chose to join the Wards as a probationary member rather than be sent to juvenile detention.  Capable of shifting herself into a ‘shadow state’, she can pass through walls, is lightweight, and passes these benefits on to her equipment, including shots fired by her crossbow bolts.[...]<br>.<br>As Shadow Stalker (in costume), she wears a heavy black cloak and a black bodysuit with black painted metal plates and mask.  Her mask was originally a modified hockey mask, but after joining the wards it modeled a woman’s face with a stern expression.  Carries two crossbows, with both lethal and tranquilizer ammunition. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref>
*[[Gavel]]<ref name=G>The man with the beard was Gavel.  Cell block leader.  A vigilante who had gone after families, particularly spouses and children, all so he could break his enemies before his namesake weapon could.  He’d been notorious in the days before the [[Three Strikes Protection Act|three strike rule]] or even the code.  Even with that, people had lost patience with his ‘mission’ when a villain had threatened to detonate a small bomb, and Gavel had called a bluff that wasn’t a bluff.  Gavel had walked away.  Many, many others hadn’t. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref>
*[[Lighter]]<ref>Lighter had come, which was nice- it was my first time seeing the low-key vigilante, though we’d talked some by email.  He’d been scheduled for a turn at harassing Cedar Point, but things had gone to hell before the scheduled time had come.  He’d been enthusiastic about that- and I could assume he’d like the idea of ''[[Heroes vs. Trial and Error|this]]''. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/21 Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.6]]</ref>
*[[Drillbit]]<ref>There were heroes who aspired to climb the ranks and achieve notoriety, and Drillbit was the inverse of that.  Reputation didn’t matter and was something to be avoided and discouraged.  He was street level and fought to stay street level, moving around to strike out and take down villains of the lowest rung.Somewhere along the line, he had developed a substance abuse problem.  He’d targeted dealers to get a supply.<br>[...]<br>Drillbit had harmed himself enough with his addictions that he could no longer be trusted.  The loop had repeated too many times.  He wouldn’t get better and didn’t want to get better, and he would either engage in a cape fight while inebriated or drive inebriated on his way to or from a cape fight, and he couldn’t drive while brimming with enough chemicals to kill another man.  He would get arrested, even cooperate sometimes, get pulled into jail, enter withdrawals, and break out, sometimes letting other prisoners free. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/04/02 Excerpt] from [[Black 13.1]]</ref>
'''Inversions'''
*[[Eclipse Arc]]<ref>Eclipse Arc were serious, as villains went.  Good costumes, good powers.  There were ‘heroes’ out there who got themselves labeled Vigilantes because they crossed lines or shrugged off law and convention in their pursuit of the bad guys.  Eclipse Arc were the opposite, a pair of villains walking a ‘Robin Hood’ line where they really only preyed on those who deserved it.  They supported convention rather than flouting it, tending to go after villains where possible, and among those villains, going after those that had broken the unwritten rules first.<br><br>

They were big time enough to warrant being a serious target of heroes, but by walking the line they did, they made it very easy for others to gloss over them or leave them alone in favor of other targets.  Too big for Prancer’s old group of B-list villains, too small to be important.  Too villainous to be worth reaching out to, too noble to be a target people could feel especially good about dealing with.<br><br>

Except the unwritten rules had broken down and Eclipse Arc were out being assholes, robbing people who ''didn’t'' deserve it.  Hopefully Advance Guard would steer them back onto their old path. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/03 Excerpt] from [[Polarize 10.4]]</ref> – [[Wikipedia:Robin Hood|Robin Hood]]-type [[Villains]]