2007-04-15 09:54:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
No, because if he went back to before it happened it hasn't happened yet, so there's nothing to be charged with.
2007-04-15 09:58:15 · answer #1 · answered by johN p. aka-Hey you. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
technically if he did and went back in time the crime has yet to be committed so therefore he would have to let time play out to be found guilty of it or to stay guilty if he was not found, lol but i would say that he would be still guilty but only he would know (not even the ppl hurt by the crime would know yet until it happened)
but because he is superman this knowledge would eat away at him so he wouldn't commit the crime again the second time through so therefore the crime would have never been committed
2007-04-15 17:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by NoOneKnowsMe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he's still guilty.
Crimes are actions of collectivization by one or more persons acted against a human being or his possessions, etc.
Crimes all involve doing physical or mental harm and bypassing getting the permission by the person affected or forced to go along.
Technically a crime requires that the crime be reported and judged in a court of law.
There are "unreported", "unsolved", or government ignored crimes also.
So, Superman did such a crime.
Yes it exists.
Yes, he goes back in time.
The crime was still done; hiding out in the past only makes him impossible to catch and charge with the crime. Even if the future was changed and he never did the crime a second time, he's in a new space-time timeline now, that's the only change. In the old one, he still did a crime.
2007-04-15 17:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Guilty…? No, with his powers, why would he have felt guilty in the first place…? Oh, you mean, in the eyes of the law…? What does Superman care about the quaint little hobbies of his pets…?
There was a classic Superman story where an IRS agent noticed that he kept on squeezing coal into diamonds, giving away rewards he got for capturing criminals to charities, and so forth. They figured that he owed over a billion dollars in back taxes, since he never filed! He had a week to pay up, and he failed.
So (since we are now past the deadline for filing an income tax return, I thought this story would be appropriate) the IRS decided that Superman can claim the ENTIRE WORLD as his dependents. Therefore he has never had to pay taxes again. (Thought he still has to file!)
16 APR 07, 0056 hrs, GMT.
2007-04-15 19:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you assume Superman exists, and he can go back and change the past, it's kind of tricky to define "still".
Superman stands for justice, so he wouldn't go back in time to escape punishment. He would either change things so the crime didn't happen, or get the laws changed so that whatever he did was not a crime.
2007-04-15 17:22:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good poser. Morally he is guilty.
The law on the other hand,,,,
If he killed someone on June 1, 1970 and went back into time to June 1, 1969, he would not be guilty of the crime in 1969, but he would still be guilty in the present. However somebody might be able to nail him for conspiracy to commit murder, before it happened.
2007-04-16 19:49:32 · answer #6 · answered by mitchell2020 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he does not change the outcome, or stop himself from committing the crime then yes he is still guilty. Guilt or innocence is more a moral universal construct separate from time and space. The universe knows he committed the crime and therefore eventually Karma will get him in the end.
2007-04-15 16:59:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because he would not have commited the crime as he has went back in time. But I don't think superman could go back in time, it was Bill and Ted that could.
2007-04-15 17:00:08 · answer #8 · answered by amandawoods 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well yea because he commited the crime in the first place. he just ruins the whole purpose of being superman in the first place.
2007-04-22 12:10:16 · answer #9 · answered by gaaras one and only 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A little. But how could Superman be guilty? =(
2007-04-15 16:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... technically he is both, since he did comit a crime but if he goes back in time to stop himself from doing it i wouldn't consider him guilty
2007-04-20 17:46:01 · answer #11 · answered by shadowtiger14 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋