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[Comics] How do famous villains/Supervillains get away with anything anymore?

Like Catwoman.  Every time anything cat-themed goes missing, surely people are on the lookout for Selina Kyle.... but okay, she probably travels incognito.

How about guys like Lex Luthor?  Even with the best lawyers in the world, if the entire Justice League says "yeah, he was the dude who tried to sell Earth to Darkseid for some pocket change and he kicked some babies while he was doing it", don't you think the public would start looking askance at him?

I know that real life rich people get away with all sorts of shenanigans, but it seems like threatening the planet is far, far beyond the pale, and even the greediest, most craven, most blackmailable politicians would turn on someone like Luthor, especially since he's shown that he will throw his partners under the bus when it is expedient.

And what about The Joker?  He isn't exactly hard to spot.  Yeah, he can wear a mask, but don't you think Gothamites would have learned to be particularly suspicious of guys in purple suits with bags over their heads (or whatever :P... any face concealing garment, even with regular clothes)?

Also, wouldn't people have learned by now not to ever make deals with him or work for him, as the best case scenario is getting punched in the face by Batman, and the worst case scenario is too horrible to contemplate?

Could that be one reason why the Joker loses so often to Batman- his henchmen are subtly dropping clues and otherwise working against the Joker, hoping to get off with a punch to the face rather than a fate worse than death :P?

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And how in the name of poopypants did Norman Osborn get put in charge of anything, ever, no matter how famous he got for one symbolic act?  They don't let convicted felons vote, but they'll let them run superagencies :P?

I guess if they let Deadpool run free (rather than organizing a party to hunt him down and bury him in cement up to his neck) the people of the Marvel Universe are just fine with whatever :P.
gpt
Two words: meddling kids.

Kids these days just don't meddle as much as they used to.  They're too busy with Facebook and Instagram and their new-fangled cell phones.  Kids don't get bored or really even hang out anymore, so there's no reason for four or five of them to pile into a van and cruise around looking for trouble anymore.

As such, villains don't have their plans hampered and crime flourishes.  Then, due to the unsafe conditions of society, parents keep their children even more sheltered, which further decreases meddling behavior.  It's truly a vicious cycle.

Without meddling kids getting in the way, villains are constantly able to "get away with it".