Which "successor" shows the most promise?

[FloatingFatMan]

Erm. Doesn't Superman keep a museum of "retrieved" items in his Fortress?

Pretty sure the Batcave has similar.

Do either of them pre-emptively charge into the homes of people they don't even know are criminals, attack them, and take their stuff?

[FloatingFatMan]

....What are you talking about? Heroes and police, both in real life and in comics do preemptive raids all the time to confiscate illegal weapons, drugs and other such things before they can be used.

Real life police raid the homes of real life criminals AFTER getting court orders, and superheroes don't actually exist.  In the comic book world, how many times have you seen superheroes charge into the homes of people they don't even know are criminals (which is what this essentially IS... You're raiding city ships similar to your own for their resources), and steal their stuff?

[princezilla]

Real life police raid the homes of real life criminals AFTER getting court orders, and superheroes don't actually exist.  In the comic book world, how many times have you seen superheroes charge into the homes of people they don't even know are criminals (which is what this essentially IS... You're raiding city ships similar to your own for their resources), and steal their stuff?

Yes that was why I said both heroes and real and fictional police. :p Regardless basically all the raiding mechanics that were talked about here involved people engaging in some kind of wrongdoing.

[MyriVerse]

Do either of them pre-emptively charge into the homes of people they don't even know are criminals, attack them, and take their stuff?

No, they usually know they are criminals. They just don't usually wait around for silly things like search warrants.

And as said, you're stealing back your stuff. There is no jurisdictional nonsense involved. No necessity to have warrants.

You should also probably know that "hero" is an extremely subjective term. It's not like our characters didn't do the same exact things in City of Heroes. They did. A LOT.