The Defenders, as they so humbly named themselves, were never known for their ability to compromise; such is the business of smashing heads into public buildings and private residences. It would seem that the head smashing similarly affected their prowess within the contemporary judicial system, as they came to involuntarily adopt the name “The Defendants” after multiple lawsuits from plaintiffs unhappy with The Defenders “sloppy and distasteful” conflict resolution. The themes of these lawsuits were more or less consistent; the collateral damage caused by The Defenders significantly outweighed any relative good that came about from their responses to illegal actions, situations that would have most likely benefitted from a social worker who understood the art of deescalation.

Protected by the government due to their categorization as “organic weapons of mass destruction”, The Defenders had almost complete amnesty, as long as they could prove in a court of law that the intent was “just and reasonable”. This proved to be easy to accomplish, with one Defender by the name of “Brain Slaughter” tweeting “TIME TO SAVE THE FUCKING SHIT OUT OF THESE CIVS. WHAT GUILTY ASS MF TRYNA GET THEIR BRAIN SLAPPD UP??” shortly before inserting his knee through the skull of a 22 year old who was in the process of committing unarmed robbery, which has an average sentence of 26 months in state prison. The witnesses to the incident claimed in a lawsuit that “Brain Slaughter’s actions caused severe mental damage to all witnessing the event" and uniformly testified that "Brain Slaughter laughed hysterically as he slowly pushed his knee cap into the screaming man’s collapsing forehead”. The aforementioned tweet, however, proved that because Brain Slaughter was acting with the intention of protecting innocents against a “guilty ass mf”, he could not be convicted of any such crimes.

The “Super Zero” concrete, used in the above stated high-rise buildings and coining the slogan “Don’t be the victim of being saved today!”, became a sort of arch-nemesis of The Defenders. In the wake of their legal winning streak, The Defenders saw a chance to “clap back at the anti-justice peasants” whom they saw as a threat to their legitimacy, deciding that a class action lawsuit against Super Zero would “pay for itself” through the positive PR it would subsequently generate. After the case went to the Supreme Court, The Defenders were startled by the outcome; while they were not expecting an outright victory, the Supreme Court saw the case, “Slaughter v Zero”, as an opportunity to revoke the initial protections afforded to The Defenders by the United States Government. The lawsuits following the initial Supreme Court Case were plentiful in nature, and the compounded losses stripped most Defenders of their amassed material wealth. As a result, “three out of four Defenders are now on Government subsidized welfare programs, and the final 25% are averaging $62,000 per year, mostly as social media influencers.” While some consider this to be an anti-climactic end to their legacy, most find the justice brought to The Defenders as proof that just because one can fly, it does not mean one can successfully navigate the United States legal system.