You can make terrible and harsh things that are way out of line funny. Sadistic things can be put in a humorous light, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. We don't do torture, we don't do 'punishments' that are harsh by any definition.
Even if you might not consider a Sue to be a person, they're still people shaped, not some amorphous red evil glowing see-through blob with multiple tentacles and way too many stingers and is drooling acid from a fanged mouth.
Like I said in my reply to this thread, I think we should only be doing clean kills, not stuff that's terribly drawn out.
Torture is bad, right? But with the right spin, you can make it funny. Even humorous.
Here's an example I used in the chatroom when we got on the subject.
Feeding a Sue to the Watcher in the Water is one thing. That's a clean kill, you're not doing anything extra to the Sue. You don't need to, and shouldn't go into massive detail.
Now, on the other hand, Agent A gets out a 'Kiss the cook' apron and a funny hat and pretends to do a cooking show for her special guest at the best table in the restaurant, one Watcher in the water. Sue Skewer. Chop chop, don't forget to tenderize the meat, dear, you don't want the glitter to clump together while you cook, see, look, I have this handy morningstar we can use, and don't forget to keep her alive, it makes the meal so much tastier, her terror adds to the flavor, you see, we'll be dicing the fingers up and putting them into all the orifices after we get her filled up with some lovely gravy we'll be making from her feet, Sue toe lint gives it something extra....
The second can be funny. But it's torture, sadistic, and just way out there. But with what you're saying, from what I understand, it passes because it's funny, even though it's on the sadistic and horrible side.
