User blog comment:Johnnybravo44/Deathlok... not quite a Deadpool!/@comment-189610-20110122191750

I think the point of an army of zombie cyborgs is that the heroes are allowed to kill them without it being considered evil or immoral. Neither the Avengers or the X-Men are supposed to actually kill their enemies, because they are better than that, but you still want to show how mighty and powerful the heroes are. So the writers have to use inhuman foes like robots and aliens and demons, etc. This makes the Deathloks (zombies+robots) a great generic bad guy. From a narrative perspective, you have to completely strip away the enemy's humanity in order to get away with wholesale slaughter in a comic book which children might read.