Superheroics

As the World Trade Center disaster changed global politics and the world's conception of America irrevocably, so The Authority had violently changed superheroics—and a lot of creative people with egos had their livelihood—or at least their relevancy—threatened as a result.

That is to say, it's not supervillainy that's the opposite of superheroics[,] but pacifism. Thus, The Nail confirms the greatness of superheroics by having the greatest superhero of all explicitly repudiate nonviolence.