I think when it comes to what TVtropes terms The Superhero Paradox there are two levels:
On the Doylist level, you've got the obvious metatextual, editorial reality, that all of the threats that the superhero fights only exist because the writers and audience want the hero to fight cool things, therefore the superhero is "responsible" for the state of their setting by virtue of their existence;
But then on the Watsonian level, you have the actual specific reality of what the characters have done in the story- these massive, sprawling soap operas littered with high-agency, low-accountability yahoos who often can be literally implicated in the current mass-casualty event of the week, if only in a convoluted rube-goldberg way. Giant crossover events extrapolated out of some throwaway careless act committed in the silver-or-bronze age- eg. Reed Richard's stunt with the Skrull Cows eventually contributing to the casus belli of Secret Invasion, or Hank Pym designing Ultron in a storytelling era where that was only allowed to end so badly, only for that character to then survive into an editorial period where he was allowed to kill whole cities on-panel. A situation where purely in terms of depicted behavior it becomes obvious that the continued survival of a setting that's this thoroughly composed of time bombs and unswept land mines is also evidence of editorial interference, usually when that editorial interference abruptly cuts out (E.G. The Stamford Incident.)
And these are actually two separate editorial thumbs positioned on slightly different arteries of plausibility, but they're both technically ways in which "heroes are responsible for the problems they solve," so they get conflated by writers who're in a hurry. Leading to "Deconstructions" that bank on general audience familiarity with shape of the (fairly facile) Doylist argument and forget to check their math and make sure they've actually created an in-universe situation where a character trying to make this argument won't come across as a raving lunatic gesturing wildly at a doylist context that's only visible to them, Deadpool and She-Hulk
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