People were violent during 1933-45 in Germany despite there not being films or video games
"poor henchmen who get killed"
The hench women in AVTAK (Jenny & Pan Ho) were not innocent at all : they torched SF mayors office with gasoline after hed been killed , conspiracy to commit murder (same with Zorins investors who were prolly arrested when authorities found out theyd invested in Zorins sick plan , mass murder conspiracy)
They prolly knew Tibbett was gonna be killed in that french car wash too.......poor guy
So no , they werent always innocent
No they weren't innocent but they were still human beings in my opinion. I don't like seeing human beings get killed like it's "cool" and fun for the hero to do.