This one needs some work. : Super Registration Act

There is a lot of potential in this article. This plot certainly has come up several times in super hero comics and other works about special people, but it needs a lot of work. The tone is often conversational in the main part of the entry and its seems that much of the entry has been written or rewritten as a Take That! at Marvel Civil War. It reeks of fanboy rage.

Culled a couple of the redundant options and cropped out some of the conversational tone. Still have some hostility to exorcise but that will come later.

This borders on an Example as a Thesis, in that it opens the article with a hypothetical Real Life example of the trope instead of out-and-out stating what the trope is.

Thank you. I needed a term for it. Again, these people are mostly thinking of the Marvel Civil War story line and using their "example" as a chance to bash that story again.

I'm going to give this a whack with the sledgehammer.

I just edited the Marvel Civil War entry to be less redundant and flame-on-ey.

edited 8th Aug '11 5:47:01 PM by DarkNemesis

I think the main article is about where it should be now. Thoughts?

I think the description could be pared down a little more. For example, do we really need a list of types of implementation that takes up as much space as the rest of the description combined? I'd think the examples could do the work in that respect.

Generally speaking, though, we seem to have arrived at a healthy point for this trope.

I combined the last option into the "Civil War" option, as the Civil-War only option was just a summary of the crossover. The implementation section works, mostly because the trope can go so many different directions that its good to get a feel of whether the act is supposed to be a good or bad thing.

@sgrunt. I'd been wondering the same thing. Still, I do think some very basic generalized categories might help others understand the full scope of this trope. It might help to try to define what isn't this trope (such as internment, death camps, etc to me this trope is about heroes struggling with laws targeted at them that restrict their ability to do good.)

And we've come a long way from when someone wrote in the main article "Uh, we need more options" and listed even more.

Looks good Dark Nemesis.

Agreed. The other reason the list thing works is because the trope description leans heavily on this being a bad thing, a temporary legal obstacle that, like you said, only serves to hamper the heroes, because that's what the trope was born out of. In the modern day writers are more aware of the Strawman Has a Point aspect of the whole thing and try to use positive versions of the Super Registration Act that are designed to be commonplace aspects of a superhero universe.

Does the page still need work or can the threat be locked?

BUMP!