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Author: Tekrelious

Apr 15th 2012 at 10:12:28 PM

How do we separate this from SecretPublicIdentity then if it's just people who have well known code names? If we include people like Tony Stark and Peter Parker during the registration arc.

I suppose if we just create No Secret Identity and compare SecretPublicIdentity where people have a secret identity, but everyone knows who they are it's splitting hairs but obviously some superheroes, and PowerPuffGirls being perhaps my favorite, never had a secret identity to begin with and putting it in SecretPublicIdentity just doesn't work and we need somewhere to place them.

Stratadrake, I don't see it that way, more like people who use their given names in their work being superheros. You could say Goku is always "ON" 24/7 but he's not exactly going out fighting crime all the time. He has a family life, he just doesn't bother becoming The Great Saiyaman or something equally stupid like that. He's just "Goku".

If the superhero personality has overwhelmed the normal dude such that he's no longer the normal dude, well ok, you could argue that Batman is always Batman but that's a bit of a stretch.