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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
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It was definitely a big rumor, you're not imagining it. A lot of fuel was added to to the fire when a company put an ad in a comic showing a Grey Hulk figure (which otherwise could have just been an unrelated repaint) and Marvel responded by forcing them to pulp all the books with the ad in it.
There are almost no(not counting mutants, canadians, Captain Britain or Wakanda)super heroes living outside the US in Marvel.
The act that caused Civil War just happened in the US(hell, the rest of the universe thought the fight was really stupid since it was small potatoes compared to the other big event at the time(Annihilation)).
edited 15th Mar '15 2:54:10 PM by LordofLore
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That was the Thing. The Beast, like most X-Men, didn't got involved as the law didn't actually effect him. In fact, there was an oldish storyline in which the X Men fought but failed to prevent a mutant registration act. Cyclops and Emma Frost were quick to remember the super-hero community didn't help them then either.
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There are plenty super heroes outside the US. It is just we never get to see them.
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Just an USA thing. In fact, the Canadian heroes commented how silly it was they were fighting over it as there was a similar law in Canada for years.
edited 15th Mar '15 3:02:14 PM by Heatth
Beast became really popular when he became an Avenger by which I mean his blue fur drove girls wild and they would accost him on the street to try to get some of that sweet lovins.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Well they made that joke in First Class about men with big feet...
Marvel does have heroes outside the U.S. but they are just perpetually Out of Focus. In the film it'd make sense if other countries had heroes of some sort so that it isn't JUST the Avengers being affected by the concept of registration.
edited 15th Mar '15 3:07:04 PM by comicwriter
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Well, we did get to see what Europe's Avengers were like for a few issues
(they couldn't come up with a team of already known european superheroes who still lived there so they created everyone from scratch).
edited 15th Mar '15 3:08:13 PM by LordofLore
Yeah, they do that a lot. Whenever a lot of international super heroes are necessary, they just create a bunch of people and say "they were there all along". It is kinda silly, but the clear implication is that there is always a bunch of super people in every country. The USA have, in story, more than anyone else, though.
But this is the MCU...I think we can safely assume that Superheroes are not a common thing (yet), and that there are only a few super-trained people who work for various agencies. There will pop up more in the upcoming years, since a lot of the superpowered people have been in hiding so far. With the implication that you can reach more or less every part of the world at a moments notice with the helicarriers, I don't think that it matters THAT much, as long as they add some different nationalities to the various teams. They kind of started in the direction with all the European agents in Ao S.
AOS showed that there were superhumans well before the Avengers, but SHIELD did everything possible to hide them from the rest of the world. And we know it was not just an American situation because one of the first supervillains the team fights is a pyrokinetic villain from China.
It would make sense that in a post-Avengers world (and two years after the fall of SHIELD) that there'd be less keeping these people from stepping out of the shadows.
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They made another attempt more recently
. This time they at least avoided the Remember the New Guy? trope and made sure to establish they were a new team.
edited 15th Mar '15 3:30:03 PM by comicwriter
That's assuming that Ao U and Civil War are both set in the years they are released.
I can't imagine the dates are too far off given that most of the MCU movies have taken place in the years they were released (barring the obvious case of The First Avenger).
There was a story where the Avengers teamed up with a heroine from Korea and it was jokingly mentioned that other countries have their own heroes, but none of them spend the amount of money or have fights on the scale of stuff the Americans do.
edited 15th Mar '15 3:41:12 PM by comicwriter
