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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Well first he'd have to throw his shield to gain protection from editors (all who oppose his mighty shield must yield) but yes. That seems completely logical.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIMO the biggest flaw with the story is that it presented the conflict as equal with both sides supposedly being valid, when Stark's outcome is one that simply could not ever last because it basically defies a lot of the oldschool Necessary Weasels of the superhero genre.
Yeah, in real life I'd absolutely want heroes to be registered and licensed if they're gonna enforce the law, but comics as a whole had spent the last 50 years trying to tell people why that's a stupid idea and that heroes work best when not being a bunch of government stooges.
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Depends on the writer. Some wrote it as a universal draft to all superpowered individuals, while others depicted characters being able to Opt Out, so to speak, by just not using their superpowers to fight crime. The Loners formed when a group of supers signed the Act and took the option to just not be superheroes anymore. Meanwhile, the Initiative comic was asserting that you can't do that and anyone who signs it must undergo mandatory superhero training.
The SHRA was terribly inconsistent across the board due to Quesada's insistence that writers just depict it however they feel like, which you may recognize as terrible editorial procedure.
Nope. Supers had to be registered in the S.H.I.E.L.D. database but their identities did not have to be public. Iron Man and Spider-Man unmasking was a publicity stunt, not a requirement of the law. Stark was adamant about this, that the identities of superheroes would be secured by him and protected by him, and when he lost his position as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., he wiped out the database to protect them.
edited 22nd Mar '15 10:53:25 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They explain it in She-Hulk as basically biographies in comic book form. They technically aren't allowed to write and publish events that didn't actually happen, but that's sometimes the case as with the in-universe X-Men comic, which little resembles the real X-men.
My question is more where DC Comics would get its material. "Behold! Tales from an alternate universe!"
I would trust neither the Marvel nor the MCU Government with anything...on the one hand you have a government who hunts mutants and might get the idea that my own superpower is perhaps not that cracked up either, on the other hand a government which was (and still might be) full of Hydro agents, not to mention vize-presidents who are not above killing to get what they want.
Didn't Iron Man go public before then?
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I prefer the Watchmen take on it - superhero comics went out of style when the real thing came along. Of course, that might also have to do with the American public opinion turning against them...then again, that seems to happen in Marvel universe every other week.
Hydro-Man has his own agency?
edited 22nd Mar '15 11:04:13 AM by KarkatTheDalek
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Yes, and no. He put the genie back in the bottle by publicly "retiring" from being Iron Man at one point. He unmasked again just before Civil War began as a show of support for the Registration Act.
Hail Hydro! Plug up one spring, two more shall take its place!
Unless you mean the Team Fortress 2 map, in which case, nah, Hydro's boring.
The X-Men don't really have secret identities, because they don't have civilian lives at all. Sometimes they wear masks, but those masks are kinda pointless. Most of the time, the publicly only ever sees mutants when they're having destructive battles that tear up human cities and get humans killed; they secret themselves away in their own social bastions from the world and only come out to have gang wars in human territory over whether or not killing the humans is a good thing to do.
edited 22nd Mar '15 1:05:08 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I do like how marvel deals with secret identities; most of the big heroes don't actually have them and it's when you get down to the smaller ones that effort has to be extended to keep them. This also creates an interesting medium; for example, in the recent Hawkeye run, it was public knowledge that Clint Barton was Hawkeye but most people wouldn't actually have that memorized or recognize his face. Although there are a few characters where I honestly can't tell if they have a secret identity or not, which is frustrating.
There was actually a really funny incident where Vulture ripped off Spider-Man's mask and immediately became pissed off because he had no idea who the hell he was. He'd spent years assuming Spider-Man must be some influential, recognizable public figure like Reed Richards or Tony Stark and never stopped to consider he was just some random dude who nobody could pick out of a crowd.
It's an interesting point about DC that a lot of their characters' secret identities are such a liability because several of their key characters are powerful or at least recognizable outside of their hero lives as well. Clark Kent is a world famous reporter who has covered many important events, Bruce Wayne is... Bruce Wayne, Oliver Queen is in a similar situation as Bruce, Hal Jordan is a famous pilot who is the boyfriend of the owner of one of the most influential air and space corporations in the world, etc. There's a lot of "glamorous people living even more glamorous secret lives" there.
People like Flash and Plastic Man are lucky. Nobody knows who the heck they are.
On a related note, Batman himself's Secret Identity issues are an interest flip from Iron Man. While revealing his secret identity allowed Tony and his company to get even morepower and influence in the end, DC instead runs very strictly with the idea that if Batman's secret ever came out, Bruce's assets would be frozen and he would be hunted down and thrown in jail. Even though that doesn't quite gel with the image of Batman as a public figure and member of the Justice League (but then, Batman's own series often doesn't gel with his appearances in ensemble titles in terms of tone and portrayal anyway).
The main DC character I think would really suffer from getting their secret identity revealed is Superman - not because it would put him or his loved ones in any more danger (since those guys are about as danger prone as they come already, and he's Superman), but because it would easily prevent him from living a normal life - which is something he deeply craves (at least, Nu52. I don't know much about Superman's relation to his humanity in the current continuity).
edited 22nd Mar '15 1:49:28 PM by KnownUnknown

You want to get crazier? Steve Rogers used to draw the in-universe Captain America comic.
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