I'm confused, does everyone with superhuman powers have to register or just people who want to use those powers? In one of the Civil War issues they show Firestar giving up being a hero but then they come to bust Luke Cage when he's sitting in his apartment and arrest Prodigy when he's just standing on a building rooftop.
2006-11-25 15:23:11 · 5 answers · asked by Hulkerino 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
EVERYONE who posses powers must register with SHIELD. Not doing so gets you thrown in superhuman jail. And if you are a known hero you must register as well. Even if you have no intent to use said powers you must register, because you are now classified as a "person of mass destruction".
An interesting side note is that this is an AMERICAN law. However even people who are citizens of other countries have to register if they reside in the US. And known mutants are automatically registered by the Government's new Sentinel O*N*E Program. (Some superhumans have circumvented arrest by leaving the country. (Such as the reformed Villain Juggernaut who now works with New Excalibur in England)
2006-11-25 15:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Superhuman Registration Act
2016-11-06 19:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been awhile since I've read anything about this, but I think that the Superhuman Registration Act only applied to people who were using their superhuman powers. I think it was to force people into registering or retiring from the superhero business. I read this in a recent Spiderman comic where he not only registers but lets the world know that Peter Parker has been Spiderman all along.
Upon closer inspection, however, I think this was supposed to get all of the superheros to register to become legitimate, but a number of people do not want to participate. The Wikipedia sources I list give a more thorough explanation, but not necessarily any clearer than what I got from it.
2006-11-25 15:46:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In terms of the storyline, everybody with powers has to register.
In terms of us readers, Civil War is a pitiful and racist attempt on the part of Marvel Comics to indoctrinate their readers with a line of political BS. By blurring the distinction between terrorists and border violators, they build sympathy for terrorists and limit our ability to cope with border violators.
Basically, the editors at Marvel have decided to ignore "because you, the readers, demanded it!" and have instructed their writers and artists to do this. This is dishonest, and not entertaining any more.
If the artists and writers can't come up with anything more creative or more entertaining than to recycle stuff they get from the headlines, for free, it's up to us to tell them that they can't keep getting paid a salary for nothing, for not doing their job of creating, for not entertaining us.
The only way they will listen is if we stop buying Marvel. Maybe when sales go down, they will listen.
UNTIL THEY STOP WRITING 'CIVIL WAR', MAKE MINE DC...!
27 NOV 06, 1938 hrs, GMT.
2006-11-27 06:34:23 · answer #4 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Anyone who posses powers is ordered to register for the government and if they resist they are to be hunt down. Stupid what spiderman did.
2006-11-26 11:35:02 · answer #5 · answered by vato 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋