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*roll eyes* I literally said it would have been amazingly better if they'd stuck to that, not that this was what went down in the storyline as written. But the anti-registration types never had any legitimate ground to stand on when it came to vigilantism -- the bottom line was they didn't have...

Non-hazardous powers would fall under the same legal rules as any other citizen -- no special restrictions, but no special authority either. So they would not be allowed to practice medicine without a license, but only because it's illegal for everyone else too. It would make sense for the...

For the most part, "secret identity" inherently equals no accountability, which is inherently antithetical to any sort of lawful exercise of authority. If I was writing the Registration Act, it would broadly fall under: 1. The creation of superhuman abilities via purely technical means would...

The militia doesn't have police powers, and pretty much every superhero engaged in vigilantism is engaging in grossly unlawful use of police powers. They don't even begin to resemble legitimate citizens' arrests. This is why I strongly maintain that Civil War would have been amazingly better if...

My impression was that the original intent was along the lines of a compromise that focused on eliminating the (rightfully, IMO) discredited vigilante aspect of the existing superheroes, but this got rewritten as drafting anyone with "superhuman" capabilities (even purely technological ones)...

As I understand it, the idea was for the Superhuman Registration Act to not just be a larger-scale rehash of the mutant registration plotlines they'd already done, which and that was specifically why the Act was supposed to have been written and proposed by the good guys specifically in order to...

It's a perfect example of why democracy comes after Constitutional rights.