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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (16 children)

It's a major driving force in Civil War even the watered down version in the MCU.

Tony Stark: I don't have powers but made something that almost wiped out a nation so we should all register with the government that really hasn't liked us all that much.

Captain America: That's a massive invasion of privacy and I fought against those who catalogued people, so get bent.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Well, it's more motivated than the comic version where Reed Richards and Tony Stark suddenly acted like super villians and cloned Thor without his consent as well as establishing a concentration camp for superheroes in the negative zone. Comic Civil War was wild.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

To be fair the motivating factor of that one is a bunch of teenage heroes accidentally get a school (and themselves) blown up because they were filming a reality TV show.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To be even more fair it was Nitro (a villain) that blew up the school, not the teenagers.

Only character I liked in that plotline was Wolverine because he didn't bother with any of the bullshit and was just trying to track down Nitro and kill him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, but the point of registration (from Stark's point of view) was to train superheros how to engage villains safely. Not run blind into a situation with a villain who can level a square quarter mile at the speed of thought.

Nitro is gonna Nitro, the kids should have known better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds to me like kids shouldn't be superheroes (looking at you, Xavier).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey don't talk shit about Xavier or he'll kill you with his mind powers.

Therefore training children to be in his own personal army is cool and awesome!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure but they instantly lost the thread by going after superheroes that didn't sign on before going after Nitro. Dude's still out there and could still blow up more schools, but let's instead duke it out with Captain America because that's more important right now. WTF?

Tony Stark is behaving way more irresponsibly than those teenagers were. But he's heading up an initiative to train teenagers with super powers to be more responsible?

The movie did it better. They weren't debating a law while Ultron was still out there doing his thing. The debate came after Ultron was taken care of. Immediate danger is taken care of, so now we can think about how we can do things better. Comic book version was just Tony Stark and Reed Richards become super villains for a while. Their actions don't really make any sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wolverine was literally pulverized down to his adamantium skeleton by Nitro and regenerated back from that in a matter of, what, 2 minutes? That part always annoyed me to no end

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