I don't actually read the comics (though for some reason reading about comics fascinates me), but it sounded as if Civil War had an interesting idea behind it: that there were legitimate reasons for the rest of us to object to people with superhuman powers existing as an extragovernmental lawless elite of crime-fighters, so there could actually be two reasonable sides to this fight.
But then they leaned so far in the direction of the pro-registration side being a cruel, thuggish analogue of the post-9/11 antiterrorist security state... and then sometimes continued to act as if there were two legitimate sides. Weird.
(Given their movie personalities, with Stark's sort of tech-libertarian suspicion of government and desire to control things personally, it might even be more reasonable for Stark to be anti-registration and Cap pro. Except not quite, since I don't think movie Cap would ever assent to supernormals being forcibly deputized whether or not they even wanted to be crime-fighters in the first place. They'd probably both be anti for very different reasons.)
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Date: 2014-10-14 11:57 am (UTC)But then they leaned so far in the direction of the pro-registration side being a cruel, thuggish analogue of the post-9/11 antiterrorist security state... and then sometimes continued to act as if there were two legitimate sides. Weird.
(Given their movie personalities, with Stark's sort of tech-libertarian suspicion of government and desire to control things personally, it might even be more reasonable for Stark to be anti-registration and Cap pro. Except not quite, since I don't think movie Cap would ever assent to supernormals being forcibly deputized whether or not they even wanted to be crime-fighters in the first place. They'd probably both be anti for very different reasons.)