Iron Man isn't the villian, not really. But he is as close as you get in the Civil War book.
Sure there is an actual bad guy, but Wolverine was after him in his own book. There are others, but Tony does lots of underhanded stuff and justifies them with the end goal.
He sort of tricked Peter Parker into revealing his identity, something Peter would NEVER do. He was willing to take away peoples civil rights, even by force, or kill them trying.
He He just did a lot of sneaky and underhanded stuff, including sending the Thunderbolts to kill some Atlantians. He also cloned Thor and let loose a psychopath Thor clone on the other side that killed Goliath.
He even took the victory right when Captain America surrendered. Almost like he had won it and not won by default.
But he isn't an actual bad guy, he was doing what he thought was best. Trying to make sure that not just any young punk can say he is a hero and end up causing the deaths of millions. He thought what he was doing was right and that even if people hate him, in the end lifes would be safed.
But he is still the closest thing you get to a bad guy in Civil War.
If by tons of underhanded stuff, you mean like three things, then yes. Otherwise, everything was pretty much by the book. Morally "on the fence" things would be more accurate.
And a default win is STILL a win when the other side gives up.
And for the last f'ing time, he didn't TRICK Peter into it. Tricking him means that he was using Peter as a tool from the very beginning, when he was Peter's friend from well before Civil War via the New Avengers and letting him live in his home and hiring him as a body guard.
Tricking him would be Tony saying, "Yes, I will use Peter like a sheep, and then I will have my due." Where it was more of, "Hey, Spidey is my friend, maybe I can convince him to have the world trust us by showing him the benefits of revealing the world's most controversial hero to the public." He didn't FORCE Parker into it, he didn't even GUILT him.
That's about as inaccurate as saying Storm kicked the crap out of Clor.
I'd be ok with the SHRA if it didn't require heroes to give up their secret identities and if it didn't have that hidden clause where you basically get drafted into a superhero army once you register. It's not like the SHRA is about training heroes and then letting them back out to live their lives. It's about control.
But that was the whole thing, control of the heros so they're not out of control killing people on accident.
That's like...answering your own question. And they only have to register their identities with the system as a means of answering for problems they create. It's not like Stark just has them for sale or something.
The heros are trained (if they want to use their powers and be heros and the like), and then distributed as they best would fit. I doubt they'd just let them recondense to a single city or two after saying how that caused the Stamford accident.
Thats true, they show that if you ever want to use your powers at all (even in a non super hero manor like getting groceries) you have to sign up and train and get drafted. Example: the girl called Cloud 9. All she was doing was flying around the sky on a cloud, like she was an extreme skater just having fun. Then War Machine and some air force guys stop her and tell her that if she ever wants to fly again she HAS to sign up with SHRA. She wasn't fighting evil, she was having a fun after noon all by herself.
See, the whole thing was using these potentially dangerous powers without being checked. And there'd be a double standard if they were to be used just nonchalantly, and since mutants are basically extinct, they don't really have to worry about them. Mutants seemingly don't use their powers in public fashions potentially causing upsets. So if heros can only use their powers with licenses, so should everybody else.
Otherwise, it's called corruption and double standards. And THAT'S evil.
Then they also tell these new recruits who were forced to sign that they can't reveal their identities because the government doesn't want to have to protect their families. So the government doesn't have to protect them, but they do have to sign up and put their families and lives at risk as super agents.
Its not that I think Super heroes shouldn't have to be trained and answer for their acts, but they shouldn't HAVE to register and HAVE to become agents for the government and do whatever the government tells them.
its a comic book too, its not the real world.
They didn't make them not reveal their identities to save a few bucks and manpower. They said, "We won't do it, because you're not SUPPOSSED to give out your identity that you want to keep a secret so badly, that we're actually still keeping it a secret from the public which is like a silver platter deal since every other public servant has to give out their identity to the public." If they actually do what they're suppossed to, and keep their identities secret, then the family is in no trouble.
It's not like from moment one after Registration their house blows up.
IM is bad IMO.
At the very least a patsy for the Gov't
How long before the US weilds the heroes as a weapon of war?
Ultimates anyone
They're not used as a military force like in the Ultimates, where it was a subsection of the military. So...that'd be like sending police officers to war.
