Colossal Spoons
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I always considered the SHRA to be a gold mine to actual criminals. They can get badges merely by offering lip service to the feds while every superhero's identity and family is collected in one database for hacking. Hell, the Black Box alone could just score them all and sell them to the underworld, and that's a little known F-Lister. It does very little to actually help superheroes, especially since the last NEW AVENGERS showed beat cops shooting at Tigra anyway.
Does anybody notice that The Hood's plan shows up the limitations and fallacies of the SHRA?
Firstly by forcing heroes/heroines to register with the Feds( and "blow" their cover), the SHRA has effectively put their relatives/friends in mortal danger( pace Greer Nelson aka "Tigra's" mother). Arguments that only a small minority of governmental officials know the heroes true identities is irrelevant( if the KGB can penetrate the CIA and FBI- pace Alrdich Ames and Robert Hansen, if the Mafia can infiltrate the Witness Protection Programme- and neither group was "super-powered", then imagine what somebody working for Dr.Doom, Magneto or even the Hood can do)
Secondly the whole"civil war" has destroyed many of the restraining influences in the Marvel Universe even if they were villains- Kingpin, Hammerhead et al)
Anybody think as I do?
Terry
So does Aunt May.![]()
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Your arguement using Tigra is flawed considering that Tigra's identity was already public. They could have done that to her or several other heroes even without the SHRA.
The SHRA still allows secret identities, you just can't keep it secret from the government. Spider-Man didn't have to go public, he was pressured by Stark and his family to do so. And Stark later regrets pressuring Peter to do so. And with Tony Stark in charge, as long as he's written properly, the only people I'd be afraid of hacking to find out who's who would be people like Dr. Doom.
Don't come back, either.
Ever.![]()
Stay in the X-forums where you belong.
Not really, in the past the Mad thinker has shown the ability to hack into every database on the planet except the FF's and Doom. Also wouldn't people who are superhumanly intelligent like the Leader be able hack into Stark's database?
It hasn't happened yet. So, you can't really use that as proof that the SHRA system for keeping the ID's secret is flawed. Hell, if they're so smart, they could have found out their secret Identities a long time ago. I mean, all the Green Goblin had to do was Follow Spidey home. Freakin' Rhino could do that.
You know what. I have a dream! That all the little white kids and Asian kids and awesome black kids could hang out together and not be judged by the comic books that they read.![]()
Considering that Reed is a major player in the Initiative, I wouldn't be afraid of the Mad Thinker hacking the database of the heroes identities.
The Leader can be easily taken down by S.H.I.E.L.D.s Hulkbusters unit if he acts up again.
Black Box is dead, and before then he was under Cable's control. So I wouldn't be afraid of him.
Most people who would be able to hack like Amadaeus Cho, Reed Richards, Tony Stark, etc. are either part of the Initiative or are good guys in the first place.
Again, the only villain I'd fear would be Dr. Doom, but he seems to be above such a thing IMO.
That and Gobby had to invent a chemical to knock Spidey's spider sense to do it. Let's see Rhino do that.
Just because Mad Thinker hasn't hacked into SHIELD database, doesn't mean he can't do so in the future.
That's a stupid dream and it'll never catch on. Now, go segregate yourself.
52 begs to differ.
Well, why hasn't he? I mean, the info on just about every meta in the world SHIELD already had possession of. And yet, he's never bothered. Too busy trying to destroy Reed Richards (A public hero.) to waste his time. Either way, it proves my point, if they wanted to know any given heroes secret ID, they would have done it by now. Like I said, if it hasn't happened yet, then I guess the list is secure or whatever that means.
I don't know, you write a character a certain way long enough, then that's pretty much what he is. Spidey's got not balls anymore. Apparently, that's Spider-Man now.![]()