TheCorpulent1
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No, no, and no.
Stark was perceived as a failure when the Skrulls revealed they'd been covertly replacing heroes and officials for years in Secret Invasion and Norman Osborn, who killed the Skrull Queen on national TV, was appointed head of SHIELD in his place. He got the US to cut funding to SHIELD, effectively disbanding it since the US provided the lion's share of money to the agency, and then he started up the US-only HAMMER in its place. He stocked that and the Fifty-State Initiative with crooked agents and supervillains in sheep's clothing, declared Stark a fugitive because Stark wouldn't give up the database containing all of the heroes' registration information, and proceeded to basically corrupt everything Civil War had created.
While in power, Osborn called together his own version of the Illuminati called the Cabal, which consisted of himself, Doom, Namor, the Hood, and Loki. Loki also begins to advise Osborn while secretly driving him even crazier by masquerading as the Green Goblin in Osborn's mind. He ultimately drives Osborn to declare Asgard, which is floating over Oklahoma, an invading nation and attack it against the President of the US' orders. Steve Rogers has returned from the dead by this point, revealing that he'd actually been shot through time rather than killed. He rallies the US' true heroes against Osborn and they take him down relatively quickly, but the Sentry, who'd been manipulated by Osborn, finally loses control and unleashes the Void. The Void destroys Asgard but is in turn destroyed by the Sentry (internally) and Thor (externally).
Realizing that Osborn's gambit wouldn't have been possible without the registration act, Congress repeals it. The President names Steve Rogers the new Director of National Security (i.e. the guy in charge of the US' superhumans), and Steve promptly disbands HAMMER, arresting many of the most crooked agents, and reorganizes the Fifty-State Initiative as an Avengers-led coalition of voluntary heroes.
Peter Parker's identity was magically returned to being a secret as part of the mass of retcons in "One More Day." Someone else can go into the details of that because talking about that still annoys me.
Stark was perceived as a failure when the Skrulls revealed they'd been covertly replacing heroes and officials for years in Secret Invasion and Norman Osborn, who killed the Skrull Queen on national TV, was appointed head of SHIELD in his place. He got the US to cut funding to SHIELD, effectively disbanding it since the US provided the lion's share of money to the agency, and then he started up the US-only HAMMER in its place. He stocked that and the Fifty-State Initiative with crooked agents and supervillains in sheep's clothing, declared Stark a fugitive because Stark wouldn't give up the database containing all of the heroes' registration information, and proceeded to basically corrupt everything Civil War had created.
While in power, Osborn called together his own version of the Illuminati called the Cabal, which consisted of himself, Doom, Namor, the Hood, and Loki. Loki also begins to advise Osborn while secretly driving him even crazier by masquerading as the Green Goblin in Osborn's mind. He ultimately drives Osborn to declare Asgard, which is floating over Oklahoma, an invading nation and attack it against the President of the US' orders. Steve Rogers has returned from the dead by this point, revealing that he'd actually been shot through time rather than killed. He rallies the US' true heroes against Osborn and they take him down relatively quickly, but the Sentry, who'd been manipulated by Osborn, finally loses control and unleashes the Void. The Void destroys Asgard but is in turn destroyed by the Sentry (internally) and Thor (externally).
Realizing that Osborn's gambit wouldn't have been possible without the registration act, Congress repeals it. The President names Steve Rogers the new Director of National Security (i.e. the guy in charge of the US' superhumans), and Steve promptly disbands HAMMER, arresting many of the most crooked agents, and reorganizes the Fifty-State Initiative as an Avengers-led coalition of voluntary heroes.
Peter Parker's identity was magically returned to being a secret as part of the mass of retcons in "One More Day." Someone else can go into the details of that because talking about that still annoys me.
