LogFAQs > #910084367

Registration and forced monitoring, with some probably being quickly ID'd and winding up in labs. I know fiction has cops secretly supporting vigilantes, that's less likely to fly IRL. Plus groups like the ACLU would make conventional crime-fighting impossible, so heroes would likely be used more for disaster relief and possibly military-use.

It's kinda different in comics because heroes started out earlier, participated in the war effort, etc, so they'd gradually get better PR which carries over to the ones who followed them up. Heroes starting out today would more credibly be viewed with suspicion.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

EvilMegas posted...

I can see a forced registration system in place ala the Marvel universe. Just not as brutal.

Even in Marvel, it never really started out brutal.

Which was always sort of the point when the actual talented writers were telling stories about that sort of thing. It wasn't really until the later, talentless hacks started writing it as ham-fisted allegory that it became eye-rollingly stupid.

To be fair, hero sentiment would gradually change over time so the brutality would seem more permissible. And then eventually you have villains running these organizations so...
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