Pro Registration had a couple of valid ideas
Accountability - so that heroes were responsible for the damage they inflicted
Training - is necessary so that superpowered can use their abilities better
Unfortunately the Pro side lost me when Tony orchestrated a fake assassination attempt to get the Act passed and it only got worse from there. From bugging Spiderman to blackmailing superheroes, to starting international incidents to garner support for the 50 state initiative. It all smacked too much of fear mongering to gain power.
Honestly if the Marvel Universe had any semblance to human behavior. Heroes who were hunted down and imprisoned without trial for failing to list themselves to the government would have either given up on heroics or become radicalised against the government.
If the pro Registration side had a decent argument or rationale it wouldn't have tried to attack Captain America the second he baulked at rounding up other heroes or needed a Thor clone to enforce the stupidity.
The better option would have been the reveal to a scared angry public that all superheroes under the age of 18 who wished to engage in super heroics would have a training environment with the legendary Avengers supervising would have been far more effective.
I'm amazed that Wiccan or any of the other countless heroes that Tony Stark imprisoned didn't come after him for locking them up. I guess that would have been too realistic.
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