Agreed, in principle. Don't get me wrong you're right about people being at the heart of this and that people are good, people are bad, people are saints and sinners. But the problem here isn't that superhumans don't deserve the same rights as the rest of us. They totally do. The problem however isn't what they deserve or even what perfectly non-powered or "normal" people are capable of. No. The problem with superhumans is the ease with which they can damage not just individual lives, not just society, but honestly the existence of the universe itself. People have tried and on this very site to equate it to something like gun control, but even that is a vastly flawed analogy. I could say something cliche like "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." And while that would be an argument, again it isn't one that gets to the core of the problem. Because yes people with powers could become corrupt everyone could potentially become corrupt. To that we could argue that for every person that is corrupt there could be many others trying to stop corruption, and that would be true as a counter argument. But to me the real problem isn't the people behind the powers, but rather the powers themselves. The examples I gave before were ones that should really frighten common people on principle but the ones that are scary in that way aren't even close to being particularly dangerous in comparison if you look at the most dangerous.
What would have happened if Scarlet Witch had said "No more anything!"
Honestly the scope of some powers means that there are literally no defense against them. Sure other heroes are there to protect the public from what they can. But what happens if they fail? What happens if they don't see the next one coming? PhoenixoftheTides makes a good point about heroes not really being that different from villains. Heroes are given a lot of autonomy and that helps them usually when they need to make things happen quick, but really in the end whom do they actually answer to? To whom does any superhuman actually answer to if the scope of their power is great enough? The governments in their universes for the most part really don't have an answer to that question. Except to pretend that the question doesn't exist. Everyone just sort of lets the chips fall as they may but even when something like Civil War happened, what could the government or the people really do? Even with the best technology they could muster how do you stop beings that could break galaxies or reality.
yeah, in a way, it is like they're really only answerable to each other. The Avengers or whoever only need to exist in the first place because they aren't the only ones with super powers; they sort of represent the humanity of power (that often seems absent in our own world, where the people with the most power are almost never motivated by anything as altruistic as heroism or justice), and in that way they, collectively, are a type of ultimate authority. But, as individuals, they each represent a different ideal, and therefore, a different answer to that question.
Ultimately, there's never going to be a threat that can't be stopped in a Marvel comic book, because that would mean that the story (and by proxy, the debate in general) was over. (I guess the closest analogies would be the dystopian futures or Zombie-verse stories). But because they live in a world with multiple factions of super-powered people, they keep each other in check at least enough that we don't end up with a Squadron Supreme type situation. The Avengers themselves are technically still answerable to the government, and SHIELD and stuff, which puts them at a political disadvantage to deal with threats from the government (as we saw in Civil War or Dark Reign, for example), and while groups like the X-men may retain varying degrees of autonomy, they are still answerable to the Avengers and vice verse.
As illustrated by stories like House of M, AvsX, or the Illuminati, the superhero world of the Avengers knows full well that they can't afford to have the so-called mutant community against them. In that way, there is a kind of balance. As you point out, characters like the Scarlet Witch, the Beyonder, or even little Franklin Richards all represent potential threats to that balance, but, ultimately, only in a hyperbolic sense.
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