Ironhidensh wrote:Granted, it's been years since I read civil war, but I remember it slightly differently. The heroes o my had to register if they wanted to still be heroes. If you didn't want to register, it was fine, just hang up the cape. I remember Justice and Firestar quit rather than register. Ironman and co were hunting down those who refused to register, by kept playing the hero.
I remember being hilariously shocked that people who were typically big proponents of gun control were so against superhuman registration.
BIG part of it had to do with the tie ins. Miller wanted you to initially support Cap, then change your mind and decide Iron Man was right.
Other writers, for variors reasons, decided that Cap was the hero of the story and set about having Iron Man take unethical actions which pretty much secured him as the villian of the whole piece when all was said and done.
Ad to that Tony's side being the one to kill another hero, and Maria Hill trying to arrest Cap for refusing to enforce a law that hadn't been passed yet...
Whole story could have been done much better.