Arguments against registration.

[Mad Thinker]

I'm still waiting for The 50 State Initiative - Homecoming series where each of the 50 State Initiative teams chooses one section of New York City to protect.

So you have a team of wealthy heroes for the Wall Street area, a team of nature-based heroes for Central Park, a team of black heroes for Harlem, etc. And the Great Lakes Avengers get Flushing.

[Spatula]

Huh, to this non-USian, SHIELD always seemed like a US agency in all but name every time I've seen it in comics or cartoons.

I mean, almost every time I've seen the helicarrier its hovering above New York. Okay, that might be because the three shows I've seen it in (Avengers EMH, Ultimate Spiderman and Iron Man Armoured Adventures) have all been set in New York.

SHIELD started out as a US spy agency, but at some point it was made a part of the UN. Wiki notes that SHIELD was "initially depicted as affiliated with the United States government. Later, S.H.I.E.L.D. was depicted as under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, with vast technological resources at its disposal, with U.N. General Assembly Resolutions and legislation passed in signatory nations aiding many of their operations. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been inconsistently portrayed as under U.S., rather than U.N., control, possibly by writers unaware of the agency's fictional history."

The Avengers followed a similar track - for a long time they were sanctioned by the US govt, but in Avengers #329 (I only know this because it was just added to the digital library today and I was browsing the issue) they lost their US govt charter and reformed as part of the UN.

[MidnightBlue]

The Avengers followed a similar track - for a long time they were sanctioned by the US govt, but in Avengers #329 (I only know this because it was just added to the digital library today and I was browsing the issue) they lost their US govt charter and reformed as part of the UN.

Which actually brings up a very relevant point to this overall thread...

At one time, the Avengers needed a US charter to operate for some reason.

A mini registration or governmental oversight precedent for the SHRA perhaps?