Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26375037-20150507030842/@comment-14267015-20150509050404

The problem with the Superhuman Registration Act was it didn't just involve registering your identity and powers with the government. Most were required to basically join the military and had to take orders from people who definitely were NOT qualified, trustworthy, or both. Younger people with powers were forced to undergo training. Sure that sounds nice, learning how to control their abilities, but they were being trained to become soldiers. I'm pretty sure this kind of "drafting" is illegal.

As for secret identities, Tony often had heroes who joined the SRA reveal who they were on television, including Spider-Man. This caused him more problems than anything else as his enemies now know who he was and JJJ even tried suing him. And even if only the government was informed who you were there would still be a record, and as we all know the government, even with superhero help, has terrible security. It would only be a matter of time before some mercenary broke in and sold that information to the highest bidder. Plus politicians are just can't be trusted, there I said it.

To make matters worse, the people in charge of the SRA accepted super villains into the service. Sure some were genuine in wanting to become better, but most were just trying to use the resources and information that became available to further their own plans. In short, it was just a horrible idea. I agree people with superpowers, gifts, or whatever need to be trained and, to a degree, monitored, but leave it to superheroes. The people also need to realize that the damage caused in battle by heroes and villains is more directly the fault of the villains. Typically anyway, guys the Hulk can go a bit overboard. They should really create some form of Damage Control to handle that.