Ok this idea has been bugging me enough since I suggested it that I had to put it down here for a proper discussion. Feel free to chime in on how to work things or rant about how much it sucks.
And on the idea of the US passing a law banning supers from using mass transportation or their powers to leave the sinking ship:
So there's the crux of it. The US tries to pull their registration act and pretty much triggers a mass exodus to other countries to handle crime and corruption there, where people will let them do what they need to do. Whether Iron Man goes as well and moves Stark Enterprises to be headquartered in another location is up for debate. I could very easily see Spiderman going either way with this. On one hand he's a guilt-whore that might want to sacrafice himself for the greater good and set an example. On the other hand, he has Aunt May and MJ to worry about.
Cap and most of the Avengers are gone, possibly helping to form a new version of Alpha Flight for Canada. I could easily see Wolverine using his own national connections to get the X-men proper and the kids at the Academy moved to Canada as well. At best you have maybe a tenth, more likely less, of the supers (hero, villain, and neutral) that are at large in the US remaining there, a PR nightmare as the more savvy and well liked like Shulkie admonish the government through the media from a continent away for chasing their own superheroes out after every threat pops up that they clearly can't handle.
And of course you have Doom snapping up supporters that are willing to follow his rule of law in exchange for evacuating them after the US presumably tries to close the borders and stem the exodus. World power balances shift as people that could laugh off tactical nukes are no longer defending the old US of A.
How does this change things?
And on the idea of the US passing a law banning supers from using mass transportation or their powers to leave the sinking ship:
So there's the crux of it. The US tries to pull their registration act and pretty much triggers a mass exodus to other countries to handle crime and corruption there, where people will let them do what they need to do. Whether Iron Man goes as well and moves Stark Enterprises to be headquartered in another location is up for debate. I could very easily see Spiderman going either way with this. On one hand he's a guilt-whore that might want to sacrafice himself for the greater good and set an example. On the other hand, he has Aunt May and MJ to worry about.
Cap and most of the Avengers are gone, possibly helping to form a new version of Alpha Flight for Canada. I could easily see Wolverine using his own national connections to get the X-men proper and the kids at the Academy moved to Canada as well. At best you have maybe a tenth, more likely less, of the supers (hero, villain, and neutral) that are at large in the US remaining there, a PR nightmare as the more savvy and well liked like Shulkie admonish the government through the media from a continent away for chasing their own superheroes out after every threat pops up that they clearly can't handle.
And of course you have Doom snapping up supporters that are willing to follow his rule of law in exchange for evacuating them after the US presumably tries to close the borders and stem the exodus. World power balances shift as people that could laugh off tactical nukes are no longer defending the old US of A.
How does this change things?
