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Civil War (Earth-61615)

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Civil War
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Official Name
Aliases
Superhuman Civil War, Casualties of War, The Fight for Freedom, Divided We Fall, Great Heroic Conflict, War of Heroes
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Event Details
Creators
Locations
New York City; Stamford, Connecticut; several other cities and states across the United States among other countries covered by the Registration
Characters
Heroes
Captain America (founder and leader of the anti-registration),
Iron Man (main representative of the pro-registration and director of the Initiative & U.S.Avengers),
Ultimates (anti-registration, pro-registration, and neutral parties)
Villains
Super criminals (un/registered), Mark Gruler (event mastermind)

Event Synopsis

Prelude

Following a series of catastrophic tragedies in the spring of 2015, which ended with the superhuman conflict between the Ultimate Alliance and the Movement Alliance known as the Ultimate War, exactly 117 countries from the United Nations, along with the final straw of the recent Geneva Conventions in the months following the war, have come to a conclusive decision in the following year to pass a set of legal documents contained by the legislative law known as the Superhuman Registration Act.

The legislation required all living enhanced or super-powered individuals and organizations involving the latter, both public and private, and both operating superhero and (former and reoccurring) incarcerated villain, across the globe in order to fully reveal their identities to the public, to disclose their powers, abilities, and personal background, and to register as government employees or risk indefinite incarceration, or as public officials would like to call it "retirement" for the rest of the heroes' lives until they would find another livelihood with their superpowers that didn't involve crimes or crime-fighting.

The Superhuman Registration Act had been a long time in the making, even before the Ultimate War, when it has only been finally officiated shortly afterwards. The Superhuman Registration Act, however, had only arose following the sudden rise of global Inhuman population that S.H.I.E.L.D. had failed to prevent, the uncontrollable activities committed by various mutants across the world, and several notable conflicts that involved the Avengers, and every other private heroic organization without the authoritative access and permission. With most people remembering the millions of casualties and destruction that both unintentionally and intentionally was caused by the chaos of Ultimate War, had subsequently put a lot of public support for the registration act at around 50% almost across the entire globe.

Civil War

The act's purpose was to serve a "middle point" between every hero's desire to secure their local and global communities, ideally promote world peace, and the international community's concern over the repercussions of the Avengers and the entirety of the Ultimates' actions. However, this decision had caused a deeply, scarring rift in the heroic community by early 2016, with some backing the act while some others oppose it. This separation has ignited a great superhuman Civil War that pitted the two main sides, the pro-registration forces and the anti-registration insurgency, against each other which extremely tested their moral ideologies, beliefs, and overall responsibility as heroes, with the Anti-Registration questioning their freedoms and the right to choose as a righteous role of being a hero and sincere defender across the globe.

Unbeknownst to everyone besides Captain America and his closest of allies within the Anti-Registration organization, was semi-orchestrated by the mysterious terrorist Mark Gruler, who sought to exact revenge against the Avengers for his family's deaths during the Chitauri Invasion. On his plan trying to find and confront the true mastermind that has caused the war in the first place, Rogers tried to constantly convince Stark and his allies to help him, but the latter refused to listen, believing that Rogers was just having a hard time dealing to cope with the registration act, and the two factions engaged in a great chaotic fight across several locations throughout the country that resulted in overall mass destruction.

Despite all of this, however, the heroes against the legislative act used an effective distraction in order to give Rogers and few selected others a chance to track down the final true location of Gruler (who later revealed himself to be the son of the late deceased Baron Heinrich Zemo, Helmut) and confront him once and for all, subsequently defeating him and handing him to the authorities for his crimes, only to inevitably cause most members within the anti-registration to be arrested in the end for violating the act, imprisoning most of them for a long time inside the maximum security prison facility known as the Raft.

Aftermath

Only days after Captain America and the secret faction of the Avengers had successfully stopped Helmut Zemo, the true identity of Mark Gruler and the instigator of both superhuman Ultimate War and the Civil War, the heroic team officially disbanded in the meantime due to the fact that the registration act's continuation as a strict law of the nations, although a small portion of the Anti-Registration known as the secret Avengers have courageously continued operating in the shadows while the others have remained hidden within settlements several across the world, keeping themselves as unnoticeable as possible from the strict authorities, including the Pro-Registration forces, who deemed to apprehend them on sight if they're immediately spotted by the latter.

In the aftermath of the superhuman Civil War, the World Security Council had to hold Maria Hill on stand-by in response to her questionable decision to help out the separated Anti-Registration faction of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was led by former director Phil Coulson, escape capture from the authorities during the final stand-off in New York. For the next several months, the council decided to hold Hill's position while they find her replacement, and unbeknownst to anyone, Hill and acting director Jeffrey Mace had already made contact with Coulson in secret, to which they mutually agreed to have Coulson replace Hill as secret co-directors with Mace from that moment forward, believing that the only other person besides Nick Fury who should lead the organization was Coulson himself.

At the time since the apprehension of Mark Gruler, who was revealed to be the main alias of the one Helmut Zemo, the legal accords and documents that is the Superhuman Registration Act, remained implemented by the United Nations and was even taken advantage of by Norman Osborn with H.A.M.M.E.R. and his menacing roster of Avengers after the earth-shattering Secret Invasion, which revealed that at least a million Skrulls have replaced or "simmed" some of the most powerful and influential humans on the planet under the subservience of their fanatic queen, while certain factions have even harvested the superpowers of known individuals from their DNAs and increased the number of Super-Skrulls whose powers surpassed the first, strengthening the armies of the off-world invaders against its mightiest heroes.

Around 2017, it took the combined efforts of superheroes and supervillains, as well as various allied intel from the shadows to counteract the Super-Skrulls and thwart the invasion. The divided wake of the Skrull invasion has only paved way for his Dark Reign to flourish across the country for a few more years right until the aftermath of the Infinity War in 2020, wherein both leaders of both sides, as it was first demanded by Stark for his old friend Rogers, peacefully demanded the United Nations to finally abolish the act in the following year, after both sides have reunited into saving the Earth from the cosmic threat of Thanos, ultimately ending the drift caused by the Registration Act and the heroic civil war, once and for all.

Notable Participants

Pro-Registration Faction[]

Registered Heroes[]

Registered Superhumans[]

  • Ghost
  • Swarm
  • Spymaster
  • Swordsman
  • Tinkerer
  • Bowman (killed in action)
  • Hobgoblin (defected; later arrested)
  • Electro (defected; later arrested)
  • Klaw (defected; later arrested)
  • Lorelei (Ubanu) (defected; escaped arrest)
  • Sabretooth (defected; escaped arrest)
  • Prowler (defected; escaped arrest)
  • Crimson Dynamo (Petrovich) (defected; killed in action)

S.H.I.E.L.D. (Maria Hill's Faction)[]

European Defense Initiative[]

Department of Damage Control[]

  • Anne Marie Hoag (director)
  • Kathleen O'Meara (vice director; killed in action)
  • Norman Osborn (agent, consultant to S.H.I.E.L.D.)
  • Albert Cleary (supervisor of the Young Avengers)
  • Sadie Deever
  • Lenny Ballinger
  • Abigail Dunton

Young Avengers (Iron Lad's Faction)[]

  • Iron Lad
  • Stature
  • Vision (Jonas)
  • Speed
  • Debrii
  • Renascence (killed by the Sentry)
  • Microbe (killed by the Sentry)

Thunderbolts[]

  • Red Hulk
  • Songbird
  • Radioactive Man
  • Fixer
  • Skein
  • Black Widow (Belova) (situational agent)
  • Speed Demon (presumed deceased)
  • Meteorite (killed by the Sentry)
  • Charcoal (killed by the Sentry)
  • Troll (killed by the Sentry)
  • Jolt (killed by the Sentry)
  • Atlas (killed by the Sentry)

Civilian Supporters[]

Anti-Registration Faction[]

Opposed Heroes[]

Unregistered Superhumans[]

  • Elektra (killed in action)
  • Winter Soldier
  • Ghost Rider
  • Red Queen
  • Turbo
  • Penance
  • Outlaw
  • Guillotine
  • Lady Deathstrike
  • Shocker (later arrested)
  • Jack O'Lantern (later arrested)
  • Mulholland (later arrested)
  • Angar the Screamer (killed in action)
  • Black Mamba (killed in action)
  • Goldbug (killed in action)
  • Stilt-Man (killed in action)
  • Spider-Slayer (killed in action)
  • Noh-Varr (defected from the pro-registration; later arrested)
  • Monstro (defected from the pro-registration; killed in action)

Fantastic Four[]

X-Men[]

S.H.I.E.L.D. (Phil Coulson's Faction)[]

  • Phil Coulson (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Quake (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Melinda May (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Alphonso Mackenzie (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Jemma Simmons (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Leo Fitz (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Agent 13 (defected from the pro-registration)

Young Avengers (Patriot's Faction)[]

  • Hawkeye (Bishop) (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Patriot (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Hulkling (defected from the pro-registration)
  • Wiccan
  • Night Thrasher

Defenders[]

The Brotherhood[]

  • Magneto
  • Mystique
  • Blob
  • Toad
  • Polaris (later arrested)
  • Juggernaut (killed by Magneto)

Civilian Opponents[]

Neutral & Unacknowledged Parties[]

X-Men[]

Masters of the Mystic Arts[]

Inhuman Royal Family[]

  • Black Bolt (current king)
  • Medusa (current queen)
  • Crystal
  • Gorgon
  • Karnak
  • Lockjaw

Impartial Civilians[]


Notes

  • While the main Civil War only lasted for a year: around 2016 and to an extent 2017, in the first few months of Norman Osborn's Dark Reign (wherein the Void's massacre had taken place), the Superhuman Registration Act remained in effect throughout its supporting states across the globe in a total of five (5) years, until it was officially repealed or abolished by the United Nations in early 2021.
  • Some of the named heroes and villains who participated or abstained from the event would later reveal themselves to be Skrull imposters under the governance of Queen Veranke (posing as Spider-Woman) during their Terran Protocol in 2017, otherwise known as Secret Invasion.
    • Most of the people they impersonated were rescued by the Ultimates from Skrull-infiltrated compounds during the height of the invasion, while the rest were either missing unrelated to the Skrulls (most would resurface later on) or died prior to their takeover, notably during Ultimate War.

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