So, Wandavision?

[Staffan]

I don't think there are any laws on the books about that...

I'm pretty sure most jurisdictions have laws against desecrating the dead (exhuming, eating, mutilation, other stuff) without special permissions. I don't know if most call out necromancy specifically, but that's generally what it would fall under.

 

[Staffan]

They're probably in the U.S., given Thor's connection to the Avengers. Were I the U.S., I'd give them their own place with the understanding that in return they defend the U.S. against any and all invaders.

No, Endgame specifies that they're in Norway, in a village named Tønsberg. This is also where Odin hid the Tesseract.

 

[Tonguez]

I don't think there are any laws on the books about that...

I got intrigued by this comment and thus googled and have discovered that Article 17.1 of the San Francisco Municipal Code says the Chief of Police shall grant fortunetelling permits to practitioners and includes use of Necromancy.
There are also a couple of laws about the use of magic in general.

Also treatment of the dead is covered by a few acts and common law traditions

 

[Maxperson]

No, Endgame specifies that they're in Norway, in a village named Tønsberg. This is also where Odin hid the Tesseract.

I didn't remember that. Seems the U.S. missed out on a prime opportunity.

 

[Staffan]

I didn't remember that. Seems the U.S. missed out on a prime opportunity.

I can't recall if it's specified, but it's strongly suggested that it is the same place where Odin died in Ragnarok. He did tell Thor and Loki "Remember this place. Home."

 

[BRayne]

I can't recall if it's specified, but it's strongly suggested that it is the same place where Odin died in Ragnarok. He did tell Thor and Loki "Remember this place. Home."

As well as "This could be Asgard"

 

[MoonSong]

Crisis on Infinite Earths
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!
Infinite Crisis
Final Crisis
Flashpoint
Convergence
Doomsday Clock
Dark Nights: Metal
Dark Nights: Death Metal.

All of these include resets of one form or another, and it is by far not an exhaustive list.

Yes, these are cosmic resets, but the narratives of each character keep going forward despite the changes to the universe. We don't know which events remain in canon, but the character progression remains. Time keeps advancing in DC. Batman's sons are still around and their evolving relationship with each other is part of the charm, Superman remains a married father of a young super, Old Wally and his children are still out at large. People keep growing, maturing, finding love and getting married. While in Marvel, everybody is stagnant, getting reset to square one after each major shake up. The only recent development that stuck was Captain Marvel taking that mantle, though she herself keeps going back through her recurrent personal crises. Marvel refuses to let their characters grow and change, and that has made them less relatable in the long run.

 

[Umbran]

I'm pretty sure most jurisdictions have laws against desecrating the dead (exhuming, eating, mutilation, other stuff) without special permissions. I don't know if most call out necromancy specifically, but that's generally what it would fall under.

If the supposedly deceased person is standing there, is cogent, and doesn't object? Unlikely.

 

[Umbran]

Marvel refuses to let their characters grow and change, and that has made them less relatable in the long run.

I am not sure I agree, since Peter Parker is no longer a high school kid with a side hustle of taking pictures for the Daily Bugles. But there's a major point to be made here...

Broadly speaking, there's a span of time a person reads comics, and, last I read, it was 2-4 years. The bulk of comics (also meaning - the bulk of DC/Marvel) readers pick them up somewhere in junior high or high school, and then stop in late high school or college, as their use of money changes. Comics can be an expensive hobby, after all.

So, while there are some diehards that will read for decades, they aren't the majority of the market. I think you'll find that the period of Marvel resets like that is... 2 to 4 years. This, as I understand it, is intentional. A typical reader will see only one or two such events for their favorite characters, and that's okay. They don't see the longer-term pattern.

I find DC heroes less relatable simply due to their sheer power. They are, by and large, gods. That's just hard to identify with.

 

[MarkB]

I am not sure I agree, since Peter Parker is no longer a high school kid with a side hustle of taking pictures for the Daily Bugles. But there's a major point to be made here...

Broadly speaking, there's a span of time a person reads comics, and, last I read, it was 2-4 years. The bulk of comics (also meaning - the bulk of DC/Marvel) readers pick them up somewhere in junior high or high school, and then stop in late high school or college, as their use of money changes. Comics can be an expensive hobby, after all.

So, while there are some diehards that will read for decades, they aren't the majority of the market. I think you'll find that the period of Marvel resets like that is... 2 to 4 years. This, as I understand it, is intentional. A typical reader will see only one or two such events for their favorite characters, and that's okay. They don't see the longer-term pattern.

I find DC heroes less relatable simply due to their sheer power. They are, by and large, gods. That's just hard to identify with.

I recall that it only took one such reset to turn me off from ever reading any more Spider-man, after having done so voraciously for a couple of years. That was the one at the end of the Clone saga.