So, Wandavision?

[Tonguez]

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

Just to note that although their main office seemed to be in NYC, SHIELD (and thus the Avengers Initiative) was under the jurisdiction of the World Security Council and is an international organisation.

Also although the movies seem to be US focussed a good amount of Avengers activity has been based elsewhere eg

• in Europe: recovery of Captain American in Greenland, the raid on Hydra Base, the battle in Sokovia. Peggy Carter was also a UK citizen
• Africa: The Lagos incident, battle of Johannesburg, invasion of Wakanda
• Asia: Doctor Strange training, Battle of Seoul (where Vision was recovered), Starks kidnapping in Afghanistan, the Busan mission (arrest of Klaue)

Theres very little reason to think that Thor would be more interested in moving Asgard to the US rather than Norway (where the Asgardians already have long history)

 

[Maxperson]

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.

I got turned off by all the huge storylines that spanned 8 different books and had to be read in a certain order. Sometimes I would miss one and it threw me off. I got frustrated and walked away from comics. Years later I walked in and took a peek and there were like 12 Spidermen, which I think is that Clone Saga you are mentioning. I walked back out. lol

 

[Maxperson]

Just to note that although their main office seemed to be in NYC, SHIELD (and thus the Avengers Initiative) was under the jurisdiction of the World Security Council and is an international organisation.

Also although the movies seem to be US focussed a good amount of Avengers activity has been based elsewhere eg

• in Europe: recovery of Captain American in Greenland, the raid on Hydra Base, the battle in Sokovia. Peggy Carter was also a UK citizen
• Africa: The Lagos incident, battle of Johannesburg, invasion of Wakanda
• Asia: Doctor Strange training, Battle of Seoul (where Vision was recovered), Starks kidnapping in Afghanistan, the Busan mission (arrest of Klaue)

Theres very little reason to think that Thor would be more interested in moving Asgard to the US rather than Norway (where the Asgardians already have long history)

It's apparently both. The Marvel Cinematic Universe Fandom site lists it as an American extragovernmental organization overseen by the World Security Council. SHIELD does seen very America focused, even though it does do world affairs.

 

[MoonSong]

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...

That's the past, like forty years ago. I'm talking more about recent developments (like ten/twenty years ago) They have stalled with their characters. Even if they follow the five year rule, DC also follows it, yet their characters aren't as stuck in time. This honestly makes Marvel feel artificial, and their stories to feel like a play on paper more than a story you can relate to.

 

[MarkB]

I got turned off by all the huge storylines that spanned 8 different books and had to be read in a certain order. Sometimes I would miss one and it threw me off. I got frustrated and walked away from comics. Years later I walked in and took a peek and there were like 12 Spidermen, which I think is that Clone Saga you are mentioning. I walked back out. lol

Possibly, but the one I'm thinking of only had two of them, Peter Parker and Ben Reilly. And went back and forth for ages as to which one was the original and which was the clone, while in the background Mary Jane got pregnant, quit modelling and started going to college, and Aunt May grew I'll and eventually died, not before revealing that she'd known Peter was Spider-Man almost from the start.

And then eventually Peter and MJ's newborn baby was kidnapped, MJ quit college and went back to modelling, the Ben Reilly Spider-Man who had been established as the real one dissolved into a puddle of clone goo, and in a truly ludicrous twist Aunt May was found alive and well with the revelation that the Aunt May who'd died was actually an actress engaged to unwittingly give the performance of her life.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

• in Europe: recovery of Captain American in Greenland, the raid on Hydra Base, the battle in Sokovia. Peggy Carter was also a UK citizen

So, even though Greenland is owned/run by Denmark, you do know it is physically part of North America, right? So no one would say you are in Europe, if you are in Greenland.

 

[Rune]

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

Worth keeping in mind that they undoubtedly are referring to the historical definition of “necromancy” (as opposed to the modern fantasy definition). That being, communicating with the dead (probably through seances, which were very popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries). In D&D, that would be divination.

 

[Tonguez]

So, even though Greenland is owned/run by Denmark, you do know it is physically part of North America, right? So no one would say you are in Europe, if you are in Greenland.

Err, everyone except us geeks, would say that Greenland is European - its been associated with Scandinavia for more than a millennium

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Err, everyone except us geeks, would say that Greenland is European - its been associated with Scandinavia for more than a millennium

Political ownership does not matter when it comes to physical location. Are you also going to say all the former British colonies were also European when they were not yet independent? Is Canada also European because they are still technically part of the British Empire?

Besides, go back and read the part of your post that I quoted. You did not say Greenland was European, you said it was in Europe. I do not see that when I look at a map.

 

[Umbran]

That was the one at the end of the Clone saga.

The Clone saga was just bad, though.