Anonymous user
Super Registration Act: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
Line 81:
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Champions]] 5th Edition'' [[Tabletop Games]] has a Superhuman Registration Act in its game universe [[Backstory]]. It uses it in an uncommonly sensible fashion -- widespread public protests were unable to get it formally repealed, but it's now a law that the government virtually never tries to enforce, let alone use as an excuse for metahuman conscription. Several of the most prominent superhero teams of the Champions Universe have officially registered and sanctioned themselves, but many superheroes have chosen not to, with little official interference in their lives. It still remains on the books, but it's normally used only as the legal authority to demand (and record, and distribute) the true identity of any metahuman already being arrested on another criminal charge. However, the lives of registered metahumans are made easier in several ways as compared to unregistered ones -- they can testify in court without having to reveal their secret identities publically (as those identities have already been revealed to the government and are thus available to the court, if not the public), they are offered opportunities for basic law enforcement training and certification as deputies, etc. They do need to follow certain guidelines - not killing opponens unless completely unavoidable, trying to avoid colateral damage and such, however.
** Technically, those that are not registered are considered to be vigilanties and, as such, criminals. This is rarely enforced except in extreme cases; Vigilantes who kill opponents are considered criminals and are hunted by the law.
** Supervillains get no such option; those that are cpatured have their identity, powers and abilities recorded by the government, with that information being, in turn, sent to law enforcement agencies and registered superhero groups to help them. This is compliant with real-world law in that people being booked for an arrest have no expectation of privacy re: their fingerprints, vital statistics, and other identifying measures.
** All countries have theiy own, sometimes radically different ways with the Registration Act: In China, all Supers, as soon as they notice their powers, have to register and "voluntary" join the Tiger Squad, China's official super team - or be hunted down and killed. Japan, on the other hand, has a number of Superheroes working with and for the government, but no Registration Act at all.
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', being an unregistered mutant is punishable by death. Since just about ''every'' player character and NPC is a mutant of some sort or another, and very few are registered, things can get interesting very quickly.
| |||