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SpeedDemon20 posted...

Also, what's up with the Sokovia accords? I feel like they were only ever used against Steve and friends. Black Panther and Spider-Man did whatever they wanted.

Technically, the Sokovia Accords only required a hero to register their secret identity, and require certain groups (specifically, SHIELD and the Avengers) to be answerable to the UN.

T'Challa's identity is essentially publicly known, and he also has effective diplomatic immunity as the sovereign ruler and representative of his nation, so the Accords don't apply to him on any level.

Peter presumably doesn't fall under the Accords because he acts as an individual rather than as part of a group (he's not technically an Avenger, even when he's with them). Though it's also worth considering that - as much as it makes zero sense contextually - the fact that he was actively working with Tony on a semi-regular basis, and Tony was a primary supporter of the Accords, it might be assumed that Spider-Man IS "registered" (albeit with his secret ID kept hidden, and only known to specific officials or SHIELD admins), if Tony encouraged him to do so. Though Tony being Tony, he might also have bent the rules a bit and deliberately kept Spider-Man "off the books".

By the current point in time in the movies, odds are the Sokovia Accords won't be valid much longer anyway, though. After the radical over-the-top consequences of the Snap, odds are most world governments will be far more lenient towards superhuman activity (as a counterbalance to extraterrestrial threats, if nothing else). We'll have to see if they keep the Accords as a meaningful setting element, or eventually repeal them.


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