Lets just say that some supervillains were taken from comicdom and placed into our world. Which ones could the police/army/superpowers effectively take into custody and keep them there?
Say for example the Joker was caught and put in a mental asylum. Would he still be able to escape as easily as he does from Arkham?
If the US government somehow caught Magneto a la the first X-Men movie, would they be able to keep him safely (assuming he was at his movie power level, not how he's depicted in the comics)?
Basically, who could they detain, who would massacre them?
Magneto would be next to impossible to capture (I'm thinking an extremely long range plastic tranq dart) but could be feasibly contained in our world, just keep him a long way from any metals and continually fill the room with gas to keep him stable.
Comics magneto would be impossible to capture or imprison by real world tech. They wouldnt even know how to begin and unopposed by any superhumans he'd wreck all military power on the planet in a day or so. Movie magneto could probably be taken down as he didnt quite have shields and was far far weaker.
All street levellers could be handled without that much trouble in a world without PIS. Joker would be put high out of his mind in a cushioned cell and that'd be it.
True, a drug induced coma would work, the particular surroundings wouldn't matter all that much then.
Yes, but he wouldn't drop the shields while in battle, he'd never be defeated in battle - the most powerfull thing that could be thrown his way would be nukes which he can handle and no country would nuke itself - and there'd be no way to track him to a hideout. Nobody would even understand what the hell is going to begin with, his presence in the epicentre of a inexplicable storm of metal and lightning wouldn't be noticed and his existence wouldn't be considered possible and he can turn invisble to the entire EM spectrum.
If he declared war upon the world there'd be no stopping him. Same goes for all herald level characters, be them low, mid or high.
Well if you missed the dosage due to a slip-up you'd rather him not be surrounded by metal wouldn't you?
I'm not sure what Magneto would do in a world where he was the only mutant. He might just blend into society or he might try conquering it. But if Magneto really is just a well-intentioned extremist and not a Dr Doom-esque megalomaniac hiding behind a cause then he probably wouldn't "declare war" on a world that has no mutants in need of protection.
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Meh, he'd rip a chunk of a tectonic plate off and bash your head in with it just the same.
I think he'd look at our world as terribilly defective just like he views his own and might try to fix it by levelling the satus quo and or stablishing a new sovereignity. He has embraced environmental and social justice causes in the comics over the years, showing concern for the fate of the earth in and for itself (no just as resources for mutants) as well as for the wellbeing of baseline humans. Depends on the portrayal though, his latest years saw him become more and more mutant-only oriented and bitter.
All street level villains could be contained by real life law enforcement, even low superhumans, like those with strength in the Class 1-10 tons range could be handled cause they usually doesn't possess durability that equals their strength, so bullets, grenades, flamethrowers, rockets, would kill them for good. Movie Magneto was a joke. Comic Book Magneto would conquer this planet in a week.
Comic Magneto would conquer the planet in a day. He would simply obliterate all major world capitals shut down all communication and control of weapons in hours or minutes.
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