Law and the Multiverse

A few works of pop culture, most notably The Incredibles, have speculated about how superheroes might be affected by the legal system. Few have actually attempted to apply the real-life legal system to such sticky superhero problems as testifying in court, maintaining a secret identity, or accumulating and holding property for longer than a normal human life span. And these are simple when compared to the huge snarl of legal difficulties that might arise from dying and being resurrected even once, let alone spinning around in a revolving door of temporary mortality the way some denizens of the comics multiverse seem to do. This very interesting blog, apparently written by an attorney or law student who is also a raging comics fan, attempts to fill the gap.

The political populist in me notes that corporations, which lack not only mortality but most of the other positive attributes of human beings, have rather neatly managed to evade all of these difficulties. Perhaps superheroes should simply incorporate themselves.