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...and yet they had no problem making Osborn head of national security, even though he's a convicted felon and a proven mass murderer. Dude even blew up the cops who went to take him in for questioning over the disappearances of the employees (and one Bugle reporter) he'd been killing for jollies (it's worth noting that Bendis wrote that story). Even in the MarvelU, where it would be possible to make a plausible case and fabricate evidence that Osborn was possessed or brainwashed or swapped with a doppelganger, many people would still be reluctant to trust the guy, let alone see him put in ANY position of authority (look at the treatment Jessica Drew got when it came out the Skrull queen had been impersonating her for years - ANOTHER Bendis story). As it was, Osborn simply made a broadcast and was like "Yeah, that was me flying around on the mechanical bat in green and purple tights blowing shit up with exploding pumpkins and tossing the occasional blonde off a bridge, but now I'm on medication! It's all good," and yet people were STILL queuing up to hump his leg and give him absolute authority over the nation's security simply because he got in a lucky shot on the Skrull queen. Sigh... MU Americans, you disappoint me.

That SHIELD agent Hill mentioned? Is a fucking moron. As daningram and q99 pointed out, if anyone's to blame for Norman Osborn's continued existence, it's the justice system that fails to either contain him in an effective prison or kill him. It's the same bullshit argument as "Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker? Everything Joker does is Batman's fault for not killing him!"

And BTW, the "Hulk goes nuts in Las Vegas and kills 26 people thing"? That happened in an issue of JMS's FANTASTIC FOUR. What Hill conveniently DOESN'T mention is that SHIELD had HIRED Hulk to disarm a gamma bomb that had been hidden there by terrorists (can't remember who, AIM, maybe?), then the bomb went off in his face and amped him up whilst (somehow) causing him to suffer hallucinations of his loved ones dying, driving him berserk. That's a pretty good case for diminished responsibility right there, plus the Thing and the Human Torch, who were right there trying to contain him, would surely have mentioned it if anyone had been killed. However, Maria Hill, one of the primary enforcers of the Superhuman Registration Act on the basis that there needed to be "accountability", instead of holding up her hand and saying "Oh yeah, Hulk was there for us trying to take care of a terrorist threat, SHIELD should share part of the blame, along with whoever left the bomb there" throws Hulk under the bus and tries to put the blame on the supers community for not taking him down years ago. Also, she neglects to mention or put any blame on the US military, who had an entire organisation dedicated to exactly that purpose, for not stopping him (and a lot of the destruction Hulk has caused in populated areas was because of the Hulkbusters or else supervillains or even superHEROes showing up and provoking and attacking him as Hulk or as Banner). The hypocrisy is quite staggering.