Avengers: The Initiative

After Stamford, Connecticut was destroyed during a televised fight between the New Warriors and a group of dangerous villains, a federal Superhuman Registration Act was passed. All individuals possessing paranormal abilities must now register with the government. Disagreement over the Act split the superhuman community in two, with Tony Stark--Iron Man--as the figurehead for the pro-registration movement and Captain America leading the anti-registration resistance. Now, with Captain America's surrender and assassination, the superhuman Civil War is over. Tony Stark has been appointed director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the international peacekeeping force. He has set into motion THE INITIATIVE, a plan for training and policing super heroes in this brave new world, intended to position a local super hero team in each of America's fifty states.