MU's General Populace views on the Heroes?

[The Fury]

Lately there has been a lot of evidence that some superhumans that are completely unknown or worked in secret are actually know in the MU by the general public. But some of it is kind of odd as a lot of these heroes are not seen as heroes in the MU or that they are not of the Celebrity status like the FF or avengers.

Evidence of this is:

In Young Avengers, the YA knew who Jessica Jones was. Not only that they knew her by her real name as well as her code name Jewel. Now although I can see them knowing somehow, but she was said to be very popular over the internet fanbases. for a character (yeah with a recently made up history) that didn't do much world saving before she was controlled by Purple Man for so many years she's pretty well known.

Next Runuaways #3, Victor knew who Turbo, DarkHawk, Chamber and Lightstream (is that her name?) were. Now Turbo yeah, but the others shouldn't be that well know right? He even said that Chamber was in Generation X, I could have sworn at the time they were arround they would have been more of a Urban myths then well known superheroes. Of course he didn't know who Ricochet was, but that was part of the joke.

Also, in Uncanny X-men, during X-23's first appearence in that books she was in a nightclub that had a superhero theme, now while most the people there were Earth heroes, many were not, some of these non-Earth based heroes probably never even visited earth or only did a few times yet they knew of them. The most obvious one being X-23's costume, Fang of the Imperial Guard died early on in his carreer in comics and never once was one Earth (as far as I know), ye the she still knew of him.

Of course then there are the normal views already known, Sipder-man being viewed as a menace becuase of The Bugle. FF being Celebs, same goes for the Avengers.

The X-men used to be more of an Urban Myth, but now they are a World wide Organisation with The 2 X-men teams, home and away, X.S.E. And X-corp bases.

But then the general Public might view the Thunderbolts as villians, still.

So I'm wondering how they knew all this stuff? What their views on other heroes are? or does any of this stuff above seem wrong to you as they shouldn't know the stuff they do (SHIELD maybe but not the general public)?

[Tommy]

To Quote Monkey Joe: A vigilante operating as an Urban Myth only works for the first year of continuity. Tops.

[Gorakmev]

To Quote Monkey Joe: A vigilante operating as an Urban Myth only works for the first year of continuity. Tops.

Well said!

Arana has only been around for a few months comic time and she is already known in some circles. I think that the general public likes to watch supers like a sitcom or reality show. I'm sure they have groups that are between poparrazi (spelling?) and tornado chasers that try to track down info on any and all supers.

[StoneGold]

On two in particular, Jessica Jones' star probably was elevated after she became the superhero columnist for the Bugle. Also, Darkhawk used to be an Avenger, so that's a little more high profile than some of the rest.

[Tommy]

On two in particular, Jessica Jones' star probably was elevated after she became the superhero columnist for the Bugle. Also, Darkhawk used to be an Avenger, so that's a little more high profile than some of the rest.
A young man named Malcom also found Jessica Jones in Alias based off the internet.

[Crimson]

I see it more like those guys who believe in aliens... myth or not there are guys out there who know all these theorys on aliens and such. Then it slowly spreads out to the general public dressing up for fancy dress partys as little green men etc.

Not the best explanation but it fits, kinda.

[glennsim]

There's also the simple fact that the artists don't really care too much about that when drawing things like the bar scenes. It's more fun to see how many costumes they can put in there, without worrying about whether someone would actually wear that costume.

That being said, it's generally established that all of the super-heroes have comic books published that retell their stories. There's probably some group of folks who chase down the heroes and get them to give them info on their adventures, to make the comics from. In that situation, they might have access to the lesser-known characters.

[Grimm]

There's also the simple fact that the artists don't really care too much about that when drawing things like the bar scenes. It's more fun to see how many costumes they can put in there, without worrying about whether someone would actually wear that costume.

That being said, it's generally established that all of the super-heroes have comic books published that retell their stories. There's probably some group of folks who chase down the heroes and get them to give them info on their adventures, to make the comics from. In that situation, they might have access to the lesser-known characters.

Yeah during Reed Richards' trial John Byrne was actually summoned by Uatu to document the proceedings LOL