I didn't read ANY of the tie-ins as I felt pretty strongly about it just being an Uncanny Avengers arc. Doing that did cause me to miss a semi important thing that happened in one of them, however, and that took me awhile to figure out that I had missed something and not that I was just losing it. It had to do with Mags, but it wasn't anything that we didn't know, I just missed the fact that Marvel did it
But the government powers thing? That can be said for most every hero title and hero fight. Wasn't most of the fighting in an alternate future as well? I honestly don't remember.

EDIT - But your umbrage over all of this is really high. You can stop reading it ya know
