Marvel Has a Depressing Solution For New York’s High Rent Problem

Warning: SPOILERS for Invincible Iron Man #1Marvel’s Iron Man lastly explains why the hire in New York City is so outrageously excessive – and why the identical is not the case throughout the Marvel Universe. New York City seems to be an important location inside Marvel comics; many superheroes function from inside metropolis limits (and much more writers name town residence). But Invincible Iron Man #1 reveals why so many can afford to dwell within the troublesome NYC – even somebody as down-on-his-luck as Spider-Man.

Almost each main Avenger calls New York residence. Captain America, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men have been all born in, lived in, or function throughout the metropolis. Perhaps due to this, quite a few villains are based mostly out of New York as properly, chief amongst them Norman Osborn, the previous Green Goblin. New Your additionally seems to be the middle of the MCU, as The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange are all set in or across the huge metropolis.

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In Invincible Iron Man #1, written by Gerry Duggan with artwork by Juan Frigeri, Tony Stark decides to put in writing his memoirs and make them publicly out there. His funds have run utterly dry after defeating the weapons-dealing Source Control firm by merely shopping for up each single weapon of their stock. As such, he has misplaced his billionaires standing, and reminisces about his previous residences. “Former Avengers Tower, formerly Stark Tower. I dunno what it is now. Rent was cheap ’cause it used to get attacked. Point is, I don’t own that either.” says Stark, whereas on the identical time explaining the distinction between NYC in the true world and within the Marvel Universe.

NYC Rent Is Cheap Because The City Keeps Getting Attacked

New York is certainly a magnet for world-ending conquerors, area aliens and godlike robotic beings within the Marvel Universe. In 2022 alone, Devil’s Reign sparked a warfare towards superheroes within the metropolis limits, Judgment Day destroyed and rebuilt Manhattan, Fantastic Four: Reckoning War started with items of the moon raining on Midtown, and Dark Web introduced inanimate objects to life with homicidal tendencies. It isn’t any small marvel, then, that the value of a New York residence (or a skyscraper) plummets within the aftermath of each main Marvel occasion.

Currently, Iron Man can not afford an residence in New York City (a minimum of, one with a skylight – a characteristic that he completely requires). That being stated, hire is seemingly fairly low cost within the Marvel Universe’s model of the Big Apple, contemplating the truth that Ultron of Doctor Doom might try and take over town at any time. Thanks to Iron Man, readers now know that for all of the threats within the Marvel Universe’s model of New York City, a minimum of the hire is affordable.

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