Warning : SPOILERS for Invincible Iron Man # 1Marvel’sIron Manfinally explains why the rip in New York City is so atrociously mellow - and why the same is n’t the compositor’s case within the Marvel Universe . New York City is likely the most important location within Marvel comics ; many superheroes lock from within city limits ( and even more writer call the city home base ) . ButInvincible Iron Man # 1reveals why so many canafford to live in the troublesome NYC- even someone as down - on - his - luck as Spider - Man .

Almost every major Avenger yell New York home . Captain America , Captain Marvel , Spider - Man , Iron Man , the Fantastic Four and the X - piece were all born in , live in , or maneuver within the city . Perhaps because of this , legion villain are ground out of New York as well , chief among themNorman Osborn , the former Green Goblin . New Your also seems to be the heart and soul of the MCU , asThe Incredible Hulk , The Avengers , Spider - ManandDoctor Strangeare all set in or around the monolithic city .

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InInvincible Iron Man # 1 , written by Gerry Duggan with art by Juan Frigeri , Tony Stark decides to publish his memoirs and make them in public uncommitted . His funds have tend completely ironical after defeating the weapon - deal Source Control companionship by merely buying up every single weapon in their stock . As such , he has lost his billionaire condition , and reminisces about his past abidance . “Former Avengers Tower , formerly Stark Tower . I dunno what it is now . Rent was gimcrack ‘cause it used to get attacked . Point is , I do n’t own that either . “says Stark , while at the same clip explaining the remainder between NYC in the real world and in the Marvel Universe .

NYC Rent Is Cheap Because The City Keeps Getting Attacked

New York is indeed a attracter for world - stop conquerors , blank space foreigner and godlike automatic beings in the Marvel Universe . In 2022 alone , Devil ’s Reignsparked a state of war against superheroes in the city limits , Judgment Daydestroyed and rebuilt Manhattan , Fantastic Four : Reckoning Warbegan with pieces of the moonshine raining on Midtown , andDark Webbrought inanimate physical object to life history with murderous tendency . It is no small wonder , then , that the Mary Leontyne Price of a New York apartment ( or a skyscraper ) plummets in the aftermath of every major Marvel event .

Currently , Iron Man can no longer afford an apartment in New York City ( at least , one with a skylight - a characteristic that he perfectly ask ) . That being said , split is apparently quite cheesy in the Marvel Universe ’s version of the Big Apple , considering the fact thatUltron of Doctor Doom could attempt to take over the cityat any time . Thanks toIron Man , readers now know that for all the threats in the Marvel Universe ’s edition of New York City , at least the tear is cheap .

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