Marvel New York Heroes Create A Huge Comics Plot Hole
Galactic alien attacks and otherworldly invasions are par for the course for most regular citizens of the Marvel Comics Universe, but regular folk who live in New York City are subjected to constant death, destruction, and horror, begging the question: How does anyone without powers (or tons of money) live there anymore? The decision to make New York a hub for superhuman activity was a very intentional decision by Marvel Comics and Stan Lee, but after literal decades of invasions and mass destruction, one of comics' biggest plot holes is how the heroes have anyone left there to save.
The New York City of Marvel is home to dozens of superheroes, with almost every block of the city being monitored by at least one street level hero and several Avengers-level heroes, but this has done nothing to stop the city from being wrecked and New Yorkers from being killed. In fact, it can be argued that New York City is destroyed by the heroes themselves, or because of them, as much as it has been destroyed by invading aliens. Marvel Comics is aware of this problem in its universe, as this was basically the platform on which former Mayor of New York City Wilson Fisk got into office and enacted his «Devil's Reign» plan, blaming the heroes for bringing the constant destruction of the city.
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Marvel's New York City has often been represented as the «ideal city,» not being able to be fully corrupted by evil unlike its DC counterpart Gotham, but the truth is that New York has fallen, many times over, in ways that surely have severely traumatized its citizens. New York has been destroyed by the Skrulls, the Beyonder, Madelyn Pryor the Goblin Queen, Knull, Malekith, Hydra,
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