Avengers Cost NYC $160 Billion in Damages
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Well, in the comics they addressed this issue long ago by having things like "Damage Control Inc." which specializes in cleaning up after super battles.
It's important to also note that the whole "Reed Richards is useless" trope aside, technology invented by guys like him are also insturmental in this kind of thing. Basically if you have an entire universe of super beings out there, it presents solutions to a lot of the surrounding problems. In the movie-verse though there isn't enough supporting material to really explain it if in the next Marvel movies the city doesn't have parts of it still leveled.
Some super universes, especially those in RPGS (Gurps, or say White Wolf's old Aberrant setting) focus on civilly themed super-beings and even teams who do little more than public works and try and fill in the gaps between what other super beings do. Someone with say earth control powers, molecular control, magic, or similar things might be a great crime fighter or terrorist/villain, but not everyone is wired for that basically.
One interesting thing about the reconstructionist movement in comics is that it spells out in detail how problems coming from deconstruction such as "OMG the property damage" are generally solved by the concepts themselves.
(EDIT: Ooops, someone mentioned Damage Control already)
It's important to also note that the whole "Reed Richards is useless" trope aside, technology invented by guys like him are also insturmental in this kind of thing. Basically if you have an entire universe of super beings out there, it presents solutions to a lot of the surrounding problems. In the movie-verse though there isn't enough supporting material to really explain it if in the next Marvel movies the city doesn't have parts of it still leveled.
Some super universes, especially those in RPGS (Gurps, or say White Wolf's old Aberrant setting) focus on civilly themed super-beings and even teams who do little more than public works and try and fill in the gaps between what other super beings do. Someone with say earth control powers, molecular control, magic, or similar things might be a great crime fighter or terrorist/villain, but not everyone is wired for that basically.
One interesting thing about the reconstructionist movement in comics is that it spells out in detail how problems coming from deconstruction such as "OMG the property damage" are generally solved by the concepts themselves.
(EDIT: Ooops, someone mentioned Damage Control already)
They really need to make skyscrapers more durable. With anti-air missiles and lasers. Maybe go for a fortress-city in the mould of Tokyo-3... her skyscrapers able to retract underground when under attack.
I like it when they play to peoples' gullibility.
*points and laughs*
Lumber Barber said:
ima420r said:
I like it when they play to peoples' gullibility.
*points and laughs*
Bigger than Laufey's arse.wooty said:
Which is why they had one villain fighting a bunch of heroes?Marshall Honorof said:
Hey, actually, that'd be cool, having a bunch of evil opposites for all of them. And to truly be opposites they'd have to be interesting and not make jokes unless they are funny. On the other hand, you'd need them to be led by a rubbish evil Fury.
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Oh, and I'd say misleading title and all, only it's impossible that anyone was actually misled by it. Yeah, I know, people were this time, but even for Escapist titles it's obviously not true.
Costs twice as much as 9/11? It was a mother-f**king alien invasion intended to end or enslave all human life and seize a power source that could topple the foundations of galactic power.
I'm more impressed that it didn't damn well cost more. Besides I think the U.S.A. could claim monetary support from other nations for taking all of the damage from the aforementioned invasion attempt that would have ended up having lethal global consequences regardless of race, nationality, or theological belief.
And if they don't then America can just say, "Oh, well, I guess we'll just keep all this neat hyper-advanced alien weaponry and biotechnology for ourselves then."
I'm more impressed that it didn't damn well cost more. Besides I think the U.S.A. could claim monetary support from other nations for taking all of the damage from the aforementioned invasion attempt that would have ended up having lethal global consequences regardless of race, nationality, or theological belief.
And if they don't then America can just say, "Oh, well, I guess we'll just keep all this neat hyper-advanced alien weaponry and biotechnology for ourselves then."
$160 billion worth of damages in a single city vs. super-evil-villian-running-the-world...
Yeah, I think I know which I'd prefer.
Yeah, I think I know which I'd prefer.
Monetary costs aside, I wonder what the human death toll of that invasion would be?
Seems to be a common theme in huge PG-13 blockbusters like Transformers, GI Joe, The Avengers etc. Massive battles in a civilian population where you know hundreds of innocent people are dying in the crossfire but not a single one is actually shown onscreen.
There's several hundred dead right at the start when they start their surprise attack by blasting the hell out of the roads, but I think the largest number of deaths would have been when the big flying thing came in and deposited hundreds of ground troops into the buildings with the single-minded purpose of hunting down and killing anyone they saw. Since everyone who survived the initial bombardment would have retreated into the buildings for safety, we're talking multiple thousands at that point. Like 10 times the number of deaths in 9/11 at least.
Seems to be a common theme in huge PG-13 blockbusters like Transformers, GI Joe, The Avengers etc. Massive battles in a civilian population where you know hundreds of innocent people are dying in the crossfire but not a single one is actually shown onscreen.
There's several hundred dead right at the start when they start their surprise attack by blasting the hell out of the roads, but I think the largest number of deaths would have been when the big flying thing came in and deposited hundreds of ground troops into the buildings with the single-minded purpose of hunting down and killing anyone they saw. Since everyone who survived the initial bombardment would have retreated into the buildings for safety, we're talking multiple thousands at that point. Like 10 times the number of deaths in 9/11 at least.
