Lets Count How Many Cities Marvel has Destroyed

[Kirk G]

To pursue a point made in another thread, let's count how many times Marvel has actually destroyed a major city in one of their books. Now, destroyed is a subjective term, so let's give some latitude here. If it was major widespread distruction, we'll count it.

To start us off, I'll list a few:

Wasn't it part of New York City or was it Baltimore that The Red Skull had detonated in the first Man Out of Time arc by Brubaker?

Didn't the Submariner wipe out the waterfront of NYC in Fantastic Four Annual #1? Or was that merely a threat?
The Thing carried an atomic bomb on his back into the heart of Giaganto in FF #4 with the Submariner as villian.

"Central City" does not answer" from about FF #290 or so came just at the end of Byrne's run, but the city technically wasn't destroyed.

The Baxter Building was lifted off into space both in FF #6 by Doom and again in the mid 268-ish Byrne run by Kristoff as Doom. But that doesn't count as the whole city.

The Red Skull lifted Manhattan in a bubble back in Tales of Suspense #89-90 or so with Gil Kane drawing. Now, the city was returned in place without dropping it, but that's the most vivid image I can recall.

Oh, and who can forget Pittsburgh being whiped out by a blast in the New Universe? That's got to be tough to get over....

How about Kang dropping a bomb over New York(?) in the 12 part New Centurian Sword of Damacies arc over in Avengers volume 3 circa 40-52?
Anyone else got any examples to cite? :D

[Red State Cap]

Kang utterly destroyed Washington DC in "The Kang Dynasty." Fortunately it got better.
Back in the day IIRC both Red Ronin and Terminus carved major swaths of destruction through New York.

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[Shellhead]

In the New Universe, Marvel reduced Pittsburgh to the Pitt, after a major energy discharge by Starbrand.

[Zombienorthstar]

She Hulk destoryed somewhere in Disassembled...there was that great issue of She Hulk when she went back to help with the clean up.

[Michael P]

She Hulk destoryed somewhere in Disassembled...there was that great issue of She Hulk when she went back to help with the clean up.
Bone, Idaho.

[The Foreigner]

Magneto destroys New York in Morrison's "New X-Men."

[Beast]

Magneto destroys New York in Morrison's "New X-Men."
You mean, Xorneto destroyed New York. ;) :D

[Web_Spinner]

I'm sure Denver felt some damage during the Secret Wars!!!

[Coolrush]

Tokyo got hit hard by Titannus in Marvel Team up 11-13.

[Nightcrawler]

Genosha, in New X-Men.

[maniacmatt]

North Pole, Alaska in New Avengers.
Also, whatever city Nitro blows up in CW...

[diabloman]

spiderman 1 and 2 xmen 1 and 2 are in NY as well. i looked it up and out of all the movies terminator 3 has done the most damage to a city. so far

[Shem the Penman]

Wasn't it part of New York City or was it Baltimore that The Red Skull had detonated in the first Man Out of Time arc by Brubaker?

Philadelphia.

And re lifting Manhattan: a group of aliens did the same thing in FF during Avengers Disassembled. Although they were courteous enough to return it. And of course, there's the infamous issue where Hercules has to somehow tow Manhattan back into place -- the wrong way around.

[Ogrebear]

In Marvel Graphic Novel: Futurians New York is destroyed by a metorite pulled from space by the 'bad guys'

Futurians is not in the main stream MU though...

[FrogMan]

San Francisco was completely destroyed in Transformers: Generation 2 # 11 (?).

Not sure about the issue number though.

[streator]

muir island has been destroyed a few times, most recently by mystique in the dream's end arc from 2000.

paris was ravaged in casey's uncanny x-men x-corps arc.

[jade_nova]

New York was damaged during Onslaught.

[foxfire]

Tokyo got hit hard by Titannus in Marvel Team up 11-13.
That was dumb... does Marvel know how many people live in Tokyo? 20 million? Like that wouldn't be an absolutely HUGE event that would affect Marvel Earth... And yet they let basically the whole city get destroyed by some character who'd been around for all of 10 issues.

[Cthulhudrew]

Back in the day IIRC both Red Ronin and Terminus carved major swaths of destruction through New York.

For that matter, Terminus carved the phrase "I claim this world - Terminus" across the continental United States with his power lance from space. I expect that quite a few populated areas were annihilated during that.

The Beyonder really tore the continental US a big one in Secret Wars II, when he ripped up a huge chunk of the Rocky Mountains. The Molecule Man and Silver Surfer were able to repair it, but there had to have been massive loss of life.

[Kirk G]

Say, after Kang dominated the Earth, and decimated NYC with a bomb, was anything done to repair/replace the city. Was it ever acknowledged in the X-titles or addressed in the following issues?

[Ogrebear]

Recently London was fairly badly damaged by the Martian invasion in the Wisdom mini series and probably only just put back together again for Albion to drop planes on it during the last New Excalibur storyline.

Do any of the places the Exiles have blown up/been blown in count?

[StoneGold]

Do we count Golden Age stuff? Because when Subby was fighting the Human Torch, he flooded all of Africa. Fortunately, Ka-Zar was able to get all of the animals to safety.



Yes, that is exactly what happened.

[mattbib]

Dallas, TX was heavily damaged during the Fall of the Mutants.

[overcomebyfumes]

Here's a question - How many times has major structural damage been done to Manhattan? I'm sure it's too many times to even count.

Didn't Hercules once tie a cable to the island and spin it 180 degrees?

pax.

[Cthulhudrew]

[EDIT- Wow- didn't realize I'd already posted almost the exact same thing in this thread before. :p]

[Kid Kyoto]

For that matter, Terminus carved the phrase "I claim this world - Terminus" across the continental United States with his power lance from space. I expect that quite a few populated areas were annihilated during that.

The Beyonder really tore the continental US a big one in Secret Wars II, when he ripped up a huge chunk of the Rocky Mountains. The Molecule Man and Silver Surfer were able to repair it, but there had to have been massive loss of life.

There was line in that issue to the effect of

MM - Don't worry I was able to send every living thing into status in another dimension
heroes - ??
MM - I know, but just as my power is incomprehensible to you, the Beyonder's is to me
The first bit is pure cheese, but the second bit actually makes it work.

[Kid Kyoto]

Adding to the list during the end of Buisk's Avenger's run some large guy with an evil sword killed everyone in one of Marvel's fictional eastern European countries.

Or was it Ultron and the demon sword guy showed up later? Can't remember.

Thanos kills half the population of the universe. But they got better.

I'm sure there's more.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Do we count Golden Age stuff? Because when Subby was fighting the Human Torch, he flooded all of Africa. Fortunately, Ka-Zar was able to get all of the animals to safety.



Yes, that is exactly what happened.

So Namor flooded the second largest continent on the planet, and Ka-Zar saved all the animals...on the continent...by himself.

Ka-Zar and Namor are now officially the most Bad Ass Mo Fos in the MU.
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(edit:unrelated to the above statements)
Also Genosha was wiped out right?

[streator]

a city in mexico was wiped out in carey's first x-men arc.

cable's island, providence, was destroyed recently too.

[mattbib]

Don't forget Atlantis...it's been destroyed a few times...not to mention raised from the bottom of the sea to become the new Attillan that was also eventually destroyed, right?

[matthewaos]

Do we count Golden Age stuff? Because when Subby was fighting the Human Torch, he flooded all of Africa. Fortunately, Ka-Zar was able to get all of the animals to safety.



Yes, that is exactly what happened.

Oh man, I love those innocent/silly stories!!!!

I'm pretty sure that Latveria felt a serious damage in Secret War.

[Chiasm]

Bone, Idaho.

No Way.

LMAO

I live only about twenty miles from Bone. I've no clue how it was depicted in the comic but the actual Bone, Idaho consists of a backwood convenience store and thats it. There is no actual town beyond that but it gets classified as a town because its also a post office where people who live in the surrounding farmlands and hills can get their mail.

[TheMadTitan]

-Mindless Hulk destroyed a good part of New Mexico.
-Terrax ripping New York out of earth and flying it into space.
-Asgard during Ragnarok was pretty messed up - also was Earth damaged when King Thor established New Asgard?
-New York damaged by Ultimate Hulk

[Magneto Rocks]

Technically, Washington wasn't destroyed by Kang. He just killed everyone in it while the buildings were either, IIRC, undamaged or very damaged but not destroyed.

But don't worry, everyone- the politicians survived!

Damn, that story rocked. Pity absolutely no other comic in existence acknowledged either the death of Washington or, y'know, Kang's dominatiion of... what was it again? Oh yes, Earth.

[Expletive Deleted]

Pity absolutely no other comic in existence acknowledged either the death of Washington or, y'know, Kang's dominatiion of... what was it again? Oh yes, Earth.I kind of miss that. Y'know, when writers could do the big stories they wanted to do without having to turn them into crossovers.

[Van Custo]

Asgard falling on New York, and Thor kicking ass in the wreckege.

[StoneGold]

Technically, Washington wasn't destroyed by Kang. He just killed everyone in it while the buildings were either, IIRC, undamaged or very damaged but not destroyed.

But don't worry, everyone- the politicians survived!


Which means that the only people who died were the general inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Who are overwhelmingly black. So yes, Kurt Busiek doesn't care about black people!




















Although Triathlon's costume probably confirmed that. BURN!!!!

[Magneto Rocks]

I kind of miss that. Y'know, when writers could do the big stories they wanted to do without having to turn them into crossovers.

Ordinarily I understand but I really feel that in terms of the magnitude factor, "Earth gets dominated by evil conqueror" has to rank fairly high. As in, worth mentioning, perhaps?

[Quasar's Bands]

Which means that the only people who died were the general inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Who are overwhelmingly black. So yes, Kurt Busiek doesn't care about black people!




















Although Triathlon's costume probably confirmed that. BURN!!!!

Hey, hey, hey! It wasn't the people that LIVED there that were killed, it was the people that either work there or happened to be home during the daytime. Thus, for those who live in the burbs, but work in the District - we were apparently all annihilated! That's me, my wife, and our friends - and none of us are politicans! He left our kids without parents! When I read that plot - I thought to myself "grumble, grumble - some writer who lives in NYC thought he was too good to have his own neighborhood and and office destroyed, so he figured why not just off the civil servants." Personally, I'm glad it was not ever recognized in other books.

Now - we need to get Captain America alive again and living in DC, where he belongs. I miss the days when he ran around, throwing his shield at corrupt politicians and drug dealers. When he moved back to NYC, I was angry - DC needs more heroes - don't you agree?????

[StoneGold]

Now - we need to get Captain America alive again and living in DC, where he belongs. I miss the days when he ran around, throwing his shield at corrupt politicians and drug dealers. When he moved back to NYC, I was angry - DC needs more heroes - don't you agree?????

No, but mostly because as far as I can remember, he's never really done a major stint of time in DC. Usually he's there just to beat up Nixon or Reagan or whatever.

[worstblogever]

Would you count the Red Zone outbreak in Avengers? I mean, do plagues count, or are they not officially a city being destroyed because the buildings are left standing while people drop dead?

[worstblogever]

Well, as shown in recent issues of Thor, and the big Black Panther/Blade crossover last year, New Orleans was destroyed within the Marvel U. by Hurricane Katrina, too. So if you want to count that.

But on the moon, Attilan got blown to all hell at the end of Silent War.

[Kid Kyoto]

Damn, that story rocked. Pity absolutely no other comic in existence acknowledged either the death of Washington or, y'know, Kang's dominatiion of... what was it again? Oh yes, Earth.

When I read I assumed they would hit the reset button at the end, I mean Kurt Buisk had the entire population of the world in concentration camps, cities being leveled, and no one else mentioned it.

i was kind of shocked when the Avengers won without traveling in time and undoing the whole thing.

[Ogrebear]

There was a Greek town destroyed when all the inhabitants got turned into Hulk like creatures....

[Kurt Busiek]

Which means that the only people who died were the general inhabitants of the District of Columbia. Who are overwhelmingly black. So yes, Kurt Busiek doesn't care about black people!

Killing them all is a show of disinterest?

Besides, they'd already been turned into snakes, back in Captain America, and before that into white people (as one letter writer pointed out, since that story showed only white people living in the District). So it was a mercy killing.

kdb

[StoneGold]

Killing them all is a show of disinterest?

Besides, they'd already been turned into snakes, back in Captain America, and before that into white people (as one letter writer pointed out, since that story showed only white people living in the District). So it was a mercy killing.

kdb

And I didn't even say your name three times!