'Avengers' Damage to Manhattan Would Cost $160 Billion, Disaster Expert Estimates

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UPDATED: Thursday, May 10, 2012 08:29
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HAKEN

Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:50 AM

HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM - The wreckage in Midtown Manhattan, all told, would top the financial carnage of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Japanese tsunami.

Just as it has been for centuries of immigrants and desperately lost, subway map-reading tourists, New York City is a favorite destination for angry, carnage-minded mutants, monsters and aliens -- though they intend to destroy the city's landmarks, not capture them in Instagram photos...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/avengers-damage-manhattan-would-
cost-160-billion-322486

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:29 AM

I figure if they're workin for SHIELD though, there's some degree of saving-the-world liability insurance goin on.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroInsurance

I like how the film Hancock handled that a little more realistically, though.

-F