The Current State of the Marvel World

Marvel Universe Earth, New York.

In the newly built Haulers Building headquarters, Annie stood before the towering floor-to-ceiling windows in an office on the top floor, looking out at the city.

Time was the most powerful force of all.

The scars the war had left on New York had gradually faded with the passage of time.

The once-explosive topic of aliens had also gradually settled down over time.

As the nation worked hard to reassure the public, and with the sudden emergence of both her and Tony Stark as superheroes, the previously chaotic situation had gradually returned to its former calm over the past few months.

And when the news that Captain America had been dug out of an iceberg and was still alive was announced to the world, it sparked a wave of public opinion no less intense than, perhaps even surpassing, the uproar caused by her and Tony Stark becoming superheroes. Even the stock exchange, which had plummeted because of the war, saw a slight recovery.

This level of fanaticism was the result of seventy years of uninterrupted promotion by the United States Government. Perhaps the government had also been quietly pushing things along, hoping to use Captain America's reputation to counterbalance hers and Tony Stark's?

That was probably part of the reason. After all, now that the situation had stabilized, she and that guy Tony were more of a liability than an asset to the government.

Recently, she had heard rumors spreading online that only Captain America was a true superhero, while she had an unclear relationship with aliens and Tony Stark was merely a playboy, neither of them worthy of being called superheroes.

Although the Haulers Group had pushed back, and the government still feared the forces behind her enough to keep its actions subtle, preventing