Not trying to make any statements here, obviously - I was just thinking about how much of a cliché the whole "heroes rebuild the battle site" scene is, yet to the best of my knowledge, 9/11 was the only time it's been done at the site of an actual disaster.
It's easier for DC to ignore huge real-life events, because their Earth has so much of a fantastical element to it, but Marvel's whole thing is that it's supposed to be the real world - they certainly made a huge deal out of sticking Obama in ASM last year. Tthough I do recall Thor briefly exploring Katrina, Marvel seems more interested in its own mythology than it needs to be, when there's so much going on in the real world that they could pull their inspiration from. In doing so, they would set themselves even further apart from typical superhero comics.
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