Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the largest city of the state of Nevada and a major resort city known primarily for gambling and nightlife.
==History==
===Tony Stark's Apogee Award===
Tony Stark was awarded with an Apogee Award, traveling to Las Vegas in order to accept it on a ceremony presented by his friend James Rhodes at the Caesars Palace. The ceremony presented Stark's earliest successes and latest advances in military armament. However, when Stark did not appeared to receive the award, Obadiah Stane accepted it on his behalf.
Stark was gambling at the casino as the award was being presented, and Rhodes gave him the award near the gaming table. Stark got rid of the award by giving it to one of the entertainers of the casino dressed as a Roman. While exiting the casino, Stark was approached by journalist Christine Everhart, who interviewed him about his reputation as an arms dealer while Stark flirted with her, managing to take her to his house in California.
===Asgardian Fugitive===
Lorelei, an Asgardian fugitive intending to conquer Earth, demanded to her last thrall, Grant Ward, to be taken to somewhere deserving of a queen, so he took her to Las Vegas in order to show her a more scenic location than Death Valley. While there, the two checked into Caesars Palace, a place that pleased Lorelei, and made her praise Ward's skills, specially compared to the men she enthralled in the Mojave Desert. Despite being enthralled, Ward knew that he was dispensable for Lorelei, but he did not care about it.
Lorelei wanted Ward as the leader of the army she demanded him to present her with, giving him a gift in return. Ward and Lorelei spent the night together, and they shared their former experiences, with Ward confiding in Lorelei about his feelings for Melinda May and Skye, while she remembered her 600 years imprisoned in the Asgardian Dungeons while admiring the beauty she was seeing on Earth, despite thinking at first that it was a desolate planet while wandering the desert.
Together, Lorelei and Ward planned how to take the planet, as Lorelei was concerned that Sif was hunting her. Ward suggested eliminating her as a threat, but Lorelei warned him not to underestimate Sif, as the graves of Asgard were filled with men who did that. However, as Ward perfectly knew the people she was working with, he felt himself capable of doing so.
The following morning, Skye found a lead on Ward and Lorelei's location, and Phil Coulson led an all-female S.W.A.T. team to raid the Caesars Palace suite they stayed, only to find they had already abandoned it. 
Coulson told Melinda May that he knew that, despite she told him that her relationship with Ward would not be a problem, she would not tell him if it was. May did not answer, and contacted Leo Fitz at the Bus asking him to track Ward and Lorelei using the cameras in the town, not knowing that Ward and Lorelei had drawn them from the plane to prepare an ambush and take the plane for themselves.
===Wilder Family Trip===
During one of the family trips, Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder went to see while Alex stayed at the hotel room where he was watching . However, five minutes later, Alex left the hotel and snuck into 23 Hacking Conference where he sat in the back of a seminar on how to hack a call.
===Wrong Destination===
Having been hacked by Alex Wilder, the Church of Gibborim vans transporting followers who were meant to provide security on the PRIDE Construction Site in Los Angeles drove by themselves to Las Vegas. This caused Frances, who had initially believed in a miracle, to think that the vans were possessed by an agent of darkness.
===Alternate Universes===
====Party Prince Thor====
=====Partying on the Las Vegas Strip=====
In an alternate universe, Thor, along with Sif and the Warriors Three, traveled via the Bifrost Bridge and landed in Las Vegas. Thor told the tourists and locals not to be afraid, as he was there to party. 
Thor then invited several extraterrestrial beings to his party such as Skrulls, Korg, Grandmaster, Valkyrie, Drax and Howard the Duck. Nick Fury arrived in Vegas and attempted to speak with Thor, but was accidentally knocked unconscious by Korg. Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis then arrived and Foster introduced herself to Thor, before the two developed an instant connection. They got tattoos and partied the rest of the night.
Thor, Korg, Rocket, Fandral and Foster spent the night in one of Vegas's hotel rooms, and the next morning, Maria Hill, accompanied by Brock Rumlow, arrived in Vegas to speak with Foster. 
Hours later, Hill dropped Foster and Lewis back in Vegas where the two decided to try and make contact with Thor's mother in order for him to stop partying. After Foster had sent a successful message to Heimdall, he sent the Bifrost down to Vegas to pick Foster up.
=====Ultron Offensive=====
Sometime afterwards, Ultron sent his Ultron Sentries out to destroy the universe. The Sentries first targeted Las Vegas, causing everyone to flee, and the city was quickly abandoned. Thor quickly came to the city's defense and nearly defeated all the Sentries. However, he was stopped by The Watcher who appeared above the city and grabbed him. 
When Thor returned to his universe, he found that all the Sentries were destroyed and littered Vegas's streets. Jane Foster then arrived and embraced Thor, grateful that their universe was saved.
====Tony Stark's Gambling====
In an alternate universe, Tony Stark was presented with the Apogee Award. The ceremony began with a video highlighting Stark's father's accomplishments during World War II before describing details of Stark's biography himself. James Rhodes presented the award to Stark, who was quickly discovered to not be there. Obadiah Stane accepted the award in his place and delivered a speech while Stark gambled in the casino and flirted with one of the women there. Rhodes angrily confronted Stark as Stark played another game, losing three million dollars. They went to the bathroom, where Rhodes tried to convince Stark to do his weapons presentation in Nevada. They were joined by Pepper Potts, who gave Stark the phone so he could briefly talk to the President.
Stark, Rhodes and Potts left the casino together, and Potts tried to get Stark to talk business with her. However, Stark was distracted by Christine Everhart, a reporter who asked Stark what he felt of his nickname "The Merchant of Death." Stark answered flippantly, upsetting Everhart, so he became serious and promised to shift away from weapons production when weapons were no longer necessary. Everhart continued to flirt with Stark, who eventually convinced her to return to Malibu with him and sleep with him.
====Tony Stark's Apogee Award====
In an alternate universe, an Apogee Award was presented to Tony Stark at Caesars Palace. James Rhodes was asked to present the award and narrated a slideshow about Stark. However, when Stark was presented with the award, he was not present. Instead, Obadiah Stane accepted the award. Meanwhile, Stark was busy gambling. Rhodes angrily approached Stark, who took the award from him and walked away from the table. Stark played another game with Tommy and lost three millions dollars.
Stark then went to the bathroom, where Rhodes tried to convince him to demonstrate the Jericho missile in Nevada rather than Afghanistan. However, Stark insisted that it was necessary to test the weapon in active combat conditions. Pepper Potts then arrived and gave Stark the phone with a phone call from the United States President. Stark accepted the President's call and threw out the award as the left the casino, where he was interrupted by Christine Everhart. She questioned Stark about his involvement in the weapons business. Stark assured her that he felt his business was necessary and that his company helped people, and the two parted ways.
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==Trivia==
*Las Vegas translates into "The Meadows" in Spanish.
*According to Andrew Garner, Melinda May loves Las Vegas.
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