Superhero Island

*This article is on the fictional location. For the park area in which the location is set, see Marvel Superhero Island.*

## Superhero Island

### Attractions

Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear
Holiday Tribute Store
Marvel Superhero Island

## Location information

### Inhabitants

Daredevil
Doctor Doom
Foggy Nelson
General Ross
Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
Gladiator
Green Goblin
Kingpin
Magneto
Mephisto
Oscorp
Sinister Syndicate
Spider-Man
Thor

### Visitors

Plunderers

**Superhero Island** also known as **Marvel Superhero Island** is the setting of the land of the same name in Universal *Islands of Adventure*. It is themed around the superheroes and super-villains of Marvel Comics.

## Description

Superhero Island is an urban area with a large superhuman population. It is often referenced as being a part of New York City, and exists in a stylized and comic-book inspired world.

### Features

#### Assorted

* **Baxter Annex**:
* **Crater**: This is the crater of the asteroid which created superhero island.
* **Gamma Base**: Gamma Base was a military facility run by General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, used to try and develop counter-measures against the Incredible Hulk.
* **Storm Force Accelatron**:

#### Stan Lee Boulevard

* **5 & Dime**: A building which has upper levels, seemingly run by Iron Man's company *Stark Industries*.
* **Bank**:
* **The Daily Bugle**:
* **Diner**:
* **Donald Blake, M.D.**:
* **Kingpin's Arcade**: An arcade, seemingly owned by crime-lord Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk. It is located right at the intersection of Yancy Street and Stan Lee Boulevard.
* **Nelson & Murdock: Attorneys at Law**: Located overtop of the store
* **Store**:

#### Yancy Street

Yancy Street is a "One Way" portion of the island which has a larger density of super-villains.

* **Blaze & Ketch Mechanics**:
* **Fogwell’s Gym**:
* **Gladiator's Costume Shop**:
* **Latvertia Embassy**:
* **Osborn Industries**: A base for Oscorp Industries, decorated with the stone likenesses of Symbiotes like Venom/Carnage.
* **Oscorp Shop**: A shop run by Oscorp. It is located right at the intersection of Yancy Street and Stan Lee Boulevard. On the second store was the office of a "Lock Specialist".
* **Robatanski & Co.**:

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The island was created when an asteroid hit the Earth. This gave various citizens superpowers in the surrounding island environment. Various superheroes and super-villains had a prominent presence within this island.

#### Incidents

Using his embassy on Yancy Street, Doctor Doom created a "Fear Fall" which converted screams into energy. Using this, he recruited guests to ride a free-fall drop attraction to generate the energy needed for his next attempt at world-conquest. Doom also created something called the "Doom-Net" which seemed to tap into the communication signals of superheroes like Iron Man and the Avengers.

Iron Man got into a fight with Magneto, where Magneto depleted much of Iron Man's power-source. Iron Man made calls to Avengers Headquarters, asking for help.

At some point, the island seemed to have been happened upon by explorers/plunderers from the land of "Port of Entry" between time and space. Here, they captured a spider similar (if not pseudonymous) to that which bit Peter Parker, and took it back to Port of Entry with them.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

Superhero Island has appeared in several different HHN attractions, of questionable continuity to the original themed land.

#### Island Under Siege

2002's *Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear* event involved Superhero Island in a way, presumably non-canonical to the story of Marvel Super Hero Island and of dubious to Halloween Horror Nights lore. Here, the Caretaker used his powers to aid Carnage in defeating all the island's superheroes and seizing control of Superhero Island, assisted by the villains: Mephisto, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, and Crossbones.

The haunted house *Maximum Carnage* (named for the 1993 Spider-Man storyline of the same name) surrounded Carnage's hideout where Carnage has infected and controlled some heroes such as the Punisher, while having murdered others while assisted by villains such as: Scream, Xorn, Toad, Vermin and soldiers of HYDRA.

#### Toxic City

This 2003 scarezone revolved around the island being polluted and under quarantined bio-hazard by highly toxic and acidic and radioactive materials left by OsCorp. This might have been framed as a film-set being used by snuff-film director, Paulo Ravinski.

### Holiday Tribute Store

Marvel Super Hero Island was mentioned as a location which Studio Shipping and Post delivers to.

### Marvel Super Hero Island

Supehero Island is setting of this attraction.

### Ocean Trader Market

In 2021, two scarecrows were added to various Universal Shops as part of the annual Halloween "Scarecrow Stalk". Ocean Traders' scarecrows represented a pair of explorers/plunderers from the land of "Port of Entry" between time and space. In their possession was a container labelled "Specimen #4527" which was a brightly coloured spider with a venom which gives super-powers which they captured after they found a new location which is "**A city of people with supernatural abilities**".

### In other media

#### Marvel Super Hero Island Adventures

This was a comic released in the April of 1999 to tie-into Universal's Marvel Super Hero island.

## Trivia

* Universal's rivals, the Disney Parks, made their own Marvel themed land(s) known as, "Avengers Campus".
* Yancy Street is the home neighbourhood of Marvel superhero "The Thing", which has a community called the Yancy Street Gang which often terrorizes Thing.

## References

1. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/the-saturday-six-top-six-secrets-of-universals-marvel-superhero-island/
2. ↑ https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2020/08/15/take-a-closer-look-12-easter-eggs-in-marvel-super-hero-island-at-universals-islands-of-adventure/
3. ↑ https://universalparksnewstoday.com/2021/09/photos-scarecrow-stalk-brings-trick-or-treat-fun-to-universal-orlando-resort/