Surrounding Grounds
The Mansion was surrounded by a wall twelve feet high and one foot thick, as well as an array of high-tech security defenses. A main feature of the defenses were large, restrictive coils. These were sometimes backed up by energy beams that shot out from the ground. Nonetheless, those defenses were often breached by the supervillains faced by the Avengers. Shortly after the Avengers moved into the Mansion, Iron Man and Thor moved the Mansion 35 feet away from the street, increasing the size of the front lawn and giving the Avengers more privacy.
When Tony Stark was the United States' Secretary of Defense, the mansion's security systems were backed up by government forces.
The mansion's grounds featured an array of statues of past and present Avengers, constructed out of adamantium. The statues were destroyed in a battle with the Asgardian God, Loki. One of the trees on the grounds used to hold a miniature lab belonging to Hank Pym.
Read more about this topic: Avengers Mansion, Fictional History and Layout
Famous quotes containing the words surrounding and/or grounds:
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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