As the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands, more and more mysteries continue to grow, and one of the biggest ones is about Avengers Tower and its future after Tony Stark sold it, and Spider-Man: No Way Home only made this mystery even more confusing. Over the course of more than a decade, the MCU has introduced a number of characters and places that have been key in the stories of many heroes, and among those is Avengers Tower, formerly known as Stark Tower.
Avengers Tower was a high-rise building complex located in Manhattan and built by Tony Stark. Just like Tony himself during most of his MCU journey, the tower was powered by an Arc Reactor that allowed it to be capable of running itself for over a year. The top floors of the tower were originally used for research and development, but after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Tony turned the tower into the headquarters of the Avengers, thus changing its name to Avengers Tower. The building saw the rise of Ultron and its first attack against the Avengers, and it didn’t take long for Tony to relocate the team to a new base known as the Avengers Compound, which served as the headquarters of the team until Tony’s death in Avengers: Endgame.
After moving the team to the Avengers compound, Tony sold Stark Tower, as seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming, where Happy Hogan was tasked with moving any Avengers related stuff to the new base, but the tower was being watched by Adrian Toomes/Vulture (Michael Keaton), who later attacked the plane that took off from the tower and tried to steal everything it was carrying. The new owners of Avengers Tower kept the logo on the building, but by 2024 (as seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home), the tower had gone through a redesign, though it was still referred to as Avengers Tower. However, the tower was nowhere to be seen in Spider-Man: No Way Home, most notably in the scene where Doctor Strange brings Spider-Man into the Mirror Dimension and the city turns upside down. Every building in New York City is shown except for Avengers Tower, creating even more confusion over its current situation and, mostly, who its new owner is.
Who Bought Avengers Tower In The MCU?
Since the reveal that Tony sold Avengers Tower, there have been a number of theories on who is the new owner and what the tower could have become, even if it kept the Avengers logo for a while. The most popular theory was that Norman Osborn bought the tower, but No Way Home debunked this by explaining that Oscorp doesn’t exist in the MCU’s mainstream timeline. After Hawkeye officially brought Kingpin into the MCU, new theories suggest he’s the new owner of Avengers Tower and turned it into Fisk Tower, thus also establishing his power in this universe. Another very popular theory that can still be true is that it was bought by none other than the Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduced Reed Richards (John Krasinski) from another universe, so it’s very likely that the main timeline of the MCU also has its own Reed Richards and thus a version of the Fantastic Four team.
Loki revealed that, in one of the countless universes in the MCU’s multiverse, Kang the Conqueror owned Avengers Tower, and with Kang making his proper debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, it would make sense if he turned out to be the mysterious owner of the building. Marvel has been especially and unusually secretive with the current owner of Avengers Tower, but it’s also creating more and more confusion over it as the MCU keeps expanding, and it will have to give an answer to this soon.
