Editing Los Angeles (section)

==Description==
Like [[New York]], Los Angeles' cape culture has a focus on destructive might, with parahumans who can take down buildings considered the heavy hitters.<ref>“And it’s required.  Vegas is one of the worst cities for sheer number of villains,” Rime said.  Her entire demeanor was rigid, which maybe fit in a way with her ice powers.  “Vegas employs a group of unsponsored thinkers and tinkers to monitor the venues, much like the PRT does with the economy, ensuring that everything is above-board, that everything is being conducted fairly and that the numbers add up.  Vegas changed as a result, developed a different cape dynamic.  In Los Angeles or New York, it’s the people who can blow down buildings that are seen as true ‘heavy hitters’.  Here, they’re trying to game the system, and the heroes are trying to game them.  In Vegas, it’s thinkers, tinkers and strangers who rule the underworld.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref> Unlike New York, Los Angeles provides very little elbow room for local villains: large amounts of visiting heroes, the iron grip of [[the Elite]], and the hard-hitting [[Protectorate]] teams under [[Alexandria]]'s command leave very little room to maneuver. As such, villains active in Los Angeles are either insignificant, extremely careful, or spend only a small amount of their time within the city.<ref name="itinerant">As a setting, between Alexandria's hard-hitting teams, vast numbers of visiting heroes going out to stretch their legs, and the general iron grip of the Elite, LA provides very little elbow room for local villains. The ones that do exist are such small fry that they barely count, are very successful and very careful (to the extent you probably wouldn't know about them until you'd been around for a few years) or are itinerants who only spend 1/20th or less of their time in LA and are only considered LA villains because they're so rooted in the villain ratings game and flash and pizazz. - [https://redd.it/50g7x6/ reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>

After the [[Endbringer]] attack in 2013,<ref name="endbringer_date"/> Santa Fe Springs and neighboring districts were pronounced uninhabitable due to the traps riddling it.<ref>They’d figured out how to fight Tohu and Bohu during the Los Angeles attack.  The trick was responding quickly, stopping them before Tohu had her masks and Bohu managed her influence.  They’d won, for lack of a better term, managing the fight without the casualties they’d seen in the prior attack, but they’d still lost a chunk of the city in the time it took them to beat and batter the towering Bohu into submission.  Now Santa Fe Springs and all of the neighboring districts were uninhabitable, due to the traps that riddled it, the way the infrastructure had been completely and totally compromised. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/interlude-26a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26a]]</ref>