Editing Brockton Bay (section)

===Villain Influx===
When the import/export business in Brockton Bay had dried up, there had been a whole lot of people who were suddenly out of work. The richest and most resourceful people in town had managed to make more money, turning the city's resources towards tech and banking, but all of the people who had been employed on the ships and in the warehouses had few options left to them. They faced leaving Brockton Bay, sticking around while scraping up what little work they could or turning to more illicit activity.<ref name="R11V">You're confusing 'from Brockton Bay' with 'In Brockton Bay'.<br><br>Marquis was a villain for a while and did villainous stuff around the Northeastern US states. He then settled in a city that had a lot of opportunity and subpar law enforcement and continued to operate there and around there. Along the way, he hooked up with a groupie that had freckles, then they parted ways. A while before canon, said groupie finds out she has cancer, goes to Brockton Bay to find Marquis, and after verifying that he's not an utter monster and he has resources to take care of her kid, gives him custody. Panacea was not born in Brockton Bay.<br><br>Lung came from elsewhere by similar metrics - opportunity and lax law enforcement (at least to start) and stayed. Bakuda came from elsewhere.<br><br>Allfather? Same idea. Kaiser came from Allfather.<br><br>Taylor talks in an early chapter about the dynamics that led to Brockton Bay being attractive to capes - once capes were there, it became more attractive to both capes and shards. This fosters the cape-centric, higher power level environment that we see in Worm. - [https://redd.it/8xzxx4 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

This all contributed to a boom in the local supervillain population. The potential for big money coupled with the number of eager-to-please mooks and henchmen made it the city to be for the villains in the late 90s.<ref name="1.3"/>

During this period, there was a brief boom in storage lockers, which people would use as off-the-books housing. The closely-packed storage facilities attracted crime and disease. The local government cracked down on the practice, and the storage facilities were largely abandoned by homeless people in favour of the increasingly-empty warehouses and factories.<ref name="4.5"/>

The [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] under [[Jack Slash]] visited the area and would later decimate [[The Teeth]].

It took a few years for the hero presence to establish and organize themselves, but they did, and there was something of an equilibrium following the establishment and organization of the hero presence.<ref name="1.3"/>