After the YouTube channel Spider-Arab released a video trying to estimate the property damage costs in Insomniac's new Spider-Man 2 game, a thought came to mind: what would be the cost of damages in Ciem: Inferno alone, if the same logic were applied?
Looking through it all, Boonville and Evansville in Ciem: Inferno would suffer over $3,000,000,000 in damages. However, most of that would be just the dirty bomb launched by the Screwworms in the opening. And it was an attack on Emeraldon's childhood home, so Ciem wasn't really involved.
If we ignore the dirty bomb, then about $33M - $36M or so in damages occur. Which is surprisingly small, for a superhero story setting.
- The Screwworms inflict an estimated $50,000 in damages to the Old National Events Plaza. Possibly more. Conservative estimate, $50,000.
- Candi's first battle with Lava Tigre destroys a phone pole or two, and does some other minor damage to the street corner. Estimated about $30,000 in damages.
- The battle of the Chuckles gas station probably does, possibly, about $40,000 in damages, mostly to the van.
- Lava Tigre and the Pyro Panthers blowing up the Boonville Fire Department easily does at least $12M in damages.
- The police station being targeted next? Easily another $7M.
- The Pyro Panthers destroy several homes, so let's say $10M in damages.
- Drop-In's attack on the police convoy results in three police cars getting destroyed, for easily $210,000 down the tubes. Assuming Candi's handcuffs were about $30 in value, her breaking them adds an insignificant amount to the total number of damages.
- Drop-In's jetpack would cost an unknown amount to make. But assuming the worst, Candi damaging it results in another $2M in damages.
- The Hebbleskin Gang compromising City Lake Park No. 1 is probably no more than $2M in damages, tops, when you factor in the costs of removing the radioactive material that they were housing in the one building to create the energy dome force field.
- Drop-In later causes a total of probably $200,000 in damages to the Madison Juvenile Center during his battle with Ciem and Flintirah.
- The construction site was probably up to $30,000 in development, so that getting compromised during Lava Tigre's battle with Ciem and the Purge-Flare would have been at least that much.
- Ciem destroys Frank Morvel's van to save the girls he captured. That's another $40,000, give or take.
The police attack on the Purge-Flare's van wasn't counted. Nor was Miriam teaming up with Chris to steal materials to fix Chris' van and Purge-Flare equipment. Candi wasn't involved in any of that. That's maybe another $3M in damages, at worst.
Still, about $33M - $36 million of property damage are estimated to occur in the story.
With the dirty bomb, Ciem and her enemies add up to being just a tad more expensive than Spider-Man. But if one ignores the dirty bomb, especially since Candi wasn't involved and it was more an Emeraldon problem, then Ciem proves to be worth probably no more than $40M in damages inflicted, worst case scenario. This makes her quite a bit less crazy than the $2B price tag on Spider-Man; but still a nightmare for city developers. To her credit, because the dirty bomb was an attack on Emeraldon; he'd probably face more heat than she would.
