New Mexico

New Mexico
Category:	U.S. State
Planet:	Earth
Continent:	North America
Country:	United States of America
Points of interest:	Albuquerque; Desert State University; Five Keys; Gamma Base; L+W Clamburger; Navapo; Puente Antiguo; Red Valley; Rio Diablo; Roswell; Santa Fe; Tecumcari

New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. The New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, especially towards the north.

Points of interest

Cybertek

On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Cybertek Systems, Inc. maintained an applied sciences laboratory in New Mexico. It was here that they initiated the Deathlok program, which converted empowered Mike Peterson into a killer cyborg. The supervisor of the facility was Kyle Zeller, but he was really under the control of HYDRA agents like John Garrett, as well as powerful investor, Ian Quinn.

Five Keys

Five Keys was a town in New Mexico. The sign leading into the town read, "Welcome to Five Keys - We'll Unlock Your Heart". Five Keys was the location of the Dewbend State Penitentiary located on Appletree Road. Behind the penitentiary was the Rainier residence. At some point in time, a man named Wayne Fisher murdered a woman with a hammer. He was sentenced to death row and executed in the electric chair in 1953. That same night, young Elise Rainier was locked in the basement of her home by her father because she claimed to have been visited by ghosts. A demon known as KeyFace tricked Elise into unlocking a door to the Further - a portal he could not open on his own. He briefly took possession of Elise, and through her, used her power to murder her mother Audrey by hanging her with a power cable. Elise was driven from her home as a result. By the early 2010s, a man named Ted Garza took up residence in the Rainier home.

L+W Clamburger

L+W Clamburger is a fictional business featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and relates to the Hulk family of comic book titles. L+W Clamburger is located on the outskirts of the town of Tecumcari. Jim Wilson and Kropotkin the Great traveled to the outskirts of Tecumcari where they grabbed lunch at the L+W Clamburger drive-in. Though Wilson was disgusted by the notion of a clamburger, Kropotkin found them to be quite wonderful.

Desert State University

Desert State University (DSU) is a college located in the town of Navapo, New Mexico. It advertises itself as a testimonial for man's hunger for knowledge. The dean of DSU is Harvey Slater. One of its preeminent professors is Doctor Herbert Josiah Weller. Like any school, DSU has suffered its share of problems over the years ranging from increased tension due to rising tuition costs to volatile campus demonstrations. One of the most notable students to ever attend Desert State University is Robert Bruce Banner, who was a student of Herbert Josiah Weller. Years after Banner suffered an accident that transformed him into a giant green monster known as the Hulk, he returned to DSU in one of the Hulk's infamous rampages. Dean Slater ordered the school evacuated, but Doctor Weller refused to leave. He remained on the campus grounds and confronted the Hulk. He tried to calm him down, but when he referred to him as "Banner", the Hulk only grew more incensed, causing considerable property damage on the campus grounds.

Navapo

Navapo is a fictional area in New Mexico that has been featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and relates to the Hulk family of comic book titles. It has been described as a "man-made oasis amidst the burning Southwestern wastelands". The respected college, Desert State University, is located in Navapo. Jim Wilson and Kropotkin the Great overheard reports of a Hulk sighting across a police scanner and drove out to Navapo to investigate. The Hulk appeared on the campus of Desert State University and even had a chance encounter with Bruce Banner's old mentor, Doctor Herbert Josiah Weller.

Rio Diablo

Rio Diablo was located in New Mexico and was the site of a scientific research station. Mutants Alex Summers and Lorna Dane, having retired from the X-Men, pursued their doctorate degrees by working at the station. They both considered civilian life to be a paradise, but their joy was short-lived as the Shi'ar agent known as Eric the Red took control of their minds and forced them leave Rio Diablo so they could go and fight their former teammates.

Tecumcari

Tecumcari is a fictional town located in the U.S. state of New Mexico that has been featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is part of the mainstream Marvel Universe and relates to the Hulk family of comic book titles. Jim Wilson and Kropotkin the Great traveled to the outskirts of Tecumcari where they grabbed lunch at the L+W Clamburger drive-in. Though Wilson was disgusted by the notion of a clamburger, Kropotkin found them to be quite wonderful.

In film

In the 1996 low-budget horror movie Killer Tongue, a bank robber named Candy is traveling across the deserts of New Mexico when she and her pet poodles encounter a meteorite. Exposure to the meteorite mutates both she and her dogs, giving her a long, voracious "killer" tongue.

In comics

Marvel Comics

The Manhattan Project occurred in Los Alamos in 1941. Atomic radiation that leaked from a buried nuclear stockpile underground resulted in several mutant births. One was Jerome Beechman - the son of Frederic Beechman who was a scientist at the Los Alamos Atomic Proving Grounds. Another was Nekra Sinclair, who was the daughter of a cleaning woman named Gemma Sinclair. Beechman grew up to become the supervillain known as the Mandrill, while Nekra became an albino vampire-like creature.

New Mexico was also the location of the Los Diablos missile base as well as Gamma Base. Both of these locations, operated by the United States Army, played heavily into the life of Bruce Banner, who was destined to become the angry green goliath that men call the Hulk. As the Hulk, Bruce Banner leaped, punched and growled his way through New Mexico on many occasions.

The Wild Pack were hired by A.I.M. to acquire a Fiber Ionic Fibrillator, which had been stolen by their rivals in HYDRA. The Wild Pack accepted the mission and raided a HYDRA installation in New Mexico. They succeeded in recovering the device, but the Supreme Hydra, Wolfgang von Strucker set off a self-destruct weapon, which destroyed the base. The Wild Pack barely managed to teleport to safety in time. They returned the fibrillator to A.I.M. and received their payment.

In television

Terminator

New Mexico played a small, yet vital role in the Terminator multimedia franchise. The fictional town of Red Valley was the primary setting of the pilot episode of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Red Valley was a suburban town located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. In 1999, Sarah Connor and her fifteen-year-old son, John Connor relocated here and John enrolled at Crest View High School.

Points of Interest

Albuquerque

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. Albuquerque is the birth-place of 3rd Rock from the Sun actor French Stewart.

Carlsbad

Carlsbad is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, in the United States. Carlsbad is located in the Chihuahuan Desert and the Pecos River Valley at an elevation of 3,295 feet.

Crest View High School

Crest View High School was a public high school located in the town of Red Valley, New Mexico. In September of 1999, Sarah Connor (reluctantly) enrolled her son, John Connor at Crew View. Although he desperately wanted to pantomime antyhing resembling a normal life, there was a part of him that felt like a freak outcat. One of his teachers was a man named Mister Ferguson. Another teacher was Mister Henricksen. There was also a substitute teacher named Mister Cromartie. On his first day of school, John was approached by an attractive young student named Cameron Phillips. Cameron tried to strike up a friendship with John, but his social anxieties prevented him from wanting to develop any close attachments. This all changed however when Cameron revealed herself to be a Terminator assigned to protect John from Cromartie, who was a Terminator programmed to assassinate him.

Films that take place in New Mexico

• Death Race 2050 (Partially)
• Genesis II
• Hills Have Eyes, The
• Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)
• Insidious: The Last Key
• Killer Tongue
• Them!
• Thor

TV shows that take place in New Mexico

• The Phoenix

• "In Search of Mira"

• Preacher

• Preacher: Finish the Song

• Taken

• Taken: Beyond the Sky

• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

• "Pilot"

• The Twilight Zone

• "The Hitch-Hiker"

• The X-Files

• The X-Files: Anasazi
• The X-Files: The Blessing Way
• The X-Files: My Struggle

Comics that take place in New Mexico

• Incredible Hulk Vol 2 180
• Incredible Hulk Vol 2 269
• Tales to Astonish 72
• Tales to Astonish 90
• Tales to Astonish 91
• Uncanny X-Men 97

Books that take place in New Mexico

• The X-Files: Ground Zero

Characters from New Mexico

• Albert Hosteen
• Anna W.
• Audrey Rainier
• Christian Rainier
• Elise Rainier
• Eric Hosteen
• Frederic Beechman
• Gemma Sinclair
• Gerald Rainier
• Imogen Rainier
• Jackson Hyde
• Jerome Beechman
• Kyle Zeller
• Mara Jennings
• Melissa Rainier
• Nekra Sinclair
• Rio
• Rita
• Wayne Fisher
• Whitfield
• Zeller, Mrs.

People who were born in New Mexico

• Bruce Cabot
• French Stewart

People who died in New Mexico

• Joseph Holland
• Robert Hutchison

External Links

• New Mexico at Wikipedia

References