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... Thecenter. Thecore. The birthplace ofall that was...all that is...andall that yet may be...

TheFantastic Four entered the House of Ideas^[3] after theThing's death. They met theOne Above All who brought the Thing back to life and healedReed Richards' face.^[4]

After theOlympian goddess of the nightNyx regained her godhood from the shattered pieces of her soul, she managed to pinpoint the Long Island entry point of the House of Ideas. Realizing that the House of Ideas was the birthplace of everything, she planned to claim it for herself and remake the Multiverse in her image, plunging all of creation into eternal night. Her efforts were opposed by a ragtag team of heroes composed ofHercules,Scarlet Witch,Vision,Spectrum,Hawkeye,Rocket Raccoon,Conan the Cimmerian, theHulk, andVoyager. Most of the heroes were either repelled or seemingly disintegrated by the power of the House, with only Vision managing to make it through the door.^[1] Inside the blank void within the house, Vision confronted Nyx. He combined his internal database which contained theAvengers' files with the power of the House to imagine into existence a myriad of super heroes. This manifestation of the light of the human spirit pushed back against Nyx, weakening her until Vision, engulfed by this light's fire, burned the Queen of Nights to ash. Following Nyx's defeat, Vision exited the House.^[2]

Later, a time-displacedLoki and theDefenders entered the House of Ideas after a long journey into theMystery. They met theOne Above All and were shownEternity's enemy: the "Enigma" to come. Afterwards, Loki debated whether to completely liberate himself from theMultiverse or to go back inside. TheBeyonder chose the former and freed himself from everything. Loki and the others went back inside the Multiverse.^[3]

• One Above All^[2]

• A place called the "House of Ideas" shows up inLoki (Vol. 3) #2–3 that contains a large library filled with the books of various heroes. Two ofEternity's children,Now andThen, supposedly dwell there.
  • However, that place is directly retconned to not be the real House of Ideas inDefenders: Beyond #5. A time-displacedLoki from theSeventh Cosmos goes to the real House of Ideas, while the future Loki from theEighth Cosmos "never gets here. He gets to see aversion of it--aglimpse, asuggestion, as bait for atrap." The back of the issue states that he was tricked by Now and Then.

• The House of Ideas is named afterMarvel Comics' popular moniker.
• The vehicle parked outside the House of Ideas on Long Island had a licence plate that read SML JKK,^[1] the initials ofStan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) andJack "King" Kirby.
  • Stan Lee used to live inHewlett Harbor. Jack Kirby also lived nearby. In fact,Long Island was and still is home to many key people who worked onMarvel Comics.^[7]
• WhenNyx opened the door to the House of Ideas,Bruce Banner screams that he cannot be there as it is "holy ground."^[1]
• The House of Ideas is associated with the JewishKabbalah'ssephirotKeter, which represents the divine will and infinite source.^[3]
  • TheBelow-Place is associated with Thaumiel, aQlippoth that functions as the opposite of Keter.^[8]
• In the "The Assembly" behind-the-scenes segment ofAvengers No Road Home #9, one of the ideas that did not make the cut for the miniseries was to establish that theScarlet Witch is the only mortal connected to the House of Ideas. When asked what happened to this idea on Twitter,Jim Zub replied that it was not crucial to the story.^[9]

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