Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota. The sculpture features heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
In 1943, shortly after the construction of the monument had run out of funding, the work was almost destroyed by Eric Ward a Nazi sympathizer. However the attempt was foiled by the Human Torch and Toro.
The invasion of extra-dimensional Electra warriors from Dimension X was frustrated when at least three of the huge statues apparently moved, leaving huge footprints on the soil, and intimidated the Electra advanced party. The animated statues proved to be immune to the extra-dimensional warriors' weapons. Scientist Lynwood, who had accidentally summoned the aliens, discovered what happened, or so he thought, but decided to not tell it; he however believed that the presidents had protected the nation.
A Secret government bio-research lab was later discovered underneath Mount Rushmore which contained the dangerous US-made bio-weapon which was engineered by Project Bloodwash under the command of Secretary Dell Rusk, the weapon spread dangerously and killed many people before being stopped by The Avengers
The Avengers and Reed Richards were able to separate the Venom Symbiote from The Hulk and Thor at Mount Rushmore. However, this required the Inhuman Black Bolt using his scream, resulting in Mount Rushmore's destruction.
After Thor took over the Earth, he included his face and that of his father in the Mount.
On this alternate Earth, Mount Rushmore's counterpart was known as Presidents' Mountain and the sculpture carved into it featured the heads of (from left to right) George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. Given that many aspects of the history of Earth-712 were generally similar to those of Earth-616, the presence of Kennedy's head suggests that some (or all) of the monument was carved in the 1960s, decades later than in the real world. Additionally, the fact that Presidents' Mountain was about 40 miles north of where Squadron City was located in the Great American Desert, Earth-712's equivalent of the state of Nevada, indicates that this mountain was over 600 miles to the west of where Mount Rushmore is located in southwestern South Dakota.
Points of Interest
- 49 appearance(s) of Mount Rushmore
- 4 minor appearance(s) of Mount Rushmore
- 5 mention(s) of Mount Rushmore
- 17 image(s) of Mount Rushmore