Empire State University
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Empire State University (also known as ESU) is a university in the Marvel Comics Universe. It is located somewhere in New York City, United States. Many Marvel Comics characters, especially those associated with Spider-Man, have either attended or worked at the university. It first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #31.
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biography
Notable students
Reed Richards (later Mister Fantastic) and Ben Grimm (later the Thing) first met as roommates at Empire State University. Empire State University also gave a scholarship to the Latverian international student Victor Von Doom (later Doctor Doom); it was at ESU that the rivalry between Doom and Richards first developed.
Years later, Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, also attended Empire State University. He was expelled and then sued after he accidentally burned part of a building down while engaged in a battle with supervillains.
A young Emma Frost also attended ESU in her late teens. She was there when an anti-mutant strike broke out.
Later, X-Man Chamber, enrolled briefly at ESU in order to investigate a bombing that killed six people. Chamber's findings resulted in ESU closing their main mutant program, and creating a new human/mutant student exchange program with the Xavier Institute. The first participants of this program were Walter, Chamber's paraplegic, human dorm-mate and Amber, a reptilian mutant student who assisted Chamber in his investigation.
In other media
Television
In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the university is sometimes shown as Empire State University and sometimes shown as Eastern State University.
Films
In the film Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker attends Columbia University and not ESU, although in Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, which is set in between the first two Spider-Man movies, he, Mary Jane and Harry attend ESU. In Spider-Man 3, Robbie Robertson declares that the "Empire State Photography Department" confirms that Eddie Brock's picture of Spider-Man stealing money from a bank in black clothing is a fake.
Games
In the game Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six, Doctor Octopus kidnaps Aunt May and holds her hostage in the university.
