Superman’s super mortgage: how much is the fortress of solitude?
From his super speed to his super strength, there are lots of things that have earned Kal-El his moniker, but now you can add to that a super mortgage, according to Movoto.
With Man of Steel back in cinemas, the real estate site deduced the cost of Superman’s home - not Ma and Pa Kent‘s rural shack, but the closest thing to a slice of planet Krypton on the earth, the Fortress of Solitude. How much is the crystal alien bachelor pad worth?
According to Movot’s Supercalculator, over $813 trillion.
Superman’s man cave/safe house/hideaway was originally called the Secret Citadel, a mountainside getaway that, over time, turned into a castle stood in the middle of a polar waste. The Arctic accommodation is technically made of a Kryptonian crystalline material called sunstone. The nearest substitute for investors here? Diamonds.
Using Superman’s height (6’3”), Movoto estimates the size of the Fortress of Solitude to be roughly 7,065,000 cubic feet. How many diamonds would be needed to cover the roof of Superman’s dome-shaped structure? Using the biggest diamond on record - the Cullinan Diamond - it would take 2,034,721.
And that is how Movoto arrived at this superbrain-boggling conclusion: