Matching 50 MCU characters with each of the 50 states
By Mark Lynch
9. Pepper Potts – Idaho
What do you think when you think of Idaho? Potatoes would be the easy guess, but they are known for something that you’d never guess. Idaho is known for precious gems. In fact it’s known as the Gem State. This state they have over 70 precious and semi-precious gemstones.
Among them is one called the star garnet. This particular gem can only be found in Idaho and India. Two places you’d never think to have anything in common. Also, Idaho supplies most of the country’s trout. Random, but true. Another cool fact is that Idaho is also the only state in the union whose state seal was designed by a woman (Emma Edwards Green).
Pepper Potts was one of the first characters to be introduced in the MCU. She is also responsible for helping save Tony Stark’s life on multiple occasions. One of them happened recently in Avengers: Endgame.
For some reason, some still only think of her as Tony Stark’s wife and assistant. Like Idaho, Pepper Potts is more than what we meets the eye. If I hadn’t done the research on Idaho I wouldn’t have known about it being the Gem State. If people just looked at Pepper from the outside, they wouldn’t realize that she too is one of the gems of the MCU.