The Avengers Chitauri invasion occurs. You live in a New York that has no superheroes., no DC or MARVEL characters.
BUT you can draw from other fiction (movies, tv, prose) from this era and past history. Nothing from the future.
Who do you pick to defend NYC?
"The way I see it, life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't always spoil the good things or make them unimportant"