History Timeline / MarvelCinematicUniverse

* A faction of blue-skinned humanoids known as the Kree genetically alter members of several species (including humans on the planet Earth) in order to serve as super-powered soldiers in their wars. The Kree assumed their human experiments are failures, but they and their descendants carry the potential for developing a variety of powers after being exposed to Terrigen Crystals. The people of this "[[ComicBook/TheInhumans Inhuman]]" sub-species develop insular communities and keep their powers secret from the unaltered mass of humanity; nevertheless, their existence is hinted at in legends and myths. (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Season Two)
** An Inhuman called "Alveus" (Latin for "Hive") becomes so powerful he threatens to TakeOverTheWorld, until he's exiled to a distant planet using another Kree artifact, a black Monolith that can dissolve into a PortalPool. A cult devoted to bringing Alveus back forms; in the meantime, its followers send him periodic {{Human Sacrifice}}s for survival via [[DemonicPossession possession]], under the guise of studying the Monolith. (''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Season Three)

* '''1942:''' In British Occupied India, the djinn search a Ten Rings temple for a pair of bangles that they believe will help them get home; but they only find one. When discovered by British soldiers, one of the djinn, Aisha, is separated from the others and takes the bangle with her. After her escape, she arrives in a small village, where she meets and falls in love with a Muslim flower farmer named Hasan. They eventually marry and have a daughter named Sana. (''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'')

!!Phase Three (2016-2018)

!Multiverse Saga
!!Phase Four (2023-2025)

* '''November:''' ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''[[note]]The climax of the first episode takes place on Russia's Unity Day, November 4, and a reference to Emperor Dro'ge's colony places it before ''The Marvels''. WordOfSaintPaul from Everett Ross' actor Creator/MartinFreeman also places it after ''Wakanda Forever''.[[/note]]

** Over a week after the fight with Damage Control, Kamala is in her room when her bangle mysteriously activates and teleports her somewhere, with Carol Danvers appearing in her place.
* (Events of ''Film/TheMarvels2023'')[[note]]Indicated by TheStinger of ''Ms. Marvel'' to be a week afterward.[[/note]]

* As Nick Fury has seemingly abandoned his allies, Talos puts out a call to all Skrull refugees, telling them to gather on Earth. Over time, about a million Skrulls arrive on the planet, without Fury's knowledge. (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')

* When his illness becomes too severe to hide, T'Challa finally asks Shuri for medical attention, though it is already too late to save him. He asks Nakia and Toussaint to not attend his funeral due to not believing the time would be right to introduce his son to Wakanda, and asks M'Baku to provide council for his sister after his passing. Nonetheless, Shuri scrambles to synthetically recreate the lost heart-shaped herb, but T'Challa dies before she can succeed. (''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'')
** After T'Challa's funeral, Ramonda is reinstated as queen thanks to her past experience ruling alongside T'Chaka and during the Blip. Despite her trauma from losing her son coupled with the stress of leading a nation reeling from the death of its' king and protector, Ramonda soldiers on, taking some time for herself in which she makes peace with her son's death. Shuri, however, becomes embittered at failing to save her brother.

* '''Late March - April:''' ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'':[[note]]"The lesser Eid" is celebrated in Episode 2. Since the series takes place during the US school year, we're presuming it's Eid al-Fitr, which in 2025 occurs on March 30-31 (even though nobody is shown practicing Ramadan, which is immediately before). The other option is Eid al-Adha, which takes place on June 6 that year. This may also take place in a later year, depending on whether it and ''The Marvels'' take place after ''Secret Invasion'' or not.[[/note]]

** '''March 31 (Eid al-Fitr):''' Kamala tries to learn more about the bangle's original owner from her community at an Eid celebration, but makes little progress. The festivities are interrupted when a young boy, Hameed, falls from a tower. Kamala attempts to rescue him, but an unexpected vision catches her off-guard and she loses control of her powers. She manages to spare the boy from a fatal fall, but quickly flees the scene in shame and confusion. As she runs, she finds herself surrounded by the Department of Damage Control, who've deduced from racial profiling that they are looking for a South Asian teenager in the tri-state area. Kamala escapes them thanks to the timely arrival of her crush, Kamran, who introduces her to his mother -- Najma, the same woman from the vision during Hameed's rescue.

* (Events of ''Film/TheMarvels2023'')[[note]]Indicated by TheStinger of ''Ms. Marvel'' to be a week afterward, but these may be in a later year if ''Secret Invasion'' occurs first.[[/note]]
* Bruce Banner goes on a road trip with his cousin, Jennifer Walters, when a Sakaaran spaceship appears and causes them to swerve off the road and crash. With both bleeding, Bruce's irridiated blood gets in Jen's bloodstream, causing her to acquire his powers. Bruce takes Jen to his base in Mexico to train her to handle her new abilities, though he's surprised to find that she doesn't turn feral as he did. After Jen proves to Bruce that she has control of herself (and a brief fistfight between them), she returns to her normal life as a lawyer. (''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'')

* ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'':[[note]]"Lady Thor" is referenced in the final episode, meaning the series takes place shortly before ''Love and Thunder'' at the earliest.[[/note]]
** Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Walters is presenting a case in court when a superpowered influencer named Titania gets irritated with her own trial and goes on a rampage. Jen reveals her Hulk powers to stop her, becoming an instant celebrity that the public calls "She-Hulk".
** The incident with Titania causes Jen to lose her job, and the only law firm willing to hire a superhuman is one that intentionally wants to court FantasticLegalWeirdness. She begins litigating a number of superhuman cases.
*** As her first case, she represents Emil Blonsky in a parole hearing after his rampage in 2011, though this is complicated by footage leaking of his underground cage fight against Wong. Jen manages to earn Blonsky's parole by having Wong testify that the fight was his idea, and Blonsky goes to start a wellness retreat for superhumans.
*** In one case, she goes against Matt Murdock, who was flown in from New York to represent the opposition as a personal favor. With Jen learning that he's superpowered as well, they bond over their respective positions.
** Bruce Banner gets in contact with the Sakaarans that accidentally ran him and Jen off the road, and agrees to take a trip back to Sakaar with them. Once there, he learns that he had a son named Skaar during the Hulk's gladiator days.
** A misogynist online community called the Intelligencia takes an instant dislike to She-Hulk and starts plotting against her, sending a man to date her as a pretense to steal personal information and a blood sample. Meanwhile, Titania starts engaging in petty revenge schemes to retaliate for Jen humiliating her.
** At an awards show, the Intelligencia publicly humiliate She-Hulk, claiming she stole the Hulk's powers and airing a sex tape they made of her without her consent. Jen loses her temper and attacks and is immediately arrested by Damage Control, and her rampage becomes a media circus.
** Jen is freed from prison, but at the cost of her home and her job; and she heads to Blonsky's retreat to recover. Meanwhile, her friends infiltrate an in-person meetup of the Intelligencia, ''also'' being held at Blonsky's retreat. When Jen and the Intelligencia discover each other, their leader injects himself with Jen's stolen blood to turn into a Hulk himself. Bruce and Titania also appear at the retreat out of nowhere.
** ''Being aware that she is a fictional character, Jen realizes that the situation is completely contrived for the sake of a cliché superhero brawl. She leaves the confines of her show and takes a complaint to Marvel Studios directly, convincing them to change the ending.''
** The Intelligencia's leader has his Hulk powers nullified and is arrested, with Jen planning to file a lawsuit. Blonsky is also arrested for violating parole by transforming, which he submits to peacefully. Jen is cleared of all charges for her prior outburst and re-hired.
** Bruce, back from Sakaar, introduces his family (and Murdock, who is visiting Jen) to Skaar.
** Wong breaks Blonsky out of prison to give him sanctuary in Kamar-Taj.

* MIT student Riri Williams invents a Vibranium detector for her metallurgy class. Unknown to her, it makes its way into the hands of the CIA, who immediately put it to use searching for Vibranium that isn't claimed by Wakanda. (''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'')
* ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'':[[note]]Stated to take place a little over six years after ''Infinity War''.[[/note]]
** One year after the death of T'Challa, the United States discovers Vibranium in the Atlantic Ocean using Riri's detector, but the Talokan slaughter the scientists and soldiers involved before they can report their discovery and expose Talokan's existence. Blaming Wakanda for sparking the world's search for Vibranium, Namor approaches Queen Ramonda and Princess Shuri and demands that they help him kill the American scientist responsible for the detector.
** Shuri and Okoye covertly contact CIA Agent Everett Ross for information on Namor's target, but upon learning that Riri is a young student they decide that killing her is unacceptable. With the CIA coming after Riri, they decide to bring her to Wakanda; but the Talokan interfere and attack. Facing death by the Talokan warriors, Shuri offers for her and Riri to go with them willingly instead.
** As Namor and Shuri discuss Talokan's situation and attempt to negotiate an agreement, Queen Ramonda strips Okoye of her rank as a Dora Milaje for losing Shuri and calls on Nakia in Haiti to infiltrate Talokan and rescue Shuri and Riri. Meanwhile, the US government blames Wakanda for the incidents, and Agent Ross attempts to keep them from going to war with Wakanda while hiding that he leaked them sensitive information.
** Nakia successfully rescues Shuri and Riri and returns them to Wakanda, but not before killing two servants who were guarding the two girls. Namor discovers the escape and declares war on Wakanda, leading a massive attack on the capital city and flooding much of it. While most of Wakanda's warriors battle the Talokan warriors and rescue civilians, Namor attacks the capital building and floods it with Ramonda and Riri inside. Ramonda drowns rescuing Riri, devastating Shuri and the kingdom. Namor has his forces retreat and give the Wakandans time to mourn their dead, but warns that he will be back in a week to negotiate.
** After Ramonda's funeral, the Ruling Council looks to M'Baku for leadership, and Shuri gives her his blessing to lead an evacuation of Wakanda to Jabari Land. While the others retreat, Shuri and Riri realize they can weaken Namor by dehydrating him, and Shuri returns to her old work on the synthetic heart-shaped herb. Using a bracelet made from the Vibranium-infused plant that transformed Namor and his people centuries ago, Shuri successfully creates a synthetic heart-shaped herb and takes it. She meets her late cousin N'Jadaka/Killmonger in the Ancestral Plane, who encourages her to seek retribution. Though distraught at her meeting with her cousin, Shuri discovers the herb successfully granted her the powers of the Black Panther.
** Shuri goes to Jabari Land and introduces herself as the new Black Panther, and the kingdom rejoices at the return of its' hero. When Shuri declares Wakanda must meet Namor in battle again, M'Baku balks at the idea, having learned that Talokan reveres him as a god and that killing him would risk an eternal war. Despite M'Baku's concern for Shuri's well-being, Shuri is undeterred and prepares Wakanda for battle. Okoye and Aneka don Midnight Angel armor suits that Shuri developed while Riri builds a new, upgraded Ironheart flight suit to wear into battle.
** CIA Director Contessa Valentina reveals she knows of Ross' illegal communication with Wakanda, and arrests him not just for treason, but because he is standing in the way of her greedy ambition for America to have its' own Vibranium to subjugate Wakanda and the world with.
** Wakanda engages Talokan in battle aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Though their technology gives them an auspicious start and Shuri successfully contains Namor and begins to dehydrate him, Namora cripples the ship and soon Wakanda's army begins losing the battle. Shuri is forced to crash her ship in the nearby shoreline after Namor cripples it, and she eventually triumphs over Namor. However, Shuri sees a vision of her mother from the Ancestral Plane and relents, offering Namor an alliance and mutual pact of protection from the rest of the world between Wakanda and Talokan. Moved by her mercy, Namor agrees and calls off his troops -- though in private, he admits to Namora that the alliance benefits Talokan more than Wakanda and that one day they will take advantage of Wakanda's isolated status on the world stage.
** Wakanda picks up the pieces in the aftermath. Shuri allows M'Baku to issue a challenge for the throne unopposed, making him by default the new king of Wakanda while she remains on as the new Black Panther. Riri is allowed to return home, albeit without her Ironheart armor. Okoye rescues Ross from CIA custody. Shuri goes to Nakia's home in Haiti and finally comes to terms with the loss of T'Challa. Afterwards, Nakia introduces Shuri to her nephew Toussaint/T'Challa II.

* With many Skrulls disillusioned with Fury and Danvers for failing to find them a new homeworld, their ally Talos is kicked off their leadership council in favor of a young radical named Gravik. Gravik and his followers (including Fury's wife Varra and Talos and Soren's daughter G'iah) begin plotting to eliminate humanity and take the Earth. They begin to CaptureAndReplicate humans in order to infiltrate various organizations and governments, hoping to start a nuclear war that they'd be able to survive. Among their victims are Colonel James Rhodes[[note]]who was possibly replaced as far back as 2016[[/note]] and Everett Ross.[[note]]WordOfSaintPaul from Ross' actor Creator/MartinFreeman is that he was replaced after ''Wakanda Forever''.[[/note]] Gravik also has research started to study superhuman abilities, though with the Avengers' genetic samples hidden the Skrulls make do with lesser subjects. (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')

* Gravik's forces kill Soren. G'iah is left unaware of her mother's passing. (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')
* '''November:''' ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''[[note]]The climax of the first episode takes place on Russia's Unity Day, November 4. This may also take place in an earlier year, depending on whether it takes place before ''The Marvels'' or not.[[/note]]
** Talos and Maria Hill discover the Skrull conspiracy, and call Nick Fury back to Earth for the first time in years.
** While investigating Gravik's forces, they find G'iah and Talos tells her about her mother Soren's death. G'iah is rattled by the information, and begins feeding information to Talos.
** '''November 4 (Unity Day):''' Despite their best efforts, Fury and his allies are unable to stop Gravik and his men from bombing a Unity Day celebration in Moscow while disguised as Americans. Gravik also assassinates Hill in the chaos.
** Fury contacts Colonel Rhodes for support. "Rhodes", however, is actually a Skrull imposter, who feigns outrage over Fury's presence at an international incident to fire him from S.A.B.E.R. He afterwards goes home to his wife Varra for the first time in years.
** Gravik meets with the Skrull Council, and convinces most of them (some willingly, some reluctantly) to support his war on humanity.
** Gravik undergoes the Super-Skrull process that his scientists developed, gaining the powers of at least Extremis and Groot.
** Gravik feeds G'iah false information, exposing her as a mole. He seemingly kills her, but she survives as she had secretly used the Super-Skrull process herself to give herself Extremis' regenerative capabilities.
** "Rhodes" gives Varra orders to kill Fury, while Fury spies on them and learns they're both conspiring against him.
** Fury confronts Varra over her orders, but neither kills the other and they reconcile. He then meets "Rhodes"; both blackmail one another but the meeting was just an excuse for Fury to plant a tracker.
** Trailing "Rhodes", Fury and Talos intercept a Skrull attack on President Ritson. While they are able to evacuate Ritson safely, Gravik spitefully kills Talos.
** With some of his own men starting to turn on him, Gravik orders "Rhodes" to expose his base's location in Russia to President Ritson, risking Skrull lives in order to use the threat of nuclear war to blackmail Fury. He demands that Fury bring him the samples of Avenger DNA that he had collected and hidden for use in the Super-Skrull project.
** Fury retrieves the Avenger DNA, but sends G'iah disguised as him to Gravik in his place. Gravik takes the DNA and infuses himself with its associated powers, only to find out afterward that "Fury" is also a Skrull and has gained the powers as well. Gravik and G'iah use their new powers to battle, with G'iah coming out the victor and killing him. She then rescues the humans in stasis, including the real Colonel Rhodes and Everett Ross.
*** Meanwhile, Fury himself confronts and ultimately kills "Rhodes", convincing Ritson to call off the attack on Russia.
** In the wake of the Skrull attack, Ritson declares all aliens as enemies of the state to be killed on sight. This sparks a wave of vigilante violence that claims the lives of not only Skrulls, but humans mistaken for Skrulls and even some of the attackers.
** Fury returns to S.A.B.E.R., this time with Varra joining him for at least a little while. G'iah is given a proposal to partner with MI6 for mutual protection between the Skrulls and British intelligence.

*** There is a case of such travel using either a StableTimeLoop or SanDimasTime instead of branching at the start of Season Two, but this takes place within the TVA where time explicitly works differently.

* '''June 23, 1893:'''[[note]]Date seen [[NewspaperDating on a newspaper]][[/note]] ''At the Chicago World's Fair, Victor Timely demonstrates his prototype for a Temporal Loom based on information he studies in the TVA Handbook. He ends up with several people after him: Agent Mobius and Loki want him to help repair the TVA's own Temporal Loom, Ravonna Renslayer wants to mold him into the next He Who Remains (and ride his coattails to a position of power), Sylvie wants to kill him for being a Variant of He Who Remains, and local investors want revenge for Victor scamming them. Ultimately, Mobius and Loki bring Victor back to the TVA, while Sylvie exiles Renslayer to the Citadel at the end of time (see "Beyond Time" folder)'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season 2)

** ''One of the scientist's Variants discovers a time-and-space-eating EldritchAbomination named Alioth; and after managing to tame it and harness its power, he ends the war by streamlining the various timelines into a single "Sacred Timeline" to prevent his Variants from existing and causing any more harm. As the last Variant left, he becomes known as "He Who Remains". He then founds the Time Variance Authority to ensure that no new timelines form, and retreats to the End of Time to run the TVA from afar. (See "Beyond Time" folder)''

[-The TVA headquarters is located outside of any timeline.-]
* A man known as He Who Remains (see the 3000s in the "Future Events" folder) creates the Time Variance Authority, an bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and is tasked with ensuring the Sacred Timeline is followed by apprehending and prosecuting Variants that diverge from the Sacred Timeline and resetting the timelines they create before they become permament, usually "pruning" the offending Variants (which, unknown to most of the TVA, sends them to the Void at the end of the timeline). He staffs the TVA with Variants from various time periods, suppressing their memories of their old lives.
* Although He Who Remains initially takes direct control of the TVA, at some point he instead covers up his involvement and wipes the memories of the staff so that they believe that they're working under the orders of a trio of omnipotent beings that created them, known as the "Time-Keepers", who are in truth just animatronic androids he controls from his citadel at the End of Time.
* The Asgardian god of mischief, Loki, eventually gains a reputation in the TVA as he continually goes against the Sacred Timeline; and the TVA arrests and prunes several of his Variants.
* The young female Loki variant is taken into custody from her timeline and put on trial, but she manages to escape by stealing the [=TemPad=] of Hunter A-23 and fleeing into the timeline. This variant, who later takes the alias of "Sylvie", eventually discovers that she can hide from the TVA in disaster zones, and begins plotting to find and kill the Time-Keepers.

* Mobius returns from the Void and frees B-15, and together they spread the truth to their fellow employees that they are all Variants before Mobius heads to Renslayer's office to confront her. Their confrontation is short-lived, as Renslayer, still struggling to come to terms with the fact that the TVA's mission is meaningless, quickly knocks him down before heading off to Chicago in 1868 in search of answers, given a hint by He Who Remains.
* Loki is sent back to the TVA from the Citadel at the End of Time by Sylvie. He finds the TVA in total disarray, trying to grapple with the truth of the organization. They decide to stop pruning timelines and the people within them, and that recapturing Sylvie to get her to explain what happened with He Who Remains is top priority.

* With timelines rapidly proliferating, the Temporal Loom powering the TVA starts to overload. Engineer Ouroboros (a.k.a. "O.B.") works to modify the Loom to handle the load, but finds he cannot access it without He Who Remains.

* The TVA tracks down Renslayer in 1868 and then 1893, and Mobius and Loki follow her to see if she can provide a lead on accessing the Loom. They return with one of He Who Remains' own Variants, Victor Timely.

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[-The Void is a wasteland located at the end of the Sacred Timeline, where pruned Variants and objects from reset timelines are sent to be consumed by Alioth.-]
* The many Loki variants sent to the Void over the years begin to form factions in order to survive; the kid and older ("Classic") Variants end up joining up with two other Variants, a boastful Variant who claims to have conquered Earth and claimed all six Infinity Stones, and another who is somehow an alligator, while another Loki Variant who campaigned for President in his timeline rallies an army of Variants for himself.
* Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie are sent to the Void, arriving in different parts of it. Loki is found by Kid Loki and his entourage who take him to their underground base; while Sylvie emerges mere yards away from Alioth but subsequently gets rescued by Mobius, while also managing to briefly use her enchantment powers on Alioth to see a vision of the Citadel at the End of Time.
* Boastful Loki sells out the location of Kid Loki's base to President Loki and his army in exchange for seizing power, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder only for President Loki to betray him, who is subsequently betrayed by his own army]], leading to an all-out brawl between the Lokis. Kid Loki's group teleports out of the base and away from the chaos, and subsequently meets up with Mobius and Sylvie, who explains her plan to enchant Alioth so it can lead them to the Citadel.
* After sending Mobius back to the TVA, Loki and Sylvie enact their plan, with Loki trying to distract Alioth while Sylvie attempts to enchant it. When things seem to be going south, Classic Loki reappears to conjure up a massive illusion of Asgard as a distraction, sacrificing himself to Alioth to buy Loki and Sylvie time to successfully enchant it, opening a portal to the Citadel.

[[AC:The End of Time]]

[-This location houses the Citadel occupied by He Who Remains and is located outside of any timeline.-]
* After creating the TVA, He Who Remains retreats to an asteroid existing outside of time and builds a citadel where he can observe the timeline and direct the TVA from afar.
* Eventually, he desires to retire and searches for a successor. He decides that he would best be replaced by two people, both alternate Variants of the Asgardian god Loki, and begins manipulating events to have those Variants created and brought to the Citadel to meet him. However, even he cannot predict whether they'll agree to his offer.
* Loki and Sylvie arrive at the Citadel and come face to face with He Who Remains, who reveals his backstory and that he's arranged events in a way so that the two can meet him. He then offers them a choice; either kill him, freeing his Variants and reigniting the Multiversal War until his past self stops it again in a StableTimeLoop, or spare him and take over the duties of running the TVA and the Sacred Timeline. Sylvie, still with vengeance on her mind, believes he's lying and opts to kill him, and despite Loki's attempts to stop her, Sylvie sends him back to the TVA and strikes a fatal blow on He Who Remains. Upon his death, the Sacred Timeline breaks apart into a multiverse at an uncontrollable rate, allowing his Variants to exist again.
* Sylvie then leaves the Citadel, arriving in Oklahoma in 1982.
* Ravonna Renslayer is sent to the abandoned Citadel from 1893, where she plans her next move.

* (Events of ''Film/TheMarvels'')[[note]]Indicated by TheStinger of ''Ms. Marvel'' to be a week afterward, but these may be in a later year if ''Secret Invasion'' occurs first.[[/note]]

* Shows related to ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' sub-franchise are more vague as to their timeframe. Each season is assumed to take place a few months apart in the order of their release. The sub-franchise is listed here as starting in 2014, based on a line in the first episode of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' referring to ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' as two years ago. It's also possible that the various shows may be take place a year later than listed, starting in 2015, reflecting ''Daredevil''[='s=] release date.
* TV series airing during the release of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' have not acknowledged the events of that film, and are stated by WordOfGod to be set before ''Infinity War''.
** The final seasons of all five ''Defenders'' shows are being assumed to take place before ''Infinity War'', as the prior seasons had also been treated as occurring before their release dates.
** ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' Seasons 6 and 7 are currently being considered {{Alternate Timeline}}s.[[note]]plural, due to time travel in Season 7[[/note]]
** For simplicity's sake, only the first seasons of ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' and ''[[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 Cloak & Dagger]]'' are currently included in this timeline. Further seasons that aired after the release of ''Infinity War'' are not listed at the moment.

** ''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'', however, uses the version of time travel where the new timeline overwrites the old one; when history is changed the time-travelers fade away and are RetGone, but the effects they had on the past remain.

* A race known as the Celestials comes into being, becoming the first living beings in the newly-created universe. With their infinite cosmic power and the guidance of their leader, the Prime Celestial Arishem the Judge, they create stars, planets, and other forms of life throughout the universe.

** To help in this process, Arishem uses his World Forge to create a genetically engineered race, later called the Deviants, to eliminate apex predators and ensure the survival of a planet's intelligent life; however, a flaw in their design causes them to evolve out of their original programming and instead target all life. In response, Arishem engineers another race, the [[ComicBook/TheEternals Eternals]], with the primary purpose of defending intelligent life from the Deviants, not knowing of their true purpose of allowing an Emergence to happen. After each successful Emergence, the Eternals are returned to the World Forge to have their memories erased to ensure their loyalty before being sent to a new planet. (''Film/{{Eternals}}'')

** One such community decides to divorce themselves from humanity entirely, founding a colony on the moon called "Attilan". (''Series/{{Inhumans}}'')

* The inhabitants of K'un-Lun, an extra-dimensional city that becomes connected to an area in the Himalayas every fifteen years, discover a substance distilled from dragon bones that can resurrect the dead. Most of the city wants to altruistically use this to help the world, but five citizens discover a way to inherit {{Immortality}} from it. These five, known in the present as Alexandra, Madame Gao, Bakuto, Sowande, and Murakami, are exiled to Earth where they form the criminal organization the Hand, devoting themselves into returning to K'un-Lun, which involves "activating" an individual called "Black Sky". K'un-Lun takes steps in defending themselves: every generation, a citizen is selected to receive the power of the "Iron Fist" from the dragon Shou-Lao the Undying. This protector is then charged to guard the gates to K'un-Lun whenever the connection is open. Assisting this person is a group of warriors known as the Chaste. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'', ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'', ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')

** According to future Chaste member Stick, this was caused by the Hand in order to cover up their activities at mining the black substance from dragon bones located near the cities. (''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')

[[AC:1917]]
* '''March 10:''' James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is born to George and Winifred Barnes. (''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''[[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus Smithsonian exhibit]][[/note]], ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'')
* '''August 15:''' Howard Stark is born. (''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''[[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel file]][[/note]])
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* '''July 4:''' Steve Rogers is born to Joseph and Sarah Rogers in Brooklyn. (''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''[[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus Enlistment form]][[/note]])
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* '''April 9:''' Margaret "Peggy" Carter is born to Amanda and Harrison Carter. (''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' deleted scene[[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel file]][[/note]])

* A teenage delinquent known as "Stick", who was born blind, spends a few years in jail. Upon his release, he's taken in by The Chaste and becomes one of their most devoted members. (''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')

* '''August 1945:''' World War II ends with the US forcing Japan's surrender by dropping two atomic bombs on the cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th. Phastos, who had given humanity the knowledge and technology that led to the bombs' development, loses faith in humanity after viewing Hiroshima's ruins and goes into isolation. He later changes this stance after finding love and starting a family. (''Film/{{Eternals}}'')

* The United States military (including HYDRA infiltrators) secretly continues its super-soldier experiments, attempting to reverse-engineer Dr. Erskine's serum using a group of soldiers as guinea pigs, including black serviceman Isaiah Bradley. While Isaiah takes in the serum well, others became “unstable” due to its effects, with some even dying from it. (''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'')

[[AC:1948]]
* When K'un-Lun appears on Earth, the Chinese army is sent to investigate, but its soldiers are ambushed and slaughtered by the current Iron Fist. (''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season One)

[[AC:1950]]
* '''July 4:''' Nick Fury is born in Hunstville, Alabama. (''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. badge]][[/note]])

[[AC:1965]]
* '''April 2:''' Phillip Coulson is born. (''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. badge]][[/note]])

[[AC:1968]]
* '''October 6:''' James "Rhodey" Rhodes is born. (''Film/IronMan'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus Air Force badge]][[/note]])
* '''December 18:''' Bruce Banner is born. (''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus Culver University badge]][[/note]])

[[AC:1978]]
* '''September 23:''' Sam Wilson is born to Darlene and Paul Wilson. (''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' promotional material)

* In the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, young Wilson Fisk murders his abusive father, and starts believing he has to turn to criminal means to save the city from itself. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season One)

* '''January 7:''' Grant Ward is born. (''Series/AgentsOfShield'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. badge]][[/note]])

[[AC:1986]]
* '''April 26:''' The UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} Nuclear Power Plant explodes, rendering the surrounding area radioactive and uninhabitable for decades to come; The Chaste believe this event was caused by The Hand as a coverup for retrieving the black substance from nearby dragon bones around Chernobyl. (''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')

* In England, a married pair of scientists from the neurological experimental group called "IGH" find that their son Kevin has a disorder that will soon kill him. They resort to using their invasive, painful work on him; their attempt is a success, which not only saves their son's life, but grants him the ability to command people to do whatever he says. After years of unwilling slavery to their son, the scientists escape, and without any adult guidance, Kevin grows up to be the sociopath super-villain called "Kilgrave". (''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season One)
* Stick discovers Black Sky as a child and attempts to raise her himself so she will oppose The Hand, giving her the name "ComicBook/{{Elektra}}". Other Chaste members oppose Stick's decision, and when she's finally forced to kill another Chaste student in self-defense, he sends her to live with a Greek ambassador, adopting the surname "Nachios" as her own. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season Two)
* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''
** Cornell Stokes, grandson of notorious Harlem gangster Mama Mabel, begins making a name for himself as a street thug, earning him the moniker "Cottonmouth" after an incident where he loses three teeth. Meanwhile, his cousin Mariah Dillard remains determined to rise above the family's criminal past and help the neighborhood through legal means. (Season One)
** (Flashback in Season Two)
** Reverend James Lucas has an affair with his secretary, producing an illegitimate son named Willis Stryker; two years later, he fathers a son with his lawful wife named Carl. The sons grow up as friends, yet Carl has no idea Willis is his half-brother, who is aware of their relationship and grows increasingly resentful at their father's refusal to acknowledge Willis. (Season One)

* As a child, Matthew "Matt" Murdock is blinded by chemicals in a vehicular accident, yet it greatly increases his other senses to superhuman levels. Shortly afterwards, Matt's boxer father Jack Murdock is killed for not throwing a fight, and he is sent to the Saint Agnes Orphanage (presumably the same one as Daisy Johnson). Matt is recruited and trained by Stick on how to fight and see with his other senses, as a potential addition to the Chaste. However, as Matt begins forming an attachment to his mentor, Stick decides to abandon Matt, and the latter is left on his own. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season One)
* Teenager ComicBook/JessicaJones is the SoleSurvivor of a car accident that kills her family, leaving her comatose. The IGH take her away for experimentation. Upon waking up, she discovers she has acquired superhuman strength, increased jumping capabilities, and a HealingFactor. (''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season One)
* The Hand takes in orphaned child Colleen Wing, who is brought up by Bakuto to believe Madame Gao's Hand faction is false, while the "true" Hand is attempting to perform good in the world. She becomes a skilled martial artist, eventually starting her own dojo in New York City catering to youths suffering from poverty. (''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'')

* '''August 10:''' Peter Parker is born. At some point he is taken in by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben. (''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus passport]][[/note]])

* New York businessman Harold Meachum is diagnosed with cancer. He is approached by Madame Gao with a deal to resurrect him in a healthy body in exchange for allowing her faction of The Hand to use his company "Rand Enterprises" to help smuggle their heroin operations. Harold agrees, but when his business partner Wendell Rand becomes suspicious and starts investigating, Harold murders Wendell and his wife by sabotaging their plane which crashes in the Himalayas. The SoleSurvivor of the crash is their son Danny, who is rescued by K'un-Lun monks and brought to their city, but is stranded there until it reappears on Earth again. (''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season One[[note]]The plane crash occurred at some point post-July 2001, as Danny stated he was treated for a broken arm in New York City at that time.[[/note]])
** In K'un-Lun, Danny learns of the prestigious position of Iron Fist, the city's defender, and begins training in hopes of earning the title.

* Harold Meachum finally loses his battle with cancer, but thanks to The Hand's treatments, he soon revives. However, The Hand insists his survival remains a secret, but they allow his son Ward to be in on the deception so he can run Rand Enterprises on his father's behalf. (''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season One)

* Matt Murdock meets Foggy Nelson at law school and strike up a friendship. They get a chance to work for a big law firm, but wanting to hold onto principle, [[StartMyOwn they decide to start their own instead]]. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season One)
** Stick sends Elektra to push Matt onto the path of opposing The Hand, albeit without his realization, by manipulating his emotions. The naive Matt is smittened by Elektra's thrill-seeking nature and bonds with her until she offers the mob boss who ordered his father's death for him to kill, but [[ThouShaltNotKill Matt refuses to cross the line]]; Elektra leaves New York afterwards. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season Two)

* Willis Stryker's jealousy of his half-brother Carl Lucas leads him to frame the latter, sending him to Seagate Prison, headed by Warden Albert Rackham. During his incarceration, Carl slowly develops an attraction to psychologist Doctor Reva Connors. He is enlisted by inmates "Alvarez" and "Comanche" into illegal ring fights, backed by Rackham. When Carl and Reva attempt to blow the whistle on Rackham's corruption, the warden has Carl beaten. To save his life, Reva convinces Doctor Noah Burstein, a scientist at Seagate conducting experiments on prisoners, to put Carl into a healing bath. Although Rackham sabotages the attempt, the experiment accidentally turns Carl's skin {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le and granting him SuperStrength. Carl escapes Seagate and, with Reva's help, takes on a new identity "ComicBook/LukeCage". Luke and Reva are later married in secret. (''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' Season One)
* During UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, Director William J. Rawlins III of CIA Covert Operations, Homeland Security Special Agent Carson Wolf, United States Marine Corps Colonel Ray Schoonover, and United States Army Colonel Morty Bennet form a massive drug smuggling coalition in Kandahar, Afghanistan, using elite US military personnel, with Marines Frank Castle and Billy Russo as their {{Unwitting Pawn}}s, who believe they're simply a black ops organization called "Cerberus Squad". When Afghan police officer Ahmad Zubair begins investigating criminal activity in the region, Cerberus tortures and executes him. Gunner Henderson, a Cerberus member who becomes disillusioned about the group, covertly films the entire incident. One year after joining Cerberus, the team is sent after a high-value target against Castle's and Russo's instincts that it's a trap; and several Cerberus members are killed. Disgusted by the mission, Russo leaves the armed forces, returning to America alone, while Castle stays, transferring to another unit and serving in Iraq before heading back stateside. (''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'')

** The aftermath of the Chitauri invasion in New York City leads to the [[TheMafiya Russian Mafia]], Japanese {{Yakuza}} and Chinese [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triads]] beginning their monopoly of crime and real estate in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of the city, alongside various other branches around the world. (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season One)

* Madame Gao and Murakami's lieutenant Nobu Yoshioka join forces with Wilson Fisk as he continues his plan to save Hell's Kitchen from itself, using his assistance to buy a piece of real estate that sits on top of a dragon's remains, hidden deep beneath the Earth that will enable them to create more of the resurrection serum. (''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')
* Matt Murdock, feeling he is ready, begins his {{vigilante|man}} work in Hell's Kitchen, acting as a lawyer by day, but living as a masked crime-fighter by night. During a failed attempt at rescuing a kidnapped boy, Matt is nursed back to health by a nurse named Claire Temple, [[SecretKeeper who keeps his identity secret]]. With the help of his allies, one of whom is Karen Page, who works alongside Foggy Nelson and Matt at their law firm, Murdock is able to dismantle [[ComicBook/TheKingpin Wilson Fisk]] and his criminal empire, who is imprisoned for his crimes, while his co-conspirators are either killed or forced to flee the country. Although Nobu dies, he is resurrected by The Hand, while Gao leaves for China when it becomes clear Fisk's help is at an end. For his deeds in Hell's Kitchen, the media dubs the masked vigilante as the "ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}". (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season One)
* Jessica Jones makes a brief attempt at being a superhero, only to fall prey to Kilgrave, who forms a twisted attachment to her during her imprisonment under him. After several months of being his personal tool, Jessica breaks free of her mind control after being ordered to kill another unwilling accomplice: a prison counselor by the name of Reva Conners. She manages to escape when he's hit by a bus, but he survives. (''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season One)

* Kilgrave launches a campaign of torture involving everyone Jessica Jones knows to force her to return to his servitude. Luke Cage is also drawn into the fight against Kilgrave as Jessica's last act under his control is killing Reva Connors, who is revealed to be Luke's wife. Jones, who developed an immunity to his powers after the aforementioned killing, is ultimately able to kill him and resumes her work as a private investigator. Luke heads to Harlem afterward. (''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season One)

* National Security Agency Analyst David Lieberman is sent the video of Ahmad Zubair's death for assessment; instead, he sends it to Homeland Security Agent Dinah Madani. However, CIA Covert Operations Director William Rawlins sends Homeland Security Special Agent Carson Wolf after Lieberman for leaking the video, but the latter survives a contrived public execution by FakingTheDead to protect his wife and children's safety, heading into hiding. Rawlins and Marine Corps Colonel Ray Schoonover believe ex-Cerberus Squad member Frank Castle to be the leak's source, ordering Billy Russo to kill the Castle family. He refuses; instead, Rawlins arranges for a botched drug sting operation involving the "Blacksmith" to cover their tracks, as Castle's wife and children are killed in the crossfire between gangs at Central Park in New York City. Using resources provided by Rawlins, Russo creates private military contractor "Anvil". (''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'')
* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season Two
** Ex-United States Marine Corps veteran Frank Castle reinvents himself as a vigilante, waging a one-man war against the "[[AllBikersAreHellsAngels Dogs of Hell]]", "[[TheIrishMob Kitchen Irish]]", and [[TheCartel Mexican Cartel]] in Hell's Kitchen with zero restraint, whom he believes were responsible for the deaths of his wife and children in the Central Park massacre. Castle's actions bring him into opposition with the Daredevil. When Kitchen Irish leaders arrive to seek {{Revenge}} on Castle, they capture him, but the Daredevil assists in Castle's escape; however, Frank surrenders himself to the police and stands trial for his crimes, with Matt Murdock defending him. Unfortunately, Castle purposefully destroys his own defense, believing his actions are justified and is sent to the same prison as Wilson Fisk. The former crime lord believes he can use Castle to get rid of his competition, thus engineers his escape. Castle also deduces the Blacksmith's identity to be his former Cerberus superior Marine Corps Colonel Ray Schoonover and guns him down, believing this is as far as the conspiracy goes. Discovering a hidden cache of Schoonover's weapons, Castle embraces the district attorney's moniker of him, "ComicBook/ThePunisher".
*** With Matt distracted by other matters (see below) and effectively abandoning the Castle case, he and Foggy Nelson dissolve their business partnership and go their separate ways. Foggy is subsequently hired by "Hogarth, Chao, & Benowitz", as attorney Jeri Hogarth is impressed by his defense of Castle.
** Elektra returns to New York seeking Matt's help with the Yakuza; he reluctantly agrees unless she promises to leave the city when they are finished. Their investigation leads them to The Hand, who have now demolished the building over the dragon bones and are digging a massive hole down to it. Stick arrives and finally reveals to Matt the nature of The Chaste and their war against The Hand. Matt offers to take Elektra back and help her defeat The Hand if she ends her relationship with Stick and The Chaste; she agrees. Angered by her betrayal, Stick sends an assassin to kill Elektra, but is unsuccessful; instead, The Hand captures him. Matt tracks down The Hand torturing Stick, yet Elektra intends to kill him until The Hand reveals she is the Black Sky. Murdock urges her not to cooperate with them and Elektra helps him escape with Stick; unfortunately, she dies protecting Matt from the resurrected Nobu Yoshioka, who Stick promptly dispatches permanently. The enraged Daredevil defeats his attackers with unexpected help from the Punisher.
*** As Matt and Stick mourn Elektra's death, surviving members of The Hand recover her body. Alexandra insists Elektra be brought back despite this using up the last of the resurrection serum The Hand currently has, and manipulates the process so she has no memories and is purely devoted to The Hand. Alexandra proceeds to build the headquarters for a company named "Midland Circle" over the bone site as The Hand's new front. (''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'')
*** Realizing Castle could be the perfect ally to exonernate him, David Lieberman leaves a disc of the video containing Afghan police officer Ahmad Zubair's death in Castle's house labeled "Micro" for him to retrieve, just as he returns to burn it down. (''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'')
** On Christmas Day, Matt, still coming to grips with Elektra's death, calls Karen Page to meet him and reveals to her his identity as the masked vigilante Daredevil. However, he retires as the Daredevil, devoting himself to ''pro bono'' legal work.

* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' Season One[[note]]Luke discusses the 2015 NBA draft in episode 1, dating the episode to late summer or early fall 2015. However, this makes it highly unlikely that ''The Defenders'' can consider both ''Daredevil'' Season Two and ''Iron Fist'' to be "a few months" back, so it's probably a mistake and ''Luke Cage'' takes place earlier in the year.[[/note]]
** Months after moving into Harlem, Luke Cage keeping a low profile as a sweeper at a barbershop owned by ex-gangster Henry "Pop" Hunter and a dishwasher at the "Harlem's Paradise" nightclub, owned by Cottonmouth. He's drawn into Cottonmouth's gun-running operations in the neighborhood when thieves steal Cottonmouth's money during an arms deal. Assisted by ex-Seagate inmate Alvarez, known now as "Shades", who works for weapons supplier "Diamondback", Cottonmouth's men inadvertedly kills Pops during a drive-by shooting to silence the thieves. Luke retailiates by going after Cottonmouth's businesses; his illegal assets fuel his cousin Mariah Dillard's campaign to clean up Harlem. This street war brings Luke into the media spotlight, including the attention of Detective Misty Knight of the New York Police Department. Cottonmouth's obssession with Luke leads to an argument between the cousins where Mariah murders Cottonmouth. Shades uses the latter's death in a plan to frame his murder on Luke. Meanwhile, Claire Temple returns to Harlem, who meets with Luke just as he is shot and wounded by Diamondback using a bullet manufactured from Chitauri technology; Luke also discovers Diamondback is actually Willis Stryker, who finally reveals he is Cage's half-brother.
** Luke and Claire escape from the police, who suspects the former of killing Cottonmouth, to find Doctor Noah Burstein, whom Claire believes can restore Luke to normal as the Chitauri bullet penetrated his iron-like skin. Mariah forms an alliance with Stryker to smear Luke's public image, presenting his confrontations with the police as aggressive; Detective Knight, who has spent enough prior time with Luke to know of his innocence, defends his actions. When a rejuvenated Luke returns to Harlem to confront Mariah at Harlem's Paradise during a rally against super-powered individuals, Stryker frames his brother using hostages, but Luke rescues them and takes the fight directly to Stryker, defeating him on Harlem's streets. Unfortunately, Luke's identity as Carl Lucas is ousted, and he is arrested for escaping prison, returning to Seagate to continue his sentence. Mariah's ties to crime cannot be proven due to the death of a key witness from Shades, while Doctor Burstein subjects a beaten, comatose Stryker to the same experiments that created Luke.

* '''Summer:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}''
** In K'un-Lun, Danny Rand defeats Shou-Lao the Undying, receiving the power and title of the Iron Fist, but abandons his post when the connection to Earth appears again. He returns to New York City to discover Harold Meachum's children Ward and Joy now run Rand Enterprises, with Harold still believed by the public to be dead. Assisted by Jeri Hogarth, Danny proves his identity and reclaims his father's place in the company, but his morally-upright, yet financially-unsound business decisions prove ineffective for the corporation. Meanwhile, having learned of Danny being "the sworn enemy of The Hand", Harold begins plotting to use Danny to break himself free of The Hand's control by revealing himself to Danny, alerting him to The Hand's infiltration of Rand Enterprises. Danny begins investigating and starts to interfere with Madame Gao's heroin operation. Unfortunately, Danny's corporate actions forces the board of directors to move him, Ward and Joy out of the comapny. Due to a combination of stress involving Harold's control over him, failed attempts at manipulating Danny, the possibility of losing his career, his own involvement with The Hand, and a drug addiction, Ward kills his father. However, Harold comes BackFromTheDead due to his new body given to him by The Hand; his morality lessened, Harold blackmails and threatens the board of directors at Rand Enterprises to let him and his children back into the company.
** Danny meets Colleen Wing, who keeps her association with The Hand secret, hoping to recruit Danny into their ranks, beliving K'un-Lun monks have "brainwashed" him. Joined by Claire Temple after she learns about their connection to The Hand, the three abduct Gao for her involvement in the death of Danny's parents, but Colleen sustains a poisoned wound. Fortunately, Bakuto arrives to help, who moves them into his base of operations and imprisons Gao. Colleen tells Danny the truth of her allegiance to The Hand, but he severs his bond with Colleen, furious at her deception and intent to recruit him. Danny escapes Bakuto's compound thanks to the arrival of Davos, a citizen and his friend from K'un-Lun.
** Shattered by her faith in The Hand, Colleen declines to inform Bakuto of Danny's whereabouts. Danny forgives her, and together with an uneasy Davos, they intervene when Bakuto takes the Meachums hostage. Colleen kills Bakuto, but Davos turns against Danny for his refusal to accept K'un-Lun's hardline stance against repentant members of The Hand. Bakuto's body disappears when Danny and Colleen fight off Davos. His deal with The Hand over, Harold takes the opportunity to frame Danny for Madame Gao's heroin operation. Going on the run from authorities with Colleen and Claire, they receive assistance from Ward, who has grown disillusioned with his father's methods. Making common ground with Gao, who reveals Harold killed Danny's parents, they make a final attack on Rand Enterprises and Harold, with Gao escaping imprisonment from Bakuto's compound. Danny and Ward kill Harold, cremating his remains to prevent his resurrection. Joy, meanwhile, believes Danny to be the cause of her problems, and secretly meets with Davos, who desires to kill Danny. Realizing he needs to fulfill his duties as the Iron Fist, Danny invites Colleen to return to K'un-Lun with him, but discover dead Hand assassins at the gates, and the city having vanished.

* ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}''
** After months of tracking The Hand in Asia, Danny Rand and Colleen Wing find a member of The Chaste in Cambodia, but is assasinated by an amnesiac Elektra. Before The Chaste warrior dies, Danny is warned The Hand are still active in New York City. Meanwhile, Luke Cage is released from Seagate Prison and returns to Harlem; simultaneously, Alexandra discovers she is dying of organ failure, thus orders The Hand to speed up the excavation beneath Midland Circle. However, they cannot reach the dragon bones buried there as the passage is sealed by a door, opened only by the powers of the Iron Fist. Jessica Jones takes a missing persons case regarding John Raymond, an architect who worked on Midland Circle, discovering a stockpile of explosives. Foreseeing Jones will require legal assistance, Jeri Hogarth instructs Foggy Nelson to discreetly arrange help. When Raymond takes Jessica's neighbor hostage to get her to drop the case, Elektra arrives to silence the former, but Raymond is DrivenToSuicide. As Jones is arrested for suspicion in Raymond's death, Foggy calls upon Matt Murdock to be her lawyer.
** While Danny follows the trail of The Hand in New York City, Luke begins investigating a chain of young Harlem men hired for mysterious jobs, only to later die. Their respective paths collide when Danny discovers a Chaste hideout, its members massacred, with the Harlem men hired for body disposal. Luke steps in when Danny attacks the clean-up crew, but their engagement is averted when Claire Temple introduces them as allies. Various parties converge at Midland Circle: Danny confronts Alexandra and The Hand leaders personally, with Luke demanding answers for dead Harlem youths, Jessica's investigation into Raymond lead her to Midland Circle, and Matt tails the latter. All are caught up in a fight with The Hand, but are outmatched when Elektra appears, yet they escape successfully from their pursuers.
** Danny, Luke, Jessica and Matt take refuge as Stick appears and explains of The Hand's motives and origins. Unfortunately, The Hand discovers their location, as the four commit to fighting The Hand together, even capturing Sowande, who is summarily killed by Stick when the latter unsuccessfully attempts escape. Realizing The Hand require the Iron Fist, the others suggest Danny go into hiding, but he insists on engaging The Hand, forcing his allies to subdue him before he can compromise them. Meanwhile, Elektra's memories slowly begin to resurface, as surviving Hand leaders question Alexandra's position now that they are vulernable without the resurrection substance. After Matt and Jessica continue to investigate Raymond's cache of explosives, they discover his plan of imploding Midland Circle by collapsing its headquarters onto the excavation site. However, Elektra attacks the group's safehouse, kidnaps Danny and kills Stick, yet having regained her memories, she rebels against Alexandra and kills her too, taking control of The Hand.
** Madame Gao, Murakami and Bakuto concede to Elektra's leadership, as they desperately need the substance, taking Danny to the sealed door. Luke, Jessica and Matt arrive at Midland Circle to rescue Danny, with Colleen bringing Raymond's explosives along; Detective Misty Knight and Claire also join to stall New York City police for as long as possible. Danny is tricked by Elektra into opening the door, allowing The Hand to begin harvesting the bones. As Colleen plants the explosives, Bakuto confronts her, but is intercepted by Knight, who loses an arm fighting him. Although Colleen successfully kills Bakuto, his death unwittingly triggers the explosives' timer. Danny, Luke, Jessica and Matt continue fighting The Hand in the caverns, but when the latter realizes the explosives will go off soon, Matt orders his allies to leave as he stays behind to stall Elektra, Gao and Murakami alone as Midland Circle implodes. With the event covered up by the authorities, Danny, Luke and Jessica continue to protect New York City in honor of Matt; however, Matt is alive, awakening with a nun by his bed side.

* ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' Season One
** Six months after killing the last members of the Dogs of Hell, Kitchen Irish and Mexican Cartel, Frank Castle retires as the Punisher and works at construction as "Pete Castiglione", until a violent altercation defending a co-worker allows David Lieberman to track him down, telling Castle to check the "Micro" disc. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Agent Dinah Madani begins investigating on Castle's Afghanistan operations, suspecting his squad was responsible for Afghan policeman Ahmad Zubair's death, but Homeland Security Special Agent Carson Wolf forbids it. Instead, Madani uses Homeland's liaison with Anvil via field training to speak with Billy Russo regarding Castle, whom she believes is dead. With some assistance from Karen Page, Castle uncovers Lieberman's identity as Micro, then kills Wolf upon learning from the the latter his family's death was actually meant for Castle. Confronting Lieberman at his hideout, Castle forms a partnership to hunt down remaining Cerberus members responsible for Castle's loss.
** Madani is promoted to Wolf's position, who focuses on an illegal weapons shipment with fellow Homeland Security Agent Sam Stein rather than pursue Wolf's death. However, the shipment is intercepted by Castle and Lieberman; Frank also reveals himself to Madani and explains he killed Wolf, information Madani keeps to herself when interrogated by internal affairs. Castle and Lieberman deduce the Zubair video was made by Gunner Henderson and tracks him living in the Kentucky wilderness, just as Rawlins sends a squad of soldiers to assassinate Henderson. Castle and Henderson kill the attackers, but the latter is mortally wounded, and Rawlins discovers Castle is alive. Castle and Lieberman go after United States Army Colonel Morty Bennet next, but Russo extracts Bennet before Castle can kill him. However, Rawlins decides the colonel is too much of a security risk and Russo arranges Bennet in a murder-suicide with a dominatrix. Meanwhile, Madani uncovers a bug in her office; suspecting the people spying on her are killing her investigation leads, with Stein's help, Madani releases a false flag operation; the ruse succeeds as Russo and his Anvil mercenaries are ambushed by Homeland Security, but the operation goes south when Russo escapes after killing Stein.
** Curtis Hoyle, an ex-United States Navy corpsman and a friend of Castle's, has set up a veterans support group. When new arrival Lewis Wilson is suffering badly from post-traumatic stress disorder and Hoyle fails to reach him, Wilson sparks a bombing campaign against the government, going after a senator who's lobbying for gun control. Castle, Madani and Russo are brought together by Wilson's terrorist incident - Castle rescues Karen Page, held hostage by Wilson, before [[ActionBomb blowing himself up]], while Madani deduces Russo killed Stein, informing CIA and Homeland Security superiors of Rawlins, Russo and Cerberus. When Rawlins and Russo takes Lieberman's wife and children hostage to use as leverage, Castle offers to swap himself for the family and leftover information Lieberman has on Cerberus via the computers at his hideout; Castle and Lieberman also confess to Madani of what they know about Cerberus. The exchange is successful - Castle unlocks the computer files for Russo to destroy, while Rawlins tortures Castle, until Russo frees the latter, who kills Rawlins. Russo escapes again when Madani arrives at the hideout to rescue Castle.
** With federal agents after him as the last of the surviving Cerberus conspirators, Russo kills his pursuers and destroys Anvil headquarters. Holding Hoyle hostage, Russo agrees with Castle to a final showdown at the place where Castle's family was killed. Madani follows Castle to the location, but is wounded; Castle gains the upper hand against Russo, but refuses to kill him, instead leaving Russo with a horrifically mutilated face as a reminder of his guilt, while rendering him into a coma. Days later, the CIA and Homeland Security pardon Castle at Madani's request, placing Cerberus' crimes on Russo, while Lieberman returns to his family exonerated. Castle, as Pete Castiglione, is free again, joining Hoyle's veterans support group.

* (Events of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season Two)

* (Events of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' Season Two)

* (Events of ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' Season Two)

* (Events of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' Season Three)

* (Events of ''Series/{{The Punisher|2017}}'' Season Two)

* (Events of ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' Season Three)

* In the Inhuman moon colony of Attilan, King Black Bolt's brother Maximus leads a coup d'etat against the nobility's oppression of Inhumans with poor or no powers, causing the royal family to flee to Earth. Once they regroup and return home, Maximus holds Attilan hostage by threatening to break down the city's protective dome if his claim to the throne isn't recognized. Unfortunately, by the time he is pressured to maintain it it's too far gone, and Black Bolt leads an exodus to Earth where the Attilan Inhumans begin to resettle. Maximus is punished by being left behind in a bunker, abandoned and alone. (''Series/{{Inhumans}}'')

* Six teenagers in Los Angeles witness their parents apparently murdering someone in a bizarre ritual. Horrified, they start trying to work out exactly what they saw - and, eventually, to find hard evidence of their parents' crimes. In the process, they discover that not only has this been going on for ''years'', but several of them have inherited superhuman "gifts" of their own. (''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' Season One)

* "Shaun" and Katy Chen graduate high school. (''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'')

* The PRIDE's kids discover that not even their parents fully understand the threat their plans pose, and resort to openly defying them and their mysterious boss, Jonah. After witnessing how little Jonah values any of their lives, the PRIDE begin plotting against him. In an effort to keep the kids at arm's length while all this goes down, they frame the kids and force them to go on the run. (''Series/{{Runaways|2017}}'' Season One)
* (Events of ''[[Series/CloakAndDagger2018 Cloak & Dagger]]'')[[note]]Despite debuting in June, the season involves Mardi Gras and a high school basketball championship; which both generally occur around February-March.[[/note]]

* At some point, the Avengers become defunct due to the Ultron program's success, with all the members of the group save for Captain Carter retiring from superheroics.

** After Strange is freed from the Mirror Dimension, Green Goblin shows up once more to destroy the box holding the destructive spell, causing a rift into the multiverse to form and allowing other multiversial entities to enter. Goblin takes on one more fight from Parker, but with the intent of [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred forcing Parker to kill him]] so Parker [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim will just be like him]]. Peter-Two stops Parker from killing Goblin with his glider, only to be stabbed by Goblin. Luckily, this gives Peter-Three the opportunity to throw the cure for Goblin at Parker and use it, killing the Goblin and freeing Osborn for good.

* The Ten Rings assassinate someone during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution, serving Xu Wenwu's lust to assert his power over all human history. (''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'')

* Alien civilizations the Kree and the Nova Empire go to war, starting a conflict that would last a thousand years. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy|2014'')

* Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Penitentary in San Francisco. They are never found and presumed dead. ''Somewhere around this point, Frank commits an unknown timeline divergence and is arrested by the TVA, who reset the change. He is mindwiped and recruited into the TVA, where he becomes a timid office worker named Casey.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season Two)

* During UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, the Soviet Union sends a dog named Cosmo into space as a test subject, where she somehow becomes part of the Collector's collection and gains powerful telekinetic abilities. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy|2014'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'')

* During UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, the Soviet Union sends a dog named Cosmo into space as a test subject, where she somehow becomes part of the Collector's collection and gains powerful telekinetic abilities. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'')

* Kree soldier Mar-Vell comes to believe that her race's military campaign against another race, the Skrulls, is unjustified. Discovering the Tesseract on Earth, she begins infiltrating the planet's scientific community under the name "Dr. Wendy Lawson" with the goal of using it to power a faster-than-light starship that can help the Skrulls evade capture. (''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'')
* The Eternal Kingo sets himself up in Bollywood as a series of identical actors. He hires as his valet a local man named Karun Patel, who (following an incident of trying to stake him as a suspected vampire) becomes his confidant for the next half-century. (''Film/{{Eternals}}'')

[[AC:1996]]
* Over the centuries, Xu Wenwu has reinvented himself from a warrior king to the most powerful person in the international underground, influencing leadership in nearly every country on Earth. Having run out of countries on Earth to dominate, Xu Wenwu seeks out Ta Lo, a mystical otherworld of mythological beings. However, upon arriving in Ta Lo, he falls in love with the warrior Ying Li. Having found his one true love, Wenwu puts away the Ten Rings and abandons his evil ways to grow old with Li. (''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'')

* After ten years on the straight and narrow, Xu Wenwu puts the Ten Rings back on after some old enemies murder his beloved Ying Li. In his anger and grief, he reassembles his army and viciously trains his seven-year-old son, Xu Shang-Chi, to be a master martial artist and assassin. In the meantime, he neglects his relationship with Xu Xialing, partly out of grief for Li and partly out of his millennium-old ideas of gender roles. (''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'')

* "The Mandarin", the charismatic purported leader of the Ten Rings, claims to be the mastermind behind a series of terrorist attacks within the United States and across the globe that baffle intelligence agencies due to their inconsistencies. (''Film/IronMan3'')

* At this time, Rebecca Tourminet is a high school vice principal in Fremont, Ohio. ''Soon after this point, she commits an unknown timeline divergence and is arrested by the TVA, who reset the change.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season One)

* '''December 18:''' Bruce Banner is born. (''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus Culver University badge]][[/note]])

** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor Odinson]], second born to Odin, prepares to ascend to the Asgardian throne when Frost Giants attempt, but fail, to retake the Casket of Ancient Winters. Believing the Giants are planning a preemptive strike against Asgard, Thor travels to Jotunheim to confront Laufey with his brother Loki, [[ActionGirl Sif]] and the "Warriors Three" (Volstagg, Fandral and Hogun). Thor's talk with Laufey devolves into violence until Odin arrives to rescue the Asgardians. However, a combination of his son's [[JerkAss demeanor]] and willingness to break Asgard and Jotunheim's truce leads Odin to exile Thor to Midgard, stripping him of his powers and his weapon [[DropTheHammer Mjolnir]]. Odin also enchants Mjolnir [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield so that only one truly worthy may lift it and claim its power]].

* ''Film/WerewolfByNight'':[[note]]Stated to take place five days before a full moon (which would be near the beginning of a month in 2025), but it's unknown which full moon. The chronological order on Disney+ puts it between ''Love and Thunder'' and the ''Guardians Holiday Special''.[[/note]]

[[AC:1858]]
* ''In Salina, Oklahoma, Sylvie plants a futuristic shovel-like tool to once again lure TVA Minutemen into a trap, again massacring them and taking their reset charge. TVA investigators arriving afterward clean up and reset the timeline.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season One)

[[AC:Late 1800s]]
* In the Old West, Kid Colt becomes a legendary gunslinger and ultimately gets his own comic book and movie adaptations in the 1940s. (''Series/AgentCarter'' Season Two)

* ''After killing He Who Remains (see "Beyond Time" folder), Sylvie arrives in in alternate Broxton, Oklahoma in order to experience normalcy for the first time in her life.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season 2)

*** ''Tony and Scott fail in their attempt to steal the Space Stone when the 2012-Hulk bursts out of a stairwell and unknowingly knocks the Tesseract away towards Loki's feet. Loki uses the Tesseract to teleport away, landing in the middle of the Gobi Desert, where he is promptly arrested by the TVA and taken into their custody as they reset his escape; however, the interference by the 2023 Avengers remains, as it was allowed to happen as part of the narrative of He Who Remains.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season One)

* When time begins to branch, there is a short window before the new timeline stabilizes; during which the TVA comes in and undoes the changes before the timeline can fully form. A "Time Loom" device is then used to weave branches back into the main timeline.

* The TVA observes the Time Heist enacted by the Avengers in the Sacred Timeline; although the Avengers have discovered their own form of time travel, the TVA allows it due to it not directly interfering with their careful work to preserve the Sacred Timeline.
* The Loki that escaped from the Battle of New York in 2012 is taken into custody and put on trial, where he is found guilty of violating the Sacred Timeline and sentenced to be reset by Judge Renslayer. However, Mobius M. Mobius intervenes, arguing that he can be used to help the track down the Variant that's been slaughtering their Minutemen, and tries to convince Loki to help them. Loki is initially reluctant and attempts to escape his custody, but upon realizing the sheer power that the TVA possesses and learning of his own eventual demise in the Sacred Timeline, he caves and agrees to help them, and Mobius begins putting him to work with the promise of meeting the Time-Keepers.

* Mobius returns from the Void and frees B-15, and together they spread the truth to their fellow employees that they are all Variants before Mobius heads to Renslayer’s office to confront her. Their confrontation is short-lived, as Renslayer, still struggling to come to term with the fact that the TVA's mission is meaningless, quickly knocks him down before heading off to an unknown time/place in search of answers, given a hint by He Who Remains.
* Loki is sent back to the TVA from the Citadel at the End of Time by Sylvie. However, he finds himself being painfully torn through time, including into the TVA's past when He Who Ramains was in direct control.

** Tony Stark's security chief Happy Hogan is wounded in one of the Mandarin's attacks, causing an angry Tony to publicly announce his address and dare the Mandarin to fight at his home. In response, the Mandarin orders gunships to destroy Stark's residence, though fortunately, Stark escapes in an Iron Man suit, fleeing to Tennessee where an earlier Mandarin-style attack. With [[KidSidekick the help of local kid prodigy]] Harley Keener, Tony goes underground to begin his covert investigations into the Mandarin. He determines the terrorist attacks are triggered by American military veterans subjected to Extremis; in reality, the Mandarin's "bombings" are the same veterans [[ActionBomb explosively rejecting Extremis]]. Upon discovering the Mandarin's location in Miami, Florida, Stark heads there to confront him.

** Tony's funeral is a subdued affair, as his first arc reactor is sent off into a lake. In attendance are many of the heroes who fought alongside him against Thanos, and even others like the Pym family, Harley, Maria Hill, Secretary Ross and Nick Fury.

*** ''Tony and Scott fail in their attempt to steal the Space Stone when the 2012-Hulk bursts out of a stairwell and unknowingly knocks the Tesseract away towards Loki's feet. Loki uses the Tesseract to teleport away, landing in the middle of the Gobi Desert, where he is promptly arrested by the TVA and they reset his escape; however, the interference by the 2023 Avengers remains, as it was allowed to happen as part of the narrative of He Who Remains.'' (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'' Season One)

* When time begins to branch, there is a short window before the new timeline stabilizes; during which the TVA comes in and undoes the changes before the timeline can fully form.

[-The TVA headquarters is located in an unknown place and time. The Season One finale suggests that it might be "within" the Sacred Timeline somehow, with other timelines having their own versions of the TVA.-]
* A man known as He Who Remains (see the 3000s in the "Future Events" folder) creates the Time Variance Authority, an bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and is tasked with ensuring the Sacred Timeline is followed by apprehending and prosecuting Variants that diverge from the Sacred Timeline and resetting the timelines they create before they become permament, usually "pruning" the offending Variants (which, unknown to most of the TVA, sends them to the Void at the end of the timeline). He staffs the TVA with Variants from various time periods, suppressing their old memories to convince them that they’re working under the orders of a trio of omnipotent beings that created them, known as the "Time-Keepers", who are in truth just animatronic androids he controls from his citadel at the End of Time.

* The Loki that escaped from the Battle of New York is taken into custody and put on trial, where he is found guilty of violating the Sacred Timeline and sentenced to be reset by Judge Renslayer. However, Mobius M. Mobius intervenes, arguing that he can be used to help the track down the Variant that's been slaughtering their Minutemen, and tries to convince Loki to help them. Loki is initially reluctant and attempts to escape his custody, but upon realizing the sheer power that the TVA possesses and learning of his own eventual demise in the Sacred Timeline, he caves and agrees to help them, and Mobius begins putting him to work with the promise of meeting the Time-Keepers.
* After nearly botching the investigation in 1985, Loki is assigned to looking over his variants’ case files in the TVA’s library. There, he learns about the destruction of Asgard in the main timeline, and upon seeing that it didn't cause much of a divergence, he theorizes that the Variant must be hiding out during apocalyptic events to cover their tracks. After a trip to Pompeii in 79 with Mobius to prove his theory and deducing the Variant's location in 2050 using the Kablooie pack found in 1549, Mobius convinces Renslayer to send a squad there to apprehend the Variant.

* Loki is pruned by Renslayer quickly afterwards, but Sylvie manages to get Renslayer at her mercy, and begins to interrogate her on the true origins of the TVA. Renslayer is aware that the her staff are Variants and that pruning sends people to the Void at the end of time, but nothing more; and beyond that she resorts to lying until backup can arrive. Upon realizing Renslayer's deception, Sylvie opts to go to the Void by pruning herself, but not before stealing another [=TemPad=].

* ''Loki is sent back to the TVA from the Citadel at the End of Time by Sylvie. However, thanks to the death of He Who Remains, he soon discovers this is a different TVA from the one he was last in, where not only has nobody ever met him, but they're now working directly under [[Characters/KangTheConqueror one of He Who Remains' more malicious Variants]].''

* Boastful Loki sells out the location of Kid Loki's base to President Loki and his army in exchange for seizing power, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder only for President Loki to betray him, who is subsequently betrayed by his own army]], leading to an all-out brawl between the Lokis. L1130, Kid, Classic and Alligator Loki teleport out of the base and away from the chaos, and subsequently meet up with Mobius and Sylvie, who explains her plan to enchant Alioth so it can lead them to the Citadel.

** [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor Odinson]], second born to Odin, prepares to ascend to the Asgardian throne when Frost Giants attempt, but fail, to retake the Casket of Ancient Winters. Believing the Giants are planning a preemptive strike against Asgard, Thor travels to Jotunheim to confront Laufey with his brother Loki, [[ActionGirl Sif]] and the "Warriors Three" (Volstagg, Fandral and Hogun). Thor's talk with Laufey devolves into violence until Odin arrives to rescue the Asgardians. However, a combination of his son's [[JerkAss demeanor]] and willingness to break Asgard and Jotunheim's truce leads Odin to exile Thor to Midgard, stripping him of his powers and and his weapon [[DropTheHammer Mjolnir]]. Odin also enchants Mjolnir [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield so that only one truly worthy may lift it and claim its power]].

*** After months of captivity, Stark and Yinsen complete the armor, allowing them to break out. While Stark is able to escape his captors, Yinsen is killed in the process. Stark is later picked up by James Rhodes and American troops, returning stateside.

*** Without a power source to fuel his suit of armor, Stane ambushes Tony and steals his arc reactor; fortunately, Stark reacquires the old reactor and rushes to combat Stane. Their fight results in an overload of the reactor at Stark Industries, causing Stane to fall into the reactor and killing him.

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Peter Parker of Queens, New York is bitten by a mysterious spider, somehow receiving increased agility, SuperStrength and wall-crawling abilities. For the next few months, he secretly attempts at being a superhero, taking on the moniker "ComicBook/SpiderMan". Although Parker believes his antics are largely unnoticed by the media and public, Stark has been monitoring his activities. (''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'')[[note]]Presumably these events include the death of Peter's Uncle Ben; the films have yet to confirm this, but the loss of Ben was mentioned in ''[[Recap/WhatIfS1E5WhatIfZombies What If... Zombies?!]]''.[[/note]]

* Black Widow Natasha Romanoff, due to her potential threat to global security, reaches S.H.I.E.L.D. radar. ComicBook/NickFury, current director of the organization, sends S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Clint "Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}}" Barton to eliminate her, but Barton disobeys his orders and spares her life. Instead, he proposes S.H.I.E.L.D. recruit the Black Widow into their ranks. With some persuasion from Fury, the spy defects from Russia and joins S.H.I.E.L.D. To finalize her defection to S.H.I.E.L.D., Romanoff and Barton carry out a mission to assassinate the leader of the Red Room, General Dreykov, in Budapest. Natasha exploits the presence of Dreykov's young daughter, Antonia, and they level the block around the two. After engaging with Hungarian special forces, they remain in hiding for ten days, including two in a subway station air vent. Unknown to them, both Dreykovs survive. General Dreykov takes the opportunity to go further underground, while Antonia is critically injured, but later converted by her father into "Taskmaster", a deadly cybernetically-enhanced operative able to perfectly mimic the abilities of her opponents. (''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}''[[note]]date estimate comes from a deleted scene where Natasha makes reference to being in Budapest "eight years ago"[[/note]])

** Stark is surprised to find the "Mandarin" is actually Trevor Slattery, acting as a smokescreen for Aldrich Killian: after Maya Hansen partnered with Killian and AIM, he took her Extremis research as a means to weaponize it by healing wounded war veterans. The terrorist attacks were triggered to manipulate government agencies so he can [[RunningBothSides run both sides]] of UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. To goad Stark into cooperating by fixing flaws in Extremis, Killian has Pepper Potts kidnapped and injected with Extremis. Meanwhile, Killian's followers lures the "Iron Patriot" a trap regarding the Mandarin's location and steals his armor. Stark and Rhodes escape capture just as Extremis soldiers attack incumbent President Ellis aboard UsefulNotes/AirForceOne. Stark manages to save its passengers, but Killian abducts Ellis via the Iron Patriot suit, taking him to an impounded oil tanker. Killian intends to assassinate President Ellis on live media, thereby ascending the Vice-President to presidency, who will become Killian's government puppet due to his collaboration with Killian in exchange for curing the Vice-President's daughter.

* An alien geneticist called the High Evolutionary discovers Earth and becomes fascinated by its creatures and culture. He begins using Earth animals as test subjects for his experiments. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'')

** The High Evolutionary shows one of his test subjects, a young raccoon, his latest attempt to modify Earth animals. To his surprise, the raccoon manages to identify the issue in the process that makes them violent.

** ''Film/IronMan1'':

* '''May:'''[[note]]The events of ''Thor'' are described as "last year" in ''The Avengers'' and two years ago in ''Thor: The Dark World''. The time of year based on the fact that ''Iron Man 2'' occurs at the same time as the Monaco Grand Prix (the movie specifically shows the Historic Monaco GP, which is only held on even-numbered years, but in light of other evidence this is being taken as a production error).[[/note]] ''Film/IronMan2''/''Film/{{Thor}}''/''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}''/''ComicBook/TheAvengersPreludeFurysBigWeek''

** Three months after Ronan's defeat, the Guardians of the Galaxy perform mercenary work across the cosmos. They are employed by the Sovereign (themselves creations of the High Evolutionary) to protect a set of powerful batteries in exchange for their captive, Nebula. Rocket steals some of the batteries for the team to sell for higher profit, which is discovered by the Sovereign shortly thereafter. The ''Milano'' is severely damaged by pursuing Sovereign drones, until they are saved by Ego and his empath servant (secretly his daughter) Mantis. Peter, Gamora, Drax and Mantis leave for Ego's planet and his explanation of Peter's origins, while Rocket and Groot remain to fix their ship with the imprisoned Nebula.

** The High Evolutionary and Ayesha send Adam Warlock to attack and kill Rocket on Knowhere. Warlock succeeds in mortally sounding Rocket before being driven off by the other Guardians, who discover with Rocket having a kill-switch inside him they cannot save his life with a med-pack. They set out to Orgocorp, a business run by the High Evolutionary to find the override code for the kill-switch.
** Teaming up with 2014 Gamora, the Guardians deduce that the Evolutionary’s assistant Theel removed the override code and track him down to Counter-Earth, but not before learning of Rocket’s horrific past as an experiment of the Evolutionary’s. On Counter-Earth, after confronting the Evolutionary, Quill and Groot kill Theel and retrieve the override code, and narrowly save Rocket’s life even after he briefly dies and sees Lylla, Teefs, and Floor in the afterlife.
** The Evolutionary destroys Counter-Earth and kills all of its inhabitants, departing in his headquarters, Arête. Having snuck aboard, Nebula, Mantis, and Drax discover dozens of children imprisoned within as lab rats for the Evolutionary. They reunite with Quill, Rocket, Groot, and Gamora and resolve to evacuate the many higher life-forms trapped aboard as Kraglin arrives piloting Knowhere itself, damaging Arête. The Guardians confront and defeat the Evolutionary, taking him prisoner, and also at Rocket’s behest evacuate the countless non-sapient test subjects that were imprisoned aboard.
** In the aftermath, the Guardians decide to split up. Quill returns to Earth to reunite with his grandfather Jason, who is now an elderly man and is overjoyed to reunite with his grandson; Mantis undertakes a journey of self-discovery; Nebula and Drax decide to stay on Knowhere to build a peaceful, loving community for all. Rocket is appointed the leader of a second iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy, consisting of himself, Groot, Kraglin, Cosmo, Warlock (who had defected to their side during the battle after the Evolutionary killed Ayesha on Counter-Earth), Phyla (one of the rescued children from Arête), and Burp (Warlock’s pet).

** When the Avengers learn Ultron has killed Strucker in prison, they research Strucker's contacts and discover that the AI is headed to ArmsDealer Ulysses Klaue, who intends to buy Vibranium metal from him in South Africa. The team engages Ultron and the Maximoff twins, but Wanda's power of inducing hypnosis sends a majority of the Avengers into hallucinations; the Hulk, who is affected the most, flies into a rampage towards a nearby city, prompting Stark to physically subdue him. Ultron and the twins escape with the Vibranium, while the Avengers head to a safe-house to recover; Thor, however, goes to consult Erik Selvig for his help with interpreting his hallucination.

** The Avengers, with the Maximoffs and Vision, leave for Sokovia, where Ultron uses the remaining Vibranium to build a machine lifting the city of Novi Grad into the sky, then {{Colony Drop}}ping it back to Earth, [[KillAllHumans causing global extinction]]. Banner rescues Romanoff, who turns him back into the Hulk, and the two join the battle with the Avengers against Ultron and its MechaMooks in "The Battle of Sokovia"; meanwhile, Fury, Hill, James Rhodes in his War Machine armor and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrive to evacuate civilians using Helicarrier No. 64. Unfortunately, Pietro is killed and Ultron is able to plummet the city; however, Stark and Thor overload the machine, shattering the landmass before landfall.
** As the Vision destroys Ultron's last body, Hulk takes a "[[CoolShip Quinjet]]" on a self-imposed exile, having endangered enough civilians following his South Africa rampage.

*** Cross falls into a deeper level of the Quantum Realm, where he is found by Kang. With Cross' body massively deformed by the inconsistent shrinking, Kang rebuilds him into a [[Characters/{{AIM}} "Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing"]] and recruits him as an enforcer. (''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania'')

** Three months after Ronan's defeat, the Guardians of the Galaxy perform multiple mercenary work across the cosmos. They are employed by the "Sovereign", who relinquish their captive, Nebula, into the Guardians' custody after completing their latest task of protecting a set of powerful batteries. Rocket steals some of the batteries for the team to sell for higher profit, which is discovered by the Sovereign shortly thereafter. The ''Milano'' is severely damaged by pursuing Sovereign drones, until they are saved by Ego and his empath servant (secretly his daughter) Mantis. Peter, Gamora, Drax and Mantis leave for Ego's planet and his explanation of Peter's origins, while Rocket and Groot remain to fix their ship with the imprisoned Nebula.

** Thor chooses to leave New Asgard in Valkyrie's care as he and Korg join the Guardians of the Galaxy in searching for the time-displaced Gamora, who disappeared after the battle.

** The Guardians purchase Knowhere from Tivan and begin leading reconstruction efforts. (''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'')

* '''July 4:''' Nick Fury is born in Hunstville, Alabama. (''Film/CaptainMarvel'' [[note]][[FreezeFrameBonus S.H.I.E.L.D. badge]][[/note]])

* '''November:''' ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}''[[note]]The climax of the first episode takes place on Russia's Unity Day, November 4.[[/note]]

* '''Late March - April:''' ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'':[[note]]"The lesser Eid" is celebrated in Episode 2. Since the series takes place during the US school year, we're presuming it's Eid al-Fitr, which in 2025 occurs on March 30-31 (even though nobody is shown practicing Ramadan, which is immediately before). The other option is Eid al-Adha, which takes place on June 6 that year.[[/note]]

* With many Skrulls disillusioned with Fury and Danvers for failing to find them a new homeworld, their ally Talos is kicked off their leadership council in favor of a young radical named Gravik. Gravik and his followers (including Talos and Soren's daughter G'iah) begin plotting to eliminate humanity and take the Earth. They begin infiltrating various organizations and governments, hoping to start a nuclear war that they'd be able to survive. Gravik also has research started to study superhuman abilities, though with the Avengers' genetic samples hidden the Skrulls make do with lesser subjects. (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')

* '''November:''' (events of ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')[[note]]The climax of the first episode takes place on Russia's Unity Day, November 4.[[/note]]

* Nick Fury begins a relationship with one of the Skrulls working for him named Varra. They fall in love and eventually marry. (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')

** Somewhere around this time, Rhodes is briefed on classified intelligence about the presence of alien shapeshifters on Earth (the Skrulls). (''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'')