Just For Fun / Grand Unified Timeline - The Early 2000's

Grand Unified Timeline events from 2000 C.E. to 2004 C.E.

2000

• January 1:
  • 00:00:
    • Philip J. Fry is accidentally ^moreor so it seems cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years. (Futurama)
    • Jenny Quantum is born. (The Authority)
    • The Thirteenth Doctor takes companions Graham, Ryan, and Yaz back in time to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to see New Year's 2000. Ryan later says that this is his favorite New Year's celebration. (Doctor Who)
    • As Homer Simpson neglected to make the computers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Y2K compliant, the Y2K bug spreads out of control, causing worldwide destruction and the collapse of civilization. Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson are accepted onboard a rocket carrying humanity's best and brightest to Mars. Homer and Bart sneak aboard a second rocket, only to find it's filled with disliked C-list celebrites which is launched into the sun. Rather than put up with their annoying antics, Homer and Bart prefer to face their end in empty space.(The Simpsons)
    • Because of San Dimas Time, Will Smith returns from 2222 just barely in time to ring in the new year. A malfunction in the time machine gets him stuck in black and white. ("Will 2K" music video)
  • 00:28: Bender Bending Rodríguez, under the control of spammers, travels back to this time from 3007 ahead of Fry, intending to kill him. He fails. (Futurama)
  • 00:29: Bender from further in the future travels back to this time and tattoos the time code on Fry's ass. (Futurama)
  • 00:30: Philip J. Fry time travels to this date and accidentally creates a duplicate of himself. While one Fry returns to the future, the duplicate stays in this era and resumes his life where he left off, not knowing he is being pursued by Bender. (Futurama)
  • After a century of service, the immortal Captain Jack Harkness takes command of Torchwood Three. ^moreEveryone else is killed out of fear for the 21st century. (Torchwood)
  • The Eighth Doctor says goodbye to Chang Lee and Grace Holloway. (Doctor Who: The Movie)
  • Philip J. Fry's mother watches Wisconsin beat Stanford 17-9 in the 1999 Rose Bowl. (Futurama)
  • Greg Cardiff is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
  • The Head Alien activates a psychic implant that turns all abductees into his slaves; this includes the majority of SEMME agents. It falls to Joyce Brown, Jason Chesterfield, David Walkerton, and Sal Walters to stop him. ^moreSal reluctantly shoots Tony McHenry to stop him. (Walkyverse)
• January 4: Kim Karlsen dies suddenly in Northern Norway. Almost all his friends gather for his funeral (Second sequel to Beatles).
• January 9: SCP-939-A6 begins its metamorphosis. (SCP Foundation)
• January 10: SCP-939-A6's symptoms flare up again. (SCP Foundation)
• January 15: Wikipedia is launched. (Real Life, Wikipedia)
• January 24: SCP-939-A's symptoms intensify. It is transferred to a secure concrete bunker. (SCP Foundation)
• January 26: SCP-939-A completes its metamorphosis. (SCP Foundation)
• January 30: Roween Ryan is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• February 10: Henry John Noone is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• March 3: Boyd Gelder disappears. (The 4400)
• March 6: At 6:02am, the entire planet is shrouded in unnatural darkness. The darkness blocks out the sun, and neither the stars nor the moon are visible. Many believe it to be the end of the world. Governments blame each other, thinking it to be the effect of some secret weapon. Riots, rapes, beatings, and murders are commonplace. Emergency call centers are flooded with reports of monsters roaming the streets and skies. Numerous people simply disappear. It is also during this darkness that thousands of people learn that they have become inhuman monsters. Many of them are killed before they know what has happened to them. Some are killed by mobs of terrified humans, others take their own lives. Those that survive learn that they could return to their human forms. These shapechanging beings are called the Nightbane, for it was at night that they become monsters. (Nightbane)
• March 7: A Kirijo Group experiment with Shadows goes awry, resulting in numerous researchers dying, various nearby bystanders suffering Apathy Syndrome, and the creation of the Dark Hour.^note Kouetsu Kirijo was attempting to fuse Shadows together to summon Nyx so she could destroy life, but Eiichiro Takeba sabotaged the experiment. Thirteen powerful Shadows of the Major Arcana escape; to prevent them from reuniting, the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Aigis seals the Death Shadow into a nearby newly-orphaned child. (Persona 3)
• March 28: Jay Cirri amends his will to give 44% of his estate to his children, and 12% to his new wife Sara Tarron. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• April 4: Ben Song leaps into Summer Walsh, a personal assistant in Hollywood. His mission is to prevent the disapperance and death of Neal Russell, a famous actor. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• April 9: In a possible future, Congressman Peter Ross of Kansas, the frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination, is the victim of an assassination attempt while making a speech in Calvin City, Pennsylvania. His campaign manager Clark Kent shields him with his own body, inadvertently revealing to the world that he is Superman. The critically injured Congressman Ross drops out of the race and asks Superman to take his place. Although he is initially reluctant, Superman agrees and goes on to be elected U.S. President. (Armageddon 2001)
• April 10: Mitchell Hundred makes his debut as the Great Machine. (Ex Machina)
• April 27: Researchers from the secret installation in Greenland proceed to investigate an ancient Inuit tomb. ^moreThe tomb turns out to contain the dormant "Tuurngait", a hive-mind entity which proceeds to assimilate the installation crew into itself, one by one. (Penumbra: Black Plague)
• April:
  • The town of Grantville, West Virginia vanishes, replaced by empty German countryside. (1632)
  • Shizuo Heiwajima, Izaya Orihara, Shinra Kishitani, and Kyohei Kadota attend high school at Raijin Academy. Izaya gathers followers (made up mostly of traumatized teenage girls). He stirs up a conflict between the high schools in the area, and Shizuo gains some fame as he finds himself in the center of it. Shizuo and Izaya meet for the first time and instantly hate each other. (Durarara!!)
• May 6: A human child enters the Monster World for the first time, creating mass panic in Monstropolis. (Monsters, Inc.)
• May 11: Yuko Omori is born in Pikarigaoka, Japan. (HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!)
• May:
  • Graduates of Lawndale High this year include Daria Morgendorffer and her associates. ^moreMorgendorffer ends her relationship with Tom Sloane after they get accepted to geographically distant colleges. (Daria)
  • Thanks to the Eighth Doctor, a young man named Gareth answers the second question on his midterm exam and passes it. Had he answered the third, he would have failed. (Doctor Who)
• June 4: Bethany Platt is born. (Coronation Street)
• June 11: Yukari Kotozume is born in Ichigozaka, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• June 12: Judge Reinhold is made manager of the Quick Stop. (Clerks: The Animated Series)
• June: Sarah Clinton graduates from Indiana University and goes to work as a lawyer. (Walkyverse)
• August 23: An earthquake turns Los Angeles into an island. (Escape from L.A.)
• August 31: Birth of Dipper and Mabel Pines. (Gravity Falls)
• June, July, or August: John Shawcross creates a Synthetic Plague with the intention of killing all who break God's law, and spreads it through the population. ("The Moral Virologist")
• July or August: To hide it from Glorificus, the Order of Dagon converts the Key into a human girl^moreDawn Summers. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• September 8: Nate McCullough disappears. (The 4400)
• September 9: Michael Webb is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• September 13: The Second Impact. Oceans rise, killing billions. Tokyo is destroyed. (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
• September 24: Akira Kenjou is born in Ichigozaka, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• September:
  • Nadezhda Antonovna Gorodetskaya is born to Svetlana and Anton Gorodetsky. (Night Watch (Series))
  • Jimmy Brooks, Ashley Kerwin, Paige Michalchuk, Gavin "Spinner" Mason, Hazel Aden, Terri McGreggor and Sean Cameron begin attending Degrassi Community School. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
  • Danny Wilcox, Jennifer Billingsworth, Joe Rosenthal, and Howard Lesse move into a house for Danny and Joe's final year at Indiana University. (Walkyverse)
• October 12: Megumi Aino is born in Pikarigaoka, Japan. (HappinessCharge Pretty Cure!)
• October 14: Eric Husch checks out Ship of Theseus from the Laguna Verde High School library. He never returns it. (S.)
• October 26: Jacob Bohm is born. (Touch (2012))
• November 2: First bulletin board post from claimed time traveler John Titor. (Usenet)
• November 7:
  • Al Gore concedes to George W. Bush and then retracts a few hours later as the election results in Florida become disputed. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Robert Redford is re-elected to a third term. (Watchmen (2019))
• November 11: Elizabeth Rove commits suicide. (Joan of Arcadia)
• November 13: Truck Sugar is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• November 15: Serbian peacekeepers enter the United States as a response to the violent Balkanisation of the country after the presidential election. (The Onion)
• November 30: Seventh Presidian held at the New York Public Library. Stephen Swain is chosen as the human contestant; his daughter Holly is accidentally teleported in with him. ^moreThe Presidian is aborted without a victor after Bellos is found to be cheating. The library is subsequently destroyed by self-destructing wristbands, but Swain and his daughter escape, as well as his guide. (Contest)
• November:
  • Billy Butcher returns home and meets his mother for the first time since the death of his wife. (The Boys)
  • Trevor and his bros celebrate Pinkus‘ promotion at Woodstone Manor. However, he dies pants-less^note  He is pant-less because he gave his pants to Pinkus so he can take a cab back to New York City. after mixing pills. His bros dump his body in the river so the police or their parents don’t find out. (Ghosts (US))
• December: SpongeBob and Patrick try to become entrepreneurs by selling chocolate bars. (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• December 6: Andrew McLaren kills his wife Susan. He is seen doing so by a younger version of himself from two days in the past. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• December 13:
  • Al Gore concedes to George W. Bush for a second and final time. (Real Life)
  • Dr. Jack Bright of the SCP Foundation, in the body of George W. Bush, is elected President ahead of Al Gore in order to prevent SCP-4444, attached Gore's brain, from gaining the political power it needs to herald an alien invasion. (SCP Foundation)
• December 24: The IS-7 incident. ^moreDuring a cooking competition, a sculptor named Pierre Hoquet (also known as the chef Isaac Dover) is murdered in the residence of celebrity chef Jeff Master, by a confectioner named Dane Gustavia. Gustavia frames Master for the murder and runs away to Zheng Fa. (Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth)
• December 25: Marcus Reed destroys one of New York's top gangs by killing it's leader Kev Lar before being recruited by police officer Terry Higgans to be in the PDNY. (True Crime: New York City)
• December 31: In what comes to be known as Bloody New Year's Eve, a giant robot appears in Tokyo, while simultaneously a biological weapon is released around the world. (20th Century Boys)
• December:
  • Construction on the Millennium Gate begins. Shannon O'Donnel, ancestor of Kathryn Janeway, works to persuade locals to sell their property to allow the project to proceed, and along the way falls in love with stubborn bookshop owner Henry Janeway. (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Greg Vizcaino is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
  • Sal Walters accompanies David and Steven Walkerton as they visit their parents over Christmas holidays. ^moreThe Walkertons are her biological parents.. (Walkyverse)
• Gigatron leads a group of Predacons to attempt to steal all the energy of Earth and obtain Fortress Maximus, but he is stopped by Fire Convoy and his Autobots. (Transformers: Robots in Disguise)
• Demon Queen Bansheera escapes, tries to conquer the city built by humans on top of the ruins of her palace. Demonic hordes wiped out, Bansheera sent to hell and sealed there. (Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue)
• Earth is temporarily turned into a prison for intergalactic criminals. (Marvel Comics)
• The MacManus brothers begin to hunt down the wicked in Boston. (The Boondock Saints)
• After two years, Gruntilda the witch returns as a skeleton and kills Bottles and the king of the Jinjos, who have been helping Banjo and Kazooie. ^moreThey get better Banjo and Kazooie collect more thingies to defeat her once more. ^moreGrunty's drill explodes after she drops her spell, leaving her a disembodied head. (Banjo-Tooie)
• Edward Roivas murdered by Pious Augustus. Augustus succeeds in bringing his Ancient into the world. Roivas' granddaughter, Alexandra, summons another Ancient to destroy it. The three timelines established in 26 BC now collapse into one, with the deaths of all three Ancients and leaving only Mantorok alive. (Eternal Darkness)
• Liquid Snake joins FOXHOUND. (Metal Gear Solid)
• The "Conqueror Worm" incident. ^moreA Nazi space capsule (launched May 20, 1939) returns to Earth, landing at Hunte Castle, Austria. An Ogdru Hem, referred to as "the Worm", emerges from the capsule and attempts to end the world. The BPRD agents Hellboy and Roger (with help from the ghost of The Lobster) successfully contain and destroy the Worm. In the aftermath, Hellboy quits the BPRD and begins wandering the Earth. (Hellboy: Conqueror Worm)
• Helen B. Narbon goes mad and hires Mell and Dave to work for her lab. (Narbonic)
• The General Construction corporation seeks to refurbish northeast New York City. Citizens who do not leave the Bronx in a timely manner are killed by death squads called "Disinfectors." The city's gangs unite under the Toblerone to fight back. (Escape 2000)
• Great Garbage Crisis in New York City. The city's excess garbage is put on a gigantic barge, which is then pushed out to circle the world's seas for the next 50 years. (Futurama)
• The ancient monsters known as the Grongi break free from the seal placed upon them by the Rinto warrior Kuuga, and begin attacking Japan in order to unleash the "Ultimate Darkness". Yusuke Godai, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, dons a Rinto artifact during a Grongi attack, becoming the modern-day Kuuga and helping the Tokyo police battle the Grongi. (Kamen Rider Kuuga)
• Garcian Smith successfully resurrects the fallen personae, but Dan mortally injures Harman in a fit of lunacy. Samatha leaves the syndicate and becomes a full-time carer to Harman. (killer7)
• In her freshman year of high school, Ramona Flowers dates Lucas Lee. She cheats on him and then dumps him for Todd Ingram, who she will date for the rest of high school. (Scott Pilgrim)
• SG-1 helps Thor destroy a huge number of Replicators. Meanwhile, Major Samantha Carter travels with Thor to the Asgard homeworld and helps fend off an attack by Replicator-infested ships. (Stargate SG-1)
• Apophis attempts to forge a treaty with Heru'ur, but the Tok'ra and SG-1 sabotage the negotiations. However, Apophis had brought a cloaked fleet of motherships with him. He kills Heru'ur and absorbs his troops into his own fleet. (Stargate SG-1)
• Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer is elected president of the United States, with Victor "Vic the Veep" Neuman as his vice-president. Susan Rayner, wife of Dakota Bob, is appointed director of the CIA. With their backing, 'Mother's Milk', 'The Frenchman', and 'The Female' are added to The Boys. Around this time, The Boys gradually become more aggressive and violent in dealing with superhumans. (The Boys)
• Malcolm Nolastname is identified as a genius. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• Sora Ikushima is born. (Tokyo Xanadu)
• Julian West awakens from a deep sleep after 113 years to discover that the United States has become a socialist utopia. (Looking Backward)
• An escaped prisoner and a necromantic Yakuza boss battle over the Forest of Resurrection. (Versus)
• Two criminals named Boka and Vard travel back in time to Metropolis in 1959. Posing as agents of the Earth Bureau of Investigation, they convince the authorities in 1959 that Superman is a criminal from the future. They manage to subdue him using red kryptonite and return with him to 2000. Their plan is to take advantage of the fact that Earth's rivers have run dry by having Superman gather the water from two of Saturn's ice moons and sell the water to Earth for billions. In order to ensure Superman's cooperation, they threaten to destroy Metropolis in 1959 with an atomic bomb. However, Superman manages to defeat them before their plan can come to fruition. (DC Comics)
• Sally Morgan is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• In a possible future, Jonathan Kent dies of a heart attack. (Armageddon 2001)
• A comic strip featuring the Karkus, a fictional superhero, is published in the Hourly Telepress. (Doctor Who)
• The prison transport vessel Sebrus, commanded by Warrick Finn, is launched from Hebridan. The ship is transporting three dangerous prisoners, Aden Corso, Lyle Pender and Tanis Reynard, to a prison colony. After becoming caught in an asteroid storm, the Sebrus is forced to land on PRX-005. (Stargate SG-1)
• Luciana Ortega joins ROSA. (Axiom's End)
• Eric Husch's uncle Zeke dies in a boating accident. (S.)
• Elmer Fudd from 1944 wakes up elderly and battles an elderly Bugs Bunny. Also by this time, Bing Crosby's horse still hasn't come in yet, and smellevision replaces television. (Merrie Melodies)
• Blue Öyster Cult's cowbell player Gene Frenkle dies. (Saturday Night Live)

Mid to late 20th Century

• Merlin visits Bermuda at some unspecified point during the 20th Century. He finds it to be "one big modern mess." (The Sword in the Stone)

2001- 2003

• The Boston Globe's investigative team uncovers a massive paedophilia cover-up by the Catholic Church. (Real Life and Spotlight)

2001

• January 1:
  • Groundbreaking for the Millennium Gate in Portage Creek, Indiana. Construction would last to 2012. (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington merge to form Metropolis. (DC Comics)
• January 20:
  • Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, George W. Bush becomes President of the United States. (Real Life)
  • Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, Al Gore becomes President of the United States. (Chrononauts)
  • Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, Lex Luthor becomes President of the United States. (DC Comics)
  • Following a protracted election cycle including the vaporization of a stack of Gore-Lieberman ballots by a time-traveling kleptomaniac robot, George W. Bush becomes President of the United States. (Futurama: Bender's Big Score)
  • A religious fanatic becomes U.S. President after predicting the fall of Los Angeles and imposes a theocratic state; Los Angeles becomes a dumping ground for anyone opposed to his regime. (Escape from L.A.)
  • George Sears becomes President of the United States. (Metal Gear Solid)
  • Al Franken becomes President of the United States. (Why Not Me?)
  • In a possible future, Herbert Forrest becomes President of the United States. (Armageddon 2001)
  • In a possible future, Superman becomes President of the United States. Lex Luthor II and his accomplice J. Richard Morton are arrested for plotting against the new President's life. Their plot was discovered thanks to a sting operation involving the defeated presidential candidate Senator Herbert Forrest. (Armageddon 2001)
• January 24: A dying Jay Cirri is admitted to the hospital. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• January 27: Jay Cirri's wife Sara Tarron shows up to Jay's hospital room with a lawyer in tow. On his deathbed and barely coherent, Jay signs an altered will that would give Sara 100% of his estate when he dies. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• January 29: Jay Cirri dies. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• January: Maya Hart is born. (Girl Meets World)
• February 1: Jimmy Peterson is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• February 10: Birth of Jade Ravings. She would go on to become a Gadgeteer Genius, capture specialist and adventurer. (Pokémon Tabletop Utopus Region)
• March 3: The Flash arrives in Central City after being accidentally transported ten years into the future. (The Flash (1990))
• March 7:
  • Aliens dredge the Steel Duck out of the La Brea Tar Pits and attempt to take it over from Ralph Zinobopp. SEMME squad 128 intervene when they notice an undisguised Mayberry Melonpool at the Grammies. The Steel Duck is liberated from the Aliens and returned to the Zinoboppians, but unbeknownst to everybody, Joyce Brown is replaced with her morally-inverted duplicate. (Walkyverse, Melonpool)
  • Joyce Brown finds her way back to SEMME HQ, kills her duplicate. ^{Justification} Date given in this strip .(Walkyverse)
• March 21: Jay and Silent Bob infiltrate Miramax so they can stop the Bluntman & Chronic movie. They also interrupt filming of Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
• April 22: Shawn Farrell disappears and Kyle Baldwin enters a coma. (The 4400)
• May 9: Curtis Peck disappears. (The 4400)
• May 21: Tonya Miles is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• May:
  • Buffy Summers sacrifices her life to stop Glorificus merging all universes into mathematical chaos and goes to Heaven. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Philip LaFresque receives a letter from his supposedly long-dead father, with a key to a deposit box containing clues that point Philip towards an old, closed mine in Greenland. He heads out to investigate and perhaps find a hint to his father's fate. ^{Black Plague spoilers}Eventually, he finds out that a hive-mind entity has taken over the research personnel. He manages to send his friend an e-mail with directions to the base and a plea to destroy everything within. (Penumbra)
  • A portal to an eldritch city opens up in a small Mexican island village. (The City of Never)
• March - May: Nicholas Angel, now a police captain, joins the SO19 Armed Response Unit. (Hot Fuzz)
• June 10:
  • U.S. President Al Franken resigns after only 144 days in office. He is succeeded by Vice President Joe Lieberman, who serves as President until 2019. (Why Not Me?)
• June:
  • Shadow the Hedgehog released from cryogenic prison by Dr. Eggman, who attempts to bring about Professor Gerald Robotnik's last wish of vengeance against humanity. Has a change of heart and seemingly sacrifices himself fixing the problem. (Sonic Adventure 2)
  • Danny Wilcox and Joe Rosenthal graduate from Indiana University. Joe goes on to graduate school. Danny moves to Colorado to work as a computer programmer.(Walkyverse)
• After June: On a night out, Joyce Brown, David Walkerton, and Sal Walters try beer for the first time. Secrets are drunkenly blurted out. (Walkyverse)
• July 20: Minami Kaido is born in Yumegahama, Japan. (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)
• July: Nicholas Angel gets a commendation for his actions during Operation Takedown. (Hot Fuzz)
• September 4: Fertility doctor Juliet Burke leaves for the Island to save the pregnant women who keep dying there. (Lost)
• September 5: Alana Mareva disappears. (The 4400)
• September 10: Angelique de Xavia and Raymond Ash defeat a terrorist attack on a dam in Scotland. (A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away)
• September 11:
  • Terrorist attacks from hijacked planes destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and heavily damage part of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane, United Flight 93, presumed to be headed for the White House is attempted control of by passengers but crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people are killed and more than 6,000 others are injured. (Real Life)
  • Mitchell Hundred saves the south tower of the World Trade Center. (Ex Machina)
  • Black 13, sealed in a locker below the North Tower, is destroyed by falling wreckage. (The Dark Tower)
  • [Alternate Universe] planes hijacked by terrorists hit the Pentagon and the White House. (Fringe)
  • Gary Seven prevents Shaun Geoffrey Christopher from boarding one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. (Star Trek: The Original Series short story "Assignment: One")
  • After their flight is grounded because of the attacks, an alcoholic flight attendant escorts a Pakistani-American child across the country to his destination. (The Space Between)
  • The victims of the attack include Doreen Fineman and her three daughters Jenny, Julie, and Gina (Reign Over Me), Claire Taylor (CSI: NY), Tyler Hawkins (Remember Me), Sarah Bohm (Touch (2012)), Thomas Schell (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), Jonathan Dixon's college roommate Dave (A Million Little Things), and Reva (My Year of Rest and Relaxation).
  • Hundreds of planes are diverted from their original courses immediately after the attacks, and 38 of them land in the tiny Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland. (Real Life and Come from Away)
  • A bunch of chipper morning news shows and commercials air, but nothing particularly interesting happens after that. Maybe. (News at 11)
• September 12: Harold Finch begins writing a computer program that can analyze data gained by surveillance, with the goal of identifying and stopping terrorist acts before they happen. Over the next three and a half months, Finch will discard forty-two versions of this program. Around this time, several other people, notably Arthur Claypool, begin writing similar programs. (Person of Interest)
• September 21: Vera Fry disappears. (The 4400)
• September:
  • The Boys confront The Seven about what happened on 9/11. Confrontations escalate, with Greg Mallory's children and several CIA agents killed by The Seven. The sides reluctantly agree to a stalemate, and Mallory is permitted to murder Lamplighter to seal the deal. (The Boys)
  • Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, J.T. Yorke, Toby Isaacs and Liberty Van Zandt begin attending Degrassi Community School. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
  • In a possible future, the crime boss Diogenes and his son Matthew manage to track down the retired Flash Wally West, who has been in Witness Protection for nine years under the name Michael Edwards. After recruiting several of the Flash's old enemies, Diogenes has Wally's young son David kidnapped. As Diogenes planned, this causes the Flash to come out of retirement. While he desperately searches for his son, Diogenes has his agents fire special guns at the Flash which have the cumulative effect of sapping his speed and aura. Diogenes' overall goal is to transfer this power to Matthew so that he can become a speedster. However, the process goes horribly wrong. Matthew is killed as his body can't handle the Flash's speed. Diogenes is so distraught that he immediately dies himself from the shock. Having enjoyed living a normal life for the last nine years, Wally has his stolen speed and aura transferred to his son David, who becomes a speedster. (Armageddon 2001)
  • Head Alien and Monkey Master locate the Martian embassy under the Bermuda Triangle. They lure SEMME to it, hoping to use Sal Walters' DNA to open the inner vault containing Martian resurrection technology, but then the Cheese shows up and ruins everybody's plans. ^moreAnthony McHenry and agent Hooper of squad 37 are killed in action; Hooper rises as a zombie. Linda Walkerton is appointed Big Boss of SEMME. The Head Alien dies, but is sealed in the resurrection chamber. In the aftermath, Sal forcibly brings Joe Rosenthal to SEMME, then angrily quits the organisation and goes rogue. ^{Justification}Happens just after Joe starts grad school. (Walkyverse)
• October 1: A Persian basket weaving forum is founded. (Real Life, 4chan)
• October 2: A group of archaeologists uncovers the tomb of the sorcerer Anubis in the outskirts of the Giza Plateau. The spirit of Anubis within the Pyramid of Light awakens in response to Yugi Muto solving the Millennium Puzzle in Domino City, and he collapses the tomb, killing all 263 members of the expedition. Concurrently, Yugi is possessed by Yami Yugi, who banishes the shadow creatures surrounding him. (Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light English dub)
• October 26: Iris Sagan is born. (AI: The Somnium Files)
• October: Buffy Summers is resurrected by her friends. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• December 11: Frank DiCenzo is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• December: New York is caught in the worst snow storm in decades. Max Payne is framed for his DEA partner Alex Balder's murder while investigating the Valkyr drug epidemic and engages in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge through the New York underworld, his victims including The Finito Brothers, Jack Lupino and Rico Muerte. He eventually discovers that the drug is part of a corporate conspiracy led by executive Nicole Horne, who is responsible for the death of his family three years prior. Max storms the Aesir office tower and kills Horne. (Max Payne)
• December 28: Jeff Master is put on trial for the murder of Isaac Dover. Later that day, the DL-6 incident occurs ^moreGregory Edgeworth, a California defense attorney, is shot and killed in a courthouse elevator. (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
• The ship Discovery nears the end of its mission to Jupiter. (2001: A Space Odyssey)
• Ethnic tensions from the year 3001 spill over into this year due to a time-traveling terrorist, who ceases once his daughter realizes that what they're doing is just as bad as what was done to them. (Power Rangers Time Force)
• Half-human Org escapes his seal, begins building his forces to resume the war from 3,000 years prior. Animarian remnant wakes up from magical cryosleep, begins recruiting new soldiers. The war resumes, albeit mostly confined to small skirmishes. (Power Rangers Wild Force)
• College student Tommy Oliver takes part in an archaeological dig, finding the Dino Gems, and Oliver begins researching of dinosaur cybernetics with businessman Anton Mercer. The dig goes sour, Mercer turns evil, and the facility is destroyed. (Power Rangers: Dino Thunder)
• Alien police organization Space Patrol Delta starts its Earth branch and carries on various research and experiments. Planet Sirius is conquered by Emperor Gruumm, and one of its last survivors escapes to Earth. (Power Rangers S.P.D.)
• Publication of Gray's Sports Almanac. (Back to the Future Part II)
• Imperiex threatens the universe, and Earth's heroes team up with extraterrestrial forces to defeat him. (DC Comics)
• Community college professors take on rapidly evolving aliens. (Evolution)
• Fashion model Derek Zoolander becomes embroiled in an assassination plot. (Zoolander)
• The Grand Retour of Les Soldats fails (Count A). (Noir)
• Following a Martian invasion, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern John Stewart and J'onn J'onnz form the original seven members of the Justice League. (Justice League)
• Desmond Hume is trapped on the Island and starts pushing a button every 108 minutes to save the world. (Lost)
• A "mute asshole" kills Liberty City Mafia Don Salvatore Leone, among other people. (Grand Theft Auto III)
• Danny Butterman moves out of his father's house and into his own. (Hot Fuzz)
• Dr. Narbon kills Dave Davenport; he is later resurrected. (Narbonic)
• The Lexx comes to Earth. ^{series finale spoilers}And before long, destroys it. Of course. (Lexx)
• Djer, an immortal pharaoh Buried Alive millennia ago, revives in the Cairo Museum. Methos, the guy responsible for said burial, learns the news and heads for Cairo. He intends to kill Djer.^more but only manages to release him. (Highlander: The Methos Chronicles)
• A nuclear war has destroyed most major cities. Caesar, son of Cornelius and Zira, tries to cultivate peace between his simian peers and the surviving remnants of humanity. A gorilla general named Aldo opposes his efforts, plotting Caesar's overthrow and doom. (Battle for the Planet of the Apes)
• Zombie outbreak in Sidi-Moussa. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Yuki Makimura arrives in Sunnydale and attempts to resurrect The Master. She is stopped by the efforts of Dawn Summers. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Cronus and Apophis are killed by the Tau'ri/Tok'ra alliance in quick succession, Cronus by staff blast to the back from a robot double of Teal'c, Apophis by slamming his Replicator-infested ship into his capital world at relativistic speed. The power vacuum caused by the deaths of four powerful System Lords in rapid succession causes chaos in the Goa'uld Empire. (Stargate SG-1)
• Giorno Giovanna, son of the late Dio Brando, joins the Neapolitan mafia Passione in an attempt to make Italy a better place. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Kenchi Masaki starts to grow close to Sasami. A jealous Washu and Tokimi conspire with his mother Rea to send him off elsewhere for a while. (Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar)
• Billy Butcher kills Jonah Vogelbaum. (The Boys)
• Malcolm Nolastname's hamster dies. Malcolm spends so long giving it CPR that the doctors have to put a shunt in his mouth to help the sores drain. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• A virus wipes out 99% of the human race's females, leading to nuclear war as nations fight over the remaining women and safe quarantine zones, and eventually the collapse of civilization into bands of warring gangs. Griffon Spade and his trusty M1A1 Abrams begin a journey across post-apocalyptic America to find his fiancee Madison. (BattleTanx)
• Two criminals are released from prison and begin filming their daily lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Trailer Park Boys)
• Dr. Fudo and his assistants, Rex and Rutger (Roman) Goodwin, discover planetary particles and develop the first Moment (Ener-D) reactor. In their initial test run, dangerous anomalies arise, prompting Fudo to shut down the experiment. Rutger Goodwin, who wanted to press ahead, decides to explore the Nazca Lines, where he encounters a representative of Yliaster. (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)
• Birth of Lavender 'Lavi' Drake in Wild Colony, Utopus. He would go on to become a martial artist and an adventurer. (Pokémon Tabletop Utopus Region)
• The Gehenna Strain kills 500 million people within two months of its outbreak in New York. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• The Daedalus XL-141, is launched from Earth. It is the first commercial spaceflight. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow dies. (Dallas)
• Shirl is born. (Soylent Green)
• [Alternate Timeline] former U.S. President John F. Kennedy dies. (Timequest)
• Cedric Bubley is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• In a possible future, Superman is dedicated to eradicating all nuclear weapons on Earth in the aftermath of Metropolis being destroyed by an atomic bomb planted by Intergang. His wife Lois Lane and most of his friends were killed in the blast. After he sinks an American nuclear submarine, unknowingly killing seven sailors in the process, U.S. President Herbert Forrest attempts to recruit Batman to defeat Superman by any means necessary but he refuses. The Justice League of America take matters into their own hands as they believe that Superman has gone too far. In the ensuing fight, the Martian Manhunter is killed. The Manhunter's death causes Batman to have a change of heart. He is forced to kill Superman using Kryptonite, which he bitterly regrets. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, The Joker is declared sane by a panel of doctors whose families he threatened to kill. Shortly after his release from Arkham Asylum, he has The Riddler, the Scarecrow, the Ventriloquist and Killer Moth murdered in the hope of implicating Batman. He later frames Batman for killing The Penguin. As Batman believes himself to be guilty, he surrenders to the authorities. He is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. He eventually realizes the truth and escapes from prison with the help of Tim Drake and Anarky. Batman confronts the Joker who, in his attempt to kill him, ends up electrocuting himself. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, the Justice League of America disbands and its members go their separate ways. The League is eventually re-formed through the efforts of Maxwell Lord, Booster Gold and General Glory. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, U.S. President Superman embarks on an ambitious series of programs for the betterment of the United States and the world in general. He is able to reduce the US trade deficit by slowly introducing millions of dollars worth of gold bullion, lost in a ship sinking decades earlier, to the economy. President Superman then begins negotiating a scheme of unilaterial disarmament with other world leaders so that the World Peace League, formed by the merging of the Justice League of America and other groups, can act as a global peacekeeping force under the authority of the United Nations. Shortly afterwards, the United States launches a series of orbital solar power stations so that the entire world can benefit from solar energy and be freed from its dependence on fossil fuels. President Superman also attempts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland but the parties are reluctant to cooperate with either him or each other. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, the United States is experiencing a major recession. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, the Thanagarian crime fighting team Kator Hol and Shayera Thal come out of retirement and resume their duties as Hawkman and Hawkwoman. Julie Carmody, who blames them for the death of her father George Crystal, is furious and allows her spirit to enter the Atilla battle robot that George built. She later attacks Hawkman and Hawkwoman but they manage to defeat her and her spirit returns to her own body. Hawkman's spirit gains control of the Atilla robot. He brings it into space and activates its self-destruct. He tells Hawkwoman that he was momentarily tempted to keep it in order to eliminate the corruption in human society. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, the Team Titans fight the forces of the dictator Lord Chaos, whom they learn is the son of Donna Troy. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, Batman defeats Ra's al Ghul's plot to wipe out humanity using a bio-engineered virus. Ra's is killed in the process. His daughter Talia attempts to resurrect him using the Lazarus Pit as she has done so many times before but she is unsuccessful. Batman manages to escape from her custody but his rope breaks and he falls, critically injuring himself. When Tim Drake and Alfred Pennyworth find him, they discover that his back is broken and almost all of his leg bones have been shattered. As Gotham has become a practically lawless nightmare city run by The Mafia, Tim Drake becomes the new Batman. After several weeks, however, he is captured and killed by Talia's agents, who believed him to the original Batman. Enraged by Tim's death, Bruce Wayne augments his body with cybernetic implants and comes out of retirement to track down his killer. He eventually discovers that it was Talia, who tells him that she was trying to kill him because of her father's death. After Talia's forces defeat Batman, she places him in the Lazarus Pit so that it can heal him and he can become the new Ra's Al-Ghul. Just before he dies, Batman activates a bomb that kills Talia and her men and destroys the Lazarus Pit. (Armageddon 2001)
• In a possible future, Lois Lane is pregnant with Superman's child but but she dies of internal injuries when the child kicks for the first time. Superman is so distraught by his wife's death that he leaves Earth. After he is attacked by a Salier ship who mistake him for an Almeracian, Maxima rescues him and tends to his injuries. As she has long been in love with him, she attempts to woo him but she finds that she is continually in the shadow of the deceased Lois and Earth in general. Maxima hopes to marry Superman instead of the Krenon cyborg De'cine, whose people are negotiating a peace treaty with the Lords of Almerac. Maxima's slave Sazu suggests to De'cine that he destroy Earth in the hope that her mistress' chances of winning Superman's love will increase if his beloved adopted planet no longer exists. Superman and Maxima are eventually able to save Earth from De'cine's attack. (Armageddon 2001)
• A member of the Tok'ra incites a rebellion on a planet ruled by the Goa'uld Qetesh, whose host is Vala Mal Doran. After defeating her Jaffa, the inhabitants of the planet capture Qetesh and torture her for days. Feeling responsible, the Tok'ra rescues Vala, removes the symbiote from her and nurses her back to health. After her recovery, Vala discovers the news of Qetesh's death has not reached the mining planet P8X-412 and sets herself up as its ruler by pretending to be their god Qetesh. She has the native population mine naquadah for her. They eventually learn the truth in 2005. (Stargate SG-1)
• Norman Babcock is born. (ParaNorman)
• Following pressure from Congress, the Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund is re-established, and Monster Hunter International resumes its work. At the same time, Cursed One Lord Machado attempts to use an ancient artifact to open a portal to the Old Ones' dimension, but is stopped by the newly re-established company. (Monster Hunter International)

Before 2002

• Pamela, one of the founders of Shortpacked, makes the Drama Tag in the hope of remaining with her family. Despite this, she ultimately succumbs to her terminal illness, leaving her husband, Galasso, a single father to their daughter, Conquest. (Walkyverse)

2001 – 2002

• Sal Walters comes into contact with Dargon Chesterfield and Penny Worthington. ^They pump her full of drugs, aggravate her existing violent tendencies, and psychologically condition her to destroy SEMME, then leave her at the Martian colony to await the return of the Head Alien.. (Walkyverse)

2002

• January 1: Harold Finch begins working on the forty-third version of his terrorism-detecting program, which he will eventually begin calling The Machine. (Person of Interest)
• January 9: Mitchell Hundred becomes Mayor of New York City. (Ex Machina)
• January 24: A group marines enter the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan to find and eliminate a source of sonar interference which they attribute to insurgents; only their sergeant returns, infected with rabies and having suffered wounds too large to have been inflicted by any known species of bat, but he survives. (Lost Tapes: "Cave Demons")
• January 28:
  • Roxanne Whisha disappears. (The 4400)
  • Skill Jones is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• April 8: Joshua Peacock is born. (Coronation Street)
• April 10:
  • Jordan Collier disappears. (The 4400)
  • Haruka Haruno is born in Yumegahama, Japan. (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)
• May 3: Alec Lehane dies. (The Twilight Zone (2002))
• May 7: Tara Maclay is killed by Warren Mears. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Early May: Jennifer Billingsworth visits Danny Wilcox in Denver. (Walkyverse)
• May 25: During a red moon, 4*Town’s Toronto concert is attacked by a giant red panda mother. (Turning Red)
• Late May: Head Alien resurrects inside the Martian colony. He takes control of a Martian starship and attacks Denver, garnering massive media attention; as a result, Aliens and SEMME become public knowledge. David Walkerton and Joyce Brown finally get together. SEMME turns over Alien technology to the US government in exchange for amnesty for the various damages they have caused. ^More Tony McHenry is resurrected at the same time as the Head Alien. He is initially under the Head Alien's control, but Mike Warner breaks the manipulation by exploiting his jealousy. Another Head Alien flies into a glitching Cheese and travels across the multiverse, conquering many worlds and killing and tormenting thousands of SEMME agents. ^{Justification} This strip shows it happens while Attack of the Clones is still in cinemas. (Walkyverse)
• May: Dennis Hofferman is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June: Jennifer Billingsworth graduates from Indiana University. She turns down a good job offer to move to Colorado with Danny Wilcox, eventually getting a job as a reporter with Channel 7 News. (Walkyverse)
• June - August:
  • After turning 18, Francis Nolastname gets himself legally emancipated and leaves for a logging camp in Alaska. (Malcolm in the Middle)
  • A young man inherits a farm from a distant relative, but is attacked by zombie scarecrows wanting revenge for his ancestor's crimes. (Dark Harvest)
• July 17: Elijah Kamski is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• July 23: Dr. Jay Ferguson dies. (The Twilight Zone (2002))
• July 28: Gail Platt and Richard Hillman are married. (Coronation Street)
• September 8: Hal Nolastname takes a trip to Bavarialand. Somebody at his company hands the board of directors a set of doctored financial records. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• September 10: An explosives-filled helicopter is crashed into the Statue of Liberty by al-Qaeda terrorists. (Chrononauts)
• September:
  • Craig Manning, Marco Del Rossi and Ellie Nash begin attending Degrassi Community School. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
  • Daemona Prune begins attending Lugosi Junior High shortly after she and her parents move to San Francisco. She forms the Phantom Investigators with her friends Kira, Jericho, and Casey. (Phantom Investigators)
  • Sal Walters pleads guilty to five charges of attempted murder during the Aliens' attack on Denver and is sentenced to five years in prison. (Walkyverse)
• October 7: Gavin Reed is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• October 31:
  • On the tenth anniversary of Ghostwatch, the BBC airs Ghostwatch 2: Return to Studio One, and viewers once again become witnesses to supernatural activity. (The short story "31-10")
  • Michael Myers returns to his childhood home, where an internet reality show competition is being filmed. (Halloween: Resurrection)
• November 5: Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet is elected to a second term as President of the United States. (The West Wing)
• November 9: Kevin Girardi is paralysed from the waist down in a car accident caused by his friend Andy Baker, who drove drunk. (Joan of Arcadia)
• November 12: Andrew Wells kills Jonathan Levinson. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• November 18: Rogue elements in the Russian military initiate the largest chemical weapon attack in history, launching artillery shells armed with the Novichok nerve agent at Grozny, Chechnya. (The Sum of All Fears)
• November 20: A nuclear bomb detonates in Baltimore, devastating the city. US President J. Robert Fowler narrowly escapes the attack and begins a day-long war with the presumed culprit - Russia. (The Sum of All Fears)
• December 6: Hal Nolastname attends a showing of The Nutcracker. Someone at his company hides money. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• December 15: Princess Hope Delight Towa is born in the Hope Kingdom. (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)
• December 23: Lucas Wolenczak is born. (SeaQuest DSV)
• Late 2002: Amber O'Malley moves to San Francisco to escape her abusive father. She befriends Ethan Siegal, who introduces her to the world of toy collecting. The two start working at Shortpacked. Evan (and, presumably, Rose) start working at McAwesome's around the same time. ^{Justification} Stated in this strip and this one to happen three years before 2006, and this one says it happened five years before 2007. Late 2002 can accomodate both, if you squint a bit. . [[/labelnote]](Walkyverse)
• Faridah Malik is born in Dearborn, United States. (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
• Org-Animarian war concludes with Animarian remnant victorious; it goes back into magical cryosleep just in case. (Power Rangers Wild Force)
• Leon Kennedy and Jack Krauser sent to South America to apprehend drug lord Javier Hidalgo, who has ties to Umbrella. Krauser fakes his death in a helicopter crash and begins working for Albert Wesker. (Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles)
• Ramon Salazar, a follower of Los Illuminados, digs up Las Plagas at the behest of Osmund Saddler. All of the local villagers are soon infected. (Resident Evil 4, date estimated)
• Agent Kay brought out of retirement by Agent Jay to help defeat Serleena. (Men in Black II)
• The space probe Nomad is launched by NASA to seek out a new life among the stars. Due to damage from a meteorite, Nomad would lose contact with Earth. It would later merge with Tan Ru, an alien probe programmed to collect and sterilize soil samples. The new purpose of the combined machine would be to "seek out and sterilize new life". (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• Mark Grayson becomes Invincible. (Invincible)
• Kim Possible begins her career as a crime-fighter. (Kim Possible)
• Adrian Monk emerges from seclusion and becomes a private detective. (Monk)
• Xander Cage recruited by the NSA to stop Eastern European anarchists. (xXx)
• Giant spiders terrorize a small town. (Eight Legged Freaks)
• A journalist investigates a deadly videotape. (The Ring)
• Helen B. Narbon, Dave Davenport, Mell Kelly, and Artie are stranded on an island by the Dave Conspiracy; they eventually escape. (Narbonic)
• The First Tiberium War ends with the destruction of the Temple of Nod in Sarajevo and the apparent death of Kane. Though the Global Defense Initiative is victorious, much of Europe, South America, and Africa is devastated by the fighting, while Tiberium continues to spread unchecked across the planet. (Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn)
• A new generation of DigiDestined appear to save the Digital World after the Digimon Emperor takes control. (Digimon Adventure 02)
• The Lords, an ancient race subservient to the godlike Overlord, begin killing exceptional humans who may have the potential to become the modern version of the powerful ancient warrior Agito. The amnesiac Shoichi Tsugami becomes the new Agito and fights to protect humanity alongside policeman Makoto Hikawa, swimmer Ryo Ashihara, and doctor Kaoru Kino^moreThough Agito aired in 2001, the official backstory says it takes place two years after the rise of the Grongi (Kuuga), which occurred in 2000.. (Kamen Rider Agito)
• People in Tokyo begin being abducted by monsters that come from mirrors and other reflective surfaces. Intern reporter Shinji Kido gets caught up in the incident and comes into the possession of an Advent Deck, which allows the bearer to form a contract with such monsters and become a Kamen Rider. The Riders are set against one another in the Rider Battle, with the ultimate prize being a single wish; Shinji tries to convince his fellow Riders that more important things are happening, and fights to end the Rider Battle peacefully. (Kamen Rider Ryuki)
• Jacob Kell and his small army of Immortals attack the Sanctuary and exterminate everyone present there except Connor MacLeod, who Kell wants alive, sober and miserable. Duncan MacLeod, Methos, and Joe Dawson go in pursuit, and Duncan finds himself the latest target in Kell's hit list. ^more The only way for Duncan to kill Kell is to gain another quality Quickening - that of Connor. (Highlander: Endgame)
• In the wake of 9/11 and more supervillain attacks than the city deserves, Tesladyne relocates from the Empire State Building to an underground complex beneath a remote island. (Atomic Robo)
• A zombie washes ashore on St. Thomas. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• The Brainspawn's Infosphere comes online. (Futurama)
• Birth of Kyle Reese. (Terminator)
• Network of Intercontinental Expressways opens. (killer7)
• Anubis appears, defeats several System Lords and Tok'ra. The Jaffa Rebellion begins in earnest. Daniel Jackson ascends and is replaced on SG-1 by Langaran defector Jonas Quinn. The United States launches Earth's first spacegoing warship, the BC-303 USS Prometheus. Her hyperdrive fails rather spectacularly during the shakedown cruise, forcing an emergency landing on the planet Tagrea where she remains stranded for the better part of a year. (Stargate SG-1)
• Izaya Orihara becomes wanted by the Ikebukuro police and frames Shizuo Heiwajima as an accomplice. While running from the police, Shizuo throws a vending machine at a police car, but is ultimately cleared of all charges once further investigation proves that he could not be involved in the crime. This only serves to fuel the two boys' hatred of each other. (Durarara!!)
• James Halliday and Ogden Morrow are comfortable millionaires who own mansions. (Ready Player One)
• Two entomologists appear dead in a skiff on the coast of Florida, decomposed and covered in puncture marks and bite wounds, with mysterious tracks in the sand leading off into the brush; video evidence indicates that both they and a group of Latin American men in 1999 were attacked by giant centipedes, though the animals were never found. (Lost Tapes: "Death Crawler")
• Birth of Yusei Fudo.^{Justification}Established to be 19 years old in episode 116 (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)
• Orie Ballardiae witnesses her parents being killed by a Void with the unusual ability to speak human language. She is rescued and recruited by a member of the Licht Kreis organisation. (Under Night In-Birth)
• Allie Keys, a one-eighth alien nine-year-old girl with extraordinary powers, makes the difficult decision to leave Earth and join the aliens. She leaves behind a star shaped pendant as a sign to her parents Lisa Clarke and Charlie Keys that she will return one day. (Taken)
• Bryce Larkin is recruited into the CIA during his junior year at Stanford University. (Chuck)
• Francesca Gimpel is born to Heinrich and Lise Gimpel. (In the Presence of Mine Enemies)
• The Nemesis comet hits the Earth, wiping out all plant, animal and human life, bar a few survivors, and plunging the world into a seemingly endless winter. The only people who survive are those in underground bunkers or research stations, who are protected from the impact. (Thunderstone)
• U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. develops the first commercial mobile speaking robots, making earlier non-speaking models largely obsolete. (I, Robot)
• In Los Angeles, then 18-year old Damien "Dame" Anderson is arrested after drawing a gun to protect Adonis Creed after he got into a violent altercation with his group home caregiver. (Creed III)
• Mike Warner steals David Walkerton's autographed photo of Bob Denver. (Walkyverse)

2003

• January 23: Special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman begin testing out experiments on various urban myths, in what would be their longest-running hit on Discovery Channel. (MythBusters)
• January 26: The movie American Splendor wins the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Harvey Pekar watches the award ceremony at a friend's house. (Real Life, American Splendor)
• January:
  • Jerry Miller obtains a household robot from Gideon Robotics for his family. (The Outer Limits (1995))
  • Archie "Snake" Simpson and Christine "Spike" Nelson are married. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
  • Gabi Kane is killed in a car crash. (Batwoman (2019))
  • SEMME squad 135 investigates extradimensional activity in London. Jason Chesterfield breaks Sal Walters out of prison. Alan Rees is captured and interrogated by Aliens, rescued by SEMME squad 128. (Walkyverse)
• February 2: Hal Nolastname goes go-karting. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• February 16: Carl Morrissey disappears. (The 4400)
• March 17: Iraq War officially begins. (Real Life)
• March 18: SUZURAN releases her first album, distracting the people of Japan from the Iraq War. Plans are laid for her second album to coincide with the JSDF's arrival at As Samawah. (Cell Phone Love Letter)
• March 19: Following a terrorist attack on New York that led to the deaths of 12,000 people, and after U.S. President George Baker's demands for the Middle Eastern nations to release the terrorist leader "Darin" from their custody go unheard, the United States and its international allies declare war on the Middle East, launching air strikes on their major cities and air force bases. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• March 20: The day after the Middle Eastern War begins and air strikes have started, the United States and its allies send out ground troops to fight. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• April 16: Himari Arisugawa is born in Ichigozaka, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• April 17: Astro Boy is created. (Astro Boy)
• May 4: Nils Ortega writes to his ex-wife Demi about his opposition to the Iraq War. (Axiom's End)
• May 11: In Japan, Haruaki Fusaishi finds himself lost in the mountains, not far from the village of Yasumizu.^{Justification}The year is explicitly mentioned at the beginning of Mitsuji's extra story. (Raging Loop)
• May 12: Mist covers the village of Yasumizu, and the Feast of the Yomi-Purge begins. (Raging Loop)
• May 25: Tru Davies graduates from college. (Tru Calling)
• May 26: On the anniversary of her mother Elise's death, Tru Davies starts working at a morgue and begins reliving days to prevent people's deaths. (Tru Calling)
• May: Commander Harmon Rabb Jr. saves the USS Seahawk Carrier Battle Group in the Arabian Sea from a dirty nuke missile launched from a rogue Iranian diesel sub by puttting his F-14 Tomcat in front of the heat-seeking missile and letting it chase him until it runs out of fuel (JAG)
• Before June: In Midvale, Kenny Li is murdered by Sheriff Ronald Collins after he accidentally takes a photograph of Collins' involvement in a drug deal. Kara and Alex Danvers solve the crime and Collins is arrested. (Supergirl (2015))
• Around May/June: Through the overwhelming strength of their Titano-Machina superweapons, the United States and its allies suppress the Middle Eastern forces, ending the war a mere two months after it started. However, due to the Middle Eastern forces feigning surrender, they are unable to secure the singular Juno held by the Middle East. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• June 12:
  • Around 3:00 PM, two entities, known as "The Giant" and "The Dragon," appear in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they engage in battle using mysterious sounds. ^moreAfter destroying the Grotesquerie Queen-Beast ("The Giant"), Caim and Angelus ("The Dragon") are shot down by the JSDF. (Drakengard)
  • This "6-12 Incident" results in 56 fatalities, 320 injuries, and 60 billion yen in damages. The Japanese government attempts a cover-up, but leaked footage continues to circle on the internet. (NieR)
  • Mirai Asahina is born in the No Magic World in Japan. (Maho Girls Pretty Cure!)
• June 27: Hal Nolastname visits Pilgrim Village. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• June: Albert Manning is killed in a car accident. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• July 11: Hal Nolastname visits a haunted house, but has a panic attack, forcing it to shut down. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• July 13: Soos Ramirez realises his father will never be back, and hates his birthdays from then on. On the plus side, he gets a job at the Mystery Shack. (Gravity Falls)
• July 16: Two nukes go off in Washington D.C., and a third directed at the Pentagon fizzles. (The Merchant Princes Series)
• July 19: Britja agents attack SEMME HQ. ^more Grace Svenson and Dina Sarazu are killed and several SEMME agents are mindwiped. Penny Worthington seizes control of the Britjas from Dargon Chesterfield. Mike Warner swaps positions with Robin DeSanto from SEMME squad 82. ^{Justification} Date given on Dina's gravestone (Walkyverse)
• July 22: Bobby Beale is born. (EastEnders)
• Between January and July:
  • Mary Bradford marries Dr. Peter Paul. (Walkyverse)
  • The Science Fiction Club are randomly pulled into another universe, where they tangle with Aliens and SEMME squad 128. (Fans!, Walkyverse)
• August 12: Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame investigate a strange red mist covering the land of Gensokyo. ^moreRemilia Scarlet was the one that caused it, so that she could go out without the sunlight harming her. (Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil)
• August 14: A widespread power blackout occurs throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Major cities like New York, Detroit, and Cleveland are affected. (Real Life)
  • Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney hacks into the ctOS system, causing the blackout. (Watch_Dogs)
  • Harvey Pekar, in New York with his family to help promote the opening of the American Splendor movie, experiences the blackout firsthand. The next day he's unable to get a flight out of LaGuardia Airport because of the blackout, but his spirits are lifted by the movie's positive reviews. (American Splendor)
• August 22: Hal Nolastname visits Oceanland, and gets to feed a killer whale. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• August 27: Aoi Tategami is born in Ichigozaka, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• August: Tommy Oliver enlists several students in his attempt to keep a psychotic murderer with mysterious links to Anton Mercer from bringing back the age of the dinosaurs. The battles last through May 2004. (Power Rangers: Dino Thunder)
• September 2: The Pilgrim family moves to Northern Ontario and Scott starts at St. Joel's Catholic High School. He gets into a fight on his first day and meets Lisa Miller in the principal's office. For a couple weeks, she pursues a friendship with him and he continues to act aloof, leading her to think he hates her. They end up becoming best friends.^{Justification}This was the day after Labor Day in 2003. And yes, they have Labor Day in Canada. (Scott Pilgrim)
• September 8: On her fifteenth birthday, Mei is visited by Mepple the fairy, and becomes a Pretty Cure. (Maple Sugar Pretty Cure)
• September 12: Kirara Amanogawa is born in Yumegahama, Japan. (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)
• September 27: Tom, Della and Derek Lincoln are murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• September: Japan hosts an international summit, including Russia and the United States, concerning the 6-12 Incident. (NieR)
• October 20: Majestic-12 sets a $18.6 million bounty on each of the 15 people who could possibly foil their plan to create a new Cold War, including Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield. (Scarecrow)
• October 26: The aforementioned plan is foiled by Schofield and co. ^moreSchofield's girlfriend, is decapitated by Jonathon Killian in the process, leading to four months of stress leave. A French aircraft carrier is also destroyed in the process, leading to another bounty on Schofield's head, this time five million Euros from the French military. (Scarecrow)
• October: USS Destiny, a colony ship incorporating Martian technology, is publicly announced. (Walkyverse)
• November 12: Riko Izayoi is born in the Magic World. (Maho Girls Pretty Cure!).
• November 28: High school student Light Yagami finds a mysterious notebook on the ground at his school. Kira's first murders are committed. (Death Note, manga version)
• November: Steve and Lisa are murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• December 2: Nora Darkh is born. (Legends of Tomorrow)
• December 13: Osama bin Laden is found and captured in a terrorist compound on the Afghan-Pakistani border. (Chrononauts)
• Mid-December: The crew of Moya arrives on Earth in a time-frame where they don't have to worry about temporal paradoxes. ^moreThey leave on Christmas Day, in order to protect Earth from everyone who's looking for Crichton's wormhole knowledge. (Farscape)
• December 26: Bun-Bun kills Santa Claus, becoming the new Emperor of Holidays. (Sluggy Freelance)
• December 24-31: Three homeless people in Tokyo, Gin, Miyuki, and Hana, discover an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. The trio then embarks on a quest to return the infant to her mother.(Tokyo Godfathers)
• December:
  • First cases of what will later be called White Chlorination Syndrome in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The disease causes victims' bodies to break down into sodium chloride, and has a 100% mortality rate. Research on the disease begins, and is met with optimism due to its initial rarity. (NieR)
  • SEMME squad 128 investigates temporal anomalies in Webcomic/{{Avalon}. The Head Alien is destroyed by the Cheese. (Walkyverse)
• Negi Springfield travels to Japan. (Negima! Magister Negi Magi)
• Californian hidden ninja academies are ransacked with all students kidnapped in a brutal attack by the ninja exiled in 1975. The remaining forces from two (barely) surviving academies successfully wage a counter-attack. (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
• Metroplex is constructed. Earth Defence Command is set up, with Marisa Faireborn in a position of leadership. (Transformers: Generation 1)
• Nicholas Angel obtains a Peace Lily, and starts tending to it. This causes a rift between him and his girlfriend, Janine, who feels he cares more for the plant than he does for her. (Hot Fuzz)
• Buffy Summers leaves Sunnydale ^moreas it's falling into a sinkhole, after defeating The First Evil. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• The Bride awakens from her coma and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. (Kill Bill)
• The Justice League of America teams up with The Avengers to defeat Krona. (DC Comics, Marvel Comics)
• A team of scientists drill to the Earth's core to restart its rotation. (The Core)
• A reporter temporarily gains the power of God. (Bruce Almighty)
• Freddy Krueger battles Jason Voorhees. (Freddy vs. Jason)
• Leonard becomes roommates with Sheldon. (The Big Bang Theory)
• Dave Davenport becomes unstuck in time, and now never has smoked. (Narbonic)
• A rave is held in Isla de la Muerta in broad daylight. (House of the Dead)
• An alternative Ninth Doctor fights off the Shalka's plans to render the Earth uninhabitable (or to them, inhabitable). (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials])
• The Smart Brain Corporation begins attempting to take over the world through the Orphnochs, beings believed to be the next step in human evolution. They develop three sets of Rider Gear, which turn the wearers into powerful armored warriors, to protect the nascent Orphnoch King. However the former members of the Ryusei School, a group of orphans adopted by Smart Brain's founder, begin to fight back with the stolen Gear, accidentally involving the loner Takumi Inui in their battle. (Kamen Rider 555)
• A time travel "paradox-free" duplicate of Philip J. Fry finds a new job in an aquarium. He is tasked with taking care of Leelu the narwhal, a rare whale. He would keep this hobby until 2010. (Futurama)
• Inbred killers chase people in the forests of West Virginia. (Wrong Turn)
• US government takes control of what remains of Cyberdyne Systems and contracts AI research to Cyber Research Systems. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
• Construction begins on International Mass-Scale Transportation System. Radioactive material is sealed in an artificial island in the Indian Ocean. Intercontinental ballistic missiles are detonated high above the atmosphere. Heaven Smiles make their first public appearance by suicide bombing a UN meeting. (killer7)
• An army of hired killers dressed as Squeky Clean company workers eliminate various people in New York City. (Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne)
• Anubis uses the Eyes of the Goa'uld to assemble a superweapon which he uses to blow up Abydos. ^moreOma Desala helps the Abydonians to collectively ascend. The other System Lords temporarily unite under Yu, but are no match for Anubis. SG-1, in collaboration with the descended Daniel Jackson, defeats Anubis with an "absolutely insane" plan. Ba'al takes command of the united System Lords. Anubis develops the Kull super soldiers and uses them to kill off several minor Goa'uld and take their armies. (Stargate SG-1)
• The creature EI-01 crash lands on Earth, stopped by the mechanoid lion Galeon. Astronaut Guy Shishioh is gravely wounded by EI-01's arrival and is rescued by Galeon, being rebuilt as a cyborg. (GaoGaiGar)
• Metal Sonic, tired of Eggman's failures, imprisons him and lures Sonic and his friends into a trap to wipe them all out. Shadow the Hedgehog seemingly returns to life during this time. (Sonic Heroes)
• Francis Nolastname and Piama Tananahaakna marry a month after they meet. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• A pair of police officers and an indie filmmaker investigate "the Beast Killer," a prolific serial killer who leaves traces of both human and animal DNA behind at the crime scenes; by the end of the night, the filmmaker and the killer are dead, and the officers were separately given paid psychiatric leave before resigning from the force. (Lost Tapes: "Werewolf")
• A science experiment meant to give immunity to gamma radiation turns scientist Bruce Banner into the Hulk. (The Incredible Hulk)
• Billions of people are wiped out by the HR2 virus. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• David Caulder is appointed as the director of Moonbase 3 after his predecessor Dr. Tony Ransome is killed in a shuttle crash caused by the pilot, Harry Sanders, suffering a mental breakdown while en route to Earth. Moonbase 3 is operated by Europe while the other four are operated by the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Brazil. The Soviets are on the verge of sending a manned mission to Mars and their long-term goal is to launch a manned orbital flight of Jupiter using Mars as a springboard. (Moonbase 3)
• Timothy Worthy dies. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Five Bayside High School students dig up a Time Capsule buried by the Class of 1993. (Saved by the Bell)
• Kara Zor-El's pod lands on Earth after spending 24 years trapped in the Phantom Zone. (Supergirl (2015))
• Bryce Larkin learns that the CIA intends to recruit his close friend Chuck Bartowski. As he knows that CIA work will destroy the good-natured Chuck, Bryce frames him for cheating by putting the answers to exam questions under Chuck's bed. Chuck is expelled from Stanford University, believing that Bryce betrayed him. He eventually learns the truth in November 2007. (Chuck)
• Quincy Bubley is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• The United States and Russia reveal the existence of the Stargate to the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China, the other three permanent members of the UN Security Council, in order to build a coalition against Anubis. (Stargate SG-1)
• Roxane Gimpel is born to Heinrich and Lise Gimpel. (In the Presence of Mine Enemies)
• A much faster moving variety of tennis ball known as a lively ball is developed. Players and spectators must wear special goggles in order to see the lively balls when they are in motion. (DC Comics)
• Susan Calvin receives a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and begins her graduate work in cybernetics. (I, Robot)

2003- 2004

• Over the course of their sophomore year, Scott Pilgrim and Lisa Miller form a band. Scott recruits Kim Pine, his partner in one of his classes, as drummer for the band, and proceeds to develop feelings for her. On a Monday, a gang from Benvie Tech High School attacks St. Joel's, and Scott goes to Benvie Tech to fight Simon Lee, a sinister Benvie Tech student who kidnapped Kim. Scott rescues her and they begin dating.^moreThis proves to be a false memory; in reality, Simon Lee was Kim's boyfriend who Scott punched in the face when he saw them hugging. She then broke up with Simon to date Scott. Scott loses his virginity to Kim, but they break up when Scott has to move to Toronto.^moreScott doesn't tell Kim this, she instead learns about it from Lisa. (Scott Pilgrim)
• Many Earth governments begin to ban the use of robots for any purposes other than scientific. (I, Robot)

Between 2000 and 2004

• David Willis and Maggie Weidner begin a relationship while working at SEMME. (Walkyverse)

2004

• January 4: Senku Ishigami is born. (Dr. STONE)
• January 7: Ichika Usami is born in Ichigozaka, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• January 10: Agent 47 assassinates Joseph Clarence, an amusement park owner. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• January: Rocky Tardio dies. (Joan of Arcadia)
• January:
  • The protagonist prepares to go to university on Monday. (Unpacking)
  • USS Destiny launches. (Walkyverse)
• February 1: The Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots play in Super Bowl XXXVIII. (Real Life)
  • Five minutes before the halftime show starts, a stagehand attempts to open a beer bottle with a black dress. He rips the bust. (Bud Light ad)
  • At the end of the halftime show, Justin Timberlake tears off part of Janet Jackson's black dress, briefly revealing her right breast on national television. Moral Guardians everywhere freak out. (Real Life)
  • Children and infants across America are severely traumatized by the sight of Janet Jackson's breast. The mass trauma persists for a year (and possibly for the rest of their lives). (The Onion)
• February 2: Saber is summoned by Shirou Emiya in Fuyuki, starting the fifth Holy Grail World. (Fate/stay night)
• February 4: Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. (Real Life, Facebook)
• February 29: Agent 47 assassinates two drug lords in Chile. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• Late February:
  • Sal Walters and Jason Chesterfield complete their investigation in London and return to Denver, where they give Linda Walkerton a full report on extradimensional incursions. ^{Justification} Stated to happen eight months after the Britjas' attack on SEMME HQ, but Willis' commentary on this comic says the final battle happens in February. (Walkyverse
  • USS Destiny meets the Martian retaliatory vessel at the edge of the solar system; its crew is zombified. Penny Worthington leads a Britja assault on the now-defunct SEMME HQ; many die. Joe Rosenthal and Rachel Jackson rebuild Danny Wilcox's SUV into Ultra-Car. Martians attack Earth at the same time the Head Alien's backup plan comes to fruition. Earth is ultimately saved by SEMME, at the cost of many lives, but some leave enough body parts to be resurrected. Martians threaten to invade again in 25 years. (Walkyverse
• March 3: Federal agent Jack Bauer thwarts an attempt to assassinate U.S. Senator and presidential candidate David Palmer. (24)^moreThis and all 24 dates should be considered Fanon, as the show's creators have been deliberately careless about chronology. For instance, Day One takes place on Super Tuesday in an election year (2000 or '04), but one of its Dragons, Alexis Drazen, was born on 24 January 1967 and is listed as 35 years old, thus placing the season in... 2002.
• March 17: Agent 47 assassinates an opera singer, a US ambassador to the vatican and, after getting shot and remembering previous hits, the Paris chief of police. (Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Contracts)
• March 31: Agent 47 rescues Agent Smith and kills a New York Mafioso. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• March: Joe Rosenthal and Rachel Jackson rig up a resurrection chamber using technology salvaged from the Martian invasion by Lith of SEMME squad 37 . ^more It is first used to make a new body for David Walkerton. (Walkyverse
• April 4: Honoka Yukishiro celebrates her birthday while being held captive in a jewelry store. (Futari wa Pretty Cure)
• April:
  • TV Tropes is established, primarily serving as a Buffy wiki. Thousands of lives are ruined from this point on. (Real Life, TV Tropes)
  • Joyce Brown leaks the resurrection chamber plans to a private company on condition that they resurrect Mike Warner first. ^{Justification} Resurrection tubes take nine months to fully restore somebody, and Mike is already working at Shortpacked in January 2005, so Joyce can't have leaked the plans later than April 2004. (Walkyverse)
• May 8: Reimu and Marisa go out in search of whatever or whoever is causing the prolonged winter. (Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom)
• May 15: Agent 47 assassinates Vinnie Sinistra, a Cuban crime lord. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• Spring:
  • Shaun makes plans with his girlfriend to have dinner at a new place. He misses the plans, and she dumps him. (Shaun of the Dead)
  • An epidemic of zombies infests the world, (England and London in particular). Shaun gathers his best friend Ed, Liz and her two roommates, Daniel and Diane, and his mother and step-father to try to save them. ^spoilersOf all of these people, one is killed, one is turned into a zombie and killed, and two are turned into zombies and left alive. (Shaun of the Dead)
• June:
  • Ramona Flowers and Todd Ingram graduate high school. Because Todd is going to vegan college and Ramona to the University of California in the Sky, they break up. (Scott Pilgrim)
  • Dylan Michalchuk graduates from Degrassi Community School. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Early July: A T-X kills several future members of the human resistance. It is destroyed by John Connor and Katherine Brewster with the aid of a reprogrammed and upgraded T-800. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
• July 15: Krista James kills her abusive boyfriend Doug McNair in self-defense using the Jaffa martial arts technique lok'nel that Teal'c taught her. The Trust frames Teal'c for killing McNair but Detective Pete Shanahan is able to prove his innocence. (Stargate SG-1)
• July 24: A computer virus spreads across civilian and military computer networks. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
• July 25: Skynet becomes self-aware, and launches a nuclear attack on the Earth, killing billions. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
• July 30: Ciel Kirahoshi is born in Ichigoyama, Japan. (KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode)
• August 14: The 4400 are returned en masse to Highland Beach near Mount Rainier in Washington. (The 4400)
• August:
  • The Mamu logging company is shut down after clearing the forest; the land is bought by a mining company. Francis Nolastname and Piama Tananahaakna move south. (Malcolm in the Middle)
  • Joyce Brown receives a presidential pardon for crimes committed while she was with SEMME. (Walkyverse
• September 19: Usean Continental War breaks out (Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies)
• September 22: Oceanic Flight 815 crash-lands on The Island. ^moreThere are roughly 70 survivors; John Locke regains the use of his legs. (Lost)
• September 27-28: The moon in Gensokyo is replaced with a fake one, and time is stopped so that the real one can be found. (Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night)
• September:
  • Malcolm Nolastname starts high school. Francis and Piama start work at the Grotto. (Malcolm in the Middle)
  • Danny Van Zandt begins attending Degrassi Community School. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
  • Jason Chesterfield, Marcie Diaz, and Travis Amir are assigned to a team of elite soldiers to track down Monkey Master. Sal Walters is excluded on account of mental instability. Bobby Walkerton, under the name 'Machete', arrives from the future and lends his assistance. (Walkyverse
• October 9: The supercomputer is turned back on. (Code Lyoko)
• October 11: Dr. Max Hudson discovers promicin, a previously unknown neurotransmitter which gives the 4400 their abilities. (The 4400)
• October 13: Dana Taylor is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 23: Laurie Dunne is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 25: Agent 47 prevents the assassination of the Secretary of Interior by killing his assassins. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• October 28: Dennis Ryland orders Dr. Max Hudson to develop a promicin inhibitor in order to prevent the 4400 from developing any further powers. It is known as Project Firewall. (The 4400)
• October:
  • White Chlorination Syndrome continues to spread through Shinjuku, and some infected persons begin going into psychotic fits before death. Quarantine measures escalate until the Japanese government constructs what is soon called the "Wall of Jericho" around the area, while assuring the international community that treatment will continue of citizens sealed off in Shinjuku. (NieR)
  • Time-Travelling Xindi from the 22nd century arrive in Detroit, Michigan. They hire Loomis, a local blood bank worker, to acquire eight samples of Human blood for them. The Xindi need to study Human physiology before being able to produce a suitable bioweapon. (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• November 2:
  • U.S. President George W. Bush is re-elected. (Real Life)
  • U.S. President Robert Redford is re-elected to a fourth term. (Watchmen (2019))
• November 4: The Hatch is opened by the Losties. (Lost)
• November 12: Judith Montgomery is murdered. (Joan of Arcadia)
• November 25: The detective known as L who was working on the Kira investigation was murdered by a God of Death who was manipulated by Kira himself. Other victims include L's assistant and butler, Quillish Wammy, as well as Rem, the Death God herself. (Death Note)
• November 27: The Hatch's computer is destroyed, but the system starts failing. Desmond saves the world by using his failsafe, and the sky turns purple briefly. ^moreThis burst of electromagnetism alerts Penelope Widmore. (Lost)
• November:
  • According to John Titor's predictions, civil unrest centers around the U.S. presidential campaign. (Usenet)
  • David Walkerton is fully resurrected following the battle against the Martians. (Walkyverse
• September - November: Leon S. Kennedy is sent to rural Spain to rescue the President of the United States' daughter from the cult Los Illuminados. Ada Wong steals a "sample" ^moreof the parasite known as Las Plagas from the corpse of the cult's leader, Osmund Saddler. (Resident Evil 4)
• December:
  • The last media transmissions from Shinjuku are abruptly cut off. Footage of a white giant circulates on the internet. (NieR)
  • A botched robbery occurs in North Yankton, forcing Michael Townley to change his surname to De Santa and relocate to Los Santos under witness protection. (Grand Theft Auto V)
• December 22: The science team from the freighter, the Kahana, sent by Charles Widmore, land on the Island. (Lost)
• December 24: Agent 47 assassinates a porn tycoon and a playboy. (Hitman: Blood Money)
• December 31: Several people make it off The Island ^more ...while everyone else jumps through time. The Oceanic Six are rescued. (Lost)
• Late 2004: Mike Warner returns from the dead. After visiting his parents in New York, he moves to San Francisco and starts working at Shortpacked. (Walkyverse)
• The original Godzilla from 1954 is resurrected by the vengeful spirits of forgotten soldiers that died in WWII and sets forth to seek revenge on Japan. Three guardian-monsters known as Mothra, Baragon, and King Ghidorah are awakened in order to stop Godzilla's wrath. (Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack!).
• Decepticons conquer Cybertron. Autobots retain control of the moons. (The Transformers: The Movie).
• Starscream, having been resurrected by Unicron, travels back in time to assasinate Optimus Prime, pursued by Star Saber and Victory Leo. Beast Megatron, having travelled through the Blasty Zone, arrives to save Starscream, but is driven off by the timely arrival of Optimus Primal. They are soon joined by Lio Convoy, who fight against Beast Megatron, Starscream, Smokescreen, Gigant Bomb, and Rebirth Megatron (who originally posed as an Autobot, Reverse Convoy). (Transformers: Robot Masters)
• Axe Cop, real name Axey Smartist, is born to Bobber and Gobber Smartist. (Axe Cop)
• Ashley Graham kidnapped by Jack Krauser and handed over to Los Immunados patriarch, Osmund Saddler. Krauser and Ada Wong, under orders from Albert Wesker, attempt to obtain Las Plagas samples; Krauser is apparently killed in the attempt. Leon Kennedy travels to Spain and rescues Ashley, killing Saddler in the process. (Resident Evil 4)
• Sue Dibny is murdered. (DC Comics)
• A group of youngsters discover their parents are supervillains, and resolve to stop them. (Marvel Comics)
• A rapid-fire series of disasters shatter The Avengers.^moreIt's the Scarlet Witch's fault; later retconned to be Doctor Doom's. (Marvel Comics)
• Nick Fury engages in a Secret War against Latveria. (Marvel Comics)
• Namie Yagiri shows her brother Seiji Yagiri Celty's head. Seiji falls in love with it. (Durarara!!)
• A new Avengers team is formed, including Spider-Man and Wolverine. (Marvel Comics)
• Max Walker of TEC resolves to stop the corrupt Senator McComb. (Timecop)
• Gregory House deals with challenging medical cases. (House)
• Global warming leads to a new ice age. (The Day After Tomorrow)
• Napoleon Dynamite helps his friend Pedro run for class president. (Napoleon Dynamite)
• Archaeologists in the Antarctic wind up caught between two groups of extraterrestrials. (AVP: Alien vs. Predator)
  • A battle between two groups of aliens spills over into Gunnison, Colorado. (Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem)
• Benjamin Franklin Gates hunts for the Founding Fathers' hidden treasure. (National Treasure)
• Coop finds Megas in a junkyard and rebuilds the robot his way. Kiva and the Glorft both arrive looking for Megas. Coop, piloting Megas, beats up a lot of bad guys. (Megas XLR)
• An incident occurs in which Nicholas Angel swears off the use of guns. ^moreThis is possibly the incident when he shoots a drug dealer, which he describes to Danny Butterman later. (Hot Fuzz)
• The events of Un-Man occur. (The Psychotechnic League)
• Sergeant First Class William James becomes a team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq, after the previous leader is killed. (The Hurt Locker)
• The BOARD Corporation accidentally releases the ancient monsters known as the Undead from their confinement. They begin the Battle Royale, which will determine the dominant species on the planet. Former BOARD employee Kazuma Kenzaki uses Rider System 02 (Blade) to battle and seal the Undead before they can destroy humanity. (Kamen Rider Blade)
• Doctor Impossible unleashes his fifth Doomsday Device, The Meta-Metavirus, is defeated for the 12th time and incarcerated.
• The Key to the World, a trinklet which grants the holder dominion over Earth, is brought to Townsville.^moreIt is eventually claimed by Mojo Jojo, who uses his new power to end war, hunger, and poverty, establish free electricity for life, and give everyone puppies. then he gets bored and returns to villainy.(The Powerpuff Girls)
• The SGC develops a weapon to combat the Kull warriors. Anubis launches a full-scale attack on Earth. SG-1 locates and activates an Ancient outpost in Antarctica, destroying his fleet. Jack O'Neill is promoted to Brigadier General, takes command of the SGC, and promotes Samantha Carter to Lieutenant Colonel. Ba'al steps into the power vacuum left by Anubis and begins driving back the other System Lords. (Stargate SG-1)
• The SGC sends an expedition through the Stargate to coordinates found in the Ancient outpost. They discover Atlantis, an Ancient city-ship, in the oceans of a planet in the Pegasus Galaxy, and begin battling the vampiric race known as the Wraith. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro are recruited by two mysterious fairies to battle the forces of the Dark Zone. They become the first modern day Pretty Cure. (Futari wa Pretty Cure)
• Wilma "Will" Vandom, Hay Lin, Irma Lair, Cornelia Hale, and Taranee Cook become the new Guardians of the Veil, AKA WITCH. They spend the next two years liberating the planet Meridian from Prince Phobos, aided by rebel leader Caleb, and installing his long-lost sister Elyon Brown, as the true ruler. ^{Justification}When the series starts, they're listed as 13 years old, but when the second season starts, which is immediately after the first season, they're 15 (''W.I.T.C.H.)
• Kitty Kenarben leaves her husband and son. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• The tide is turned against AIDS. (Nuveen Investments Super Bowl ad)
• Professor Fudo's Moment reactor overloads and explodes^more due to the actions of Rutger Goodwin, detaching a chunk of Domino City from the mainland which becomes the satellite. Fudo's final act is to eject his infant son, Yusei, in an escape pod to save his life. ^moreRutger severs his right arm, which bears the Signer Mark of the Crimson Dragon's head, and gives it to Rex, then completely succumbs to the influence of Earthbound Immortal Uru.
• JSDF sent to As Samawah. SUZURAN's second album is released around the same time. (Cell Phone Love Letter)
• Terry McCammon dies of lung cancer. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• [Alternate Timeline] Major General George Hammond seemingly dies of a heart attack. After learning that the Aschen anti-aging vaccine causes infertility in 2010, Dr. Janet Frasier comes to believe that the Aschen murdered him in order to keep their secret. (Stargate SG-1)
• Somewhere in autumn, a crossroads with another dimension accidentally appears in a small Russian town. (The Footfalls of Chess Horses)
• Signs of an apocalyptic prophecy cause light and dark supernaturals to clash after centuries of truce. (Night Watch)
• A year after the end of the Middle Eastern War, Spanish forces stationed in Saudi Arabia are suddenly and brutally devastated by twenty-eight Titano-Machina of unknown affiliation. It soon comes to light that these superweapons were created from the Juno held by the Middle East. The United States forces its allies and neutral nations alike to hand over their own Juno and Titano-Machina, and soon dispatches them into the Middle East, beginning World War III. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• A mere three months into World War III, the death toll exceeds that of 250 million people. Some Asian and South American nations ally with the Middle East, and all-out war reaches every area of the planet. The United States is completely unable to reclaim the Middle East. Human civilization and the Earth's biosphere as a whole has begun rapidly collapsing as a result of all the devastation, and all major powers have been reduced to fighting one another. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• Elle Woods graduates from Harvard Law School. (Legally Blonde)
• Galasso hears that bringing back things from the 1980s makes money, so he brings back Ronald Reagan to work at Shortpacked. Universe-hopping Head Alien, henceforth referred to as Head Alien II, is trapped in Walkyverse Prime.
• Leslie Bean comes out as gay. She divorces her husband and her father cuts off all contact. (Walkyverse

Before 2005

• Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki) wins a card design contest sponsored by KaibaCorp, and his Neo-Spacians are blasted into space. Judai includes his Yubel card with them, as it has been giving him nightmares. (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Estimated birth of Annie Hastur, a child mage prodigy, and Nunu, a Freljordian adventurer.^noteAlthough most characters' ages are ambiguous, Annie and Nunu are still young children by the time of the Noxus vs. Ionia rematch event. See the main page for further justification. (League of Legends)

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