Line #134 Timeline/DCExtendedUniverse


1	'''WARNING: SPOILERS UNMARKED'''!
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3	!!''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''
4	[[foldercontrol]]
5
6	!Ancient History: The Age of Heroes
7
8	[[folder:Unknown]]
9	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuageofheroes.jpg]]
10	[[caption-width-right:350:''"A golden age of heroes fighting together to defend life on Earth."'']]
11	* The Gods of Olympus create mankind and the Amazons. (''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'')
12	* Kryptonians explore the universe and create outposts. (''Film/ManOfSteel'')
13	* The New Gods of Apokolips invade Earth and get repelled by an alliance comprising the Gods of Olympus, the Amazons, mankind, Atlanteans, and a Green Lantern. Three Mother Boxes are left behind and hidden by the Amazons, Atlanteans, and men. (''Film/{{Justice League\|2017}}'' / ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'')
14	* The Kryptonian Scout Ship 0344 crashes on Earth and Kara Zor-El disappears. (''ComicBook/ManOfSteelPrequel'')
15	[[/folder]]
16
17	[[folder:5th millennium BC]]
18
19	[[AC:4358 B.C.:]]
20
21	* Enchantress and her brother Incubus materialize on Earth. Due to their incredible powers, they are worshiped as gods by ancient humans of Pre-Columbian South America, but are ultimately betrayed by their subjects and somehow defeated and sealed away into containers, which are placed in the tomb of Tres Osos Caves in the Amazon rainforest. (''Film/{{Suicide Squad\|2016}}'')
22	[[/folder]]
23
24	[[folder:3rd millennium BC]]
25
26	[[AC:Circa 3000 B.C.:]]
27	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceufallofatlantis.jpg]]
28	[[caption-width-right:350:''"We had unlocked the secret to unlimited energy at a time when the rest of the world still thought the earth was flat. But we became too ambitious, too hungry for power. The ocean swallowed us and Atlantis sank."'']]
29	* Dechalafrea Ero - the God of Lies - creates the Dreamstone and uses it to spread chaos amongst humanity. (''Film/WonderWoman1984'')
30	* Mankind turns on the Amazons. Their champion Asteria volunteers to fight off the entire army by herself to protect her brethren. She's presumed dead. (''Film/WonderWoman1984'')
31	* War of the Gods: Ares, out of hatred of humanity, gets into a conflict with the other Gods of Olympus and kills them all. Before dying, Zeus casts Ares out of Olympus and impregnates Hippolyta with Diana. The Amazons seclude themselves on the Isle of Themyscira and Diana is born. (''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'')
32	* After a time of great prosperity and technological advancement, reckless experiments on the power of the Trident of King Atlan cause Atlantis to sink. Surviving Atlanteans adapt to underwater life and split into several kingdoms. King Atlan disappears with the Trident. (''Film/{{Aquaman\|2018}}'')
33
34	[[AC:2600 B.C.:]]
35	* Kahndaq is turned into a dictatorship by the power-mad King Akh-Ton. He forces the inhabitants to work day and night mining the land for eternium so he can have his magic crown. One of his slaves rebels against him and is sentenced to death, but the slave is spiritied away by the Council of Wizards and bestowed the powers of SHAZAM. (''Film/{{Black Adam\|2022}}'')
36	** King Akh-Ton sent assassins after the Champion's family. Immediately after this, King Akh-Ton's palace was obliterated by lightning and the Seven Deadly Sins were released into the world, causing millions of deaths and wiping out entire civilizations. The Wizards judged their champion to be unfit and sealed him away, but the Champion managed to kill all but one of them. (''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' & ''Film/{{Black Adam\|2022}}'')
37	[[/folder]]
38
39
40	!20th Century
41
42	[[folder:1910s]]
43	[[AC:Early 1910s]]
44	* Kent Nelson is chosen to bear the Helmet of Fate. He envisions the RAF fighter pilots dying in action.
45
46	[[AC:1918:]]
47	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuwwi.jpg]]
48	[[caption-width-right:350:''"It is our sacred duty to defend the world."'']]
49	* Steve Trevor crashes on the Isle of Themyscira and informs the Amazons about the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Great War]]. Diana decides to leave the Isle of Themyscira to go confront Ares where the war rages, and accompanies Steve and his group on a dangerous mission to thwart the plans of German General Ludendorff and his chemist Dr. Maru, aka Dr. Poison, in occupied Belgium.
50	** Their victory at the battle of Veld is short-lived as all its inhabitants are gassed to death.
51	** Diana kills Ludendorff under the presumption that he's Ares in disguise, but the failure to stop the war by killing him shatters her view of the world at first.
52	*** Steve dies upon destroying Ludendorff's weapon of mass destruction to protect the Allies' peace to come.
53	*** Meanwhile, Ares reveals himself to Diana and gets destroyed by her. The November 11 armistice puts an end to World War I. (''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'')
54
55	[[AC:Late 1910s:]]
56
57	* Sometime after the armistice, the late Steve Trevor's group goes on a mission to find a Mother Box. (''Film/{{Wonder Woman\|2017}}'', DeletedScene)
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Interlude]]
61	[[AC:1938:]]
62	* The Daily Planet is founded.
63
64	[[AC:1940s]]
65	* During the latter part of WWII, the Motherbox of Men resurfaces in an Italian monastery.(''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'')
66
67	[[AC: 1969:]]
68	* Silas Stone is born.
69	[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder:1970s]]
72	[[AC:1972:]]
73
74	* Birth of Bruce Wayne on February 19, 1972.
75
76	[[AC:1973:]]
77
78	* Elinore Stone is born
79
80	[[AC:1974:]]
81	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuyoungsivana.jpg]]
82	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Only the purest of hearts can resist their temptations. And you will never be worthy!"'']]
83	* In Christmas time, young Thaddeus Sivana is summoned at the Rock of Eternity by the Wizard Shazam. He fails the test to become champion, and his panic upon being sent back in his father's car causes an accident that cripples his father. (''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'')
84
85	[[AC:1978:]]
86
87	* Birth of Floyd Lawton on December 4, 1978.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:1980s]]
91
92	[[AC:1980:]]
93
94	* Birth of Kal-El on Krypton on February 29, 1980 (Earth time). He is the first natural-born Kryptonian in centuries. (''Film/ManOfSteel'')
95	* Jor-El warns the Kryptonian Law Council about the instability of the core of Krypton. General Dru-Zod of Kandor leads a coup to take over the planet. Jor-El refuses to join Zod's coup, steals the Growth Codex, and imbues Kal-El's cells with it before sending him to Earth in a small ship. Jor-El is killed by Zod, Zod's coup is put down and its perpetrators are condemned to be sent to the Phantom Zone. (''Film/ManOfSteel'')
96	* The instability of Krypton's core causes the planet to explode, causing the death of billions of Kryptonians and Kal-El's mother Lara. The planet's destruction causes Zod and his followers to break free from the Phantom Zone. Kal-El is found on Earth by a couple of farmers, Jonathan and Martha Kent, who adopt him, name him Clark and raise him. (''Film/ManOfSteel'')
97
98	[[AC:1981:]]
99
100	* Thomas and Martha Wayne are mugged and murdered by Joe Chill in Gotham City, leaving Bruce an orphan. (''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'')
101	* Birth of Christopher Smith (''Series/{{Peacemaker\|2022}}'')
102
103	[[AC:1984:]]
104	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceu1984.jpg]]
105	[[caption-width-right:350:''"You must be the hero. Only you can save the day. Renounce your wish if you want to save this world."'']]
106	* Birth of Alexander "Lex" Luthor Jr. after his father Alexander Sr. fled East Germany.
107	* The Dreamstone resurfaces in Washington. Diana meets Barbara Ann Minerva and Maxwell Lord. Steve Trevor's soul possesses a living host.
108	** Maxwell Lord assimilates the power of the Dreamstone and cons as many people as he can into making reckless wishes that come with an expense they didn't agree to. Barabara starts displaying a sudden improvement in physical fitness, along with a more ruthless disposition. Wonder Woman's power begins to fade away.
109	** Wonder Woman is forced to let Steve Trevor die again to regain her powers. She fights Barbara and nearly kills her. Maxwell Lord makes a global broadcast to swindle the entire human race, but Wonder Woman thwarts him.
110	** Diana goes back into hiding. Sometime after, Asteria resurfaces.(''Film/WonderWoman1984'')
111
112	[[AC:1985:]]
113
114	* Queen Atlanna flees Atlantis. She is found by lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry and the two fall in love. (''Film/{{Aquaman\|2018}}'')
115
116	[[AC:1986:]]
117
118	* Birth of Arthur Curry on January 29, 1986. (''Film/{{Aquaman\|2018}}'')
119
120	[[AC:Late 1980s:]]
121
122	* Queen Atlanna is forced to go in exile after an attack by Atlantean soldiers, leaving Thomas Curry to raise Arthur by himself. (''Film/{{Aquaman\|2018}}'')
123	* Birth of Orm and Mera.
124	* Christopher Smith accidentally kills his older brother (''Series/{{Peacemaker\|2022}}'')
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:1990s]]
128
129	[[AC:1990:]]
130
131	* Birth of Harleen Francis Quinzel on July 20, 1990.
132
133	[[AC:1992:]]
134
135	* Birth of Bartholomew Henry "Barry" Allen on September 30, 1992
136	* Around this time, Vulko, Chancellor of Atlantis, begins training Arthur Curry, true heir to the throne in his Atlantean powers and skills so as to prepare him for his destiny as a warrior king.
137
138	[[AC:1994:]]
139
140	* Birth of Victor Stone on June 29, 1994.
141
142	[[AC:Circa 1995:]]
143
144	* Bruce Wayne starts fighting crime as Batman.
145	* Around this time, The Bertinelli family is mostly killed in a hit to steal the Bertinelli diamond. Only one daughter, Helena, survives thanks to the mercy of a hitman who takes her to an Italian mob villa, where she trains to avenge her family.
146	* Intergang occupies Kahndaq and mines the country for eternium.
147
148	[[AC:1997:]]
149	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceujohnathankentsdeath.jpg]]
150	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I let my father die because I trusted him. Because he was convinced that I had to wait. That the world was not ready. What do you think?"'']]
151	* Jonathan Kent is killed by a tornado on April 19, 1997. (''Film/ManOfSteel'')
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	!21st Century: The Age of Superheroes
155	[[folder: Before the battle of Metropolis]]
156	* Barry Allen's mother Nora is found murdered. His father Henry is wrongfully accused of killing her and convicted to life in prison, leaving Barry to be raised by a foster family. Barry is insistent that his father is innocent and is determined to bring his mother's true killer to justice.
157	* Batman begins fighting a long list of rogues.
158	** Batman apprehends the famed assassin Deadshot in front of his daughter, locking him up in Belle Reve Penitentiary.
159	** Gotham gang lords begin rising to power, including the sinister Black Mask, and the Clown Prince of Crime known as the Joker.
160	** Killer Croc, a large man with avarianism and super strength is locked up at Belle Reve.
161	* The original Black Canary, who worked with Gotham PD on occasion, meets an untimely death. Feeling betrayed, her daughter Dinah joins up with Black Mask for protection.
162	* El Diablo accidentally kills his girlfriend with his fire powers and turns himself in.
163	* Helena Bertinelli begins her crusade to kill every person who killed her family. While known as "The Crossbow Killer", she styles herself as "The Huntress."
164	* Birth of Maxine Hunkel/Cyclone
165	* In the late 2000's, a man with a heroin addiction lives on the streets of Paris with his daughter. He creates a device to control rats as a way to steal means for his habbits. Unfortunately, eventually he overdoses, leaving his daughter to run to America to start a new life.
166	* Amon Tomaz is born. Sometime afterwards his father was killed by Intergang agents.
167	[[/folder]]
168
169	[[folder: The rise of Superman]]
170	[[AC: 2000's]]
171	* Clark, having reached maturity, decides to travel the world, figuring out who he is. During this time he performs several grand feats or ridiculous stories, whether it's saving an oil rig crew or destroying a logger's truck.
172
173	[[AC:2013]]
174	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceusuperman.jpg]]
175	[[caption-width-right:350:''"You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world."'']]
176	* After a long journey, Clark finds a downed Kryptonian ship and meets a virtual ghost copy of his father Jor-El. He learns of his true origins as a Kryptonian and is given a new suit as part of his new mission to help inspire mankind.
177	* General Zod and his crew arrive on Earth after Clark's activation of the scout ship sent a signal that reached theirs. They send out a message demanding Kal-El turns himself over to them.
178	* Clark meanwhile has some trouble with the American military in earning their trust, but ultimately gets enough members to trust him in assisting him in stopping the Kryptonians' terraforming machines.
179	* While scientist Emil Hamilton sacrifices his life to destroy one machine, Kal-El destroys the other. Then, Clark has a final showdown with Zod, and after a long and destructive struggle, breaks his neck to stop Zod's rampage.
180	** In the carnage of this battle, Bruce Wayne develops a crippling paranoia of this alien who wrecked parts of Metropolis.
181	** For Clark though, having done this deed is highly traumatic, and he swears to never take another life if possible.
182	* After recovering from the battle, Clark decides to move into Metropolis to better work as a reporter. Lois Lane, after her long trip following him, recognizes the man behind the glasses but keeps her mouth shut so as to allow Clark Kent some peace in his new status quo.
183
184	[[AC:2014]]
185	* On one of the Joker's temporary lockups at Arkham Asylum, he seduces Harleen Quinzel into letting him out of Arkham, followed by goading her to jump into a vat in Ace Chemicals to "prove herself" to him.(''Film/{{Suicide Squad\|2016}}'')
186	** Joker originally planned to abandon Harleen to her death, but has a change of heart in seeing her absolute devotion to him and saves her life, though she gains his trademark bleached skin as a result of the chemicals. Following this, Harleen becomes Harley Quinn, Joker's NumberTwo and girlfriend.
187	** But, like all criminals in Gotham, Batman crashes Joker's car on a chase, and locks Harleen up in Belle Reve.
188	[[/folder]]
189
190	[[folder: Mistrust, the showdown, the fall]]
191	[[AC:2015:]]
192	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceubatmanvssuperman.jpg]]
193	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you're here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all. They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to."'']]
194	* Victor Stone and his mother Elinore are caught up in a car crash that kills Elinore and badly disfigures Victor. Victor's father, Silas, in a desperate attempt to save his only son from death, uses the Motherbox in his workplace STAR Labs to reconstruct Victor's body, turning him into the Cyborg. Their already strained relationship is further complicated by Victor's increased resentment at his new body.
195	* An incident gives Barry his abilities of super speed. Inspired by Superman, he stops crimes in Central City with a homemade costume.
196	* Following the battle of Metropolis, Superman begins global work helping others. Whether it's saving astronauts in faulty spaceships or just rescuing people from a flood, he becomes a buzz topic for the whole world.
197	** However, despite his selfless acts, the world is still divided on his intentions, regarding someone with such power with suspicion or hatred.
198	*** Among those who take this view are Bruce Wayne (for paranoid, experiential reasons), and Lex Luthor (for personal, spiteful reasons).
199	* Lex Luthor begins a multi-part manipulation of Batman and Superman, trying to push the two into conflict. He uses knowledge of their secret identities, misdirection thanks to both their suspicions, and a lot of spending and framing in order to push them to their brink.
200	* Bruce Wayne acquires information from Lex Luthor's database regarding metahumans. He also forms a shaky alliance with Diana Prince. Before Bruce can decode Luthor's files, he has a vision of a dystopian future where Superman has become a villain. Bruce is also visited by a future Barry Allen who tells him that Lois Lane is "the key" and that he needs to be ready.
201	* Lex kidnaps Martha, and using this leverage, tries to get Batman and Superman to kill each other.
202	** However, Clark has come to see that Batman is not his enemy, and tries to reach Bruce about their need to unite. Bruce doesn't listen at first, but with a cry of humanity in asking Batman to save his mom, Bruce is pulled back from the brink, and thus begins the first team-up of the world's finest.
203	* Bruce rescues Martha Kent.
204	* Superman confronts Lex Luthor, but he activates his last case scenario, unleashing a monster he calls Doomsday by using his blood and Zod's corpse in a Kryptonian Genesis Chamber to create a monster with the sole purpose of killing all the heroes.
205	** Though Wonder Woman decides to come out of retirement to help in the fight, in the end, Superman decides to make a move himself to save the Earth, save the city, and save Lois by using Batman's Kryptonite spear to kill Doomsday, but he does this at the cost of his own life. The three Motherboxes are alerted that the last of the Kryptonians has died.
206	* Superman is given two funerals - a public one in Metropolis, and a small private one in Smallville for Clark.
207	** Sobered and saddened by his foolish vendetta, Bruce resolves to find and recruit the other metahumans, because without Superman, they will need all the help they can get, especially when Luthor (who's now imprisoned in Arkham Asylum) raves that a threat from beyond the stars is coming to Earth.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder: The Suicide Squad is Gathered]]
211	[[AC: 2016]]
212	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceusquadgathers.jpg]]
213	[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm gonna get you there. And you're gonna end this. I'm gonna carry your ass if I have to. 'Cause this shit is gonna be like a chapter in the Bible. Everybody's gonna know what we did."'']]
214	* After the battle with Doomsday, the US government begins thinking about the potential dangers of superhuman beings. Into this void, Amanda Waller steps up with a proposition: Task Force X (a.k.a. the "Suicide Squad"). In short, it's a task force of supercriminals, who are used as expendable agents for dangerous secret missions.
215	** For their first mission, they gather criminals Deadshot, Killer Croc, Digger Harkness/Captain Boomerang, Chato Santana/El Diablo, Slipknot, and one Harley Quinn. Captain Rick Flag, the Japanese mercenary Katana, and Flag's own task force accompany them.
216	** Slipknot is killed when trying to escape.
217	* Said first mission consists in stopping the demons Enchantress and Incubus, who have returned to the physical world thanks to the recklessness of Amanda Waller. Enchantress finds a human host in archeologist June Moone.
218	* Enchantress and Incubus are defeated and killed by the Suicide Squad, and El Diablo seemingly dies.
219	* The remaining Suicide Squad criminals are put back in their prison cells. The Joker breaks Harley Quinn out.
220	[[/folder]]
221
222	[[folder: The second invasion of Apokolips and the New Age of Heroes]]
223	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceujusticeleaguevictorious.jpg]]
224	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Take your place among the brave ones."'']]
225	* A New God from Apokolips, Steppenwolf, teleports on Earth with a small army of Parademons, and starts looking for the three Mother Boxes that were lost in battle there thousands of years prior. The Atlanteans and Amazons put up a valiant fight but are unable to stop him.
226	* Bruce Wayne/Batman investigates the presence of Parademons in Gotham. He puts his plan to gather a team of metahumans in motion. With the help of Diana/Wonder Woman, he recruits Barry Allen/Flash, and they are soon joined by Arthur Curry/Aquaman and Victor Stone/Cyborg. The Justice League is born.
227	* After a struggle with Steppenwolf, the League decides to resurrect Superman using the last Motherbox. The attempt is successful, though Superman isn't quite himself at first. Fortunately, Lois arrives and is able to calm him down before he kills someone.
228	* Silas Stone sacrifices himself to heat up the Motherbox so the league can track it. His assistant Ryan Choi is promoted to head of STAR Labs.
229	* The Justice League launches their assault on Steppenwolf's base. After a tough struggle, the League prevails and defeats Steppenwolf with Superman's help.
230	** Steppenwolf gets teleported back to Apokolips. (Dead or alive)
231	* Bruce Wayne turns the ruins of Wayne Manor into a headquarters for the Justice League.
232	* Lex Luthor escapes Arkham Asylum and forms an alliance with Deathstroke.
233	* The Martian Manhunter introduces himself to Bruce Wayne and allies himself to the Justice League.
234	[[/folder]]
235
236	[[folder: The true king of Atlantis reclaims his birthright]]
237	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuaquamanandmera.jpg]]
238	[[caption-width-right:350:''"You are the bridge between land and sea. I can see that now. The question is, can you?"'']]
239	* Responding to a distress call from a Russian submarine, Aquaman helps defend it from seaborn pirates, led by Jesse Kane and his son David. During the fight, Jesse is pinned in a sinking portion of the submarine, and Arthur refuses to give mercy due to their evil ways.
240	** Forcing his son to flee, Jesse blows himself up, and David vows revenge.
241	* Orm of Atlantis begins his political campaign to become Ocean Master of the 7 seas by uniting a majority of the Atlantean tribes. For those purposes, he stages a FalseFlagOperation to convince King Nerus of Xebel to be the first to join the alliance with the help of David Kane.
242	* Despite her own reservations about humanity, Princess Mera of Xebel follows the wishes of the former queen Atlanna and so goes to Aquaman, asking for his help to stop Orm's plans. While resistant at first, Arthur then almost loses his father due to Orm unleashing a tidal wave as a first warning to the surface world. Mera saves Thomas, and in gratitude, Arthur agrees to go fight, but not become a king.
243	** Meeting his old mentor Vulko, Arthur is given a path forward to stop Orm: find the legendary Trident of Atlan to establish the divine and historical right to the throne.
244	*** Unfortunately, they're then captured and using some political theater, Orm tries to make his case to attack the surface while trying to discredit Arthur's claim to the throne. Undeterred, Arthur invokes trial by combat to try and stop Orm immediately.
245	*** Unfortunately, Orm is a much better fighter underwater and solidifies his claim to the throne. Realizing there's no going back from this, Mera commits treason to the alliance to rescue Arthur and properly begin their quest for Atlan's trident for a divine right to Atlantis's throne.
246	* Orm sends David Kane after Arthur, with the intent to kill both escapees. To better help, Kane is given Atlantian weapons and armor. To better adjust it to his own abilities, David modifies the gear into a new PoweredArmor.
247	* Traveling to the Sahara and then to Italy, Arthur and Mera talk through their differences, particularly in regards to the surface. In the process, they get their heading to where to properly find Atlan's trident.
248	* Orm's next move is a coup against the Fisherman kingdom, where he kills their king and forces the princess into his army.
249	* David Kane, along with Orm's troops, catches up with Arthur and Mera. In the pitched battle that follows, David declares himself Black Manta and nearly kills Arthur. Fortunately, the two drive them all off, then head to the trench to finish their mission.
250	** Arriving, they discover that Queen Atlanna was not dead from her exile, but trapped underwater, unable to get the trident.
251	* Arthur dives down to face the guardian Karathan, and while physically outmatched, he uses his ability to talk to fish as a way to ask for permission to gain the trident. Impressed for actually being heard, the great beast grants him a chance. Taking the trident and Atlan's old armor, Arthur rides the Karathan with Atlanna and Mera following behind back to the rest of the underwater to stop Orm.
252	* Leading his three kingdom coalition, Orm invades the Brine Kingdom, the last kingdom needed to begin his invasion of the surface. Getting the Brine king at his mercy, Orm "officially" declares himself the Ocean Master.
253	** Unfortunately for him, Aquaman arrives just in time to help, using the trident's power to turn their sea life against them, driving the invasion off, and engaging with the Ocean Master one more time.
254	*** Leading Orm to a vehicle on the surface, Arthur defeats his half-brother, but spares his life, with him and Atlanna having pity on Orm, and wanting to give him a second chance later on.
255	* Atlanna finally reunites with her human husband.
256	* Aquaman begins his rule as the one true king of Atlantis. A hero for all the earth.
257	[[/folder]]
258
259	[[folder: A new champion is granted the powers of SHAZAM]]
260	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceushazamteam.jpg]]
261	[[caption-width-right:350:''"All we can do is give him a place full of love. Whether he chooses to call it a home, that's up to him."'']]
262	* Billy Batson, a young teenager, is placed in a new foster group home, the Vasquezes, after years of running around looking for his birth mother.
263	* Thaddeus Sivanna, having worked to become a historical/medical doctor, eventually finds a way to return to the Rock of Eternity, and immediately frees the Seven Deadly Sins, who make him their champion. Sivana then kills his father, his brother, and the whole board of Sivana Industries using his new demonic friends.
264	* To stop Sivana and the Seven Deadly Sins, the Wizard Shazam has no other choice but to grant the powers of SHAZAM to Billy Batson and dies as a result.
265	* Billy begins mastering his powers, in part out of necessity due to Sivanna coming after him on the Sins' influence.
266	* Identifying Billy as "the hero", his foster siblings help point Billy to where his biological mom is. However, on reuniting, Billy is profoundly disappointed at finding out his mother isn't interested in raising him. He resolves to properly be a good brother to the family who truly accepted him.
267	* Tricking the sin Envy to attack and depower Sivana, Billy then has the Seven Deadly Sins imprisoned once again thanks to Billy/Shazam sharing his powers with his new foster siblings. Together, they claim the Rock of Eternity as their base.
268	* Mr. Mind escapes his jar at the Rock of Eternity and proposes an alliance to a jailed Sivana.
269	[[/folder]]
270
271	[[folder: The fantabulous emancipation of the Birds of Prey!]]
272	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuharleyandthebirdsofprey.jpg]]
273	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Call me a softy. I dare you!"'']]
274	* Harley Quinn and the Joker break up, and Harley blows up the Ace Chemicals facility as personal therapy. She gets entangled with several other women (pickpocket Cassandra Cain, nightclub singer Dinah Lance, GCPD detective Renee Montoya, and vengeful crime family heiress Helena Bertinelli) all because of a hidden fortune and a diamond as the key to it.
275	* They find themselves teaming up to confront crime lord Roman Sionis a.k.a. Black Mask.
276	* Black Mask meets his demise and the vigilante team Birds of Prey is formed on the backs of the newly reclaimed Bertinelli fortune. It includes Dinah Lance/Black Canary, Renee Montoya, and Helena Bertinelli/Huntress.
277	* Harley meanwhile takes on Cassandra as a criminal in training.
278	[[/folder]]
279
280	[[folder: The New Suicide Squad]]
281	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceuthenewsquad.jpg]]
282	[[caption-width-right:350:''"If they have purpose, so do we all."'']]
283	[[AC:Coming to Belle Reve]]
284	* Bloodsport acquires a kryptonite bullet and manages to incapacitate Superman. He's promptly arrested and held in Belle Reve.
285	* The 2nd Ratcatcher is arrested for "assault with a deadly weapon", as the rats were apparently counted as deadly weapon.
286	* The Polka Dot Man is arrested and locked up with a power dampening collar as a way to ensure his virus is kept under control.
287	* Harley Quinn is arrested AGAIN for "Road Rage".
288	[[AC: Mission on Corto Maltese]]
289	* A "decoy" team is formed. It consists of Savant, Javelin, Mongal, TDK, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flagg, Weasel and Harley. The team is killed on their first mission, with Flagg being rescued by the resistance and Harley being offered to President Silvio Luna.
290	* The team of Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Ratcatcher 2, King Shark and Polka-Dot Man are deployed to capture the Thinker. They team up with Flagg and the resistance.
291	* Harley Quinn kills Silvio Luna. His general Mateo Suarez takes over.
292	* The Squad apprehend the Thinker and meet up with Harley. They infiltrate Jotunheim and encounter Starro the Conqueror. Rick Flagg uncovers shady details regarding the US government's experiments on alien life forms and swears to release the truth. Peacemaker kills him, leading to a showdown with Bloodsport.
293	* Starro breaks free, killing the Thinker and assimilating a sizable number of the Corto Maltese populace. The Squad successfully kill it, but Polka-Dot Man is killed in action.
294	[[/folder]]
295
296	[[folder:Project Butterfly]]
297	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peacemaker_1640893272146.png]]
298	[[caption-width-right:350:''Do ya really wanna, do ya really wanna taste it?'']]
299	* Peacemaker is found alive in the wreckage of Jotunheim and sent to hospital. When he recovers, he's drafted into a covert mission in his hometown of Evergreen, Washington.
300	* Peacemaker, alongside his partner Vigilante and a team of Waller's choosing encounter numerous butterfly-shaped aliens possessing human hosts.
301	* Peacemaker kills his father Auggie Smith/White Dragon.
302	* The team track down the Butterflies' source of sustenance and exterminate their entire organization. The Justice League arrive too late.
303	[[/folder]]
304
305	[[folder:Legends Return]]
306	* A professional thief known as "The Gent" gets himself killed trying to rob a museum. He makes a pact with demonic forces to come back as a ghost and torment Hawkman, but is vanquished and dragged to Hell.
307	* Maxine deals with a corrupt detective that profits from a drug ring.
308	* Albert Rothstein intercepts a crime ring.
309	* A group of youths discover the hiding place of a long-dead witch. They summon a demon who posseses one of them, but are saved by Doctor Fate.
310	* Kahndaqi professor Adrianna Tomaz runs afoul of the terrorist group Intergang. She's forced to go into hiding with her brother and son as they track down Intergang's main ambition: the crown of SABBAC.
311	[[/folder]]
312
313	[[folder:The Liberation of Kahndaq]]
314	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_adam_trailer_074.jpg]]
315	[[caption-width-right:350:"''Tell them the man in black sent you."'']]
316	* Adrianna uncovers a sacred tomb. She's ambushed by Intergang, but manages to summon the Champion Teth-Adam, who massacres the entire Intergang platoon before passing out from an eternium-based injury. Adrianna takes him to her home, along with the crown of SABBAC.
317	* The Justice Society arrive in Kahndaq to apprehend Teth-Adam. A fight breaks out, but Teth-Adam overpowers all four of them.
318	* A Kahndaqi double-agent named Ishmael kidnaps Adrianna's son Amon and demands the crown in exchance for his life. Once Adrianna hands it over, Ishmael reneges on his end of the bargain and shoots Amon, who is only saved thanks to Teth-Adam's intervention. Teth-Adam kills Ishmael right when the latter dons the crown, but Amon in injured in the crossfire. Out of guilt, Teth-Adam agrees to surrender to the Justice Society and is placed in stasis.
319	* Ishmael is damned to Hell, but the demons he encounters bestow him with their powers so that he may be their own Champion. Resurrected as SABBAC, he fights the Justice Society and raies an army of zombies to subjugate Kahndaq.
320	* With the Justice Society unable to stop SABBAC, Doctor Fate releases Teth-Adam from stasis before he's killed. Teth-Adam escapes the compound and returns to Kahndaq, where he kills SABBAC. With Kahndaq under his protection and now assumging the name Black Adam, the Champion is given warning from Amanda Waller and Superman to behave himself.
321	[[/folder]]
322
323	[[folder: Crime Rise in Central City]]
324	* Barry Allen's double-life gets more complicated with the arrival of superpowered criminals.
325	** A man with metal skin is tough enough to handle the Flash's fisticuffs and damage his suit. The Flash then consults Batman on new fighting tehcniques as well as gaining a new suit.
326	** A mob enforcer with molten flesh tries to become Central City's kingpin. The Flash defeats him after finding a way to vibrate his molecules so that he can repel any damage he takes.
327	** A mad scientist enhances himself and creates weapons of mass destruction to sell on the black market. He tries to turn the public against the Flash, but is thwarted.
328	[[/folder]]
329
330	! Potential Future
331	[[folder: The Knightmare]]
332	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dceujusticeleagueknightmare.jpg]]
333	[[caption-width-right:350:''"The future has taken root in the present."'']]
334	* Darkseid invades Earth once again and successfully obtains the Anti-Life Equation.
335	* Both Themyscira and Atlantis are conquered, with Wonder Woman and Aquaman killed in action.
336	* Lois Lane hides in the Batcave, but is tracked down by Darkseid and killed. Superman finds her remains and grieves for her. Darkseid then takes advantage of the kryptonian's fragile state of mind and uses Anti-Life to enslave him.
337	* Harley Quinn is killed. She begs Batman to make the Joker suffer.
338	* Batman, the Flash and Cyborg team up with Mera, Deathstroke and the Joker as part of a resistance. By this point Gotham City and the Wayne estate are completely decimated and Superman is on the hunt for insurgents.
339	* The remnants of the Justice League fight Superman. Batman and the Flash are the only ones confirmed to have survived.
340	* Batman retreats to his new hideout after being informed that one of his informants has acquired kryptonite. The informant is actually a mole who has Batman captured while his remaining allies are executed. Superman personally finishes Batman.
341	* At some point, Kilowog intervenes, only to be killed.
342	* The Flash goes back in time to warn Bruce Wayne.
343	[[/folder]]

Context Timeline / DCExtendedUniverse