Shadows of the Future Timeline
This is a timeline worked up for two purposes:
- To demonstrate the scale of time I apply to canon events
in my stories. It is three real life years to one in-comics year. The
39 years from 1961 to 1999 span 13 years of in-comics continuity, as
far as my stories are concerned. I have included references to some of
the major events each year, to help get a clearer image of when to
place everything. This part of the timeline can be a helpful reference
even to people who don't care one whit about my fiction. It should be
pointed out that Marvel's official word waffles between 7-10 years
having passed in the Marvel Universe, rather than the figure 13 years
which I use.
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- From year 14 onwards (and in fact, there's a few changes
in year 13 already) you get to see the timeline of my fiction. It can
help clarify for you where to mentally put stories you have read, or
in which order to read stories. Additionally, the non-canon parts of
the timeline can serve as tidbits and teasers to whet your appetite
about what I have planned. I have censored out a good amount of names
from the tidbits to keep up an amount of suspense that I feel is
necessary. But there are story names out there, teams forming and
metamorphosing, people coming and going, and I hope that you might get
some kind of a buzz and even a fraction of the level of excitement I
get while planning this stuff. I welcome questions and comments about
the timeline, but don't expect me to reveal any major secrets, because
if I wanted to, I wouldn't censor the important stuff. :)
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Most of you will probably want to go straight to the tidbits & teasers.
Color Coding
- Yellow text is what happened in canon.
- White text is what happened or will happen in my stories.
YEAR 1
- Fantastic Four take a rocket flight, gain powers
- Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man
YEAR 2
- Avengers band together to fight Loki
- X-Men first fight Magneto at Cape Canaveral, become public
- Magneto forms Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I
- Hulk leaves Avengers, replaced by Captain America
- Avengers becomes 'Cap's Kooky Quartet' as others quit, Captain America is joined by
Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver
YEAR 3
- Franklin Richards born
- Ultron debuts, Vision created
- Henry Pym becomes Yellowjacket, marries the Wasp
- Professor X briefly thought dead as Changeling dies in Xavier's guise
- Mar-Vell of the Kree comes to Earth, becomes Captain Marvel
YEAR 4
- Avengers fight in the Kree/Skrull War
- Captain George Stacy dies saving a child from Doctor Octopus
- Gwendolyn Stacy killed by the Green Goblin
YEAR 5
- All-New, All-Different X-Men gathered shortly before end of year
- During Christmas Steven Lang launches Project Armageddon, sending Sentinels
after the X-Men
- Phoenix debuts in Jean Grey's form
YEAR 6
- X-Men thought dead in battle against Magneto by Professor X, Phoenix and Beast
- Avengers battle the nigh omnipotent Michael Korvac and die
YEAR 7
- Henry Peter Gyrich debuts as government limits Avengers membership
- Avengers battle Marcus Immortus, Carol Danvers leaves team
- Phoenix becomes Dark Phoenix, dies on the moon
- Kitty Pryde joins X-Men
- Mystique forms Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II, attempts to assassinate Robert Kelly
- Illyana Rasputin grows from 7 to 14 while in Limbo
- X-Men battle the Brood in space
- Carol Danvers becomes Binary
- Henry Pym has a mental breakdown, is divorced by the Wasp, charged with treason, expelled from Avengers
YEAR 8
- New Mutants gathered by Professor X while X-Men are in space
- Bullseye kills Elektra with her own sai
- Obadiah Stane drives Tony Stark to becoming a derelict, takes over Stark International
- James Rhodes replaces Tony Stark as Iron Man
- Wolverine battles Shingen Yashida
- Storm becomes leader of Morlocks
- Rogue joins the X-Men
- Scott Summers meets and marries Madelyne Pryor
- Fantastic Four, Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, others fight in the Secret Wars
- She-Hulk replaces the Thing in Fantastic Four
- Spider-Man gains alien costume
- West Coast Avengers formed
- Kitty Pryde trained by Ogun, becomes Shadowcat
- Guardian dies. For the first time.
- Asgard and Earth's heroes fight a war against Surtur and the fiery hordes of Muspelheim
- Nathan Charles Christopher Summers born
- Tony Stark becomes Iron Man again in red and silver armor, defeats Obadiah Stane
- Alpha Flight, X-Men, New Mutants battle Loki, Enchantress
- Terminus arrives on Earth, defeated by the Fantastic Four
- Vision attempts to take over the Earth
- Magneto goes on trial
YEAR 9
- Terminus destroys the Savage Land before being defeated and left to die by Hercules
- Beyonder visits Earth, threatening all of existence
- Gargoyle, Valkyrie, Andromeda, others seemingly die, ending the Defenders
- Jean Grey discovered alive in a cocoon at bottom of Jamaica Bay by Avengers
- X-Factor formed
- Kingpin discovers Daredevil's secret identity, tears Matt Murdock's life apart
- Marauders slaughter the Morlocks living underneath New York
- Masters of Evil led by Baron Zemo demolish Avengers, seize Avengers Mansion
- Snowbird, her husband and child all die in battle with Pestilence
- Walter Langkowski, Sasquatch, becomes Wanda Langkowski
- Steve Rogers discharged by the Commission, Captain America identity bestowed upon John Walker
- Apocalypse debuts, Angel becomes Death, Four Horsemen wreak havoc on New York
- X-Men die in Dallas fighting the Adversary
- Douglas Ramsey is shot saving Rahne Sinclair's life
- Peter Parker marries Mary Jane Watson
- Resurrected X-Men seize town from Reavers in Australian outback, make base there
YEAR 10
- Iron Man hunts down stealers of his technology in the Armor Wars
- In wake of the X-Men's seeming death, Excalibur is formed in England
- Savage Land restored back to life by the X-Men, High Evolutionary and Garokk, the Petrified Man
- S'ym and N'astirh open a portal from Limbo to New York, unleashing an Inferno on Manhattan
- Illyana Rasputin goes missing, is replaced by a younger alternate timeline counterpart
- Mr Sinister blows up Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, is seemingly killed by Cyclops
- X-Factor save an alien planet from the Celestials in the Judgement War
- New Mutants battle Hela to save Mirage and the Valkyries from possession
- Excalibur roam thru timelines on a Cross-Time Caper
- X-Men come apart and are forced to flee thru Siege Perilous by the Reavers
- Forge and Banshee search for the missing X-Men
- Psylocke gains the body of the assassin Kwannon
- Loki bands together Earth's villains for Acts of Vengeance against heroes
- Spider-Man gains cosmic Captain Universe powers
- Cable takes the New Mutants under his wing
- New Warriors formed
- Genoshans, led by Cameron Hodge, war against X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants
- Warlock disintegrated
- Freedom Force destroyed on a mission in Iraq
- Hulk becomes a merged, more stable personality and joins the Pantheon
- Thanos threatens the universe with the Infinity Gauntlet
YEAR 11
- Infinity Gems distributed to Warlock and the Infinity Watch
- The Shi'ar conquer the Kree empire in Operation: Galactic Storm
- Namor McKenzie forms Oracle, Inc.
- Daniel Ketch becomes Ghost Rider, the Spirit of Vengeance
- X-Factor I merges with the X-Men which in turn splits in Blue and Gold teams
- X-Factor II formed by the US government
- New Mutants become X-Force
- Toad forms Brotherhood of Evil Mutants III
- X-Men, X-Factor, Alpha Flight, Avengers, Fantastic Four and more fight the Infinity War
- Stryfe attempts to kill Professor X, kidnaps Cyclops and Marvel Girl, appears to die on the moon with Cable
- Magneto EMPs the world, tears out Wolverine's adamantium, is mindwiped by Professor X
- Avengers and X-Men battle Exodus and Fabian Cortez in the midst of the Genoshan civil war
- West Coast Avengers disbanded
- Reignfire founds Mutant Liberation Front II
- X-Factor foils Haven's plan to destroy the world but loses the Multiple Man
- Alpha Flight disbanded
YEAR 12
- X-Force and New Warriors team up to put an end to the Upstarts' Younghunt
- James Rhodes as War Machine helps rebels win civil war in Imaya
- Force Works founded
- The Mandarin's plan to revert China to the bronze age is foiled by Force Works
- The Avengers fight their final battle against Proctor and the Gatherers
- The X-teams battle against the Phalanx Covenant
- Generation X formed by Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy
- Legion goes back in time, bringing about the Age of Apocalypse
- Avengers and Force Works join forces to battle Kang in the Crossing
- Iron Man is replaced by a younger counterpart of himself from an alternate timeline
- Thor is stripped of his power and made mortal
- Captain America is stripped of citizenship and made into a Man Without A Country
- Ben Reilly takes over the mantle of Spider-Man
- New Warriors defeat Volx, the Dire Wraith queen
- Professor X becomes Onslaught
- Fantastic Four, Avengers and many others seem to perish in battle against Onslaught
YEAR 13
- May Parker born and remains with parents Peter and Mary Jane
- Iron Fist and Jim Hammond gather the Heroes For Hire
- Canadian government reforms Alpha Flight
- Baron Zemo forms the Thunderbolts
- Mutants on the run from Operation: Zero Tolerance
- Xi'an Coy Manh enters med school
- The thought-dead Heroes Return
- Baron Zemo takes over the world, Thunderbolts betray him
- Thunderbolts on the run, taken under Hawkeye's wing
- Oracle, Inc. taken over by Stark-Fujikawa, Heroes For Hire disbanded
- Original X-Men plus others found X-Factor, Inc.
- Magneto granted sovereignty over the nation of Genosha
- Ultron wipes out the nation of Slorenia
YEAR 14
- Sunspot is recruited by the Brazilian government to [CENSORED]
- Champions II formed
- Polaris obtains doctorate in archaeology, moves to Arizona, becomes involved with [CENSORED]
- HONEY, I'M HOME
- Synch graduates from Generation X, becomes a member of [CENSORED]
YEAR 15
- X-Force become Agents of SHIELD
- TEACHER BASHING
- [CENSORED] becomes a member of X-Force
- Nate Grey dies
- WARPATH: LAST WAR
- Marauders destroy the Massachusetts Academy
- Psylocke quits X-Factor, Inc.
- Fallen Angels II formed (TALES OF THE FALLEN ANGELS)
- RIGHTS AND WRONGS
- X-Force takes up residence on Magneto's Island.
- FIRST AND TEN
YEAR 16
- Colossus goes back home to Russia (ONE BULLET)
- APOCALYPSO
- EXCALIBUR: THE SWORD IS HONED
- [CENSORED] becomes X-Force's leader
- Jesse Bedlam returns to X-Force
- EXTERNAL WARS ALPHA
- PAYBACK TIME
- Chinese civil war begins
- [CENSORED] becomes leader of Mutant Liberation Front III
- WHO DARES WINS
YEAR 17
- EXTERNAL WARS OMEGA
- BLACK WEDDING
- New Mutants II formed
- [CENSORED] is elected for [CENSORED]
- Grace Kelly Frost born
YEAR 19
- X-Force and Fallen Angels merge, take up residence in Limbo
YEAR 37
- The Sentinels take over North America in Days of the Future Past
YEAR 46
- New Mutants Bratpack form at Arbitrator Academy, led by Michael Worthington
YEAR 47
- Members of New Mutants I travel ahead in time to this year and witness Roberto and Amara as genetic supremacists