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Lucy Bauer and her husband, Joseph Bauer find the Darkhold in the basement of the home's former owner and open it. When Lucy touches it, she discovers that she can read the text in English while Joseph can read it in German.[6]
Phil Coulson tries to convince Nick Fury that Project T.A.H.I.T.I. must be shut down because of horrific side effects the drugs have on test subjects, which can only be mitigated by erasing the victim's memory. Despite his concerns, Project T.A.H.I.T.I. was not shut down.[8]
Ambush at the Red Square Hotel: After she returns to a hotel, Romanoff is attacked by a team of masked mercenaries, but she defeats them and receives a SIM card to reach the mysterious woman she saw in the night club.[16][17]
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Later, in the very early hours of the morning, Black Widow talks to the woman named Sofia, and learns that she is a "fan" and wants to take over the name "Black Widow". Romanoff agrees to meet with Sofia and breaks all her contacts with S.H.I.E.L.D.[16][17]
Shades is arrested and sent to Seagate Penitentiary, the beginning of a three-year sentence. While in prison, he develops a sexual relationship with Comanche, which would lead to the development of romantic feelings which Shades would later repress.[19][20]
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Nick Fury sends Gravik on his first mission to kill a man. Gravik, wanting to impress Fury, does his best on the mission and successfully kills him. However, Gravik is shaken by the realization that his victim, albeit misguided, had a family. Gravik decides to use the target's face as the form he typically disguises himself with.[21][22]
Eli Morrow is contacted by Bauer who shows him, Hugo, Vincent and Frederick her invention. Tempted by the power and knowledge of the book, Eli Morrow asks Joseph to give him the book claiming that the book will kill them all.[30]
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For the Love of the Game is released by Natural Child, including the song "Ain't Gonna Stop".[3][33]
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A few days later, tired of him, Joseph hires and orders the Fifth Street Locos to kill Morrow.[30]
The car flips and sends Reyes flying through the air, as he prays to anyone to keep his brother safe. Reyes is killed on impacting the ground and Gabe loses control of his legs. However, Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider, contacts Robbie's soul and asks if he wants Gabe to live, in which Reyes responds yes. Soon after, Blaze pulls Gabe to safety and revives Reyes by transforming him into the next Ghost Rider.[30]
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The next day, Eli Morrow beats Joseph into a coma but also he questions him on where the Darkhold is. When Hugo, Frederick and Vincent show up Morrow uses the Quantum Particle Generator to transform them into spiritual entities and contains every one of them on different boxes.[30]
Realizing Loki is alive, Frigga tries to mentally communicate with him while he is in the Sanctuary. He refuses to respond to her, but she tells Thor and Odin he is still alive.[37][38]
Loki steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to him by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Erik Selvig and Clint Barton.[38][40][41]
In Russia, in the local evening, Natasha Romanoff is extracting information from Georgi Luchkov while letting him believe he is interrogating her. Phil Coulson calls one of Luchkov's henchmen and orders him to give Romanoff the phone or S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fighter jets will destroy the entire city block.[38][40][41]
Coulson tells Romanoff that she is needed, and while she is reluctant to leave her current mission, she agrees when Coulson mentions Barton has been compromised.[38][40][41]
In New York City, Steve Rogers sits in his new apartment looking through S.H.I.E.L.D. files. One of the files lists Peggy Carter's current phone number, and Rogers prepares to call her, but eventually decides not to.[43]
Loki conjures an image of himself to talk with The Other, who warns him not to fail his mission to retrieve the Tesseract, or else feel his master's wrath.[40]
Rogers (donning his new Captain America costume) and Romanoff travel to Stuttgart in a Quinjet to confront Loki, who is acting as a distraction as Hawkeye steals iridium to stabilize the Tesseract.[40][41][45][44]
Captain America fights him in the street, but the unexpected arrival of Iron Man prompts Loki to surrender.[44][40][41][45]
On the way back to the Helicarrier, the Quinjet is ambushed by Thor, who takes Loki and tries to reason with him.[38][40][41][45][44]
Iron Man pursues and fights Thor in a forest, but Captain America breaks up the fight and Thor agrees for Loki to be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.[38][40][41][45][44]
Parts of Vanaheim are attacked by Marauders. The Vanir in these areas retaliate, but are still defeated.[37]
On the Helicarrier, Loki is put in a cell designed to contain the Hulk. The Avengers debate about what to do with Loki, allowing him time to plot an escape.[38][40][41][44]
Coulson informs Thor that Jane Foster was safely moved to Tromsø the day before following Selvig's kidnapping.[40][41][44]
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This date is the focus of a Point of Divergence due to time travel from 2023. It has created another reality: 2012/Time Heist
In the early hours of morning, Natasha Romanoff interrogates Loki in his cell, but he refuses to give in. However, in a moment of cruelty towards her, Loki accidentally lets slip that he is interested in Banner, and Romanoff realizes he intends to use the Hulk to escape.[40][41][44]
Meanwhile, Rogers finds several HYDRA weapons and uniforms from the 1940s in crates in the weapons room he had just discovered.[40][41][44]
As the sun is coming up, Rogers confronts Nick Fury, who confesses S.H.I.E.L.D. wants the Tesseract to develop weaponry.[38][40][41][44]
Loki's mind-controlled agents led by Hawkeye invade the Helicarrier and damage one of its engines.[38][40][41][44]
While Iron Man and Captain America race to repair the engine before the ship crashes, Bruce Banner loses control, turns into the Hulk and goes on a rampage through the ship.[38][40][41][44]
Black Widow frees Hawkeye of his mind-control by knocking him out. Thor distracts the Hulk, while Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the Helicarrier to attack a hovering F-35 jet, but ends up falling from the sky and crashing into an abandoned warehouse on the ground below.[38][40][41][44]
Thor tries to stop Loki from escaping, but gets trapped in Loki's cell and ejected from the ship, landing in a field. Phil Coulson confronts Loki, armed with a weapon made from the Destroyer's parts, but Loki stabs him to death with his scepter.[38][40][41][44]
Kate Bishop listens in as Derek and Eleanor Bishop argue[46] about Derek's dealings with Wilson Fisk,[24] which have put the family in debt. Eleanor suggests selling their penthouse, upsetting Derek. Eleanor scolds him for expecting a solution to suddenly appear, when Kate accidentally knocks a toy truck off her desk, causing Eleanor and Derek to realize that she was listening. Derek asks if Eleanor wants to talk to her, but she says that he should. Derek goes upstairs while Eleanor gets frustrated.[46][44]
Derek goes into Kate's room and finds her laying in her bed, telling her not to eavesdrop. Derek asks what she heard, and Kate says that she does not want to move. Derek tries to reassure her, saying that they can control their own reactions. Kate asks what Derek would do in a hurricane, and Derek says that he will always work to protect her. He tells her to have lunch with Eleanor and retires to her office. Kate lays down and plays with a stuffed ball.[46][44]
Unable to call for back-up because most of the United States Armed Forces is fighting the Chitauri invasion, War Machine manages to defeat the attackers and immediately flies to New York to help Stark.[44][38][15]
Captain America starts to give instructions to the Avengers for directing their battle strategy against the alien threat. He tells Hawkeye to take a nearby roof and assigns Iron Man the perimeter, then Stark flies Barton to the roof. He sends Thor to try to strike lightning at the portal, tells Black Widow to stay with him on the ground, and finally instructs Hulk to "smash".[44][40][41][45]
Thor channels electricity through the Chrysler Building and fires it at the portal, taking out some Chitauri and an oncoming Leviathan.[44][40][41][45]
Meanwhile, Hulk passes an alley, on a smashing rage as he attacks Chitauri. He kills one using the wreckage of a car, before continuing on.[44][47]
Hawkeye advises Stark to lead the Chitauri around tight corners to have them crash. He does so, taking out the aliens tailing him, then goes to help Thor.[44][40][41][45]
From the battle, enormous damage is caused to midtown New York City, and many lives are lost, but the Avengers save as many civilians as they can.[44][40][41][45][27]
In Asgard, Sif asks Heimdall if Thor survived his travel to Earth. While he confirms Thor is safe, Heimdall worries Loki's forces may be too much for Thor to handle.[44][37]
A Leviathan whale heads toward a building, but Hulk runs through the building and leaps at it, attacking it in the mouth and redirecting it.[44][40][41][45]
Black Widow uses a Chitauri weapon against one of the aliens. Captain America arrives and she says they need to do something about the portal. To get up to it, she decides to board an oncoming Chitauri vehicle, and Rogers boosts her on his shield to get her up.[44][40][41][45]
Black Widow rides the vehicle, and Iron Man flies past. He joins Captain America, firing a repulsor blast off his shield to help take out alien combatants, before continuing on. Hawkeye continues to fire at aliens, as Hulk continues to fight Chitauri on a Leviathan, joined by Thor, who helps him hammer a piece of the vehicle into the Leviathan's back, killing it. It falls into Grand Central Terminal, where Hulk also punches Thor as retaliation for earlier.[44][40][41][45]
The military enter the streets to do what they can.[44][40][41][45]
Hawkeye directs Captain America to a nearby bank, where he goes and stops a Chitauri attack from killing civilians, before being blasted out of the building.[44][40][41][45]
The World Security Council tell Fury that they have made the decision to make a nuclear strike on Manhattan so as to contain the threat only to the island, but Fury refuses.[44][40][41][45]
Kate Bishop sits in the kitchen and eats while Eleanor Bishop finishing preparing her own plate. Eleanor shows Kate her ability to catch food in her mouth, making Kate laugh. Eleanor asks Kate to get a checkers board, and Kate agrees. While she gets up, Eleanor tells Kate that she is going to go downstairs and will return.[46][44]
Black Widow finds herself fired at by Loki, on his own Chitauri vehicle. Hawkeye fires an arrow at him to help her. Loki catches it, but the arrow explodes in his face, blowing him onto Stark Tower, where his vehicle knocks the "S" and "T" off the logo.[44][40][41][45]
Hulk leaps onto Stark Tower and attacks Loki. Loki tries to intimidate him, but Hulk merely grabs hold of him and bashes him into the floor repeatedly, leaving him unable to move.[44][40][41][45]
Kate Bishop goes to her room and gets the checkers board, placing it on her bed and opening it. She notices something fly past her window, distracting her. An explosion occurs outside her window, causing her to panic and call for her mother. Bishop tries finding her parents, and notices a Leviathan flying overhead.[46][44]
Romanoff finds Selvig on the tower, who tells her that he believes Loki's Scepter, fallen on the floor below them, may be able to close the portal.[44][40][41][45]
Bishop goes downstairs to find her father and runs around, getting frightened at the Chitauri outside her window. She tries looking for her mom, but the ceiling explodes, causing her to jump backwards. She walks through the rubble.[46][44]
Iron Man finds himself unable to break through the shell of a Leviathan whale, so instead tries flying directly into its mouth, managing to explode it from the inside. He falls to the ground and finds himself again battling Chitauri.[44][40][41][45]
Bishop sees a hole in the wall of her home, giving her a view of the battle raging outside. A Chitauri Chariot flies towards her, but gets destroyed by one of Hawkeye's arrows. Kate watches in awe as Hawkeye fights the Chitauri.[46][44]
Hawkeye runs out of arrows and has to kick an attacking alien off his perch. As his building is attacked, he leaps off, firing a grappling hook arrow to swing himself around, through a window below.[44][40][41][45]
Barton falls to an office floor, safe, but in pain.[44][40][41][45]
Eleanor grabs Kate and runs with her daughter to a safe location, as Kate keeps asking where her father is and the penthouse crumbles around them.[46][44]
The World Security Council order a nuclear strike to Manhattan, and one pilot goes to take off. Fury arrives with a rocket launcher and manages to take out the jet, but another jet flies off to deliver the missile.[44][40][41][45]
The jet gets away with the missile. Fury calls Stark and lets him know that there is a missile heading for New York in the next 3 minutes.[44][40][41][45]
The jet pilot fires the nuke at New York on World Security Council orders.[44][40][41][45]
Having retrieved the Scepter, Black Widow and Selvig start to push through the Tesseract's defenses to shut down the portal. Stark orders Romanoff on comms to wait, telling them about the nuke, and having the idea to send it through the portal as he grabs the missile to redirect it.[44][40][41][45]
J.A.R.V.I.S. tries to call Pepper Potts for Stark in case he dies taking the missile through the portal. However, Potts, on a flight, is too concerned watching the news to see her phone ringing.[44][40][41][45]
Iron Man finds himself in deep space, and his suit begins to fail. He lets go of the missile and it continues flying, hitting the Chitauri mother ship and causing an enormous explosion.[44][40][41][45]
On Earth, the remaining Chitauri and Leviathan fleet fail and fall down dead without the power of the mother ship.[44][40][41][45]
Iron Man falls back toward the portal, but the explosion threatens to get through to Earth as well, so Rogers orders Black Widow to close it. Stark falls back into the New York sky just before its closure, but continues to fall, unconscious. Hulk leaps and catches Stark to slow his fall.[44][40][41][45]
Captain America, Thor, and Hulk crowd around the unconscious Iron Man, and Hulk manages to wake him. Rogers notes that they just won, and Stark jokes about wanting to try shawarma, though Thor points out they are not quite finished.[44][40][41][45]
Hulk grunts a second time, and Stark instructs the other Avengers to get Loki on his feet. The group wait for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s arrival.[44][47]
The STRIKE team arrive at the Avengers' floor in Stark Tower to retrieve the Scepter. Jasper Sitwell takes the Scepter from Romanoff and he and Brock Rumlow pack it away, secretly taking the Scepter with the hope of getting it into HYDRA research hands, as HYDRA sleeper agents themselves.[44][47]
As the team head to the Stark Tower elevator, Loki uses his powers to make himself look like Captain America and mock him. Thor takes a muzzle and places it on his brother to silence him.[44][47]
Iron Man, Thor, Loki, and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents board the elevator. Hulk tries to get in himself, but Thor and Stark point out the elevator is full. Hulk angrily goes to take the stairs.[44][47]
The STRIKE team's elevator descends past the 80th floor.[44][47]
Sitwell talks to Alexander Pierce on the phone and tells him that there were no hitches in procuring the Scepter, and they are en route to Dr. List.[44][47]
Hulk continues to descend the staircase, enraged by how many stairs there are.[44][47]
Stark and Thor leave the elevator to the Stark Tower lobby with Loki.[44][47]
Alexander Pierce stops Thor and Stark. Thor says they are going to get lunch, then intend on taking Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard, but Pierce insists they turn Loki and the Tesseract over to him. An argument begins between them, which the Avengers eventually manage to win, keeping control over Loki and the Tesseract.[44][47]
Hulk comes bursting through the lobby door, furious at having had to take the stairs.[44][47]
Tired from the battle, the Avengers gather at a local shawarma restaurant recommended by Stark.[40][41] While they have their lunch, War Machine arrives to help in the battle, only to discover they have already won.[15][44]
A Ten Rings agent reports to the Mandarin about their recent conflict with War Machine. Although their operatives did not manage to capture James Rhodes, they scanned his armor with every possible device, thus obtaining invaluable information about the technology.[38][15][44]
Tony Stark and Pepper Potts look at plans for reconstructing the damaged Stark Tower, which has lost the "S", "T", "R", and "K" on the outside from the battle. They choose to repurpose the remaining "A" to stand for the newly formed group, rebranding as "Avengers Tower".[40][41]
The Other confers with his master about Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earth's new protectors. He claims attacking Earth again would be an act of suicide. His master, Thanos simply turns and smiles, thinking of things to come.[38][40]
Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis arrive in New York in search of Thor, but Erik Selvig, freed from Loki's mind control but still in shock from the battle, reveals Thor has already left.[37]
Heimdall tells Thor that Vanaheim has been attacked. He gives Heimdall the Tesseract so he can repair the Bifrost Bridge. They then spend the next year assembling an army.[37]
Foster is frustrated about spending two years of her life searching for Thor, and gives up her research of the Nine Realms.[37]
Tony Stark begins making the Iron Legion to keep himself occupied during periods of anxiety following his near-death experience in space.[15]
Eating together, Bishop tells Fisk that her husband, with whom Fisk had been dealing, was dead. Bishop says that he is dealing with her. Fisk respects that she likes to get to business and offers his condolences, saying that he liked her husband. He tells her that her husband made a mess which she will clean up. Bishop agrees under the condition that it is temporary, so Fisk says that she will do it until the work is done.[57][58]
After finding transceivers in the wreckage of a Chitauri cruiser from the Battle of New York, HYDRA use them to reach out to aliens. They get a reply from an alliance of six alien races, known as the Confederacy, who make a deal with the organization to help protect Earth in return for gravitonium and Inhumans.[65]
A funeral is held for Derek Bishop. Kate Bishop cries into Eleanor Bishop's shoulder and asks what would happen if the Chitauri return. Eleanor says that they will not come back, since the Avengers showed them what would happen if they did. Eleanor says that she has the greatest daughter in the world and kisses her. Kate says that she needs to protect her family, and Eleanor offers her whatever she needs. Kate says that she needs a bow and arrow.[46][66]
The final procedure to resurrectPhil Coulson takes place. To restore his former personality, the scientists remove part of his skull to change his memories of the painful process, as Coulson begs them to let him die during the operation.[63]
One of the scientists, Dr. Streiten, realizes how brutal these surgeries are and tells the others they should let Coulson die, but they ignore him. The scientists give Coulson false memories of a grass shack in Tahiti.[63]
Bestman Salvage recovers Chitauri technology from the wreckage. They are interrupted when a woman leading a group of officials arrives and tells them that from now on, their Department of Damage Control will be overseeing the cleanup of major events such as this, as sanctioned by Tony Stark and the government. Toomes is angered for having lost his business with no compensation, and punches one official, before being forced to leave the site.[71][56]
Toomes and his crew lament the loss of their company. When they realize they have a lot of equipment left, Toomes convinces them to turn to the black market and make weapons from the technology to sell, noting that the world is changing, and they need to change to match it.[71]
Nick Fury goes to Paris and meets Varra at a restaurant. Varra says she had a feeling that Fury was responsible for uniting the Avengers since he understood that protecting Earth is worth it. Fury asks about Varra's book, which she says is a collection of Raymond Carver poems. Varra has Fury read one part of her favorite poem, a conversation in which Varra's character says that she got what she wanted in life, which was to feel beloved.[72][73]
Jasper Sitwell is dispatched to stop Pollack and Weiss's bank robberies and retrieve the Chitauri weapon. He locates and confronts them at a hotel in South Florida, but Weiss attacks him with the weapon. She accidentally drops it, causing it to activate and destroy all of the stolen money.[55]
Sitwell interrogates them, and Weiss admits Pollack successfully got the weapon to work. Despite being sent to kill them, Sitwell gives them the chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and help restore the other Chitauri technology collected from New York.[55]
Sal Blaskowski gets arrested and charged with assault. However, the charges are dropped soon after.[75][76]
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Frank Castle, Sr. gets back from a deployment unexpectedly early. He pulls up in the driveway and hears yelling inside, and when he enters, he discovers that his 8-year-old son, Frank, Jr. has painted a marine on the wall. Frank, Sr. sternly asks him why, and Frank, Jr. tells him that marines scare off bad guys, feeling it was his duty to protect his sister and mother in his father's absence.[77][78]
Following his return to the modern world as a renowned hero, Steve Rogers is snatched up to be the face of many campaigns. One of these, not long after the Battle of New York, includes a set of videos for students in schools. He records many videos, including a fitness challenge, a video for students in detention, and one on the importance of patience.[71]
Robbery of VistaCorp: Scott Lang infiltrates the VistaCorp Headquarters to return about four million dollars to the customers who had been defrauded by the company. Lang then breaks into the mansion of his former boss, Geoff Zorick. He steals many of Zorick's belongings and drives Zorick's car into the mansion's pool.[89][90]
Kate Bishop fires an arrow at a target, followed quickly by two more. The first two arrows hit their targets, but the second bounces off the target.[46][68]
WHiH World News holds a 10 kilometer race to support reconstructing buildings lost during the Battle of New York. The company raised millions of dollars.[102]
WHiH World News posts on Google+ saying "WHiH's 10K race was a massive success. Millions were raised for reconstruction on buildings lost in the NYC invasion."[102]
↑ 9.09.1In The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative, Fury's language implies that Steve has already woken, the World Security Council is just unsure if he'll be accustomed enough to join the Avengers. It is therefore set anywhere between October 9, 2011 and April 30, 2012 inclusive. Halfway between these dates would be January 19, 2012. The Iron Man Dubai incident is said to be "recent", placing it around 10 days prior, roughly January 9, 2012.
↑In Iron Man 3 Prelude, it is shown as beginning a while after Iron Man 2, with the damage from the Expo having been cleared up and Stark Tower having been fully planned, laid its foundations, and several levels into its construction. It then jumps to 2 months later, Mumbai, then 3 months later, Afghanistan, then 2 months later, Sudan, then 3 months later, Hong Kong, and this is shown to be the date of the Battle of New York, May 4, 2012. 3 months back from there would put Sudan around February 2012, 2 months further back would put Afghanistan around December 2011, 3 months further back puts Mumbai around September 2011, and a final 2 months back places the beginning in July 2011. This allows plenty of time, just over a year, for the Expo to be cleared completely and for the planning, foundations, and beginning of construction of Stark Tower. Several months prior to the beginning of the comic, work would have begun on the tower, around December 2011.
↑ 16.016.116.216.316.416.516.6In The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes it is said, "Note: This story takes place between the events of Iron Man 2 and Marvel's The Avengers". This lines up with what Natasha says in Issue 2, "They're connecting the capital to Sochi on the coast, where the Winter Olympics will be held in two years." This is referring to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which happened from February 7-23, 2014. 2 years prior would put this scene around February 15, 2012, and therefore the comic would revolve around this in February 2012, also lining up with it being set after Iron Man 2 in 2010, before The Avengers in May 2012.
↑In Ant-Man and the Wasp, several moments are shown from Ava Starr's past at S.H.I.E.L.D.. Hannah John-Kamen was 28.05 at the middle of filming and should not be playing Starr at an age any younger than ⅔ of her actual age, so 18.70, meaning, based on Starr's approximated date of birth (see 1980s references), that the scenes should be after April 26, 2007. One moment appears to say "01-8 Thu", suggesting it is Thursday, January 8, 2009. Evenly distributing between these two dates, the first set of scenes should be approximately September 29, 2007, March 4, 2008, and August 7, 2008, before then January 8, 2009. Then after that, the remaining scenes are between then and the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D. on March 5, 2014 (see 2014 references). Evenly distributing again, the remaining scenes should be January 19, 2010, January 31, 2011, February 12, 2012, and February 22, 2013.
↑In Code of the Streets Shades says, "I just got home [...] Three years this time, Seagate." With Shades' release dated to March 3, 2015 (see 2015 references), Shades would have been sent to prison on March 3, 2012.
↑In Home, Gravik describes his first mission in which he killed a man for Nick Fury, saying, "You know, I was young, I tried my best." Fury was shown in Promises to be hesitant to send Gravik on any missions due to his being a child, so it likely would have happened once Gravik had grown more. It can be taken that Fury would have sent Gravik when he was around the human equivalent of eighteen years old. Skrulls age at approximately 4.6 times the rate of humans. Using the age of Lucas Persaud, who played Gravik in the Promises flashback set November 15, 1997 (see 1990s references), it can be taken that Gravik was sent on his mission approximately 14.3 years after the flashback, placing the mission on March 6, 2012. The full details of the calculations may be found here.
↑In So This Is Christmas?, Clint Barton tells Yelena Belova about a time he asked Natasha Romanoff if she was scared while fleeing the United States. This conversation could have occurred between Barton recruiting Romanoff to S.H.I.E.L.D. on January 1, 2008 (see 2000s references) and the last time they would get a chance to have a long conversation with each other, the Clash of the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War, which occurred on June 24, 2016 (see 2016 references). This conversation can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, March 28, 2012.
↑Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to people who existed in our world, and it is assumed they were born on the same day in the universe, for timeline purposes.
↑In Paradise Lost, Lincoln Campbell discusses the car accident that led to his arrival in Afterlife. In the story, he is able to drive, which means that this has to take place after he got his full license, which in Cincinnati happens on a person's 18th birthday, meaning April 17, 2003 is the minimum date. Furthermore, this event, JT James leaving Afterlife, and Lincoln's Terrigenesis have to occur before Daisy's arrival in Afterlife on April 17, 2015, so the maximum date for Lincoln's Terregenisis is April 16, 2015. Spacing the events evenly throughout this time, and making sure Lincoln spends at least one year in Afterlife before meeting Daisy, the resulting dates are as follows:
Car Crash: April 16, 2006 James Leaves: April 16, 2009 Lincoln's Terrigenesis: April 15, 2012
↑In Deals With Our Devils, as the team discuss what could have happened to Fitz and Coulson, it is said, "Impossible things happen all the time. That machine ghosted that Lucy woman." Agent Mackenzie replies, "So what, Coulson and Fitz come back in 5 years, bloody and insane?" The implication from this is that Mackenzie has been told that Bauer spent 5 years in the box, before her release on the reasoned day of March 19, 2017.
↑ 47.0047.0147.0247.0347.0447.0547.0647.0747.0847.0947.1047.1147.1247.1347.14In Avengers: Endgame and Glorious Purpose, 2012 events are shown simultaneous to the events of The Avengers. With the Battle of New York playing out nonetheless the same in the new universe of Avengers: Endgame, and the 2023 Avengers making no impacts of significance until after Loki is apprehended by the Avengers, the events of the Battle of New York can be taken to play out essentially identically in that universe, as well as other events shown in the timeline that are not affected by the 2023 Avengers. Similarly, events such as Hulk smashing a Chitauri with a car or the Ancient One participating in the battle, shown only in Avengers: Endgame, are unaffected by the 2023 Avengers' actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the main universe.
↑ 56.056.156.2In Marvel One-Shot: Item 47, Pollack and Weiss found the Chitauri gun in the aftermath of the Battle of New York (May 4, 2012, see other references), most likely meaning on May 5, 2012. It is said that they hit Allentown "5 days after the Battle of New York", making that May 9, 2012. Then Richmond "7 days after the Battle of New York", May 11, 2012. Queensbury "2 days after that", May 13, 2012. Charleston "the following afternoon", May 14, 2012. Then Pasadena, which can be estimated to May 15, 2012, and is now "yesterday morning" as of the main events of the one-shot, making the main events May 16, 2012. The opening scene of Spider-Man: Homecoming is set in the aftermath of the Battle of New York, ideally in the first few days following it. Similarly, Loki's trial in Thor: The Dark World is shortly after. Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline places both of these events after Pollack and Weiss' time owning Item 47 (May 5-16, 2012), suggesting they should be after the midpoint of those events, May 10/11, 2012. With this being a little late, they are taken to occur on that first day after the Item 47 midpoint to be as close as possible to the ideal of just a few days after May 4th: May 11, 2012, a week after the Battle of New York.
↑ 58.058.1In the Hawkeye deleted scene "Until It's Done," Eleanor Bishop is shown approaching Wilson Fisk in the aftermath of her husband's death on May 4, 2012 (see other references). Fisk would have wanted the matter of her husband's business sorted quickly, so it can be taken that they met the day following his death.
↑In The Retreat, Man-Bull says on August 10, 2025 (see 2025 references) that his appearance is due to a lab experiment. Man-Bull's birth is approximated to February 1980 (see 1980s references), so he would have turned in eighteen in 1999. The experiment can be approximated to the midpoint of his eighteenth birthday and when he says the line, placing it in May 2012.
↑On average, funerals take place 5 days after a person's death in the US. With Derek Bishop's death placed on May 4th, 2012 (see other references), it can be approximated that Derek's funeral takes place 5 days later on May 9th, 2012.
Eleanor watching as Kate fires and hits a target twice
Kate placing a picture of her and Derek on a shelf
Kate placing a trophy on a shelf
Kate firing three arrows at two targets
Kate eating dinner with Eleanor at a young age
Kate eating dinner with Eleanor while older
Kate firing an arrow
Kate achieving third place in a fencing tournament
Seventeen ribbons and trophies sitting on Kate's shelf
Eleanor placing her hand on Kate's shoulder as Kate fires an arrow
Kate achieving second place in a fencing tournament
Kate as a yellow belt fighting a black belt in karate
Kate losing a fencing match
Kate touching her opponent in a fencing tournament
Kate as a black belt
Kate doing a flip on a bar
Kate firing three arrows at three different targets
Kate making first place in a fencing tournament
Kate standing on a balance beam on one foot
Kate standing on the roof of a building on one foot and jumping onto another building
Kate is shown asking Eleanor for a bow and arrow is dated to May 9, 2012 (see other references), so her receiving the bow, which is shown to be soon after, can be taken to be the next day. Since the montage details Kate's training, it can also be understood that the first scene of Kate firing her bow and arrow is meant to be the first time she used it, placing that scene on May 10, 2012 as well. In Never Meet Your Heroes, Eleanor says to Kate, "I still remember when you got your black belt at 15." This event is dated to December 15, 2017 (see 2017 references). It takes approximately 54 months to earn a black belt. However, in Hide and Seek, Kate says, "I, uh, started martial arts training when I was five." It must therefore be taken that she started at five, but did not take it seriously until after she decided she would protect her family in 2012. Using 54 months prior to when she earned her black belt, June 2013, as a starting point, Kate would have earned her yellow belt at the 3 month mark, in September 2013. She would have earned her orange belt, therefore ending her time as a yellow belt, that December. This fight can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, October 15, 2013. The scenes preceding this scene can therefore be evenly distributed between May 10, 2012 and October 15, 2013. Similarly, the scenes that follow this scene can be evenly distributed between October 15, 2013, and the start of the present day events, December 19, 2024 (see 2024 references), while keeping events clear of events given more specific dates.
↑In Providence, Eric Koenig tells Phil Coulson that he has been stationed at Providence "Since the Chitauri invaded New York." This would have happened following the aftermath of the battle, and can therefore be approximated to a week later, May 11th.
↑In Beloved, Nick Fury is shown reuniting with Varra for the first time following the Battle of New York on May 4, 2012 (see other references). Fury would have spent time dealing with the aftermath of the battle. Fury is approximated to have assigned Eric Koenig to Providence base on May 11. Koenig says that he has been in Providence "Since the Chitauri invaded New York," suggesting that Fury was still in the aftermath of the battle at this point. Since this is Fury's first time seeing Varra since the battle, it can be taken that this happened the day after, May 12, 2012.
↑In AKA Customer Service is Standing By, it is said on May 6, 2018 (see 2018 references) that Sal Blaskowski "was arrested for assault 6 years ago". This could refer to a near exact 6 years, around May 6, 2012, or a more general "2018 - 2012 = 6", so any time in 2012 (approximating with mid-2012). A weighted calculation, putting more weight on the more specific, would suggest the arrest was around May 25, 2012.
↑In Gunner, Frank Castle, Sr. says his son was "barely 8 years old" when he returned from one his tours. Frank, Sr. is approximated to have done a military tour October 2006-January 2008 and another September 2013-April 2015. Frank Castle, Jr.'s approximate age would put him turning 8 somewhere between these tours, so we must approximate another another tour in between. The midpoint between is November 2010, and this tour is said to have been cut short, so likely 14 months or so instead of the usual 15 (as mentioned in Crosshairs), suggesting approximately April 2010-June 2011. With this, Frank, Sr. would have returned in June 2011, and if Frank, Jr. was "barely 8", he would have been born around June 2003. However, Lisa Castle, his older sister, was born in June 2003 (see other references), so the earliest Frank Jr. would have been born realistically is June 2004. This earliest realistic month of birth should be taken, to be as close as possible to the ideal. This would then mean Frank, Sr.'s tour ended around June 2012, so started around April 2011.
↑ 82.082.1Through Runaways it is said that PRIDE sacrificed someone to Jonah once a year for 15 years (Fifteen: "One a year for 15 years", Hostile: "You ever notice that every year one of your young parishioners goes missing?", "Same time of year, every year", Last Rites: "One a year"), resulting in fifteen sacrifices (Fifteen: fifteen names are listed, Kingdom: "Fifteen kids have died in this room", Doomsday: "How could you murder fifteen kids?", Last Rites: "Like you killed fifteen runaways"). Fifteen annual sacrifices would amount in fact to 14 years start to finish, and with the last one in December 2017 (see 2017 references), that would make the first sacrifice around 2003. However, there is evidence for 15 + years of sacrifices, not 14 years. In Fifteen, it is said they have taken runaways for "over 15 years". In Doomsday it is said that PRIDE has had a grip on the parents' "lives for the last 15 years". As well as this, Season 3 suggests there was in fact a further sacrifice (Smoke and Mirrors: "I only sacrificed seventeen innocent kids" (including Andre Compton, which the previous counts did not), Rite of Thunder: "She helped murder seventeen teenagers", Enter The Dreamland: "We are the seventeen"). Plus "one a year for 15 years" could be taken as "one a year, and we've been doing that for 15 years" rather than "one a year fifteen times, amounting to 15 years". So, it would seem overall that yes, the sacrifices started around 15 years before 2017, not 14. This, then, would make the first sacrifice 2002. However, in Doomsday, a flashback to "fifteen years ago" before December 2017, set shortly after the first sacrifice. While this would align with 2002, Nico Minoru is shown to be a baby only about 3-4 months old. With Nico born around January 2001 (see other references), this would make it roughly April-May 2001. Amy Minoru is also shown to be about 2½. With Amy born around December 1998 (see 1990s references), this would make it roughly mid-2001. Given this, and the lack of flexibility to the children's ages, particularly baby Nico, then the latest this scene can be is June 2001. So, taking this latest possible time, the "fifteen years ago" must be taken to be a rounding from 16 years, and the first sacrifice, Brooks Watten, must also be moved from 2002 to June 2001. With the Metamorphosis flashback to "fifteen years ago" of the Wilders getting their house set not long before this and particularly given it is also stretched already to 16 years prior, but enough time to get Brooks Watten, it can be assumed that Watten did not undergo 6 months at the Church of Gibborim like the other Runaways, and was procured in May 2001, with the house scene set that same month. With it said in Hostile that the sacrifices are the "same time of year, every year", it should be assumed that almost all the sacrifices were in early December, like the one on December 4, 2015 (see 2015 references) and the one on December 8, 2017 (see 2017 references), so likely the Friday closest to December 6th. With fourteen sacrifices prior to Destiny Gonzalez and not including Brooks Watten, the second sacrifice would therefore, however, be 14 years prior in December 2003, 2½ years after the first. Given Jonah deteriorates over a year, it should be taken that there were never two sacrifices more than 18 months apart. So, it may be taken that the second sacrifice was in fact December 2002, the third June 2004, and then the fourth December 2005, with the fourth to sixteenth (Gonzalez) all being annually in December from 2005 to 2017, and the first few negligible enough to be discounted in the statement of "same time of year, every year". Fifteen names, up to and including Gonzalez, are shown in Fifteen, meaning there is a bonus sacrifice not listed on the computer somewhere between Brooks Watten and Destiny Gonzalez, making them between the second and fifteenth sacrifice, so it may be guessed that they were the eighth/ninth. To decide which, taking halfway between June 2001 and December 2017, it would have been roughly late 2009, making it closer to the eighth sacrifice than the ninth. So, it may have been taken to have been the eighth. Therefore, overall, the sacrifices were: Brooks Watten June 2001, Adam Cooper December 6, 2002, Jamie Baxter June 8, 2004 (halfway between December 6, 2002 and December 9, 2005), Tim Bennett December 9, 2005, Xavier Marquez December 8, 2006, Karly Scolari December 7, 2007, James Braswyck December 5, 2008, unknown runaway December 4, 2009, Anthony Rocha December 3, 2010, Kim Hwang December 9, 2011, Bridget Bynum December 7, 2012, John Donahue December 6, 2013, Emily Wong December 5, 2014, Yvonne Taylor December 4, 2015, Brian Geparhart December 9, 2016, and finally Destiny Gonzalez (failed sacrifice) December 8, 2017 and Andre Compton December 11, 2017 (see 2017 references). Adam Cooper to Destiny Gonzalez would have been taken 6 months in advance.
↑In Tsunami, Amy Minoru says that she has known Alex Wilder fancied her sister since he was "11". With Wilder's date of birth dated to January 2001 (see 2000s references), the time when he was 11 would have been January 2012-January 2013, so we can approximate her noticing as around the midpoint of this time, July 2012.
↑In Black Widow, an opening montage shows several scenes of the Red Room training girls, including Natasha Romanoff, and operating through history, which is implied to be occurring after Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova were separated on September 6, 1995 (see other references) and before the beginning of the 2016 events of the movie on June 25, 2016 (see 2016 references).
The first collection of scenes is of a braid receiving a bow, a group of girls being brainwashed by cartoons, and a group of girls ice skating. In the ice skating scene, the girls appear to be roughly middle school age, and can be taken to be approximately 12.5 years old. This scene can therefore be approximated to when Romanoff was 12.5 years old, so approximately June 3, 1997. The scenes with the braid and the cartoons can therefore be distributed between Romanoff and Belova being separated and the ice skating scene, so on April 7, 1996 and November 8, 1996, respectively.
The montage also features two shots of girls marching, one of which is when they are roughly middle school age and can be taken to be approximately 13 years old, so on December 3, 1997.
The second shot of girls marching, two shots of girls preparing weapons, a group of soldiers in a drum line, and Dreykov watching a group of girls fire at targets occur in the movie when the girls are roughly high school age. Similarly, Black Widow Prelude features a scene of a group of high school age girls doing ballet and one of Romanoff firing at a target. These can be distributed throughout the years in which Romanoff was 14 through 18 years old, placing the comic firing scene on September 19, 1998, the second marching shot on April 1, 1999, the first shot of girls preparing weapons on November 16, 1999, the ballet scene on February 13, 2001, the drum line on September 30, 2001, and the second shot of girls preparing weapons on May 16, 2002.
Two scenes, one from Black Widow Prelude, and several flashback scenes from Avengers: Age of Ultron, both featuring Romanoff being nervous for her graduation ceremony, can be placed near the ceremony. The ceremony itself can be taken to be when Romanoff was 21, analogous to a college graduation, so May 27, 2005. Similarly, Black Widow has two scenes in which the girls are in their early twenties: one of a group of girls doing ballet, and one of a girl doing gymnastics. These scenes can be distributed between January 1, 2003, the year Romanoff turned 20, and May 27, 2005, approximately when she would graduate. This would place the Black Widow ballet scene on May 6, 2003, the gymnastics scene on September 8, 2003, the Avengers: Age of Ultron ballet flashback on May 15, 2004, the scene of Romanoff pretending to lose on September 17, 2004, Romanoff shooting on January 20, 2005.
The montage in Black Widow then features several members of the Black Widows being spotted throughout the world, starting with Romanoff, as well as shots of a Widow putting on a Widow's Bite and a belt, and a group of Widows lining up. These scenes can be placed between the graduation and the 2016 events in Morocco on June 18, 2016 (see 2016 references), while ensuring that Romanoff's scene is before January 1, 2008, when she defected from the Red Room and joined S.H.I.E.L.D. (see 2000s references). This would place Romanoff's scene on December 25, 2006, and the rest on July 24, 2008, February 21, 2010, September 21, 2011, and April 20, 2013. A scene in this montage which is attached to this last scene can then be placed to the last day, April 20, 2013. The scene with the Widow putting on her belt and accessory, as well as the Widows marching, can then be placed on November 18, 2014.
Three scenes from the montage feature Dreykov influencing two political events, as well as a shot of him watching his monitors. The two scenes of him influencing political events must be before Dreykov is thought dead in January 2008, and can therefore be distributed between then and Romanoff and Belova being separated. This places the first scene on October 14, 1999 and the second on November 22, 2003.
Two events are mentioned to have happened during this period of time in The Avengers: Romanoff killing people in São Paulo and another instance of her setting a hospital on fire. These can be distributed between Romanoff's graduation and her defection, and can therefore be placed on April 8, 2006 and February 18, 2007, respectively. The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes describes an incident involving Romanoff which is described as having occurred "long before [Romanoff] defected to S.H.I.E.L.D.." This can therefore be taken to have happened within the first half of the time between graduation and defection, so on approximately January 19, 2006.
Black Widow Prelude features a scene of Romanoff looking over New York City after joining S.H.I.E.L.D.. This would likely occur within a month of Romanoff joining S.H.I.E.L.D., so in approximately February 2008.
The montage goes on to feature several clips of Melina Vostokoff's experiments being conducted, beginning with someone reading the information which Alexei Shostakov had stolen, a scene of pigs being studied, and a failed surgery. Later in the movie, Belova mentions that Romanoff was not subject to Vostokoff's chemical mind control, meaning that the experiment was completed after Romanoff defected and before the events in Morocco, so on approximately April 9, 2012. The person reading the stolen information can be approximated to the day after it was received, so September 6, 1995. The remaining scenes can be distributed between then and the completion of the experiment, placing the pigs on December 22, 2003 and the failed surgery on February 14, 2008.
Finally, a group of scenes of war and a scene of a person sewing a Black Widow logo onto a piece of cloth are shown. These can be distributed throughout Romanoff and Belova being separated and the first scene and the events in Morocco, resulting in each conflict happening on July 26, 1997, June 16, 1999, May 6, 2001, March 27, 2003, February 14, 2005, January 5, 2007, November 25, 2008, October 16, 2010, and September 5, 2012, and the sewing scene on July 27, 2014.
↑In Generation Why and No Normal, Coles Academic High School is shown to have won several volleyball championships in various years. Volleyball championships in New Jersey tend to happen in October, so they can be approximated to October of each year.
↑In Harvest, Varra says that she attended a viewing for her home "With Fury in mind" "15 years ago." This suggests that she and Nick Fury were not yet married by the viewing on October 20, 2011 (see 2011 references). In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Fury reveals to Steve Rogers that he is married on March 2, 2014 (see 2014 references). Fury and Varra's wedding and honeymoon can therefore be approximated to the midpoint of these dates, December 2012.
