For the timeline altered by the Avengers, see 2013
"I made an educated wish!"
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"The Battle of New York was the end of the world. This, now, is the new world. People are different."
Ghost kills a man who shoots at her on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D., under the promise that in return, S.H.I.E.L.D. will help find her a cure to her molecular disequilibrium.[13][14]
Fortunately, they are hired by Sqqd'li, under the orders of his employer the crime lord Zade Scraggot, in order to retrieve a package being held in the highly secure "Uptown" section of the station for 1000 Credits. Rocket and Groot successfully retrieve the package, but upon discovering that the package contains a family of sentient Scalluscs, a snail-like creature that Scraggot was planning on harvesting for their shells (and upon learning that the Scalluscs have money and could double Scraggot's pay), Rocket and Groot rescues them from their cruel fate after a brief scuffle with Zade Scraggot and his men.[18]
Barnes admires Poindexter's work in the Suicide Prevention Center
Once Barnes is gone, however, Poindexter abandons the script. He becomes interested in Craig's gun, and starts to suggest that instead of taking his own life, Craig perhaps consider instead killing his stepfather causing him his pain. Before he can finish, however, Barnes passes again, and Poindexter reverts to the script.[23][24]
30th[]
Victor Stein and his son, Chase, discuss Chase's lacrosse game later in the day. Victor says he will try to attend.[25][26]
Chase Stein's lacrosse match occurs, but Victor does not attend.[25][26]
Victor Stein picks up his son from the match. He notes that Chase won, but Chase expresses his annoyance that his father did not come to the game, which was the city championship. Chase says his father's accolades are ridiculous for a man like him, and Victor angrily lashes out, knocking his son's head against the car window.[25][26]
To cover up the explosive nature of Extremis, Aldrich Killian hires actor Trevor Slattery to pose as a terrorist leader called the Mandarin, so whenever Extremis causes a patient to explode, the media and government will assume they are suicide bombings.[15]
3rd[]
Trevor Slattery gets plastic surgery so he is not recognized when he appears on television as the Mandarin.[15]
During his first day, Lucas meets Albert Rackham, who starts to shown an interest in Lucas. Lucas mocks Rackham, and Rackham punches him in the gut, taunting him about how he used to be a sheriff. Rackham then sends Lucas, as well as the other prisoners, back to their cells. Lucas spends the rest of the night saying his name over and over to remember who he is, and to get through prison time.[40][41]
Frank Castle and Billy Russo watch a little league game of baseball. Russo tells Castle that he used to love baseball, but that it was ruined for him when Arthur Walsh, from the Ray of Hope home, started trying to molest him when playing. Castle says that he deserved a better upbringing, but they agree that he has grown into a really resistant person.[45][46]
23rd[]
James and Etta Lucas visit their son, Carl Lucas, in Seagate Penitentiary. James blames the stress of Carl's incarceration for Etta's diminishing health and has them leave prematurely, and Carl would never see Etta again.[47][48]
Happy Hogan sends out a memo to the rest of Stark Industries telling employees that they need their security badge on them at all times. He notes that HR approved the message.[50]
Ancient Egypt Investigated: 101 Important Questions and Intriguing Answers by Thomas Schneider is published.[1][52]
September[]
1st[]
Castle spends time with his family in Central Park
Frank, Maria, Frank Jr., and Lisa Castle go to the Central Park carousel with family friend Billy Russo. Russo begins to joke with the children and tells the story of the outlaw "Billy the Kid", who he claims he was named after. Lisa notes that since he is an orphan, he cannot know who he was named after, and he laughs at his mistake. Maria happily reminds him that they are all his family now.[53][54]
Frank Castle takes his children, Lisa and Frank Jr., to see the Statue of Liberty. While on the ferry, Frank recites a nonsense poem, prompting mockery from Frank Jr., while Lisa enjoys it an continues the poem. They see the statue, and Frank Jr. implies that Frank fights in the army so that he could kill people, causing Frank to lash out at him.[53][58]
Mike Peterson, a test subject from the Centipede Project, witnesses an explosion while out shopping with his son Ace. He enters the building and saves a woman named Debbie, the doctor who implanted the Centipede Device which gives Michael superhuman powers. The press and witnesses call Michael the "Hooded Hero".[49][61]
Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons meet with Phil Coulson, who talks to them about their past experiments, including the time Fitz and Simmons blew up a Quinjet in order to prove that algae could power it. Fitz tries to blame it on Simmons, but they argue about it as Coulson watches. Coulson tells them that they have been recommended for his field team, and Simmons finds Coulson inspiring and is delighted to join, convincing Fitz.[63]
Coulson asks fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May to join his team and pilot the Bus.[49]
10th[]
Skye airs a Rising Tide transmission, and is soon apprehended by Phil Coulson and Grant Ward. After an unsuccessful interrogation, Coulson gives Ward a truth serum, making him reveal secrets to Skye and earning her trust.[49]
Mike Peterson tries to convince his former boss to re-hire him. When denied, Peterson loses his temper and attacks his boss while wrecking the factory.[49]
Michael visits Debbie in the hospital. She reprimands him for exposing her and the Centipede Project. Later that evening, he kidnaps Skye.[49]
Centipede Device containing side effects from Extremis
Fitz, Simmons and Skye digitally replicate the events leading up to the explosion. They discover the nature of the Centipede Device: it contains an experimental Super-Soldier Serum made from Extremis, and the explosion was caused by a patient succumbing to Extremis' side effects.[49]
Coulson and Skye arrive at a S.H.I.E.L.D. airport and board the Bus. Coulson informs the rest of the team of his decision to add Skye to their roster.[59]
Kate Bishop reaches second place in a fencing competition. She is given a metal and stands on a pulpit.[5][6]
Jones meets Trish Walker in a bar. Walker is harassed by a man who remembers her for her program. The man is challenged by Jones to see who is stronger for a large sum of money. Jones wins the bet.[67]
Hijacking and Retaking of the Bus: At night, Reyes betrays Coulson and takes over the Bus, tying the rest of the team up in the cargo area at the plane's rear.[59]
Connors tries to get as many inmates as possible to change, by having them tell how they ended up in prison in the first place. After hearing Squabbles' testimony, she then talks with Lucas, revealing that he was a former cop while he worked in Savannah, which he confirms.[40][41]
After the intervention, Squabbles tells Lucas that Connors is a good person and that she does not want to cause them harm. However, due to his personal experience, Lucas claims that you cannot trust anybody.[40][41]
Frank Castle and Billy Russo begin a 15-month deployment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, assigned to a squad known as Operation Cerberus. Unbeknown to Castle, it is a corrupt assassination program funded by illegal heroin operations, and Russo himself, Castle's best friend, is helping the men leading it in secret.[69][70]
William Rawlins, anonymously going by "Agent Orange", and Ray Schoonover brief the Cerberus Squad on the need to obey them unequivocally in the following year, and Castle and Russo are appointed team leaders.[69][70]
Castle and Russo spend leisure time together and meet a soldier called Gunner Henderson. They talk about the briefing, and Russo points out that Agent Orange did not even give them a name, but when Castle suggests this is suspicious, Russo says that it is not their place to question their leaders.[69][70]
Franklin Hall leaks information about an upcoming transfer to have Ian Quinn capture him, as part of a plot to foil Quinn's plans to exploit the properties of Gravitonium.[71]
In Malta, Quinn reunites with his former colleague Hall, informing him of his discovery of a large cluster of Gravitonium (a substance formerly believed to be theoretical) and asking him to help complete a giant Gravity Field Generator. Hall tries to convince him the generator is too dangerous to use, but Quinn is undeterred.[71]
On the way to Malta, Leo Fitz discusses theories about the nature of Gravitonium with the rest of the team. They plan to infiltrate Quinn's mansion and Skye volunteers to go in, forging a party invitation.[71]
21st[]
Grant Ward helps Skye prepare for her infiltration mission, and shares the personal reason why he became a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative: As children, his older brother Christian was abusive to both him and their younger brother.[71]
Quinn delivers a speech to his guests and shareholders, and reveals his plans to develop Gravitonium-based devices.[71]
Skye sneaks into Quinn's mansion to hack into the Neodymium Laser Fencing control system, allowing Ward and Phil Coulson entrance into the compound. Quinn catches her and assumes she is trying to find information to leak online. She informs him of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s vigilance to keep his trust, while Fitz remotely hacks the laser fencing.[71]
Inside the compound, Coulson searches Franklin Hall's laboratory while Ward rescues Skye. When Coulson finds him, Hall reveals he actually planned his own kidnapping in order to destroy the Gravitonium. As they struggle, the Gravity Field Generator starts disrupting gravity fields in its proximity. Realizing the Gravitonium has begun to disrupt gravity, Quinn orders his helicopter to be prepared for an evacuation. Coulson tries to convince Hall not to destroy the generator, but he is forced to let Hall fall into the Gravitonium cluster to stop it from activating and save hundreds of lives.[71]
22nd[]
On the Bus, Melinda May asks Phil Coulson to promote her back to a field operative, both by commission to the team and her desire to watch over him.[71]
Albert Rackham, Shades, and Comanche start to spy on Lucas, who is working out in the courtyard, with Rackham guessing that Lucas had angered someone and was sent here to rot.[40][41]
The Gravitonium cluster is transferred to the Fridge, and stored with no recorded entry and no access granted. Unknown to anyone, Franklin Hall is still alive and trapped inside the Gravitonium.[71]
Rackham, Shades and Comanche decide to keep tabs on Lucas, wanting to see if he is unbreakable.[40][41]
That night, while sleeping, Lucas is attacked by Shades and Comanche, as Rackham watches. Lucas manages to defeat them, as the guards arrive to stop the brief conflict. Rackham, impressed by Lucas' abilities, says that he is a gladiator.[40][41]
23rd[]
Carl Lucas is locked in solitary confinement, where he spends hours sitting alone, considering why he is being targeted.[40][41]
27th[]
Jessica Jones gets a new job, working at a cheap sandwich shop where she was forced to wear a large sandwich costume and hand out fliers. During her time working, Jones saves a girl from being hit by a car. Hearing the girl's gratitude and knowing she had made a difference has a big impact of Jones' mentality towards becoming a hero.[67]
28th[]
At an apartment, Trish Walker, who knows about Jessica Jones' powers, tells her that she has to use them for good, to become a superhero. Walker gives Jones a suit and tells her to use the alias "Jewel". Jones rejects the idea.[67]
Kilgrave is walking with two beautiful women under his control, where he witnesses Jessica Jones display incredible strength while saving Malcolm Ducasse from muggers.[67]
Fascinated by Jones' powers, Kilgrave orders the two women to leave and focuses his attention on Jones, asking her about her powers. He comments on what a beautiful woman Jones is, although he was not fond of her clothing and orders her to smile before taking her under his control. Over the next few months Kilgrave keeps Jones as his prisoner.[67]
Fitz, Simmons, and Skye before being attacked by Amador
Skye and Fitz hack into an unknown broadcast showing their van in what looks like X-Ray vision. Amador attacks and overturns the van to escape their observation.[74]
Reunited at the Bus, the team analyzes the situation and determines the unknown broadcast to be Amador's point of view, through a Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant used to control her.[74]
May uncovers Amador's location and goes to confront her alone. They fight, and Coulson intervenes, rendering Amador unconscious with a pistol-version of the Night-Night Gun.[74]
2nd[]
Akela Amador wakes up in the Bus' detention cell with Phil Coulson, who asks about her situation and tries to determine the identity of Amador's handler.[74]
He finds the true target of the infiltration mission, a series of symbols of seemingly alien origin. Ward's ruse is discovered as he flees the building.[74]
Melinda May traces Amador's handler, to whom she refers as the "Englishman" because he uses British English words and phrases in his commands. When Coulson confronts him, the fail-safe in the Englishman's own eye implant activates, killing him instantly.[74]
3rd[]
Despite being jailed and waiting for a trial, Akela Amador feels liberated by the removal of her eye implant, and thanks Phil Coulson for his help.[74]
After a long time, Rackham visits Carl Lucas in solitary confinement, complimenting his fighting abilities. He makes him an offer that if he can fight other convicts, it will benefit both of them, promising to bring Lucas money, extra rations, and even conjugal visits. Despite Rackham's promises and the threat of future attacks, Lucas compares the offer to slavery, and declines. Rackham just leaves him in his cell for even longer.[40][41]
Search for the Crown of Fools: In Asgard, a legion of birds attack the home of the Asgardians. The Warriors Three and Lady Sif manage to defeat them, the birds escape and the group, now with Thor, follows them in to an ancient castle where each of Thor's friends is corrupted by their heart's desire, everyone except Thor who finds the responsible for the recent events, a Frost Giant who can use Magic by wearing the Crown of Fools. However, Thor manages to defeat him and releases his friends from the hallucinations.[76][77]
Chan wakes up in a strange place, with Raina offering him both the chance to increase his powers and an opportunity to be recognized for his gift, giving him the codename "Scorch".[80]
Skye tracks the Rising Tide hacker back to Austin, Texas, and identifies him as Miles Lydon. The team arrives in Austin and tries to catch Lydon, but, unbeknownst the rest of the team, Skye is Lydon's girlfriend, and warns him in advance that S.H.I.E.L.D. are tracking him.[80]
Melinda May follows Skye to Lydon's house. The team arrests them both while searching for evidence in the house. Lydon confesses the Centipede Project paid him to leak the information about Chan.[80]
Raina takes Chan to a laboratory, where he is injected with a dose of Centipede Serum which amplifies his powers. Debbie, the doctor who implanted Mike Peterson's Centipede Device, orders for blood samples to be taken from Chan so his platelets can be used to stabilize the Extremis in the serum.[80]
Melinda May, Phil Coulson and Quan Chen infiltrate the Centipede laboratory. Chan goes on a rampage, killing Kwan and Debbie. Seeing no other way forward, Coulson and May are forced to kill Chan with an overdose of the Centipede Serum, making him explode.[80]
Coulson tags Lydon with a Tracking Bracelet and releases him. Afterwards, he demands to know Skye's true reason for joining S.H.I.E.L.D., and she tearfully reveals she joined to find information about her missing parents, because the only evidence she has is a document redacted by S.H.I.E.L.D.[80]
Coulson, May and Ward visit the fire house while Simmons discovers a virus is responsible of the deaths. May finds the source of the virus, a Chitauri Helmet, and Coulson tries to comfort Tony Diaz, another infected firefighter whose death is imminent.[82]
Coulson contacts fellow agent Felix Blake, who insists on the importance of delivering the helmet to the Sandbox and instructs him to dispose of any infected person in the Bus.[82]
Fitz breaks the quarantine and enters the lab to help Simmons in her search for a cure. After seemingly failing, Simmons knocks Fitz out. She prepares to jump off the plane, without knowing the cure tested on their laboratory rats worked. Grant Ward jumps off the plane, catches her in mid-air, and injects her with the cure.[82]
After rescuing them from the sea, Coulson reprimands Simmons for her attempted suicide.[82]
Kilgrave doesn't give Jessica Jones any commands for over 12 hours, and due to his powers only lasting for 12 hours after he speaks, Jones is freed from Kilgrave's control for a few seconds. She considers jumping off the balcony and escaping, but before she can, Kilgrave orders her to step down, putting her under his control again. When he questions why she initially had not listened to him he decided to punish her by ordering her to cut off her ear. However, when she begins to obey Kilgrave again, he changes his mind and chooses to hug her close instead as his anger subsides.[83]
At the Sandbox, Felix Blake takes the helmet and warns Coulson that even he cannot disobey direct orders. While leaving, Blake also notes the change in Coulson's attitude since his death and recovery.[82]
Kate Bishop, a yellow belt in karate, prepares to fight a black belt. Her opponent punches her and wins the fight. As Bishop recovers, her opponent is declared the winner.[5][6]
31st[]
Thor leads the Asgardian army on a crusade to end the threats attacking the other Realms.[85]
Enraged by what happened, Lucas decides to attack him, but he is stopped by Squabbles, who tells him the best way to survive Seagate is to stay away from trouble. They start a friendship.[40][41]
4th[]
Phil Coulson allows himself to be captured and sent to an underground prison in Siberia to retrieve Agent Shaw, who was undercover posing as a torturer. They escape with help from Grant Ward and Melinda May.[86]
Ward and Fitz try to reach Ward's contacts in South Ossetia, but are captured. Thanks to Fitz's resourcefulness, they gain the trust of a local mob to help them cross the border.[86]
Hand and Coulson discuss his recovery, and he realizes he has a programmed response to the mention of Tahiti.[86]
Skye tries to hack into the Hub's mainframe with the help of Jemma Simmons. Agent Jasper Sitwell almost catches Simmons, and in a state of panic she renders him unconscious. While hacking, Skye chooses to check the status of Ward's and Fitz's mission, rather than seize the opportunity to search for information about her parents, but discovers the infiltration does not include an extraction team.[86]
6th[]
Grant Ward and Leo Fitz locate the Overkill Device, and realize there will not be an extraction. Both decide to stay and finish the mission together, escaping with the help of a modified version of the Device. While S.H.I.E.L.D. teams start raiding the compound, Coulson's Team arrive in the Bus to extract Ward and Fitz.[86]
Phil Coulson tells Skye about her parent's file, redacted by the agent that dropped her at the orphanage. Nevertheless, he keeps certain secrets about the file, and asks Melinda May to help him uncover the truth. Later, he tries to obtain the file about his death and recovery in Tahiti, but is denied access.[86]
9th[]
The Convergence begins, causing the formation of portals connecting the Nine Realms. Erik Selvig, now mentally unstable after being subjected to Loki's mind control, detects signs of the event and travels to Stonehenge to research it.[87]
Battle of Vanaheim: Thor's army, including Skurge[88], arrives in Vanaheim, the birthplace of Hogun and the final realm they must save. They defeat the Marauders who have been terrorizing the area, and Hogun decides to stay among his people while the rest of the army goes back to Asgard.[87][89][90]
12th[]
This date is the focus of a Point of Divergence due to time travel from 2023. It has created another reality: 2013/Time Heist
In the Asgardian evening, several hours after the army's victory in Vanaheim, a feast is held to celebrate.[87]
Meanwhile, it is the late morning in London, and Jane Foster goes on a date with a man named Richard Madison.[87]
Foster and Madison's date
Darcy Lewis interrupts the date with her intern Ian Boothby to tell Foster of bizarre atmospheric occurrences, which are actually signs of the Convergence. They take Foster to a nearby factory, where they meet three children named John, Navid, and Maddie.[87][90]
Erik Selvig ends up streaking around Stonehenge naked and is then arrested and taken to a mental ward in London. The incident is filmed for ITV News.[87][90]
The children show them many objects around the factory are disappearing in mid-air, and even floating. Foster separates from the group and accidentally falls through a portal into the hiding place of the Aether, which infects her with its power.[87][90]
In Asgard, Thor leaves the merriment to visit Heimdall, who discovers that the Convergence is taking place. Heimdall realizes he cannot locate Foster, and Thor decides to travel to Earth to find her.[87][90]
Foster then falls into another portal which returns her to London, having been gone for 5 hours.[87]
Thor and Jane Foster reunite on Earth. A police officer tries to apprehend Foster for trespassing in the abandoned factory, but when he touches her arm, the Aether attacks him with a blast of energy.[87][89][90]
A concerned Thor takes Foster to Asgard.[87][89][90]
An Asgardian doctor, Eir, tries to discover what has happened to Foster. Odin does not approve of Thor bringing a human to Asgard, but recognizes the infection as the Aether.[87][90]
The reappearance of the Aether causes Malekith and his army to awaken from their five thousand-year sleep. His second in command, Algrim, volunteers to become one of the Kursed to increase his strength.[87][90]
Frigga projects herself into Loki's cell to talk to him. She is disheartened to see that he has not read the books she sent him. Loki asserts that Odin and Thor do not care about him, and points out that Odin is not his father, then extending that to hurt her by saying she is not his mother.[87][90]
Frigga dissipates her projection as Thor, elsewhere, approaches her in the flesh. Frigga explains that she does not regret teaching Loki magic. Thor tells her he wants to inform Odin about the Nine Realms being at peace, but Frigga says that Odin is not there, and will be where he is "most at ease".[91]
Loki tosses a cup up and down in his cell.[92][93]
Jane Foster is given a blue dress by an Asgardian maiden. She asks if they have anything with pants, but they do not understand, and she accepts it.[92][93]
Frigga walks with her maidens. She instructs them to get Loki soup and astronomy books in the hope of cheering him up in his cell.[92][93]
Frigga continues to walk with her maidens.[92][93]
Jane Foster wakes from a rest in Asgard, and sits up. She then looks around her room.[94]
Foster pushes the rest of the covers off and stands up.[94] She picks up her blue dress and heads out.[92]
Foster steps outside and looks over the majesty of Asgard.[94]
Thor finds Jane Foster roaming the streets, fascinated by everything she sees, in particular a floating, moving metal orb. Thor explains that to them, all it is a ball that children on the street are using for play.[94]
Thor explains to Foster that she may have found a point where the borders between worlds were blurred by the Convergence. They end up kissing, and Thor insists he will find a way to save her. They are interrupted by the arrival of Frigga, who Thor introduces.[87][90]
Inside the dungeons, Loki continues to toss a cup up and down. Algrim uses his newly gained strength to free the other prisoners, including Lorelei, who has been imprisoned for over 600 years. While Loki stays in his cell, he informs Algrim of the easiest route out of the dungeons. Malekith and the rest of the Dark Elves arrive in Asgard, and reuniting with Algrim they search for Jane Foster. Frigga hides Foster and makes a temporary duplicate of her. Malekith and Algrim confront Frigga in her chambers, but when they discover the duplicate of Foster is not real, they kill Frigga.[87][90]
Witnessing his mother's death, Thor strikes Malekith with a lightning bolt from Mjølnir, leaving a permanent scar on the right side of his face. The Dark Elves retreat, finding no trace of Foster.[87][90]
13th[]
Late at night on Asgard, the Asgardians hold a funeral for all their fallen warriors. Thor asks Odin if he can get revenge on the Dark Elves for their attack. In deep sorrow for the loss of his wife, Odin refuses. Thor makes a plot against Odin's wishes with Heimdall, Sif, Volstagg, and Fandral to free Loki, who has knowledge of portals other than the Bifrost Bridge.[87]
The morning after the Sacking of Asgard and Frigga's death, the Asgardians discuss how best to recuperate and their next course of action.[87][90]
In London, Darcy Lewis tries to call S.H.I.E.L.D., but they do not return her call. She and Boothby then see the evening news about Selvig's arrest, and decide to get him out of his mental ward.[87]
Thor approaches Heimdall about a secret plan he wishes to enact to save Foster and Asgard. Heimdall agrees to help, and Thor makes plans with Sif and the Warriors Three.[87][90]
14th[]
Escape from Asgard: Thor frees Loki from the dungeons and takes him to a ship the Dark Elves left behind. Taking Jane Foster with them, they abandon the ship and transfer onto a flying boat steered by Fandral. While Fandral jumps off the boat to fend off a group of Asgardian soldiers, Thor, Loki, and Jane fly through the portal and arrive in Svartalfheim.[87][90]
Thor, Loki, and Jane devise a plan to make the Dark Elves think Loki will betray Thor. To gain the trust of the Elves, Loki uses magic to make them think he has stabbed Thor and cut his hand off.[87][90]
Foster gets the Aether extracted from her
Malekith extracts the Aether from Jane, but while Thor tries to destroy the Aether by striking it with Mjølnir, it only reconstructs itself. Algrim stabs Loki in the chest, but he uses Algrim's own weapon to kill him. Loki survives the wound, but tricks Thor into thinking he is dead.[87][90]
Thor and Jane travel around Svartalfheim and enter a cave. In London, Richard Madison calls Jane, and oddly manages to get service. Foster answers the phone call and finds a portal in the cave, which takes them back to London.[87][90]
Thor and Foster regroup with Lewis, Boothby, and Selvig. They deduce that the area where the Convergence will take full effect is Greenwich, meaning it will also be the area where Malekith tries to plunge the Nine Realms into eternal darkness.[87][90]
Thor and Malekith fight, but constantly fall through portals to other realms. The Royal Air Force retaliate against the Dark Elves; two of their jets fly through a portal to Vanaheim, but eventually find their way back to Greenwich.[87][90]
During their battle, Thor and Malekith are briefly transported to Jotunheim, where a Frost Beast follows them and becomes stranded on Earth. Malekith and his ship are involuntarily teleported back to Svartalfheim, and the wreckage of the ship crushes him. With the battle won, Thor says his goodbyes and returns to Asgard with the Aether.[87][90]
Phil Coulson and his team are assigned as part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. clean-up crew after the Battle of Greenwich. Every element with anomalous spectrographic signatures is contained, classified as hazardous material, and marked for transport.[95][96]
Loki, disguised as Odin, tells Thor he did the right thing by disobeying him and offers him the throne of Asgard. Thor declines, preferring instead to stay on Earth with Jane Foster. The disguised Loki allows him go to Earth, leaving him with full control of Asgard.[87][90]
Sif and Volstagg meet the Collector
Sif and Volstagg go to the museum of the Collector and request he keep the Aether safe, explaining the Tesseract is already being stored on Asgard and it may be dangerous to keep two Infinity Stones together in one realm. He accepts, but unbeknownst to them he is secretly collecting the six Infinity Stones.[87]
A StatiCorp research and development facility in Batesville, Utah, attempts to use a particle accelerator to create an inter-dimension portal.[98]
Technician Tobias Ford deliberately loosens bolts on one of the accelerator's couplings, as an excuse to file a safety complaint and see safety inspector Hannah Hutchins, because he has a crush on her. The loose bolts cause the accelerator to malfunction and explode, killing Frank Delacourt, Jack Benson and Arlene Willoughby. Ford is drawn through a portal and becomes stuck in between his own world and another dimension he believes is Hell. He is able to observe what happens in his own world and can partially manifest and manipulate items.[98]
Grant Ward begins to show behavioral changes as a result of his contact with the Berserker Staff, as well as some degree of super-human strength. He and Phil Coulson interrogate Randolph, who confesses that he is the Berserker warrior from the legend, and reveals the true location of the third piece of the staff. [95]
In Norway, Nystrom and Larsen use their two pieces of the staff to give more members of their group super-human strength, while researching the location of the last piece.[95]
The team arrives at a monastery in Ireland, the location of the final piece of the staff, only to find Nystrom has already found it. He stabs Randolph, and while Coulson, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons try to save his life, Ward and Melinda May fend off the attacking Norse Paganists.[95]
Newspaper from the Batesville Clarion in StatiCorp's accident
After reading the newspaper Taylor, a convenience store attendant at a gas station in Batesville, Utah, asks Hannah Hutchins if it is true that the accident at the lab is her fault. When she decides not to answer the question Taylor gets angry at her. Unbeknownst to Taylor and Hannah she was being protected by Tobias Ford. Fearing for her life Ford attacked Taylor.[98]
19th[]
Surviving his injuries, Elliot Randolph considers starting a new life somewhere else. Coulson recommends he move to Portland.[95]
Skye tries to get Grant Ward to open up about his past, but he refuses. That evening, he joins Melinda May in her hotel room and spends the night with her.[95]
Coulson starts having nightmares about his recovery in Tahiti.[95]
The next morning, Melinda May receives a message about the team's next mission: An Index asset evaluation for a woman in Batesville named Hannah Hutchins, who supposedly has telekinetic powers. [98]
Rescue of Hannah Hutchins: At the time the team arrives in Batesville, an angry mob has gathered in front of Hutchins' house. After someone throws an egg at Hutchins, an empty police car almost ran over a member of the mob.[98]
To get her out of scene without any further incidents, Hutchins is sedated by Melinda May.[98]
At the factory side, after scanning the area with the D.W.A.R.F.s, Fitz and Simmons decide to prank Skye.[98]
While transferring Hutchins to the Fridge, the Bus has to make an emergency landing, after someone, who attacked Simmons, sabotaged it.[98]
On the ground they discover that the mysterious force that caused all the accidents is actually a Particle Acceleration Complex worker named Tobias Ford who is trapped between Earth and "Hell".[98]
Simmons wakes up Ward
After Ford defeats Grant Ward, May uses Hutchins as bait for Ford in a nearby barn. The team realizes that Ford, who had a crush on Hutchins, is not trying to hurt her, but trying to protect her from those who try to hurt her. [98]
At the barn, May manages to defeat Ford and convinces him to let Hutchins go, causing him to disappear to an unknown location.[98]
Later that evening, while the team is playing a game of Upwords, Fitz comes in with shaving cream on his face, unaware that May was the one who pulled the prank.[98]
Ambush at the Oakland Centipede Base: Coulson, Peterson, Melinda May and Grant Ward lead an attack on the facility, not knowing that three Centipede soldiers were in cargo bins waiting to strike. They were deployed to attack the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Peterson gets stabbed by a stick causing him severe damage, but despite the injury, he manages to subdue Hayward. May also takes another Centipede soldier down, but he manages to escape with another soldier. Before being interrogated, Hayward is killed using his Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant.[103]
Mike Peterson is persuaded by Coulson to call his son and Raina answers the telephone, wanting Peterson to trade Coulson for Ace's safety.[103]
Peterson is presumed killed by S.H.I.E.L.D. when he is caught in the explosion that the Centipede Project ignited to facilitate their escape with the captive Coulson.[103]
Skye is evicted from the Bus by Hand, following advice from Melinda May. She then goes to Los Angeles, steals Lloyd Rathman's car, enters his home, and, with the help of Rathman and his security guards, accesses Rathman's computer to find the Centipede Project.[108]
Lucas has another intervention with Reva Connors. Connors tells the inmates that they must take responsibility for their own actions, but Lucas decides to return the same question to her. He begins to ask her to tell the inmates about herself, but she declines to do so, saying that it is not her job. He asks Connors if she is doing this out of guilt because of a family member, which causes Connors to abruptly finish the session.[40][41]
Connors' confession
As the rest of the inmates leave, Connors stops Lucas, confessing that it was her brother, who died in prison, which inspired her to do this job; she felt guilty that she neglected him while she went to get her masters. Lucas feels guilty for asking, but Connors knows that it was only to avoid her questions. Lucas reveals that he is innocent, but that he is guilty of a lot of other things.[40][41]
A third intervention is held, where Reva Connors reassures the inmates that the rumors that were being spread about experiments on the other inmates were false.[40][41]
Cage questions Connors
Squabbles states that an inmate, Jimmy Quinto, said that he would have gotten a reduced sentence if he went through some experiments, before he was never seen again, and was not reported dead. She tries to shut down the rumors, but Lucas says that she works for Seagate Prison, and so would never admit it.[40][41]
When the session finishes, Lucas helps Connors clear up the chairs. When she asks him why he still goes to the sessions, Lucas responds that it is because she gives him hope.[40][41]
They are interrupted by Albert Rackham, who takes Lucas to the lounge area and offers more benefits in exchange for fighting for him. Again, Lucas declines the offer, but Rackham gives him an alternative; he tells Comanche to stab someone and blame Squabbles for it.[40][41]
Rackham threatens to tear everything apart if he does not fight for him, and Lucas finally agrees. Rackham orders the guards to go easy on Squabbles; Lucas then demands that he needs Squabbles to be by his side.[40][41]
President Matthew Ellis sends a message to the Defense Secretary telling them that he thinks War Machine is a far too aggressive name and suggests that they work with A.I.M. to rebrand Rhodes to Iron Patriot.[50][118]
Lucas and Squabbles enter the arena with Comanche. Lucas notices some cameras directed at the ring, recording the fights between the inmates, and asks if the fights are being handed out. Comanche jokingly welcomes him to the internet.[40][41]
Lucas fights in the Seagate Prison arena
Lucas begins the first fight, with Albert Rackham, Noah Burstein, and Shades watching closely from the sidelines, and he knocks out his opponent with ease. Cage goes through the next slew of opponents and knocks them all out, one by one. After the matches, Rackham takes money from the other cops, having bet on Lucas. Lucas would keep fighting successfully over the next few months.[40][41]
After not sleeping for several days, Tony Stark tests his newest prototype armor, the Mark XLII, during the tests, various parts of the suit fly around his garage, crashing into things, eventually knocking Stark onto the ground.[118][119][15]
The Iron Legion creates friction between Stark and his girlfriend Pepper Potts. Pepper feels Stark is not paying enough attention to her, but Stark's encounters during the Battle of New York has left him traumatized and he built the Iron Legion with her protection in mind.[118][119][15]
J.A.R.V.I.S. follows a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin bombings, and the Mark XLII lands in Rose Hill, Tennessee. The armor runs out of power, and the world believes Tony Stark to be dead.[118][119][15]
Teaming with Harley Keener, Stark investigates the remains of a local explosion bearing the hallmarks of a Mandarin attack. He discovers the "bombings" were triggered by soldiers subjected to Extremis, which at this stage of development causes certain subjects to explosively reject it.[118][119][15]
After veterans started exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin arrive in Tennessee and attack Stark. He kills Brandt, but Savin escapes.[118][119][15]
Inside, he discovers the Mandarin who appears on television is actually an actor, Trevor Slattery, who is oblivious to the actions carried out in his name.[118][119][15]
The Mandarin is a creation of Aldrich Killian, who appropriated Maya Hansen's Extremis as a cure for his own disabilities and expanded the program to include injured war veterans.[118][119][15]
Killian captures Stark and reveals he has also kidnapped Pepper Potts. To gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws, Killian injects Potts with it. [118][119][15]
Hansen has a change of heart about Killian's plans, but she gets murdered by him.[118][119][15]
Remotely controlling the Mark XLII armor, Stark saves some surviving passengers and crew, but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis. They trace them to an impounded oil tanker, the Norco, where Killian intends to kill Ellis on live television.[118][119][15]
The Vice President Rodriguez (who is secretly working for Killian) will become a puppet leader, following Killian's orders in exchange for Extremis to cure his daughter's disability.[118][119][15]
Stark summons the Iron Legion, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support, and discovers Pepper has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before he can save her, a rig collapses around them and she falls to her apparent death.[118][119][15]
Stark confronts Aldrich Killian, traps him in the Mark XLII and sets it to self-destruct, but it fails to kill him. Pepper, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, intervenes and kills Killian.[118][119][15]
Raid of the Guest House: Coulson finds a room marked T.A.H.I.T.I. and is surprised to discover the corpse of an alien marked G.H. that is being drained of its bodily fluids.[122][123]
↑In Fifteen, it is said that the USB was given at Alex Wilder's "sixth grade party", presumably his birthday party. With Wilder and the other four older Runaways' dates of birth dated to early 2001, they would have been in sixth grade August 2012-June 2013. Wilder's date of birth is specifically dated to January 2001, making his sixth grade birthday party January 2013.
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 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 Daredevil, Carl Hoffman confesses that he and Christian Blake were "approached by a man working for Wilson Fisk 18 months ago" on February 14, 2015 (see 2015 references). This can either refer to "exactly 18 months ago," so April 14, 2013, or the more vague "during April 2013." A weighted average, putting more weight on the more specific, would result in them getting approached on approximately April 15, 2013.
↑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.
↑ 23.023.1In The Perfect Game, a flashback is shown of Benjamin Poindexter and Julie Barnes at the Brooklyn Suicide Prevention Center. They look the same age as in 2017, so it can be assumed to be not long before the present events. Poindexter is a special agent at the FBI, so his work at the hotline can be taken to have ended at least 4 years prior. It is presumably not much longer ago than that, however, given their appearances. It is seemingly some time into his time working there, since he has become fixated on Barnes, but not too long given the way she encourages him and how he comes across. It can be assumed, therefore, to be approximately in the middle of his "1 [year]" (stated in The Perfect Game) there. Being a special agent by October 23, 2017 (see 2017 references), the scene can therefore be placed about 4.5 years prior, around April 23, 2013.
↑ 25.025.125.2Connor Falk was born on June 18, 2005, making him 12.2 during filming for Refraction in September 2017. Working forward from Chase Stein's date of birth in January 2001 (see 2000s references), this would make it around April 2013. He is already at Atlas, so assuming it has a junior high, this would work as sixth grade. The final game of the year in a Brentwood area school in the 2012-13 season, April 30, 2013, can be used as an estimation.
↑Foggy Nelson, and presumably Matt Murdock, had their law school swearing-in ceremony and acquired their law licenses on July 20, 2014. To obtain a law license, one must take a bar exam, which is most commonly takenin July following law school graduation in May, receive results back, usually around two to three months after taking the exam, so around October, and attend a swearing-in ceremony, which are held throughout the following year. With Nelson and Murdock being sworn in and getting their licenses on July 20, 2014, working backward, this would place them graduating law school in May 2013. Since law school spans three years, this would place them starting in September 2010. Most law students take a gap year between college and law school, meaning they most likely graduated college in May 2009, which would thus place them starting in September 2005. Put more simply, their college years would span 2005-2009, and their law school years would span 2010-2013. There is conflicting information as to whether Nelson and Murdock met during college or law school. In Nelson v. Murdock, when the two first meet each other, Nelson's laptop has a 2009 sticker on it, and he is trying to enter into a class for “Fall 2010.” This would favor them meeting in law school as opposed to college, as it would match up perfectly with the year they started the former according to the aforementioned dates. Additionally, many of the classes shown on his laptop are law-related, such as Legal Methods, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law, and in Semper Fidelis, Murdock is mentioned to have been taking courses about torts and civil procedure when he met Elektra Natchios, which would make more sense with law school. On top of this, Murdock's on-screen report on Marvel's website says he met Nelson as a student at “Columbia University Law School.” Though conflating Columbia University and Columbia Law School, the inclusion of “Law School” would seem to favor the latter. However, in Nelson v. Murdock, Nelson and Murdock are shown rooming together in a dorm, which is more common in college compared to law school. Additionally, the course Nelson is enrolling into is a Punjabi course, and Murdock is later mentioned to have taken Spanish. This would indicate the two of them were taking electives, which would only be offered in college. Furthermore, Kinbaku shows Murdock meeting Elektra Natchios “Ten Years Ago,” which is further supported in Regrets Only when Murdock states that it’s been “ten years” since he left Natchios. With these episodes set in November 2015 (see 2015 references), this would suggest the two met in 2005, supporting the idea they met in college. Finally, and most importantly, in Rabbit in a Snowstorm, Nelson tells Karen Page that she's “much better off knowing [him and Murdock] now. [...] I'm a hell of a lot more dashing than I was in my awkward college days.” This confirms Nelson and Murdock knew each other in college. In addition to this, dialogue in Semper Fidelis, Guilty as Sin, and A Cold Day in Hell's Kitchen all refer to Murdock and Natchios' relationship occurring while the former was in “college.” Ultimately, the evidence presented favors Murdock meeting Nelson and Natchios in college instead of law school. The scene of Murdock meeting Nelson can thus be dated to August 29, 2005 and the scene of them vowing to work together as lawyers can be dated to May 5, 2009.
↑In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, a picture is shown of a middle-school aged Katy Chen at graduation. Los Angeles schools ended approximately June 4, 2013, and the graduation would have happened later that week. The graduation can therefore be approximated to June 6, 2013.
↑ 37.037.1Through 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.
↑ 40.0040.0140.0240.0340.0440.0540.0640.0740.0840.0940.1040.1140.1240.1340.1440.1540.1640.1740.1840.1940.2040.2140.2240.23In Step in the Arena, Carl Lucas/Luke Cage's hair growth would suggest approximately 4 months between his first day and nearly attacking Comanche in the courtyard, and a further 2 months between then and Squabbles being killed and Lucas/Cage being attacked again, with his escape the next day. This all takes place before January 20, 2014, the firm date for when Reva Connors is killed (see 2014 references). Ideally, it would be a good few months at least before her death. However, in Can't Front on Me, Shades says, "My last year in Seagate, me and Comanche got paid by this juiced-in-guard, Rackham, to beat the shit out of some guy named Carl Lucas." In Code of the Streets, in November 2015 (see 2015 references), Shades says, "I just got home [...] Three years this time, Seagate," suggesting he was released in late 2015, so his "last year in Seagate" would start in late 2014, but Cage is already out and Connors is already dead by then. If Shades is taken to be very loosely meaning "just" when he says "just got home", you could maybe take it that he got home a little earlier in 2015, but still, this does not work, with Cage escaping absolutely no later than January 2014. At a stretch, it can be taken that Shades is referring to the calendar year of 2014 as his last year at Seagate, released in the first half of 2015, so only a few months in and with 2015 not counting as his last "year" - and he is also only meaning "just" loosely, back for about half a year. With this, it would mean that his second attack on Lucas/Cage, the attack that he is referring to, can be in January 2014 and still loosely fit his statement. However, with Connors killed on January 20, 2014, this is very late for Lucas/Cage's escape. At an absolute minimum, they spend a few weeks together after the escape and before her death. So, all things considered, the attack can be dated to January 1, 2014, just about fitting Shades' statement at a stretch, and allowing Cage and Connors 18 days (2nd-20th), as much as possible, living freely together before her death. This makes Lucas/Cage nearly attacking Comanche roughly November 1, 2013, and his first day at Seagate roughly July 1, 2013, based on hair growth. The rest of the flashbacks in Step in the Arena are placed between July 2013 and January 2014 accordingly.
↑In Reunion, it is mentioned that Stein, Wilder, Yorkes, Minoru, and Dean used to play Twister when they were 12. Their average date of birth is January 2001 (see 2000s references), meaning the middle of their time as 12-year-olds (as an approximation) was approximately July 2013.
↑In Scar Tissue, a flashback is shown of Billy Russo and Frank Castle watching a little league game. They do not look much younger than in the present events (2018), so can be taken as 2013, before their final tour began in September 2013 (see other references). The little league season in 2013 was approximately June 21st-August 25th. Approximating with the middle of the season, the scene would be roughly July 23rd/24th. However, it should likely be a weekend day. With the closest weekend day being Sunday, July 21st, the scene can therefore be taken as July 21, 2013.
↑The flashback in On and On of Luke Cage being visited by his parents in prison appears to take place between his arrival and his first intervention in Step in the Arena. With these scenes dated to July 1, 2013 and August 14, 2013 respectively (see other references), the visit can be approximated to the midpoint between these dates, July 23, 2013.
↑ 53.053.153.2In 3 AM and Two Dead Men, flashbacks are shown of Frank Castle spending time with his children some time before their deaths. As mentioned in Penny and Dime, his family were killed the day after he got back from a rotation, which is said in Home to have been Operation Cerberus in Kandahar. Therefore, these scenes cannot be between his return and their deaths, so must be before Castle left for Kandahar, which is dated to September 14, 2013 (see other references). There is a further scene in Memento Mori with the family spending time with Billy Russo at the Central Park carousel, which does not present clearly whether it is the day of the family's deaths or a previous time. However, Maria and Frank Jr.'s clothes are different in this scene than when they are shown on the day of their death in later flashbacks in Memento Mori, suggesting it is a different day and therefore before Kandahar. As well as this, Russo says in Virtue of the Vicious on December 12, 2016 that he has not seen Castle for a "couple years now". As he wants to cover up the fact that he has recently spoken with Castle, he is saying that the last time that he had seen Castle before the last month is in fact the last time he had seen him, therefore meaning that the last time Castle and Russo saw each other was late 2014, so the Memento Mori scene cannot be in 2015. Finally, in 3 AM, it is shown that Maria Castle woke Frank at 10:30 on the day of their deaths, and in Kinbaku it is said that the massacre was at midday, so there would not be the time for them to get ready, go to Central Park, have Russo join them for a chunk of time, then have Russo leave before midday. So, these three scenes all take place before the Kandahar deployment, which began on September 14, 2013 (see other references). However, both children look the same as they do in April 2015 (due to the scenes being filmed at the same time), so it can be assumed that they took place in the weeks preceding the Kandahar placement, to get them as close as possible to 2015. Castle has a buzz cut in the 3 AM and Two Dead Men scenes but longer hair in the Memento Mori scene. The military buzz cut is likely shortly after or shortly before a deployment, and since, as explained, the scenes should be as late as possible (Summer 2013) and not as far back as 2012 (when Castle got back from his last deployment), the Memento Mori scene should therefore be placed preceding the other two, before Castle shaved his head ahead of his deployment. It can finally be reasoned that the 3 AM and Memento Mori scenes take place around the weekend before September 14, 2013, September 7-8, 2013, and the Memento Mori scene approximated as the weekend before, around September 1, 2013.
↑ 60.060.1In 0-8-4, Nick Fury reprimands Phil Coulson over the damage done to the Bus so fast, saying, "It only took you six days to take a completely renovated piece of state-of-the-art machinery and turn it into scrap?!" The reasoned date for him saying this is September 14th, referring to giving it to him on September 8th.
↑In Pilot, Peterson says to his son, "What do you say we go out to your aunt Mindy's this weekend?" While this implies that this is a weekday, further evidence places this as happening on a Sunday.
↑In Pilot, Grant Ward is promoted to Level 7 at S.H.I.E.L.D. He receives his new ID badge, with the issue date saying "2013SEP09" clearly on display for a second. Therefore the date Ward is promoted is September 9, 2013.
↑ 64.064.1In T.A.H.I.T.I., Simmons says that she has known Skye for "a few months." The reasoned date for them meeting is September 9, 2013, and the reasoned date for her saying this is December 29, 2013, which fits as 3½ months.
↑In The Things We Bury, Ward states that he "lived with [Coulson's team] for months." The reasoned date for them coming together is September 9, 2013, and the reasoned date for him leaving is March 7, 2014, which fits as 6 months.
↑In Face My Enemy, Skye jokingly states that "[May] just said more words than I've heard her say in a year," implying that she has known May for over a year. The reasoned date for her saying this is January 11, 2015, and the reasoned date for her first meeting May is September 9, 2013, which works.
↑In AKA The Sandwich Saved Me, it is shown on screen that Jones met Kilgrave "18 months ago". The date of the bus crash incident which ended their time together is definitively shown in AKA Crush Syndrome to be "January 20, 2014", and they were together for a few months, meaning they cannot have realistically met any later than September 2013. In AKA Sin Bin, Kilgrave says "it was a cold, clear night" when he met Jones, meaning it could not be realistically earlier than September 2013. The reasoned date for this onscreen writing is March 25, 2015, and 18 months prior to this is September 2013, which works well for the dates both ways.
↑ 69.069.169.2In Kandahar, it is shown that on Frank Castle's birthday, November 15th (see 1976 references), there are "29 days" supposed to be remaining of their deployment. Therefore, they are due to finish on December 14th. In Home, when Madani questions Castle about Kandahar, she asks, "You served many years as a Marine Force Recon?" He replies, "I did." She asks, "But that isn't where you served your last mission?", and Castle affirms, "No. I was part of a covert CIA operation. It was called Cerberus." Therefore, Kandahar was Castle's final deployment. However, in Kinbaku, Ellison's statements firmly place the Massacre at Central Park on April 4, 2015 (see 2015 references), and in Penny and Dime, Castle explains that this was the day after he got back from his final deployment. It must therefore be assumed that after Castle attacked William Rawlins on November 16th, similarly to how Russo "requested a transfer back to Force", Castle either requested to move or was forced to for his damaging attack on a superior officer, and had to serve an extra few months before finishing on April 3, 2015. This therefore makes the November that the Kandahar events take place November 2014. In Crosshairs, Frank Castle says "we did 15-month rotations in Afghanistan". Since they were due to finish on December 14, 2014, it can therefore be assumed that the deployment began around September 14, 2013. This also aligns with the fact that Castle says on November 15, 2014, "We have been doing it for a year," as it would have been 14 months. Finally, the assassination of Ahmad Zubair takes place somewhere between the September 14, 2013 start of the operation and the November 15, 2014 abrupt ending, so it can be approximated as roughly halfway between, around the night of April 15-16, 2014.
↑In The Asset, the agents discuss how "this weekend, Quinn worldwide's got its annual shareholders gathering." September 21, 2013 is a Saturday, fitting with this statement.
↑In Soul Brother #1, Luke Cage says his mother died while he was in Seagate Penitentiary, and he was told by the warden. With her last visit to him dated to July 23, 2013 (see other references), and his last day as part of the main prison being January 1, 2014 (see 2014 references), Etta's death can be approximated to the midpoint between these dates, October 12, 2013.
↑ 92.092.192.292.392.4In Avengers: Endgame, 2013 events are shown simultaneous to the events of Thor: The Dark World. With the 2023 Thor and Rocket making no impacts of significance until just before they leave, the events of the film up to that point can be taken to play out essentially identically in that universe. Similarly, events such as Loki tossing his cup and Jane Foster being given her dress, shown only in Avengers: Endgame, are unaffected by the 2023 Thor and Rocket's actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the main universe.
↑In The Bridge, Peterson makes mention that since we last saw him in Pilot, it has been his son Ace's birthday, saying, "Called him on his birthday and gave him all the "Heroes of New York" action figures." In Pilot, he says on the reasoned date of September 9, 2013 that Ace has "got a birthday coming up in a couple of months." This would put his birthday around November 19th, thus placing this episode after that.
↑In Roadhouse Blues, Rex Quinn says "Yeah, I don't see my dad either. Haven't seen him since I was a little kid." Children start forming explicit memories at around two years old, and his father leaving likely would be one. Rex is eight years old when he says this line, so he likely wouldn't describe himself as being a "little kid" if he was older than 6. Using his second and sixth birthdays as the minimum and maximum (see 2000s references for his birthday) and taking the average, Rex's dad would leave around December 2, 2013.
↑In The Magical Place, Simmons states that "it's been 36 hours since Agent Coulson was taken."
↑In Turn, Turn, Turn, Coulson states, "I haven't been able to get [Fury] on the line for weeks." The reasoned date for the previous contact is December 4, 2013, after his successful rescue. The reasoned date for him saying this is March 2, 2014, which somewhat fits at a stretch as about 12 weeks.
↑In Turn, Turn, Turn, Coulson says that he was "tortured for 3 days."
↑In Seeds, the students are coming from having taken a test. The placement of the episodes falls nicely with the test being in the last week of term, to assess their progress that term.
↑In Seeds, Fitz says to Gill, "I must say these ideas are way beyond what I was toying with in my first few months." The implication from this is that Gill is in his first few months. With the episode falling in December, this falls nicely as 3½ months into term time.
↑In Seeds, it is said that "24 years ago, an entire S.H.I.E.L.D. team in a small village was massacred in attempt to secure [Skye]." With the Massacre in Hunan being in March 1989, 24 years later puts the episode at the very latest in December 2013, from the crude math of 2013-1989=24 years.
↑ 121.0121.1121.2Seeds has to occur in 2013 ("24 years" following 1989, see other references), and is placed finishing on December 17, 2013. Yes Men has to occur in 2014 ("last year" in 2015, see other references). Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Chase picks up reasonably shortly following the events of Seeds, and leads into the events of T.R.A.C.K.S.. T.A.H.I.T.I. follows immediately after, and Yes Men only a few days later (Skye is still recovering, Simmons has spent a few days taking her blood). Therefore, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Chase, T.R.A.C.K.S., and T.A.H.I.T.I. occur at the end of December 2013 (27th-30th), with Yes Men picking up with Simmons and Skye a few days later on January 3, 2014. This also fits with them having dealt with the Overkill Device "a while back," nearly 2 months from early November to late December.
