The following list of news headlines only includes events as the general public on “Earth-19444” would understand, which may or may not be accurate to events shown in the movies. For example, many people don’t realize the “elemental giants” of 2024 were faked or that Mysterio was a fraud (see the “we beleive Mysterio” brick). Minor events happening to individuals also don’t rise to general knowledge unless likely reported in mass media (so Frank Castle’s trial yes, young Matt Murdock getting blinded no.)
Outside the official MCU, this list lumps in the revised timeline that erased Bryan Singer’s X-Men movies (X-Men and X2) with the updated events extending from Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class and time travel consequences by Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past and Wade Wilson in Deadpool 2. Backstory events from Logan are also included.
This timeline also includes events from David S. Goyer’s original Blade film trilogy and Tim Story’s two Fantastic Four movies, but NOT Josh Trank’s dour 2015 Fant4stic movie. The Netflix series (Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist) are included, but the 2003 Daredevil and 2005 Elektra movies are not part of this universe. The “canon” here includes some parts of the series that appeared on ABC (Peggy Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Inhumans), as well as the Blade and Ghost Rider films.
Lastly, commonly known events of interstellar or cosmic origin (Thanos attacking Knowhere and Xandar, the destruction of Ego, D’Bari agents pursuing the Phoenix energy force to Earth) are omitted as outside the purview of ordinary Earthlings.
For more on official Marvel Universes by number across the multiverse, see https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/a-guide-to-the-many-marvel-multiverses
EARTH-19444 PUBLICALLY KNOWN EVENTS
Early 1940s? … World War II: Nazi/HYDRA leader Johann Schmidt experiments with early prototype versions of the Super Soldier serum, transforming himself into the Red Skull. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1942 … Spring: Nazi/HYDRA leader Johann Schmidt recovers the Tesseract (Space Stone) from its hiding spot in Tonsberg, Norway. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1942 … Spring/Summer? Steve Rogers undergoes U.S. Army-like boot camp training at the Strategic Scientific Reserve’s Camp Lehigh in Wheaton, New Jersey. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1942 … June 22: Steve Rogers is injected with Dr. Abraham Erskine’s Super Soldier serum, becoming Captain America. HYDRA agents murder Erskine that same day. Rogers is not assigned to active duty but instead is used for propaganda purposes in USO shows. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1943 … Nov. 3: Captain America Steve Rogers goes AWOL and rescues hundreds of Allied soldiers imprisoned in a HYDRA weapons facility in Austria. His childhood friend James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes is among those liberated. Rogers remains in active service for special ops until his “death” at the end of the war. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1944 … Nazi officer Klaus Schmidt subjects Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners to medical tests aimed at uncovering mutant abilities. (X-Men, X-Men: First Class)
1944 … Sgt. “Bucky” Barnes is believed dead after falling from a train bridge during a mission in the Austrian Alps. It is later learned he was retrieved by Soviet forces and brainwashed by HYDRA scientists into the elite cyborg assassin known as The Winter Soldier. (Captain America: The First Soldier, Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
1945 … Spring: Captain America “dies” after crashing a Nazi/HYDRA airship into the North Sea. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
1945 … After World War II: Fall/Winter? Agent Peggy Carter and SRR agents raid the HYDRA base of Werner Reinhardt in Austria. Rumors say the SSR recovered alien technology and even an alien corpse from the site. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season Two)
1947 … August/September/October: British India is partitioned into two separate nations, India and Pakistan. Violent religious clashes between Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims follow. (Ms. Marvel: Season One)
1950s … Birth of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Super-Science: Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, and Col. Chester Phillips become the first co-directors of the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.). (Captain America: Civil War, Agent Carter: Season One and Two)
1950s … U.S. Army soldier Isaiah Bradley and others are unwillingly subjected to Super Soldier serum trials and used for special ops in Korea. The surviving soldiers, including Bradley, are imprisoned until the 1980s in order to continue experiments. This information remains unknown until revealed by Captain America Sam Wilson in 2024 and an exhibit being put up in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Season One)
1953 … Peggy Carter gives an interview for the Smithsonian, referencing her unnamed husband and two children, a son and a daughter. For unknown reasons, the identity of her spouse remains classified, though she does note Captain America Steve Rogers saved his life during World World II. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Avengers: Endgame)
1960s to 1990s? … Camp Lehigh base in Wheaton, New Jersey, becomes a S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility. Rumors circulate that the base employs former Nazi and HYDRA scientists. It is eventually decommissioned and abandoned. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Endgame)
1962 … Cuban Missile Crisis. October: U.S. agents investigate The Hellfire Club, discovering super-powered mutants conspiring to escalate nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. The U.S. founds Division X, a top-secret espionage group made up of mutant agents, but political pressure later disbands the group. (X-Men: First Class)
1964 … The Warren Commission implicates mutant Erik Lehnsherr (aka Magneto) in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lehnsherr is tried, sentenced, and imprisoned in a special cell beneath The Pentagon. The U.S. government founds the Federal Council on Mutant Activities (FCMA). (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
1965 … Charles Xavier opens Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters (aka the X-Mansion) in Salem Center, New York. It intermittently welcomes mutant students until remaining permanently open from 1983 onward. (X-Men, X-Men: First Class)
1970s … Peggy Carter is the sole Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Avengers: Endgame)
1973 … Magneto’s White House Attack. A team of unknown mutants break Erik Lehnsherr free from his cell beneath The Pentagon. Lehnsherr attacks President Richard M. Nixon by moving RFK Stadium down around the White House during the debut of the government’s new Sentinel program. After the incident, Sentinel developer Bolivar Trask is arrested for selling military secrets to foreign powers. Lehnsherr becomes an international fugitive. (X-Men: Days of Future Past, revised timeline)
Late 1970s … Supposed start of a covert program called Weapon X to create super-powered mutant soldiers for the U.S. and Canadian governments. It was supposedly shut down in the late 1990s or early 2000s. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
1983 … The Mutant Battle of Cairo: Rival factions of super-powered mutants appear seemingly from nowhere and fight in Egypt. (X-Men: Age of Apocalypse)
1988 … The U.S. government strikes a deal with Erik Lehnsherr (aka Magneto) allowing the mutant to remain in exile on the island of Genosha, which becomes a mutant sanctuary. (X-Men: Dark Phoenix)
1989 … Two members of the U.S. Air Force’s Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S., lead physicist Dr. Wendy Lawson and test pilot Capt. Carol Danvers, are killed when their experimental light-speed engine aircraft crashes in the Mojave Desert (southwestern United States). Rumors speculate their craft was powered by a mysterious power source later used to develop new weapon systems for S.H.I.E.L.D. (The Avengers, Captain Marvel)
1991 … Dec. 16: Howard and Maria Stark are murdered en route to the Pentagon, leaving their 21-year-old son Tony to take over control of Stark Enterprises. (Iron Man, Captain America: Civil War)
1992 … Black market arms dealer Ulysses Klaue steals a quarter-ton of vibranium from an undisclosed location somewhere in central Africa. (Black Panther)
1992 … The Phoenix Incident. U.S. President George H. W. Bush calls on the X-Men to rescue Space Shuttle Endeavour astronauts stranded in orbit during a freak solar storm. Following the incident, X-Men member Jean Grey appears to lose control of her mutant abilities, prompting the U.S. Congress to consider authorizing mutant internment facilities. Jean Grey is reportedly killed following her capture by U.S. forces in New York City, but she is somehow again alive and working at the X-Mansion by 2023. (X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Dark Phoenix)
1995 … U.S. counterintelligence agents discover Russian spies have stolen top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D. files while living under deep cover in Ohio. The Russians evade capture and escape by plane to Cuba. (Black Widow)
1996 … The Ten Rings organization largely suspends its global violence for a period of 11 years until returning with a vengeance in 2007. (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
1998 … Rumors spread about a so-called “vampire gang war” happening in Los Angeles. (Blade)
1999 … United States companies, particularly Stark Enterprises, become involved in supplying missiles to multiple sides during a war in the central European nation of Sokovia. (The Avengers: Age Of Ultron)
2002 … Tabloids report mutant vampires called “reapers” are seen in Prague. (Blade II)
2004 … The Alkali-Transigen group, part of Transigen Corp. under the Essex Corporation, causes a massive drop in naturally-born mutants due to mutant-suppressing chemicals used in mass food production. (Logan)
2004 … The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office reports the body of a suspected serial killer transformed into another person during an autopsy. (Blade: Trinity)
2005 … Von Doom Industries sponsors a cosmic energy study staffed by Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Susan Storm, and Johnny Storm, all of whom are transformed into super-powered beings when a freak cosmic storm hits their orbital space station. CEO Dr. Victor von Doom, also affected in the incident, loses his corporation and allegedly dies while fighting the nicknamed “Fantastic Four” in New York City. Doom’s body is returned to his native country of Latavia. (The Fantastic Four)
2007 … The “Galactus” Incident. Massive sinkholes/craters begin appearing around the Earth. The Fantastic Four and a newly risen Dr. Doom intervene against an alien being of cosmic power threatening to destroy Earth. (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
2007 … The Ten Rings terrorist group returns to spread chaos across Asia and the Middle East. (Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
2008 … Tony Stark is kidnapped by Ten Rings terrorists but escapes and begins building Iron Man battlesuits. (Iron Man)
2008 … Backed by the U.S. military, Dr. Bruce Banner attempts to recreate a version of the Super Soldier serum used to turn Steve Rogers into Captain America, but his work is ruined when a giant green monster (later called Hulk) appears and attacks the research lab. Banner flees and becomes a fugitive from the U.S. Army. (The Incredible Hulk)
2010 … Hammer Industries’ warbots go berserk at the Stark Expo in Queens, New York City. (Iron Man 2)
2010 … The Hulk appears on the campus of Culver University in Willowdale, Virginia, and soon thereafter is seen fighting The Abomination in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. (The Incredible Hulk)
2010 … Sightings of superhuman activity are reported in a small New Mexico town. The figures involved are later identified as the Asgardian champion Thor and a robot-like golem called The Destroyer. (Thor)
2010 … A restart of the Weapon X program quietly begins recruiting volunteers off the street to unlock test subjects’ latent mutant abilities. (Deadpool)
2010 … Hank Pym is voted out as CEO of his own company, Pym Technologies, and Darren Cross takes over as CEO. Pym’s daughter, Hope van Dyne, continues to serve as the corporate chairwoman. (Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
2011 … Spring: Reports of Hulk sightings in Bella Coola, British Columbia, mark the last known appearance of the creature prior to his help fighting the Chitauri invasion the following year. (The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers)
2011 … Summer: Russian oil workers discover a WWII-era crashed HYDRA bomber frozen in arctic ice. The body of Captain America Steve Rogers is found inside. He is returned to the United States, revived, and acclimatized back into society with help from S.H.I.E.L.D. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
2012 … “The Event”/The Battle of New York. Chitauri forces use a space portal above New York City to invade Earth. First public appearance of The Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, and Hawkeye, though some reports will claim Ant-Man was also involved). U.S. expands its Department of Damage Control to collect and contain extraterrestrial technology left on the NYC battlefield. (The Avengers, Spider-Man: Homecoming)
2013 … Matthew Ellis sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season One)
2013 … Dark Elf extradimensional warships appear and attack London, but they are repelled by Thor. (Thor: The Dark World)
2013 … Extremis soldiers kidnap President Matthew Ellis and attempt to kill him, but he is rescued by Iron Man Tony Stark and Iron Patriot/War Machine Col. James Rhodes. Initially, the plot is blamed on Ten Rings terrorists, but the attempt on the president is soon traced back to Aldrich Killian of Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM). (Iron Man 3)
2014 … A rogue missile strike destroys the abandoned Camp Lehigh base in Wheaton, New Jersey. The cause of the accident is never publicly explained. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
2014 … HYDRA Exposed. Three new S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers debut and immediately crash in Washington, DC. U.S. counterintelligence discovers several deep-cover HYDRA agents active in positions of power, including World Security Council Secretary Alexander Pierce and other high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. leaders. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
2014 … A huge blue-glowing blob spontaneously erupts from the ground and covers part of a town in Missouri, then stops minutes later and becomes inert goo. (Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
2015 … New York City businessman Wilson Fisk is exposed as The Kingpin crime boss and sent to prison. Unexplained mind-controlling incidents are reported across New York City. Harlem crime boss Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes is murdered in his nightclub. (Daredevil: Season One; Jessica Jones: Season One; Luke Cage: Season One)
2015 … The Sokovia Incident. Ultron units destroy Novi Grad, dropping the capital city of Sokovia from a high altitude, before the robots are shut down by The Avengers. (The Avengers: Age of Ultron)
2015 … Pym Technologies CEO Darren Cross disappears months before revealing a promised “astonishing” new product innovation. The corporation’s headquarters implode following an unexplained disaster, and the future of the company remains in limbo for the next 10 years. (Ant-Man)
2015 … The Inhuman Outbreak / Inhuman Epidemic. Reports escalate around the world of Inhumans, people of possible alien hybrid origin whose exposure to toxic “Terrigen Mists” causes extreme transformations into superhumans. President Matthew Ellis authorizes the Advanced Threat Containment Unit (ATCU) agency to address the outbreak on American soil. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Seasons Two and Three)
2016 … U.S. President Matthew Ellis appoints Gen. Thunderbolt Ross as Secretary of State. (Captain America: Civil War)
2016 … Videos of a masked figure nicknamed “Spider-Man” swinging on threads and crawling up walls around New York City gain popularity online. Spider-Man becomes a sort of controversial folk hero. (Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming)
2016 … Vigilante Frank Castle, known as The Punisher, is captured by the NYPD and imprisoned at Ryker’s Island, but he soon escapes under suspicious circumstances. (Daredevil: Season Two)
2016 … Danny Rand, long presumed dead, publically returns to New York City and inherits control of his parent’s corporate businesses. (Iron Fist: Season One)
2016 … Midland Circle buildings in New York City collapse into a massive sinkhole. (The Defenders: Season One)
2016 … The Avengers are blamed for blowing up an Institute for Infectious Diseases in Lagos, Nigeria, while foiling a terrorist plot. (Captain America: Civil War)
2016 … The Accords. The United Nations adopts The Sokovia Accords to license and limit superhuman activities. During a signing ceremony in Vienna, a terrorist bombing kills the Wakandan king T’Chaka, leaving his son T’Challa as the isolated African nation’s next ruler. Meanwhile, laws related to the Sokovia Accords will remain in effect for seven years before being repealed (at least in the United States). (Captain America: Civil War, She-Hulk: Season One)
2016 … U.S. forces pursue fugitives violating the Sokovia Accords, including former Captain America Steve Rogers and Black Widow Natasha Romanoff. (Captain America: Civil War, The Avengers: Infinity War)
2016 … Iron Man and Spider-Man rescue a Staten Island ferry that had been cut in half by an unknown energy weapon. (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
2017 … Donald Trump is sworn in as President of the United States. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season Four)
2017 … Right-wing human-supremacist group The Watchdogs begins targeting superhumans, especially near-human beings called Inhumans. A fiery vigilante called “Ghost Rider” begins killing white supremacist gang members around Los Angeles. (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season Four)
2018 … The Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation in New York City is destroyed in an attack by super-powered mutants, possibly led by some X-Men. (Deadpool 2)
2018 … The Infinity War/The Battle of Wakanda/”The Blip.” An alien spaceship appears above New York City. Days later, an alien army attacks the nation of Wakanda. Avengers android The Vision is destroyed. Half of all life is “snapped” out of existence by an unknown alien weapon. (The Avengers: Infinity War)
2019 … Asgardians and other extraterrestrial refugees arrive on Earth to settle the community of New Asgard near Tonsberg, Norway. (The Avengers: Endgame)
2019-2023 … Various events over this relatively quite period…
* Natasha Romanoff quietly assumes leadership of The Avengers.
* Steve Rogers works with post-Blip support groups.
* Tony Stark withdraws from being Iron Man to raise a family.
* Thor isolates among interplanetary refugees in New Asgard.
* Bruce Banner retreats to a private island lab in Mexico to integrate his mind with the body of the Hulk.
* Clint Barton disappears, but authorities do not believe he was among those affected by The Blip.
* A new vigilante called Ronin terrorizes the criminal underworld across the world, allowing a mysterious figure called The Power Broker to fill the void and rise in influence from the southeast Asian island of Madripoor.
* Super-powered vigilantes Cloak and Dagger, apparently former runaways from New Orleans, arrive in New York City.
* Joe Biden sworn in as President of the United States.
(The Avengers: Endgame, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Season One, She-Hulk: Season One; Cloak & Dagger: Season Two)
2023 … “The Return.” People “blipped” in 2018 suddenly reappear, having not aged. Global legal and economic chaos immediately follows. (The Avengers: Endgame, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
2023 … The Battle of Earth. Following an alien warship’s orbital bombardment of The Avenger’s Compound in upstate New York, super-powered teams assembled through magical portals destroy the invading alien armies. A new superhero named Captain Marvel appears to fight on behalf of Earth. Tony Stark is killed in the battle. Both Captain America Steve Rogers and Black Widow Natasha Romanoff disappear and are believed dead. (The Avengers: Endgame)
2023 … The city of Westview, New Jersey, is enveloped by a weird “hex field” for several days. (WandaVision: Season One)
2023 … The Sokovia Accords are repealed in the United States (possibly worldwide). (She-Hulk: Season One)
2023 … The Golden Daggers Club in Macau, China, begins online streaming of underground super-powered cage fights. (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)
2024 … The United States introduces Jonathan F. “John” Walker as the “new” Captain America after the disappearance of Steve Rogers the previous year. (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Season One)
2024 … Rogers: The Musical debuts on Broadway. (Hawkeye: Season One, Spider-Man: No Way Home)
2024 … The Flag Smashers anarchist group is revealed to be using a version of the Super Soldier serum. Captain America John Walker publically kills one of the Flag Smashers, after which Sam Wilson takes back Captain America’s iconic shield and U.S. officials remove Walker from service. (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Season One)
2024 … Captain America Sam Wilson reveals the U.S. Army’s Super Soldier experiments on unwilling soldiers and the cover-up, helping to memorialize them at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Isaiah Bradley is the last surviving member of the program, having escaped three decades of imprisonment after faking his death. (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Season One)
2024 … Following a car crash, attorney Jennifer Walters becomes infected with her cousin Bruce Banner’s blood, becoming the superhero She-Hulk. (She-Hulk: Season One)
2024 … Elemental giants attack buildings in Ixtenco, Mexico; Venice, Italy; and Berlin, Germany. Spider-Man is blamed for killing the extra-dimensional superhero Mysterio. (Spider-Man: Far From Home)
2024 … An alien monster attacks people on the streets of London, then disappears. (The Eternals)
2024 … The Emergence. The world is rocked by earthquakes and volcanic activity as a colossal giant celestial being partially emerges from Earth’s core, leaving its head and hand exposed in the Indian Ocean. Shortly thereafter, a vision of a similar celestial being briefly appears in the sky over Earth’s northern hemisphere before vanishing. (The Eternals)
2024 … Robotically enhanced men attack midday traffic in New York City. These same figures are later seen battling Spider-Man at the Statue of Liberty. (Spider-Man: No Way Home)
2024 … A tentacled monster with one eye attacks people on the streets of New York City before being slain by Doctor Strange. (Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness)
2024 … Wilson Fisk (aka The Kingpin) survives an assassination attempt on the streets of New York City. (Hawkeye: Season One; Echo: Season One)
2025 … President Ritson sworn in as President of the United States. (Secret Invasion: Season One)
2025 … Giant Egyptian “gods” are seen fighting in Cairo, Egypt, during a freak astrological event. (Moon Knight: Season One)
2025 … Wakanda in Turmoil. Wakandan leader T’Challa dies of a rare disease. Western nations (notably France and the United States) are accused of conspiring to steal vibranium from Wakanda. Queen Ramonda is assassinated, after which Wakanda fights a one-day war against an unknown enemy rumored to come from beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Ramonda’s daughter Shuri becomes Wakanda’s new Black Panther, but tribal chief M’Baku assumes national leadership. (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
2025 … Scott Lang’s memoir Look Out For The Little Guy! is published. (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
2025 … Hope van Dyne revives her father’s defunct company as the Pym van Dyne Foundation to expand the production of Pym Particles. (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania)
2025 … Shadow monsters appear and attack New Asgard near Tonsberg, Norway. A male and female version of Thor repel the attack. Famed astrophysicist Dr. Jane Foster, suffering from late-stage cancer, disappears. (Thor: Love and Thunder)
2025 … The first New Jersey AvengerCon is held in Wheaton, New Jersey, on the site of the former Camp Lehigh base. (Ms. Marvel: Season One)
2025 … The U.S. Department of Damage Control attempts to arrest two super-powered teenagers in northern New Jersey, prompting a strong public backlash. (Ms. Marvel: Season One)
2025 … Vossoyedineniye Square in Moscow is hit by terrorist bombings. Former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are implicated along with the fringe group “Americans Against Russia” as being behind the attack. President Ritson publically reveals the existence of shapeshifting alien Skrulls on Earth and pushes to have all offworld-born species legally declared as enemy combatants. (Secret Invasion: Season One)
2026 … The Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response (S.A.B.E.R.) space station, under the supervision of Nick Fury, Jr., is operational. (Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Marvels, Secret Invasion: Season One).
2026 … Rumors leak that Transigen Corp. is running a program called X-23 to genetically engineer children from past mutants’ DNA. (Logan)
2028 … End of the X-Men. Charles Xavier experiences a telepathic seizure that kills several X-Men and injures more than 600 people in Westchester County, New York. The X-Men’s founder disappears shortly after the incident and the X-Men are disbanded. (Logan)
2029 … Authorities in Oklahoma City find several bodies left behind at an abandoned industrial facility. Many of the dead are later identified as contractors hired by Transigen Corp. (Logan)
FUTURE FANFIC / 2030 AND BEYOND / MARVEL MULTIVERSE ROLE-PLAYING GAME CAMPAIGN
The public generally believes the giant celestial in the Indian Ocean died while accidentally teleporting into Earth from another dimension, not that it has been dormant within the Earth for millenia. (The Eternals remain unknown.)
In the United States, S.H.I.E.L.D. has largely been dismantled, but S.W.O.R.D. – the Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division – is extremely active following 2018’s “Blip,” 2023’s “hex” incident in New Jersey, and President Ritson’s 2025 announcement of Skrull infiltrators active on Earth. The Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response (S.A.B.E.R.) space station has also become operational, staffed by humans and alien species such as Skrulls and Asgardians.
In other espionage fields, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine is putting together her Thunderbolts team, and M.I.6’s Sonya Falsworth has allied herself with G’iah and the remaining Skrulls on Earth.
In the corporate world, Roxxon Corp. continues to thrive, as does Stark Industries and its troubled rival Hammer Industries. Transigen Corp. is under investigation for illegal genetic research involving human DNA and cloning. Rand Enterprises has lost most of its influence. Von Doom Industries is long since defunct, but Dr. Doom continues to pursue super-science back in Latavia. (Oscorp and Alchemax do not exist in this timeline.) Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) operates at the fringes of industry, dodging regulation and oversight as best as it can.
Heroes
The Fantastic Four are experimenting with multiversal travel, having begun tracking evidence of universe crossovers and timeline manipulation: the T.V.A.’s retcon of Loki in 2018, Doctor Strange’s spell and America Chavez’s visits in 2024, and various meddling by the Chronicoms. (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Loki: Season One, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season Seven)
The Avengers are no longer a formal group, though in a crisis it would be possible to enlist Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Captain America Sam Wilson, and possibly a few other superheroes back into united action.
Sorcerer Supreme Wong is rebuilding Kamar-Taj and training replacement sorcerers, including America Chavez. Doctor Strange remains keeper of New York’s sanctum.
The X-Men no longer exist, and super-powered mutants in the United States and Europe have become rare. However, a small group of young mutants have founded a new sanctuary for themselves in northern Canada, and Magneto’s small Genosha island still exists. (Magneto’s attacks on New York from the X-Men movie never happened due to time travel revisions.) Despite Wolverine’s comment that “all the X-Men are dead,” a few might still survive in isolation. (X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Logan)
Although U.S. President Ritson essentially declared war on offworld-born species, other places on Earth – notably New Asgard in Norway – continue to welcome extraterrestials looking to resettle on Earth.
Villains
The Watchdogs remain a right-wing domestic terrorist group, targeting all manner of super-powered “mutants, Inhumans, aliens, freaks and other threats to pure strain humans.” The Indian Ocean celestial and President Ritson’s rhetoric fuel public fears that play into Watchdog propaganda.
HYDRA is a shadow of its former self, having lost its Inhuman hive-mind leader and several senior masterminds who vanished between The Blip and The Return.
The Ten Rings remain active as a criminal syndicate, sometimes with and sometimes against The Power Broker’s network out of Madripoor.