by Cinder » Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:19 pm
2010
January:
01– Spider-man fights Omega Red, a mutant assassin.
02– A crew of super-powered workers comes to clean up the mess.
04– Spider-man fights and defeats Rhino and the army takes the Rhino into custody, while Eddie Brock quietly stalks him and watches the battle.
05– Peter goes on a date with Kitty Pride (AKA Shadowcat). Spiderman beats the Shocker with Kitty Pride’s help.
06–Spider-Man battles a man in beetle-like armor. The Beetle breaks into Roxxon Industries and steals a vial of an unknown substance.
07 – Fury meets with Spider-Man to tell him that the Beetle robbery and Roxxon industries both have something to do with Latveria. Fury tells Spider-Man to cease his involvement, as it is a sensitive international situation. The X-men learn that the country of Genosha is killing mutants on live web-broadcasts like a twisted reality television program.
08– Xavier decides to assign Jean, Scott, Bobby, and Kitty to take down go to Genosha and do some recognizance. However, Warren, Peter, Alison and Kurt, feel that Xavier is not doing enough and secretly go to shut down the operation. Eventually the show is shut down, however Angel is severely injured. The most recent victim, the dangerous mutant Longshot, escapes, and the X-men bring another persecuted mutant, known as Spiral, to the states to set her free.
09– While Xavier visits the bank in an attempt to deal with the remaining Hellfire Club’s efforts to deprive the school of funds. While there, conjoined mutant twins calling themselves Syndicate attempt to rob the bank. Xavier leads the mundane humans in a plan to overtake Syndicate and manipulates the twins into assisting him in recovering the funds. The X-men battle a member of the alien race called the Technarchy.
10– Ororo tracks down an absent Wolverine in Canada. There they are attacked by Lady Deathstrike. They manage to defeat her and a group of former Weapon X soldiers, but Storm is injured. Wolverine returns to the X-men bringing her to safety. Captain America parachutes into Northern Iraq to recue Nine Hostages.
11– Hostages are returned home. News about Banner being the Hulk and the accompanying cover-up is leaked. The European super-soldiers rescue a stranded submarine.
12– Banner’s trial begins.
16– Silver Sable spots spider-man, but loses him in Queens.
21– Day nine of the trial. Banner is found guilty. Fury secretly drugs him. SHIELD blows up an aircraft carrier with Banner on it, but, unknown to them, he escapes and survives.
22 – Sable and her associates see Spider-man entering high school.
23 – After Banner’s funeral is held, he contacts Henry Pym.
25 – Tony Stark proposes to the Black Widow and gives her a version of the Iron Man armor. The Ultimates meet with the European Defense Initiative at “The Dome” in Brussels. They are told that Thor is a mental patient whose powers are created by stolen technology. Thor attacks police protecting Anti-U.S. Super-Soldier protestors in Rome. The Ultimates capture Thor, believing him insane
26 – The Defenders enlist Henry Pym as a member
29– Sable kidnaps Flash Thompson, thinking that he is Spider-man. He escapes and gains notoriety from his story.
February:
1 – Spider-man is captured by Silver Sable and her mercenaries. She is working for Roxxon Inc. The CEO of Roxxon believes that Spider-man is protecting his company because he has stopped several super villains in their attempts to harm Roxxon interests. However, it was all simple coincidence. The Vulture attacks Spider-man. It is revealed that Elijah Stern, AKA the Tinkerer, who believes he was wrongfully fired by Roxxon, is behind all the super villain attacks. Fury takes him into custody so that Stern can work for SHIELD and get psychological help.
3 – The Mad Thinker is hired by AIM, Advanced Idea Mechanics, to steal Cerebro from the X-Men. She is able to convince the three X-Men that the Fantastic Four were the perpetrators. She double crosses AIM, and attempts to use Cerebro to enhance her own mental capabilities even further. Iceman, Wolverine, and Kitty Pryde go to the Baxter Building to confront the Fantastic Four. When the two groups learn that The Mad Thinker is the one behind the heist, they join forces to defeat her.
4 – Ultimates foil hijacking while plane is still in flight. The Rocketmen, SHIELD agents in armor derived from earlier Stark designs, assist.
5 – SHIELD agents encounter the Hulk in Sierra Leone. SHIELD agent and Ultimates Reserve Member, Damian Hellstrom, continues his undercover work with the Defenders. A man stricken with radiation poison turns into a giant monster and attacks a nuclear plant. He is stopped by the Ultimates and Ultimates reserves, The Goliaths.
6 – An agent for the Ultimates reserves dies when his body is unable to tolerate the stress of the Super-Soldier serum. An attempt on Nick Fury’s life is unsuccessful.
7 – A movie portraying the events of Flash Thompson’s kidnapping premieres on Lifetime Television. The story is Flash’s version of events and portrays him as heroic.
8 – The Juggernaut escapes SHIELD custody and tracks down Rogue in Las Vegas. She is there with Gambit stealing the Gem of Cyttorak from a Fenris owned casino. They do battle and Gambit sacrifices himself to defeat Juggernaut. Before Gambit dies, Rogue absorbs his powers and some of his consciousness. While her stolen powers and psyche normally fade quickly, these linger haunting her.
9 – Several new students join Emma Frost’s Academy of Tomorrow, including Roberto De Costa. While attempting to aid the Chicago Fire Department, Polaris loses control of her powers and accidently kills several firemen and bystanders. Polaris is taken into SHIELD custody. Her magnetic powers forced them to house her in the same cage as Magneto. Acting for SHIELD, Scarlett Witch captures the mutant Longshot in the Savage Lands. Four students of the Academy, Havok, Northstar, Cannonball and Susnpot, attempt to break out Polaris. They are opposed by the Ultimates and The X-men. This is just a diversion orchestrated by Magneto. During the fight Mystique and Forge sneak in and release Magneto. Magneto releases many of the Triskellion prisoners. Dazzler is seriously injured by Deathstrike. SHIELD ends its allegiance with the X-men thereby revoking all funding. Magneto escapes the Triskellion by putting a disguised Mystique in his place.
15 – Dazzler is in a comma. Professor Xavier offers Angel a chance to be a spy in the Academy of Tomorrow in exchange for Xavier’s leaving Dazzler on the team. Rogue returns to the mansion still unable shake Gambit’s powers. Colossus agrees to go to homecoming with Northstar.
February:
17 – Xavier meets Lilandra Neramani, an official of the Church of Shi’ar Enlightenment. She offers him the resources of the church in exchange for access to Jean Grey. The church believes that she is about to bring about the re-birth of their Deity and wish to perform tests to prove it. Fury captures a newly manifested mutant named Elliot Boggs who has accidently killed their parents. He brings Boggs to the X- men to see if they can deal with his out of control reality altering powers. Storm and Wolverine encounter Sabretooth. He claims to be Wolverine’s son. Sabretooth manages to escape with some of Wolverine’s tissue. He takes it to a now disfigured Doctor Cornelius who intends to clone Wolverine. Marvel Girl and Cyclops agree that Cyclops must be more spontaneous. Rogue, whose own vampiric abilities are now replaced with Gambit’s, can now be intimate with Iceman and they decide to begin dating again. Nightcrawler and Colossus go to see Dazzler. Nightccrawler reveals his true feelings for Dazzler, saying he is in love with her. Colossus confronts Nightcralwer about his homophobia and Nightcrawler admits that he is not comfortable with the fact that Colossus did not tell him.
18 – Boggs is allowed to awaken after it is determined that he can control his powers. Boggs uses his powers to help battle the Brotherhood of Mutants who have attacked the homecoming dance at the Academy of Tomorrow. The Shi’ar arrive at the mansion to test Marvel Girl. The tests unleash something inside of Marvel Girl and she nearly kills Xavier and Lilandra. Later when the test results are revealed Gerald Levine lies telling Marvel Girl, Xavier and the others that based on the test results she cannot be the Phoenix. However secretly he is a member of the Hellfire club and the truth is that he believes she is the Phoenix.
19 – Shadowcat and Spider-man defeat a villain called the Ringer. She returns to the mansion only to be apparently attacked by two other X-men, Wolverine and Storm. Shadowcat manages to trigger the blackbird’s autopilot before she is captured. This sends the plane back to Queens to pickup Spider-man. He accidently boards and is transported back to the mansion where he is captured. Before he blacks out he sees that it was not infact the X-men, but a mercenary named Deadpool and his Reavers hidden by an illusion. These mercenaries have undergone terrible cybernetic modification to battle the mutants that they hate. They take Spider-man and the X-men to Krakoa a small island off of the Genoshan Coast. There Mojo and his minions plan to broadcast the fight between the X-men and Spiderman and Deadpool and the Reavers. The X-men win the battle and escape the island. While many of the Reavers are destroyed, Deadpool survives.
20 – Ben Urich writes a story about a woman who claims to have been bitten by a vampire. J. Jonah Jameson does not believe him, but when Urich continues his investigation he is also bitten. Spider-man attempts to save Urich, but is overmatched. Morbius steps in and helps him defeat the vampires and save Urich from turning. Spider-man learns that his genetic alteration has left him immune to vampires’s bites.
22 – Jessica Drew is “born.”
March:
09 – The Magician helps the X-men defeat the friends of humanity. Xavier keeps Marvel Girl in a surveillance cell because he fears for her stability. Nick Fury visits the X-Mansion to inform Xavier that he wants to enlist Magician in The Ultimates. However, Xavier suspects something is amiss when he realizes Fury does not recall bringing Magician to the X-Men. They conclude that he has used his powers to manipulated reality so that the X-men would accept him as a member of the team. When the X-men return from the conflict with the Friends of Humanity, Xavier and Fury confront Magician about the fact that he has manipulated them. A conflict ensues in which the Magician realizes that they will not accept him. The Magician decides that he must destroy the X-men. Marvel girl intercedes and the X-men seemingly defeat the Magician with Wolverine killing him. However, it is later revealed that the Magician fabricated the events of his death when he appears to Shadowcat. He tells her that he did not mean to hurt anyone and that he intends to go off where he can be alone. However Shadowcat does not realize any of this and from her perception the conversation never happened and the X-men continue to believe that he has been defeated. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler secretly kidnaps Dazzler when she awakes from her comma. He lies and tells her she is in danger and puts her in a cave. He claims that he is doing this to protect her from an unknown danger that attacked the mansion. She believes him and acquiesces to being hidden away.
10 – The X-men learn of Nightcrawler’s betrayal and rescue Dazzler. They fight Nightcrawler and in the course of the battle Rogue regains her power-theft powers. She uses them to subdue Nightcrawler. After the conflict is over Xavier maintains Nightcrawler in a psychic comma hoping to treat his mental illness. Dazzler wants him to pay for kidnapping her and quits the team.
16 – Doug Ramsey begins to feel alienated by the other students in the Academy of tomorrow because he is not a mutant.
20 – Ramsey tells Emma Frost that some of the other students are committing vigilante acts. He nearly gets himself killed following the other mutants on one of these acts. Emma Frost disciplines the group of vigilante students. T hey all become angry with Ramsey when they discover he told Frost of their actions.
22 – Protestors outside of the Triskellion demand Thor’s release and complain of Ultimate actions around the world. Wasp meets Hank Pym and they renew their relationship behind Captain America’s back. Hawkeye’s family is assassinated and he is captured.
23 – Captain America learns of Wasp’s cheating and confronts her. Fury views footage of Hawkeye’s family’s murder which reveals Captain America to be the killer. Captain America is arrested.
24 – The North East of the United States is invaded by a super-powered coalition of nations opposed to the United States' foreign policy. This international collective is made up of China, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and rogue elements of the French and Russian governments. The attack is spearheaded by the super-team the Liberators consisting of Colonel Abdul al Rahman, the Abomination, the Crimson Dynamo, Hurricane, Swarm, Perun, and The Schizoid Man. The invading forces defeat the Ultimates and the military of the United States therby taking control of most of the territory east of the Mississippi River. Nick Fury loses an arm on the fighting. Black Widow reveals that she is the true traitor and kills Edwin Jarvis. She then holds Tony Stark hostage and attempts to extort his enormous fortune at gunpoint. But Stark activates the nanites he has placed in her bloodstream. This freezes her body in place and allows him to further download her knowledge into his own mind. He then knocks her unconscious and escapes. Hank Pym is revealed to be working with the Liberators. Hawkeye escapes from his captors. Wasp manages to assist Captain America in escaping as well. The President is captured. Captain America and several other of the Ultimates fight the Liberators in Washington DC. The Hulk reappears to join the fight. The European Defense Initiative joins the fight. Tony Stark reveals that he has been creating a giant Space-based Iron man-like weapon. He unleashes the weapon on the invading forces. Hank Pym turns coat and rejoins the Ultimates. The Fantastic Four, the X-men and Spider-man join the fight. Thor appears and confronts Loki, who has been behind the whole invasion. Loki summons his mythological minions to join the fight. The Asgardians then also join the fight on the side of the Ultimates. Thor defeats Loki and the battle is won. Hawkeye kills Black Widow for what she did to his family. Banner is placed back in custody.
25 – Kingpin and Jean DeWolfe manipulate Spider-man into taking on a thug named Frank Oliver. Daredevil is on the same criminal’s tail after the thug offered him money to represent him. The two encounter Oliver at the same time. Serendipitously, the Punisher attacks him at the same time. The Moonknight, who has recently awoken from a comma, appears to attack the Punisher. The conflict ends with the Punisher being taken into custody, and the Moon night, Spider-man, escaping Daredevil. Before the Punisher is taken into custody he kills DeWolfe for being a dirty cop. Spider-man does not believe him, but after Daredevil informs him, he accepts it as the truth. Later that night, the Daredevil makes the Moonknight a proposition involving forming an alliance with himself and others against the Kingpin. The Ultimates and other heroes help to clean ip and repair after the attacks of the Liberators and their forces. Captain America and Falcon discover that Arnim Zola, a Nazi War criminal, has been kept alive by the U.S. government. They have done this by transferring his consciousness into a sentient computer matrix. He escapes during the attack on America with the help of white supremacists. Captain America and Falcon confront and defeat Zola and the supremacists.
26 – The Mole-man kidnaps several of the young scientists from the Nursery Two, the Baxter Building’s second installation, in Pine Buttes Oregon. Among the scientists are: Phineas Mason, Sunita Begum, Gus Axelrod, and Josie Hart. Mole- man takes them to an ancient technologically advanced Lemurian underground city in order to re-colonize a subterranean metropolis he has discovered there. The young scientists help defeat Mole-man and decide to stay in the city because they are tired of the military taking advantage of them and using them to create destructive weapons.
27 – Fury asks Captain America to mentor Black Panther for inclusion into the Ultimates.
28 – While on a date Invisible Girl and Mr. Fantastic encounter a group of extra- dimensional aliens known as Seed Nineteen. A conflict ensues and the aliens easily escape. However the group leaves two of its members behind. One is the living vehicle Sky-Eater and the other is a physical aspect/manifestation of the group’s leader/guide that exists on their home world, called Seed. The aliens have come to earth coincidently as they were merely trying to escape their enemies after breaking another member, Tesseract, out of captivity. When the remaining members of the Seed Nineteen group, Threshold, Dreamcatcher, Grail Fountain, and Magnificent Brute, realize they have left their leader/guide, Seed, behind they go to the Baxter Building to recover it leaving Vykni, the final member, behind to guard Tesseract. At the Baxter Building the Seed realizes that they should all work together to help successfully complete the mission of saving the Tesseract. In the meantime, enemies of the aliens representing the Acheron Empire, appear to recover Tesseract led by the Emperor’s son Gallowglass. They defeat Vykni and it is revealed that Tesseract is under some form of mind control that makes him loyal to the enemy. The Fantastic Four and the aliens decide to work together and travel to their origin dimension. Once there they manage to kill Gallowglass and recover Tesseract. The alien Dreamcatcher, Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Girl attempt to remove the technology that has been inserted in Tesseract to control him. The Four are contacted by the emperor Thanos via possession of The Thing. He demands that Mr. Fantastic create a weapon for him called the Cosmic Cube. He claims that he has “seen” that Mr. Fantastic can do it. Mr. Fantastic rejects the offer and Ben manages to reject the possession. The Four are then attacked by the empire forces led by the emperor’s other son, Ronan. Dreamcatcher shows Mr. Fantastic how to teleport them back to Earth. He does so, but Ronan follows them as does the remaining members of Seed Nineteen. Back on Earth Mr. Fantastic concocts a plan to have Dreamcatcher combine all their powers so as to defeat the seemingly indestructible Ronan. It works and he is defeated. The aliens return home.
29 – Spider-man’s clones escape.
30 – Spider-man and Mary Jane are at the mall when they are attacked by The Scorpion. After Spider-man defeats him he unmasks him only to find out that they look exactly alike. Spider-man takes The Scorpion to The Fantastic Four. They determine that he is a clone of Spider-man, but is only a 94% match. When Spider-man returns home he finds that Mary Jane is missing. When he goes to look for her he encounters a female with a similar costume and powers as himself. She defeats in combat him and when he awakes she is gone. When Spider-man continues to search for Mary Jane at his old house he finds Gwen Stacy there alive. Aunt May shows up at the house as well and Peter must tell her that he is Spider-man. She reacts poorly to the news and kicks Spider-man out. At that same moment Richard Parker, Spider-man’s father, appears alive. He explains that he has always been alive having never gotten on the plane that killed his wife and the Brocks. He has been forced to keep his whereabouts secret by his employers, the CIA. It is revealed that Mary Jane has been kidnapped by another clone of Spider-man; this one has advanced intelligence but also has a disfigured face as a result of being an imperfect clone. He wishes to use the OZ formula to give her powers so that she will not be in danger so often. A third clone appears, this one with six arms, and attacks the disfigured clone. The disfigured clone defeats the six armed one and continues his experiment on Mary Jane. The Fantastic Four reluctantly tell Fury about Peter’s clone. He mobilizes a group of robots called the Spider Slayers to take down Spider-man and his clones. These robots attack Spider-man’s home before he can learn the entire truth about the clones and his father’s involvement. The attack causes Aunt May to have a heart attack and Gwen to turn into Carnage. Fury is about to take Spider-man into custody when the Fantastic Four arrive and intercede. They save Aunt May and take Peter’s father with them to safety. The Spider Slayers read Carnage’s power signature and nullify it returning Gwen to her natural form. The disfigured clone completes his experiment and Mary Jane transforms into a demonic creature. Before Spider-man can be taken into custody, the female with Spider-man-like powers appears and steals Spider-man away. She reveals to Spider-man that she is his female clone and is called Jessica Drew. She also tells him that a man named Ben Reilly is responsible for her creation. Further she has all of his memories despite someone named Cassandra Webb intending on erasing them. She reveals that Carnage escaping is what allowed her and the other clones to get out. She tells him that the other clones are earlier and less perfect versions of him. They all are damaged or malfunctioning in some way, but all of them want to find and protect Mary Jane. She leads Spider-man to find Mary Jane. Mary Jane fights briefly, but then reverts to herself. They then find out the truth: that Otto Octavius is the one who created the clones. He is revealed to be working for the FBI’s Special Projects Research and development. He also tells Spider-man that his father is merely a clone aged an implanted with his father’s memories. Spider-man begs the Fantastic Four to help Mary Jane and begs Fury to pull his troops out and allow Spider-man and the clones to take care of Dr. Octopus. They both oblige. Far from helpless, Dr. Octopus reveals that he can control metal and creates new arms from the surrounding metal. Despite this, the clones and Spider- man manage to defeat him. However, whereas Peter is ready to turn himself in to Nick Fury, Jessica promptly leaves to escape incarceration. Before Fury can arrest him The Human Torch intervenes and steals Peter away to the Baxter Building where they have cured Mary Jane. Mr. Fantastic tells Spider-man that he thinks that they can cure him too. The clone Spider-man thought was his father ages quickly and dies. Fury agrees to allow Spider-man to continue his career as a super-hero. Mary Jane and Spider-man make up. Aunt May accepts that her nephew is Spider-man and forgives him.
31 – Gwen and the Scorpion are in SHIELD custody. Shadowcat sees Mary Jane and Spider-man kiss. Jean Grey celebrates her twentieth birthday. A mutant claiming to be from the future attacks the X-men. This mutant claims to be a future Wolverine and wishes to kill Xavier to avoid a terrible future that Xavier brings about. Unable to succeed at killing Xavier, the future mutant, known as Cable, kidnaps Jean Grey. Another mutant from the future, known as Bishop, shows up too late to stop Cable. Bishop helps the X-men track Cable to an abandoned Weapon-X base in Finland. Cyclops and Xavier stay behind. There the X-men confront Cable and his group of future soldiers, Domino, Kaine, Grizzly and Hammer. A conflict ensues. Rogue is severely injured when her arm is severed. She survives and regenerates the arm by absorbing Wolverine’s healing factor. Cyclops and Xavier resolve to join the fight, but not before Xavier reveals that he loves Marvel Girl more than simply a mentor or student. The X-men defeat the group, but not without great cost. Xavier is killed when Cable detonates an explosive device. The other mutants escape back to the future.
April
01 – Diablo’s hunchbacked henchman Peppone appears in composed of blue white flame to the Fantastic Four telling them that his master has kidnapped their loved ones and challenging them to come back to 1499 to save them. A massive gate appears in New York leading to 15th century Milan. The Fantastic Four decides to go through to save their kidnapped family members, Enid Richards, Elsie Grimm and Franklins Storm. When the Fantastic Four succeed in defeating Diablo in the past, the gate is destroyed in the future.
02 – Kitty Pride leaves the team, moving back to New York with her mother. Cyclops proposes to Marvel Girl, but she declines because, while she loves him, she is not ready for marriage. Xavier’s funeral is held. Most of the meta-human community attends. Nightcrawler escapes.
05 – Cyclops, Storm, and Marvel Girl learn that they have inherited Xavier’s estate. Colossus goes to visit Northstar at the Academy of Tomorrow indefinitely. Wolverine leaves the team; secretly his departure is to find his wife. A mutant named Pyro destroys a television station in New York with his pyrokinesis because he believes they have been spreading anti-mutant propaganda. He is nearly killed or captured when he is caught between The Friends of Humanity and the police. Nightcrawler teleports him out, and Pyro tells of an underground society of mutants.
06 – Marvel Girl, Storm and Cyclops meet with Lilandra Neramani to discuss the Shi’ar Church’s continued funding of the Xavier School. She agrees, but on the condition that she be allowed to place her assistant Gerald Lavine in the school as a representative. Although unknown to the X-men, Gerald Lavine has been revealed to have ties to the Hellfire Club. The X-men agree. Cyclops disbands the X-men and tells everyone that the school will now be only that: a place to teach mutants, not a base for a paramilitary unit. Mastermind replaces Mystique in impersonating Magneto, allowing her to rejoin the Brotherhood. Sinister seemingly commits suicide.
07 – Aunt May stays in the Hospital while her house is being restored. SHIELD pays for both her medical bills and the repairs. Spider-Man manages to save his job at the Bugle when he tells them that his Aunt had a heart attack and lies saying that he witnessed the conflict between the Green Goblin and Spider-Man in Queens. Spider-Man, according to a Reuter’s poll is now the most popular Super-hero in America. Unfortunately for him, the Kingpin owns his likeness and floods the market with merchandise. Shang Chi attempts to use a disguise to get close enough to take out the Kingpin, but he is found out and nearly killed. Daredevil saves him and offers him a place on the team he is forming. Matt Murdoch comes to Peter’s School. He reveals himself to be Daredevil and tells Spider-Man to meet him later that evening. Shadowcat enrolls at Spider-Man’s school. Spider- Man and Shadowcat have a conversation and she tells angrily tells him that she knows he is in love with Mary Jane. Spider-Man goes to meet Daredevil and when he gets there several New York based super-heroes are there. The heroes are Doctor Strange, Moonknight, Iron Fist, and Shang Chi. The group decides to take down the Kingpin by infiltrating his organization as his bodyguard. Fisk calls the position his “Fist.” It is revealed that Iron Fist is informing the Kingpin of the group’s actions without their knowledge.
08 – The Moonknight creates the identity of the Ronin and infiltrates the Kingpin’s organization as the Fist. To prove himself he attacks Spider-Man at his school. Shadowcat intervenes and is injured. Spider-Man is captured and taken to the Kingpin. The Kingpin allows Spider-Man to win because he makes money selling his likeness. However, he knows that Ronin is Moonknight in disguise and beats him severely. The Kingpin tells Spider-Man that the informant is Daredevil so that he will go attack him. Spider-Man does just as the Kingpin intended, but they manage to figure out that Iron Fist is the traitor, not Daredevil. Iron Fist reveals that he only betrayed them because the Kingpin threatened his daughter. Daredevil allows Iron Fist to go, asking him to create a diversion. Daredevil uses the diversion to infiltrate the Kingpin’s inner sanctum and threaten his wife. Meanwhile, the Kingpin’s thugs attempt to kill Ronin/Moonknight by shooting him in the head and leaving him in the river. Daredevil threatens to kill the Kingpin’s wife and might have done so if not for the intervention of Spider- Man. Spider-Man and Daredevil tell the Kingpin to leave the country and never return. He agrees.
09 – Moonknight somehow survives and turns himself in to the authorities. He informs the authorities that the Kingpin was the one who tried to kill him and agrees to testify against him. Before the Kingpin can leave he is arrested for the attempted murder of Moonknight.
12 – Mr. Fantastic, in an attempt to fuel his Cosmic Cube device, inadvertently draws the Silver Searcher to Earth. The Searcher’s approach causes planet-wide natural calamities, like electrical storms and tidal waves. The Searcher outclasses the Fantastic Four and summons his master Revka Temerlune Edifex Scyros III, AKA the King with No Enemies, to Earth. One there the King, named the Psycho-Man by the Human Torch, takes psychic control of the entire populace of New York, then the world. He transports the entire population of Earth to another world, Zenn La, where he rules over them in the “perfect” society.
14 – They live in the “utopia” until The Searcher comes to Mr. Fantastic and removes him from the range of the King’s mind control machines. Once beyond the city, the King’s control over Mr. Fantastic ends and he and the Searcher decide to save the kidnapped populace. Mr. Fantastic and the rest confront Psycho-Man. Mr. Fantastic gains control of the mind control device and all of the other technology on the planet. It nearly destroys his mind, but with the help of the rest of the Four, he manages to control it. He teleports everyone back to Earth and edits all of their memories to forget the event. He also uses the power to make Psycho- Man a happy slave like his subjects had been. The Searcher leaves to explore the universe.
15– Mr. Fantastic continues to obsess over completing the Cosmic Cube. A colleague of Dr. Franklin Richards named Ivan Kragoff invites Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman to a symposium in Siberia. Mr. Fantastic is too caught up in finishing the cube, so the Invisible Woman goes to Siberia without him. However, the Symposium is a ruse. The Invisible Woman’s plane is shot down and she is taken prisoner by Kragoff and his assistant Sorba Rutskaya. Mr. Fantastic strangely slips out of his obsessive mindset and he and the other members of the Four go to save her. Once in Siberia they encounter a 1980s era Crimson Dynamo. After an initial conflict they work together to find Invisible Woman. Meanwhile Kragoff reveals his plan to attempt to use teleportation through the N- Zone to overwrite his dying wife’s genetic code and memories on a host body thus combining them into a new form and save his wife. He reasons that the Invisible Woman’s body is a perfect candidate for such a procedure, because her first trip through the N-Zone has already re-written her genetic code once. However, before he can finish the experiment he is murdered by his assistant Rutskaya. She means to insert herself into the experiment and gain the Invisible Woman’s powers. When Rutskaya learns that the Four and the Crimson Dynamo are on their way to save the Invisible Woman, she sends three soldiers in stolen Dynamo Armor to stop them. Before she can complete the process, the Invisible Woman uses her powers to interrupt it. The interruption causes several different simian DNA samples to be incorporated into the experiment. These are combined with Rutskaya and turn her into a gigantic, deformed, gorilla-like creature with multiple simian limbs and heads, as well as a single human head which retains Rutskaya’s insane personality. Invisible Woman escapes Rutskaya with the help of the talking bear Misha. Rutskaya sets the base to self-destruct. She fights the Four until the Invisible Woman introduces even more DNA into her unstable system. The self destruct goes off, and while the Invisible Woman manages to protect her allies, Rutskaya’s body is not found. The Invisible Woman hypothesizes that Rutskaya probably survived the blast using her intangibility.
16 – A translucent cube-shaped force field appears covering most of Manhattan extending out to New Jersey. Those inside seem to be in a form of stasis, frozen like statues. Mr. Fantastic hypothesizes that the cube is a self defense of his Cosmic Cube. He also reveals to the Invisible Woman that he feels that he was being compelled by a force outside of his control to finish the Cube. Halcyon forces have come to take the Cube, but Mr. Fantastic uses it to defend himself. When they are unable to break through the force field, they use a tractor beam to remove the whole force cube and Manhattan within it. Thanos’ forces intercede and teleport the force-cube to their home world Acheron. Once there the Four leave the force-cube to confront Thanos and his army. The Thing disappears. Thanos reveals that it was his will that was compelling Mr. Fantastic to complete the Cube and as a result he can also control it. Thanos and Mr. Fantastic face off in a battle of wills for control of the Cube. Thanos goes to Earth and begins to transform it as he wishes. The Thing awakes on another world. He finds out that he has be teleported there by Atrea, Thanos’ daughter. The Thing convinces Atrea to help him save the others. They begin by finding Mister Fantastic who has fooled Thanos into thinking he has been killed. They then go to Earth to confront Thanos. One there Mister Fantastic removes the removes the safeguards from the Cube that stop it from responding to random whim or fantasy. Thanos’ infatuation with death causes him to effectively kill himself. Mister Fantastic use the Cube to fix all of the Thanos’ actions and disposes of it in a time-rift creating a paradox in which the present events were the cause of Thanos getting the Cube in the past.
May
03 – The Invisible Woman is called to Nursery Two in Pine Buttes Oregon to investigate a mysterious giant shell. SHIELD agent Agatha Harkness, a social psychologist, is assigned to the Baxter Building to study the effectiveness and efficiency of the Fantastic Four. The Four go to assist the residents of an apartment building that has mysteriously become unstable because of random wholes being bored into it. Before they can help they are threatened by a group of seven heroes, Alpha Dog, Filament, Ghost-Ware, Neuropath, Penultimate, and Primal Screamer. The Seven say they will rescue the building and that they will fight the Four for the honor if necessary. The Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic talk about their relationship, but she is unsure that she is ready to reconcile with him. Harkness uses subterfuge to separate the Invisible Woman from the rest of the Four. She then has the Seven attack her. They defeat her and Alpha Dog makes her denser and throws her in the ocean. There she is saved by Namor. Namor tells her that the shell was the egg of something called a Hydra. The Hydra are a race of creatures responsible for the destruction of one of the districts of Atlantis and possibly the sinking of the entire civilization. They conclude that the seven meta-humans and Agantha Harkness are in fact a single creature, as the hydra has two forms, one singular and the other multifaceted. They discover that they reproduce by using an explosion of power as a catalyst. They reproduce in factors of seven and will therefore be an end to the world. Meanwhile the other members of the Fantastic Four realize something is amiss as well. They are defeated by the Seven and they kidnap the Human Torch. They take him back to Pine Buttes to use his powers as the catalytic explosion. However the other members and Namor come to rescue the Human Torch and fight the Seven. The Invisible Woman uses the unstable biology of the Hydra against them. She introduces chemicals into the air that the Hydra’s incomplete molecular structure bond with. Rather than borrowing power from the catalyst explosion they create the explosion themselves and are consumed by it. While most of the Four and Namor escape, Mr. Fantastic is left behind. The Invisible Woman goes back for him and save him with her shield. Inside the shield safe from the explosion they kiss implying that they may get back together.
04 – Silver Sable tracks and confronts Venom. Venom escapes.
05 – Venom finds Spider-Man and the fight one another. At the end of the fight Silver Sable steps in to capture Venom. She takes Venom to see Bolivar Trask. Trask demands that Venom return the suit. Trask tells him that he owns the suit because Eddie Brock Sr. and Richard Parker were working for him when it was invented. The Beetle breaks in to Roxxon and knocks everyone out with gas. The Beetle then steals a sample of Venom. Venom chases after the Beetle and attacks him. Spider-Man interrupts the two while they do battle. The suit abandons Venom and adheres itself to Spider-Man. Beetle fights the newly black-suited Spider- Man and Silver Sable and her men join the fight. Fury and the Ultimates show up to join the fight as well. The fight culminates in Thor calling down a bolt of lightning that separates the suit from Spider-Man.
06 – Spider-Man wakes up in his own bed. He goes to speak with Fury and Fury tells him that he has the suit and that Eddie Brock escaped.
18 – In the last five weeks twenty students have been enrolled at the Xavier School. Toad has come on as a teacher. It is revealed that the Beast is alive and has cured himself of the Weapon X experiment side effects that caused him to have blue fur. He was revived at the hospital and his existence was kept a secret by Xavier and Fury. The two have been using psychic powers to lead him to believe he has been in contact with his family and friends this whole time, when in fact he has been isolated and hidden away for the purpose of working on something called the Legacy Virus. Storm is having dreams about something called the Shadow King. Nightcrawler finds the Morlocks underground society and proves himself worthy for membership by battling a mutant called Caliban. Toad goes to the Morlocks to recruit young mutants for the school. A Sentinel kills a mutant who claims to belong to something called the Mutant Liberation Front. When Nightcrawler reveals his ties to the X-Men and Toad reveals himself as a representative of Xavier’s Mansion, the Morlocks turn on them taking them prisoner.
19 – Another Sentinel attempts to kill a mutant called Pyro. He is saved by Bishop and Storm who are forming a new X-Men team. Pyro is offered membership and accepts. While Colussus rejects the offer to join the new X-Men, Dazzler and Angel join the team.
Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Ice-Man and Rogue go to investigate after Toad does not check in. They are recognized as X-Men and attacked. The X-Men, with Toad and Nightcrawler joining in on their side, fight the Morlocks until Nightcrawler snaps the neck of their leader. While this does not kill him, it does end the fight. The X-Men are allowed to leave, but Nightcrawler stays and is told that the Morlocks wish him to be the new leader. Betsy Braddock, AKA Psylocke, and Syndicate arrives at the mansion explaining that they have been secretly working for Xavier. Nick Fury Disappears.
20 – Wolverine joins the new X-Men. Sentinels attack a gathering of the Mutant Liberation Front. The leader of the movement, a mutant calling himself Stryfe, fled after telling the other mutants to fight the Sentinels.
21 – Stryfe manages to regroup with the surviving Mutant Liberation Front members. He tells them that there is a traitor in their midst - one who informed the Sentinels where they would be gathering, however he does not know who it is. The new X- Men go to the mansion to recruit Psylocke. While there they see a news report about Sentinels attacking a group of mutants. They go and confront the robots. Curt Connors is transferred from Ryker’s Island to the Triskelion.
22 – In order to stop the Sentinels once and for all the new X-Men decide to find out who is controlling them. They track a damaged Sentinel back to its base. There they find Andrea and Andreas von Strucker. They, along with the original Sentinel creator Boliver Trask, are behind the new Sentinels. The X-Men battle the Sentinels and the von Struckers. Bishop kills the von Struckers and calls Psylocke his “wife.” As the fight concludes, the mutant Stryfe teleports into the Sentinel base. The X-Men seeing him there conclude that he has been the informant for them all along. Stryfe sends the remaining Sentinels to destroy his followers in the Mutant Liberation Front. The X-Men go to defend the other mutants leaving Trask and Angel behind. Trask sets the base to overload. Angel tries to save him, but Trask resists and fall into the explosion. His last words are “forgive me” as he now realizes how terrible his creations have been. The X-Men battle the Sentinels. The Beast appears in the fighting and reveals that he is still alive to the shocked X-Men. When they return to base they conclude through various tests that Beast is telling the truth. Storm is still unsure how she feels about him returning, but shortly accepts it and they kiss. Psylocke confronts Bishop about him calling her his wife. He reveals that she and he were married in his future. At a meeting between the Academy of Tomorrow and The Xavier School, Shinobi Shaw, Emma Frost’s boyfriend and Sebastian Shaw’s son, and Gerald Lavine try to bring forth the Phoenix form Marvel Girl. She attacks them and almost kills them. It is revealed that Emma Frost is also a member of the Hellfire Club.
26 – Spider-Man defeats the Spot at Roxxon Industries.
27 – Spider-Man confronts the Shocker and Shadowcat intervenes to defeat him. She reveals her knew costume. She and Spider-Man agree to remain friends. Spider- Man tells Aunt May all the other details of his life.
28 – Gwen Stacy undergoes tests administered by Dr. Connors and Iron Man. Green Goblin and many other enemies of Spider-Man escape from the Triskelion. Gwen Stacy escapes from the Triskelion and swims to shore. Captain America recaptures the Vulture. Norman Osborn goes on television and accuses Nick Fury of being responsible for his transformation, imprisoning him without trial, and seizing his formulas and assets. When Spider-Man sees Osborn on television he realizes that he has to protect Mary Jane and Aunt May. They hide themselves away and he goes looking for Osborn. He finds Electro in Osborn’s old apartment. They fight until SHIELD agents intervene. They take out both Electro and Spider-Man. Spider-Man wakes up in a cell in the Triskelion. Shadowcat comes to save him, but Carol Danvers, acting head of SHIELD, convinces them to help her take down Osborn. They all find Osborn at his accountant’s house and a fight ensues. Osborn escapes only to later confront Spider-Man in his home. While there they see Harry Osborn at a press conference aboard a SHIELD Heli-carrier on Spider-Man’s television. He is telling the truth about his father. The Goblin goes to find his son and attacks the heli-carrier. A fight ensues and Harry turns into the Hobgoblin. Spider-Man, the Hobgoblin and SHIELD all fight the Goblin. The fight rages until the Goblin kills his Harry. The Goblin turns back into Norman when he realizes what he has done. He asks Carol Danvers to kill him. She does. Spider-man curses her for allowing Harry to be killed and storms off.
30 – The New X-Men defeat Dr. Cornelius, who has mutated himself into a malformed creature. They also shut down his attempts to clone Wolverine. That night Storm is troubled by visions of her former lover Amahl Farouk. He is a psychic who Storm accidently electrocuted when her powers were first manifesting. He claims that he has become a more powerful being after living in the dreamscape. He attacks her, but eventually she overcomes and defeats him. When she awakens it is unclear whether this actually happened or whether it was all in Storm’s mind. She tells Wolverine that she cannot be with him, and that she chooses Beast.
31 – The X-Men learn that Sinister has escaped the Triskelion. The New X-Men go to recapture him. Sinister goes to the Morlock city. There he kills several mutants still attempting to fulfill his plan to kill ten mutants for his “master” Apocalypse. When he need only kill one more mutant, the New X-Men nearly stop him, however before they can do so, Bishop intervenes allowing Sinister’s final victim to be Angel. Wolverine kills Bishop for this. Sinister dies and rises as Apocalypse. The X-Men attack him , but he reveals the ability to control all mutants. As a result the Mutants from the Xavier School join the fight on his side. They attack the Fantastic Four who had come to investigate. Shadowcat attacks Spider-Man. SHIELD brings its forces to the fight as well. Suddenly two armored forms appear. They reveal themselves to be Xavier and Cable. They break Apocalypse’s control over the mutants and reveal Apocalypse’s nature. They reveal that he is, or at least think he is, the first mutant. They reveal that Cable took Xavier into the future to teach him how to fight Apocalypse and that Bishop was left behind to help the mutants with great potential realize it so that they could help in the fight. Cable, Xavier and the rest are unable to defeat Apocalypse. Before Apocalypse can kill Xavier, Jean unleashes the Phoenix force. Jean merges with Phoenix to become an entirely new being. She defeats Apocalypse and alters reality so that the rise of Apocalypse never happened and no one remembers the events except the X-Men. She then leaves them behind. Xavier reforms the X-Men as agents for positive change in the world.
June:
01 – Bruce Banner comes to Iron-Ma n to ask for help in curing him from the Hulk condition.
02 – Stark agrees to help Banner and they go to New Mexico to do some tests. Once in New Mexico, at one of Stark’s facilities called the Ironworks, they find that The Hulk creature is even more powerful than earlier thought. The creature exhibits the ability to adapt to nearly any situation almost instantaneously. Hulk escapes and Stark is just barely able to subdue him. Stark and his scientists use nanotechnology to treat, and permanently control, Banner’s condition.
03 – Former MI-6 agent Peter Wisdom, AKA the Leader, plans to use both the nanotechnology in Stark’s blood and the Hulk formula in Banner’s blood to further enhance himself. His forces attack the Ironworks and capture Banner and Stark. To save themselves Stark must reprogram the nano-bots to allow Banner to become the Hulk. This unfortunately means that the Hulk will adapt beyond the nanotechnology’s ability to control it and effectively remove Banner’s cure. The Hulk and Iron Man defeat the Leader. The Leader is presumably killed in the fight and the Hulk escapes. Liz Allen continues to feel strange. The Human Torch returns to Spider-Man’s school, because he wants to see Liz again. At the same time Ice-Man returns to apologize to Shadow Cat. She accepts his apology and Liz, Mary Jane, Cliff Harlan (AKA Kong), Spider-Man, Ice Man, Human Torch and Shadow Cat all agree to go to the beach. When there, Liz manifest flame powers. She panics and flies off. Kong reveals that he knows Spider-Man’s real identity and tells him to go after her. Ice Man and Spider-Man do so. When they catch up with her Magneto appears offering to take her to her father. Although it is not revealed at this point, earlier events reveal that her father is the Blob. The X-Men appear and try to convince Liz not go with Magneto. Liz decides to go with neither the X-Men nor Magneto and flies off. Later Liz goes to Mary Jane for help. There, Spider-Man reveals his secret identity to her. Liz agrees to go with Ice-Man to the X-men.
05 - Spider-Man works with the cops to stop a new villain called Mysterio.
06 – Spider-Man defeats Omega Red when he attacks the Daily Bugle.
07 – Spider-Man, while in the city helping Mary Jane with a school project, witness the Shocker committing a robbery. This time the Shocker manages to defeat and capture Spider-Man. He takes Spider-man to a warehouse where he tortures him. Mary Jane enlists Shadowcat’s help to save him. Spider-Man manages to get loose and has to be stopped from killing the Shocker. Shadowcat and the police arrive and take the Shocker into custody.
11 – Eddie Brock shows up at Spider-Man’s school to demand that Spider-Man get the Venom suit back for him. Spider-Man tries to find some information about the suit, Trask, and his father, but cannot. Ben Urich discovers what Spider-Man has been researching and becomes curious. Gwen Stacy shows up at Spider-Man’s house. Brock comes to the house to once again demand the suit. Spider-Man attacks him and takes him away to distant rooftop. Gwen follows them. When she turns into Carnage she attacks Brock and when she touches him a part of the Suit within him awakens and he turns into Venom. Venom and Carnage fight. Venom consumes Carnage leaving behind only Gwen. Venom escapes.
12 – Tony Stark does many tests. He concludes that although the Carnage creature destroyed her original body, it absorbed her essence and built her a new body. Carnage was then absorbed by Venom leaving her a normal girl free of the symbiote. SHIELD allows Gwen to go home with Aunt May and Spider-Man. Eddie Brock is captured by Beetle who is revealed to be an agent of Latveria.
25 – Spider-Man’s final day of high school.
July:
01 – Phoenix’s search takes her far into space where she is seen by a reptilian alien race.
August:
06 – Phoenix’s search takes her far into space where she is seen by stone-skinned alien race.
September:
07 – The Silver Searcher now aligned with a race called the Watchers confronts Phoenix. He tells her that she must stop her travels, because she is inciting havoc in her path. He tells her that she has started wars and caused entire races to commit mass suicide in her honor. The Searcher asks her what she seeks and she responds “Heaven.”
14 – Phoenix returns to the Mansion.
15 – Nightcrawler comes to the Mansion to celebrate Phoenix’s return. He apologizes to Colossus. A group named Alpha Flight attacks the X-Men. The team, a group of Canadian nationals, steals Northstar back for their government. Wolverine reveals that Alpha Flight was so powerful because they were using the Banshee drug. The drug gives humans temporary super powers and it gives meta-humans secondary mutations and increased power. Jean discovers that Colossus has been using the Banshee drug for years. Colossus is angry at the betrayal and leaves the X-Men. He takes several others with him. He, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Angel and Rogue all take Banshee enjoying increases in power and secondary mutations. Cyclops also accompanies them, although he does so in an attempt to find out who their Banshee supplier. He and Jean want to find out this supplier so that they may stop her. Wolverine is surprised to find that he tests positive for the drug Banshee. He protests his innocence and temporarily leaves the X-Men to find answers.
17 – The Banshee-using X-Men go to confront the Alpha Flight. During the fight, Cyclops is forced to abandon merely pretending to take the drug and take Banshee for real. They Alpha Flight, but when they find Northstar, he has been forced to overdose on the drug. Colossus believing him dead, spiral further into addiction. The others become addicts as well. Wolverine, with Spider-Man and Shadowcat’s help, discovers that he was among the mutants whose DNA was used to create Banshee.
18 – The original X-Men attack their Banshee-using companions. Wolverine literally cuts out Colossus’ heart, but somehow his metal form keeps him alive. Jean is incapacitated when she hallucinates seeing her father. He tells her that she is going to cause the others to suffer and lose her powers if she does not prove she is worthy of them. Colossus is convinced to give up after Northstar appears at the battle. He is alive, but paralyzed. Colossus gives up, but Cyclopss refuses to do so. He flies off into space. Jean follows him and tries to convince him to come back, but initially he refuses. He says that he would rather die than go back to not being able to control his powers as Banshee has allowed him to do. She appeals to him telling him that he she and the X-Men both need him. He agrees to return.
19 – Wolverine goes to Muir Island to confront Xavier about his involvement in the development and distribution of Banshee. Once there, Wolverine learns that while Xavier was the creator, it was Moira Kinross who had been making and distributing the drug. She has been doing so to fund her facility. When Wolverine attempts to destroy her Banshee supply, Moira attacks him with the previously unknown ability to emit a deafening sonic cry. Wolverine quickly defeats Moira and leaves her to die in the exploding hospital, but she somehow survived.
December
08 – The Fantastic Four are summoned to Devil’s Point, Wyoming by SHIELD. They are shown Project Pegasus which is a warehouse-like facility that contains all the objects of mysterious origin or unexplained power that the United States authorities have accumulated over the years. They are summoned because a device house there has recently activated. The Four and SHIELD are unaware of the exact nature of the device. They only know that it is transmitting a signal. They surmise that it may be watching them and may be sentient. Before they can decide what to do with it, several more appear in various locations across the planet. When they investigate further it possesses the Invisible Woman and she relates that the thing is called a Watcher. It is part of a hive culture that is here to observe and record the significant events that shape our civilization. It has come to witness a great event that they hypothesize is about to happen. In order to help the human race with the coming event, they choose a herald. This herald is a boy named Rick Jones.
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