Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26838855-20180529174822

The Wikia Editor wrote: I fully agree with you on that one. The timeline was one and then split into two distinct timelines during the Battle of Chicago. It's just that the split has resulted in a paradoxical third Fitz.

On the main wiki, when multiple versions of ostensibly the same person seemingly inhabit the same universe, the attempt to separate them usually results in something being added to the article name to distinguish them.

Case in point, on Earth-TRN517, there is an article for the Cyclops of the present and another for the Cyclops of the past. Ah OK, sorry, I thought you were saying they were two entirely separate parallel realities. I think I get you now.

I wouldn't say it's paradoxical, because that would suggest it's kind of impossible. I just think there's two Fitzes now. There was just the one Fitz, who was taken in May 2017, escaped in November, and then went to sleep in November 2017. 2 months later, the timeline split, and we got 2 Fitzes. In the original timeline, Original Fitz slept for a further 73 years, woke up in 2091, and then came back to the stem timeline, dying just at the beginning of the new timeline. In the new timeline, meanwhile, New Fitz is still out in space, but his future is uncertain.

Anyway, the names of the articles and splitting the articles and things, I'm not really concerned about. That's up to admins. Not a timeline problem.

The Wikia Editor wrote: That sounds about right, having the story set in 2017 seems much more in line with the showrunner's hopes for crossovers. I suppose they could handwave it by, for example, having Cloak and Dagger somehow get stuck in the Darkforce Dimension at the end of Season 1 and not emerge from it until 2018, having not aged a day in the interim. This would allow the setting of Season 1 to be 2005-2006 and simultaneously allow the characters to eventually interact with the Runaways.

Yes, they've crossed over on a number of occassions. The two teams originally met when Cloak and Dagger were hired by Lieutenant Flores to retrieve the Runaways. After a brief fight, Cloak and Dagger learned of PRIDE and promised to help the Runaways by contacting the Avengers. However, they were later ambushed by PRIDE and had their memories of the meeting telepathically removed, which ultimately prevented them from helping the Runaways.

For a period of time, due to their bad experiences with their parents, the Runaways actively distrusted and avoided any adult authority figures, including adult superheroes. As such, when necessary, they preferred to call in the help of Cloak and Dagger, among others, instead of, for example, Spider-Man. Cool, it would be great to see a crossover. Not sure how viable, but would be cool - especially since the Runaways are, as of the end of Season 1, now on the run, allowing for more of a comic situation like that.

Would be a bit odd for them to jump in time after a whole season set in the past or something like that, but hey, it's possible. We'll see, it's possible it's just set in present day, but also sounds like there's a good chance it's mid-2000s.

The Wikia Editor wrote: I think it would've been great if they brought back the Marvel One-Shots, releasing several short movies showing us what the other characters in the MCU were doing at the time of Infinity War.

They could've released a One-Shot about Jessica Jones by this time, another featuring Luke Cage around the same release date as Season 2 (perhaps a bit later), and so on. That way, their respective Seasons can occur, followed by One-Shots set during Infinity War, simultaneously confirming for the audience that the Seasons all occur pre-Infinity War as well as showing us what became of them after the snap. That would be great. They could release the one-shot between the two Netflix seasons which are either side of Infinity War in the timeline - say, Iron Fist: Season 2 and The Punisher: Season 2. It's also possible that that point in time could coincide with the release of Avengers 4 - that Avengers 4 might be coming out between the two Netflix seasons between which Infinity War places.

In that case, they could release it a bit after, just before the next Netflix season (if that were to be the first post-Infinity War Netflix season). Then the one-shot could show the fallout across New York with the Netflix characters, and it would show viewers where Infinity War falls in the Netflix timeline as well as give us some crossover and a great one-shot.

Sadly, it won't happen, considering the production schedules, the one-shots being inactive, the film and TV division problems, and the fact that the one-shots are low-budget (since Marvel I believe feel they don't really justify being made. Their ever-so-slight boost in blu-ray sales from their inclusion (almost all people buying the blu-ray would have bought it even without the one-shot) doesn't turn profit for them). The effects and the actors and things would make this too high-budget for a one-shot.

The Wikia Editor wrote: Well, if it helps, the comics themselves are rather vague about it as well. According to co-creator Jim Starlin, Thanos is over hundreds of years old.

Fun fact, in the comics, Thanos was born with "Deviant Syndrome", a condition that resulted in his unusual appearance. Although this was not originally the case.

Here is some information from the comics regarding the subject of his age:
 * Thanos killed his mother around age 12, she was his 18th victim in his quest to understand who he was.
 * He left Titan around age 20 and spent over eight decades traveling on the outer rim of the Milky Way galaxy.
 * By age 100, Thanos had gathered an armada and ravaged Titan, killing millions of his kind, with only about 100 survivors total.
 * Thanos once told Gamora that he started dabbling in the occult approximately three centuries before her birth.
 * His younger brother Eros, commonly known as Starfox, is well over 1,000 years old, which is still considered young by the standards of their species.

Overall, the closest we have to an answer is that Thanos is over 1,000 years old. OK cool, thanks for your research. It sounds, and looks (from the image I've seen of him killing his mother) like it's like the Asgardians, where they age at a roughly human rate until adulthood and then slow down.

So, say Eros/Starfox is very approximately 1750ish (from "Well over 1000", my best quick guess), and from his Marvel Database Wiki photos he looks to be in his 30s in human years, so 35.0ish - this would mean that, assuming adulthood starts at about 18.0, they would age at roughly (35 - 18) / (1750 - 18) = 0.00981524249 speed from 18 on (one 101.9th, very similar to the Asgardian ageing speed).

It wasn't worth doing super accurate maths or weighted averages or anything with this estimate. Josh Brolin was about 45.53 during filming for Guardians of the Galaxy and about 49.18 during filming for Avengers: Infinity War. Assuming Thanos is supposed to look about Josh Brolin's age, that's about 47.355 (haven't done any weighted average or anything) in about April 2016 (the middle of the dates the two films are set).

Then he'd be about 18 + ((47.355 - 18) / 0.00981524249) = 3008.9ish in April 2016, so 3010.9ish now.

Therefore, basically, we're looking at ballpark about 3000.

Definitely not enough info to put it onto the timeline, since it's from the comics not the MCU, a very rough estimate of Eros/Starfox's age from just "well over 1000", a guess at Eros/Starfox's age in human years, a guess at how Titans age, and a guess at Thanos' age in human years. Still, a bit of a sense of Thanos' age.