Timeline



This is a timeline of events as depicted and mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

2987 BC

 * The Convergence occurs. The Dark Elves led by Malekith try to destroy the Nine Realms with the power of the Aether. They are stopped by the Asgardian army led by Bor and they take the Aether away from the Dark Elves. In an effort to save his race, Malekith kills most of his army, along with much of Bor's army. He then puts the remaining members of his team in a sleep that lasts for millennia. Bor then commands for the Aether to be put in the deepest area possible so that it cannot be accessed by anyone.

14th

 * The Frost Giants of Jotunheim start a war on Midgard/Earth, begining at Tønsberg, Norway. The Asgardians hear of the attack and slowly grow an army and prepare for the battle that they will have in Midgard to help the Humans that inhabit it.

3rd

 * Battle of Jotunheim: The Frost Giants attempt to conquer Midgard/Earth. Their invasion point in Tønsberg, Norway becomes the site of an epic battle as Asgards ruler, Odin, leads an army to repel the invasion and protect the planet. Odin and his forces push the Frost Giants back to Jotunheim where the AllFather discovers an abandoned Frost Giant infant whom he adopts, names Loki and raises as his own alongside his son, Thor. A truce is negotiated between Odin and the Jotun king, Laufey.

30th

 * In Asgard, Odin tells his sons Loki and Thor of his success in the battle in Jotunheim, and that they were born to be kings.

8th

 * An Asgardian Berserker Warrior, member of the Berserker Army deflects from Asgard and decides to stay in Earth. He decides that his weapon, capable of giving a man superhuman strength, is too powerful for anyone to possess. He breaks it into three pieces and hides it in areas all over the world.

2nd

 * The Berserker Warrior receives food and shelter in a monastery in Ireland, where he was venerated as a saint. He decides to share his true identity with them as they had a vow of silence, and hides a piece of his staff there.

26th

 * The Berserker Warrior hides another piece of his staff inside a tree in the future location of Trillemarka National Park in Norway.

11th

 * The Berserker Warrior hides another piece of his staff in the catacombs under a church in Seville, Spain.

21st

 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

20th

 * After spending hundreds of years in Earth, the Asgardian Warrior that defected from the Berserker Army tells his own story to a french girl, whose brother, a priest, transformed into the myth of the warrior of the Berserker Army.

13th

 * Howard Stark is born.

21st

 * James Morita is born.

9th

 * Joseph Rogers is killed in a Mustard Gas attack while serving with the 107th Infantry.

4th

 * Steve Rogers is born in Brooklyn, New York City to Joseph and Sarah Rogers.

9th

 * Peggy Carter is born in London, England.

10th

 * James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is born.

6th

 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a young Steve Rogers talks to his ill mother about his deceased father, Joseph. She dies that day from tuberculosis.
 * Steve is sent to an Eighth Avenue orphanage.

10th

 * Abraham Erskine, working in a German University, begins his research into creating a Super Soldier Serum.

3rd

 * A teenage Steve Rogers meets Bucky Barnes, who saves him from a group of bullies, and the pair quickly become best friends.

2nd

 * At the Duetsches Opernhaus in Berlin, Johann Schmidt meets Adolf Hitler and Ernst Kaufmann after a Wagner opera. Schmidt reveals his theory that Asgardians could be more than a myth. Hitler is intrigued by Schmidt’s ideas, and Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufmann’s unit, but is rejected. Heinrich Himmler overhears the conversation and takes Schmidt under his wing.

5th

 * In Geneva, Switzerland, Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.

30th

 * At the Schutzstaffel's Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt kills Ernst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.

1st

 * Schmidt and the SS troops attack an SA Weapons Testing Ground at Kummersdorf, and recruit Arnim Zola.

14th

 * Due to rumors that Hitler would announce anti-Semitic laws, Abraham Erskine try's to leave Germany with his family but is stopped at the German/Swiss border by Johann Schmidt, who wants the Super Soldier Serum. To ensure his cooperation, Schmidt sends Erskine's wife and children to the Dachau concentration camp.

15th

 * Arnim Zola continues his work on exo-skeleton battle suits and high-tech weaponry.

12th

 * Abraham Erskine's kidnapped wife, daughter, and son die of typhus in the Dachau concentration camp.

26th

 * HYDRA tests a prototype tank and exo-skeleton battle suit. At the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was responsible for the destruction which was actually caused by HYDRA.

1st

 * World War II begins.

30th

 * Howard Stark launches Stark Industries.

2nd

 * In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark begins a demonstration of Vibranium, a metal found by Stark Industries in Africa. After being attacked by HYDRA assassins, Stark joins the Strategic Scientific Reserve with Chester Phillips.

11th

 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Johann Schmidt takes part in a test with Abraham Erskine and his Super Soldier Serum which turns Schmidt into the Red Skull. Erskine is rescued by Peggy Carter, and brought into the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) to produce America's Super Soldier with Howard Stark in Project Rebirth.

7th

 * America enters World War II. In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, during an art class Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes find out that America has joined World War II. Over the next two weeks Bucky trains Rogers at Goldie’s Boxing Gym.

9th

 * Stark Industries begin producing planes for the war effort following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

11th

 * Howard Stark's innovations earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

24th

 * Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes visit US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City where Steve is classified as 4F and rejected from service. Rogers goes on to be rejected a further four times in four different cities.

25th

 * The Strategic Scientific Reserve team in Red Hook, Brooklyn, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should be called the Brooklyn Project in response to Robert Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos.

26th

 * At Camp Lehigh, New York, Abraham Erskine rejects the candidates selected by Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

3rd

 * In Tønsberg, Norway, Johann Schmidt discovers and takes the Tesseract, hidden within the monastery. Schmidt refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room".

14th

 * On Flag Day, at the World Exposition of Tomorrow, Queens, New York, Abraham Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office. Erskine offers him a chance to join the U.S. Army through Project Rebirth.

15th

 * At camp Lehigh, New York, Steve Rogers, along with several other volunteers, begins his training under the supervision of Peggy Carter, Dr. Abraham Erskine and Col. Chester Phillips.

22nd

 * With Abraham Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita-Ray technology, Steve Rogers is transformed into the worlds first super soldier. Upon his transformation, the secret location is destroyed, and Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only evidence that Project Rebirth took place is in Rogers' genetic code.

23rd

 * Unwilling to be kept for research, Steve Rogers joins the USO and goes on a morale-boosting tour of the US, the UK, and troops stationed in Italy. Given the name 'Captain America' he becomes a national celebrity appearing in films, comic books and card collections, establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

10th

 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps, the Howling Commandos meet for the first time. As prisoners they are used to make weapons for HYDRA. They team up, at first, to get revenge on one of their captors after he viciously beats Bucky Barnes.

3rd

 * Liberation of Allied prisoners of war: Frustrated by his lack of real action, and upon discovering that Bucky Barnes is trapped behind enemy lines, Steve Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility in Austria and releases Timothy Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Bucky, and the rest of the 107th. Johann Schmidt sets the facility to self destruct and escapes with the Tesseract. During his escape Rogers memorises a map of HYDRA facility locations and obtained a sample of the power source HYDRA was using.

4th

 * Steve Rogers is appointed dead, but soon arrives with most of the soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility.
 * Steve Rogers brings together some of the men he saved in the HYDRA base and creates the Howling Commandos.

5th

 * Howard Stark examines a sample of HYDRA's power which will help him with the theory of a new element.

29th

 * Steve Rogers tries to get a file from HYDRA agents in London who run away from him and end up running into a air raid shelter. Steve encourages the citizens inside the shelter to attack the agents by giving them a speech of heroism and strength in numbers.

27th

 * Steve Rogers invades a castle in the Nazi occupied Danish Straits controlled by HYDRA. Cap fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, and an arc powered tank. Johann Schmidt attempts to destroy them by using a Viking Runestone, but Rogers slows the relic from exploding, allowing the Howling Commandos to escape.

11th

 * Steve Rogers boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

29th

 * The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train and James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is presumed dead.

4th

 * Battle in the Valkyrie: Steve Rogers, with the help of the US Military, attacks HYDRA's last base. As Johann Schmidt escapes in the Valkyrie, Rogers gains access and a fight ensues. Schmidt, after handling the Tesseract, is transported into Asgard. Rogers crashes the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland so that the Valkyrie and its payload never reach the USA. Shortly after, the allied nations celebrate V. E. Day.

7th

 * Howard Stark discovers the Tesseract in his search for Steve Rogers but fails to locate the crashed Valkyrie. Rogers will remain missing for almost 70 years.

2nd

 * Japan surrenders to the Allied forces. End of World War II.

8th

 * Tired of being underestimated by Agent Flynn, giving her nothing more than paperwork for being a woman, Agent Peggy Carter of the Strategic Scientific Reserve retrieves single-handedly the Zodiac weapon.

9th

 * Agent Peggy Carter's superior, Agent Flynn, is informed by Howard Stark that Carter is going to run S.H.I.E.L.D. with him.

5th

 * Obadiah Stane is born.

21st

 * Nick Fury is born.

1st

 * Stark World Exposition begins and runs for the rest of the year.

13th

 * Anton Vanko defects to the US to develop Arc Reactor technology with Howard Stark as 'The Unity Project'.

1st

 * Stark World Exposition is held in conjunction with the World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY.

8th

 * Phil Coulson is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

12th

 * Trevor Slattery performs his first role as Boatswain #1 in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

17th

 * Anton Vanko is accused of espionage and deported as a spy. Obadiah Stane convinces Howard Stark to take Stark Industries back into weapons development.

18th

 * Anton Vanko returns to the Soviet Union but is sent to exile in Siberia for two decades.

19th

 * Ivan Vanko, son of Anton Vanko, is born.

4th

 * James Rupert Rhodes is born.

18th

 * Bruce Banner is born.

29th

 * Tony Stark is born in Long Island, NY to Howard and Maria Stark.

7th

 * Clinton "Clint" Barton is born.

1st

 * Emil Blonsky is born in Russia.

15th

 * Howard Stark films the intro for the Stark World Exposition '74. He will use this to tell Tony Stark of his belief and love in him as well as a subtle hint to unlocking the 'new element'.

1st

 * Last Stark World Exposition until 2011. Howard Stark hides the secret to perfecting Arc Reactor technology in the layout of the Expo for Tony to find when he gets older.

10th

 * Tony Stark builds his first Circuit Board.

10th

 * Tony Stark builds his first engine.

1st

 * Elizabeth "Betty" Ross is born to Thaddeus Ross.

23rd

 * Sam Wilson is born.

24th

 * Howard Stark unveils his building attempts in Arc Reactor technology. Although technologically successful no attempt is made to explore its profitability.

28th

 * Michael Peterson is born.

3rd

 * Maria Hill is born.

9th

 * Jane Foster is born.

7th

 * Grant Ward is born.

14th

 * Akela Amador is born.

22nd

 * Natasha Romanoff is born.

13th

 * Darcy Lewis is born.

16th

 * Tony Stark graduates MIT at the top of his class.

19th

 * Robert Coulson, father of Phil Coulson, dies.

3rd

 * Tony Stark makes Dum-E in his father's workshop.

16th

 * Howard and Maria Stark Stark die in a car accident in Long Island.

17th

 * Tony Stark inherits Stark Industries, becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In addition to the company’s military contracts, Stark Industries works in medical technology, combating world hunger with their Intelli-Crops program, and he also becomes a media celebrity.

13th

 * Julie Coulson, mother of Phil Coulson, dies.

5th

 * Ivan Vanko is imprisoned for fifteen years for selling Soviet-era weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

5th

 * Bruce Banner meets Elizabeth Ross while undergrads at Harvard. They begin dating and volunteer for an experiment involving hallucinogenics.

24th

 * Natasha Romanoff joins Russia's covert espionage facility. She works there for three years. There, she endured both an education and indoctrination into the world of spycraft. Natasha excelled in this strict training environment and soon became regarded as a master spy and one of the world's greatest assassins. Her ruthless effectiveness eventually earned her the codename, "Black Widow".

19th

 * Grant Ward's older brother Maynard throws the youngest of the brothers into a well. Grant tries to save his little brother by throwing him a rope. Maynard warns him that if he gives him the rope he will throw him in too and walks away. Grant manages to throw him the rope anyways without Maynard noticing.

27th

 * Natasha Romanoff is indirectly found and discovered as a threat to global security. Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. sent Agent Clint Barton to Russia to eliminate her.

31st

 * Clint Barton arrives in Russia and confronts Natasha Romanoff. When he was about to kill her, he decided to let her live and give her a chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D. She took the chance, and devoted the rest of her life to working for S.H.I.E.L.D.

31st

 * Tony Stark goes to a New Years Eve party with Maya Hansen in Bern, Switzerland, where he first meets Ho Yinsen.
 * Tony Stark and Maya Hansen run into Aldrich Killian, a disabled scientist who runs A.I.M. and he tells them about his proposition to help disabled people and change the world with his work. Tony lies to him and tells him that he'll meet him on the roof of the building. Maya tells Tony about a project she has worked on called Extremis. Tony and Maya spend the night together.

1st

 * New Years Day comes and Tony Stark still never comes to the roof with the distraught Aldrich Killian on the roof of the building. Looking out he saw everyone celebrating which inspired him to continue his work.
 * Tony leaves Maya Hansen a note about her project, Extremis.

3rd

 * Dr. Maya Hansen and Aldrich Killian begin to upgrade the Extremis virus.

13th

 * After the 9/11 attacks, Thaddeus Ross convinces the military to revive the Bio Force Enhancement Project, based on Project Rebirth in World War II. Bruce Banner joins the group at Culver University at the insistence of his girlfriend Betty Ross. Thaddeus Ross lies to the scientists on the project, informing them that their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

28th

 * Agent Phil Coulson is given orders from his S.H.I.E.L.D. superiors to go to Peru. He heads there that day.

29th

 * Coulson arrives in Peru and meets Camilla Reyes, who he grew a romantic relationship with.

12th

 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Bruce Banner test's the process on himself resulting in the accident that turns him into a powerful, mutated humanoid, or a "Hulk". Gamma pulse combined with the serum that Betty Ross was developing triggers the mutation. Gamma pulses stored in Banner’s brain’s Amygdala and released during high stress moments trigger the mutation. Betty Ross is injured and hospitalized. Banner goes on the run. The military closes the lab building for a year and shuts down the Bio Tech Force Enhancement project. Gen. Ross holds onto some material, Betty Ross also secretly holds onto project data, and remains at Culver University. Betty stops speaking with her father, angry at his treatment of Banner.

7th

 * Bruce Banner tries to contact Betty Ross, but the email is intercepted by the military. She never receives it. Banner travels through the Dakotas, possibly on his way towards the Arctic.

27th

 * Bruce Banner is spotted via satellite Recon photo in Canada.

28th

 * A mutated Bruce Banner is sighted by locals who mistake him for a "green Sasquatch".

14th

 * Akela Amador and two other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conduct a raid to one of Vanchat's gulags. The agents are murdered and Amador is captured, spending four years in a cage.

17th

 * Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. sends a second team to the gulag raided by Akela Amador's team, findind a lot of corpses, but couldn't confirm that any of the rests were Amador's.

21st

 * Last sighting of Bruce Banner for at least five months.

31st

 * Aldrich Killian injects himself with Extremis so that he can walk without a cane.

14th

 * Aldrich Killian finds possible candidates for his Extremis program, including Ellen Brandt, Chad Davis, Eric Savin, and Jack Taggert. All of which were in the United States Army and had a serious injury while they where in.

19th

 * The soldiers candidates are given Extremis. Some of them do not survive, and their bodies explode from a malfunction. The succesful subjects heal from their injuries and regrow lost limbs.

3rd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. is brought in to help Thaddeus Ross, and continue helping Ross until 2012. Stark Industries sells him Jeep-mounted sonic cannons. Bruce Banner eventually heads to South America.

13th

 * The military loses Bruce Banner, who eventually arrives in the Arctic Circle.

4th

 * Bruce Banner spotted in Rome, Italy.

12th

 * Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction in Rose Hill, Tennessee, killing five others in the explosion as well.

8th

 * Grant Ward becomes part of the South Ossetia war and makes several contacts.

16th

 * A team rescues Akela Amador from her cell at the bottom of a copper mine. They perform surgery in her blind eye and implant her with a Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant, used to control her and make her carry out missions an operative.

6th

 * Tony Stark demonstrates his new Accelerated Wave Explosion (A.W.E.) weaponry to the U.S. Military at the Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Later that evening Stark and Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes goes to a club. Stark's arrogant, playboy attitude upsets another patron which results in a brawl.

18th

 * Following the demonstration of the Jericho outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, the military convoy escorting Stark is attacked by the Ten Rings under the leadership of Raza, who is working for Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and is captured. Stark is saved by Ho Yinsen, a fellow captive. They are ordered to build a Jericho missile, but instead build an exo-skeleton battle suit powered by a miniature arc-reactor.

18th

 * During their three months of capture, Stark and Yinsen finish the suit they have been working on. Tony turns it on and uses it to escape although Yinsen is killed by the Ten Rings while saving Tony. Following his being found by the US military, Stark is taken to Germany where he is checked out by Army doctors and then subjected to debriefings from the CIA, NSA and others.

20th

 * Upon his return to the US and deeply affected by his experience, Stark pulls Stark Industries out of the weapons business, terminating all military contracts. Hammer Industries manoeuvres itself to pick up new contracts. Stark reveals to Stane the arc reactor technology he developed to power the armor. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson attempts to order a meeting through Pepper Potts to debrief him.

12th

 * Stark continues to develop a more refined version of the armor he used to escape from the Ten Rings. Stane uses Stark’s change of heart concerning what business he is in as leverage for a takeover attempt. Stane develops his own high tech battle armor using the remains of the Mark I armor recovered by members of the Ten Rings.

18th

 * Nick Fury, in disguise, finds Bruce Banner in a bar and tries to find out what Thaddeus Ross' "Super-Solder Program" did to him. Fury tells agents Johnson and Peterson, to gain his trust and see how he reacts to certain things, so the agents make it look like they where dating and one were cheating on the other with Bruce, and Bruce gets confused when she pulls him toward her. The other started a fight with Bruce. Fury tried to make it look like he was going to help him, but Peterson punched him. This made Bruce turn into the Hulk, and everyone in the bar including Fury, was surprised. Fury tried to calm Hulk down, but he ran through the wall of the bar.

19th

 * After his Hulk incident, Banner heads to Rio de Janeiro to contact Samuel Sterns for help in developing a cure. They communicate using code-names of “Mr. Blue” and “Mr. Green.” Acting on a suggestion from Mr. Blue/Sterns, Banner starts to research Amazonia Tracheophytes for a lead on a cure. Banner also studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling plant and teaches himself Portuguese.

20th

 * Fury calls a meeting of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives and tells them that Hulk is only a secondary matter.


 * Stark flies the Mark II armor using newly fitted flight stabilizers and discovers an icing problem.

21st

 * Stark analyzes more data and decides to rebuild his suit using gold titanium from an old project to solve the icing problem. Tony also instructs J.A.R.V.I.S. to add some "hot-rod red" paint trimming to the next suit, code-named "Mark III." Tony then leaves to attend the third annual benefit dinner for the Fire-fighters Family Fund while the new suit is being assembled and painted. At the charity event, Tony meets with Agent Coulson. who wants to learn about Tony's incident, they book an appointment for the 24th. Tony leaves to dance with Pepper Potts, his personal assistant, and they share a moment together in the moonlight. Tony is then confronted by Christine Everhart, who he'd slept with prior to leaving for Afghanistan. She shows him photographs of his weapons being used by a terrorist group the previous day in the Afghan town of Gulmira, Yinsen's home village. Tony confronts Obadiah, who reveals that he filed the injunction against Tony.

22nd

 * Stark tests his Mark III armor by driving Raza’s Ten Rings out of Gulmira.

24th

 * Under Stark’s direction, Potts uncovers proof of Stane’s collaboration with the Ten Rings.
 * Duel of Los Angeles: Stane and Stark eventually come to blows in their respective armors. Stane is killed. The conflict is seen by the public and the press name the mysterious hero "Iron Man." After the fight against Iron Monger, Agent Coulson shows Stark and Rhodes around the S.H.I.E.L.D. complex situated in the local area. Coulson stresses to Stark how they can teach him how to fight.
 * Shortly after Tony's fight with Obadiah, Phil Coulson gets a fake ambulance to pick up Tony and Rhodey and take them to a theater where Coulson shows Tony the flaws in his fight with Stane and tells him he will get other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to train him how to fight.

25th

 * At a press conference the day following his showdown with Stane, Stark rejects S.H.I.E.L.D.’s constructed alibi for the events of the previous evening and admits to the world that he is Iron Man. That evening, Nick Fury approaches Stark about the “Avengers Initiative". Stark declines, and Fury calls in Natasha Romanoff. Anton Vanko dies in poverty in Moscow. His son Ivan vows revenge on Stark, and builds his own portable Arc Reactor to power an energized whip/body harness.

7th

 * Bruce Banner heads up to Greenland to shoot himself. When he does he transforms into the Hulk, who spits out the bullet. When Banner wakes up after Hulk's rampage, he decides to travel to Brazil.

24th

 * Banner arrives in Brazil and gets a job at a soft drink bottling factory.

14th

 * Camilla Reyes is promoted to the rank of Comandante in the Policia Militar de Perú.

16th

 * Iron Man is named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, beating out Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

10th

 * As Tony Stark continues to operate as Iron Man, he brings about a period of relative peace. His main target is the Ten Rings, who are based in Pavlodar, Kabul, and the Gulf of Aden. Tony Stark saves an airman in the Congo who was test piloting a vehicle designed by Justin Hammer under the orders of General Ross, and is credited as having stabilized East-West relations. Stark realizes that the palladium core of his Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him. He begins searching for a cure but keeps his condition a secret.

12th

 * In the autobahns of Germany, Tony Stark is on a buisness trip to make a partnership between Stark Industries and Gorani Insurance. He is stopped in the road by policemen, who tell him that 15 million dollars worth of paintings have been stolen from a museum and let him pass. After leaving, Tony finds a young woman who's car has a flat tire. He fixes it and then she leaves. Tony then continues to drive, but discovers a car that matches the description of the car that the policemen described that had the paintings. Tony goes to the car and opens the trunk to find all the paintings inside. When all the criminals noticed him, they began to shoot at him. He ran to his car, to make them think he was running away, but actually, he was getting the glove of the Mark IV armor. He injured all the criminals with the glove. He managed to return the paintings to the museum, and got to the meeting where he saw the same woman who's tire he repaired. She was Evetta Gorani, the next person in line to run Gorani Insurance. Her father, Michael Gorani (the current president of Gorani Insurance), told Tony that the company that owned the paintings Tony recovered where insured by Gorani Insurance, meaning Tony saved the company over one hundred million dollars. He then made a business partnership with Gorani Insurance.

25th

 * 158 days since his last “incident”, Banner has an accident that leaves a drop of his blood in a soda bottle. He sends a sample of his blood to Sterns, who conducts further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs.

22nd

 * The 2011 Stark World Exposition begins.

23rd

 * Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Weaponized Suit Defense Program Hearings. These are chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Stern. Stern pushes Stark to turn the Iron Man suit over to the military, but Stark refuses. Stern calls Justin Hammer, CEO of Hammer Industries and Lt. Rhodes to testify against Stark. Stark testifies that although North Korea and Iran are working to replicate the technology, they are years away from being able to do so. He also reveals that Hammer Industries had their share of lack-of-success, leading to the cancellation of Hammer Industries’ contacts with the Department of Defense.

24th

 * Stark appoints Pepper Potts Chairman and CEO of Stark Industries. An agent of the Ten Rings supplies Vanko assistance in infiltrating the Grand Prix of Monaco.

25th

 * General Ross’ task force, having traced Banner to the bottling plant, raids Rocinha under the field command of Emil Blonsky. Banner transforms, defeats the raiding party and escapes.

26th

 * Jane Foster, working in Puente Antiguo for Culver University, discovers the subtle aurora in New Mexico. The atmospheric disturbances will continue to take place for the next sixteen days to the exact minute.

27th

 * Banner wakes up in Guatemala and returns on his journey to Culver University. Over the next seventeen days, he goes to Willowdale, VA and Culver University to see if any data remains from his original experiment.

28th

 * Banner makes his way through Chiapas, Mexico, and continues traveling.

14th

 * Banner finishes his journey, making it to Culver University. He sees Betty Ross, but tries not to talk to her, to not cause her distress.

22nd

 * Stark signs paperwork to transfer power to Potts and meets “Natalie Rushman”, who was hired by Bambi Arbogast. Stark is unaware that she is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Stark hires her as his new personal assistant.

24th

 * Duel of Monaco: Stark arrives at the Circuit De Monaco and quips “What’s the point of having a car if you don’t drive it”. He replaces Team Stark’s regular driver DiFilipo in Race G. Ivan Vanko attacks Stark between turns 16 and 17 by the harbour. Switching into a portable, lightweight Iron Man armor (Mark V) Stark defeats Vanko.
 * Later that evening, Stark visits Vanko in prison before flying back to the US with Potts.

25th

 * Senator Stern appears on news channels to support military control of the Iron Man armor.

26th

 * Justin Hammer orchestrates Ivan Vanko’s escape from prison to have him work on Hammer Industries own weapon-suit program.

27th

 * Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko arrive at the Hammer Industries facility in Queens, NY. Vanko begins revamping Hammer’s own battle suit prototypes into unmanned, remote-controlled drones.

28th

 * Media speculation continues about Tony Stark’s fitness to continue as Iron Man. Rhodes tries to convince Stark to hand over the Iron Man suits to the US military, but Stark continues to refuse.

29th

 * On Tony Stark’s birthday he is inconsolable over his inability to solve his palladium poisoning dilemma and gets drunk which leads to a confrontation with Rhodes, who dons the Mark II Iron Man armor. The fight wrecks a portion of Stark’s Malibu home. Rhodes leaves with the Mark II suit.

30th

 * Fury is informed that Stark has 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning. Handed lithium to slow the effects of the condition, Fury leaves to meet Stark. Fury is told that Banner has passed through US Customs and orders S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sitwell to track him. Agent Coulson informs Fury of 'atmospheric disturbances' in the 'south west' region.


 * Foster contacts Erik Selvig, who flies out to New Mexico to help her monitor the atmospheric disturbances. Foster's message is intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D.


 * Rhodes delivers's the Mark II suit to the military at Edwards Air Force Base. Stark goes for donuts and has a conversation with Fury. Fury mentions a situation in the southwest, but confines Stark to house arrest. At Hammer Industries, Vanko revamps the battle suits in to unmanned, remote-controlled drones.


 * Mark II suit is turned over to Justin Hammer for weapons upgrading on the order of General Meade, though not before Rhodes secretly removes the suit’s Arc Reactor.


 * Tony visits Potts at Stark Industries where she mentions Hammers presentation at the Expo is tomorrow, makes intuitive breakthrough on how to fix his palladium problem; through the creation of a new element theorized by his father and hidden in the layout of Stark Expo.

31st

 * In Asgard Thor's coronation is suddenly cut short when Odin senses a break-in in his treasure room. The culprits are discovered to be Frost Giants whom The Destroyer, as guardian, has killed. Thor is enraged at what he sees as, an act of war.


 * Nick Fury reassigns Agent Coulson from Tony Stark to investigate atmospheric activity in New Mexico. Coulson leaves that afternoon.


 * Stark builds a small cyclotron to create the element using equipment owned by Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.


 * Battle at Stark Expo: Hammer’s Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Vanko, who uses the drones to attack the crowd and Stark. After receiving a call from Vanko, Stark skips over tests on new a Arc Reactor element in order to stop Vanko. Stark defeats Vanko’s drones with help from Rhodes in the modified Mark II armor, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Romanoff and Happy Hogan. Vanko is killed in the explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion. Hammer is arrested for engineering Vanko’s escape. Stark also manages to fly to Pepper and save her from another explosion. Afterwards, he and Pepper kiss and they grow a bigger relationship. Rhodes witnesses the whole thing, saying they look like two seals fighting over a grape.


 * Coulson arrives at a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost in Roswell, NM to assemble his team of agents.


 * Before leaving Hammer Industries, Agent Romanoff downloads all the information stored on Hammer's mainframe and destroys the facility.


 * On his way to Puente Antiguo (on his way from Roswell, NM) Coulson prevents an armed robbery taking place at a gas station, and also purchases some donuts.


 * Thor, Sif, Loki and the Warriors Three travel to Jotunheim to seek justice for the Frost Giants actions. A fight breaks out.


 * Banner goes to his old friend and pizzeria owner Stanley to hide out. He offers him the Pizza Shop’s upstairs spare bedroom.


 * Foster, Selvig, and Darcy detect a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the nearby desert and discover Thor, stripped of his powers and cast out of Asgard by Odin for provoking a war with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Thor, after provoking Darcy with his behavior, is tasered and taken to a local hospital.

1st

 * Under orders from Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clint Barton is sent to Puente Antiguo, NM to assist Coulson.


 * A Puente Antiguo, New Mexico local discovers Thor’s hammer, Mjølnir, in a crater about 50 miles east of the town. Unable to lift it, he calls several other people to give it a try. Jane helps Thor escape from the hospital where he is being held and takes him back to her workplace.


 * Coulson arrives in New Mexico and discovers the site of Mjølnir. S.H.I.E.L.D. quickly quarantines the area and erects a portable laboratory over the site to study the hammer. Barton is one of the agents assigned to the operation and arrives later that day.


 * Loki discovers his true heritage, that Laufey the Frost Giant King is his real father. After confessing the truth to Loki, Odin collapses and enters Odinsleep. Sif and the Warriors Three begin to suspect Loki's treachery.


 * That evening Thor and Foster head towards the site of the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation erected around Mjølnir. Thor is captured trying to sneak in having failed to lift Mjølnir.


 * Loki appears before Thor who is being held at the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation and lies to him that Odin is dead. In the evening, Dr. Selvig goes to the installation and manages to get Coulson to release Thor into his custody.


 * Bruce Banner poses as a pizza delivery man to get access to Culver University’s computer labs and research database. He decides to leave that evening but as he prepares to leave Stanley’s he is accidentally seen by Betty. She has him stay the night at the home she shares with Leonard Samson. Samson informs the military of Banner’s whereabouts. Blonsky receives an unauthorized “low dose” injection of Bio Tech Enhancement Serum from General Ross.


 * Fury sends Romanoff to tail Banner aware that an imminent move by General Ross is to be made. She goes to Culver University.


 * After an evening of drinking with Selvig, Thor explains the concept of the Nine Worlds to Jane.

2nd

 * The Warriors Three and Sif head to Midgard to find Thor. Loki sends The Destroyer after them.
 * Tony Stark ends the 2011 Stark Expo.


 * Battle at Culver University: At Culver University, Betty walks Banner to the bus station in the early morning. As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the military and Blonsky, who seems to adapt well to the Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but is still beaten by transformed Banner, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Banners transformation and Blonsky's enhanced performance are witnessed by Romanoff. Banner/Hulk escapes the military with an unconscious Betty to a cave deep in the Smoky Mountains. News of the battle quickly spreads across cable news channels and the internet. Culver University journalism newspaper reporter Jack McGee, who witnessed and captured the fight on cell phone video, names the transformed Banner “the Hulk” in an interview with WHIH news. His remarks are played repeatedly over the next several days.


 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to monitor the Hulk incident, the crater site in New Mexico as well as Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean.


 * Tony Stark has a debrief with S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury. Stark is offered an advisory position as a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers Initiative. He accepts the offer on condition that Senator Stern honors them for their services, which he did three hours later.


 * Natasha Romanoff informs Director Nick Fury about Emil Blonsky's enhanced attributes having witnessed his performance at the Culver University incident.


 * The Destroyer attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stationed at Puente Antiguo.


 * Battle of Puente Antiguo: Thor and his fellow Asgardians fight The Destroyer. During the battle, Thor proves himself worthy of his godly heritage and his powers are restored, allowing him to defeat the Destroyer.


 * Clint Barton discovers the Destroyer's inanimate body in Puente Antiguo. Later that day, with the help of Coulson, they transport the body to Roswell, NM.


 * Banner and Betty hide out in a small town motel, as news of the previous day’s battle continues to spread. Within 36 to 40 hours of his injuries, Blonsky has recovered.


 * Thor, Sif and the Warriors Three head back to Asgard where Thor reveals Loki’s plan to seize the throne of Asgard. Unfortunately, in the ensuing battle between the two, Thor is forced to destroy the Bifrost to prevent Loki from destroying Jotunheim and committing genocide against the Frost Giants. This action strands him in Asgard, unable to return to Midgard/Earth. Loki falls into space disappearing into the ether.

3rd

 * General Ross has a meeting with the task-force staff.

4th

 * Banner and Betty arrive in NYC, bypassing roadblocks at the Holland Tunnel by bribing a boat owner to take them across the Hudson River, leaving them in lower Manhattan. They head uptown to meet with Sterns. Sterns and Banner try an experimental process to cure him, though it only succeeds in reversing the transformation, not ridding Banner of it completely.


 * Duel of Harlem: The military captures Banner, but Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with the blood products that Sterns developed from Banner’s blood sample. Blonsky is driven insane and mutates into the Abomination. Sterns is infected with Banner’s blood through an open wound, possibly gaining his own mutation. Banner convinces Ross to let him try and stop Blonsky. The two fight in Harlem, with the Hulk finally defeating Blonsky/Abomination, before being allowed by Ross to flee.


 * Among the rubble that makes up the remains of Sterns' apartment Romanoff discovers the mutated Sterns, she subdues him and takes him into custody.
 * After discovering that defeating Loki has put the universe in peril, Thor warns Hogun that his people are in danger of being attacked by marauders.
 * In New Mexico, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents help with Jane's research to find Thor. They discover that they may have a chance at accessing the same wormhole that Thor used to travel to Earth. Jane informs Erik Selvig of this, to which he responds by telling her it might be a bad idea.
 * Around midnight, Jane, Darcy, and a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents try to open the wormhole. At first the portal stabilizes, but then it fails. Darcy tries to cheer Jane up, but Jane responds by saying that they can't give up.

5th

 * Nick Fury is granted new funds for S.H.I.E.L.D. from the World Security Council. This new funding will provide the resources he needs to examine the Tesseract fully as well as to put into action the 'Avengers Initiative'.

7th

 * Fury approaches Erik Selvig to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in an advisory capacity to study a powerful cube-like object in their possession. Fury is unaware that Selvig is under the control of Loki.
 * The first "Mandarin bombing" occurs, masquerading as a terrorist attack, and begining the conflict later known as Killian's War.

8th

 * In a diner Agent Coulson and Jasper Sitwell discuss how to prevent Blonsky being assigned to the Avengers Initiative. The World Security Council have ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to make Blonsky part of the team as they consider him a war hero. Coulson agrees to send Tony Stark to meet with Ross within twenty four hours to ruin any chance of this recruitment going through.

9th

 * Following the NYC Hulk incident, Tony Stark arrives in NYC and approaches Ross about “putting a team together.” Stark is apparently on a mission to recruit Blonsky. However, Ross is enraged by Stark's behavior and refuses to release him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

6th

 * Pepper Potts gives an interview on Stark Tower.
 * Tony Stark gives James Rhodes a new armor he made for him.

16th

 * Banner has settled in a cabin deep in the woods of Bella Coola, British Columbia, and is gaining control over the Hulk.

9th

 * James Rhodes fights the Ten Rings in Mumbai, India.

13th

 * The second Mandarin bombing occurs.

12th

 * James Rhodes fights more of the Ten Rings in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

11th

 * Aldrich Killian hires Trevor Slattery to pose as a terrorist called the Mandarin, paying him in drugs and money.

13th

 * Trevor gets plastic surgery so nobody recognizes him as the Mandarin.

15th

 * The third Mandarin bombing occurs.

3rd

 * Thor battles Imir, who threatens to take over Asgard and kidnaps several Dwarves. Thor defeats Imir by electrocuting him into submission.

15th

 * Banner crosses the border from Pakistan into India. An incident with local bandits provokes Banner into transforming into the Hulk.

16th

 * James Rhodes fights more of the Ten Rings' allies in Northern Sudan.
 * Rhodes quickly travels to the Bagram Airfield to discover more about the Ten Rings. He calls Tony Stark, who was once captured by the Ten Rings. While Tony talks to Rhodes, he also helps construct Stark Tower.

13th

 * In Dubai, Iron Man in his Mark VI armor agrees to race a two men in similar suits. In the end, a woman almost falls out of a hundred story building and the destruction of a billboard and the destruction of both of the men's suits.

19th

 * Hawkeye disguised as a spy brakes into the Helicarrier to trick Black Widow into thinking he is stealing information about the Avengers Initiative and selling it to terrorist groups around the world as a training exercise. After the training exercise, Fury tells Barton and Romanoff that the Initiative will only be put into action when the world needs the team most.

14th

 * Steve Rogers' crash site is found by a Russian oil team. Eighteen hours later S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are dispatched to the area where they find the frozen Rogers cryogenically preserved.

15th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues their work. Analysis continues on Vanko's Whiplash/Hammer Technology, on Foster's Nine Realms Theory, on Sterns mutation and, finally, on transforming The Destroyer into a handheld weapon. Hawkeye is sent to join Selvig deep in the Mojave desert to assist with the work carried out on the Tesseract.

16th

 * Steve Rogers' body is freed from the ice, and he is taken to New York City.

17th

 * Steve Rogers wakes up and tries to run away from a S.H.I.E.L.D. building but is stopped by Nick Fury. Fury tells him what he missed while he was frozen.

30th

 * Frigga tries to mentaly communicate with Loki, who is in Thanos' dimension. Loki refuses to communicate with her. Frigga tells Thor, Odin, and the Warriors Three of this.

1st

 * Destruction of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.: Loki activates the Tesseract having been aided by an entity known as 'The Other'. The Tesseract teleports Loki into the Mojave Desert, where S.H.I.E.L.D. has a Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. headquarters. He steals the Tesseract and, using a scepter-like device, gains control over S.H.I.E.L.D. agents including Barton and Selvig. As they escape the base is destroyed, starting the War for Earth. Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative.
 * Heimdall tells Thor and Odin that Loki has made his way to Earth and stolen the Tesseract.
 * Natasha Romanoff is extracting information from Georgi Luchkov while letting him believe he is interrogating her. Phil Coulson calls one of Luchkov's henchmen and tells him to give Natasha the phone or S.H.I.E.L.D. would destroy the entire city block. Coulson tells her she is needed but is reluctant to leave her current job, but agrees when she is informed that Clint Barton has been compromised.

2nd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. asks Jane if she wants to transfer to Tromsø, Norway to continue her research. She accepts the offer.
 * Kolkata, India. Natasha Romanoff meets Bruce Banner under the orders of Fury. She convinces Banner that his knowledge on Gamma Radiation is essential in helping S.H.I.E.L.D. locate the Tesseract. Banner accepts.


 * In Manhattan, New York Steve Rogers looks through some S.H.I.E.L.D. files given to him by Nick Fury in Rogers' new apartment. He finds one having a report on Peggy Carter, saying her current phone number. He prepares to call her, but eventually decides against it. He then leaves his apartment and goes to a boxing gym.  Fury meets with Rogers at the gym, telling him that the Tesseract had been stolen by Loki. He tells him to report to the Helicarrier in the morning.


 * That evening, Stark brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the location of the former Pan Am building. Agent Coulson calls on Stark to review Selvig's research on the Tesseract. Stark is also sent highly confidential material concerning the potential members of 'The Avengers Initiative'.

3rd

 * Odin uses Dark Enegy to transport Thor back to Earth to get Loki and the Tesseract.
 * Romanoff, Banner, Rogers and Coulson all rendezvous on the Helicarrier. Banner sets to work in relocating the Tesseract. After intelligence reveals Loki's location, in Germany, Rogers and Romanoff make there way there to confront him. Stark arrives to help capture him. On their return Thor attempts to capture and return Loki back to Asgard. After a fight he is persuaded not to so that they can find the Tesseract together.
 * Parts of Vanaheim are attacked by maurauders. The Vanir in these areas retaliate, but are still defeated.

4th

 * Attack on the Helicarrier: Once aboard the Helicarrier the Avengers begin to clash verbally over how to handle Loki and the Tesseract, allowing Loki time to plot an escape. Clint Barton and other brainwashed Agents invade the Helicarrier and begin to destroy the engines while Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk and begins to rampage across the ship. Tony Stark and Steve Rogers attempt to repair the engines, Thor battles the Hulk, Natasha Romanoff frees Agent Barton of his mind-control while Nick Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the ship to attack a hovering F-35 Lightning II and ends up crashing into the ground below. Thor arrives to stop Loki but gets trapped in a cage designed to contain the Hulk and is jettisoned out of the ship, Agent Coulson arrives with a gun made out of The Destroyer to help but gets killed by Loki.


 * Battle of New York: Following Loki's escape from the Helicarrier he commanders Stark Tower to be used as the location of the Chitauri invasion. Tony Stark arrives to "Threaten" Loki while a mind-controlled Selvig uses the Tesseract to open a portal allowing the Chitauri to invade Earth. The Avengers come together to stop the invasion, however the World Security Council are not convinced it will work and launch missiles at the city despite Nick Fury's persistence. While the Avengers battle the invading forces Iron Man grabs one of the missiles and throws it through the portal destroying the Chitauri fleet just as Black Widow closes the portal. They apprehend Loki and reclaim the Tesseract. The Avengers have won and ended the War for Earth.
 * During the Battle of New York, James Rhodes (War Machine) travels to Hong Kong and discovers more of the Ten Rings' allies and stops them. He gets a call from Tony Stark, who says he needs help in the battle. Rhodes is soon attacked by a tank using tech mainly from Hammer Industries, he is warned by a commanding officer that the tanks core is a miniature nuclear bomb. Rhodes is then knocked out by a missile from the tank. When he wakes, he manages to partially trap the tank, but it is still able to shoot at him, even though it can't go mobile. Rhodes asks for backup, but much of the army's men are fighting in the Battle of New York. Rhodes gets hit wit another one of the tank's missiles. Rhodes decides to use a miniaturized Stark Sonic Cannon to stun the attackers. When he finishes, he gets hit with another one of the tank's missiles. After getting run over by the tank, Rhodey picked up the tank and threw it in the ocean where it exploded. Rhodes quickly tried to fly to New York to help with the battle.
 * During the Battle of New York, Darcy shows Jane live footage of Thor fighting in the battle.
 * Sif asks Heimdall if Thor suvived his travel to Earth, and Heimdall responds by telling her that he did, but Loki has many soldiers that could put him in peril.
 * The Avengers, tired from their recent battle, gather at a local shawarma restaurant that was recommended by Tony Stark, to eat.  War Machine arrives to help in the battle while they eat, coming too late to help them in the battle.

5th

 * Thor returns to Asgard with Loki and the Tesseract while the other Avengers go their separate ways.
 * After returning to Asgard, Thor and Loki are seen by hundreds of Asgardians.
 * Odin decides the punishment for Loki's crime, sentencing him with an eternity of imprisonment in the dungeons of Asgard.
 * The Other confers with his master over Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earths new protectors then states that to confront them "would be to court death". His master, Thanos, simply turns and smiles, thinking of things to come.
 * Jane and Darcy arrive in New York in search of Thor but visit Erik, who is still in shock from the battle. Erik tells Jane that Thor has left already.
 * Tony Stark begins making the Iron Legion.
 * Heimdall tells Thor that Vanaheim has been attacked. In response, Thor gives Heimdall the Tesseract so he can repair the Bifrost Bridge. They then spend the next two years bringing an army together.
 * Jane gives up on looking for Thor because she has put the past year of her life into looking for him and he didn't even leave a message for her.

6th

 * Three volunteer firefighters named Adam Cross, Tony Diaz, and Frank Whalen help in the clean up of the Battle of New York. They find the helmet of one of the Chitauri and decide to put it in their fire station as a decoration.

7th

 * Tony shows James Rhodes the first suits of the Iron Legion.
 * Benjamin Pollack and his girlfriend Claire Wise find a broken Chitauri weapon. Benny fixes the weapon and they plan to rob banks with it.
 * Days after the death of Phil Coulson, Nick Fury gets as many of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best scientists to save Coulson. The process takes days.

9th

 * Benny and Claire prepare to rob a bank, but Bennie becomes worried that the plan will fail. Claire convinces him, and they successfully rob the bank. The bank is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
 * The final procedure to save Coulson takes place. To save him, the scientists remove part of his skull to change his memories of the painful process. During to operation Coulson begs the doctors to let him die. One of the doctors, Dr. Streiten, realized how brutal these surgeries where and told other doctors that they should let him die, but they ignored him. The doctors give Coulson memories of him being in a grass shack in Tahiti and make him call it a "Magical Place" each time someone asks him what happened after he was stabbed.

11th

 * Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise rob another bank in Richmond, Virginia.

13th

 * Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise rob another bank in Greensboro, North Carolina.

14th

 * Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise rob another bank in Charleston, South Carolina.

15th

 * Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise rob another bank in Savannah, Georgia.

16th

 * Jasper Sitwell is informed by Agent Blake of Benny and Claire's robberies and leaves to stop them.
 * Benny and Claire decide to stay at a hotel to count the money they've stolen.
 * In the room next-door Agent Sitwell is trying to get there attention by making it sound like a party. When Benny goes to investegate. Agent Sitwell neutralizes Benny, but he is able to warn Claire. Claire tries to intervene by attacking Sitwell with the Chitauri weapon. After shooting multiple times she is attacked her self. She accidently drops the weapon, switching it on. The weapon shoots the bed, destroying all the stolen money.  Sitwell ties them to the bed and interrogates them. Claire tells Sitwell that Benny got the weapon to work. Sitwell admits he was sent to kill them, but he won't if Benny agrees to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., helping them with the other 46 objects.

17th

 * Jasper Sitwell brings Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Benny is assigned to the R&D Think-Tank, and Claire is made Agent Blake's assistant.

4th

 * Edison Po is arrested for stabbing a man in the eye with a steak knife in Boston, Massachusetts.

9th

 * Bruno Horgan, also known as the Melter, attacked Iron Man during a press conference in front of the Stark Tower. After a quick victory Melter announced that he would be selling the designs in a few days.

11th

 * Melter attacks and, with some effort, secured a victory over War Machine. This led both Stark and Rhodes to put their information on Horgan together and make a deal that whoever fails to find Horgan first must polish the victor's armor.

12th

 * Rhodey tries several atempts to find Horgan, but all of them turn out to be dead ends.
 * Tony spots the Melter near Stark Tower.
 * Rhodey and Tony discover that the most likely place for Horgan to be is the junkyard. After discovering this information, Tony modifies the armors so they can work after being attacked by Horgan's rays.
 * Iron Man and War Machine head to the junkyard and discover that Horgan has been operating there the whole time. They are attacked by Melter, but manage to get the upper hand on him. Shortly after, Horgan uses his environment to his advantage and manages to get the benefit again. War Machine asks Tony to turn off Horgan's melting ray. Tony tells him that it would require him getting close to Horgan. War Machine tries to distract Melter, but is defeated and so is Iron Man. Right when Melter was about to kill Iron Man, he was stopped by War Machine. After Iron Man's suit reboots, War Machine and Iron Man defeat the Melter and put him in the custody of the United States Army.

19th

 * The fourth Mandarin bombing occurs.

18th

 * The fifth Mandarin bombing occurs.
 * Tony practices using his new Mark XLII and sees how well it works.

19th

 * Tony's Iron Legion starts creating friction with his girlfriend Pepper Potts.
 * The Mandarin bombs the Ali Al Salem Air Base A string of bombings by a terrorist known as the Mandarin has left intelligence agencies bewildered by lack of forensic evidence.
 * When Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is badly injured in an attack on the Chinese Theatre, which was triggered by an Extremis subject, Jack Taggert.

20th

 * Tony Stark visits Happy in a hospital. While walking out a group of reporters try to interview him about the Mandarin. Tony overcomes his stupor and issues a televised threat to the Mandarin.

22nd

 * Destruction of Tony Stark's mansion: The Mandarin responds to Tony's threat by destroying Stark's home with helicopter gunships. Maya Hansen, who had come to warn Stark, and Potts survive the attack, while trying to still stay undercover.

23rd

 * Stark then finds himself in rural Tennessee after his artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S. followed a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin. Stark's experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.
 * Teaming with young 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 can cause certain subjects to explosively reject it. After veterans started exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. Stark witnesses Extremis firsthand when Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin attack him.

24th

 * With Harley's help, Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters using improvised weapons. Inside he discovers the Mandarin is actually a British actor, Trevor Slattery, who says that he is oblivious to the actions carried out in his name. The Mandarin is a creation of Killian, who appropriated Hansen's Extremis research as a cure for his own disability and expanded the program to include injured war veterans. After capturing Stark, Killian calls himself the true Mandarin; he has kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to Extremis to gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws and thereby saving Pepper. Killian kills Hansen when she has a change of heart about the plan.
 * Kidnapping of President Ellis: Killian has also manipulated American intelligence agencies regarding the Mandarin's location, luring Iron Patriot into a trap to steal the armor. Stark escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian intends to attack President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Remotely controlling his Iron Man armor, Stark saves some surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis. They trace Killian to an impounded damaged oil tanker where Killian intends to kill Ellis on live television. The vice president will become a puppet leader, following Killian's orders in exchange for Extremis to cure his daughter's disability.

25th

 * Battle on the Norco: On the platform of the Norco, Stark goes to save Potts, and Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons each of his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Rhodes secures the president and leads him to safety, while Stark discovers Potts has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before he can save her, a rig collapses around them and she falls to her apparent death. Stark confronts Killian and traps him in an Iron Man suit that self-destructs, but fails to kill him. Potts, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, intervenes and kills Killian.
 * After the battle, Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy each Iron Man suit as a sign of his intention to devote more time to Potts. The vice president and Slattery are arrested. Killian's War is over.

27th

 * With Stark's help, Potts' Extremis effects are stabilized.
 * Stark undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He pitches his obsolete chest arc reactor into the sea, musing he will always be Iron Man.

6th

 * In a therapy session Tony tells Bruce Banner the story of his battle with Killian, to which Banner falls asleep. Tony wakes him up after finishing the story.

30th

 * Cybertek Technologies finishes the construction of the Cybertek Prosthetic Leg, as part of Project: Deathlok.

24th

 * Michael Peterson, a test subject from the Centipede Group, witnesses an explosion while watching a toy shop window with his son. Michael enters the building and saves one of the victims, the doctor that implanted his Centipede Device. The witnesses of the incident and the press call him the "Hooded Hero".
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Grant Ward retrieves a Chitauri Neural Link fromm one of Vanchat's safe-houses in Paris, France

25th

 * Deputy Director Maria Hill interviews Grant Ward and assigns him to Phil Coulson's newly created Team, along agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.
 * Skye, member of the Rising Tide hacktivist group, warns Michael Peterson about S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Phil Coulson asks fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Melinda May to join his team and drive The Bus.
 * Skye airs a Rising Tide transmission while tracked by Phil Coulson and Grant Ward. After an unsuccesful interrogation, Coulson decides to make Skye trust S.H.I.E.L.D. by making Ward revealing secrets with a truth serum.
 * Agents Melinda May, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons analyze the explosion site, determine that it was a laboratory and retrieve valuable data using specialized Forensic Equipment.
 * Michael Peterson asks for permission to publicly reveal his powers and then tries to obtain his old job again from his former boss. When denied, Peterson loses temper and attacks his boss while causing damage to the factory.
 * At night, Michael Peterson visits the woman he rescued from the explosion, who turns out to be the doctor that implanted his Centipede Device. She reprimands him for exposing her and the program.
 * Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons manage to digitally replicate the events that lead to the explosion with the help of Skye. The team discovers that nature of the Centipede Device and the cause of the explosion, the unstability of thre Extremis component in the Centipede Serum, that made one of the patients explode.
 * Michael Peterson takes his son and kidnaps Skye, knocking down Melinda May in the process.

26th

 * Michael Peterson makes Skye delete all files about his identity while planning to flee by train. Skye seizes the opportunity to hack S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secure channel and warn Coulson's Team.
 * Phil Coulson and Grant Ward arrive at Union Station in Los Angeles to try to stop Michael Peterson while Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons find a way to stabilize the Extremis in Peterson's body.
 * Centipede Group's doctor orders an operative to kill Michael Peterson, but he is incapacitated by Agent Melinda May.
 * Phil Coulson tries to talk down Michael Peterson. Meanwhile, Grant Ward shoots Peterson with the Night-Night Gun, a non-lethal weapon that renders him unconscious and stabilizes the Extremis in his body.

27th

 * Phil Coulson and Skye take Michael Peterson's so Ace to his aunt Mindy's house. While there, Coulson asks Skye to join his team, and Grant Ward informs of the discovery of an 0-8-4.
 * Skye and Phil Coulson arrive at a S.H.I.E.L.D. airport and board The Bus. Coulson informs his decission to add Skye to the roster of his Coulson's Team to Grant Ward and Melinda May.

28th

 * Phil Coulson and his team arrive at Peru to investigate an 0-8-4, the code of an object of unknown origin, found in a pre-Inca temple.
 * After a preliminar examination, Agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons determine the 0-8-4 is a weapon made by HYDRA scientists in the 1940's using Tesseract Energy. Meanwhile, Agents Grant Ward and Melinda May are attacked by Comandante Camilla Reyes and her squad of soldiers, until Reyes recognizes Phil Coulson.
 * Peruvian rebels attack S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the Policia Militar de Perú soldiers at the archaelogical site, forcing them to flee to The Bus and take flight.
 * At night, Camilla Reyes betrays Phil Coulson and take over The Bus, tying Coulson to a pole and the rest of the team in the cargo area at the rear of the plane.

29th

 * Coulson's Team get free and use the 0-8-4 to detonate a hole in a side of The Bus, recovering the plane and saving Phil Coulson. Camilla Reyes and her remaining soldiers are now tied up.
 * Coulson's Team arrives at The Slingshot a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. facility where Camilla Reyes and her soldiers are taken into custody and the Slingshot is destroyed without risk by sending it in a rocket into space.
 * Skye contacts fellow Rising Tide member Miles Lydon to inform him that she has succesfully infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Director Nick Fury reprimends Phil Coulson about the damage caused to The Bus, while Coulson defend his team's actions. Fury also warns Coulson about the risk that Skye poses to the team..

30st

 * Skye begins training to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with Grant Ward as her Supervising Officer.
 * Dr. Franklin Hall leaks information about an upcoming transfer to have Ian Quinn capture him in order to destroy his plans.

1st

 * While on route to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, the convoy transporting Franklin Hall is attacked by Ian Quinn's men using a Gravitonium powered device that elevates Agent Mack's truck into the and crashes it, allowing Hall's kidnapping.
 * Phil Coulson informs his team of Franklin Hall's kidnapping, one of agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons's former mnetos at S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy.
 * At night, Coulson's Team get to the crime scene Hall and and interview Agent Mack about the situation. Jemma Simmons discovers one of the Gravity Field Generators used in the attack.

2nd

 * Agents Phil Coulson and Grant Ward interrogate a man who sold construction equipment to Franklin Hall's kidnappers. Tracing back the gold bricks he was paid with, Coulson's Team discovers that it comes from a mine owned by Ian Quinn.
 * In Malta, Ian Quinn reunites with former colleague Franklin Hall informing him that he had discovered a big cluster of Gravitonium, a substance formerly believed to be theoretical, and asking him to help in the completion of a giant Gravity Field Generator.


 * Franklin Hall tries to convince Ian Quinn that the generator is too dangerous to use. After failing, Hall agrees so he can destroy the generator.
 * On the way to Malta, Leo Fitz informs the team about the nature of the device founded and theories about Gravitonium.
 * Coulson's Team begins planning a way to infiltrate Ian Quinn's mansion. Skye volunteers to go into the mansion and hacks an invitation to do it.

3rd

 * Grant Ward helps Skye prepare her infiltration mission and shares the personal reason that made he become a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative, that his older brother, Maynard, was abusive to him and his little brother.
 * Coulson's Team arrive in Malta and plans the details of the infiltration mission into Ian Quinn's mission.
 * Skye infiltrates the party with the remote back-up of Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Melinda May. She is greeted by Ian Quinn himself, who knows she is part of the Rising Tide and offers her a spot in his company.
 * Ian Quinn delivers a speech to his guests and shareholders, and informs of his plans of constructing Gravitonium-based devices and sell them to the people around the world.
 * Skye sneaks into his Ian Quinn's mansion to hack into the laser fencing control system to allow Phil Coulson and Grant Ward entrance into the compound.
 * Ian Quinn finds Skye seemingly trying to take discover information to leak online, and she informs him of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s vigilance to keep his trust while Leo Fitz remotely hacks the laser fencing.
 * Inside the compound Phil Coulson and Grant Ward part ways: Coulson goes to Franklin Hall's laboratory while Ward rescues Skye, having been discovered as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s mole by Ian Quinn.
 * When Phil Coulson finds Franklin Hall, he reveals his own plan to be kidnapped in order to destroy the Gravitonium. After being knocked unconscious, Coulson tries to talk down Hall, but the generator starts disrupting gravity fields in its proximity.
 * Skye manages to escape from Ian Quinn, who desist chasing her after realizing the Gravitonium has begun to disrupt gravity, and orders his chopper to be prepared for an evacuation.
 * Phil Coulson tries again to convince Franklin Hall not to destroy the generator in order to save his team, but Coulson's is forced to let Hall fall into the Gravitonium cluster to stop the generator and save hundreds of lifes.

4th

 * 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 Coulson's back.
 * The Gravitonium cluster is transfered to The Fridge, and stored with no recorded entry and no access granted. Unknown to everyone, Franklin Hall survived and now is trapped inside the Gravitonium.

7th

 * Former S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Akela Amador performs a seemingly impossible jewel theft in the subway of Stockholm, after performing similar thefts in Milan and Monte Carlo.
 * Phil Coulson starts investigating the series of thefts under a hunch that his former protégée Akela Amador could be responsible.

8th

 * Phil Coulson and his team arrive at Stockholm and he investigates the crime scene with Melinda May and Skye. Thanks to Skye, Coulson confirms the identity of Akela Amador.
 * Coulson's Team traces Akela Amador to the town of Zloda in Belarus, where she uses the stolen diamonds to buy a prox card to infiltrate Todorov Building.
 * Coulson's Team separate, with Melinda May staying in The Bus, Phil Coulson and Grant Ward actively searching for Akela Amador in the inn, and Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons and Skye performing an electronical search of Amador in a van nicknamed as Short Bus.
 * Leo Fitz and Skye hack into an unknown broadcast showing their van in what looks like an X-Ray vision, while Akela Amador attacks the van and knocks it over to escape.
 * Reunited at The Bus, Coulson's Team analyze the situation and determines that the unknown broadcast is Akela Amador's point of view through a Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant that is used to control her.
 * Agent Melinda May uncovers Akela Amador's location and goes to confront her alone. While fighting May, Phil Coulson renders Amador unconscious with a pistol-version of the Night-Night Gun.

9th

 * Akela Amador wakes up in The Bus detention cell with Phil Coulson, who ask about her situation and tries to determinate the identity of Amador's handler.
 * Skye hijacks Akela Amador's eye implant signal while Agent Grant Ward completes Amador's infiltration mission using a set of glasses mimicking the eye implant.
 * Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz perform surgery on Akela Amador to remove her eye implant.
 * Grant Ward finds the true target of the infiltration mission, an equation of seemingly alien origin. Ward's ruse is discovered while fleeing the building.
 * Melinda May traces Akela Amador's handler. When Phil Coulson confronts him, his own eye implant's fail-safe is activated, killing him instantly.
 * Akela Amador is jailed and waiting for trial, but she feels liberated, thanking Phil Coulson for all he has done for her.
 * Grant Ward plays poker against Leo Fitz, who is secretly in league with Skye to cheat using the Backscatter Glasses.

12th

 * Street magician Chan Ho Yin is seduced by a woman only known as Raina in Hong Kong, who kidnaps him after Chan reveals his pyrokinetic powers.

13th

 * Agent Kwan Chen, Chan Ho Yin's Index case agent, informs Coulson's Team of Chan's disappearance, and the Rising Tide's role in Chan's profile leaking.
 * Chan Ho Yin wakes up in a strange place, with Raina offering him to increase his powers and an opportunity to be recognized for his gift, giving him the codename Scorch.
 * Skye tracks the Rising Tide hacker back to Austin, Texas, and identifies him as Miles Lydon.
 * Coulson's Team arrives at Austin and tries to catch Miles Lydon. Unknown from the rest of the team, Skye warns Lydon, revealing he is his boyfriend.
 * Melinda May follows Skye to Miles Lydon's house. The team arrests both while searching for evidence in the house.
 * Raina takes Chan Ho Yin to a laboratory and makes him being injected with a dose of Centipede Serum, that increases his powers.
 * After some evidence is founded, Miles Lydon confeses he was paid for the information leaked by a cover of the Centipede Group.
 * Debbie, the doctor that implanted Michael Peterson's Centipede Device, orders to drain Chan Ho Yin's blood to use its platelets to stabilize the Extremis element in the Centipede Serum.
 * Phil Coulson and Melinda May infiltrate Centipede laboratory together with Agent Kwan Chen. After liberating Chan Ho Yin, he goes in a rampage killing Kwan and Debbie. Seeing no other way to go, Coulson and May are forced to kill Chan using an overdose of the Centipede Serum that makes him explode.
 * After releasing Miles Lydon tagging him with a Tracking Bracelet, Phil Coulson demands to know Skye's true reason for joining S.H.I.E.L.D. She tearfully reveals that she joined to find information about her parents, as the only evidence she has is a document redacted by S.H.I.E.L.D.

14th

 * Raina visits Edison Po in prison to ask him to "touch base" with The Clairvoyant.

21st

 * Thor leads his army of Asgardians to end the threats that attack the other Realms.

26th

 * Adam Cross dies while camping in Pennsylvania with a group of boy scouts after a strange electrical phenomenon.

27th

 * Phil Coulson asks Jemma Simmons to run some physical tests, because he feels "different" since his death and recovery.
 * Coulson's Team arrives at Pennsylvania and finds Adam Cross's body suspended in the air. While examining it, Jemma Simmons unknowingly gets infected with a virus of Chitauri origin.
 * Leo Fitz detects an electrostatic event, and agents Phil Coulson, Melinda May and Grant Ward locate another victim inside a farm, Frank Whalen, companion of the first victim Adam Cross as volunteer in a fire truck fire that was sent to New York City after the Battle of New York.
 * Agents Phil Coulson, Melinda May and Grant Ward visit the fire house while Jemma Simmons discovers a virus is responsible of the deaths. May finds the source of the virus, a Chitauri Helmet from New York City, and Coulson tries to comfort Tony Diaz, another infected firefighter whose death is imminent.

28th

 * The Chitauri Helmet is loaded into The Bus to be transported to The Sandbox.
 * Jemma Simmons starts developing a cure for the Chitauri when it is revealed that she is infected. Phil Coulson is forced to quarantine her inside the laboratory. Together with Leo Fitz they try to develop a cure.
 * Phil Coulson contacts fellow Agent Blake, who insists on the importance of the arrival of the virus source at The Sandbox and instructs him to dispose of any infected person in The Bus.
 * Leo Fitz breaks the quarantine and enters the lab to help Jemma Simmons in her search for a cure. After seemingly failing, Simmons hits Fitz to render him unsconscious. Simmons prepares to jump off the plane, without knowing that the cure works. Grant Ward jumps off the plane and catches her mid-air and injects her with the cure.
 * After rescuing both from the sea, Phil Coulson reprimands Jemma Simmons for her decision to jump, and tells her to never do that again.
 * At The Sandbox, Blake takes away the Chitauri Helmet and warns Phil Coulson that even he cannot disobey direct orders. While leaving, Blake also notes the change in Coulson's attitude since his death and recovery.

30th

 * Erik Selvig runs around Stonehenge naked, realizing that there is something wrong with the atmosphere. He is then arrested and taken to a mental ward in London.

31st

 * Phil Coulson allows 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 of Grant Ward and Melinda May.

1st

 * Thor's army arrives in Vanaheim, the birthplace of Hogun and the final realm they must save. They defeat the marauders that have been attacking the area. Hogun decides to stay among his people while the rest of the army goes back to Asgard.
 * In London, Jane has a date with a man named Richard. Jane's intern, Darcy, interrupts the date with her intern Ian Boothby. They go to a nearby factory where three children are. The children show them that many objects around the factory are acting irregularly, are disappearing in mid-air, and even floating. Jane separates from the group and ends up accidentally falling through a portal into the hiding place of the Aether. It infects her with its power. She then accidentally falls into a portal that takes her back to London.
 * In Asgard, Heimdall discovers that the Convergence is taking place, making all of the Nine Realms align. This makes the realms be connected through portals. Heimdall then realizes that he can't find Jane and Thor decides to go to Earth to find her.
 * As Jane returns to Earth, so does Thor and the two reunite. A British police officer tries to apprehend Jane and ask her some questions, but when he touches her arm the Aether expands and shoots out of her arm, protecting itself. Realizing that the event was involuntary, Thor takes Jane to Asgard.
 * In Asgard, Asgardian doctors try to figure out what has happened to Jane. Odin approaches and does not approve of Thor bringing Jane to Asgard. Odin then realizes that her infection must be of the Aether. Jane then stays the rest of her time in Asgard with Frigga.
 * Malekith and his army awake from their five thousand year sleep because of the release of the Aether. Malekith's second in comand, Algrim, volunteers to become one of the Kursed, making him much stronger. They leave part of the ceremony out so he can brake out of the Asgardian dungeons.
 * Coulson's Team delivers intel gathered by agent Shaw and classified as Clearance Level 8 to The Hub.
 * Agent Victoria Hand informs Phil Coulson, Grant Ward and Melinda May about a weapon created by South Ossetian separatists, the Overkill Device, requesting agents Ward and Leo Fitz to infiltrate South Ossetia and disable the weapon.
 * Agents Grant Ward and Leo Fitz try to reach Ward's contacts in South Ossetia and they end captured. Thanks to Fitz's resourcefulness, they gain local mob's trust to help them cross the border.
 * Victoria Hand and Phil Coulson discuss about his recovery, and he realizes he has a programmed response to the mention of Tahiti.
 * Skye tries to hack into The Hub's mainframe with the help of Jemma Simmons, and they end up rendering Agent Jasper Sitwell unconscious. While hacking, Skye chooses to consult the status of his teammates mission, instead of seizing the opportunity to search the file about her parents, finding that the infiltration does not include an extraction team.

2nd

 * Algrim manages to get arrested by the Asgardians. Once he got into their dungeons he finished the ceremony to make him one of the Kursed. Then used his new strength to free the other prisoners except for Loki. As Algrim escapes Loki tells him the easiest rout out of the dungeons. Algrim still leaves Loki in his cell. Malekith and the rest of the Dark Elves arrive in Asgard. When they reunite with Algrim they go looking for Jane, who they know has the Aether. Frigga makes a temporary duplicate of Jane and makes her hide. Malekith and Algrim find Frigga and the duplicate in Frigga's chambers. When they discover that the duplicate is not real, they kill Frigga. Witnessing his mother's death, Thor electrocutes Malekith in his face using Mjølnir, creating a permanent scar on the whole right side of his face. The Dark Elves retreat, finding no trace of Jane.
 * The Asgardians have a funeral for all the fallen warriors that where killed in the raid. 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 does not allow Thor to go. Thor then makes a plot against Odin's wishes with Heimdall, Sif, Volstagg, and Fandral to free Loki, who is the only one who knows of a portal that is not the Bifrost.
 * Grant Ward and Leo Fitz locate the Overkill Device, and realize there is not going to 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.
 * 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 uncovering the truth. Later, he tries to obtain the file about his death and recovery in Tahiti, but he is denied access.

3rd

 * The five out their plan into action. Thor frees Loki from the dungeons and then takes him to a ship that the Dark Elves left behind. Taking Jane with them, they abandon the ship and hop onto a flying boat with the help of Fandral. Fandral then hops off the boat to stop another flying boat filled with Asgardian soldiers from stopping the others. The remaining three on the boat, Thor, Loki, and Jane fly the boat into the portal and arrive in Svartalfheim.
 * In London, Darcy tries to call S.H.I.E.L.D., but they do not pick up her call. Finding that S.H.I.E.L.D. will not be able to help her, she, with the help of Ian, get Erik Selvig out of the mental hospital so he can help them.
 * Thor, Loki, and Jane make a plan to make the Dark Elves think that Loki will betray Thor. Putting their plan into action, Loki uses magic to make the Dark Elves think that he stabbed Thor and cut his hand off in order to gain their respect. After seeing this Malekith, takes the Aether out of Jane. Loki then uses his magic to give Thor his arm back so he can get Mjølnir. He uses it to destroy the Aether. It uses its power to reconstruct itself. Then Algrim stabs Loki in the chest, but Loki uses Algrim's own weapon to kill him. Loki survives the wound, but uses magic to trick Thor into thinking that he is dead so he can take the Asgardian throne. Thor believes this act and mourns for Loki. Thor and Jane then travel around Svartalfheim and go into a cave so they can stay safe. In London, Richard calls Jane and oddly manages to get service. Jane answers the phone call and finds a portal that takes them back to London.
 * Jane and Thor regroup with Darcy, Ian, and Erik and they discover that the area where the Convergence will take full effect will be in Greenwich, meaning it will also be the area where Malekith tries to put the Nine Realms in eternal darkness.

4th

 * In Svartalfheim, Loki finds a portal to Asgard and uses magic to trick Odin so he could take control of Asgard.
 * Battle of Greenwich: Thor, Jane, Darcy, Ian, and Erik put sensors in four different areas of Greenwich. Malekith and his army arrive in the city and attack. Thor and Malekith fight, but constantly fall through portals to other realms. The Royal Air Force get involved but two of their planes fly into a portal to Vanaheim, where Hogun witnesses them fly. Ian saves Darcy from a few Dark Elves. The two then kiss. While Thor battles Malekith, they end up in Jotunheim, and fall into a portal with a Jotunheim Beast back to Greenwich. Back on Earth, Thor and Malekith fight until Malekith and his ship are involuntarily teleported back to Svartalfheim. In Svartalfheim, the ship lands on Malekith, killing him. Thor then says his goodbyes and heads back to Asgard with the Aether. The ships that flew into Vanaheim quickly come flying out.

5th

 * Agent 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 was contained, classified as hazardous material and marked for transport.
 * At Trillemarka National Park, Norway, Jakob Nystrom and Petra Larsen find the first piece of the Berserker Staff.

6th

 * Loki, disguised as Odin tells Thor that he did the right thing and that he can become the king of Asgard. Thor says he does not wish to take the throne and would prefer to stay on Earth with Jane. The disguised Loki says this is fine and lets him go back to Earth, making everything go according to his plan.
 * Thor and Jane reunite in her teams apartment in London.
 * After receiving a message from S.H.I.E.L.D., agent Phil Coulson's Team travel to Norway to investigate the incident at Trillemarka, finding spectrographic signatures of an object of Asgardian origin.
 * Jakob Nystrom and Petra Larsen lead a Norse Paganist Hate Group in a series of riots in the streets of Oslo.
 * Phil Coulson consults with Elliot Randolph, one of the world leading experts on Norse mythologym in Seville, Spain. Randolph recounts the story of a warrior from the Asgardian Berserker Army who stayed on Earth, and the properties of his Berserker Staff.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. investigates Baffin Island in Canada under Elliot Randolph's advice as a possible location of a piece of the Berserker Staff. No Asgardian artifact is found.

7th

 * Sif and Volstagg go to the museum of the Collector and offer him the Aether. He accepts because he is secretly collecting the Infinity Stones for Thanos.
 * After receiving an update about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s investigation in Baffin Island, Canada, Phil Coulson's Team investigates the ruins of an old crypt under the Church of El Divino Niño in Seville, Spain, but the piece of the Berserker Staff is taken by Elliot Randolph.
 * Jakob Nystrom, Petra Larsen and their group attack Elliot Randolph and obtain the second piece of the Berserker Staff.
 * Grant Ward begins to show behavioural changes as a result of his contact with the Berserker Staff, as well as some degree of super-human strength. Phil Coulson applies this circunstances to succesfully interrogate Elliot Randolph, discovering that he is the Asgardian Warrior from the legend, and the location of the third piece.
 * In Norway, Jakob Nystrom and Petra Larsen use their two pieces of the Berserker Staff to give more members of their group superhuman strenght while researching the location of the last piece.
 * Phil Coulson and his team arrive at a monastery in Ireland, the location of the final piece of the Berserker Staff, to find that Jakob Nystrom has already obtained it, and uses it to stab Elliot Randolph.
 * Phil Coulson, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons try to save's Elliot Randolph life while Grant Ward and Melinda May defeat every member of the Norse Paganist Group.

8th

 * After surviving, Elliot Randolph considers starting over somewhere else. Phil Coulson recommends him to move to Portland, promising to visit and to introduce Thor.
 * Later that evening Skye offers Grant Ward to talk about his past, he declines. Instead he joins Melinda May in her hotel room, staying there for the night.
 * Phil Coulson starts having nightmares about his recovery in Tahiti

25th

 * Jackson Norris, posing as a documentary filmmaker, breaks Trevor Slattery out of prison during his last interview under orders of The Mandarin