Timeline



A timeline of events as depicted and mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

1st

 * The Frost Giants of Jotunheim attempt to conquer Midgard/Earth. Their invasion point in Tønsberg, Norway becomes the site of an epic battle as Asgard’s 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.

1st

 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

8th

 * In Asgard, Odin tells his sons's, Loki & Thor, of the battle in Tonsberg, Norway.
 * Odin tells both of them that they were born to be kings.

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.

4th

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

9th

 * Peggy Carter is born in London, England.

1st

 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a young Steve Rogers talks to his mother about his deceased father and military man, Joe. His father died, from a Mustard Gas attack, with the 107th during WWI. Soon after, his mother dies from T.B. and Rogers is sent to an orphanage.

1st

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

1st

 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Steve meets James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes during a back ally scuffle with some bullies.

1st

 * At the Duetsches Opernhaus in Berlin, German Physicist, Johann Schmidt, meets Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaufmann (head of the Sturmabteilung (SA)'s Special Weapons Division) after a Wagner opera. Schmidt reveals his theory that Norse gods and their magic could be more than myth. Hitler is intrigued by Schmidt’s ideas, but Kaufmann is less impressed. Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufmann’s unit, but is violently rejected. Himmler, head of the SS overhears the conversation, and takes Schmidt under his wing.

1st

 * In Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Erskine and young, budding industrialist, Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.

30th

 * At the Hanselbauer Hotel, Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, as part of the Schutzstaffel (SS)'s Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt assassinates Ernst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.

5th

 * Schmidt and the SS troops attack a SA Weapons Testing Ground at Kummersdorf (46km south of Berlin) where he finds and recruits advanced exo-skeleton battle armor researcher Arnim Zola.

14th

 * Spurred by rumors that Hitler was to announce draconian anti-Semetic laws, including the revocation of German citizenship for Jews, at the Nazi Party’s annual rally in Nuremberg the next day, biochemist Abraham Erskine attempts to flee Germany with his family. They are stopped at the German/Swiss border by HYDRA leader Johann Schmidt who wants Erskine's work on ways to increase molecular density of cellular fibers through synthetic proteins. In order to ensure Erskine's cooperation, Schmidt has Erskine's wife Greta and his children Klaus and Marlene sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Zola is allowed to resume his work on exo-skeleton battle suits and various high-tech weaponry.

13th

 * Sarah Rogers, mother of Steve Rogers, dies after getting hit in a T.B. ward.

1st

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

26th

 * The bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. While the Nazis were assisting the forces of Generalissimo Franco, HYDRA uses the battle to test a prototype tank and exo-skeleton battle suit. At the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was responsible for the destruction of the city.

1st

 * World War II begins. Howard Stark launches Stark Industries. They begin producing planes for war effort following attack on Pearl Harbor. His innovations later earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

1st

 * In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark begins a demonstration which would showcase Vibranium, a metal discovered by Stark Industries researchers in Africa. Stark then meets with Colonel Chester Phillips after being attacked by HYDRA assassins. Stark agrees to join Philip's newly created Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR), a top secret government agency.

1st

 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Schmidt takes part in a test involving Erskine and his Super Soldier Serum which turns Schmidt into what will become known as the Red Skull. Erskine is rescued by British Officer, Peggy Carter, and brought into the SSR as part of the Project Rebirth program along with Howard Stark to produce America's own Super Soldier.

7th

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

24th

 * Rogers and Bucky 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.

1st

 * The SSR team, based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should have been called the Brooklyn Project in response to Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos. At Camp Lehigh, New York, Erskine rejects all the candidates selected by Col. Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

1st

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

14th

 * At the World Exposition of Tomorrow, Queens, New York 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, Rogers, along with several other volunteers, begins his training under the supervision of Peggy Carter, Dr. Erskine and Col. Phillips.

22nd

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

23rd

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

1st

 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps the members of the future 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.

3rd

 * Italy. Frustrated by his lack of real action, and upon hearing of Bucky trapped behind enemy lines, Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility in Austria and releases the imprisoned Howling Commandos and Bucky. Schmidt, who has been using the Tesseract on site as a power source sets the facility to self destruct. During his escape Rogers memorises a map showing the locations of all HYDRA's hidden facilities as well as obtaining a small sample of the power source HYDRA have been using.

5th

 * Howard Stark begins to examine the sample of HYDRA's power which will lead him to discover the theory of a new element.

1st

 * Rogers invades a castle in the Nazi occupied Danish Straits. The castle is controlled by Nazi special weapons unit HYDRA. Here Cap fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, as well as an arc powered tank. Schmidt attempts to destroy them by using a mystical Viking runestone, but Rogers slows the relic from exploding to allow time for the Commandos to escape.

15th

 * Rogers boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

1st

 * Rogers invades Castle Zemo in Bavaria. He battles Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Madame Hydra, and Iron Cross. Arnim Zola recreates the Super Soldier Serum from Rogers' blood but Rogers destroys the sample.

6th

 * Rogers, with the help of the US Military, attacks and destroys HYDRA's last fortification. As Schmidt makes his escape aboard the Valkyrie, Rogers gains access and a fight ensues. Schmidt, after handling the Tesseract, is transported into the cosmos. Rogers has to ditch the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland ensuring that the aircraft and its payload never reaches the USA. Shortly after, the allied nations celebrate V. E. Day.

9th

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

2nd

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

21st

 * Nick Fury is born.

1st

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

1st

 * Anton Vanko defects to the US and begins work with Howard Stark in developing Arc Reactor technology under the title of 'The Unity Project'.

1st

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

2nd

 * Phillip Coulson is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1st

 * Stark has Anton Vanko deported as a spy. Vanko returns to Soviet Union but is sent to exile in Siberia for two decades. (Presumably he is able to return to Moscow following Premier Gorbachev’s call for democratization in January 1987). Obadiah Stane convinces Howard Stark to take Stark Industries back into weapons development.

4th

 * James Rupert Rhodes is born.

1st

 * Ivan Vanko, son of Anton, is born.

18th

 * Bruce Banner is born.

29th

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

1st

 * Emil Blonsky is born.

15th

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

1st

 * Stark World Exposition. Last Stark Expo until 2010. 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.

1st

 * Howard Stark unveils to the world his first attempt at building an Arc Reactor. Although technologically successful no attempt is made to explore its profitability.

10th

 * Tony Stark builds his first engine.

3rd

 * Tony Stark graduates MIT at age 17 at the top of his class.

7th

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

16th

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

1st

 * Tony Stark inherits Stark Industries becoming, at age 21, the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In addition to the company’s numerous military contracts, Stark Industries also does pioneering work in medical technology and in combating world hunger with their Intelli-Crops program. In the process he becomes somewhat of a media celebrity.

5th

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

1st

 * General Thaddeus Ross convinces the military to revive the Bio Force Enhancement Project, a program based on the work carried out in Project Rebirth during World War II. Dr. Bruce Banner joins the group at Culver University in Willowdale, VA in South Western Virginia working on a way to strengthen cellular resistance to radiation, possibly at insistence of girlfriend Dr. Betty Ross, daughter of General Ross. General Ross lies to the scientists on the project, informing them that their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

12th

 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Bruce Banner volunteers to test process on himself resulting in the accident that turns him into a powerful, mutated humanoid, or a "Hulk". Gamma pulse combined with serum that Betty Ross was developing triggers mutation. Later, gamma pulses somehow stored in Banner’s brain’s amygdala and released during high stress moments will trigger mutation. Betty Ross is injured and hospitalized. Gen. Ross admits to Banner that project is being developed as weapon, not just defense. Banner goes on the run. In the wake of the accident, the military closes the entire lab building for a year and shuts down the entire Bio Tech Force Enhancement project. General Ross secretly holds onto some material, Dr. Betty Ross also secretly holds onto project data, remaining at Culver University as a professor of cellular biology. Betty also ceases speaking with her father, angry at his treatment of Banner.

7th

 * Banner tries to contact Betty one last time, but the email is intercepted by the military. She never receives it. At some point during his run from the military, Banner travels through the Dakotas, possibly on his way towards the Arctic.

27th

 * Banner spotted via satellite recon photo in Canada and a mutated Banner sighted by locals who mistake him for a “green Sasquatch".

21st

 * Last sighting of Banner for at least five months.

1st

 * The Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistic Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) is brought in to help Ross and his task force recover Banner. Ross requisitions some high tech weaponry he knows will be required to bring Banner down. Stark Industries sells them Jeep-mounted sonic cannons. Banner wanders the world avoiding population centers, eventually heading to South America. They continue helping Ross until 2012.

27th

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

1st

 * Banner spotted in Rome, Italy.

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 go to a club. Stark's arrogant, playboy attitude upsets another patron which results in a brawl.

20th

 * Following the successful demonstration of the new Jericho Missile Weapons System outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, the military convoy escorting Stark is attacked by the Ten Rings terrorist group under the leadership of Raza, who is working at least in part for Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and is captured. Stark is barely saved by Ho Yinsen, a fellow captive. They are forced to build a version of Jericho. They instead build an armored, exo-skeleton battle suit powered by a miniature arc-reactor.

19th

 * During their three months of capture, Stark and Yinsen, the scientist who saved his life, for the Ten Rings terrorist group 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. 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.

21st

 * Upon his return to the US and deeply affected by his experience, Stark buys cheeseburgers and then pulls Stark International out of the weapons business, terminating all contracts with the military. Stark Industries stock prices tumble nearly 60 percent. Hammer Industries manoeuvres itself to pick up many 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 in order to debrief him.

1st

 * 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. Besides boardroom maneuvering, Stane develops his own high tech battle armor using the remains of the Mark I armor recovered by his Ten Rings confederates.

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. After trying to gain his trust and see how he reacts to certain things, Fury tells two agents, named Johnson and Peterson, to help him. The agents find out by making it look like they where both dating and one was cheating on the other with Bruce, and Bruce gets extremely 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 everyone in the bar, including Fury, was surprised. Fury tried to calm Hulk down but he yelled at Fury, and ran out of the wall of the bar.

19th

 * After his Hulk incident, Banner heads into Rio de Janeiro. Banner travels there in order to find a way to clandestinely contact Dr. Samuel Sterns, professor in Cellular Biology Department at N.Y.C.’s Grayburn College on the Upper East Side, for help in developing a cure. They communicate using code-names of “Mr. Blue” and “Mr. Green.” Sterns is noted for his work with trimethadiones, used in the treatment of epileptic conditions. Acting on a suggestion from Mr. Blue/Sterns, Banner starts to research Amazonia Tracheophytes (plants that have lignified tissues for conducting water, minerals, and photosynthetic products through the plant) for a lead on a cure. Banner also studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling plant as a handyman and begins teaching 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. During the altitude test Stark 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 (which takes approx. 5 hours to complete). At the charity event, Tony meets with Agent Coulson. who still wants to learn about Tony's incident (They book an appointment for the 24th). Tony then 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, a reporter 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 remote Afghan town of Gulmira, Yinsen's home village. Tony confronts Obadiah on the matter, and Obadiah reveals that he is the one who filed the injunction against Tony.

22nd

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

24th

 * Under Stark’s direction, Potts uncovers proof of Stane’s collaboration with the Ten Rings. 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 Iron Monger fight 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.

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, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury approaches Stark about a project called the “Avengers Initiative". Stark declines, Fury calls in Natasha Romanoff (A.K.A. Black Widow). Anton Vanko dies in poverty in Moscow. His son Ivan vows revenge on Stark. He begins building his own portable Arc Reactor to power an energized whip/body harness.

16th

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

1st

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

25th

 * 158 days since his last “incident”, Banner has accident that leaves drop of blood in soda. Also, he sends sample of blood to Sterns who will conduct further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs. Banner has been working in the factory, at this stage, for five months.

22nd

 * Stark Expo 2010 opens with plans to run for one year.

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 and technology 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 other countries, including 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 have also 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 Historic 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

 * Physicist Jane Foster, working in the small town of Puente Antiguo for Culver University, discovers the first occurrence of 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. He then returns on his journey to go to Culver University. Over the next seventeen days, he will to Willowdale, VA and Culver University to see if any data still remains from his original experiment. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sitwell follows Banner on his journey.

30th

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

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”. Stark is unaware that she is S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Romanoff. Stark hires her as his new personal assistant.

24th

 * Stark arrives at the Historic Circuit De Monaco and, in a moment of spontaneity, 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 along the section of the Circuit de Monaco 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 US with Potts.

25th

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

26th

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

27th

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

28th

 * 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.

29th

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

30th

 * Fury is informed that Stark has only 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning. Handed lithium to slow the effects of the condition Fury leaves to meet Stark. Also at this time Fury is told that Banner has passed through US Customs and orders Agent Sitwell to track him. Agent Coulson informs Fury of 'atmospheric disturbances' they are picking up in the 'south west' region.


 * Rhodes delivers 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 continues revamping 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.


 * Foster contacts her mentor, Dr. 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.


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

1st

 * 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 his detail with 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.


 * Hammer’s Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Vanko, who uses drones to attack crowd and Stark. After receiving a call from Vanko, Stark skips over tests on new Arc Reactor element in order to race across country and stop Vanko. Stark/Iron Man defeat Vanko’s drones with help from Rhodes in the modified Mk II armor, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Romanoff and Stark’s driver Happy Hogan. Vanko is apparently killed in explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion. Hammer is arrested for his part in engineering Vanko’s escape.


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


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


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


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


 * Foster, whilst investigating the atmospheric disturbances, detects a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge (wormhole) in the nearby desert. Racing to the site with Selvig and her assistant Darcy, they discover Thor, having been stripped of his powers and cast out of Asgard by his father Odin for nearly provoking a war with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Thor, after provoking Darcy with his erratic behavior, is tasered and taken to a local hospital.


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

2nd

 * Under orders from Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clint Barton (A.K.A. Hawkeye) 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 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. Agent 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 into the 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 successfully lift the hammer.


 * 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 new lover Dr. Leonard Samson. Samson informs the military of Banner’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, 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 heads directly to Culver University.


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

3rd

 * The Warriors Three and Sif head to Midgard to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them.


 * At Culver University, Betty walks Banner to bus station in the early morning. As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the military and Betty becomes aware of the true extent of Banner’s condition. Blonsky seems to adapt well to Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but still gets beaten by transformed Banner, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Banner's 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 Smokey Mountains. News of the battle can not be contained and quickly spreads across cable news channels and the internet. Culver University journalism student and campus 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 will be 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 several other hot spots in 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 with the Avengers Initiative. He accepts the offer on condition that Senator Stern honors them for their services.


 * Romanoff informs Fury about 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.


 * 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.

4th

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

6th

 * 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.


 * The military captures Banner, but Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with blood products Sterns had 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. Romanoff subdues him and takes him into custody.

7th

 * 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'.

11th

 * Impressed with his work on Einstein-Rosen bridges and other cutting edge theoretical physics, Nick Fury approaches Dr. 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.

12nd

 * 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 in order to ruin any chance of this recruitment going through.

13rd

 * 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 so enraged by Stark's behavior that he refuses to release him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

16th

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

1st

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

16th

 * 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.

17th

 * 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.

18th

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

19th

 * 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 then tells him what he missed while he was frozen.

1st

 * Loki remotely activates the Tesseract having been aided by an entity known only as 'The Other'. The Tesseract teleports Loki into the Mojave Desert S.H.I.E.L.D. installation. He steals the Tesseract and, using a scepter-like device, gains control over a number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Barton and Selvig. As they escape the base is destroyed. Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative.
 * 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 and only agrees when she is informed that Agent Clint Barton has been compromised.

2nd

 * 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, NY Fury meets with Rogers giving him first orders since his awakening. 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

 * 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.


 * Once aboard the Helicarrier the Avengers begin to clash 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.


 * 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 rest of 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 then apprehend Loki and reclaim the Tesseract.
 * The Avengers, tired from their recent battle, gather at a local shawarma restaurant that was recommended by Tony Stark, to eat.
 * Thor returns to Asgard with Loki and the Tesseract while the other Avengers go their separate ways.
 * The Other confers with his master over Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earth's 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.

8th

 * Benjamin Pollack and his girlfriend, Claire Wise, find a broken Chitauri weapon. Benny fixes it and they make plans to rob banks with the weapon.

9th

 * Benny and Claire prepare to rob a bank but Bennie becomes worried that the plan will fail. Then Claire convinces him and they successfully rob the bank.

10th

 * Benny and Claire rob another bank
 * Another person robs a bank in Richmond, Virginia.

12th

 * Another person tries to rob a bank in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 * In the afternoon, another person robbed a bank in Charleston, South Carolina.

13th

 * Another person tries to rob a bank in Savannah, Georgia.

14th

 * Benny and Claire decide to stay at a hotel to count the money they've stolen.
 * Jasper Sitwell is informed by Agent Blake of Benny and Claire's robberies and leaves to stop them.
 * Claire finishes counting the money but in the room next-door they hear what sounds like a party, but is actually Agent Sitwell trying to get their attention. Benny goes to investigate and is attacked by Sitwell. Claire tries to intervene by attacking Sitwell with the Chitauri weapon but she is attacked by Sitwell and she drops the weapon accidentally switching it on and making it shoot the bed destroying all their stolen money. Sitwell ties them to the bed and interrogates them. Claire tells Sitwell that Benny got the weapon to work so Sitwell says that he won't arrest them if Benny can make more for S.H.I.E.L.D. and Benny agrees.
 * Sitwell brings Benny and Claire to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and Benny gets his own workplace for making the weapons and Claire is made Agent Blake's assistant.