1980s

"When I picked you up as a kid, these boys wanted to eat you. They ain't never tasted Terran before. I saved your life!"

- Yondu Udonta.

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1980s.

1980

 * Hope van Dyne, daughter of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne, is born.

25th

 * Ego returns for the third and final time to be with Meredith Quill.

31st

 * Meredith Quill, approximately 8 weeks pregnant with her son, rides in a car with Ego in Missouri. He takes her to see his seedling, and she happily embraces him.

10th

 * Ego leaves Earth one final time, realizing he has to return to his planet, and has nearly been gone too long. He knows that if he were to return for a fourth time, he would choose never to leave, which he cannot allow of himself, and reluctantly plants a cancerous tumour in Meredith to kill her in approximately 8 years' time.

21st

 *  is released in the United States of America.

26th

 *  is released in the United States of America. Peter Quill became a fan of the game later in his life.

27th

 * Peter Quill, son of Meredith Quill and Ego, is born.

24th

 * dies.

20th

 * becomes President of the United States.

February

 * Reva Connors is born.

19th

 * Georges Batroc is born in Marseille, France.

July

 * HYDRA causes the beginning of the early 1980s recession.

4th

 * is born.

4th

 * Maria Hill is born.

May

 * The  franchise begins, with the release of the first toyline. Peter Quill became a fan of the franchise later in his life.

July/August

 * JT James is born in Brisbane, Australia.

26th

 * The television series  airs its first episode in the United States of America. Peter Quill became a fan later in his life, and would tell the other children that actor David Hasselhoff was his father.

27th

 * ' is released by, containing the song '.

November

 * The early 1980s recession, instigated by HYDRA, draws to a close.

8th

 * Onika Tanya Maraj, later known as, is born.

7th

 * Grant Ward is born.

9th

 *  is released as a single by.

13th

 * Gordon undergoes Terrigenesis. The transformation deprives him of his eyes, but grants him teleportation and force field projecting abilities.

3rd

 *  is released in the United States of America.

14th

 * Akela Amador is born.

9th

 *  is released.

17th

 * The movie , starring, is released theatrically in the United States of America, creating a lasting impression on a young Peter Quill for years to come.

7th

 * To test his EMP Communication Device on, Hank Pym uses his Ant-Man Suit to shrink to their size. The ants disobey his orders and chase him with the intention of causing him bodily harm. While Pym ran from the ants, they encounter a  that was more determined to attack. Pym manages to get the bullet ants to work with him to stop the centipede.

June

 * Pop's group, including Cornell Stokes and Fredo Diaz, is photographed by Jamel Shabazz.

26th

 *  is released in the United States of America.

November

 * Murder of Pistol Pete: Pistol Pete is killed by Cottonmouth under the orders of Mama Mabel.

22nd

 * Natasha Romanoff is born.

30th

 * is born.

1985

 * Calvin Johnson opens up a clinic in China, where he meets Jiaying.
 * Calvin Johnson marries Jiaying.
 *  are first released to the public.

17th

 * Lincoln Campbell is born.

September

 * Misty Knight, at age of 9, meets Pop.

31st

 * Since the moment he was born, Kevin Thompson quickly developed a serious brain malfunction which required a great deal of treatment. Thompson spent much of his young life going through seemingly never ending tests alongside extremely painful treatments which included injections into the back of his neck by his parents Albert and Louise. Eventually he developed the power to control people's minds and make them do as he commanded with ease.

November

 * Matt Murdock is born.

February

 * Chico Diaz is born.

12th

 * Trevor Slattery's mother dies.

14th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. investigates the Bermuda Triangle and solves the mysteries that lurked in the region.

16th

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



19th

 * Ward Meachum is born.

October

 * Pop is arrested for his crimes on the streets of Harlem. This is the last time he sees Reva Connors, now aged 5, for 27 years.

26th

 * Stark Industries designs the Blueprints of the Bus for S.H.I.E.L.D.

January

 * Anton Vanko returns to Moscow from his exile in Siberia following 's calls for democratization.

April

 * Bert Hunter, Pop's son is born.

2nd

 * The dark overlord Thanos adopts, after killing their families, two alien girls as his daughters, a Zehoberei called Gamora and a Luphomoid who goes under the name Nebula. Under the tutelage of Thanos' ally, Ronan the Accuser, the adopted daughters become Galaxy-Class Killers and elite assassins under Thanos' employ.

4th

 * In East Berlin, a man is chased down and caught by radicals dressed as HYDRA soldiers.

5th

 * In the S.H.I.E.L.D. Research & Development Laboratory, Hank Pym is asked for the shrinking Pym Particles by Howard Stark to stop a group of radicals who had reverse-engineered HYDRA technology. Pym tells Stark that the only person who will use the particles is Pym himself. Peggy Carter backs Pym on the idea and trains him so that he will be prepared on the field. He then heads on his way to Berlin to stop the radicals.

7th

 * Pym begins his mission in Berlin using his Ant-Man Suit. Having shrunken down to about the size of an ant, Pym is able to easily break into the facility. Unfortunately, a guard dog finds Pym.
 * Infiltration into East Berlin: Pym comes up with an immediate plan that helps him escape the dog. He soon finds a flying ant and rides on it in order to find the radicals more easily. All he finds though are the blueprints for a HYDRA weapon. He soon hears screams and follows them to find HYDRA operatives testing on a man. In order to stop the tests, Hank jumps onto the shoulders of one of the soldiers and makes him think he is going insane by speaking into his ear. Pym then causes a small explosion in the lab, startling all who were present. He also frees the prisoner and defeats all the soldiers in the room.

9th

 * Having returned to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Research & Development Laboratory, Hank Pym explains what happened during his time in Berlin to Howard Stark and Peggy Carter.

24th

 * Miles Lydon is born.

28th

 * During a dangerous training scenario on Dervani, under the tutelage of Ronan the Accuser and Thanos, Nebula and Gamora engage each other in fierce combat in a competition to retrieve a data ingot for Ronan. The girls are evenly matched and their fight leads them to a cliff, where Gamora tosses Nebula over. Nebula is severely injured in the fall, and is forced to undergo cybernetic augmentations. As she is repaired, Thanos openly expresses his disappointment on her, lecturing her on the limits of weakness.

17th

 *  is born.

July

 * Hank Pym, using his Ant-Man Suit and Janet van Dyne in her Wasp Suit, try to disarm a Soviet ICBM to save many lives. With there being no other way to disarm it, Janet turns her suit's regulator off to make herself small enough to enter the missile. She manages to turn the missile off, at the cost of shrinking indefinitely, supposedly leading to her death. Due to his loss, Pym stores his suit and sends his daughter Hope off to boarding school. This causes a strain in their relationship.

30th

 * Meredith and Peter Quill spend some time together lying in a field, listening to music and enjoying each other's company.

19th

 * Leo Fitz is born.

11th

 * Jemma Simmons is born.

2nd

 * Daisy Johnson is born to Calvin Johnson and Jiaying in a small Chinese village in the Hunan Province.

3rd

 * Rakim Mayers, later known as, is born.

10th

 * Yondu Udonta and the Ravagers are hired by Peter Quill's father to bring Peter to him.
 * Kidnapping of Peter Quill: Meredith Quill dies from terminal illness. Her son, Peter Quill, flees from the hospital in sadness only to be abducted by the Ravagers.

1st

 * is born.

20th

 * leaves the office of President of the United States as is sworn in.



March

 * After serving 44 years of his life sentence in the Rat, Werner Reinhardt is set free by Alexander Pierce.
 * Men claiming to be S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, but who were in truth members of HYDRA, go to China to Calvin Johnson's clinic and demand that Jiaying be handed over. Johnson and Jiaying resist, but their efforts are in vain, as she is kidnapped nonetheless. He then leaves his daughter Daisy among people he trusts, and sets off to search for his beloved wife.
 * Werner Reinhardt is brought to his old base in Austria by a group of HYDRA Operatives. In this base, HYDRA is holding the elders of a Chinese village in the Hunan Province, including Jiaying, whom Reinhardt recognizes as the same woman he wanted to experiment on 44 years earlier. After noticing Jiaying had not aged in all these years, he experiments on her body, trying to discover what made her special. In the process, Jiaying is supposedly killed. After the experiments, he tells his men to dispose of her corpse. With the results of the experiments, he turns his body back to how it was in 1945. Reinhardt changes his name to Daniel Whitehall and loses his German accent.
 * Calvin Johnson travels to Austria in search of his wife, Jiaying. He finds her body in a forest. Johnson refuses to allow his beloved wife to die and puts her body back together by using his medical skills.
 * Calvin Johnson concocts a formula which makes him stronger, but also much more volatile.
 * Massacre in Hunan: Calvin Johnson and Jiaying return to the Chinese village in the Hunan Province in search of their daughter, Daisy. After finding out she was rescued by a S.H.I.E.L.D. team, Jiaying has Johnson help her kill the entire village so she can heal, absorbing their lives with her Inhuman powers.
 * Daisy is designated as an 0-8-4 by S.H.I.E.L.D. and taken to the United States of America, while each member of the S.H.I.E.L.D. team is hunted down and killed by Johnson. Only Agent Richard Lumley survives and Daisy is placed in the Saint Agnes Orphanage, where she is given the name Mary Sue Poots. The girl eventually grows up to adopt the name "Skye".
 * In an attempt to find his daughter, Calvin Johnson comes across a gifted individual, Wendell Levi. With Levi, Johnson was able to look at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Index, but could not find Daisy on it. With all his attempts failed, Johnson returns to his wife.
 * Jiaying divorces Calvin Johnson after the loss of their daughter. Johnson later changes his surname to Zabo.

23rd

 * Skye's medical exam is classified by S.H.I.E.L.D..

June

 * Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D., after discovering that the organization attempted to replicate his technology.

27th

 * Yondu Udonta teaches Peter Quill how to use a blaster.