2018

"Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same... and now, it's here."

- Thanos

This is a timeline of events that occurred during 2018.

15th
As for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Episode 19 - Option Two to Episode 22 - The End take place concurrently with Avengers: Infinity War over Wednesday-Thursday. Episode 18 - All Roads Lead... takes place shortly prior to Option Two. Deke is shot in the arm in Episode 17 - The Honeymoon, the day before the end of All Roads Lead.... Following this, he wears a sling until the beginning of Episode 21 - The Force of Gravity. This should mean that several weeks pass between him being shot and having the sling taken off. However, the only possible gap in time during the period in which Deke has his sling is between All Roads Lead... and Option Two. The show treats it very much like it has been merely hours when Option Two begins. However, this would in total mean that Deke had the sling for barely over 1 day, which is impossible. Stretching the gap between All Roads Lead... and Option Two, it really can be no more than about 5 days, considering the agents' actions, discussions, and behavior. 5 days is pushing it very much. However, even if we consider that the surgery on Deke was very successful and he healed very fast and he took off the sling very prematurely - as soon as he could, to help him be more able in the times of crisis that were occurring, it really cannot be shorter than about 2 weeks of recovery time, which would involve a 13-day gap between All Roads Lead... and Option Two. Overall, a 9-day jump is necessary, giving 10 days of recovery time before taking off the sling. It absolutely cannot be any longer based on all of the dialogue/actions/behavior, yet it absolutely cannot be shorter for him to be taking the sling off. So, considering a 9-day gap before Option Two, which is set during the early events of Avengers: Infinity War on Wednesday, All Roads Lead... must end the prior Monday. Working backwards, the episode begins the day before, the Sunday, Episode 17 - The Honeymoon is earlier that Sunday, and Episode 16 - Inside Voices is earlier that Sunday. In Inside Voices, Ruby Hale says, "So then why not talk to Coulson about it? He has experience with it. I think after 2 days in isolation, maybe an olive branch..." which places the "24 hours ago" portion of Episode 15 - Rise and Shine as being 2 days prior, Friday, thus meaning that Rise and Shine spans from Thursday-Saturday. Finally, Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, takes place earlier on Thursday. Overall, adding this to the timeline: Now it needs to be established which weeks in the timeline this applies to. First, there is a latest possible date for the events of Avengers: Infinity War. The Wednesday of Avengers: Infinity War is still during school time, as Peter is on a school field trip. It is during Peter's junior year, since Spider-Man: Far From Home will be set after Avengers 4, itself set after Avengers: Infinity War, and will take place in the summer vacation between Parker's junior and senior years (1, 2). With Parker beginning sophomore year in Spider-Man: Homecoming in September 2016, he would finish junior year in June 2018. This means that the Wednesday of Avengers: Infinity War should be before Tuesday, June 26, 2018, when New York high schools finished for summer (1, 2, 3). If necessary, it can be assumed that either Parker's school finished 1 day later than most, or the New York high schools in the MCU finished 1 day later than those in the real world, making Wednesday, June 27, 2018 the absolute latest that Avengers: Infinity War could begin. The earliest possible is January 2018, as all these events must take place in 2018. This is evidenced by many things: So, all of these events take place in the first half of 2018. However, there is contradictory evidence for when exactly in the first 6 months of the year. Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp would suggest June 2018, while Thor: Ragnarok and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would suggest closer to January 2018. The evidence from Avengers: Infinity War and Ant-Man and the Wasp is mainly based on Scott Lang's house arrest. His 2-year sentence coming to an end would imply that it has been 24 months since the end of the main events of Captain America: Civil War. In that film, Scott is arrested on June 24, 2016 (a firmly established date - see 2016 references). Steve Rogers breaks him out of the Raft 2 days later, on June 26, 2016, and very soon after (as shown in Avengers: Infinity War Prelude), Scott returns home after making his deal. The exact date that the sentence would end depends on a few factors, such as when the sentence counts as beginning from - the date of his initial imprisonment, the date of his deal being made, or the date he returned home - and if it counts from his initial imprisonment, whether each day spent in prison counts as double towards his sentence, hence removing a couple of days from the term. At the latest, if the deal counted from him returning home and he didn't return until around June 28th, Lang's house arrest would finish on June 27, 2018. Seemingly, at the earliest, if the deal counted from the start of his incarceration on June 24th and each day incarcerated counted as double, plus Scott spent an extra day incarcerated after turning himself over and before the deal was finished and he returned home, thus totalling 3 days incarcerated and therefore 3 days off of his sentence, Lang's house arrest would finish on June 20, 2018. As explained, the arrest finishes on a Wednesday, and at the very shortest, the events of Avengers: Infinity War start 1 week later on the following Wednesday. And as also mentioned, the very last day that the events of Avengers: Infinity War can possibly begin is Wednesday, June 27, 2018. So, with what is seemingly the very earliest day that Lang's house arrest can possibly end being Wednesday, June 20, 2018, these would have to be the dates taken - the only possible dates to use: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Lang's house arrest finishes, and Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Avengers: Infinity War begins. This would also line up well with the references to the time between previous films and Avengers: Infinity War, with them placing it ideally around mid-2018. However, there are several things in Thor: Ragnarok and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. suggesting it is much earlier in the year. Even a 1-month jump in time from Principia to The Devil Complex is a big stretch, so a 6-month jump is almost impossible. While Ant-Man and the Wasp does indeed suggest June, because of the contradiction with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and difficulties with Thor: Ragnarok, any possible leniency has to be taken to make a compromise and place these events earlier in 2018. As such, the assumption has to be made that Scott Lang underwent the legal process of, after 18 months, applying for his final 6 months to be halved due to good behavior or other reasons, thus removing 3 months from the sentence. Therefore, while originally his sentence would have finished somewhere between June 20th and 27th, it now finishes somewhere between March 20th and 27th. The Wednesday between these dates is March 21st. So, Scott's sentence ends on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, meaning Ant-Man and the Wasp begins on Sunday, March 18, 2018. With Avengers: Infinity War needing to be as early as possible for Thor: Ragnarok and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the gap between Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Infinity War should be minimal - as can now be seen, in any eventuality, the gap needs to be minimized, hence why only 1 week was placed between the main events of either film from the start - meaning Avengers: Infinity War picks up the following Wednesday (as explained above), Wednesday, March 28, 2018. This means that: Until further evidence, this is the placement of the events which fits best, considering all things.
 * Capture of Hale.The placements for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 5, Episodes 14-22 and Ant-Man and the Wasp both connect with the placement of Avengers: Infinity War. It should first be established that Avengers: Infinity War takes place over a little under 24 hours, from Wednesday (as shown on Tony Stark's flip phone) to Thursday. The main events of Ant-Man and the Wasp begin on a Sunday, with Cassie saying, "I had a fun weekend Daddy." On that day, Scott has 3 days remaining of his house arrest sentence, and the sentence finishes right after the climax, making that Wednesday. Scott replies to her, "Me too, Peanut. Just wait until next weekend!" This means the next time he will pick her up will be Saturday. After he is released following the climax of the film, we see Scott picking up Cassie, meaning it is a Saturday, at a minimum the Saturday 3 days after the climax. Following this, the X-Con group get the deal they wanted, Hank and Janet set up their house by the beach, and Hope and Scott watch Them! with Cassie in a shrunken car, acting like a drive-in theatre. This final scene with Cassie should also be a weekend. At a minimum, the final scene of the film is the Saturday or Sunday 3-4 days after the end of the climax. Following this final scene, the mid-credits scene takes place at the same time as the ending of Avengers: Infinity War on a Thursday. As will later be explained, the gap between Ant-Man and the Wasp needs to be as short as possible, so assuming the 4 epilogue scenes all take place during the weekend 3-4 days after the climax, the mid-credits scene could then take place on the Thursday after that - 8 days after the climax of the film. Therefore:
 * Sunday Week 1 - Beginning of Ant-Man and the Wasp main events.
 * Monday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp main events continue.
 * Tuesday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp main events continue.
 * Wednesday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp climax and end of main events.
 * Saturday-Sunday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp epilogue.
 * Wednesday Week 3 - Beginning of Avengers: Infinity War events.
 * Thursday Week 3 - End of Avengers: Infinity War events/Ant-Man and the Wasp credits scenes.
 * Thursday Week 1 - Episode 14 - The Devil Complex. Beginning of Episode 15 - Rise and Shine events.
 * Friday Week 1 - Episode 15 - Rise and Shine "24 hours ago" events.
 * Saturday Week 1 - End of Episode 15 - Rise and Shine events.
 * Sunday Week 1 - Episode 16 - Inside Voices events, Episode 17 - The Honeymoon events, beginning of Episode 18 - All Roads Lead... events/Beginning of Ant-Man and the Wasp main events.
 * Monday Week 2 - End of Episode 18 - All Roads Lead... events/Ant-Man and the Wasp main events continue.
 * Tuesday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp main events continue.
 * Wednesday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp climax and end of main events.
 * Saturday-Sunday Week 2 - Ant-Man and the Wasp epilogue.
 * Wednesday Week 3 - Beginning of Avengers: Infinity War events/Episode 19 - Option Two events, Episode 20 - The One Who Will Save Us All events, beginning of Episode 21 - The Force of Gravity events.
 * Thursday Week 3 - End of Episode 21 - The Force of Gravity events, Episode 22 - The End events/End of Avengers: Infinity War events/Ant-Man and the Wasp credits scenes.
 * Avengers: Infinity War takes place 2 years after the main events of Captain America: Civil War, which are firmly placed in June 2016 (see 2016 references).
 * In Avengers: Infinity War, Vision says, "Wanda, for 2 years, we've stolen these moments, trying to see if this could work."
 * Later, Rhodes says to Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon, "You guys really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple years."
 * A set visit claimed that the film is set "years" after the mid-credits scene of Captain America: Civil War, placing it in at least 2018, and as mentioned, June 2018 is the latest possible, so again, this suggests 2 years.
 * Scarlett Johansson stated the film is "2 or 3 years" after Captain America: Civil War in June 2016, suggesting a 2018 or 2019 placement, and as mentioned, June 2018 is the latest possible, so again, this suggests 2 years.
 * The Russo brothers stated the film is "roughly 2 years" after Captain America: Civil War, specifying that it is roughly the amount of time that has passed in the real world between the release dates of Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War.
 * Chris Evans said it has been a "couple years" since Captain America: Civil War.
 * Avengers: Infinity War takes place 3 years after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, which are firmly placed in Spring 2015 (see 2015 references).
 * A set visit claimed that the film is set 3 years after Avengers: Age of Ultron.
 * Avengers: Infinity War takes place 4 years after the main events of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which are placed in October 2014 (see 2014 references).
 * Kevin Feige confirmed that Avengers: Infinity War takes place 4 years after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
 * The Russo brothers said, "There's 4 years between [ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and [ Avengers: Infinity War ] ."]
 * Avengers: Infinity War takes place 6 years after the events of The Avengers, which are firmly placed in May 2012 (see 2012 references).
 * In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony says to Doctor Strange, "It's you who doesn't understand that Thanos has been inside my head for 6 years, since he sent an army to New York - and now he's back!"
 * Ant-Man and the Wasp takes place 2 years after the main events of Captain America: Civil War, which are firmly placed in June 2016.
 * In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott is finishing a house arrest sentence. Jimmy Woo says, "As a part of his joint plea deal with Homeland Security and the German government, he was allowed to return to the U.S., provided he served 2 years under house arrest followed by 3 years of probation," meaning the sentence was 2 years
 * Later, Scott says to Hope, "Give me a break, I haven't driven in 2 years," referring to the time since he left for Germany in Captain America: Civil War and got arrested.
 * At the end of his sentence, Scott asks Woo, "Are my 2 years up already?"
 * Kevin Feige stated, " [ Scott Lang answered a call when heroes needed him and now he's been under house arrest for 2 years."]
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 5, Episodes 14-22 take place in 2018.
 * In Episode 8 - The Last Day, a flashforward is shown with events that, as shown in Episode 22 - The End, would take place on the Thursday of Avengers: Infinity War, and the on-screen text specifically says "2018".
 * The agents return to the present day in Episode 11 - All the Comforts of Home. Later that day, Yo-Yo Rodriguez has her arms sliced off. The agents perform surgery on her amputated arms, and she begins to heal. 2 days later, in Episode 12 - The Real Deal, the monitor by her bed shows "12-06-2017", making it December 6, 2017. This fits with Hale saying, "This is the first time Ms. Johnson's been sighted in months," referring to the time since she went traveled to the future in May 2017, and thus suggesting it is no later than December 2017. It fits as being soon after the main events of Episode 5 - Rewind, which take place on November 25, 2017, 197 days (as given by the number of monkey faces Fitz has drawn on his cell wall) after Fitz was incarcerated on May 12, 2017, and then November 26, 2017. It lines up with the fact that the events of Thor: Ragnarok are referenced as being recent in All the Comforts of Home, with Thor: Ragnarok taking place around November 2017, and All the Comforts of Home beginning on December 4, 2017. It also lines up with the fact that in Episode 13 - Principia, Coulson jokes with Fitz, asking if he comes bearing "tidings of comfort and joy". It would indeed be Christmas time, a couple of weeks since The Real Deal. By Episode 14 - The Devil Complex, the skin on Rodriguez's arm stumps has healed over, which takes 4 weeks to 2 months (1, 2). With Rodriguez having lost her arms and had surgery performed on them on December 4, 2017, earliest that The Devil Complex can take place is January 2018, thus meaning that from Episode 14 onward, it is 2018.
 * In Episode 15 - Rise and Shine, events set at the time of Season 3, Episode 17 - The Team and Episode 18 - The Singularity in April 2016 are shown on-screen to have been "2 years ago".
 * In Episode 16 - Inside Voices, events set immediately after Season 1, Episode 22 - Beginning of the End in January 2014 are shown on-screen to have been "four years ago".
 * Firstly, Thor: Ragnarok is firmly set in 2017 (see 2017 references). At the very latest, it takes place in November-December 2017, before All the Comforts of Home on December 4, 2017, which features a reference to the events of the film. There is a jump in time between the end of the main events of the film and the film's mid-credits scene, which is set mere minutes before the opening of Avengers: Infinity War. However, the gap should be minimal, for several reasons:
 * The film finishes with Thor deciding to head back to Earth. Only in the mid-credits scene do he and Loki seem to actually begin discussing the problems with bringing Loki back to the planet. This would imply that it is very soon after the decision was made.
 * Thor's hair is exactly the same in Avengers: Infinity War as it is in Thor: Ragnarok, including the streak on the side from the Watcher Informant's poor cutting. While it's possible that Asgardian hair grows slower than humans', it nonetheless implies very little time has passed.
 * The Statesman has a few hundred Asgardians on board that need food and water and other general living standards, and the ship itself is highly unlikely to have enough on board to sustain a few hundred people for very long. It is possible that they could have gone a little longer if one assumes they stopped at other places for resources on the way and/or that Asgardians need less sustenance than humans, but nonetheless, the longer the gap, the more and more assumptions have to me made.
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Episode 12 - The Real Deal is firmly set on December 6, 2017, as given by the "12-06-2017" date on Rodriguez's monitor, and which lines up with all the other evidence as mentioned above. Episode 13 - Principia takes place shortly after and, as is evidenced by Coulson's mention of "tidings of comfort of joy", it is Christmas. When Episode 14 - The Devil Complex begins, it is heavily implied to be merely another few days later:
 * The Fear Dimension rift is still an urgent problem. The agents managed to temporarily close it on December 6, 2017 in Episode 12 - The Real Deal, but as Fitz knows, it was only temporary and is still very much a pressing issue. He is still trying to find a way to close it permanently, knowing it is rapidly reopening, suggesting it has been absolutely no more than a few weeks since Episode 12 - The Real Deal.
 * Yo-Yo Rodriguez is still recovering from her arms being sliced off. This would take no more than a few weeks.
 * The robotic arms recovered in Principia, at Christmas time, from Hale's sleeper mechs are still only just being programmed for Rodriguez. With geniuses such as Fitz and Simmons, who have created and programmed similar things very fast, this would not take more than a couple of weeks, maximum.
 * Nothing has progressed or changed for the agents. They are still hiding in the Lighthouse and working on the issues with Hale and with Rodriguez's arms. Similarly, nothing has progressed with Hale, who deploys a plan in The Devil Complex that would not have taken very long to come up with. The lack of events or change between the episodes considering the rapidity at which events unfold once the agents return from the future and the urgency of saving the world from destruction means that it cannot be more than several days since Principia.
 * In The Devil Complex, snow is shown on the ground, suggesting it is still winter.
 * In Episode 15 - Rise and Shine, Coulson says to Hale, "Listen, my team wasn't hiding all these months. We traveled to the future." From this, it can be taken that it has only been "months" since May 12, 2017, when the agents were sent to the future. While it has to now be 2018, it should not be later than early 2018.
 * There is a 4-month time jump between Thor: Ragnarok and its mid-credits scene. Not ideal, a bit too long, but manageable.
 * There is a 3-month time jump between Principia and The Devil Complex. Much, much longer than is implied or ideal, but necessary. It does mean that it is still 10 months since Coulson's team were taken to the future, which works well enough with "all these months" - better than 13 months, which would be the case if it were June. It also just about fits with the snow in The Devil Complex, which would not work at all in June.
 * Scott's sentence is 3 months shorter than what is heavily implied. Also far from ideal, but necessary.

18th

 * Liberation of Leo Fitz.
 * Escape from the HYDRA Preparatory Academy.
 * Infiltration into the HYDRA Herefordshire Facility.
 * With his HYDRA conditioning activated, Glenn Talbot mutters to himself confusedly that he has to complete his programmed mission.
 * Talbot goes to disable security feeds, thus allowing him to roam the Lighthouse without hindrance. Alphonso Mackenzie catches him and questions what he is doing, but Talbot explains that he is simply confused from his 6 months imprisoned by Hale, and Mackenzie shows him sympathy, letting him go.
 * Ruby Hale continues to threaten Jemma Simmons's life to motivate Leo Fitz, having spent several hours working on fixing the Particle Infusion Chamber, but not yet sorted the problem. Fitz is stressed, worried for Simmons and yet wanting to stall the chamber's completion. He requests that Hale let Simmons go, stating that he needs her help. Releasing Simmons, Hale admires their relationship, and Fitz responds to remind her that everyone she loves will die if they go ahead with making her the Destroyer of Worlds. Ruby shows little care for this, remarking that there are not many people left who she cares about. Werner von Strucker returns to the room, having found Anton Ivanov's dead body, which gives Fitz and Simmons some hope that Yo-Yo Rodriguez escaped. They tell Hale that the remainder of the process will take some time, but Hale simply threatens that if they do not hurry, she will begin to dismember them, like she did to Rodriguez.

19th

 * Having stumbled through the night in agony from her uncalibrated prosthetic arms, Rodriguez finally reaches the Quinjet as morning arrives in Herefordshire. She stumbles on-board for protection from the Sleeper Mechs hunting her.
 * Phil Coulson tries to talk to Melinda May about her confession of love for him the day before, but she rejects the conversation, walking away.
 * Daisy Johnson tells the agents the plan to fly to General Hale's base in the Appalachian Mountains. Coulson praises her leadership in his absence.
 * Candice Lee informs General Hale that Ivanov is dead. When Hale asks if Carl Creel's state has improved, Lee informs her that in actuality, Creel has worsened significantly.
 * With morning arriving at the Appalachian Mountain base, Hale goes to see Creel and finds him losing control, unable to deal with the arguing of Franklin Hall and Ian Quinn's consciousnesses within the gravitonium he absorbed. Creel goes so far as to use his abilities to turn his skin into cement then proceed to bang his head against the wall, hoping to rid himself of the voices.
 * Coulson and Mackenzie talk with Deke Shaw. Mackenzie mentions that Shaw admitted his feelings for Johnson the night before when on painkillers. When Shaw denies these feelings, Coulson adds that Shaw has made it all-too-obvious, and they are all aware. Shaw asks for advice in showing his feelings, but both agents point out their current relationship issues. He then decides his best option is "lemons", confusing the agents. Seeing this, he explains how, in the future, people would leave lemons on the bed of the person they fancy to express their feelings. Asking if this is something people also did in 2018, the other two lie, saying it is, looking forward to seeing his actions.
 * Talbot enters Robin Hinton's empty room, looking to examine her drawings for HYDRA while under conditioning. He finds the drawings and begins to look through.
 * Attack on the HYDRA Preparatory Academy:
 * Johnson and May enter a Containment Module as the Zephyr One passes over the Appalachian Mountains. They have Agent Thomas fire a missile down to the HYDRA Preparatory Academy as their Containment Module is jettisoned. Moments after the missile blows a hole in the base's ceiling, the Module lowers through the hole and into the building.
 * As May and Johnson go to accost General Hale, they are surprised when Hale hands herself over. At first, they do not trust Hale's willingness, but Hale explains that she wants to go with them to save Ruby, scared that her daughter will make a reckless decision.
 * Meanwhile, in England, Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker continue to threaten Fitz and Simmons to hurry with fixing the Particle Infusion Chamber.
 * A Sleeper Mech finds Yo-Yo Rodriguez in the Quinjet. She shoots the android and continues to wait for her pain to subside.
 * Robin and Polly Hinton return to their room in the Lighthouse, and find Glenn Talbot looking through Robin's drawings.
 * Daisy Johnson and Melinda May report back to Phil Coulson. They inform him of what has happened to Carl Creel, and their discovery that gravitonium not only absorbs physical bodies, but also people's consciousnesses.
 * Realising he has to stop Polly Hinton from reporting his intrusion, Talbot panics and attacks her. He chokes Polly until she passes out, and tells Robin to come with him. Robin replies that she already saw this was going to happen.
 * Johnson, May, and General Hale land in Herefordshire, England, to apprehend Ruby Hale and Werner von Strucker. General Hale asks Johnson to refrain from attacking her daughter if at all possible, and Johnson agrees. Despite this, Johnson takes the opportunity to criticize Hale's parenting, blaming her for the way Ruby turned out.
 * Von Strucker tells Ruby Hale that a S.H.I.E.L.D. plane has just landed nearby. Hale goes to start dismembering Fitz and Simmons to hurry their final modifications, but Fitz quickly tells her that they have finished the machine, and she need not attack them. While they claim they have no way of transferring the gravitonium into the machine, von Strucker uses a tube and tap to move it over into the chamber.
 * Deke Shaw goes to talk to Alphonso Mackenzie and Phil Coulson as they monitor the security feeds. As he arrives, they notice the security feed of the Hintons' room has been paused. Reactivating it, they see that the Hintons' door has been left open.
 * Arriving at the Hintons' room, they find Polly Hinton on the floor. Coulson goes over to her and checks her breathing, finding that she is only unconscious. Mackenzie recalls his encounter with Glenn Talbot at the security feeds several hours prior, and realizes that Talbot must have paused the feed to allow him to go after Robin. Coulson also comes to the realization that this makes sense, with General Hale having had plenty of time during her 6 months with Talbot in her custody to have conditioned him.
 * With S.H.I.E.L.D. moments away from stopping her, Ruby Hale hurries to enter the Particle Infusion Chamber and become the Destroyer of Worlds. She kisses von Strucker, the chamber closes, and the gravitonium-infusion begins. While happy at first, as the process continues, she begins to scream.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. and General Hale, now inside the HYDRA Herefordshire Facility, hear Ruby's screams, and Hale runs to get to her daughter before it is too late. She orders Leo Fitz to shut down the machine, and von Strucker lowers his gun, allowing Fitz to do so. The process is stopped at only 8% infusion, and the chamber opens. Ruby leaves the machine floating from the gravitonium in her body.
 * Ruby Hale struggles to deal with the voices in her head from the gravitonium. Werner von Strucker crouches to comfort her, but without control over her powers, Hale accidentally uses the gravitonium to crush his skill, killing him. On seeing what she has done, she begins to further lose control.
 * Coulson and Mackenzie find Talbot at the Lighthouse's hangar door, with Robin Hinton by his side. They confront him, and Talbot becomes confused, trying to distinguish between his actual thoughts and conditioning. Deciding he is unsafe, he holds his gun to his head, considering killing himself and ending the threat he poses.
 * Ruby Hale continues to struggle with the voices, but Daisy Johnson begins to talk to her. She is kind and encouraging, trying to tell Hale that it is alright to not be comfortable with her powers yet.
 * Melinda May arrives at the building as Yo-Yo Rodriguez also returns from the Quinjet. When Rodriguez sees May and hears the screams, she asks what is happening, but May simply replies that Johnson is handling the situation.
 * Talbot tells Mackenzie and Coulson that he cannot trust his thoughts. While he holds the gun to his head, Mackenzie ushers Robin Hinton away from Talbot and to safety. Coulson resorts to using Talbot's trigger words to attempt to control him. Talbot manages to resist, so Coulson changes the orders to be more in line with HYDRA's motivations; he asks Talbot to turn the gun on him. As he does so, Mackenzie returns with an I.C.E.R. to quickly incapacitate Talbot, ending the risk.
 * Ruby Hale begins to user her powers to crush Daisy Johnson. As she struggles to breathe, General Hale gets involved. Ruby tells her mother that she has always felt inadequate, and that she made her feel like she was a disappointment. General Hale is saddened to hear this, telling her daughter that all she ever wanted was for Ruby to meet her full potential.
 * Just as Ruby Hale is beginning to calm down, Elena Rodriguez enters the room. She exclaims as she recognizes Hale as the person who sliced off her arms, and hearing this, Hale slips back into a distressed, frenzied, and dangerous state.
 * Seeing the potential outcome of Ruby Hale losing control and becoming the Destroyer of Worlds, Rodriguez makes a quick decision. Using her super-speed, she runs and steals Ruby's Ring Blades, using them to then slice the teenager's throat and kill her. Returning to her position, everyone is left in shock as Ruby suddenly falls, her neck bleeding as she dies quickly.

20th

 * Battle at the Oui.
 * Ambush at Ghost's Hideout.

21st

 * Arrest of Hank Pym and Hope van Dyne.
 * Chase at San Francisco.
 * Rescue of Janet van Dyne.
 * Groot is now approaching the maturity and attitude of a human teenager, as he continues to grow up.
 * Quill enters Groot's room in the Benatar and complains that he needs to tidy up after himself and stop wasting his time playing video games. Groot rudely tells him to go away, and Quill takes a moment to feel sorry for Yondu Udonta, who died almost 4 years earlier, realizing what Yondu had to put up with when raising him.
 * Massacre of the Xandarians: Beginning his acquisition of the Infinity Stones, Thanos and his forces attack the planet of Xandar, where the Nova Corps are guarding the Orb, containing the Power Stone. He has half of its population slaughtered in accordance with his plans for the universe and retrieves the Power Stone, placing it into the Infinity Gauntlet.

28th

 * Attack on the Statesman:
 * Screen Shot 2018-01-23 at 7.45.46 PM.png Thanos, who is travelling on the [[Sanctuary II]], tracks down the ship Thor and the Asgardians are using to travel to Earth.
 * As they travel in the Asgardian ship, Thor and Loki discuss how the latter may be received when they return to Earth, considering the intentions of his last visit. Thor, however, assures him everything is going to be fine.
 * Unbeknownst to them, a much larger ship has been following them. The ship suddenly appears before the Asgardians', blocking its path.
 * AW Trailer 2 pic 40.png is rendered hostage by the Black Order]] Thanos and the Black Order board the Asgardian ship, damaging it while slaughtering half its passengers including the gladiator Ejashi. Thor and Heimdall have already been subdued when the Hulk attacks Thanos, but is defeated. Heimdall uses the last of his strength to summon a Bifrost Bridge that transports Hulk back to Earth. Thanos asks about the Space Stone, and Thor says it was destroyed along with Asgard, but Loki reveals the Tesseract is in his possesion. After he delivers it to Thanos so he'd stop torturing Thor, the Titan breaks the Cube surrounding the gem and puts it into the Infinity Gauntlet. Loki pretends to offer his services to Thanos in order to strike him with a knife, but the Titan uses his new powers to block the blow, and then strangles Loki to death. Thanos then uses the stones to both warp away with the Black Order and destroy the Statesman, with Thor still inside.
 * Attack on Greenwich Village:
 * AW 15 Trailer pic.png sees the arrival of the Q-Ship.]] Just as Doctor Strange and Wong are about to leave the New York Sanctum, Bruce Banner crashes inside the place, having been brought there by Heimdall's bridge. After Banner tells what happened, Strange uses his powers to bring in Tony Stark, who was with Pepper Potts, discussing their future wedding.
 * Once Stark is brought up to date about the Infinity Stones, he tells that Vision, who has the Mind Stone embedded in his head, is currently disappeared. After explaining to Banner about the Avengers Civil War, Banner still insists Captain America is the one that could discover Vision's whereabouts, but as Stark thinks about calling Rogers, they notice the Q-Ship has arrived.
 * From inside the Midtown School of Science and Technology bus, Peter Parker sees the Q-Ship and asks Ned Leeds to create a distraction so people don't notice him leaving the vehicle and putting on the Spider-Man Suit.
 * Infinity War 197.jpg, Bruce Banner and the Sorcerers outside the New York Sanctum.]]Black Order members Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian arrive outside the Sanctum Santorum and demand the Time Stone from Strange. He refuses, and a battle ensues, which Spider-Man joins but not the Hulk, in spite of Banner's intentions to transform. Cull Obsidian is teleported by Wong to the Arctic, losing a hand in the process, while Ebony Maw brings an immobilized Strange to the Q-Ship. Spider-Man and Iron Man give chase, and eventually board the ship. Wong returns to the Sanctum to become its master and protector in Strange's absence, while Banner picks up Stark's phone to call Captain Rogers.
 * IW Total Film Still 02.jpg meets the Guardians of the Galaxy]]The Benatar answers the distress call sent by the Asgardian ship, but arrives to find it already destroyed, with Thor floating amid the wreckage. After the Asgardian is brought inside, Mantis awakens Thor.
 * Thor explains what has occurred and tells the Guardians to check on the Reality Stone, currently in the possession of the Collector in Knowhere, while he gets a weapon that can kill Thanos from the Dwarf forge in Nidavellir. Interested in the weaponry, Rocket Raccoon decides to go with Thor in an escape pod, and brings Groot along.
 * Siege of the Lighthouse.
 * Infiltration into Qovas' Ship.
 * Attack on Vision:
 * AW 43 Trailer pic.png Vision and his partner Scarlet Witch, currently hidden in Edinburgh, are found by the other two Black Order members, [[Corvus Glaive]] and Proxima Midnight. During their fight that ends up in a railway station, Corvus Glaive injures Vision but is himself wounded once Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon arrive. The Black Order runs away, promising to return soon.

29th

 * Ambush in Knowhere:Vgoaxy4k1kw01.jpg confronts Thanos in Knowhere.]]
 * The Guardians arrive in the Collector's Museum and find Thanos beating up the Collector, who denies being in possession of the Reality Stone. They attack and Gamora stabs Thanos with a knife, which leads to the reveal that the situation was an illusion created by Thanos, who already destroyed the place to retrieve the Stone. He grabs Gamora, who years before he had assigned with finding the Soul Stone, and teleports away with her. B9B47C36-EED7-4A56-B37E-841521AF0E19.jpeg reunites with Captain America and Black Widow.]]
 * The group goes to the New Avengers Facility, where James Rhodes hangs up on an angry Thaddeus Ross. While Vision insists that the Mind Stone should be destroyed, the others think it should just be removed, though Banner notes that it will not be an easy task given the Stone's complex connections to the android's neural network. Rogers and Romanoff realize there is one place that might perform this extraction: Wakanda.
 * Attack on Glenn Talbot.
 * Rescue of Doctor Strange:Ebony_Maw_and_Strange.jpg torturing Doctor Strange.]]
 * As Ebony Maw tortures Strange trying to break the spell that binds the Time Stone to the Eye of Agamotto, Iron Man attacks him, distracting Ebony Maw long enough for Spider-Man to open a hole in the ship's hull, and the ensuing decompression sucks Ebony Maw into the vacuum, killing him.

Original Timeline
For the continuation of the original timeline, see here.
 * Destruction of Earth:
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot the Zephyr One away from the destruction of Earth, taking Robin Hinton with them after her mother's death.

New Timeline

 * Battle of Chicago.
 * To force Gamora into revealing where the Soul Stone is, Thanos reveals he has captured her foster sister Nebula as she attempted to kill him some time before, and tortures her until Gamora says it is in Vormir. Thanos teleports away with her.

New Timeline

 * AW Trailer 2 pic 33.png]]On the way to Nidavellir, Rocket gives Thor a prosthetic eye.
 * Once they arrive, the forge has been powered down and only a Dwarf remains, Eitri. Eitri explains that after the Gauntlet was forged for Thanos, he destroyed the place and killed everyone else, while also cutting Eitri's hands, and nothing can be done until the neutron star in the center of the forge is reignited.
 * Shortly afterwards, Nebula knocks out the guard watching over her to escape imprisonment, on the way sending a message for Mantis to meet her in Titan.
 * Sacrifice of Gamora:
 * On Vormir, Thanos and Gamora meet the Stone's guardian for the last seven decades, the Red Skull. It is explained that the Stone can only be given to whoever sacrifices a beloved one, "a soul for another". Thanos tearfully throws Gamora, his favorite adoptive daughter, down a cliff, and is rewarded with the Soul Stone.
 * With the help of Rocket, Thor restarts the forge, and Eitri proceeds to create the axe Stormbreaker, whose handle is provided by Groot from his own arms.
 * Battle of Wakanda:
 * Infinity War 171.jpg leads the charge in Wakanda.]]T'Challa, his family, and Bucky Barnes welcome the Avengers to Wakanda's capital Golden City. While Shuri is assigned to remove the Mind Stone from Vision's head under Wanda's supervision, T'Challa gathers the rest of Wakanda's tribes to prepare for the Black Order's attack.
 * Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian arrive outside the barrier that protects Wakanda, behind of which are the Wakandans and the Avengers, that now include Banner in the Hulkbuster armor. She sends in an army of aliens, some of whom break through the barrier before T'Challa orders it to be removed so the army will remain in front of the resistance (instead of trying to find another way to get to Vision). During the battle, where the resistance eventually gets the additions of Thor, Rocket, Groot, and Scarlet Witch, Cull Obsidian is defeated by Banner by being thrown into the barrier, while Proxima Midnight is thrown by Wanda onto a large war machine.
 * Just as Shuri was about to remove the Mind Stone, Corvus Glaive takes advantage of Wanda's absence to invade the laboratory, forcing her to leave Vision and push the assailant out the window. In the jungle outside, Corvus Glaive impales Vision before engaging Captain America in a fight, which ends as Vision kills Corvus Glaive with his own blade.
 * Battle of Titan:
 * TVspot.png, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange on the way to Titan]] Strange, Stark and Parker crash-land the Q-Ship on Titan. Shortly afterwards, the Guardians of the Galaxy arrive, and after a brief confrontation everyone realizes they're on the same side, against Thanos. They proceed to concoct a plan to ambush Thanos and remove the Gauntlet from his hand.
 * Once Thanos, now owning four Infinity Stones, arrives on Titan, the Earth heroes and the Guardians attack him, eventually being joined by Nebula once she crashes her Necrocraft on Thanos. Once Thanos was restrained and put on his knees, Mantis used her powers to put him in a trance, while Iron Man and Spider-Man attempted to remove the Infinity Gauntlet. Once Quill and Nebula conclude that Thanos has killed Gamora, an angry Quill hits Thanos in the face and accidentally breaks Mantis's grip, making Thanos regain consciousness just as the Gauntlet was leaving his fist.
 * Thanos uses his powers to throw one of Titan's moons on the planet, forcing everyone to run for their lives. Eventually Thanos has Iron Man pinned down and is about to kill him, but Strange offers the Time Stone in exchange for letting Stark live. Holding all but one of the Stones, Thanos leaves for Earth.
 * Thanos arrives in Wakanda, and the Avengers and Guardians do their best to keep him away from Vision. Wanda eventually uses her powers to destroy the Mind Stone, but Thanos uses the Time Stone to revert time and remove it from Vision's head, killing the android in the process.
 * Thor arrives and attacks Thanos with all of his power, impaling him with Stormbreaker, but the still alive Titan uses the full powers of the Infinity Stones to warp away to his homeworld while also causing his intended endgame: the death of half the living beings in the universe. Soon, many of the heroes disintegrate; the original six Avengers, War Machine, Rocket, Okoye, Nebula, and M'Baku are shown having survived.
 * Nick Fury and Maria Hill are driving when the destructive wave starts disintegrating random people, including the driver of the car in front of theirs, and a helicopter pilot whose aircraft crashes on a nearby building. Desperate, Fury activates an emergency communication beacon just as he and Hill crumble as well. Once the distress call is sent, the beacon shows the emblem of Captain Marvel.
 * In San Francisco, Scott Lang, Hank Pym, Janet van Dyne and Hope van Dyne are testing a new portable Quantum Realm teleporter to collect Quantum healing materials to help Ava Starr with her treatment. After Scott finishes collecting the healing material inside the Quantum Realm, he requests to be pulled back. However, Scott gets no response, as Hank, Janet and Hope are disintegrated by Thanos' actions, leaving Scott stranded in the Quantum Realm.