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.

3rd

 * Groot is now approaching the maturity and attitude of a human teenager as he continues to grow up. In Avengers: Infinity War, Vision says, "Wanda, for 2 years, we've stolen these moments, trying to see if this could work." Later, Rhodey says to Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon, You guys really look like crap. Must've been a rough couple years." These both place the film roughly 2 years after the events of Captain America: Civil War in June 2016, so 2018. Later, 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!" This would place the film 6 years after the events of Marvel's The Avengers in May 2012, so again, 2018. The film cannot take place later than mid-June 2018, as it has been confirmed that the events of Spider-Man 2 will take place during Peter Parker's junior year, and with Parker's sophomore year beginning in September 2016 in Spider-Man: Homecoming, his junior year would end in June 2018 - specifically, June 26, 2018 (1, 2, 3). With Spider-Man 2 set after Avengers 4, and Avengers 4 set after Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Infinity War can be no later than mid-June 2018. Kevin Feige confirmed that Avengers: Infinity War takes place 4 years after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which is set in October 2014, also suggesting a 2018 placement. A set visit claimed that the film is set 3 years after Avengers: Age of Ultron, placing it in 2018, and "years" after the mid-credits scene of Captain America: Civil War in July 2016, also placing it around the latest possible, 2018. Scarlett Johansson stated the film is "2 or 3 years" after Captain America: Civil War in June 2016, suggesting an approximate 2018-2019 placement, and with June 2018 being the latest possible, 2018. 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, and with Captain America: Civil War in June 2016, this would again place the film around 2018. Chris Evans said it has been a "couple years" since Captain America: Civil War, further suggesting roughly 2018. Overall, the math weighing up this evidence places the film around early June 2018. However, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. makes it clear in Option Two and The One Who Will Save Us All that it is early January 2018, around January 5th - no earlier, and not much later (see other references). Stark's flip-phone in the film shows it to be "Wed", so the first Wednesday after this is Wednesday, January 10, 2018. Therefore, the film takes place from January 10-11, 2018. This is 2 calendar years/a little under 2 years after Captain America: Civil War, a 3 calendar years/a little under 3 years after Avengers: Age of Ultron, a 4 calendar years after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and 6 calendar years/a little under 6 years after The Avengers.
 * Quill enters Groot's room in the Benatar and complains that he needs to tidy up after himself and stop wasting his time playing a video game. Groot rudely tells him to go away, and Quill feels sorry for Yondu Udonta, who died 4 years earlier, realizing what Yondu had to put up with when raising him.
 * Massacre of the Xandarians:
 * In order to start his search for the Infinity Stones, Thanos attacks Xandar, slaughtering half of its population as he retrieves the Power Stone from the Nova Corps.

6th

 * Capture of Hale.

9th

 * Liberation of Leo Fitz.
 * Escape from the HYDRA Preparatory Academy.
 * Infiltration into the HYDRA Herefordshire Facility.

10th

 * Attack on the HYDRA Preparatory Academy.


 * 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. 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.
 * 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.
 * Ambush on 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.
 * 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 Barnes realize there is one place that might perform this extraction: Wakanda.
 * Siege of the Lighthouse.
 * Infiltration into Qovas' Ship.

11th

 * Rescue of 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 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 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 impales Thanos in the chest, 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; only five of the original six Avengers, War Machine, Rocket, Okoye, Nebula, and M'Baku are shown having survived.
 * In New York, 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.

== Original Timeline (Prevented by Quake) <br<

Mid-January

 * 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.