Very good, BEJT

Good work, BEJT.

From my personal thoughts, I believe the Snap can still kind of work, as follows:

The Dark Dimension isn't in our universe

You mentioned the one-in-thousands chance that the whole group survived the Snap. This is only taking into account the ENTIRE group, when in fact they weren't there. Cloak, Dagger, all the Runaways, plus Tina, Victor, and Stacey are all in the Dark Dimension. Much like in the comics, I think it's safe to assume that the Dark Dimension (just like the Quantum Realm) is another dimension / universe, which was not affected by the Snap. Thanos possibly doesn't even know about it, so wouldn't have considered it in his Snap.

This means that the only ones that NEED to have survived the Snap are Dale, Robert, Geoffrey, Leslie, Morgan, and Old Lace. So 1 in 64 odds, like you said before. Considering all the OG6 Avengers survived, I think that's good odds.

The kids don't interact with anyone else to learn about the Snap

Other than Bodhi and Max, that is. It's possible the topic didn't come up between two sets of teenagers flirting. But really, I don't think we see any of the group that went into the Dark Dimension talking to anyone outside the main cast other than those two boys. So it's possible that they just didn't learn about it, and the only ones who did know about it are the ones that survived (mentioned above). Geoffrey, Robert, and Dale don't really get a chance to mention it due to very limited, rushed interactions / being under Morgan's thrall, Morgan isn't the type to discuss current events that didn't affect her, and we don't know whether or not Leslie mentioned it when the group went to meet up with her. Maybe she chose not to tell them after learning what was going on, until the time was right (Morgan was defeated). It's only really a couple of days that they're back before the end of ep9, right?

Everyone in LA is too self-involved to really focus on it

I'm not saying this is a real thing, I'm just saying there's the old TV trope that everyone in Hollywood is a fairly self-involved, so they've all gotten back to work in the three months since the Snap happens.

So in summary, I think it can work with a bit of suspension-of-disbelief, and the assumption that the kids really had time to deal and focus on it in the 3 year gap between 9 and 10.

I avoided getting into the Snap because it's a separate conversation I'd been having and all that was relevant for the timeline discussion was that ideally the timeline would avoid the Snap, but it couldn't.

The thing is, you say it's like the Quantum Realm, but it's been confirmed that you are still susceptible in the Quantum Realm, implying it's regardless of which realm you're in.

However, it's said in Doctor Strange that the Dark Dimension exists outside of time. This would seemingly make it impossible for the Snap to occur in the Dark Dimension, with no sense of simultaneity.

But... the part of the Dark Dimension shown in Cloak & Dagger and Runaways does appear to have some relation to time. Not only does time just seem to, well, pass, but there appears to be a relation with the real world's time. In Cloak & Dagger, things going on in the Dark Dimension with the records affect things in the real world in real time. And it's not like when the Runaways go in and come out it just spits them out anywhere in time. They come out the first time still relatively shortly (in the grand scheme of things) after they went in, just 6 months on instead of a few hours. Then, when they go back in, it's still after when they originally left the Dark Dimension, as you can see with Quinton and Alex. Then, when they come out, it's still just a few hours after they left. It very much seems to be a varying (like Sakaar) time dilation effect, not just existing outside of time. So that would I'll that the Snap DOES have an effect on at least this part of the Dark Dimension.

But maybe the Dark Dimension is exempt as a whole and thus even its time-related parts are exempt?

So this is the unclear problem we've been discussing regarding whether or not characters were Snap-susceptible.

I was counting up as I was watching. Assuming the Snap occurred in the original version of the timeline, as explored in a previous message, if they were susceptible, that's a group of 21 characters in total you have to assume ALL got lucky. The odds of that are 1 in 2 million.

If they weren't susceptible, then that's only a group of 11 characters (you've missed a few) in total you have to assume all got lucky. The odds of that are only 1 in 2048 (still ludicrous, but a thousand times less ludicrous). The same as with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

The kids do interact with people who would tell them. The Corvus phones was a fortunate situation, because it provides an excuse for many of the characters to be distracted and brainwashed. But characters such as Leslie and Vaughn should mention it. Plus we have things like Tina catching up with everything she missed and saying "It's not as if the world stopped while we were gone", as if nothing significant happened.

Granted though, it's not as egregious as it could be. But things like being too busy to mention it only go so far when really they should be returning to a world they should immediately notice is devastated. Half of EVERYONE suddenly died less than 3 months ago.

I agree we have to assume they just focused on it afterwards and suspend disbelief. After all, we didn't make any sort of huge leap to try and fit around it, in the end just accepting it is what it is. It's just a LOT of disbelief to suspend.

I realize Runaways S1 is SOLIDLY set in December 2017... though... if it was set in December 2016 instead... it would spare a whole lot of headaches (and with that Hillary Clinton commentaries, it kinda could make some sense).

@BEJT

I created the pages for "2021" and "2028". Links for both pages should be added in the infobox/template of the 2018 article, right?

My question is which term to use for 2021 and 2028.

For example, 2091" is classified "(alternate universe)" and "2019" is classified "(timeline)" in the 2018 page.

Runaways Alternate Universe

I think alternate timeline fits better. Because that timeline got erased.

This is a complicated situation, because I asked Shabook what to do back in May 2018, and he just said it's not top priority and is yet to give any updates.

There are two ways of doing this:

1) We have the 2018 page with columns/sections for different timelines (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and different versions of timelines (Runaways). Then for the post-2018 continuations of those timelines and versions of those timelines, they get their own pages: 2021 (Gert Yorkes Deceased Timeline Version), 2028 (Gert Yorkes Deceased Timeline Version), and 2091 (Lighthouse Universe/Timeline). Or just a Post-2018 (Gert Yorkes Deceased Timeline Version) page and a Post-2018 (Lighthouse Universe/Timeline) page.

This would mean that the pages can have the header description like the current "This is a timeline of events that occurred in an alternate 2021, before Gert Yorkes' life was saved during the final battle against Morgan le Fay, preventing this future from coming to pass." The pages are purely pages FOR those timelines and timeline versions.

In this case, the 2018 page would, in the "After" section, have to link to 2019 and the other two pages.

Alternatively:

2) We have a 2018 page, followed by 2019, followed by 2021, followed by 2028, followed by 2091. And on these pages, we have sections similar to 2018 (just not needing columns because there's nothing to put in the other column), saying it's part of a different timeline version or timeline. So the 2021 page would just say what a normal page would say, "This is a timeline of events that occurred during 2021." We could end up with other 2021 events at some point, with flashbacks to the Snap period or something, and you have them share a page, just with sectioned off non-main-timeline stuff like 2018.

I prefer Option 1, I think. The reason we did the column thing on the 2018 page is because it's important to show the shared timeline events up to the split point, and then good to see the side-by-side, and not worth it for its own page. If you had a separate 2018 page for the Lighthouse Timeline, it would be weird because either you have to make sure everything up to May 31st is identically copied-and-pasted to that page and also identically edited whenever anything January 1st-May 31st is edited from there on, but then also it would still be weird because it's not just identical events but it's literally THE same events in the same universe, with the universe only splitting on May 31st, or the page just begins halfway through May 31st which would also be weird.

But as far as I'm concerned, after those initial split points, they're separate enough, they've spun off. It would be weird to have completely separate events, say, decades later, side-by-side.

That said, there's also something to be said for Option 1 for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. because it's a different universe, but Option 2 for Runaways because it's just different versions of the same universe/timeline... I don't know. I'll ask Shabook or Nerdtastic about it again some time soon.

I think for now, since the 2021 and 2028 pages are solely devoted to Runaways events at the moment, it's OK to just consider them as pages for different timeline versions like Option 1, and indeed link 2018 to 2021 with "(alternate timeline)" or something and 2019 to 2023, and not just 2019 following into 2021 following into 2023.

Im not very good at this stuff, and I appreciate your work.

It's stupid and kinda nonsense but maybe it's just not well distributed, cause of pain of Thor axe Stormbreaker in his Chest...

Is there a page with a full timeline of all films and series on this website?