For events happening in 2014 in alternate universes, see Timeline |
- "We're not the only ones in 2014 looking for the stones."
- ―Nebula to War Machine[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred in 2014 in a reality visited during the Time Heist.
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- Nebula, James Rhodes, Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff materialize out of the Quantum Realm. Restoring the Benatar to its proper size, they use it to leave Earth and travel to Morag.[1]
- Romanoff and Barton wish Rhodes well, and he tells them to look out for each other. Romanoff and Barton board the Benatar again to travel to Vormir.[1]
Hawkeye and Black Widow traveling in space
- Nebula warns Rhodes that they are not the only ones in that timeline looking for Infinity Stones, stating that alternate versions of Thanos, Gamora and her own self are out for them.[1]
- Massacre of the Korbinites: On Korbin, that timeline's Nebula battles Korbinites, fighting under Thanos's instruction. She is caught off guard by a grenade and a Korbinite goes to attack her, but Gamora arrives and kills it from behind. Nebula angrily tells her sister she did not ask for her help, but Gamora notes that she always needs it nonetheless. She then tells Nebula that Thanos wants them back on the ship, as he has found an Infinity Stone.[1]
Thanos cleans the blood off his sword
- Thanos tells his daughters that Ronan has located the Stone, and that he is sending them to Ronan's ship, since Ronan's obsession clouds his judgement. Nebula kneels and insists that she will make her father proud.[1]
- Nebula's cybernetic head suddenly glitches and she falls over. Her synaptic drive loads up the memory file of her main counterpart, projecting the memory to the other two of her talking with Rhodes about there being others out there looking for Infinity Stones. Thanos tells Gamora to bring Nebula to his ship.[1]
Ebony Maw checks 2014 Nebula's memory files
- Peter Quill, known as "Star-Lord", travels alone to Morag to retrieve the Orb.[2]
- Quill starts up his Walkman, playing Come and Get Your Love by Redbone to entertain himself as he goes to get the Orb. He starts to groove to the song as it begins.[2]
- As the lyrics kick in, Quill kicks his leg up in the air, starting to dance.[1]
- Getting to a puddle, Quill kicks the water and spins as he passes through it, then continues shuffling along.[1]
- Quill encounters some Orloni and kicks them aside in tune to the music.[1]
- Quill continues grooving along, then finds a slippery patch, where he slides across. He grabs hold of a passing Orloni and pretends it is a microphone as he sings along to the end of the first verse.[1]
Peter Quill is watched by Nebula and War Machine
- As Quill reaches the second verse, he again grabs an Orloni and pretends it is a microphone, singing to it.[2] Rhodes and Nebula continue to hear him.[1]
- Rhodes notes that Quill is an idiot, and Nebula agrees.[1]
- Quill struts along and spins around, before slowing down. As he continues walking, he comes across a Korbinite skeleton.[2]
- Quill grabs another Orloni, singing the second chorus to it as he keeps going.[2]
- Quill gets to another slippery patch. As he slides across it, Rhodes ambushes him from the side and knocks him out with a heavy hit to the head. Nebula kneels to check his belongings.[1]
- Nebula rummages through Quill's bag and finds the tool he was planning to use to open the Temple Vault.[1]
- Nebula tells Rhodes what the tool is.[1]
- Arriving at the entrance, Nebula inserts the tool.[1]
2023 Nebula takes the Orb
- Nebula hands Rhodes the Orb. He is stunned by her willingness to harm herself, but the two admit to each other that they have both been hardened over time. The duo prepare to return to the main universe together, but as Rhodes shrinks back into the Quantum Realm, Nebula's cybernetics glitch and she falls to the ground, affected by the connection with her alternate self.[1]
Thanos witnesses his successful counterpart
- Nebula becomes functional again and, realizing the memory Thanos has watched through her alternate self, panics that Thanos knows what is happening and rushes out to warn her teammates.[1]
- Meanwhile, Steve Rogers arrives via the Quantum Realm and returns the Power Stone to the moment it was removed, erasing the dark splinter reality that was being created.[1]
- Korath and his soldiers break into the Temple Vault.[2]
- Kidnapping of Nebula:
- Nebula runs back to the space pod and tries to contact Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff, but fails. At that moment, the Sanctuary II arrives and beams her up into the ship.[1]
Nebula meets her main counterpart
- Nebula puts on her main counterpart's head plate and clothes, so as to pose as her. She hands Thanos the Pym Particles she has stolen, which are sent to Ebony Maw to mass-replicate[3], for their army to travel as well.[1]
- Nebula uses the Time-Space GPS and Pym Particles to shrink into the Quantum Realm and use her counterpart's "return" programming to get to the main timeline. With Thanos and his army lacking the device programming to travel to her counterpart's universe, she travels with the plan to open the Quantum Tunnel and pull them through from the other side.[1]
- The Sanctuary II shrinks down by the Pym Particles and jumps through the Quantum Realm, with Thanos and his army aboard leaving their timeline.[1]
Red Skull meeting Hawkeye and Black Widow
- Sacrifice of Natasha Romanoff:
- Taking the pair to the edge of the sacrificial cliff, Red Skull explains the necessary exchange of a loved one's soul for the stone, and that one of them must die.[1]
- Barton and Romanoff take time to think, and Barton wonders whether Red Skull is lying. Romanoff explains that Red Skull knew her father's name even when she did not, and that Gamora dying on Vormir in the main universe is likely because of this sacrifice.[1]
- Barton and Romanoff agree that one of them has to go over the cliff, but insist on being the one to do it. Romanoff insists on saving him, but he says he feels he deserves to go. She tells him she does not judge people on their worst mistakes, considering he did not when he let her live on his mission to kill her.[1]
Black Widow's corpse on Vormir
- Clint Barton wakes up in the Soul Stone's pool on Vormir, the Stone in-hand. After seeing the Stone, he cries at the loss of his friend.[1]
- Barton shrinks back into the Quantum Realm with the Soul Stone.[1]
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- Steve Rogers materializes out of the Quantum Realm and arrives in Vormir. He then returns the Soul Stone to the moment it was removed, erasing the dark splinter reality that was being created.[1]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 Avengers: Endgame
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 In Avengers: Endgame, 2014 events are shown simultaneous to the events of Guardians of the Galaxy. With the 2023 Avengers making no impacts of significance until Rhodes knocks out Quill, the events of the film up to that point can be taken to play out essentially identically in that universe. Similarly, events such as the attack on Korbin and some previously unseen moves of Quill's, shown only in Avengers: Endgame, are unaffected by the 2023 Avengers' actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the main universe.
- ↑ Joe Russo's Q&A about the plot of Avengers: Endgame in China