Earth-32/Phase One

Y0
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* **X-Men Origins, Vol. 1**
	+ The government decides there's only one way to counter this growing mutant threat, by using a mutant squad themselves. Thus, Weapon X is dispatched onto American soil for the first time.
	+ Xavier and Magneto assemble their first Brotherhood:
		- Jason Wyngarde, the illusion-casting **Mastermind**.
* **X-Men, Vol. 1: First Class**
	+ At school,
	+ Professor Charles Xavier and Jean Grey visit the home of the Summers family, where Charles explains the mutant status of young Scott and Alex.
	+ Here, Scott and Alex meet the other students and staff at Xavier's School:
		- Bobby Drake
		- Warren Worthington III, the rich heir to the powerful Worthington family, and a mutant who has been blessed with the powerful wings of an **Angel**.
		- The man known as **Forge**, a maintenance man at the university.
		- Henry McCoy, a close confidant of Charles Xavier.
		- The young Ororoe Munroe, a ward of Charles Xavier's that he picked up in Cairo.
	+ Magneto reveals his powerful Second Brotherhood:
		- Jason Wyngarde, the illusion-casting Mastermind
		- Morty Toynbee, the Toad
		- The Blob Freddy Dukes
		- Mystique
	+ Magneto removes Scott's glasses, prompting Scott to blast him with enough concussive force to knock him off and out.
	+ Epilogue
		- Magneto is arrested and placed in a plastic prison under the Triskelion.
* **Thor, Vol. 1**
	+ Donald Blake is a simple working man, employed at a construction site. One day, he picks up the wrong hammer and finds himself possessed by the spirit of Thor.
	+ Loki reveals the truth:
		- Loki stole the Norn Stones, and used them to kill Balder's wife, Nanna. Balder has since left Asgard to mourn his departed wife.
		- Odin has entered the Odinsleep.
		- Loki then "shattered" Thor, but before he could seize the throne, he attempted to lift Mjolnir and was sent to Midgard with no way of getting back.
	+ Loki tells Thor that they could never be true brothers: Loki knows they are adopted, and not a true Asgardian, but a Frost Giant. Thor attempts to tell him that's not the case
	+ Thor defeats the Destroyer, but finds that Loki has disappeared.
* **Fantastic Four, Vol. 1**
	+ maybe start with a college flashback?
		- Harvey Elder attempts to hit on Susan, or studies with her, but Victor spooks him off, resulting him to go missing?
	+ On live television, Tony Stark mocks Reed Richards.
	+ Blastoff
		- At home, Harvey Elder sulks because he wishes he could be the one engaged to Sue Storm, not Victor.
		- The Marvel-1 is hit by the Phoenix Force, destroying it and sending it colliding back to Earth.
		- The passengers of the Marvel-1 are mysteriously shielded upon crashing down into the ocean.
	+ By Sword and Shield
		- The two wake up in the custody of Abigail Brand and Nick Fury, the two directors of government bodies SWORD and SHIELD respectively.
		- Johnny attempts to flirt with Sharon Carter.
		- Deep within the Earth, the arrival of the Phoenix spooks the population of Moloids.
	+ Saints of Sub-Angeles
		- Sue Storm urges Nick Fury to let them attempt to defeat the Moloid invasion with the use of their powers. When Fury refuses, Sue works with Johnny to break out of the Triskelion and steal a SHIELD jet. Grimm and Reed tag along because they disprove of their actions.
		- Sue uses her invisibility powers to get close to Harvey Elder and steal his vibrating scepter, which she then uses to call off the Moloid invasion and return their armies to the caverns beneath Los Angeles.
		- The battle, however, has left the Golden Gate Bridge in a worrying state. Reed uses his stretchy powers to stabilize the bridge.
	+ While he is angry with their escape, Nick Fury is grateful for the Fantastic Four's help. He eases their restrictions.
	+ Ben Grimm uses the opportunity to return home to his wife. When she sees his grotesque appearance, she rejects him entirely.
	+ Elsewhere, two radical SHIELD agents Bentley Wittman and Peter Petruski grow disenfranchised with the Fantastic Four. Believing they have suddenly become "overshadowed" by the Fantastic Four, the .
		- They are assisted by SHIELD inventor Phineas Mason, a radical anti-mutate activist.
	+ Victor tries to take the power of the phoenix from Ben through an arcane ritual, which ends up cracking his skin.
	+ Following public outcry, the Fantastic Four are fully released from SHIELD custody.
* **The Incredible Hulk, Vol. 1**
	+ The story is narrated by Rick
	+ ARIZONA: Teenager Rick Jones is bored and lacks confidence, and seeks to prove himself. Trying to impress a lady, he agrees to drive a few of the kids out from school. However, they park on a Gamma Bomb testing zone. When the alert sounds, the other kids drive away in the car, leaving Rick alone and helpless.
	+ Scientist Bruce Banner notices that Rick Jones is out on the field. Neglecting his own safety, he rushes out to save the boy. He believes his companion, George Starsky, will save him, but Starsky is secretly a member of HYDRA and announces "Hail HYDRA" as he detonates the bomb.
	+ Banner absorbs the brunt of the radiation, saving Rick Jones' life. As Banner faints, he suddenly transforms into the Hulk and flees the situation.
	+ Rick Jones' friends return for him later, and Rick cusses them out. He angrily kicks them out of the car and drives after the Hulk, feeling guilt.
	+ Fury vs Ross political conflict? Fury is about minimizing risk to civilians, while Ross wants the Hulk captured and examined at any cost?
	+ vs Radioactive Man
	+ time-jump at the middle where Hulk gets captured? he reverts, Banner falls in love with Liz Ross, she lets him out, and then he escapes north to canada alongside rick jones
	+ The Great Escape
		- The story ends with Banner and James escaping north into the wilderness of Canada, now wanted men.
* **Captain America, War Stories Vol. 1**
	+ growing up in NY, Steve witnesses anti-Irish hate against his family? then his dad goes off and dies in WW1 to prove he's a real american
	+ Growing Up
		- Steve witnesses a neighborhood kid, Jimmy Jankovicz, being bullied for being a mutant. He attempts to step in, but is beaten up too, until Bucky Barnes is forced to intervene.
	+ Pearl Harbor
		- Steve Rogers is inspired by his hero, the Rocketeer, and enlists in the army. He is rejected
	+ Having been rejected, Steve Rogers joins the
	+ Defeating the Nazis outside of Wakanda, the SSR seizes their cache of Vibranium. Howard Stark fashions a shield for Captain America.
	+ Namor quits the Invaders. or move the Invader stuff to Vol. 2?
* **Spider-Man, Vol. 1**
	+ Part 1: Great Power
		- Peter Parker's high school class attends a field trip to OsCorp industries, sponsored by his geeky and uncool best friend Harry Osborn.
	+ Worried that he might be a mutant,
	+ Elsewhere, Herman Schultz is enlisted by Roxxon to carry out an insurance fraud scheme by stealing money from a bank.
	+ Roxxon decides to beef up security, hiring the Enforcers from a mysterious man named Kingpin.
	+ Yuri Watanabe leads a squad to seek out Spider-Man. Rather than like other cops, who would arrest him, Yuri thanks Spider-Man. She asks for his help in furthering the investigation into Roxxon by defeating the Enforcers.
	+ Roxxon drops Flint Marko into a reactor, mutating him into the Sand-Man.
	+ Part Two: Great Responsibility
		- Spider-Man's victory is aired on television.
			* Aunt May watches.
			* Nick Fury watches
* **Daredevil, Vol. 1: Man Without Fear**
	+ Childhood
		- Stick is angered with Matt's reckless misuse of his powers. Stick angrily tells him that with his selfishness, he'll never make it through the upper eschelons of the Chaste to join the Brotherhood of the Shield.
		- Matt spars with Stick and loses. Stick leaves him for dead at the side of the road.
	+ Matt becomes the "Man Without Fear", a street brawler dressed in all black.
	+ Matt searches down child abductors, learning that a society named the Hand is abducting them to turn them into nameless assassins known as "Kirigi".
	+ Matt meets Elektra Natchioz,
	+ For interfering in their business, one of the Kirigi murders Elektra's father.
	+ Finale: Graduation
		- Matt heads to graduation alongside Foggy Nelson.

Y1
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basic date: 2017

* **Agents of SHIELD, Vol. 1**
	+ the Fantastic Four are sent to the north pole to dig up Captain America
	+ introduces Quake, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Wasp, and Mockingbird
* **The Incredible Hulk, Vol. 2**
	+ involves the Wendigo? and maybe the Abomination?
	+ starts out with Logan
	+ Starving up north,
	+ As the group drinks, Nick Fury shows up at the bar.
	+ Fearing the American government, Logan drives away.
	+ Nick Fury wants to use the Hulk as leverage against Ross.
* **Spider-Man, Vol. 2**
	+ In the wake of the Roxxon investigation and scandal, Norman Osborn expands OsCorp.
	+ OsCorp buys out a small tech company owned by an Adrian Toomes.
	+ adrian toomes targets norman osborn
	+ Homecoming
		- Toomes begin to ask many questions about Peter's friend Harry. Peter's spider-sense tingles hard throughout the whole encounter.
		- Realizing that his date's step-dad is Adrian Toomes, Peter abandons his date to chase down the Vulture.
		- Toomes heads home, where he dawns his suit as the Vulture and prepares to abduct Harry from the school dance. Before he can do so, Peter Parker attacks Liz Allan.
		- Now that Liz Allan has been stood up, Harry targets
		- At the end of the dance, Peter shares a slow-dance with Mary-Jane.
	+ Spider-Man sees Silver Sable, and unfortunately realizes she's hot.
	+ hunted down by SHIELD?
		- silver sable? or someone else?
	+ Silver Sable gives Norman Osborn the details on Spider-Man, which allows Norman to learn of Spider-Man's genesis (the spider at OsCorp). Norman Osborn thus recreates the hormones applied to the spider and takes the Oz Formula himself.
	+ Epilogue:
		- With his step-dad under arrest, Liz Allan's brother Mark is under a lot of stress. He mutates into the Molten Man.
* **Daredevil, Vol. 2: Yellow**
	+ Having graduated,
	+ villains: Owl, maybe?
	+ revolves around Matt discovering Kingpin + waging his first war against him
* **Iron-Man, Vol. 1**
	+ While on an arms showcase to the US military, Tony Stark is attacked by a mysterious organization known as the Ten Rings.
	+ battle against Fin Fang Foom
	+ battle against Obadiah Stane
* **Thor, Vol. 2**
	+ SHIELD arrests Jane Foster, causing Thor to chase them down.
	+ Donald Blake meets Phil Coulson, who has been assigned as Thor's handler.
	+ SHIELD approaches Thor with an offer: they also want Loki dealt with. In exchange, they will free Jane.
	+ Blake/Thor agrees, but explains that it's nearly impossible for him to track down Loki. Nick Fury reveals SHIELD's extensive surveillance network.
	+ Fury partners Thor with Agent Quake, and the two are dispatched to Norway.
	+ Here, Thor is tracked down by the young Barbara Norriss, a huge fan of his. Thor shrugs her off.
	+ Quake tries to seduce Thor. Thor also shrugs her off, telling her he is devoted to Foster. He tells her he'll have to abandon her if this continues. Quake responds that she was just following orders, to which Donald Blake responds and asks if she does everything Fury asks.
	+ vs amora, who wants to marry loki?
	+ Thor decides not to hand Amora over to SHIELD, and lets her go.
	+ then vs absorbing man?

### Y1.5

* **Marvel Team-Up: Hulk and Thor**
	+ SHIELD apprehends Jane Foster, prompting Donald Blake to fly to the Triskelion and demand her release.
	+ beating the Wrecking Crew?
	+ maybe absorbing man becomes their leader? he puts on the destroyer suit?
	+ Epilogue:
		- Fury muses that the attempts to clone Asgardian tech weren't of complete uselessness, as he watches over the embryonic Thundra cloned from Thor's flesh.
* **Marvel Team-Up: Thing and Daredevil**
	+ vs Yancy street gang
* **Fantastic Four vs X-Men**
	+ In the five years since Magneto's first defeat,
	+ Scott, Jean, and Xavier head to DC to watch the trial of Magneto. He is ultimately sentenced to death.
	+ That night, the Juggernaut and other members of the Brotherhood attack the Triskelion. The X-Men naturally arrive on the scene.
	+ SHIELD dispatches a jet to the Baxter Building, where they pick up the members of the Fantastic Four.
		- Nick Fury tells Reed and Johnny his directive: he suspects Xavier freed his old comrade, and thus wants to place the X-Men under arrest.
	+ FF vs X
		- Johnny Storm and Iceman duel in the skies
	+ In the ensuing chaos, it's revealed Magneto has escaped.
	+ The Fantastic Four thus have a falling out with SHIELD. Reed books them a flight out of the nation, though not before making copies of some of SHIELD's top secret files for his own perusal.

Y2
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base date: 2018

* **Wolverine, Vol. 1**
	+ Logan, rushing south, nearly hits the cold Kitty Pryde as she runs across the road in north Canada.
	+ road trip featuring Kitty Pryde
	+ Logan is plagued by headaches, which turn out to be distress calls from Xavier...

* **X-Men, Vol. 2: Spawn of M**
	+ In the five or six years since Magneto's imprisonment, several new mutants have arrived at Xavier's institute:
		- The Colossus Piotr Rasputin and his sister, Ilyana Rasputin
		- Nightcrawler
		- Sunfire
	+ With Magneto being freed and the X-Men in the public eye once more, Xavier must stay at the Mansion full-time to cast an amnesiac spell that prevents SHIELD from knowing of or raiding the schoolgrounds. Thus, he is forced to send his X-Men out to scout for Magneto and his family.
	+ The X-Men discover Lorna Dane, a grown-up orphan
	+ Xavier tracks Magneto down to the island of Krakoa.
	+ Magneto reveals his trump card: Krakoa is a living island. Mystique has Krakoa destroy the Blackbird, marooning the X-Men on Krakoa while he takes his leave.
	+ With the X-Men trapped on Krakoa, Xavier decides he has no choice but to scramble a second squad of X-Men:
		- Colossus
		- Laura Dane
		- Even Kitty Pryde gets to tag along, encouraging Ilyana to sneak them onto the Blackbird with their powers.
	+ Second Showdown
		- The second squad of X-Men learn that Magneto has landed in Alcatraz, using his powers to turn the prison into his new fortress.
		- Magneto remarks he never knew he had a daughter who inherited his powerful magnetism, and beckons Polaris to join him. Polaris refuses.
		- Polaris duels Magneto in the sky.
	+ Finale
		- At the conclusion of the story, the X-Men have beaten Magneto. Before SHIELD or the X-Men can act, a third more powerful force appears on the scene: the Hellfire Club. The powerful psychic Emma Frost knocks everyone out, until she herself is defeated and captured by the psychic-immune Mr. Sinister.
* **Fantastic Four, Vol. 2**
	+ Reed takes the team "on vacation" (actually hiding from SHIELD) to a tropical island, where he also plans to seek out Namor in his paranoia against the government
	+ Atlantis Arc
		- Namor invites the Fantastic Four to Atlantis. Johnny Storm, who is made of fire, decides he doesn't want to go, and instead spends the week on the beach.
		- Namor explains that he will grant the Fantastic Four refuge in Atlantis, but that he will want to marry Sue to secure an alliance.
		- Reed radios Johnny, explaining the situation. Johnny heads to an "old friend" - the X-Mansion - where he borrows a suit produced by Forge. He heads underwater and to Atlantis, where he fakes an attack to kidnap Reed and Sue Storm.
		- Namor investigates the damage, and states he only knows one people technologically advanced enough to have done this.
	+ Wakanda Arc
		- Scrambling to figure out where to go next, Reed
		- Upon entering Wakanda, they are told that they are
		- The young Shuri becomes infatuated with two things: Johnny Storm, and Reed's technology.
		- King T'chaka dispatches his son to apprehend the Fantastic Four.
		- The Fantastic Four battle T'challa
	+ Sue eventually forces Reed to tell him the true nature of their vacation: they're not vacationing, they're on the lam until SHIELD calms down.
	+ With not many other options left to consider, Sue urges Reed to contact his old flame Jessica Drew.
	+ then, after Wakanda, they head to the High Evolutionary
	+ Having studied the Fantastic Four, Herbert Wyndham wants to bathe the Earth in rays that will greatly advance the development of humanity. He starts with his daughter Jessica.
	+ The Fantastic Four and Jessica trap Herbert Wyndham in his cryosleep chamber.
	+ With nowhere else to go, the Fantastic Four blast off into space.
	+ Epilogue:
		- Philip Masters explores the wreckage of Wundagore Mountain, where he finds the Darkhold buried beneath what was the Citadel of Science.
		- An Atlantean war party, led by Namor, approaches Wakanda.
	+ at the end of it they go to space?
		- maybe in Vol. 3 they meet the Kree, Skrulls, Cotati. etc. the Cotati want Sue to be their "celestial madonna"?
	+ this sets up Black Panther and Namor to have a conflict down the line
* **Daredevil, Vol. 3**
	+ Thinking he's defeated the Kingpin for now, Daredevil returns to his roots and takes out the Hand.
	+ Elektra, who has been operating in
	+ Kingpin hires Bullseye.
	+ Elektra sacrifices herself to save Matt and Karen Page.
	+ Daredevil angrily chases the injured Bullseye throughout New York. Bullseye misses a jump, and Daredevil watches him (seemingly) fall to his death.
* **Iron Man, Vol. 2**
	+ Tony Stark, now Iron Man, lapses back into alcoholism after the death of his father and mentor Obediah Stane.
	+ In one of his drunken stupors, Stark sleeps with Lucy Barton, the wife of one of his inventors. Said inventor flees
	+ vs Living Laser? he ends up requiring War Machine to join him

* **Spider-Man, Vol. 3**
	+ Wanting Peter to stay close to Harry (whom he still suspects to be Spider-Man), Norman enlists Parker as an intern at OsCorp.
	+ final boss: lizard. then next book, we can do Gwen Stacy dying to Green Goblin or something?\
* **The Avengers, Vol. 1**
	+ Loki reappears, taunting Thor.
	+ Helmut Zemo???
	+ The assembled Avengers finally manage to tire out the Hulk.

### Y2.5

* **Thor, Vol. 3**
	+ Thor wants to go back to Asgard

Y3
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* **Fantastic Four, Vol. 3**
	+ As it hurdles off through space, the Citadel of Science passes by Uranus. The Citadel is boarded by the Kree.
	+ Minn-Erva is there?
	+ The Fantastic Four learn of the Kree-Skrull War:
		- Millions of years ago, the Skrull Empire reached planet Hala.
		- The Skrull attempted to intervene in the Kree-Cotati genocide.
	+ The Cotati want to turn Sue into their Celestial Madonna.
	+ Lyja sleeps with Johnny
	+ Lyja explains to the Fantastic Four the fate of her sister, Anelle, who laid with a Kree soldier as per her father's orders. When this treachery was discovered, it opened up old wounds and restarted the Kree-Skrull War.
	+ hitch a ride with... idk the Guardians back to earth? maybe Xandarians like Nova?
	+ As they ride back to Earth, Reed proposes to Sue.
	+ Finale:
		- The High Evolutionary wakes up and meets the Skrulls.
		- Lyja is revealed to be pregnant - like, she states, her sister.
* **X-Men, Vol. 3**
	+ focuses on the Hellfire Club, who have arranged to sell the powerful X-Men bloodlines to a "mutant vendor" - Mr Sinister, who wants to breed them to serve as heirs for his ancient and long-dead master Apocalypse
	+ Mr. Sinister reveals the bloodlines of the mutants:
		- The Summers bloodline is descended from "Black Womb" Amanda Mueller.
		- The Rasputin bloodline is descended from the Russian wizard and mutant Grigoriy Rasputin.
		- Kurt Wagner is the son of Mystique.
		- Wolverine is a Lupine mutant, a descendant of the powerful Eternal Romulus.
		- Warren Worthington III is a Cheyarephem, a descendant of the Angels.
	+ Essex keeps the mutants in separate cells:
		- Mutants of powerful bloodlines: Jean Grey, Scott Summers, Alex Summers, Colossus and Magik, Magneto, and the Maximoff twins
		- Cell 1: Jean Grey, Scott
		- Cell 2: Bobby Drake, Lorna Dane
		- Cell 3: Maximoff twins, Colossus
		- Cell 4: Mystique, Wolverine
		- Cell 5: Storm, Magneto, Alex Summers
		- Cell 6: Emma Frost
		- Other mutants:
	+ Essex fills the chambers with aphrodisiacs. Some - like Colossus and Emma Frost - resist by turning their bodies to stone. Jean Grey resists the clouds of aphrodisiacs using her telepathy and Storm using her wind.
	+ Polaris sleeps with Iceman. Wolverine sleeps with Mystique (conceiving Raze).
	+ As Ilyana and Shadowcat weren't there for the kidnapping, they're able to sneak in, and start by contacting Colossus.
	+ Havok and Cyclops duel Ahmet Abdol
	+ they defeat Mr Sinister with Jean Grey unlocking the Phoenix for the first time? Emma Frost begins to think about reforming, and opens up her own rival school
	+ potentially Magneto reveals Krakoa is part of a larger landmass - the Savage Land?
	+ Together, Magneto and Polaris lift Essex's base, the spaceship Prosh, and throw it into space.
	+ Cyclops decides to not partner with Jean Grey, stating that he doesn't want to date in the team.
	+ Epilogue:
		- Mr. Sinister is collected by the High Evolutionary, who welcomes him aboard. Mr Sinister explains he'll get the Summers-Grey bloodlines to unite one way or another.
		- Xavier welcomes Magneto and the Maximoff twins to the X-Mansion.
		- Jason Wyngarde leaves the Brotherhood of Mutants for a position in the Hellfire Club.
* **Agents of SHIELD: The War in Wakanda**
	+ In New York, SHIELD gets a message from the isolationist King T'Chaka asking about the hi-tech raiding parties that have been scouted on Wakanda's borders. Since SHIELD isn't responsible, Fury sends some of SHIELD's agents to investigate.
	+ Upon learning that these warriors are Atlanteans, the agents immediately consider calling Captain America (as he was once warbuddies with Namor). However, Wakanda's EMP aura prevents their call from being heard.
* **The Avengers, Vol. 2**
	+ With the news that Abomination is on the lose, Fury quickly authorizes the launch of the Helicarrier.
	+ Spider-Man shows up to help the fight with Abomination.
	+ ~~The Avengers realize they're heading for another "hulk pheromone": that being, Thundra, deep within the wreckage of the Triskelion.~~
	+ Climax:
		- Captain America earns freedom for the Hulk and Thundra, as well as diplomatic immunity for Spider-Man.
* **Spider-Man, Vol. 4**
	+ mysterio rounds up the "elemental forces"
	+ spider-man learns mysterio's plan: infiltrate SHIELD and get access to a helicarrier
	+ Sensing he's at his weakest, Green Goblin strikes...
	+ SPIDER-MAN VERSUS THE GREEN GOBLIN
* **Daredevil, Vol. 4**
* **Wolverine, Vol. 2: The Story of Logan**

Y4
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* **Avengers, Vol. 3: Attuma's War**
	+ Dr Strange makes an appearance?
* **Fantastic Four, Vol. 4**
	+ Prologue:
		- The Fantastic Four return to New York, with diplomatic immunity guaranteed thanks to master lawyer Matthew Murdock.
	+ Thing's skin renders him unable to be mind controlled, even by the magic of Chthon.
	+ Thing heads to the home of Philip Masters,
	+ Thanks to his natural kindness, Alicia aids the Thing.
	+ The Thing discovers the nature of the Puppet Master's clay:
	+ The Thing heads to Moleman's Moloid kingdom, where he threatens him. Moleman cowers and submits, and reveals that he stole the clay from a basement in New York (the Sanctum Sanctorum).
* **X-Men Gold, Vol. 1**
	+ At the X-Mansion, Magneto reveals that Krakoa was part of a larger landmass.
	+ The X-Men head to the Savage Land, where they encounter
	+ The X-Men learn that Magneto is simply using them to defeat his Brotherhood of the Savage Land Mutates
	+ The X-Men find Magneto's old base in the Savage Land.
	+ Lorna attempts to make friends with Zala,
	+ Zala activates Magneto's mutation machine, granting her power over stone.
* **X-Men Blue, Vol. 1**
	+ the X-Men meet
	+ The X-Men save Jubilee.
	+ At the end, the Mutants are saved by the Sentinels by X-Men Team Gold (chiefly Magneto and Polaris)
	+ Despite all of the work that the X-Men have done, Beast becomes despondent.
* **Spider-Man, Vol. 5: Taste of Venom**
	+ Spider-Man goes rogue under the influence of Venom
	+ feat. Sin-Eater and Kraven
	+ ends with Spider-Man's high school graduation

* **Doctor Strange, Vol. 1**
	+ Prequel
	+ Doctor Stephen Strange is involved in a car crash and loses the ability to use his hand.
	+ Stephen Strange comes in contact with Stick, who tells him of powers in the east.
	+ Strange meets his fellow students:
		- The Italian sorceror Belasco

### Year 4.5

* **X-Men: The Sentinel Crisis**
	+ The X-Men duel Master Mold.
	+ Epilogue
		- The popstar Dazzler comes out as a Mutant, pressuring the government to end the Sentinels.
		- Valerie Cooper becomes an advisor to the US government.
		- The Acanti arrive in the Milky Way Galaxy.
* **The New Mutants**
	+ Xavier receives a letter from Boston, heralding the arrival of Xi'an Coy Manh, a powerful telepath who didn't get along with her classmates at Emma Frost's Hellfire Academy.
	+ When Kitty learns that Ms. Frost has opened her own academy,
* **The Fantastic Wedding**
	+ Guests at the wedding:
		- The original X-Men show up
			* Cyclops with Emma Frost
			* Angel with Dazzler
			* Phoenix with Wolverine, with Kitty Pryde tagging along
			* Beast with Ororo Munroe
			* Iceman
			* Charles Xavier
		- Doctor Strange and Wong
		- Matt Murdock
		- Peter Parker and Mary-Jane Watson
		- Reed's Scottish cousin Hamish and his son, Angus
	+ Epilogue:
		- Reed Richards helps Xavier upgrade Cerebro. Xavier peers deep into space and senses the Shi'ar.
		- The Silver Surfer approaches Earth.
* **The Book of the Vishanti** -
	+ Doctor Strange reads the Book of the Vishanti, retelling the beginnings of the universe:
	+ The first generation of Celestials, the Proemial Gods, are spawned. Galactus defeats his siblings.
	+ The Celestials Ymir and Surtur create the Asgardians.
	+ Earth:
		- The Elder Gods arrive on Earth.
		- Gaia creates the humans, Satha creates the Serpent Cult, and Chthon creates the N'Garai.
		- Oshtur leaves to study magic. She eventually meets Hoggoth and produces a human child, Agamotto.
* **X-Men Origins, Vol. 2: Blood of M**
	+ tells the story of Polaris and Zaladane

## Year 5

* **Fantastic Four, Vol. 6: Honeymooners**
	+ Part One: The Thing and the Power Pack
	+ Part Two: The Human Torch and the Inhumans
	+ Part Three: The Fantastics and the Captain Britain Corps
	+ Epilogue: The Silver Surfer
		- Johnny Storm has a fight with the Silver Surfer in the Los Angeles skyline. After fighting off Silver Surfer, Silver Surfer decides that Earth is ready to be harvested by his master.
* **Spider-Man, Vol. 6: Far From Home**