1990s

#### 13th

* *U Can't Touch This* by MC Hammer is released in the United States of America.

### March

#### 17th

* In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent John Garrett steps on an IED bomb. The blast leaves him mortally wounded, but the Cybertek corporation saves his life by fitting him with biomechanical prosthetic body parts, and he becomes the first test subject for HYDRA's Project Deathlok.

### June

#### 13th

* Whitehall gives a lecture to Hale's class, talking about how they are finding a new way to replicate the super soldier effect of the process performed on Steve Rogers, but are missing a key component. Hale's classmate Wolfgang von Strucker suggests they try to acquire the Tesseract, but Whitehall is impressed when Hale instead suggests looking to space for answers.

#### 14th

* Hale is taken to see Daniel Whitehall, who explains that since she is the only girl graduating, she is the only one capable of a special task they wish to assign her. He tells her that she will infiltrate the air force and that they will artificially inseminate her with a child designed to be optimized for particle infusion. Hale is angry that her talents will be wasted, but reluctantly accepts.
* The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into Earth orbit.

#### 23rd

* A photograph is classified by S.H.I.E.L.D. from the site where "Dr. Wendy Lawson" and Carol Danvers crash-landed a year prior.

## 1991

### December

#### 16th

* **Assassination of Howard and Maria Stark**:
	+ Howard and Maria Stark are assassinated in Long Island, New York on the road to the Pentagon, by the Winter Soldier, who acts under orders of HYDRA so as to obtain samples of the Super Soldier Serum. The assassination is orchestrated to look like a car accident. Obadiah Stane is later appointed as interim CEO of Stark Industries.

#### 25th

* Cold War ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

## 1992

### January

#### 15th

* **Assassination of N'Jobu**: King T'Chaka travels to Oakland, California to visit his undercover brother, N'Jobu. N'Jobu's friend "James" reveals himself to be Zuri, another undercover Wakandan, who has always been loyal to T'Chaka. N'Jobu pulls a gun to shoot Zuri. T'Chaka moves swiftly to stop him and ends up stabbing his brother in the chest with the Panther Habit's claws, killing him. Erik Stevens, returns home to his apartment and finds his father dead. He cradles his father's body and cries.

### May

#### 15th

* *Lethal Weapon 3* is released in the United States of America.

### October

* Warlords, including Benatu Eshu, attack Zambesi Village and burn it to the ground. Esi's husband, and her mother, Amaya Jiwe are killed trying to defend the village. Esi flees with her infant daughter Mari, as well as the Anansi totem. Mari is left in foster care sometime afterwards and is given the totem by her foster mother at the age of ten

### November

#### 3rd

* *I Will Always Love You* by Whitney Houston is released.

## 1993

* Rebecca Merlyn is murdered by Danny Brickwell.
* Malcolm Merlyn travels to Nanda Parbat and is inducted into the League of Assassins.

### January

#### 20th

* Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, succeeding George H. W. Bush. His presidency was influenced by HYDRA.

### May

#### 5th

* Ivan Vanko is imprisoned for fifteen years for selling Soviet-era weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

### June

#### 11th

* *Jurassic Park*, directed by Steven Spielberg, is released in theaters.

## 1994

### June

#### 24th

* The film *The Lion King* is released in the United States of America.

## 1995

### February

#### 16th

* Stakar Ogord reluctantly banishes Yondu Udonta for child trafficking, which is against the Ravager code.

### May

#### 11th

* Vers wakes up after a nightmare, actually a flashback, and trains with Yon-Rogg. He takes her to the Supreme Intelligence, who gives her a mission.
* **Ambush in Torfa**:
	+ Starforce arrives on Torfa. They come across Torfan locals and try to prevent a fight. Minn-Erva then sees through her blaster scope, however, that Att-Lass is with the others on the ground, realizing that the man next to her is actually a Skrull. She shoots him, with him reverting to his natural form as he dies. Yon-Rogg leads a fight against the Torfans when they come to realize they are all disguised Skrulls. Vers finds Soh-Larr. However, he knocks out Vers, revealing himself to be Talos, and takes her back to his ship. The Skrulls inspect Vers' memories, looking for traces of Mar-Vell. They trawl through memories in her subconscious that she does not otherwise remember and discover that she knew Mar-Vell under the guise of "Dr. Wendy Lawson", on Planet C-53.

* **Escape from the Skrulls' Ship**:
	+ Vers awakens and manages to fight her way out, however, and runs for an escape pod. The damage causes the escape pod to be destroyed as it falls through the atmosphere of Earth, and crash-lands through the roof of a Los Angeles Blockbuster.
* Vers asks a nearby security guard for help, who points her to a nearby RadioShack when she asks for communications equipment, wanting to contact Yon-Rogg.

#### 12th

* Talos and three other Skrulls emerge from a Los Angeles beach after landing on Planet C-53.

* Vers manages to communicate with Yon-Rogg and Starforce and tells them about the Skrulls being after someone called Lawson. Staforce head to a jump-point 22 hours away to get to C-53 themselves.
* S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives, led by Agent Keller, Agent Phil Coulson, and Agent Nick Fury. Fury approaches Vers to ask about the crash. Vers says she is from Starforce and after the Skrulls infiltrating his planet.
* **Chase of the Skrulls**:
	+ Vers then pursues a Skrull through Los Angeles, while Fury and "Coulson" get in a car to follow. The Skrull boards a train, simming an old lady it sees alighting the vehicle. Vers attacks and the woman fights back, confirming her suspicions. It drops the crystal containing copies of her subconscious memories, which she picks up.
	+ The Skrull "Coulson" is killed and reverts to its normal form, scaring Fury as he gets out of the car. Fury then quickly covers the Skrull's body and marks the scene of the accident under S.H.I.E.L.D. investigation.

* Vers drives to Pancho's Bar and asks about "Pegasus", but the bartender does not know what she means. Nick Fury steps out, revealing his presence.
* During the car journey, Vers insists to Fury that the Kree are noble warrior heroes and that the Skrulls are evil, invading planets. On arriving at the Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S. Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, he announces his identity at the entrance to be allowed inside. When Vers is surprised by him having three parts to his name, he tells her that everyone simply calls him "Fury".
* Looking through the records, they find that Dr. Wendy Lawson was indeed involved in making a light-speed engine, and Vers recognizes her writings as Kree glyphs. Fury discovers that she died in a test flight 6 years ago, in 1989, but the pilot is redacted. He mentions that there is a testament from the last person to see them alive, Maria Rambeau. Fury leaves, saying he will be back soon, and Vers looks through photos, finding one with herself in the background, climbing into a fighter jet.
* **Ambush at Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility**:
	+ Agent "Keller" turns up at the Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, but when he commends Fury's work, he calls him Nicholas, arousing Fury's suspicions.
	+ Realizing Fury must have worked out who he was, "Keller", aka Talos, attacks the agent, and admits to being a Skrull. When he beats Fury down, Vers arrives and hits him with a photon blast. She and Fury then blast up to the next floor and run away.
	+ On their way up the stairs, the duo are confronted by Coulson. However, putting his trust in Fury, Coulson lowers his gun and reports that the pair are not down where he is.
	+ Fury and Vers get to the main hangar, and they commandeer a Quadjet and Vers finds she has sufficient piloting skills to fly it. The duo take off and get away, realizing that Goose has stowed away on board.
* Vers turns up at the Rambeau Residence in Louisiana and asks after Maria Rambeau. She is greeted by Maria and her daughter, Monica, who hugs Vers and calls her "Auntie Carol", delighted to hear that she has been alive all this time. Later, Maria tells her that she found it very hard not even be able to acknowledge the mission in which her best friend supposedly died, and that it hurts that she cannot remember who she is or even her name.
* The Rambeaus' discover Norex is simming Maria outside to trick Monica. Talos says he needs them to listen.

* Talos' black box disc triggers the rest of Danvers' memories of the day. She recalls how she had flown with Dr. Lawson in the back and they were shot down by an attacking ship, how Lawson had revealed herself as an undercover alien and been shot by the pilot of the attacking ship: Yon-Rogg, and had to destroy the light-speed engine to stop him from getting it, unintentionally absorbing its power.
* Talos tells Danvers that the Kree have been oppressing the Skrulls all this time, ever since they resisted Kree rule and the Kree destroyed their home planet. He says that Mar-Vell's light-speed engine would have got them to a new home and safety, and asks for Danvers' help in finding the core that powered the engine.

#### 13th

* Yon-Rogg arrives in Louisiana and realizes that Danvers has discovered the truth of her past.
* Carol Danvers, Maria Rambeau, Nick Fury, Talos, and Goose board the laboratory and find the core of the light-speed engine: the Tesseract, which Lawson had acquired while working for Howard Stark's Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. Danvers takes the cube and Talos reveals that Mar-Vell had been taking care of Skrull refugees, including Talos' family, while waiting to take them to their new home.
* Yon-Rogg enters with the rest of Starforce and takes her friends captive and the *Happy Days* lunchbox containing the Tesseract.

* Starforce plug Danvers in to talk to the Supreme Intelligence again, but Carol resists the Supreme Intelligence.

* Danvers' powers start to activate in the real world despite her status, and it causes electrical surges on the *Helion* that deactivate Fury and Rambeau's handcuffs and start to break the electrical gate to the Skrulls' cell. She escapes the Supreme Intelligence bindings, takes back the Tesseract lunchbox, and escapes to find Fury and Rambeau. Goose opens her mouth and giant tentacles come out, consuming the Tesseract easily into one of her internal pocket dimensions.
* **Battle at Mar-Vell's Laboratory**:
* Maria Rambeau outflies and kills Minn-Erva
* After defeating the Kree navy, and forcing Ronan to retreat, Danvers returns to Earth to confront Yon-Rogg. She merely blasts him, then walking over and tells her old mentor that she simply has nothing to prove to him. She drags Yon-Rogg back into his drop-ship and programmes it to fly to Hala, telling him to pass on the message to the Supreme Intelligence that she is coming to end the war, the lies, and everything else.
* As they fly in the Quadjet, Goose lashes out, severely scratching Fury's left eye and leaving it blind.
* Carol Danvers, Nick Fury, Maria Rambeau, Talos, and Soren sit for dinner together and Danvers promises to help the Skrulls find a new home.

* Danvers gives Fury back his pager, which she has modified to have a range across galaxies so he can contact her, but stressing that it should only be in a case of extreme emergency.
* Monica Rambeau gives Danvers back her aviator jacket and Danvers says a sad goodbye to her friends. She then flies to space, finding she can safely breathe in the vacuum when using her powers, and flies alongside the Skrulls in search of their new home.

#### 16th

* Phil Coulson reports that they have not yet found the Tesseract, but Fury says he is sure it will turn up, looking over at Goose, sitting in his office, still with the Tesseract inside her. Fury tells Coulson they need to find more superpowered beings that could protect Earth in case other extraterrestrial threats appear. Initially calling his idea the "Protector Initiative", when he looks at a picture of Danvers in her piloting days on his desk, he is inspired to name the initiative after her - specifically her Air Force callsign, "Avenger". The Avengers Initiative is born.
* After Fury has left his office, Goose coughs up the Tesseract onto his desk like a cat would a hairball.

### July

#### 19th

* Grant Ward's older brother Christian throws their youngest brother Thomas into a well. Grant tries to save his little brother by throwing him a rope. Christian warns him that if he gives him the rope he will be thrown in as well, and walks away. Grant manages to throw him the rope anyway, without Christian noticing.

### August

#### 27th

* **Massacre of the Zehoberei**:
	+ In his quest to bring balance to the universe, Thanos leads the Black Order and the Chitauri forces to the Zen-Whoberi planet. The Zehoberei are surrounded and Ebony Maw orders the population be divided evenly into two groups, one that would be spared and another that would be executed. In the midst of the chaos, a young Gamora tries to fight off a Chitauri soldier restraining her as she wanted to find her mother. Witnessing this act, Thanos takes her aside and explains his beliefs through the use of a switchblade that he balanced on his finger. He then asks Gamora to do the same just as Ebony Maw gives the order to execute one of the groups. When Gamora starts to turn around, Thanos tells her to appreciate the switchblade complimenting her when she managed to keep it balanced.

### November

#### 2nd

* After spending years working on a Quantum Tunnel on his own after being fired by Hank Pym, Elihas Starr finishes his work in Argentina. He activates the tunnel, but without Pym's help his tunnel is unsuccessful and collapses. It releases a burst of quantum energy and kills Elihas and his wife Catherine, leaving their daughter, Ava, an orphan. The burst of energy leaves Ava in a state of molecular disequilibrium, causing her cells to tear apart and come back together constantly, allowing her to phase through objects but causing her chronic pain and likely to die from the affliction.

#### 3rd

* After hearing of the quantum anomaly in Argentina, S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist Bill Foster travels to the country to investigate.

#### 4th

* Bill Foster meets the orphaned Ava Starr and is kind to her. He would eventually take her in and treat her like his own daughter, while helping her with her affliction.

#### 22nd

* *Toy Story* is released in the United States of America.

### December

#### 8th

* Despite Bill Foster's attempts to keep her safe, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents take Ava Starr to be studied.

## 1996

* Under Armour is founded.
* Disney Cruise Line is founded.

## 1997

### June

#### 26th

* *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* by J. K. Rowling is published, the first book in the *Harry Potter* series.

### December

#### 19th

* *Titanic* is released in the United States of America, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Isadora Quagmire and Klaus Baudelaire would later debate over whether or not it was a good movie.

## 1999

### January

* Liz Toomes is born to Adrian and Doris Toomes.

### March

#### 13th

* John Garrett meets a young Grant Ward, who is being held in a juvenile detention facility in Massachusetts for burning down his family's home, seeing his potential, Garrett recruits him into HYDRA. He trains Ward by leaving him to fend for himself in the Wyoming wilderness for five years.

#### 30th

* **Novi Grad Bombings**:
	+ Civil unrest occurs in Sokovia, which leads to a series of air raids.
	+ Oleg and Iryna are killed in a bombing, while Pietro and Wanda hide underneath a table as the building crumbles. As an aerial attack ensues outside, a Stark Industries-produced mortar shell lands in front of the twins. All they can see is the name "Stark" on the shell. They remain still and stuck, terrified that the slightest movement could set off the shell. Wanda unintentionally uses a probability hex without knowing it but she will soon believe that the bomb was defective, as it never went off.

#### 31st

* *The Matrix* is released in the United States of America, featuring the character of Morpheus.

### April

#### 1st

* After two days of not moving, afraid to be killed by a Stark Industries mortar shell, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are rescued.

### July

#### 8th

* *Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban* is published.

### December

#### 31st

* **Bern 2000**: Tony Stark goes to a New Year's Eve party in Bern, Switzerland, where he first meets Maya Hansen and Ho Yinsen. Disabled scientist Aldrich Killian approaches Stark to request investment in his think tank, Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.). Stark tells Killian they will meet on the building's roof to discuss the matter further, but he never keeps this promise, choosing to spend the night with Hansen instead. In her hotel room, Hansen introduces Stark to her own project: the Extremis virus