Timeline Part 11: The Eighties(1980-1989)

## **1970's-1980's**

The newly-regenerated Third Doctor is exiled to 20th century Earth as punishment by the Time Lords indefinitely. It doesn't take. He becomes scientific advisor to UNIT and takes on (and later parts ways with) Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan on his travels into the TARDIS. The Third Doctor regenerates in this era too. As mentioned on the previous page, there is much contradictory information within the show regarding precisely when this era takes place, with various sources either placing it at time of airing (1970-1976), or 20 Minutes into the Future (approximately 1975-1983). As the evidence can be interpreted either way, it is discussed on both pages. (*Doctor Who*)

Over this period the entity known as Jones develops a close personal relationship with James Eglamore (*Gunnerkrigg Court*).

## **1980**

**January 1:** Trevor McPhee is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the third time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He attempts to bond with his 19-year-old son Mark. His ex-wife Theresa's second husband Ray Carter succeeds in recording his disappearance on Super 8 when he is abducted by the aliens for the fourth time (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**January 22:** Tim Barnes is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**February 12-14:** A lunatic dressed as a miner kills people to prevent a small town's Valentine dance (*My Bloody Valentine*).

**February 14:** Owen Harper is born (*Torchwood*).

**February 16:** The serial killer Jerome Horowitz murders his first victim, Cindy Vetterman, as she did not come to his 21st birthday party the day before. In two alternate timelines, he is prevented from doing so. He is killed by Dr. Theresa Givens in the first timeline and by FBI Agent Jamie Pratt in the second timeline (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**February 26:** Sheldon and Missy Cooper are born to Mary and George Cooper. Mary gives birth at a Walmart in Galveston, Texas (*The Big Bang Theory*).

**Spring:** A group of teenagers connected to a child's death six years before are killed during prom. (*Prom Night (1980)*)

Ray Finkle graduates from Stetson University as an honors student, after a prestigious college football career making two NCAA Division 1 records: one for most points in a season, and one for distance (*Ace Ventura*).

**March 1:** Ron Weasley is born to Molly and Arthur Weasley (*Harry Potter*).

**March 11:** Birth of Sean Matsuda in Brazil. He would practice basketball and martial arts as a teenager, emulating Ken Masters in style (*Street Fighter III*).

**March 16/May 28:** Birth of Nanase Mizukami, younger sister of Kairi and Holuto, in Japan. She would be trained in the traditional fighting style of her family. (*Street Fighter EX*)(Based on online sources. She could be younger.)

**March 25:** The Wilmarth Foundation nukes Cthylla, offspring of Cthulhu. Cthylla survives, but a psychic assault from R'lyeh is sent in retaliation, destroying Miskatonic University (*The Transition of Titus Crow*).

**April 15:** Samantha "Sam" Jones is born (*Eighth Doctor Adventures*).

**April 21:** A mysterious fog brings terror to Antonio Bay (*The Fog*).

**May 18:** Ian Curtis of Joy Division dies (Real Life, *24-Hour Party People*, *Control*).

Mount St. Helens erupts (Real Life) because of SCP 76-2 (SCP Foundation)

Around this time, Professor Marcus Irving drops out of contact with his sisters. (*Back to the Future*)

**May:** Fifty years after he was struck by lightning and killed while playing golf in 1930, Peterson is revived by a team of surgeons. He is given the designation Single-O as this is duiring a trend where names have been replaced with letters and numbers(*Just Imagine*).

**June 7:** Steve Jablonski is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

**June 10:** Vuc Andric is born. (*Chuck*)

**June 13:** In an alternate timeline in which the massacre at Camp Crystal Lake was delayed by a year due to the trip by the would be victims being put off by one year(i.e. the Rebootverse). A group of teenaged camp counsellors are brutally murdered during the renovation of summer camp Camp Crystal Lake. This is revealed to be the work of Pamela Voorhees, a former counsellor at the camp whose son Jason drowned there 22 years earlier. Pamela is killed by a surviving victim, who claims Jason is still alive and lurking somewhere nearby. The camp is nicknamed Camp Blood by the nearby town (*Friday the 13th (1980)*).

**June 16:** A St. Bernard named Cujo catches rabies. He starts attacking people the following month (*Cujo*).

**June 20:** Sam Beckett leaps into Katie McBain, a teenage girl who has just been raped, in Mill Valley, California. He is there to ensure that Katie's rapist Kevin Wentworth, the son of a prominent local family, is brought to justice (*Quantum Leap*).

**June 28:** A small-town school organizes a graduation dance for the first time since 1945, awakening a killer's wrath (*The Prowler*).

**Between April and June:** Birth of Yang Dong to Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining (deceased). Ye and her daughter go to live with the Qi family for six months (*The Three-Body Problem*).

**July 31:** Harry Potter is born to James and Lily Evans Potter (*Harry Potter*).

**August 13:** In the alternate timeline with a delayed Camp Crystal Lake massacre, Two months after the original deaths at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice Hardy is murdered in her home by an unnamed assailant (*Friday the 13th Part 2*).

**August 17:** In Australia, Azaria Chamberlain, a baby girl, is eaten by a dingo. The story becomes well-known, even joked about by the media (Real Life).

**August 19:** The spaceship transporting NASA astronauts Colonel Alan Virdon and Major Peter J. Burke encounters a time warp while approaching Alpha Centauri. The ship travels forward to 3085, where they discover that Earth is ruled by intelligent apes (*Planet of the Apes*).

**September 28:** Demona retrieves the Praying Gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral, and slays the current Hunter, Charles Canmore, in the process. Canmore is survived by his three children Jason, Robyn, and Jon. (*Gargoyles*)

**September:** LN-18 and J-21 are married (*Just Imagine*).

**Before October:** The time displaced Battlestar *Galactica* and its fleet arrive at Earth, and are impressed by its advanced technology, helping to warn them of the threat of the Cylons (*Galactica 1980*)(In the source material, Earth was actually underprepared and so the Galactica helped out, here due to the presence of advanced technology and superheroes as well as having thwarted other alien invasions, the Earth is well defended).

**October 8:** Edwin Garrett disappears (*The 4400*).

**October 15:** After showing him several inactive versions of the implants that the aliens place in the frontal lobes of their test subjects, Dr. Chet Wakeman tells Eric Crawford that they have finally found an active one after cutting open the heads of six people. He demonstrates the harmful effects of the implant on a soldier in an isolation room. The soldier is driven insane within seconds and kills himself by banging his head repeatedly on the glass (*Taken*).

**October 16:** Tara Maclay is born (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

**October 17:** Jane Nance disappears (*The 4400*).

**October 19:** Jacob Clarke returns to his childhood home of Lubbock, Texas to visit his mother Sally, who is dying of cancer, and introduce her to his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa. This is the first time that Jacob has seen Sally since his elder half-siblings Tom and Becky faked his death on January 4, 1959 and brought him to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. Tom tells Jacob that he has come to the conclusion that his father John was a soldier who was injected with psychotropic drugs and Jacob developed abilities as a result. Jacob is less than convinced. To ease Sally's suffering as she dies, Jacob creates an image of John from her memories. Tom is finally convinced that John was an alien, noting that it is ironic that the country's leading debunker has a half-alien half-brother. (*Taken*)

Using a FBR(FBI) aging program, Dr. Chet Wakeman creates an image of Jesse Keys' probable current appearance and distributes it to the UFO project's field agents around the country (*Taken*).

**October 20:** Birth of Lilith Aensland. She was created from energy drawn from the succubus Morrigan Aensland and is more-or-less a clone of her. She would gain her own succubus body and powers, becoming Morrigan's "little sister". (*Darkstalkers*)(Date given. She is otherwise estimated to be close in age to Baby Bonnie Hood. )

**October 21:** The paramedic Jesse Keys receives a report of a car accident involving college students in Morgan's Junction, Missouri. While there, he sees an image of the carny that frightened him as a child and is abducted by the aliens for the first time in more than a decade. He is returned to the same spot approximately three hours later. Both his wife Amelia and nine-year-old son Charlie are concerned about him as he appears to be scared of something. That night, he notices the imprint of an alien hand on his stomach. He returns to Morgan's Junction and finds a glowing green circle in the wheatfield of the local farmer Luke Reynolds (*Taken*).

**October 29:** Eric Crawford tells his wife Julie and ten-year-old daughter Mary that they are moving to Maine. He does not tell them that it is because the numerous tourists camping out in the desert near Groom Lake make it almost impossible for the UFO project to do its work (*Taken*).

While he is at home alone, Jesse Keys sees bright lights coming through the window and believes that he is about to be abducted. He goes outside and starts shouting, telling the aliens to leave his family alone. In the confusion, he pushes someone to the ground. It turns out that the lights were from his wife Amelia's car and the person that he pushed was Charlie. The entire family is shaken by the incident. After ten years of marriage, Jesse finally confesses to Amelia that he has been abducted by aliens multiple times and his apparent tumor is an implant that they placed in his head. Amelia believes that it is all in his mind, a symptom of post-traumatic stress due to his service in the Sakrhan(Vietnam) War, and convinces him to see a doctor for Charlie's sake (*Taken*).

**October 30:** Tom Clarke appears on television to refute his previous claims that stories of alien abductions and flying saucers were nothing more than a conspiracy. When the interviewer asks him why he has gone from a debunker to a believer, he says that he has personal information but does not elaborate. His half-brother Jacob is concerned that Tom will reveal his alien heritage to the world while Eric Crawford is curious as to what changed his mind on the issue. (*Taken*).

In the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, the neurosurgeon Dr. Franklin Traub tells Jesse Keys and his wife Amelia that the implant is in fact a metallic deposit caused by exposure to unusual chemicals and that it can be dispersed using ultrasound therapy. Jesse is not convinced but he nevertheless agrees to the therapy as he does not want to run the risk of hurting Charlie. He warns Amelia that the UFO project may be looking for him, not realizing that Dr. Traub is one of their field agents. Based on the age progression sketch that he previously received, Traub tells Dr. Chet Wakeman that he has found Jesse Keys (*Taken*).

**Before October 31:** In the absence of her parents, Harold and Jean, Lindsay Weir hosts a keg party (*Freaks and Geeks*).

**October 31:** Two Cylon agents attempt to transmit Earth's location to their fleet but they are stopped by Troy and Dillon (*Galactica 1980*).

Charlie Keys dresses as Dark Laser(Darth Vader, who here is a villain from Cosmic Wars, due to Darth Vader actually existing). He gets into a fight with a boy named Alan Holmes after he calls his father Jesse nuts but it is broken up by his mother Amelia and an apparent passerby, who turns out to be an agent of the UFO project (*Taken*).

Sam Weir has a miserable Halloween, which culminates in him being (accidentally) egged by his elder sister Lindsay (*Freaks and Geeks*).

**October:** Zombie outbreak in Maricela, put down by Brazilian army. Army also apparently kills surviving natives in the area (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

**November 1:** Dr. Chet Wakeman goes to the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota to see Jesse Keys, who has been heavily sedated by Dr. Franklin Traub, for himself (*Taken*).

**November 3:** Eric Crawford travels to Dallas, Texas to talk to Becky Clarke in the hope of finding out why her elder brother Tom has become a believer in aliens after spending years debunking stories about them. He tells her everything that has happened since the Roswell crash, admitting that he can't think of any other way to find the answers that he seeks. That night, Eric and Becky take his private plane to Groom Lake, Nevada and he shows her the alien bodies found in Roswell in 1947. There is a strong mutual attraction between them and they begin an affair (*Taken*).

**November 4:**

Eunice Danforth makes a deal with Ed Meese to fix the election by using the Brainalyzer to pump MacGyver's brain(literally) into Johnyn Cyclops's(Ronald Reagan's) body, thereby quadrupling his I.Q. (*Eerie, Indiana*), Johnyn Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) defeats Douglas Dillman( Jimmy Carter) in the U.S. presidential election (Real Life).

In an [Alternate Universe] James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to a sixth term as U.S. President (*Sliders*).

In an alternate universe, Captain America, after the corruption of the Monckton administration, decides to enter politics to change the system rather than abandon the Captain America identity. He forms the New Populist Party, and run in 1980. The New Populist Party candidate Captain America is elected President of the United States, defeating Douglas Dillman( Jimmy Carter) and Johnny Cyclop(Ronald Reagan)(*What If?*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Howard Stern defeats Douglas Dillman(Jimmy Carter) in the U.S. presidential election (*Sliders*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Gary Hart is elected U.S. President (*The Dark Tower*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Ernest Hollings is elected U.S. President (*The Dark Tower*).

On Earth 4, Richard Monckton(Richard Nixon) is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President (*Watchmen*).

In an alternate universe, U.S. President John Pope(Jon Glenn) is re-elected ("Hillary Orbits Venus").

**November 7:** After they have sex in a motel in Dallas, Eric Crawford asks Becky Clarke to leave her husband Ronnie and move to Maine with him. He says that he plans to tell his wife Julie about them. After Eric drives away, Becky is approached by her brother Tom. He accuses her of being a selfish little girl who is willing to walk on their mother Sally's grave to get away from Ronnie. When he asks her if she has told Eric that their younger half-brother Jacob is still alive, Becky admits that she hasn't. Tom sees this as evidence that she does not trust Eric any more than he does (*Taken*).

**November 8:** Jesse Keys realizes that "Dr. Patterson" is an agent of the UFO project as he is aware that the little men that he sees are grey without being told. He renders the agent unconscious and escapes. The aliens create an image of Jesse in order to lure Charlie to Morgan's Junction, Missouri so that they can abduct him. Although the real Jesse arrives and tries his best to protect his son, they are nevertheless both abducted. This is the first time that Charlie is abducted and the last time that Jesse is. When they are returned to Earth, Jesse is suffering brain damage from the implant. After he is brought to hospital, the implant falls out of his nose. He warns his wife Amelia that the project will be looking for Charlie from now on. Amelia and Charlie manage to escape the agents who arrive at the hospital and go into hiding but Jesse remains behind. He soon enters a catatonic state. (*Taken*)

Becky Clarke considers leaving her husband Ronnie for Eric Crawford but she can't go through with it as she realizes that she doesn't really trust him and that she doesn't want to leave her children Kim and Andy. Eric is heartbroken as his relationship with Becky represented his last, best chance to become a better man (*Taken*).

That night, a group of UFO enthusiasts led by Becky and her brother Tom block State Highway 93 in the Mojave Desert so that they can inspect the trucks transporting materiel from Groom Lake. They correctly believe that the trucks contain the bodies from the Roswell crashsite. Although Eric Crawford does not allow them to inspect the trucks, they see the crashed ship being transported by three helicopters across the desert. To Eric's irritation, Tom says, "Still don't know how to fly it, do you?" Another, much larger and fully operational alien ship then appears overhead. The crashed ship is reactivated and enters the mothership. The aliens also retrieve the bodies but leave the artifact found at the crashsite behind (*Taken*).

**November 15:** Having lost all of the proof of the existence of the aliens and the threat that they pose to Earth, the UFO project is shut down by the Senate Appropriations Committee after 33 years in operation (*Taken*).

**December 6:** Birth of Ibuki to a village of ninjas in Japan. She would be raised as a ninja (*Street Fighter III* )(As originally depicted, Ibuki is a senior at high school and approaching graduation. Her personal aspirations include entry into a university.)

**December 8:** Ron Nasty(John Lennon) is shot dead by Holden Caulfield(Mark David Chapman) outside the Dakota Building in Metropolis(New York City)(Real Life) The assassination is influenced by Huitzilin, a supernatural Aztec entity, for its own purposes (*The Left-Handed Hummingbird*). Allegedly, Caulfield was motivated by the book, Avalon Landing(*Finding Forrester*). Upon hearing the news, a young Rick Castle doesn't leave his room for a week (*Castle*).

Kim Karlsen's friends, Gunnar, Sebastian, and Ola, all react by going to the same fountain in Oslo, but at different times. Seb takes up studying and becomes a teacher, Ola takes up hair dressing, and Gunnar also takes up studying, becoming an archaeologist. Kim lives in seclusion, but writes post cards to his friends. (Second sequel to *Beatles*)

**December 14:** Birth of Faith Lehane in Boston (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

**December 31:** Bunch of med-students are killed in a New Year's Eve masquerade party on a train. Perpetrator turns out to be disgruntled former student who was victim of a nasty prank short time ago (*Terror Train*).

**December:** Some surviving zombies from Maricela cause a subsequent outbreak in Juruti (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

**Late 1980:** Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong return to live at Red Coast Base (*The Three-Body Problem*).

Rebecca Chambers is born (*Resident Evil*).

Alyssa Jones breaks her hymen by falling off a fence post at age ten (*Chasing Amy*).

Jennifer Walters is wounded by gunfire and her cousin Bruce Banner gives her a blood transfusion. As a result she becomes She-Hulk (Marvel Comics).

Randal Graves pisses all over the bathroom floor at school (*Clerks: The Animated Series*).

The Blues Brothers raise money to save their orphanage, breaking several laws in the process and being arrested(*The Blues Brothers*).

Private investigator Thomas Magnum begins operating out of author Robin Masters's estate (*Magnum, P.I.*).

Sue Sylvester is born (*Glee*).

Nicholas Angel's Uncle Derek, a sergeant from the Met, gives him a pedal police car. Nicholas spends several weeks riding around in it and stopping the other kids for things like littering, and although he loses many friends, he comes to realize that he wants to become a policeman—officer. Nicholas later discovers that Uncle Derek was selling drugs on the side, and that the pedal police car was likely bought using that money. He left the car to rust but never lost his interest in the law (*Hot Fuzz*).

In the alternate universe where the Black Death killed 99% of Europe, the Long War between China and Islam finally ends (*The Years of Rice and Salt*).

Britain is swept by a wave of mysterious defenestrations, followed by sightings of an awkwardly-flying superhero. Stonehenge is spotted at a suspiciously Italian coastal cliff. (*Puma Man*)

A Serial Killer with Mommy Issues scalps women in Metropolis(New York)(*Maniac! (1980)*).

The Horrifying truth about Motel Hello's delicious smoked meat is uncovered (*Motel Hell*).

Would-be astronaut Kazuya Oki is turned into a cyborg (codename Super-1) by the International Space Development Program. However, before he can head into space, the launch base is attacked by the villainous Dogma Empire, and Oki trains in the martial arts before fighting Dogma as a Kamen Rider (*Kamen Rider Super-1*).

Cristoph Kuyler assassinates a bank bresident in Paris. While trying to escape, he runs into Duncan MacLeod. Duncan thought himself retired from the Game and did not carry a sword at the time. He has to evade both Kuyler and a number of approaching police officers. Duncan manages to board a Bateau Mouche, impressing Tessa Noël in the process. Duncan and Tessa would go on to form a romantic relationship that would last for the rest of her life (*Highlander: The Series*).

In an [Alternate Timeline] Earth is a lifeless, windswept rock wiped clean of all life following the return of Sutekh in 1911 and his corresponding rampage. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith briefly visit here to see the consequences of not intervening to prevent Sutekh from returning. Sarah Jane claims to have come from 1980 but here she was lying(As discussed previously, the show is notoriously inconsistent regarding whether this period takes roughly at time of broadcast (mid-1970s) or 20 Minutes into the Future, but the information is provided here for sake of reference)(*Doctor Who*).

Richard Collier becomes infatuated with Elise McKenna, eight years after her death. He travels back in time to June 27, 1912 to meet her in person (*Somewhere in Time*).

Having spent the last nine years failing to convince anyone of the existence of aliens(well specifically the ones who abducted him), Nicholas Ballard has a mental breakdown and checks himself into a mental institution in Oregon (*Stargate SG-1*).

A car crash leaves Mamoru Chiba both with amnesia and orphaned (*Sailor Moon*).

Kate Beckett is born(She's thirty-one in "Rise", set in 2011)(*Castle*).

Birth of Katherine Brewster (*Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines*).

Kevin Smith takes on the Mafia in Miami, and has to kill the man he loves (*killer7*).

Kiyone Masaki dies in her sleep. Tennyo leaves the household due to her resemblance to Kiyone. Noboyuki and Katsuhito are given instructions to use a script she wrote should Tenchi ever ask why she died (*Tenchi Muyo!*).

Billy Butcher is suspended from school for talking back to and cursing at a teacher (*The Boys*).

The Ramones help a fan and her schoolmates fight a rock 'n' roll hating principal (*Rock 'n' Roll High School*).

Henry Hassel returns home to discover his wife in the arms of another man. Furious, he builds a time machine so that he can kill her grandfather in the past (*The Men Who Murdered Mohammed*).

Life expectancy has increased substantially (*Alfred Hitchcock Presents*).

Metropolis(New York) is a Mega City with multi-lane elevated roadways, suspension bridges hung between towering megastructures, and personal aircraft buzzing from building to building. Transoceanic airliners are dirigibles. People have numbers instead of names and babies are readily procurable from vending machines. There are manned missions to Mars (*Just Imagine*).

Lisa Clarke begins having dreams about Charlie Keys (*Taken*).

In an alternate universe, Lex Luthor is born (*Smallville*).

Samuel Bernard is born (*Supergirl (2015)*).

Aaron Rivera (later Shore) is born in Texas (*Designated Survivor*).

A group of Thai Catholic school students investigate a decades-old suicide, awakening a Vengeful Ghost in the process (*303 Fear/Faith/Revenge*).

Dustin Henderson and his family move to Hawkins, Indiana. He soon befriends Mike Wheeler, Will Byers and Lucas Sinclair (*Stranger Things*).

Dominick Hide, a time traveler from 2130, is assigned to observe the transport systems of London in 1980. He decides to break the rules and land his flying saucer in order to search for his great-great-grandfather, also named Dominick Hide, as the records indicate that he was living in London at this time. In the midst of his search, Dominick meets a young clothes shop owner named Jane Winters and they soon begin a relationship in spite of the fact that he has a wife named Ava in 2130. They have sex and Jane becomes pregnant as a result. The child Dominick, Jr. is Dominick's great-grandfather, meaning that he is his own great-great-grandfather whom he had been looking for when he met Jane (*The Flipside of Dominick Hide*).

Holly Wheeler is born (*Stranger Things*).

Aries, Neleus and Pelius are born on M7G-677 in the Pegasus galaxy (*Stargate Atlantis*).

Kevin Drayton meets his future wife Carol in a night school class (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Harvey Goodman is born (*Star Cops*).

Meredith Quill, dates a strange but charming man who reveals to her that he came from outer space (he is in fact a manifestation of Ego the Living Planet). They would eventually go on to have a child together (*Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*).

Salvador Marti begins working for the time ministry as a field agent. That same day he meets the woman who would later become his wife (*The Ministry of Time*)

Amandine Poulain is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her (*Amélie*).

## **1981**

**January 1:** Adrian Mole starts writing his diary (*The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾*).

**January 6:** Birth of Hotaru Tomae to Socuihi and Keiko Tomae (*Sailor Moon*)

**January 19:** Buffy Anne Summers is born to Joyce and Hank Summers in Los Angeles (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

**January 20:** Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States (Real Life).

In an alternate timeline where Captain America won the US Presidential Election in 1980. After being inaugurated as the 40th U.S. President, Captain America reveals his civilian identity of Steve Rogers to the world. Immediately afterwards, he is the subject of an assassination attempt. Over the objections of the Secret Service, President America captures the would-be assassin himself (*What If?*).

**January:** Brad Taylor is born (*Home Improvement*).

**February 28:** While playing baseball with his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa in Los Altos, California, Jacob Clarke collapses. His body is beginning to fail due to his half-alien status. Jacob gives Lisa the star shaped pendant that belonged to his mother Sally and tells her that he loves her every day and twice on Sundays (*Taken*).

**February:** Sheena is born (*Play for Tomorrow*).

**Spring:** Laura Ramstead dies of exhaustion during a high school track race (*Graduation Day*).

**March 1:** In Bakersfield, California, the nine-year-old Charlie Keys is abducted by the aliens while his mother Amelia is buying a pizza. When he is returned several minutes later, Amelia finds that he has three circular impressions behind his left ear (*Taken*).

**March 8:** John Shaffner is born (*The 4400*).

**March 17:** Jacob Clarke dies. (*Taken*)

**March 30:** John Hinkley, Jr. attempts to assassinate U.S. President Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) in Washington (Real Life). A Soviet time traveller named Yuri prevents the assassination of Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan); unfortunately for him, this causes the dissolution of the USSR and the erasure of his time travel agency from history. He decides to change careers and work for the Time Repair Agency, fixing paradoxes (*Chrononauts*).

**April 7:** Cassandra Schofield is born (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**April 12:** The *Columbia* is launched into orbit, inaugurating the Space Shuttle program (Real Life). The ten-year-old Cameron Mitchell and his father Frank watch the launch on television in the Veteran's Hospital (*Stargate SG-1*).

**April 28:** Kevin Arthur disappears (*The 4400*).

**May 4:** Victor Rutledge dies (*The 4400*).

**May 5:** Paige Pratt dies. (*Cold Case*)

**Summer:** A fencing-masked killer avenges a high school track star's death from overexertion (*Graduation Day*).

**June 7:** Jack and Johanna Kimball are murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**June 16:** Amy Barrett is born (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**June:** Peter Tracey receives a suspended sentence for breaking and entering (*K-9 and Company*).

**July 27:** Alexia Ashford appointed senior researcher at Umbrella Rockfort Facility, aged 10 (*Resident Evil – Code: Veronica*).

Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton are married for the first time. (*Coronation Street*)

**July:** Death of Donnie Truant (*House of Leaves*).

**August 18:** Christopher Ewing is born (*Dallas*).

**September 9/December 12:** Birth of twin brothers Yun and Yang in Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, the two would be raised by a grandfather who trains them in kung fu (*Street Fighter III*).

**September 17:** Ami Kwean disappears (*The 4400*).

**September 18:** Birth of Elena in Kenya. She would be raised as a fighting princess, her favourite fighting style being capoeira. (*Street Fighter III*)(Said to be 17 years old in 1998. )

Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is born (*Chuck*).

**September 19:** Toshiko Sato is born. (*Torchwood*)

**September 30:** Sam Beckett leaps into Linda Bruckner, a single mother with three children, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is there to prevent Linda's son Kevin from disappearing. As Linda's daughter Teresa is only five years old, she can see not only Al but Sam as he is really is. Al tells her that they are angels (*Quantum Leap*).

**October 28:** SCP Foundation apprehends a many-voiced predator specimen (SCP Foundation).

**October 31:** James and Lily Potter are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort. The one-year-old Harry is also attacked, with an instant-death spell for which there is no counter, but survives through his mother's love protecting him and causes Voldemort to be defeated. Harry, now called "The Boy Who Lived", is placed into hiding with his only remaining blood relatives, a Muggle family (*Harry Potter*).

**December:** Sarah Jane Smith meets K-9. The two of them prevent Brendan Richards from being sacrificed by the Cult of Hecate in Moreton Harwood (*K-9 and Company*).

the covert organization SHADO, essentiallythe successor to UNIT, repels an alien invasion(*UFO*).

First zombie created by the T-virus(at least in its more pure form, the 1978 outbreak being mostly a Trioxin variant). This version of the virus has a 90% infection rate; research begins to generate a variant with 100% infection (*Resident Evil*).

The Kitty Pryde from a future 2015, dominated by the Sentinels and Skynet, is sent back to this time and helps the X-Men prevent the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, preventing that future from coming to pass in the main timeline, though it continues to exist in its own universe(Marvel Comics).

The Fourth Doctor saves the universe from total collapse (and the Master), and regenerates (*Doctor Who*).

Ralph Hinkley is given a super-suit by an alien and becomes a superhero (*The Greatest American Hero*).

American David Kessler becomes a werewolf and terrorizes London(*An American Werewolf in London*).

A horribly burned man, simply known as "Cropsy", is released from the hospital and starts a killing spree (*The Burning*).

Four teens attend a carnival in Florida and are stuck in a darkride with a deformed killer (*The Funhouse*).

A bunch of teens are harassed by murderous rednecks in Oregon (*Just Before Dawn*).

James Horton is assigned as the Watcher of the Kurgan (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Diligent Aperture Science engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver(meant to ensure choking) and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives(depriving terminally ill children of a last wish normally provided by the Genie Foundation). The company announces products related to the research in a lavish, televised ceremony. These products immediately become wildly unpopular. After a very public string of choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on "Tier 3", the "man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain". The committee is quickly and permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to continue research on the "Portal" and "Heimlich Counter-Maneuver" projects in secret. (*Portal*)

It's discovered that a Ghost Town in Texas has a ghost killer in it, being the first case of what becomes known as the Ghostface Killer (*Scream*).

Bethany discovers she's pregnant and wants to abort the child. Brett Waits threatens to leave her if she does so, and so she has the abortion performed by a medical student and claims it was a miscarriage. Brett stays with her and consoles her during her recovery. He also drops out of school due to his fear of blood and gets a job selling shoes in Monticello (*Dogma: A Screenplay*).

Birth of Buffy Summers in Los Santos( Los Angeles)(*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

A fallen building from the flying city of Columbia is discovered in the Alps (*BioShock Infinite*).

Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines (*The Boys*).

Six nuclear reactors in North America and Europe are taken over by terrorists on orders from nuclear physicist Dr. Murik for ransom. James Bond foils this(*Licence Renewed*).

Birth of Tru Davies (*Tru Calling*).

Futuro, a supervillain, travels back in time from this year to the Stone Age to commit a crime spree in Bedrock. Returning his native time, Futuro's finally stopped by a time-travelling Captain Caveman, Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble (*The Flintstone Comedy Show*; year taken from its original airdate).

In an alternate universe, A dimensional rift called "The Tear" opens over Earth, causing "The Changing", a series of disasters that turns the world into "an untamed planet of ruined cities, mutated creatures, man-eating plants and powerful magic " (*Wasteland 2010*).

Detective Ray Holt single-handedly apprehends "The Disco Strangler", a notorious serial killer terrorising Metropolis( New York City). The case becomes legendary among the MPD( NYPD) (*Brooklyn Nine-Nine*)( The events are shown in flashback during the pilot episode, and dialogue places it during 1981. Later dialogue suggests that the case has since become famous, at least among police officers).

First virus that infects floppy disks (*Digital: A Love Story* and Real Life).

Sid Fairgate dies (*Knots Landing*).

Simon Locke is killed in a motorcycle accident. He had been going much too fast because he needed to clear his head as he was afraid of success and his relationship with Andrea Fields becoming serious (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Bryce Larkin is born in Connecticut (*Chuck*).

The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy (*Star Trek: Generations*). It is possibly connected to the rift.

Dominick Hide, Jr. is born in Portobello Road, London (*The Flipside of Dominick Hide*).

Debbie Cunningham is born (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Kevin and Carol Drayton are married (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

The New Zealander aviatrix Louisa Iredale Wentworth disappears while trying to recreate a famous flight. She is survived by her son Tama. On the same day, Jo Tiegan is born in Australia. In 1995, this causes the Old Man to speculate that Jo may be a reincarnation of Louisa or possibly a blood relative because they were the only ones who could see through the mirror that allowed people to travel between 1919 and 1995 (*Mirror, Mirror*).

Arthur Fleck kills three Wayne Enterprises businessmen in the subways of Gotham. Mayoral candidate Willis Todd(Jason Todd's father, replaces Thomas Wayne in the source material). condemns the act and riots break out in the city. (*Joker (2019)*) In an alternate universe, this event occurs with Thomas Wayne.

## **1982**

**January 1:** Laszlo Mahnovski is born (*Chuck*).

**January 7:** Laurel Bryce disappears (*The 4400*).

**January 27:** Sam Beckett leaps into a sensationalist talk show host named Roberto Gutierrez in Destiny, New Mexico. He is there to prevent Roberto's fellow reporter Jani Eisenberg from being killed (*Quantum Leap*).

**February 8:** Randy Taylor is born (*Home Improvement*).

**Early 1982:** Sam Butcher suffers a stroke, losing the use of his arm. A few days later, he hits Carol so hard she loses an eye. Billy Butcher attempts to kill his father, is stopped by Lenny. Billy decides to join the Royal Marines (*The Boys*).

**Spring:** Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines (*The Boys*).

**April 18:** Iris Felice is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**May 10:** John Constantine Jr is born (*Constantine*)(This is specifically John Constantine from the 2014 TV series).

**May 14:** In Woburn, Massachusetts, a number of citizens whose children had developed or died from leukemia filed a civil lawsuit against two corporations, W. R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods. Grace's subsidiary, Cryovac, and Beatrice were suspected of contaminating the groundwater by improperly disposing of trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (perc) and other industrial solvents at their facilities in Woburn near water wells G and H. Jan Schlichtmann is the attorney chosen to represent them. The case would last to 1990 (*A Civil Action* and real life).

**May 21:** Billy Butcher is assigned to the Royal Marines at San Carlos, and gains a commendation when he heroically shoots down a Mandoran( Argentinian) plane during the Cascara War(Falklands War). (*The Boys*)

**May:** Sarah Walker is born (*Chuck*).

Lindsay Chase is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*),

The 22nd Century time traveler Pyrus Bonnington is assigned to observe street crime and violence in London in 1982. In the process of doing so, he witnesses a princess being kidnapped and lands his flying saucer to render assistance. However, he is soon distracted by the vibrancy of this era. After getting drunk in a local pub, Pyrus tries to assault a police officer and is arrested. After he fails to return to his native time of December 2132, his instructor Dominick Hide is sent after him. While there, Dominick makes use of the opportunity to see his former lover Jane Winters and their son Dominick, Jr., who is also his great-grandfather (*Another Flip for Dominick*).

**June 11/12:** Battle of Mount Harriet. Billy Butcher's unit takes a fortified position from the Mandoran( Argentinians), but all except Butcher are killed in the effort. Butcher himself is seriously injured, and sits out the rest of the war in a hospital bed (*The Boys*).

**June 18:** The astronaut Jimmy Hapgood is sent on a mission to Saturn but he goes off course (*Lost in Space*).

**June 28:** Daffodil Baxter disappears. (*The 4400*)

**July 11:** Italy defeats West Germany 3-1 in the World Cup (Real Life).

The Threllips attempt to invade Earth but they are defeated by the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**July 12:** In an [Alternate Universe] the entire population of Earth disappears (*Infinite Worlds*).

**July 14:** Ryan Freel disappears (*The 4400*).

**July 28:** By this time, Johnny Truant has moved in with his first foster family (*House of Leaves*).

**July 30:** Darren Piersahl is born (*The 4400*).

**July:** Stan Pines locks the electron carpet in a secret room in the Mystery Shack (*Gravity Falls*).

**Early August:** Johnny Truant totally flips out at his foster parents, necessitating a move to a new family (*House of Leaves*).

**October 2:** Fourteen-year-old Marty McFly meets Dr. Emmett Brown while attempting to take an interocitor tube from Brown's lab. Brown hires Marty on as an assistant (*Back to the Future*).

**October 26:** A peaceful band of aliens known as the Asogians visit California to collect plant samples, only to flee when authorities arrive. A single castaway is left behind, and is discovered by an Earth boy named Elliot (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**October 27:** No one believes Elliot's claims of having seen a "goblin." That evening, Elliot lures the alien into his house (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**October 28:** Elliot pretends to be sick so he can stay home with the alien he found. He introduces the alien to his brother and sister (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**October 29:** The alien drinks beer, and a psychic bond causes Elliot to get drunk. Elliot ends up in the principal's office after freeing his science class's frogs. The alien learns how to talk; Elliot names the alien "ET." (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**October 30:** ET gathers parts for his communicator. Government agents begin monitoring Elliot's house (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**October 31:** The Silver Shamrock mask company enacts a plan to kill American children on Halloween with devices implanted in their masks as part of a ritual to summon Sam Hain. The ritual is haulted when the conspiracy is discovered and many networks pull the commercials, but several children are killed(*Halloween III: Season of the Witch*).

Using Halloween as a cover, ET and Elliot fly to a secluded area in the forest, set up ET's communicator, and attempt to "phone home." (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*)(It's entirely possible that the children helping ET were saved from the Silver Shamrock Mask plot due to being too occupied to be watching television and were also not wearing Silver Shamrock masks).

**October:** The headquarters of the government agency called "The Shop" are burned to the ground by pyrokinetic child Charlie McGee (*Firestarter*).

**November 1:** Elliot, getting sicker due to his psychic bond with ET, returns home after being out all night. Michael finds a dying ET and brings him home. The government quarantines their house (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**November 2:** ET revives after "dying." Elliot, Michael, and their friends return ET to his spaceship (*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*).

**November 7:** Johnny Truant is in his third foster family in as many months. His foster mother asks that his biological mother stop sending quite so many letters. (*House of Leaves*)

**November 18:** Madman Marz hunts down people in North Sea Cottages, a camp for gifted children (*Madman*).

**Fall:** A high school football player named Rico is sidelined during a big game. His team loses, and he spends the rest of his life thinking that the team would have made it to — and won — the state championship if his coach had just let him play. (*Napoleon Dynamite*)( Rico's "time machine" in 2004 is already set to 1982 when Napoleon tries to use it, and it's implied that Rico had already tried to time travel earlier on).

**December 3:** J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing are married for the second time (*Dallas*).

**December 24:** Dante Ferelli disappears (*The 4400*).

A group of three archaeologists arrive at the ruins of the parts of Animaria that didn't lift off into the sky. One is transformed into a leader-class Org and murders the other two, leaving their child to be raised by a local aboriginal tribe. The half-human org is sealed (*Power Rangers Wild Force*).

An Arendellian( Norwegian) research team in Antarctica digs up an alien spacecraft, unleashing a creature capable of absorbing and mimicking other lifeforms. This creature later terrorizes an American Antartic research station(*The Thing (2011)* prequel and *The Thing (1982)*).

The Fifth Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka rescue a supersonic jet sent back in time 140 million years (*Doctor Who*).

The cosmic being the Grandmaster challenges Death to a game over the soul of his brother, the Collector who was killed by the cosmic being Korvac.Each chooses 12 heroes from Earth. If the Grandmaster wins the Collector will be ressurected. If Death wins, the Collector remains dead(unlike in the source material the teams do not use only Marvel characters but superheroes from DC as well due to the shared universe, though usually split into 6 Marvel and 6 DC on each team. The Grandmaster's team, led by Captain America and Superman, defeat Death's team led by Iron man and Batman. Death reveals that for the Collector to live again, someone must take his place and the Grandmaster accepts the Collector's fate (Marvel Comics, specifically Contest of Champions)

Captain Mar-Vell contracts cancer from exposure to the toxic Compund 13. Despite attempts by multiple friends and past enemies, including the alien Skrull, Mar-Vell eventually dies from the disease (Marvel Comics)(Cancer ITTL is a disease that impacts each species differently, this is why there was difficulty in finding a cure that would work on Mar-Vell's kree biology and also why the cure when it was finished too late, wouldn't have worked on humans).

Michael Knight and KITT, a sentient car, begin fighting crime (*Knight Rider*).

A suburban family in California deal with powerful supernatural forces in their home (*Poltergeist*).

Shellshocked Sarkhan(Vietnam) veteran John Rambo is antagonized by a small town police force, leading to him becoming a fugitive after an accidental murder(*First Blood*).

On Earth 3, similar events play out, except possibly earlier(in 1972), however John Rambo snaps and brutally murders many people, forcing the Sheriff to die a heroic death to stop his rampage(*First Blood*, specifically the original novel. Which fits well into the Mirror Universe, due to essentially swapping the hero and villain roles already when contrasted to the film).

Donald Salzer gets a promotion in the Watchers' hierarchy. He becomes the Head Historical Researcher for Western Europe (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Birth of Kyle Travers in Metro City(basically a nickname for Metropolis). He would grow up to become a professional street fighter, fighting in underground matches to make ends meet (*Final Fight: Streetwise*).

Mental Institute doctor is targeted for death by his patients who are convinced that he killed their previous doctor (*Alone in the Dark (1982)*).

Feminist journalist Deborah Ballin is attacked in her home by woman-hating psychopath (*Visiting Hours*).

A Special Forces team containing Captain Jack O'Neill and Lt. Charles Kawalsky attempts to capture a Soviet spy named Boris in East Germany. It goes disastrously wrong, leading to the death of the team leader Colonel John Michaels (*Stargate SG-1*).

Robot Jones attends a human school (*Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?*)

Mass murderer Russ Thorn escapes from mental institute, crashes a slumber party (*The Slumber Party Massacre*).

Mask de Smith kills a large number of prototype Heaven Smiles in Madison Square Garden. Kun Lan's shadow begins to creep over the Killer 7 (*killer7*).

Birth of William Joseph Blazkowicz II, better known as Billy, to Arthur and Susan Blaze (*Wolfenstein 3-D*, *Commander Keen*).

A Faulty computer program causes a passenger space shuttle to change its course into the sun, forcing Ted Striker, who had previously saved an airplane in distress, to save the shuttle (*Airplane II: The Sequel*).

Mrs. Brisby enlists the help of super-intelligent rats that escaped from the labs of NIMH partly thanks to her deceased husband to move her home so that Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow doesn't destroy it with her ill son Timmy inside (*The Secret of NIMH*).

The Arcade game *Fix-it Felix Jr.* is released to arcades (*Wreck-It Ralph*)(Basically this timeline's *Donkey Kong*).

Birth of Chad to Will Navidson and Karen Green (*House of Leaves*).

Greg Mallory shows Rick Burnham the Compound V which Jonah Vogelbaum made to his specifications. Burnham has a heart attack; Mallory is empowered to draw on a generous budget to carry out anti-superhuman operations (*The Boys*).

Sam Butcher has another stroke, leaving him barely able to move (*The Boys*).

The Re-established SPECTRE attempts to take over North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with mind-control inducing ice cream (*For Special Services*).

In Prague, Hellboy battles a vampire who, according to legend, can only die when defeated in a game of cards (*Hellboy*: The Vampire of Prague).

In Yorkshire, Hellboy attempts to destroy the vampire Ilona Kakosy (*Hellboy*: The Vârcolac).

Wilson Wyler Concannon's sole movie *The Hills Run Red* is released to a handful of movie theatres, but is quickly pulled for its disturbing violence (*The Hills Run Red*).

The Los Santos( Los Angeles) Dodgers begin to experience a decline in playing quality (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Henry and Abigail Morgan celebrate their anniversary, despite the apparent difference in their physical ages (*Forever*).

A memory erasing device is invented by Fiddleford Hadron McGucket to erase memories of what he saw while working with Stanford Pines (*Gravity Falls*).

Aperture Science founder and CEO Cave Johnson names his personal assistant Caroline as his successor, orders a copy of her intelligence to be stored in his computer, and dies of moon rock poisoning (*Portal 2*).

After Jeffrey Jones falls out of a window, Phineas Bogg jumps after him and saves his life by transporting them both through time using the Omni. This begins their adventures as time travellers(*Voyagers!*).

Jock Ewing is killed in a helicopter crash in South America (*Dallas*).

In the [Alternate Universe] of Earth 30, Rembrandt Brown is killed in the Detroit Uprising against Soviet rule in the former United States (*Sliders*).

Marilyn Cuberle is born (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

Doctors Victor Ehrlich, Wayne Fiscus, Philip Chandler, Jack Morrison, Peter White, Vijay Kochar, Jacqueline Wade, Cathy Martin and Steven Kiley begin their residencies at St. Eligius (*St. Elsewhere*).

Dr. Daniel Auschlander is diagnosed with liver cancer (*St. Elsewhere*).

A madman who dismembered his mother takes body parts from women to put them back together (*Pieces*).

Simon Holmes is born (*Eerie, Indiana*).

Lysandra Aristedes and Philip Withers are born (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

On Langara, there is a major conflict involving Kelowna, Tirania and the Andari Federation in which nothing is resolved (*Stargate SG-1*).

Kathy Morgan is born (*Spellbinder*).

Cult leader Nix the Puritan is killed and buried in the desert so he can't come back (*Lord of Illusions*).

Sherry Nugil begins "waiting" for Mitch Taylor. Apparently it doesn't cross her mind how creepy this is (*Real Genius*).

## **1983**

**January 20:** Pelafina Truant writes her first letter to Johnny in a couple of months. Between now and February 14th, he runs away twice (*House of Leaves*).

**January:** Stanford Pines, the author of three journals describing the paranormal phenomena of Gravity Falls disappears into a portal after a fight with his brother Stanley Pines. Stanford's brother, Stanley, assumes his identity and seeks out the journals to try and bring him back(Stated to happen 30 years before the main series. The events take place in winter)(suppsedly, Stanford Pines met Rick Sanchez during that time according to some theories)(*Gravity Falls*)

**February 14:** Johnny Truant is in with yet another foster family, the father of which is a former marine (*House of Leaves*).

**February 17:** Alfred and Alexia Ashford discover they were created by one of Alexander's experiments (*Resident Evil – Code: Veronica*).

**March 3:** Alexander Ashford is infected with T-Veronica virus (*Resident Evil – Code: Veronica*).

**March:** Pelafina Truant tries to send some rather inappropriate letters to Johnny, is advised not to by the Director of Whalsetoe (*House of Leaves*).

**April 17:** Pelafina Truant sends Johnny a dictionary. (*House of Leaves*)

**April 24:** After witnessing the aftermath of popping a giant bubble, Lyman mysteriously disappears. There are many theories as to what happened to him to something to do with Jon's Basement, to joining the Peace Corps and disappearing, to being chained up in the wall of a haunted mansion, The official explanation seems to be that he found work as a wildlife photographer in Australia(*Garfield*).

**May 2:** Johnny Truant sends his first letter to Pelafina. A week prior to Pelafina's next letter (*House of Leaves*).

**May 9:** Pelafina Truant thanks Johnny deeply for writing to her (*House of Leaves*).

**May 18:** Yin-Li Xu disappears (*The 4400*).

**May 19:** Dana Dreamer is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**May:** Peter Morrison is born (*St. Elsewhere*).

**June 2:** Sam Beckett leaps into a hairdresser named Frank Bianca in Los Santos(Los Angeles). He is there to prevent Frank's girlfriend Laura and her nine-year-old son Kyle, who witnessed the murder of a man named Phil Hartman, from being killed (*Quantum Leap*)(Sadly it's possible Phil Hartman dies earlier ITTL).

**June 12:** The suborbital ship *Spindrift* is launched (*Land of the Giants*).

**June:** The Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster occurs, which leads to the death of the 2000 residents of Hinamizawa. and unleashes an outbreak of Hinamizawa Syndrome-related murders and atrocities among former residents of the area. Just before the Gas Disaster occurred, the body of a visiting cameraman, Jirou Tomitake, is found dead of clawing out his own throat, a local nurse, Miyo Takano, is found dead after having been incinerated in an oil barrel in the middle of the woods (strangely, a day before someone last reported meeting her), and the daughter of the local priest (who died two years prior of illness), is found dead in front of her family's shrine after having been cut open and gutted (*Higurashi: When They Cry*).

**July 1:** Birth of Makoto in Tosa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku island, Japan. Makoto would inherit the family dojo in her early teens and strive to re-establish its reputation. (*Street Fighter II*)(Said to be still 15-years-old in 1997/1998. Otherwise considered a bit younger than Ibuki and Elena).

**August 18:** Pelafina Truant has a dream about Johnny as she slips into insanity (*House of Leaves*).

**August 19:** Ianto Jones is born (*Torchwood*).

**August 22:** Oliver Knox disappears (*The 4400*).

**September 19:** In an alternate Universe, Colonel Gennady Akrimov replaces Col. Stanislav Petrov as watch officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. Colonel Petrov is re-assigned to a bunker near Odessa (*1983: Doomsday*).

**September 26:** A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Stanislov Petrov, dismisses the alert as a technical error (Real Life).

In an alternate universe, a missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Gennady Akrimov, concludes the attack is real and alerts his superiors, who order a full strike on the United States. The resulting nuclear exchange causes over 1.5 billion immediate deaths, with billions more dying in the aftermath (*1983: Doomsday*).

**September 26-28:** Johnny Truant gets into a fight at school during this time. He is physically punished by his foster father (*House of Leaves*).

**October 10:** Military barracks buildings in Beirut, Oran(Lebannon), are struck by suicide truck bombers; 241 American and 58 French service personnel are killed, 150 more are injured, some of whom later succomb to their wounds. Six civilians also perrish in the blasts (Real Life). Marine Lt. Mac Taylor is severely injured in the ensuing battle, and a comrade of his, Col. Stan Whitney, dies in his arms (*CSI: NY*).

**October 14:** Pelafina Truant receives another letter from Johnny. This puts her into very good form (*House of Leaves*).

**November 2:** Mary Winchester is killed in her home in Lawrence, Kansas, after catching Azazel giving her infant son Sam Winchester demon blood. The house burns down while her husband, John Winchester, her oldest son Dean Winchester, and Sam escape. John Winchester eventually becomes a hunter, and trains the Winchester boys in becoming Hunters too (*Supernatural*).

**November 6:** An extradimensional monster breaks into our dimension from Hawkins Lab, and a girl called "Eleven" escapes the lab in the chaos. Will Byers goes missing (*Stranger Things*).

**November 7-12:** Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson meet Eleven, and team up with her to investigate Will's disappearance. Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, while dealing with teenage drama in their personal lives, team up to investigate a monster causing disappearances (including Will's). Police Chief Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers team up to investigate Hawkins Lab and Will's place in an apparent government conspiracy. Eventually, the three groups come together. Will is recovered from the Upside-Down, the monster is disintegrated, and Eleven disappears (*Stranger Things*).

**November:** Nina Morrison dies (*St. Elsewhere*).

**December 10:** Shawn Farrell is born (*The 4400*).

**December 19-23:** Johnny Truant gets into 15 fights in one week, and is transferred to a different school (*House of Leaves*).

**December 24:** The boys play *Dungeons,Dungeons and More Dungeons(Dungeons & Dragons*). Chief Hopper attends a Christmas party. Hopper leaves some Eggo waffles in a dead drop in the woods, and Will vomits up a slug and flashes back to the Upside-Down for a brief moment (*Stranger Things*).

Jason Kane is born (*Bernice Summerfield*).

**December 25:** Randal Graves gets a Motley Crue jacket for Christmas and bets Dante Hicks that he will still be wearing it in 15 years, because "Crue will always rule" (*Clerks Holiday Special*).

**December 31:** Alexia Ashford infects herself with the T-Veronica virus and enters cryogenic suspension (*Resident Evil – Code: Veronica*).

Metropolis(New York) is is besieged by Columbia(*BioShock Infinite*).

Estimated date of the Great War in the Magic World(*Negima! Magister Negi Magi*)(somewhat ironic as it means that a great magic war occurred after Voldemort's defeat, meaning there was a gap of a few years).

Charles Xavier forms the New Mutants(Marvel Comics).

Batman forms the original Outsiders(DC Comics).

The Visitors arrive and begin subtly taking over the Earth while claiming to want peaceful contact. A resistance forms to stop them (*V*).

Brodie Bruce teaches T.S. Quint how to handle comic books, but T.S. opts to join Little League instead (*Mallrats*).

The Griswold family takes a vacation to Walley World (*National Lampoon's Vacation*).

An evil leprechaun is sealed away with a Four-Leaf Clover (*Leprechaun*).

Heart of Mantorok recovered by Edwin Lindsey and delivered to Edward Roivas (*Eternal Darkness*).

Six-year-old Dave Davenport is mentally possessed by his own future self (*Narbonic*).

A Giant shark attacks Sea World (*Jaws 3D*).

Pilot Ryo Murasame is critically injured during an attack by the extraterrestrial Badan Empire, who captured him and turned him into a Combatroid called ZX ("Zecross"). Eventually he breaks free from his brainwashing and escapes (*Kamen Rider ZX*, *Kamen Rider Spirits*).

Duncan MacLeod explains to Tessa Noël the secrets of his Immortality. He conveniently leaves out any mention of the Game (*Highlander: The Series*).

Six youths cross an unexpected interdimensional portal on the Dungeons and Dragons rollercoaster. They manage to return to the amusement park twice — the first time *very* briefly. The second time, a phone booth and a hot dog stand are destroyed by the evil archmage Venger before it is decided that they'd better let him chase them back into that other dimension (*Dungeons & Dragons (1983)*).

Emmett Benton begins thinking about using the idea of using holograms and CGI to create musical performances (*Jem*).

World heavyweight Champion since 1981, Rocky Balboa has become a celebrity, even appearing on the Muppet Show. However at the unveiling of his statue in Philadelphia and announcement of his retirement, he is challenged by Clubber Lang who defeats Balboa. Balboa then returns again after training with Apollo Creed to defeat Lang and reclaim the title. When asked if he hated Balboa, Lang responded with "No I don't hate Balboa, but I pity the Fool." The phrase became quite famous(*Rocky III*)

A Group of armed men invade Tony Montana's mansion,gunning him down (*Scarface (1983).*

In an alternate universe, Tony Montana is able to turn the tide on his attackers and survives(*Scarface: The World is Yours* videogame).

In a magical land, An unknown bounty hunter penetrates Firetop Mountain and kills Zagor (*The Warlock of Firetop Mountain*)

Rick Burnham returns to CEA(CIA) duty (*The Boys*).

Billy Butcher is discharged from hospital, but anger issues result in him being discharged from the army and unemployed (*The Boys*).

While working at Macy's, Hal Nolastname gets his co-worker, Wendy, drunk and borrows $400 from her. Hal fakes his death to avoid paying her back. (*Malcolm in the Middle*)

MI6, KGB, CEA(CIA) and Mossad participate in a joint operation called Icebreaker to wipe out the Nazi terrorist organization NSAA. (*Icebreaker*)

Birth of Harrison Davies. (*Tru Calling*)(States he was 10 when their mother died).

In an alternate universe, A spaceborne plague is brought to Earth by an astronaut. It eventually kills every dog and cat on the planet (*Conquest of the Planet of the Apes*).

In an [Alternate Timeline] former U.S. President James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) dies. (*11/22/63*)

The bureaucratic dictatorship seizes power in the United Kingdom (*1990*). They begin to introduce several old IngSoc elements,including manipulation of the media and use of Doublethink.

War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Big Brother Is Watching (*1984*).

Karen Fairgate and Marion "Mack" MacKenzie are married(*Knots Landing*).

Bobby and Pamela Ewing divorce for the first time (*Dallas*).

Gary and Valene Ewing divorce for the second time. They eventually remarry in 1991 (*Knots Landing*).

Gary Ewing and Abby Cunningham are married (*Knots Landing*).

After signing a human rights petition, Masha Peltrovich is deported from the Soviet Union. She immigrates to the United States (*St. Elsewhere*).

Matthew Scott, Tamara Johansen and Vanessa James are born (*Stargate Universe*).

Kelly Olsen is born (*Supergirl (2015)*).

In an alternate timeline, Joel Kent and Mei Lei are married at this time(originally this was a possible future of Clark Kent and Lois Lane but sliding timescale makes it the next generation instead)(DC Comics).

Judy Shepherd is born (*Jumanji*).

Billy Underwood is born (*The X-Files*).

Ye Wenjie is informed that she and her father have been politically rehabilitated. She returns to teach astrophysics and Tsinghua University, and make an abortive attempt to reconnect with her mother and stepfather, and confronts the surviving women who killed her father (*The Three-Body Problem).*

Ye Wenjie's second message reaches Alpha Centauri. The invasion fleet is given Earth's exact coordinates. Trisolarian government begins measures to retard Earth's scientific and technological advancement amid widespread opposition from their own people (*The Three-Body Problem*).

In an [Alternate Universe] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Donna and Hyde marry while expecting their first child. Eric breaks up with Big Rhonda, who has been cheating on him. Kelso cheats on his wife with Jackie. Fez has a Flock of Seagulls haircut (*That '70s Show*).

## **1984**

**February 1:** Matt Sandstrom disappears (*The 4400*).

**Early March:** Johnny Truant has a violent fight with his foster father, resulting in hospitalisation. Pelafina's sanity suffers and she has to be physically restrained (*House of Leaves*).

**March 15:** Twin girls, who will go on to be known as Sarah Manning and Helena, born to a surrogate mother in Wales. Around this time, at least ten others, all genetically identical to Sarah and Helena, are born (*Orphan Black*).

**March 16:** Elise Appelbaum is born (*The 4400*).

**March 24:** Five teenagers bond during a day of school detention in Shermer High School (*The Breakfast Club*).

**March:** Ye Wenjie meets Mike Evans while scouting the location for a new radio telescope(Stated to be half a year after she returned to Tsinghua, which was presumably around September)(*The Three-Body Problem*).

**Late March or early April:** Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina to tell her he won't be getting a new foster family (*House of Leaves*).

**April:** Winston Smith begins to rebel against Big Brother (*1984*).

**Spring:** Wedding of Lois and Hal Nolastname is cut short when Lois goes into labour with Francis(*Malcolm in the Middle*).

**Before May:** An alternate Shredder attacks the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles using a combination of Utrom and Dimension X technology. The Turtles join forces with two groups of wannabes from alternate universes to stop him (*Turtles Forever*).

**May 13:** A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows so that he can protect her. (*The Terminator*)

In an alternate timeline, a Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. It is thwarted by a second Terminator sent further back in time to protect and raise her. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows, and is rescued by Sarah from a T-1000. They defeat the evil robots and travel forward in time to 2017. (*Terminator Genisys*)

**May 14:** The Terminator attacks a police station, forcing Kyle and Sarah to flee. During the night, Sarah sleeps with Kyle, and becomes pregnant with John Connor(*The Terminator*).

Gage Creed, a two-year-old child is killed when hit by a truck in Ludlow, Maine (*Pet Sematary*).

Albert Tatlock dies (*Coronation Street*).

**May 15:** The Terminator finds Kyle and Sarah, chasing them to a factory. in the ensuing battle, Kyle is killed, and Sarah destroys the Terminator in a crusher. Cyberdyne later collects the remains of the Terminator (*The Terminator*).

**May:** Metropolis(New York) businessman Oroku Saki, secretly the crime lord, The Shredder, is murdered along with most of his personal ninja guard by four mutant ninjas, as revenge for the death of Hamato Yoshi 15 years earlier (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*)(Yes, we're going classic Mirage Turtles here, with shades of later versions).

Grant Bowen is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

The Ghostbusters become heroes in Metropois after saving the world from Gozer(*Ghostbusters*).

**June 3:** Having not heard from Johnny for a few months, Pelafina Truant fears she has upset him (*House of Leaves*).

**June 5:** In the original timeline, Sam Beckett and Donna Eleese are due to be married but Donna leaves Sam at the altar. After Sam changes history in 1972, she doesn't, and they marry (*Quantum Leap*).

**June 12:** Harold and Alice Withers are married (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**June 26:** Pelafina Truant thinks Johnny has sent her a working crystal ball (*House of Leaves*).

**June 28:** A team of Soviet scientists launch an attempt to penetrate into the Upside-Down. They are unsuccessful (*Stranger Things*).

**June:** Johnny Truant gets into further fights at school and has trouble with his foster father (*House of Leaves*).

**July 3:** The last zombie from an outbreak in the 1960s is released from its containment accidentally, immediately starting another attack of brain-eaters (*The Return of the Living Dead*).

**July 13-18:** Jason Voorhees commits three killing sprees within five days in the Crystal Lake area, murdering a total of 33 people. The rampage ends in Jason Voorhees' first death (*Friday the 13th Part 2*, *Part III* and *The Final Chapter*).

**August 9:** Kyle Baldwin is born (*The 4400*).

**August 12:** Helen Cragen dies while watching the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics (*St. Elsewhere*).

**August 14:** Evelyn Catman disappears. (*The 4400*)

**September:**

Dante Hicks and Randal Graves start high school. A fellow student in their class named Lance Dowds is selected for the freshman hazing tradition, and he has a pickle inserted into his ass and is forced to walk ten feet with it in. Randal and the others henceforth dub him "Pickle F\*\*\*er." (*Clerks II*)

After helping Marty McFly with a science project, Doc Brown talks to a man on the telephone about purchasing the man's used DeLorean. (*Back to the Future*)

The Soviet Union invades the United States in operation: Red Dawn (*Red Dawn (1984)*). The US will intentionally choose not to use nuclear weapons in this conflict, which gradually turns against the Soviets as their forces in the midwest are gradually diminished.

**September - early October:** Johnny Truant begins applying to various boarding schools (*House of Leaves*).

**October 8:** Lex Luthor and Arianna Carlin are married (*Lois & Clark*).

**Around October 31:** Mike Wheeler and his friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair dress as Ghostbusters for Halloween, and get caught up in another adventure (*Stranger Things*).

**October:** Dr Baxter Stockman is arrested for robbery and extortion after using his Mouser robots to undermine the foundation of every major corporate building in Metropolis(New York),and then threatening to collapse them unless his demands are met. He is foiled by his former assistant April O'Neil (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*).

Maurice Hall is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

**November 6:** The US Presidential Election. Roberta Lincoln votes for Walter Mondale (*Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars*). Karen Wheeler votes for Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan), while Claudia Henderson votes for Walter Mondale (*Stranger Things*).

Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) is re-elected U.S. President, defeating Walter Mondale (Real Life, *The Goldbergs*).

In an [Alternate Universe] James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to a seventh term as U.S. President (*Sliders*).

In an [Alternate Timeline] Walter Mondale defeats Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) in the U.S. presidential election(*Alternate Presidents*)(*American Dad!*)(in the source material of *American Dad!*, this occurs when Stan Smith prevents Martin Scorsese from taking drugs, which in turn leads him not to make Taxi Driver and therefore does not inspire John Hinckley Jr to attempt to assassinate Reagan, leading to a boost in his popularity. ITTL what happens instead is Stan travelling to 1970 and driving Travis Bickle away from drugs. Bickle therefore does not assassinate Charles Palantine and he becomes President, resulting in Mondale's victory in 1984 through butterflies. This possibly occurs on Earth 30, since Mondale surrenders the US to the Soviets).

On Earth 4, Richard Nixon is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (*Watchmen*)

Bob Dole is elected U.S. President ("Hillary Orbits Venus").

**November 8:** Advance start out as a newly elected political party, with Julia Salisbury and Peter Clement as leaders, promising freedom and equality for all. Also, it's Alex Winston's first night on the job as TV broadcaster (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 1: The Election").

**November 15:** Jeremy Donaldson interviews Katie Brightman and Alan James (author of *Alan James Is Right*), both telling stories about Advance from different points of view. Also interviewed are some figures like Constable Bob Peele and "Tit-Wank" Tony Dawson, capped off with a group of University students performing their latest play, *Hey! Friendship!* on live TV. Plus, the Mr. Snugglehugs toys are growing popular these days (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 8: The Fallout").

**November 23:** Dr. Peter White is shot in the groin by Nurse Shirley Daniels in the morgue of St. Eligius. He later dies (*St. Elsewhere*).

**November 26-27:** Marty McFly runs into Jennifer Parker for the first time since fourth grade, and is immediately smitten. He briefly considers borrowing a car he saw concealed in Doc Brown's lab to impress Jennifer, and stops Needles from actually doing so. Jennifer still goes out with Marty when he asks (*Back to the Future*).

**November:** Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing are born. Dr. Mitch Ackerman kidnaps them immediately after their birth. He tells their mother Valene Ewing that they were stillborn (*Knots Landing*).

**Fall:** Midway through the 1984 NFL season, Ray Finkle joins the Miami Dolphins (*Ace Ventura*).

**December 15:** Mike Wheeler and his best friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair attend the Hawkins Middle School Snow Ball dance. Mike and Eleven kiss for the second time and begin their relationship, as do Lucas and Max Mayfield (*Stranger Things*).

**December 24:** Billy Chapman suffers a psychotic flashback. Christmas is ruined (*Silent Night, Deadly Night*).

**December 31:** The fourth leg of Will Smith's time travel escapades, this time going to a breakdancing club where DJ Jazzy Jeff is performing. The time machine malfunctions and slows everything down, then sends Will and company forward to 2222 ("Will 2K" music video).

**December:** Pelafina Truant suffers from winter cold. (*House of Leaves*)

A Serial Killer murders people dressed in Santa Claus costumes (*Don't Open Till Christmas*).

With the Soviet forces in the US, being successfully contained, the Soviet Union releases their secret weapon and unleash Cthulhu(*A Colder War*). In response, the US and Japan agree to release Godzilla and Gamera from Monster Island. The two Kaiju battle Cthulhu. Gamera sacrifices itself in an effort to destroy Cthulhu while Godzilla appears to finish the beast off. However, exposure to Cthulhu causes Godzilla to go insane and he becomes a feral beast once more(Fanfictions *Black Dossier: Volume Two* and *The Worlds We Weave* both include a Godzilla vs Cthulhu fight)(This is used to justify Godzilla returning to his monster routes at this time in his film series.

Godzilla appears once again to rampage across Tokyo. He is eventually subdued and trapped in a volcano. (*The Return of Godzilla*)

Mt. St. Hilary erupts, jolting the dormant Transformers back to life. Their war re-erupts on Earth (*Transformers: Generation 1*).

Ashley Graham and Ramon Salazar are born (*Resident Evil 4*).

A group of Superheroes and supervillains from Earth are pitted against one another by the Beyonder. During the conflict, Spider-Man acquires a new costume that turns out to be an alien symbiote. (Marvel Comics)(Like with Contest of Champions, there is a different roster here, likely being half DC Superheroes and villains)(The absence of several superheroes only escalates the war with Russia).

The Pride is formed when the Gibborim recruit six young couples to help them destroy the world in exchange for a fifty-fifty shot at immortality (Marvel Comics).

The Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough prevent the rise of the Malus (*Doctor Who*).

"Locksmith company" H.C. Clements is founded by Mr. Clements as a front for Torchwood One's research (*Doctor Who*).

Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher begins solving real crimes (*Murder, She Wrote*).

Gremlins terrorize the small town of Kingston Falls(*Gremlins*).

Daniel learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to defend himself against the students of the Dojo Cobra Kai and defeat them in a local karate tournament(*The Karate Kid*)(ITTL Cobra Kai is essentially a front to train henchman for the terrorist organization Cobra).

Alex Rogan is recruited as a Starfighter after beating an arcade game left on Earth which was actually training(*The Last Starfighter*), a strategy formulated by the original Starlord(Who naturally was pro recruiting children).

Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers defeat the Red Lectroids(*The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension*).

Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers terrorize Metropolis from the sewers(New York City) (*C.H.U.D.*). Homer Simpson is nearly killed by them(Mentioned in The Simpsons Episode "The City of New York vs Homer Simpson" with the C.H.U.D.s being treated as real). The C.H.U.D.s are later found killed, evidence on the corpses suggest the use of Ninja Weapons.

Freddy Krueger returns from the dead to murder the teens of Elm Street in their dreams (*A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)*).

Jay and Silent Bob see *Purple Rain* and decide to model their lives on Morris Day and the Time (*Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back*).

Detroit cop Axel Foley fights crime in Beverly Hills (*Beverly Hills Cop*).

A dishonorably discharged U.S. soldier equips himself with an arsenal and, with (very) limited assistance from his brother, establishes a vast network of illegal businesses in a thriving Florida city. Continuous failure to stop him through arrests and lethal force set an example for other would-be one-man armies to follow (*Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories*).

In East Germany, Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman (*The Lives of Others*).

The Australian outback is terrorized by a gigantic boar (*Razorback*).

ZX (Ryo Murasame) battles the Badan Empire, joining with the Kamen Riders and eventually being dubbed the 10th Rider (*Kamen Rider ZX*, *Kamen Rider Spirits*).

Methos uses the identity of "Adam Pierson" to study ancient languages at Oxford University. He attracts the attention of Donald Salzer, who recruits him for the Watchers. "Pierson" is employed as a historian by the organization (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Birth of Patricia, daughter of Tom and surrogate sister to Alex. (*Street Fighter III*)(Stated to be 14 years old in 1998).

Dirk McQuickly(Paul McCartney) has a really bad dream while stuck in traffic (*Give My Regards to Broad Street*).

Jason Voorhees commits three killing sprees within five days (*Friday the 13th Part 2*, *Part III* and *The Final Chapter*).

Emmett Benton hires Eric Raymond to help him run his music label, continues to secretly work on a computer program he calls "Synergy" in spite of his failing health (*Jem*).

In an alternate universe, Jonny is born to Benton and Rachel Quest (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*)(Alternate universe or "Rebootverse" as Johnny Quest cannot be born at this time to be the same Johnny Quest from the classic series).

In an alternate universe, Jessie is born to Race and Estella Bannon (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*)(Once more the "Rebootverse", as far as I can tel lthis character didn't exist in the old series).

Birth of Hadji Singh (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*)(same situation with Jonny).

New Guersey(Jersey) wimp and bully victim Melvin Junko falls into a toxic waste barrel and becomes a brave and powerful (albeit horribly mutated) superhero (*The Toxic Avenger*).

First known case of zombification due to transfusion of contaminated blood (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Doctor Impossible creates the Termination Machine, his first Doomsday device, The Champions form (*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

Alex Gardner stops a conspiracy which aimed to assassinate the President of the United States in the dreamworld (*Dreamscape*).

Billy Butcher meets Becky Saunders, a social worker who helps him overcome his problems with alcohol and anger (*The Boys*).

Birth of Piama Tananahaakna in Alaska (*Malcolm in the Middle*).

Young Adam Wayne leads a patriotic revolution to gain his London neighbourhood's independence (*The Napoleon of Notting Hill*).

Due to a shortage of police officers, the new Mayor of Metropolis( New York City) orders a lowering of recruitment standards for the police academy despite the protests of Chief of Police Henry Hurst and Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris. The new lax standards attracts a motley crew of outcasts including paramilitary gun enthusiast Tackleberry, human sound effect machine and martial artist Larvell Jones and local troublemaker Carey Mahoney who joins the academy as an alternative to prison (*Police Academy*).

The monstrous entity known only as "Pennywise The Dancing Clown" or "IT" resurfaces in Derry, Maine and resumes its reign of terror from 27 years earlier. William Denbrough, Benjamin Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richard Tozier, Edward Kazprack, Stanley Uris and Michael Hanlon, the self-proclaimed "Losers Club", return to Derry for a final showndown with IT, but Uris, still heavily traumatized by his childhood encounter with IT, commits suicide rather than return. (*IT*)

Miss Ellie Ewing and Clayton Farlow are married (*Dallas*).

Michael Mallory is killed in a car accident (*Sliders*).

Laura Sinclair is abducted by aliens (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

Although she killed him in self-defense, Liz Tate is nevertheless convicted of the murder of her abusive husband (*Quantum Leap*).

Jason Ewing dies (*Dallas*).

Eli Wallace is born (*Stargate Universe*).

Baltish(Lithuanian) submarine commander Marko Ramius defectsfrom the USSR to the USA on board of the Typhoon-class submarine *Red October,* nearly causing an international incident averted by C.E.A.(C.I.A.) analyst Jack Ryan(*The Hunt for Red October*).

The Asgard High Council discovers that Loki has been performing unsanctioned experiments on humans. He is banished as punishment(*Stargate SG-1*)(However, it is the Marvel Loki doing this).

In a possible future, Laura Kent is born to Joel Kent, and Mei Lei(Clark Kent and Lois Lane-Kent in this DC alternate future, changed due to sliding time scale) (DC Comics).

Kevin Girardi is born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

Dr. Cornelius Hathaway performs an operation to remove a cerebral tumor on live television. It is watched by John Parsons (*Dimension X*).

Kate Corrigan joins the BPRD(*Hellboy*).

Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel quashes the ping-pong based machinations of the Soviet Union, though Brahe dies in the process (*Penny Arcade*).

A musician named Corey Howard, and a goth punk named June Tuesday, have some Belligerent Sexual Tension while working at a Permanent Record store in San Diego (*That '80s Show*).

Eric Husch is born (*S.*).

## **1984-1985**

The Soviet Union secretly builds an underground facility in Hawkins, Indiana, and sets a mall on top of it (*Stranger Things*).

## **1985**

**January 2:** Mr. Boseman introduces himself to Alex Winston as their new boss, who is filling in for Dave, the instructor who got drunk for days. Boseman instructs them to control a special broadcast of a 1950s telethon that's gone awry (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 56: The Telethon").

**January 6:** The Miami Dolphins win the AFC Championship for the 1984-85 season (Real Life). Ray Finkle is one of the players who earns an AFC Championship ring. (*Ace Ventura*)

**January 20:** The San Fransokyo(cisco) 49ers defeat the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX (Real Life). The Dolphins' loss is caused because placekicker Ray Finkle misses a 26-yard field goal to win the game due to Dan Marino not turning the football's laces out. Finkle becomes a scapegoat as a result, and the constant harassment makes him go crazy (*Ace Ventura*).

In an [Alternate Universe] the San Fransokyo(cisco) 49ers defeat the Metropolis( New York) Jets 43-10 in Super Bowl XIX. (*Sliders*)(Presumably the events in *Ace Ventura* are butterflied away as a result).

**February 1:** Sam Beckett leaps into a television reporter named Dylan Powell in San Fransokyo(cisco). He is there to prevent a police psychic named Tamlyn Matsuda from becoming the seventh victim of the Chinatown Strangler. Complications arise when Tamlyn determines who Sam really is and the two fall for each other. (*Quantum Leap*)

**February 27:** Florence Hufnagel dies (*St. Elsewhere*).

Hüsker Dü perform a concert in Sacramento, California (Real Life) Lisa Clarke is in attendance (*Taken*).

**February 28:** Birth of John Connor (*Terminator*)(Just for fun. He is the reincarnation of Trunks Briefs. Another Hope for the future fighting in a world devastated by machines).

**Before March:** James Horton is reassigned. He stops being the Kurgan's Watcher. His new assignment is Blake Wellington (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Adam Pierson begins his assignment as a historical researcher for the Watchers. His mentor is Donald Salzer (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

**March 12:** Boyd Gelder is born (*The 4400*).

**March 29:** Hiker Lois Einhorn is last seen at the entrance of the Tampa State Park before she disappears. The search for her body would be called off six days later (*Ace Ventura*).

**March:** Mark Taylor is born (*Home Improvement*).

**March-April:** The Gathering occurs; the last Immortals face off seeking "the Prize". Connor MacLeod, one of the immortals, finds the time to romance forensic scientist Brenda Wyatt, who eventually wins(*Highlander*).

**April 5:** Ray Finkle sees an article about the search for missing hiker Lois Einhorn being called off (*Ace Ventura*).

**April 6:** Ray Finkle escapes the mental institution he's been committed to. He assumes Lois Einhorn's identity and spends the next couple of years transitioning into a woman as part of an elaborate revenge plot against Dan Marino (*Ace Ventura*).

**April 9:** Two alternate universes are created depending on if a Mr.Snugglehugs video tape is played. If it is not: A new resistance called Disrupt is taking place across the nation.

If it is: Patrick Bannon hosts the Sportsboard game that is being invaded by naked protestors; and Megan interviews Julia Salisbury and Peter Clement(Co-Prime Ministers due to the current regime) in an interview that is being beset by an Easter Tuesday thunderstorm, which has put Alex into a coma at the end of the broadcast (they eventually survive a day later) (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 153: The Tempest").

**April 25:** Sam Beckett leaps into the sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Metropolis(Manhattan). He is there to ensure that Annie Wilkins takes action against her former boss Jonathan who is sexually harassing and stalking her and that Doug Bridges and Debbie Schaefer get back together. While she is in the Waiting Room, Dr. Ruth gives Al Calavacci advice on his relationship with Tina (*Quantum Leap*).

**April 28:** In an alternate universe, Humanity is wiped out in a nuclear war("There Will Come Soft Rains")(Specifically a 1984 Soviet adaptation).

**April:** Johnny Truant is accepted to a boarding school (*House of Leaves*).

**Early May:** Director of Whalestoe arranges for a meeting between Johnny and Pelafina Truant (*House of Leaves*).

**May 4:** Sam Beckett leaps into an actor named Kyle Hart, who plays Dr. Craig Connor in the soap opera *Moments to Live*, in Los Santos(Los Angeles). Soon after his arrival, he is kidnapped by an obsessed fan, Norma Jean Pilcher, and her husband Hank. He is there to ensure that Kyle escapes from the Pilchers without getting shot (*Quantum Leap*).

**May 16:** In an alternate universe, Oliver Queen is born (*Arrow*).

**May 21:** Johnny and Pelafina Truant meet for the first time in seven years (*House of Leaves*).

**May:** Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane graduate college, marry, and try to have kids (*Dogma: A Screenplay*).

Rick Derris, Roddy, Steve-Dave Pulasti, Walter Flanagan, and Shannon Hamilton graduate from North High School (*Mallrats*, *Clerks*).

**June 13:** Another series of murders occur near Crystal Lake, surviving witnesses reveal that Jason Voorhees survived his supposed drowning in 1958 and has been stalking the forests in the area ever since. Voorhees remains at large (*Friday the 13th Part 2*).

**June 27:** Disrupt are becoming increasingly popular, while Advance's popularity is waning. Jeremy and Megan interview world leaders that consist of Co-Prime Minister Peter, Foreign Minister Ivan Vodovich, and Minister of Mojo Bjerg, and ask them about Advance's declining popularity. However, Ivan makes remarks about sex jokes and Teeny Weenies, which gets these world leaders into a spat against each other. Later, rapper J-Zuss makes a performance of his own "The Villain Sucks" Rap against Advance and Peter Clement, only for Jeremy to have him arrested afterward before going into a tirade with Megan. For the third act, they make an interview with Geoff Algebra and the others on how they're making a modified play about modern life for Advance. However, not everyone seems to agree, as Jeremy is growing more and more concerned and troubled about Advance and their growing control over the nation (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 232: The Silence").

**June:** Charles Danville is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

Huey Lewis and the News performs their new song "The Power of Love", which they wrote for some new movie, at Uncle Charlie's in Corte Madera, California. Doc Brown shows up to see the performance; while he's distracted in the club, some clubgoers steal his DeLorean time machine and go for a joyride. ("The Power of Love" music video)( Date taken from when the music video was filmed.)

Ray Finkle rents a car from Avis. It's the last time his credit card is used (*Ace Ventura*).

**June 28-July 4:** A secret Soviet experiment brings the Mind Flayer back to Hawkins, Indiana, where it seeks revenge on Eleven. The town's residents and animals are posessed and eventually absorbed/transformed into a horrific creature. This culminates in the Battle of Starcourt Mall, where Hopper disappears and Eleven loses her powers (*Stranger Things*).

**July 24:** Pelafina Truant becomes convinced that something has gone horribly wrong with Johnny, and the director of Whalestoe has been replaced by someone else (*House of Leaves*).

**July - August:** Johnny Truant spends the summer working in a fish canning factory (*House of Leaves*).

**August 8:** Ebenezer Wright has a heart attack (*St. Elsewhere*).

**August 23:** Pelafina Truant sinks into paranoia. (*House of Leaves*)

**August 30:** A war is going on across the nation, blockades are set up, and a heatwave is getting almost everyone scorched, including Jeremy, who becomes increasingly agitated as he talks about various interviews from other people including Megan and Patrick Bannon; his own interview with three people with medical conditions; and sports involving Cute Kittens going underway. During the first act, he's growing more and more troubled about the heat and about Advance's tightening grip on the nation before thinking up a plan of his own. During an interview in Act II, in which one of these three people, Brian Trueman, is getting arrested by Andy the Community Cohesion Officer for exposing Advance's hypocrisy and corruption, Jeremy decides he's had enough before taking the handgun from Andy and holding the entire newsroom at gunpoint. He quickly releases the three "medically conditioned" people from custody before telling Jenny to lock the door and demanding that Alex play a Disrupt ad tape that had been sent to them. Regardless of whether or not the tape is played, the final act of the National Nightly News can result in Jeremy's arrest or death (either by suicide or by security), depending on which moment Alex cuts to the ad and when to do it (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 296: The Heatwave").

**August:** Joe Young is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

Ray Finkle's rental car is located abandoned in South Miami (*Ace Ventura*).

**Summer:** In an alternate universe, where the Crimean War is still ongoing, Archeron Hades begins kidnapping and ransoming characters from works of fiction. Thursday Next pursues him into *Jane Eyre* to finally stop him. After 100 years of on-again-off-again war, British troops finally pull out of the Crimea and end the war with Russia (Thursday Next, *The Eyre Affair*).

Gary Wallace vomits in his sock drawer and blames it on the dog (*Weird Science*).

Geoff Algebra is wed by gay marriage to Norm de Plume, thereby taking the name of "Geoff de Plume" (*Not for Broadcast*).

**September 5:** Pelafina Truant has taken to plugging her ears with candle wax. Johnny Truant has his orientation day at boarding school (*House of Leaves*).

**September 6-13:** Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina to tell her about his current situation (*House of Leaves*).

**September 8:** Penny Robinson is born (*Lost in Space*).

**September 14:** Pelafina Truant becomes convinced that the director is censoring mail between her and Johnny (*House of Leaves*).

**September 19:** Pelafina Truant has an orderly smuggle out her latest letter, but the orderly shows it to the directory anyway (*House of Leaves*).

A major earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing at least 5,000 people and destroying hundreds of buildings (Real Life). Juanita Ocampo's house is among the many destroyed. Her mother sends her to Boston as an exchange student (*St. Elsewhere*).

**September 30:** Pelafina Truant thinks receives a letter from Johnny and thinks she can escape Whalestoe (*House of Leaves*).

**September:** In an alternate universe, International tensions escalate into World War III. Housewife Penny, having recently found a mysterious necklace that allows her to freeze time to escape from her stressful family life, is left with the decision to either spend the rest of her life in a frozen, silent world, or face nuclear annihilation with the rest of humanity (*The Twilight Zone: A Little Peace and Quiet*).

Artist Lil' C pens a new song to be performed in a few months

In one possible version of events, a State funeral is held for British newscaster Jeremy Robert Donaldson (if Alex allowed him to die on national television in Day 296) (*Not for Broadcast*).

**October 4:** Whalestoe director has a serious discussion with Pelafina Truant about her letters and changes her medication (*House of Leaves*).

**October 6:** Roleric Schuck disappears (*The 4400*).

**October 10:** Pelafina Truant thinks the director and staff at Whalestoe are keeping Johnny's letters from her (*House of Leaves*).

**October 11:** Tonight, a Comedian died in New York City; Edward Blake, AKA "The Comedian", is murdered (*Watchmen*).

Pelafina Truant demands the director hand over the letters from Johnny he has (not) received and is (not) hoarding (*House of Leaves*).

**October 25:** Marty McFly is late for school after blowing out Doc Brown's giant amplifier. Later, he fails his school's Battle of the Bands, and is discouraged when Biff Tannen totals the family car (*Back to the Future*).

**October 26:** At night. Marty McFly and his eccentric friend Doc Brown successfully use a DeLorean as a time machine.Marty travels to 1955 and is eventually able to return, averting an attack by Wadiyan terrorists Doc Brown stole plutonium from (*Back to the Future*).

Later in the morning, Doc Brown asks Marty McFly to help him in the future year of 2015. They return to 1985 later that evening to find that the timeline has changed, leading to the creation of Earth 4 (*Back to the Future Part II*).

Helen Sharp takes a magic potion granting her eternal youth. It doesn't go as planned (*Death Becomes Her*).

**October 27:** Doc and Marty depart 1985 to repair the damage done to the timeline (*Back to the Future Part II*). Later that morning, Marty McFly returns to his own time after an adventure in 1885. The DeLorean is destroyed, but Doc Brown shows up in a new time machine built out of a train. (*Back to the Future Part III*)

**October 30:** John Crichton arrives in Florida in his own past, and discovers he has to prevent his father from leading the *Challenger* mission. (*Farscape*)

**October:** The Byers family and Eleven move out of Hawkins, Indiana (*Stranger Things*).

**November 1:** Pelafina Truant comes to realise the Whalestoe staff aren't hoarding Johnny's letters and advises Johnny to take no notice of his teachers. (*House of Leaves*)

Bian, a Sarkhanese( Vietnamese) refugee working for Adrian Veidt, injects herself with Adrian Veidt's semen and becomes pregnant with a daughter, Trieu (*Watchmen (2019)*).

**November 2:** Janet Lambert is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

In the facr of a potential nuclear war, Ozymandias teleports a gigantic squid with psionic powers into Metropolis( New York City), killing over three million people and traumatizing millions more. Nevertheless, the world population is convinced that it was the start of Alien Invasion and as policy for such events at the time is, put the war on hold until the invasion is dealt with. The US and Soviet leaders end the Cold War in order to confront this greater threat. At Karnak, Ozymandias’s Supervillain Lair in Anarctica, Doctor Manhattan kills Rorschach to prevent Rorschach from exposing Ozymandias’s plot and then leaves Earth to create life elsewhere (*Watchmen*; exact date given in *Watchmen (2019)*).

**November 10:** Sam Beckett leaps into Joey DeNardo, a pianist in witness protection living under the pseudonym Chuck Danner, in Tularosa, New Mexico. He is there to prevent Joey and his old girlfriend Lorraine from being killed by a Mafia hit man (*Quantum Leap*).

**November 13:** Advance's war is now entering into its twentieth week.

In the universe, where Jeremy was arrested. Jeremy is under custody by Advance and is now awaiting trial in 18 months, after Alex had him arrested by cutting to the ad earlier under Jenny's orders.

In the universe where Jeremy died on national television, Jeremy's gravestone is decorated with graffiti in Disrupt's effort to honor him as their "first martyr"

Adrian Veidt's scheme is nearly discovered and he responds by using the energy from Dr.Manhattan to devastate several major cities, framing Dr.Manhattan.

Megan interviews Peter on how the war is going. while Alan James makes comments on the progress of Disrupt and on Jeremy; later, Lil' C makes a performance of "These Babies Gonna Bring You Home" (a song she had written two months earlier); and Geoff Algebra de Plume introduces the audience to a new sitcom called *The Noticeboard,* which gets interrupted by four nuclear bombs being detonated(actually Veidt's devastation of several cities), wiping out their respective foreign cities and resulting in millions of deaths everywhere; Julia claims credibility for the attacks, as Advance have become a dictatorship that has declared total war on the world, threatening to destroy many more of its citizens unless the world surrenders. Meanwhile, Alan senses that Disrupt are under attack, as they're losing many of their recruits to Advance's acts of terrorism being done in the name of Disrupt. (*Not for Broadcast* — "Day 371: The 20 Week War")

**November 18:** Six-year old Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes embark on incredible adventures across time, space, and his parents backyard, facing aliens, dinosaurs, supervillains, and schoolyard bullies (*Calvin and Hobbes*).

**November 29:** Civilization as we know it is buried beneath junk mail (*Motel of the Mysteries*).

**November:** Bully victim Danny Hayes encounters a ghostly entity called The Shadow Man living under his bed (*The Twilight Zone: The Shadow Man*).

**December 24:** In the Rebootverse, Alcoholic department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magical sack that can magically produce real presents, and uses it to spread Christmas joy among the poor and downtrodden. In return for his selfless charity, Corwin's own wish comes true - he is chosen to be the new real Santa Claus. (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*)(This is rebootverse since this is a remake of a 1960 episode of the original *Twilight Zone*).

The Anti-Monitor, ruler of the Anti-Matter Universe of Earth 3 or the Mirror Universe, tries to destroy the multiverse. Every single available Superhero(including non DC characters in this case) unite to battle his forces across space and multiple universes. The Anti-Monitor is forced to retreat wounded, but at the cost of Supergirl's life. Trying to take advantage of the conflict, a group of villains conquer several worlds, leading to a war between the Heroes and Villains. The Spectre interrupts the fighting to reveal the Anti-Monitor is still alive, leading to the heroes and villains teaming up. The Flash(Barry Allen) sacrifices himself to save the multiverse. In one battle with the Anti-Monitor, several earths are merged into one. The rest of the Multiverse is believed destroyed but in reality survives, this includes one earth conquered by supervillains(*Wanted,* comic book). The Anti-Monitor is finally destroyed in a final battle(DC Comics).

The city of Briarwood, California, with the aid of the Mystic Realm, fights off a demonic invasion (*Power Rangers Mystic Force*).

Megatron creates the Stunticons to counter the Autobot's command of the roads. In response, Alpha Trion and the other Autobots create the Aerialbots to challenge the Decepticons' air superiority (*Transformers: Generation 1*, cartoon continuity).

The original X-Men (including a no-longer-dead Jean Grey) reunite to form the original X-Factor (Marvel Comics).

Dante Hicks and Randal Graves are reintroduced to each other. They have known each other since elementary school (*Clerks: The Animated Series*).

Elias Grover is born to Christian parents (*Clerks II*).

Twelve-year-olds Dante Hicks and Randal Graves see *Bachelor Party* on BETA, which sparks an interest in seeing a donkey show (*Clerks II*).

The Beyonder visits Earth to try and understand humanity (Marvel Comics).

Angus MacGyver begins working with the Phoenix Foundation(*MacGyver*).

Jem and the Holograms begin their adventures (*Jem*).

Seniors at a retirement home are revitalized by alien cocoons (*Cocoon*).

Charlie Brewster confronts his vampire neighbor(*Fright Night (1985)*).

The Goonies hunt for pirate treasure (*The Goonies*).

Pee-Wee Herman embarks on a quest to find his stolen bike (*Pee-wee's Big Adventure*).

Trioxin zombies rampage in Louisville, Kentucky (*The Return of the Living Dead*).

Teenager Scott Howard discovers he is a werewolf, however the strain is extremely diluted over the generations and he and his father are able to control themselves(*Teen Wolf*).

Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly use a computer to create their dream woman Lisa (*Weird Science*).

Laws are passed banning sale of organs(*Known Space*).

The Angel Loki bets Bartleby that *Krush Groove* will dethrone *E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*(or some fictional counterpart to it) as the #1 box office champ (*Dogma*).

Corporate raider Gordon Gekko is sent to prison for insider trading after losing control of Bluestar Airlines. Bud Fox, who introduced Gekko to the company and turned against him, is also convicted. Gekko's quote "Greed is Good" becomes quite famous (*Wall Street*).

Walter Bishop presents a way to create a window to an alternate universe. After the death of his son Peter, he uses the window to kidnap the alternate version of Peter (*Fringe*).

Daniel Carrington makes contact with a Maian ship. The aliens are impressed with his proposal of gradual, peaceful contact between their two species, and allow him to introduce Maian technology through his research and development company, the Carrington Institute (*Perfect Dark*).

Dio Brando awakens from his hundred year sleep, and having stolen the body of his stepbrother, Jonathan Joestar, his awakening also activates the innate powers (Stands) of the rest of the Joestar family over time (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*).

Ghoulies are brought back to the world alongside with their former master (*Ghoulies*).

supposed birth of Dawn Summers in Los Angeles (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Cyberdyne begins using remains of the Terminator to construct SkyNet (*Terminator 2: Judgment Day*).

Mike Nelson is visited by a robot from the future while working in a cheese factory, who advises him to pursue a musical career with his band Sex Factory rather than continue a path of temp jobs. Seconds later, a second robot from the future gets into an argument with the first and encourages Mike to keep being mediocre. The second robot leaves, while the first robot is left behind to get a job at the cheese factory (*Mystery Science Theater 3000: Time Chasers*).

Galatea, Mister Mystic, Elphin and Feral join the Champions (*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

Rocky Balboa defeats Ivan Drago in boxing ring after he killed Apollo Creed in an earlier boxing match. Afterward, various complications inclduing injuries force him to retire (*Rocky IV* and *Rocky V*).

Secret Service agent Richard Chance's partner Jimmy Hart dies couple days before his retirement (*To Live and Die in L.A.*).

Street vigilante Casey Jones begin his activities, and encounters fellow crime fighter Raphael for the first time. A series of events involving the alien Utroms leads to the Ninja Turtles being hurled across the galaxy, encountering The Fugitoid and The Triceratons for the first time. Upon their return to Earth, the TCRI building is destroyed as the Utroms make their escape. Their creation, the mutant alligator Leatherhead, is accidentally left behind (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

Birth of Daisy to Will Navidson and Karen Green (*House of Leaves*).

Becky Saunders persuades Carol Butcher to leave he abusive husband. Later that year, Becky marries Billy Butcher (*The Boys*).

Hal and Lois Nolastname are married (*Malcolm in the Middle*).

In France, Hellboy rescues a young woman from a cult, and then hunts down the demon that kidnapped her, Asmodeus (*Hellboy*: The Bride of Hell)(Asmodeus, sometimes spelled with an O, is not killed in this encounter. Given he is a shapeshifting Demon, he is every version of the Demon).

Bobby Hanes campaigns to buy out the Los Santos(Angeles) Dodgers from the Schmidt Conglomerate, which has itself just purchased the team from the O'Malley family. Hanes' bid is approved by the National League (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Abigail Morgan leaves her immortal husband Henry, as she gets jitters about the fact that she's growing older and he's perpetually 35. Before she can return to Henry, Abigail indirectly tips off the evil immortal Adam to the existence of another immortal, but commits suicide to protect Henry's secret when Adam threatens her. Adam spends the next 29 years searching for the other immortal (*Forever*).

Debbie was gonna be an actress. She was gonna be a star. She was gonna shake her ass on the hood of Whitesnake's car. Also, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna (way before Nirvana), there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV. ("1985")

Metropolis(New York) is troubled by a new street gang led by the histrionic criminal Zed. The new graduates from Commandant Lassard's academy are sent to take the gang down(*Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment*).

The Losers Club confront IT in the sewers underneath Derry. In the ensuing fight, Edward is killed but William manages to finally destroy the monstrous creature for good by tearing out it's heart. Simultaneously, the worst storm in Maine history tears through Derry, destroying most of the town. In the aftermath of IT's destruction, the Losers Club finds most of their memories of IT, Derry and each other begin to fade, as well as the physical records kept by Michael in his journal (*IT*).

Homer Simpson, Seymour Skinner, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Clancy Wiggum form a barbershop quartet and become a surprise hit with their song "Baby On Board". Wiggum is replaced by Barney Gumble before the group goes mainstream for being "too Village People", and they choose the name The Be Sharps (*The Simpsons*: Homer's Barbershop Quartet).

In an alternate timeline, Earth is devastated by a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union (*The Twilight Zone (1985),* The survivors and their descendants refer to it as the Total War. It takes 200 years for Earth to rebuild (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

In an alternate universe in which Johnny Cyclops was elected President in 1976. A terrorist group called the November Squad is responsible for the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge and a massacre at the United World Organization(United Nations) Building in Metropolis(New York City). These attacks lead to the declaration of martial law in the United States. The 1988 presidential election is postponed indefinitely due to the recently introduced restrictions on mass public gatherings with the US government essentially being run by the directors of the CEA(CIA),FBR( FBI) and NSA as a troika. As such, the United States is well on its way to becoming a fascist state (*Replay*).

Captain Neal Patterson, Lt. Mike Cruze, Lt. Larry Turner and Professor Konrad are sent on a mission to repair a space station. However, the station is destroyed by a mysterious energy beam. Their ship is caught in this beam and crashlands on Venus (*Queen of Outer Space*).

A trio of teenage superheroes, Hercules, Mercury and Astrea, begin their mission to protect Earth (*Space Sentinels*).

Dr. Stephen Craig dies after getting into a car accident - caused by his using both cocaine and barbiturates - while driving himself and his heavily pregnant new wife Yvonne Galecki back to Ohio. The next day, Dr. Roxanne Turner is forced to deliver the baby by caesarean section while Yvonne is still comatose. The baby is a girl, who is later named Barbara (*St. Elsewhere*).

Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the colonial Massachusetts village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Harley Schwarzenegger Holmes is born (*Eerie, Indiana*).

Rya'c is born on Chulak. (*Stargate SG-1*)

Kung Fury's police department is slaughtered by a time-traveling Adenoid Hynkel(Adolf Hitler) prompting him to go back in time for revenge (*Kung Fury*).

On Earth X, Heinrich Kemmler(Heinrich Himmler)(He is a necromancer and may be undead, but he seizes to be at least), the second Führer of the Greater German Reich, dies and is succeeded by Kurt Haldweim. However, a popular conspiracy theory holds that Kemmler(Himmler) actually died in 1983 and his death was kept secret for two years. (*In the Presence of Mine Enemies*)

The Sixth Doctor and Peri arrive on Earth to view the arrival of Halley's Comet, only to become involved in a plan by the Cybermen to use the comet to destroy Earth (*Doctor Who*).

Pacific Tech students Chris Knight and Mitch Taylor work together to build a powerful laser, not knowing that their professor is using them to build a weapon for the CEA(CIA)(*Real Genius*)

Taro Ninten leaves home, hoping to find his parents. He meets Shunsuke Utsugi, who hires him as an assistant (*Famicom Detective Club*).

## **Early to Mid 1980's**

Raiden born (*Metal Gear Solid 2*).

Estimated birth of Amy/Kris to Guile and Julia/Jane. She is a niece to Eliza and Ken Masters (*Street Fighter II*).

Estimated births of the sisters Hoimei and Shaomei. They would become the main love interests of Yun and Yang (*Street Fighter III*).

Estimated birth of Vanessa Sims. She would grow up to become the owner of her own bar and the main love interest of Kyle Travers (*Final Fight:Streetwise*).

Estimated birth of Area. She would grow up to become a Child Prodigy and a gifted inventor. She would convert her father's inventions to weapons and use them in combat. (*Street Fighter EX*)(Believed to be among the youngest characters.)

Hamato Splinter encounters the spirit of Gosei Hatsumi, an elderly Japanese man, on the astral plane, and helps him reach out to his grandson and take on the spiritual heritage of the Gosei Samurai (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

The Ninja Turtles encounter the mutant Leatherhead in the sewers for the first time, and helps save him from Mr Marley, a big game hunter and poacher who has driven several rare species into extinction (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

Namie Yagiri is born (*Durarara!!*).

Ogden Morrow sees James Halliday reading a Dungeons, Dungeons and more Dungeons(*Dungeons & Dragons)* players' guide and invites him to join his gaming group. Halliday and Morrow become fast friends (*Ready Player One*).

**December:** Jack Seth pursues Martin Whistler back in time to prevent him from Ret Goneing the founders of their society (*Trancers*).

A policeman is simultaneously struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra, gaining elite martial arts powers in the process, becoming Jung Fury(*Kung Fury*).

## **1985-1986**

Banky Edwards dates Nina Rollins and performs a sexual act on her. Her her cat pounces on her stomach and she does a pelvic thrust that knocks out one of Banky's teeth. He later dates Brandi Svenning and has a similar bad experience in a similar position which is interrupted by Mr. Svenning, who damages Banky's neck when pulling her away. Banky swears off going down on girls from then on (*Chasing Amy*)

The 14-year-old Charlie Keys goes on a hunting trip in Wisconsin. He does not enjoy the experience (*Taken*).

## **1986**

**January 1/14:** Ramona Flowers is born(Volume 1 says her birthday is January 14th, but in Volume 4 she says it was January 1st. Given that the series is set in 2011, when she is 25, she would be born in 1986 (*Scott Pilgrim*).

**January 9:** Luke Doggett is born (*The X-Files*).

**January 28:** Shizuo Heiwajima is born. (*Durarara!!*)

**January:** After twenty-four years without any successes, the US government quietly cancels funding for Professor Marcus Irving's top secret time travel project, choosing instead to invest in the SDI. Irving finds out that Emmett Brown had been the government's original choice to lead the project(*Back to the Future*).

**January-early February:** A series of protests forces Jean-Claude Duvalier to step down as dictator of Haiti (Real Life). While all this happens, an American scientist investigates claims of voodoo zombies (*The Serpent and the Rainbow*).

**February 13:** On her first day at Morrison Junior High School in Los Altos, California, Lisa Clarke meets Nina Toth and the two girls start a lifelong friendship. That evening, Lisa has her first period. In the absence of her mother Carol, she calls Nina and asks her to buy sanitary pads for her. After Nina leaves, Lisa walks her dog Watson around her trailer park and sees an image of the carny that frightened Jesse Keys as a child. He says, "Lisa, today you are a woman." She is then abducted by the aliens for the first time (*Taken*).

**February 15:** At a signing of his book *The Mojave Desert Sightings* in Metropolis(New York), Eric Crawford confronts Tom Clarke and demands to know what caused him to become a believer in aliens after being a prominent debunker. Tom tells him that maybe he just saw the light but refuses to elaborate (*Taken*).

**February 16:** In the aftermath of her first abduction, Lisa Clarke calls her uncle Tom to ask him what he knows about the aliens (*Taken*).

**February 17:** Tommy Raymond is born in Secaucus, New Guersey(Jersey) to Donald and Clare Raymond (*Star Trek: The Next Generation*).

**March 3:** Birth of Orson the Pig (*U.S. Acres*).

Marty McFly, bored with everyday life after his time traveling adventures, receives a letter from Clara Clayton Brown in 1893, and gets caught up in a new conundrum (*Back to the Future*).

**March 22:** Rosemarie Miletti, a young woman receiving singing lessons in March 1966, travels 20 years forward in time and discovers that she will become a famous opera singer (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

**March:** Orson, having been deemed a runt by the farmer who owns him, gets taken away from his barn (*U.S. Acres*).

**April 2:** Shinra Kishitani is born (*Durarara!!*).

**April 4:** CEA(CIA) operative Alex Mason comes out of retirement at the behest of his former handler Jason Hudson and Lt. Col. Oliver North, heading to Angola on a mission to aid UNITA forces and rescue fellow operator Frank Woods. While on said mission, Mason has his first encounter with a young Raul Menendez, getting into a brief altercation that ends in him shooting Menendez's eye out (*Call of Duty: Black Ops II*).

**April 5:** Pelafina Truant regains enough temporary lucidity to write to Johnny and ask why he hasn't responded to any of the numerous letters she falsely thinks she's sent and stops taking her medication (*House of Leaves*).

**April 13:** After incorrectly singing a lyric during band practice, Marty McFly realizes that his memories of the Twin Pines timeline(wha the calls the origina timeline as he accidentally hit a pine when he went back, causing the Mall built in the area to become the Lone Pine Mall instead of the Twin Pines mall) don't mesh with the events of the timeline created by his time traveling adventures. He talks with his father and his church's priest about fate and predestination (*Back to the Future*).

**April 14:** On their way to school, Marty confides in Jennifer that he's having an existential crisis, and is worried about the "Lone Pine" Marty he saw escape the terrorists. He receives a message from Professor Marcus Irving, another time travel researcher, who wants to talk to him and Doc Brown (*Back to the Future*).

**April 15:** Concerned about fading from existence, Marty sends a letter to Doc, who shows up in the DeLorean. Professor Irving steals the flux capacitor, setting off a chain of events that leads to Doc and Marty getting kidnapped by an evil version of Professor Irving from 1997. Eventually, this future timeline is undone when 1986! Irving is horrified by his corrupt future self and smashes the flux capacitor he stole (*Back to the Future*).

**April 20:** in an alternate universe, possibly Earth 30, President Walter Mondale legalizes marijuana in the United States after Ron Nasty(John Lennon) handcuffs himself to the Space Shuttle *Challenger* during a VIP tour as a protest (*Chrononauts*).

**April 21:** Adrian Chase is born (*Arrow*).

**April 26:** An explosion occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukraine, USSR. Because of this, Pripyat is now a ghost town(Real Life, *Chernobyl*). Mrs. Vadimsky, a technician at the plant, is critically injured in the disaster and ends up in a coma. She did not realize that she was pregnant. (*The Outer Limits (1995)*). Eugene Zuckerberg prevents Chernobyl from erupting. Or so he says. (*NoPixel*)

**April 27:** Michael and June Wright discover that they are stuck in the minute of 11:37 am, which is still under construction. (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*)

**April 30:** Johnny Truant visits Pelafina in Whalestoe, but she is completely unresponsive and doesn't realise it. (*House of Leaves*)

**April:** Orson the pig is accepted into a new barn and meets Roy the Rooster. (*U.S. Acres*)

**Spring:** Lenny Butcher is killed in a traffic accident (*The Boys*).

Los Santos(Angeles) Dodgers owner Bobby Hanes punches out a Metropolis( New York) Yankees player during a spring training game. Hanes is suspended from the first few games of the regular baseball season (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

**May 4:** Izaya Orihara is born (*Durarara!!*).

**May 14:** Marty McFly is contacted by Doc Brown for another time travel adventure (*Back to the Future: The Game*).

**May 31:** Pelafina Truant gets a postcard from Johnny, who is spending the summer working at a fish processing factory in Alaska. She demands to know why he hasn't come to visit her (*House of Leaves*).

**May:** Two chicken eggs are abandoned. Orson the pig finds them and sits on them for a few weeks, and they eventually hatch into Booker and Sheldon (*U.S. Acres*).

**July 6:** Pelafina Truant fears her medication is being placed in her food (*House of Leaves*).

**July 22, 4:22 PM EST:** In an alternate universe the "White Event" occurs. The Earth is bathed in a mysterious white light for a few moments. This event causes two out of every one million humans to become "paranormals" with unique, genetically-based abilities (Marvel Comics' The New Universe)(It was intentionally meant to be a separate universe from the main one, hence why it is separate).

**July:** In an alternate universe, the Cold War escalates into a nuclear exchange, and the British government retreat into hastily prepared bunkers. A pregnant medical officer gives birth to a son shortly after the bunker is sealed and names the boy John (*The Bunker*).

Jack Morrison and Joanne McFadden are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

After seriously injuring his hand, Dr. Mark Craig resigns as the chief of surgery at St. Eligius. Dr. Paulette Kiem temporarily replaces him (*St. Elsewhere*).

**August 16:** Eve Kendall is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**August:** Wade the Duck comes to the farm (*U.S. Acres*).

**Summer:** Gary Wallace tries to change history by having Lisa send him back in time to Camp Hi-De-Ho so that he can win the heart of Julia Putnam, on whom he had a crush, and spare himself the embarrassment of being tied to a tree all night by Jeremy Scanlon. He succeeds in doing so but he changes history back, albeit very reluctantly, after Julia breaks up with him and Jeremy's life is ruined (*Weird Science*).

**September 15:** Kyohei Kadota is born (*Durarara!!*).

**September 16:** John Parker becomes trapped in a mine and is sent back to September 16, 1912, where he meets Ray Dobson (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

**September 17:** Pelafina Truant has a violent outburst at the Whalestoe director, is put in solitary confinement (*House of Leaves*).

**Mid-September:** Goro Kaneda runs out of money (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**September 23:** Yoko Kojima begins investigating the Girl Who Stands Behind. Friends and family grow concerned over her increasingly errative behaviour (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**September 24:** Yoko Kojima meets Ryoko Katsuragi, and tells her that Shinobu Asakawa's body is hidden at Ushimitsu High School (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**September 29 - 30:** Yoko Kojima investigates the old Ushimitsu High school building. She shocks Toshio Tazaki with her knowledge of the Kaneda murder case. (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*)

**September 31:** Yoko Kojima is murdered. Taro Ninten of Utsugi Detective Agency investigates, and meets Ayumi Tachibana. That evening, Goro Kaneda sees a news report on the murder and realises how he can get some more money (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**Late September:** Johnny Truant gets into a fight at his new school and is expelled. He moves to Ohio (*House of Leaves*).

**October 1:** A mysterious man,Goro Kaneda, first meets Tadashi Urabe (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**October 4:** Ayumi Tachibana and Taro Ninten confront the suspected murderer of Yoko Kojima in his home town. Toshio Tazaki appears to be innocent(*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**October 5:** Taro Ninten tracks down Goro Kaneda right as he is murdered (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**October 4/5:** The Rokkenjima Mass Murders occur on the small island of Rokkenjima in the Izu archipelago. Eighteen people, including most of the Ushiromiya family, one of the wealthiest families in Japan, are presumed dead (*Umineko: When They Cry*).

**October 6:** Tadashi Urabe leaves on a business trip. He was actually making arrangements to take the fall for the murders of Yoko Kojima and Goro Kaneda. Taro Ninten interviews Sayaka Ishibashi (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**October 7:** Taro Ninten and Aymui Tachibana apprehend the murderer of Shinobu Asakawa and Yoko Kojima and Goro Kaneda. It is Tatsuya Hibino, previously known as Tatsu Uchida (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*)

**October 10:** At 2:12 pm, Marshall Teller buys a bike at Knievel Bike Shop in New Guersey(Jersey) (*Eerie, Indiana*).

**October 10-12:** U.S. President Johnny Cyclops( Ronald Reagan) and the Soviet leader Andrei Narmanov(Mikhail Gorbachev\_ meet in Reykjavik, Iceland for arms talks(Real Life). Roberta Lincoln and Jaime Sommers prevent Cyclops(Reagan) from being assassinated with poisoned jellybeans (*Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars*).

**October 24:** Fox Mulder joins the FBI. (*The X-Files*)

**Before December:** Concerned about the threat of nuclear war, the U.S. President has a secret bunker built under the sculptures of the Presidents at Mount Rushmore (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

**December 24:** The Shredder returns two years after his supposed death, beating Leonardo close to death, and has the Foot Clan destroy April O'Neil's antique store in an effort to kill the turtles and Splinter. They are saved by Casey Jones, but are forced to escape Metropolis( New York), and relocate to Massachusetts for a year. The Foot clan reclaims much of its power over the Metropolis( New York )underworld (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

**December:** The First Doctor and his companions Ben and Polly stop the Cybermen from draining Earth's energy to restore their planet Mondas. Mondas is destroyed as a result. The First Doctor goes off on his own, has an adventure with the Twelfth Doctor, then regenerates. (*Doctor Who*)

Captain Buck Rogers is recruited by U.S. President Johnny Cyclops to uncover a conspiracy orchestrated by a group of Air Force officers, led by Lt. General Preston C. Meyers, to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. He is placed under a deep hypnosis to ensure that his true allegiance is not discovered (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

(Model year): Assan Motors establishes a U.S manufacturing facility in an existing plant in Hadleyville, PA (*Gung Ho*)

Dante Hicks and Caitlin Bree begin their turbulent three-year friendship. Dante loses his virginity to Caitlin, an event which is caught on tape by Randal Graves and they eventually get caught having sex in the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, the parents of the three Jones sisters. (*Clerks* and *Clerks: The Animated Series*)

On Earth 30, The Empire of the Rising Sun declares war on both the Allies and the Soviet Union, beginning the War of the Three Powers. The Allies are ultimately victorious (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3*).

On Earth 30, The once mighty USSR is divided into 15 republics. The Soviet Underground movement began to fight FutureTech Corporation with success to expel the Allied occuption forces from the USSR, giving them the means to rebuild their Soviet empire. They destroy the Sigma Harmonizer to rescue themselves and, indirectly, the Allies, from being chrono-erased by Rupert Thornley's madman plans of ridding the world of communism at the roots. (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising*)

On Earth 30, The Empire of the Rising Sun is reduced to a puppet government led by Crown Prince Tatsu, sparking the remaining shogunates to rebel. The Uprising is eventually quashed with Allied assistance, ending with the shoguns and Tatsu under arrest, the once-Crown Prince makes a stand for independence (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising*).

On Earth 30, Powerful psychic Yuriko "Omega" Matsui goes on a rampage, killing her "sister" Izumi and Dr. Shinji Shimada, the man responsible for the Omega Project (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising*).

The former crew of the U.S.S. *Enterprise* show up in San Fransokyo(cisco) on a captured Klingon bird-of-prey, looking for some whales. They recruit George and Gracie (a pair of humpback whales) and their caretaker Dr. Gillian Taylor for a journey to the 23rd century. All three remain i nthe future(*Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home*).

Word reaches Aperture Science that rival company Black Mesa is also creating portal technology. In response, Aperture engineers begin to develop the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System (GLaDOS) (*Portal*).

Aerialbots are sent back in time to 11 million BC, where they assist in the creation of Optimus Prime (*Transformers: Generation 1*, cartoon continuity).

After being unable to conceive a child, Bethany Sloane goes to a doctor and finds out that her abortion was shoddily done, and destroyed her uterus. She comes clean to her husband, who leaves her. Brett eventually remarries and has two kids. During a phone conversation with her mother, Bethany loses her faith in God. She also starts working at an abortion clinic around this time (*Dogma: The Screenplay*).

William Birkin marries his long-time collaborator, Annette. They have a daughter, Sherry, later that year (*Resident Evil 2*).

Booster Gold makes his debut when he saves the life of President Johnny Cyclops from an assassin(DC Comics).

The last recorded murder in Sandford occurs. However this is false as the murders are reported as accidents(*Hot Fuzz*),

Darkseid sends his minion Glorious Godfrey to Earth to brainwash and turn humanity against Superheroes. This leads to the creation of the Suicide Squad and while this plan fails. A new Justice League, knowna s Justice League International is formed in the wake of these events. (DC Comics)

the alien Gordon Shumway crashlands in the Tanners' garage and becomes part of the family (*ALF*).

Jack Burton and friends confront and defeat the evil sorcerer Lo Pan in Chinatown(*Big Trouble in Little China*).

Sarah Williams enters the realm of the Goblin King to save her baby brother when he is kidnapped (*Labyrinth*).

Ferris Bueller takes a day off school (*Ferris Bueller's Day Off*).

A military robot named Johnny 5 accidentally gains sentience and a kindly disposition (*Short Circuit*).

Scientist Seth Brundle gets fused with a fly while working on a teleporter and transforms into a monster(*The Fly (1986)*).

Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee visits Metropolis(New York City)(*Crocodile Dundee*).

Double-O agents James Bond(Actually agent Remington Steele using the codename) and Alec Trevelyan take out a Soviet chemical weapons plant, but Trevelyan is seemignly killed during the mission(*GoldenEye*).

Mass-murderer Light Yagami, who would be known to the world as Kira, is born (*Death Note*).

A raw deal is given to Mark Kaminsky (*Raw Deal*).

Rose Tyler is born in London.(She mentions the "first nineteen years of [her] life" prior to March 2005 in "Doomsday", though this is contradicted by her being stated as "six months old" in November 1987 in "Rise of the Cybermen". Either way her birthday is around this time (*Doctor Who*).

The vampiric Fangire race begins attacking humanity, its only opposition being the secretive Wonderful Blue Sky Organization. Eccentric violin genius Otoya Kurenai joins Blue Sky, later becoming the primary user of the Intercept X Attacker (IXA) combat suit (*Kamen Rider Kiva*).

Otavio Concone carries out the second stage of his revenge on Anna Hidalgo by performing a hit and run on her daughter, leaving her crippled for life (*Highlander: The Series*)(Ten years before the main events of the episode.).

Jason Voorhees is resurrected by a lightning strike, becoming an undead killer(*Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives*).

Doctor Impossible unleashes his second Doomsday device, Antiron(*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

Paul Conway resurrects his deceased neighbour Samantha Pringle by implanting a robot chip into her brain (*Deadly Friend*).

Rick Burnham is appointed director of the CEA(CIA)(*The Boys*).

Gary King and Andy Knightley reenact the Knife Game from *Aliens*(most likely a fictional counterpart to the film), and Gary stabs him in the middle finger (*The World's End*).

In North Carolina, Hellboy and Abe Sapian search for the skull of Blackbeard, last seen in the hands of a psychic who had murdered the previous owner (*Hellboy*: They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships).

After a tumultuous season in Los Santos( Los Angeles), team owner Bobby Hanes announces he is moving the Dodgers club back to Brooklyn (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Someone attempts to murder Pamela Bates, a guest of Robin Masters, as she is driven to Masters' estate by Jonathan Higgins. Thomas Magnum investigates the case with the aid of Bates' friend, crime novelist (and amateur sleuth) Jessica Fletcher. (*Magnum, P.I.*, *Murder, She Wrote*).

The State Of New Troy(New York) decides to shut down one of its two police academies, and leads to a competition between Commander Mauser and Commandant Lassard to see whose school stays open. A new class of cadets are trained at Lassard's academy, including former criminal and gang leader Zed, and one of his former victims, store owner Sweetchuck (*Police Academy 3: Back In Training*).

The Be Sharps perform at the Statue Of Liberty Bicentennial, put out their second album, *Bigger Than Jesus*(While this is a joke at John Lennon claiming the same thing, given the time period, ITTL the song is likely a tribute to Ron Nasty as he was murdered six ears previously), and win a Grammy at the 1986 Grammy Awards. However, cracks begin to form as the group starts to become burned out on performing and touring, which is only made worse when Barney Gumble wants to change direction to avant-garde music. The group decides to disband when Entertainment Weekly puts them on the "Not" list for their "Hot Or Not" feature (*The Simpsons*: Homer's Barbershop Quartet).

Nathan Spring is born (*Star Cops*).

The Martians originally intended to invade Earth in this year but the invasion was moved up to 1972 (*Journey into Space*).

U.S. presidential candidate Senator Gordon Endicott is assassinated in the St. Eligius chapel by a crazed man named Lennox (*St. Elsewhere*).

St. Eligius celebrates its 50th anniversary (*St. Elsewhere*).

Bobby and Pamela Ewing are married for the second time (*Dallas*).

Greg Sumner and Laura Avery are married (*Knots Landing*).

Maxwell Stoddard dies (*Quantum Leap*).

John O'Connor and Jabez Stone die (*St. Elsewhere*).

Tim Moynihan dies of kidney failure (*St. Elsewhere*).

It becomes illegal to possess a Megasoid (*The Outer Limits (1963)* episode "The Duplicate Man").

Richard Belding becomes the principal of Bayside High School (*Saved by the Bell: The New Class*).

In London, the immortal knight Lancelot is reunited with Morgan le Fay, the half-sister of King Arthur, after hundreds of years. She warns him that Merlin is emerging from his centuries of sleep and that he is dangerous. Morgan then transports Lancelot and a young man named Tom to a cave in Cornwall to confront Merlin (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Conrad Birdie(Elvis) impersonator Gary Pitkin is transported back to time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954 and meets the real Conrad Birdie(Elvis Presley)(*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

The DJ Andrea Fields is visited by the ghost of her former lover Simon Locke (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

A college student named Jenny Templeton is visited by two time travelers from 2139 who tell her that she will become the first President of Earth (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Barney Schlessinger switches places with his counterpart in a less technologically advanced universe (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Rick Frost, who has been wrongly convicted of murder, discovers a piano in prison that transports him to a different point in the past every time that he plays it (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Jeff McDowell, who fled to Canada when he was drafted to fight in the Sarkhan War( Vietnam War) in 1971, meets a version of himself from a parallel universe who fought in Sarkhan(Vietnam) and lost both of his legs when he stepped on a landmine (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Cult Classic Slasher Movie *Camp Bloodbath* is released (*The Final Girls*)(Presumably it is based on the Campy Crystal Lake Murders).

Cassandra is born on Hanka (*Stargate SG-1*).

Degrassi Community School is founded (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

Alec Colson's wife and daughter are killed in a plane crash (*Stargate SG-1*).

In an alternate universe, Earth is destroyed by the alien race(the Engineers) that seeded it with DNA and sped up evolution two million years earlier as humanity does not meet their requirements due to its small talent for war. In the main universe, this alien race is defeated (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Cora Sabino is born. (*Axiom's End*)

David Freeman wakes up in 1986, unaged and completely unaware that eight years have passed due to Time Dilation. He's brought to a NASA facility for research, and escapes with the help of the spaceship that originally abducted him in 1978 (*Flight of the Navigator*).

A sapient desktop lamp plays around with a bouncy ball only to cause it to pop. However, it soon finds a much larger ball (*Luxo, Jr.*).

## **1986-1987**

At a costume party, Gwen Turner has sex with Rick Derris on a pool table while dressed as Burt Reynolds. Her boyfriend, T.S. Quint, as well as Brodie Bruce, are present (*Mallrats*).

T.S. Quint and Gwen Turner have sex for the first and only time on a skiing trip (*Mallrats*).

The Turtles foil a Western Terrorist plot to ignite the Cold War into a full bown nuclear exchange in the backwoods of Massachusetts (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

After some initial trouble, Bobby Hanes tears down Ebbets Field Apartments to make way for a rebuilt Ebbets Field (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Danny Farrell and Nikki Hudson are born (*The 4400*).

On Langara, the Kelownans discover the Stargate and Goa'uld research relating to naquadria in an ancient temple(*Stargate SG-1*).

Flora Fairchild is born (*The Turning*).

## **1987**

**January 12:** Blake Lotherington and Kristen Garth disappear (*The 4400*).

**January:** Orson the pig and friends investigate the "dark side of the barn" and meet Bo and Lanolin, the twin sheep (*U.S. Acres*).

After being imprisoned on the Isle of Pines for 25 years, CEA(CIA) operatives Lech and Olga Oseransky are released. They travel to Boston to reunite with their son Dr. Victor Ehrlich, who believes that they died when he was seven years old (*St. Elsewhere*).

**February 1:** Will Robinson is born. (*Lost in Space*)

**February 7:** Time-displaced Katherine Wainwright, née Kathy Nightingale, writes a letter to her friend Sally Sparrow in 2007, explaining her ordeal. She asks her grandson Malcolm the exact time and place to give the letter. Katherine dies later in the year (*Doctor Who*).

**February:** Ellen Craig's mother Margaret Harper dies of a heart attack after her son-in-law Mark accidentally sends her the severed head of Bill Belvedere in a package. He had meant to send her an urn (*St. Elsewhere*).

Marcy Eisenberg attempts to kill herself by inhaling chocolate (*St. Elsewhere*).

Darcy, Kyle and C.J. Tillman are born. (*St. Elsewhere*)

**March 9:** Roger Wolcott disappears (*The 4400*).

**March 11:** Herman Lester is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**March 17:** Phyllis Gross disappears (*The 4400*).

**March 22:** Cornelia Visiav disappears (*The 4400*).

**March:** Outbreak of radioactive zombies near Khotan Nuclear Power Plant, Xinjiang (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Bulldozers spend time clearing the area where New Ebbets Field will be built. The park is completed after the conclusion of the baseball season (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Buck Rogers promises his girlfriend Jennifer that he will never leave her again after returning from the Ranger 3 mission (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

**April 5:** In Chicago, Steven Bartholomew "Steve" Rhoades and his new wife Marcy move into Jeopardy Lane. They meet the Bundys for the first time. The modern-day adventures of the Bundy family begin (*Married... with Children*).

**Mid-April:** Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina and gives her his new address (*House of Leaves*).

**April 20:** The United States vessel XR-53, commanded by Captain John Black, lands on Mars(in the source material it was the first Earth ship to land on Mars (*Dimension X*).

**April 24:** Birth of Gabriel Bell. He would be the eponymous figure of the Bell Riots of 2024 (*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*).

**April 27:** Pelafina Truant advises Johnny that her next letter will be in code, and sends this message via a nurse (*House of Leaves*).

**April:** Buck Rogers visits his mother in Chicago. This is the last time that he sees her (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

Meg Sumner (later MacKenzie) is born (*Knots Landing*).

**May 7:** Candida Rhodes disappears. (*The 4400*)

**May 10:** Clayton Hathaway is raped and murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**May 26:** On her thirteenth birthday, Jenna Rink wishes that she was 30 years old. The next morning, Jenna awakens to find that her wish has come true and that it is now 2004 (*13 Going on 30*).

**May:** Captain William Anthony "Buck" Rogers becomes trapped in suspended animation during an experimental space flight. He is not revived until 2491 (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

Pelafina Truant is regularly raped by staff at the Whalestoe, or possibly she imagines she is (*House of Leaves*).

Th Superheroine Queen Maeve has sex with both Stormfront(Who is the female version from the Amazon Series ITTL) and Midnight Lightning, and gets pregnant with the latter's baby (*The Boys*).

Paranoid survivalist Harry Dobbs seals himself and a friend inside a secret fallout shelter when World War III seemingly occurs. However, in reality, what happened was actually a nuclear misfire in a grounded military plane in a nearby airbase which destroyed the town. The grim reality of nuclear annihilation spurred the superpowers into world peace, and unbeknownst to Dobbs, a memorial has been built right on top of the ruins, and the shelter, leaving him buried alive (*The Twilight Zone: Shelter Skelter*).

**June 14:** The Mets lose at home to the Phillies, following a Keith Hernandez error. Newman and Kramer, after jeering Hernandez while passing him next to the players' ramp, both get hit by a loogie presumably spit by Hernandez. It was actually Roger McDowell, who they'd been cursing at all game. (*Seinfeld*)

**June 17:** Vaughn Pearson is born (*Black Hole High*).

**June 18:** In an alternate timeline, Earth is evacuated due to devastating fallout from the Earth Wars. By this time, the radioactive dust cloud has already encompassed Metropolis(New York) and is heading west. The comparatively few survivors settle on Mars (*Dimension X*).

**June 23:** Pelafina Truant's grasp on reality fractures (*House of Leaves*).

**June:** Cameron Mitchell graduates from George Washington High School (*Stargate SG-1*).

Dr. Bixler recruits the astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield for a 40 year round trip to a solar system 141 lightyears from Earth (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

**July 31:** Pelafina Truant sends Johnny a literally labyrinthine letter about how she fears death (*House of Leaves*).

**July:** In the Dimension X Universe, Dr. Cornelius Hathaway's wife Alice and children Susan, Marguerite and John die from radiation poisoning when the dust cloud from the Earth Wars envelopes the United States. Hathaway creates robot copies of all four of them in order to combat his terrible loneliness. (*Dimension X*)

**August 9:** Kayla Odoms is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

**August 13:** Pelafina Truant fears she will never see Johnny again. (*House of Leaves*)

**August:** St. Eligius is bought by a Japanese HMO called Magnum Fujihama Incorporated. They close down the hospital and fire the entire staff (*St. Elsewhere*).

Ellen Craig tells her husband Mark that she wants a divorce because he is a sick, pathetic man and an insensitive bully (*St. Elsewhere*).

The demolition of St. Eligius is stopped by the Eucama Corporation, who bought the hospital from Magnum Fujihama Incorporated. Almost the entire staff is rehired and the hospital is reopened a month later (*St. Elsewhere*).

Veronica Mars is born (*Veronica Mars*).

**Before September:** Edgar Eisenberg dies (*St. Elsewhere*).

**September 9:** Carol Benning is murdered (*Quantum Leap*).

**September 15:** Jamie Skysinger disappears (*The 4400*).

**September 16:** Sam Beckett and Alia dual-leap into a women's prison to escape Lothos and to figure out how an inmate, Carol Benning, died. Zoey leaps in after them with murderous intent. Alia eventually leaps free, and Sam shoots Zoey. Sam also solves the mystery of the murdered inmate (*Quantum Leap*).

**September 18:** In the rebootverse, Launchpad McQuack is born (*DuckTales (2017)*).

**September 24:** Pelafina Truant begs Johnny to take her out of the Whalestoe (*House of Leaves*).

**September 26:** After Charles Russell is killed in a hovercar accident on July 29, 2011, St. Peter gives him a second chance by sending him back to this date so that he can help his younger self make better decisions in life (*Second Chance*).

**September 27:** Scott Pilgrim is born(His 24th birthday is celebrated on this day in volume 5. The last volume is implied to take place in 2012, setting the year)(*Scott Pilgrim*).

**September:**Cohee Lunden transfers from Hudson to North; while there, he hangs out with Rick Derris and Alyssa Jones. This eventually leads to a threesome sexual encounter that earns Alyssa the nick-name "Finger Cuffs" (*Mallrats*).

Jimmy Brooks is born (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

Dr. Victor Ehrlich and Nurse Lucy Papandrao are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

**October 4:** Pearadyne Labs are destroyed (*Black Hole High*).

**October 30:** After 70 years of waiting, Jesse McLaughlin is finally dug up from his grave (*House II: The Second Story*).

**October 31:** WNUF channel's disastrous Halloween Special is aired (*WNUF Halloween Special*).

**October:** Marcy leaves her job at "The Leading Bank of Chicago". She gets hired by the local division of the "Kyoto National Bank" (*Married... with Children*).

The Metropolis(New York) Yankees win the 1987 World Series (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

Paige Michalchuk is born (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

**November 7:** Rose Tyler creates a paradox when she saves her father, Pete Tyler, from a car accident that's meant to kill him. History is repaired when Pete sacrifices himself to restore the timeline(*Doctor Who*).

**November 13:** Security guard Jeremy Fitzgerald completes five nights (plus overtime) working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Afterward, he is moved to the day shift for one last birthday event before the establishment shuts down due to a police investigation into missing children (*Five Nights at Freddy's 2*).

**November 21:** Carrie Cutter is born (*Arrow*)(This birthdate also applies to the comic Cupid as she first appeared in 2009).

**November 22:** In an alternate universe, World War III breaks out when the Soviet Union launches an all-out nuclear attack on the United States, destroying all of its major cities. The US counterattacks, devastating the Soviet Union, and a second wave of missiles is launched against it. Millions of people are killed in the war and millions more die of radiation poisoning in the coming months. Many humans and animals are mutated by the radiation. Society very quickly breaks down. The only man made structures to survive the nuclear holocaust are the Egyptian pyramids, various Aztec ruins in Mexico and Mount Rushmore (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

In the same alternate universe, In NORAD, Major Jim Peterson discovers what he believes to be videotaped evidence that his best friend Captain Buck Rogers was involved in a conspiracy to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. He is unaware that Buck had actually been recruited by the U.S. President to uncover this conspiracy. Peterson places a copy of the video cassette in a fireproof box shortly before the United States is completely destroyed. The box is eventually recovered in the ruins of Cheyenne Mountain in 2493 (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*)(This event does not occur in the "Main Universe" due to no nuclear war occuring).

**November 24:** Joan Girardi is born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

**November 26:** On Thanksgiving, Ross Geller introduces his college roommate, Chandler Bing, to his parents and his sister, Monica (*Friends*).

**November:** Commander Douglas Stansfield and Sandra Horn meet and fall madly in love after three and a half hours (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

**December 22:** In the alternate Universe of the "New Universe" Ken Connell attempts to rid of himself of the Star Brand power by transferring it into a free weight. The result is "The Black Event", a massive blast of energy that destroys Pittsburgh. (Marvel Comics' The New Universe)

**December 25:** The Turtles return to Metropolis(New York) one year after their exile began, and encounter a surviving Triceraton in the sewers. They raid The Foot's headquarters, destroying it and killing the Shredder once and for all, burning his body to prevent any further resurrections (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

Sara Lance is born(*Arrow*)(Here she is related to the original Black Canary but is otherwise an original character to Arrow).

**December 26:** Pelafina Truant breaks down even more over Christmas (*House of Leaves*).

**December 31:** The astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield embarks on a 40 year round trip to a solar system 141 lightyears from Earth(*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

**December:** A dog named Cody and a cat named Blue start appearing on the farm (*U.S. Acres*).

Detectives Riggs and Murtaugh become partners. Murtaugh proves to be too old for this shit (*Lethal Weapon*).

Nina Muzzy is born to Eli and Rita Muzzy at St. Eligius. She is the 100,101st baby born at the hospital since its opening in 1935 (*St. Elsewhere*).

Jonas Fiscus dies of a stroke (*St. Elsewhere*).

Henry Spooner dies 24 days after his artificial heart is installed (*St. Elsewhere*).

Genetic engineering mixing human DNA with a rose and Godzilla's cells produces a monster named Biollante. Biollante and Godzilla fight, ending in a draw (*Godzilla vs. Biollante*).

After a brief separation of several years. Peter Parker and Mary Jane remarry (Marvel Comics)(In the source material the two married for the first time. Here they have been married already and have had two children Ben and Annie "Mayday" Parker).

The Dinosaucers come to Earth (*Dinosaucers*).

Ernest P. Worrell saves Kamp Kikakee (*Ernest Goes to Camp*).

Teens deal with a hole to a demonic realm in their backyard (*The Gate*).

The Henderson family take a Bigfoot into their home before releasing it back into the wild(*Harry and the Hendersons*).

A group of Pre-teens obsessed with monster movies fight off Dracula and an army of monsters including a Werewolf, Gill man and a Mummy with the aid of a Frankenstein Monster (*The Monster Squad*).

While on a diplomatic visit to Moscow, US President Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) is kidnapped by Kaiakos-K freedom fighters. He is returned a few seconds later by search/destroy agents Johnny Alpha and Durham Red (*Strontium Dog*).

Eddie Dean, in the course of smuggling some heroin for a mob boss, is recruited by Roland Deschain and pulled to another universe to help him(*The Dark Tower*).

Mercenaries hired by the CEA(CIA) for a mission to Maguadora(Guatemala) are hunted by an extraterrestrial Yautja predator(*Predator*).

Aliens invade the small town of Kaihoro in New Zealand. The Boys from Astro Investigation and Defence Service are sent to investigate (*Bad Taste*).

A bunch of actors are locked up in a theater with a psychotic killer (*StageFright -Aquarius-*).

Stepbrothers Kotaro Minami and Nobuhiko Akizuki are kidnapped by the cult Gorgom and turned into cyborgs dubbed "Century Kings", fated to battle until the victor stands as the next Creation King. Kotaro escapes and learns that Gorgom killed his birth parents, which inspires him to become Kamen Rider Black and fight Gorgom in order to rescue Nobuhiko, now the brainwashed and villainous Shadow Moon (*Kamen Rider BLACK*).

Brenda Wyatt is killed in a car accident in Scotland. Her immortal husband Connor MacLeod walks away physically unharmed. Connor takes their adoptive son John and moves to Marrakech, Morocco. (*Highlander III: The Sorcerer*)(Seven years before the main events of the film.)

Adam Pierson is assigned to do research on the elusive immortal Methos. Since he *is* Methos, he becomes the top scholar on the subject among the Watchers (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*)/

Estimated birth of Seven Wanker to Zemus and Ida Mae Wanker. (*Married... with Children*)( Mentioned being 5 years old in '92).

A worldwide martial arts tournament, spanning five countries and ten opponents,is held by Muay Thai champion Sagat. During the tournament rival fighters Sagat and Ryu first meet (*Street Fighter*).

The scientist Senoh creates a number of Monitor Cyborgs for M. Bison, leader of Shadaloo/Shadowlaw. Their purpose is to observe the strongest fighters, allowing Bison to locate potential recruits. The initial fight between Sagat and Ryu is among the first recorded by the Cyborgs. During the fight Sagat nearly defeats Ryu and offers him a helping hand up, Ryu taps into the dark power of the Satsui No Hado and uppercuts Sagat, leaving a huge scar across his chest(*Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie*).

Holly Kujo's Stand awakens. However, her body cannot handle it, causing her to become ill. Her family discovers that the man who awakened the Stands, Dio Brando, is hiding in Egypt, and they travel there to defeat him (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*).

Recently widowed father Danny Tanner recruits his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and friend Joey Gladstone to help him raise and care for his three daughters D.J., Stephanie and Michelle (*Full House*).

In an alternate universe where the birth of several toons was moved up, Donald Duck (re)joins the Navy and sends his three nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie to live with his wealthy uncle Scrooge McDuck (*DuckTales (1987)*).

Surf Nazis battle for the supremacy of beaches (*Surf Nazis Must Die*).

Ricky Caldwell goes full-on psychotic, garbage day is ruined (*Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2*).

Curtis Blackburn and Pedro Montana use their connections to found an organ smuggling ring (*killer7*).

Desmond Miles, a direct descendant of legendary assassins Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Ezio Auditore da Firenze, born on The Farm, a secret Assassin enclave located in Black Hills, South Dakota (*Assassin's Creed*).

An unknown party builds a time machine, hoping to find powerful weapons in the future (Running Wild song "Land of Ice").

Alyssa Jones falls asleep while going down on Cynthia Slater, and Cynthia gets so mad that she digs her heel into Alyssa's back, causing a permanent injury (*Chasing Amy*).

Rick Derris, known for owning a black Trans AM, starts a two year affair with Caitlin Bree, unbeknownst to her boyfriend Dante Hicks (*Clerks*).

Dan Quayle accidentally says "Thy kingdom c\*\*t" instead of "Thy Kingdome Come" at a prayer breakfast and is replaced by Robert "Dakota Bob" Schaefer as Samuel Baker's(George HW Bush's) running mate (*The Boys*).

Gary King accidentally shoves Steven Prince onto a broken bottle during a cricket match. The bottle left a permanent scar on his backside. (*The World's End*)

A child is injured by an animatronic at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in an event known as "The Bite of '87". It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? When Freddy Fazbear's Pizza eventually reopens, the animatronics are no longer allowed to walk around during daylight hours (*Five Nights at Freddy's*).

It was not a very good year for productivity, and as a result, productivity was down something-eight percent. This resulted in a sign saying "No Loafing" being put up (*Homestar Runner*).

First virus that destroys data (*Digital: A Love Story* and Real Life).

Frank Cotton escapes Hell, and enlists his brother's wife Julia to help him commit murders to regain physical form, finishing with his brother Larry. He's foiled when Larry's daughter Kirsty reopens the Lament Configuration, releasing Pinhead and his followers, the demonic Cenobites who drag Frank back to hell, alongside Julia. Kirsty narrowly avoids being claimed herself by sending the Cenobites back through the gate (*Hellraiser*).

Commandant Eric Lassard creates a program to train civilians to work alongside the police to help take pressure off the understaffed police force, and charges some of his most successful former students to run the program, including Carey Mahoney, Eugene Tackleberry and Moses Hightower. However, Captain Thadeus Harris is determined to sabotage the program and hopes to replace Lassard after it fails (*Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol*).

Gorou Saeki is born (*Tokyo Xanadu*).

In an alternate Universe, The United States is conquered and occupied by the restored Soviet Union (*Amerika*).

Robert Fields disappears (*The 4400*).

World War III(as its called at the time) breaks out, but is narrowly averted (*World War III*).

Katherine Wainwright Nightingale dies (*Doctor Who*).

Laura Avery Sumner dies (*Knots Landing*).

In an [Alternate Universe] San Pasquale(Venezuelan) scientists create a hybrid of a spider and a wasp as a form of pest control. The spiderwasp queen escapes from the lab and gives birth to a swarm that devastates the Americas over the course of the next eight years. (*Sliders*)

Zack Greenburg, Cam Dunleavey, Spencer Sharpe, Gwen Killerby and Vernon Mantueffel are born (*The Zack Files*).

The Broadway composer Bluestone dies of a heart attack. Immediately after his death, he is visited by the Prince of Darkness who offers him the opportunity to relive one moment of his life in exchange for playing music for the denizens of Hell for all eternity. Matt chooses to be sent to October 1948 so that he can make it with Mary Ellen Cosgrove. He instead uses the opportunity to prevent his classmate Teresa Golowitz from committing suicide (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

In 1997, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly ask Lisa to send them ten years back in time in their fathers' bodies, as in *Quantum Leap*(though they know a fictional stand in of it), so that they can teach their younger selves to throw a baseball and impress girls in the present. However, things don't go according to plan. When they arrive in 1987, Wyatt is in his father Wayne's body but Gary is in his mother Emily's body. Due to a misunderstanding involving Wyatt helping Gary take off his bra, Gary's father Al and Wyatt's mother Marcia become convinced that their spouses are having an affair. Although Gary and Wyatt are able to save their parents' marriages, they never get around to teaching the 1987 versions of themselves how to throw a ball (*Weird Science*).

Sasha Vadimsky, whose mother is comatose after being critically injured in the Chernobyl disaster, is delivered via Caesarean section in Belarus. As he is severely mutated, Sasha is not expected to survive but he does. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he is brought to the Burkmeer Research Facility in the United States. The scientists at Burkmeer discover that Sasha's body produces tachyons, the previously only hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

Merrin is born on Orban. (*Stargate SG-1*)

*Horsin' Around* premieres to surprising success, becoming an overnight hit across the country. The show features comedian Herb Kezzaz as the head writer, and an unknown actor named Bojack Horseman as the main character (*Bojack Horseman*).

Adam Rove and Grace Polonski (later Polk) are born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

Peter Shepherd is born (*Jumanji*).

Wendy Smith is born (*seaQuest DSV*).

Red Coast Base is decomissioned. Ye Wenjie meets Mike Evans for the second time, and tells him about Trisolaris. The Earth-Trisolaris Organisation begins (*The Three-Body Problem*).

Sophons One and Two are launched from Trisolaris to Earth (*The Three-Body Problem*).

Lois Einhorn joins the Miami-Dade Police Department. She quickly ascends the ranks and makes Lieutenant by 1994 (*Ace Ventura*).

## **1988**

**January 3:** Pelafina Truant begs Johnny to forgive her for attempting to strangle him (*House of Leaves*).

**January 11:** Pelafina Truant writes some gibberish about love to Johnny (*House of Leaves*).

**January:** Dr. Bobby Caldwell dies from AIDS in a hospice in California (*St. Elsewhere*).

Clem Garris is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

**February 12:** Queen Maeve gives birth to Midnight Lightning's baby. Stormfront is not impressed (*The Boys*).

**February 13:** Stormfront confronts Queen Maeve about having sex with a black man (*The Boys*).

**February 29:** Kenta Usui is born. (*Karin*)

**February:** Judge Thornton Farnham dies of a morphine overdose due to the negligence of Nurse Helen Rosenthal, who has become addicted to prescription drugs (*St. Elsewhere*).

Nurse Lucy Papandrao has a miscarriage (*St. Elsewhere*).

**March 9:** Judith Montgomery is born. (*Joan of Arcadia*)

**March 19:** Pelafina Truant tries to rationalise her actions of 1978 to Johnny (*House of Leaves*).

**April 4:** The Dodgers' 1988 baseball season opens to a sellout crowd at New Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Dodgers lose to the San Fransokyo(cisco) Giants (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

In real life, The Dodgers' 1988 baseball season opens to a crowd of 48,484 at Dodger Stadium in Los Santos( Los Angeles). The Los Santos(Angeles) Dodgers lose to the San Fransokyo(San Francisco) Giants (Real Life).

**April 12:** Pelafina Truant thinks Johnny has run away. She sends him a limerick, which is where he gains the nickname 'Truant' from (*House of Leaves*).

**April:** In an alternate universe, Buck Rogers' parents die of radiation poisoning in the aftermath of World War III (*Buck Rogers in the 25th Century*).

**May 19:** Jill Bennett attempts to kill Valene Gibson and make it look like a suicide (*Knots Landing*).

**May:** During North High's senior prom, Alyssa Jones shows up with a twenty-six-year-old man and then leaves halfway through to have sex with him and Gwen Turner in a limo. Just prior to this at the Henry Hudson school dance, Randal scares his girlfriend while picking her up by saying, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit, you old hag!" (*Chasing Amy*, *Clerks: The Animated Series*)

Dr. Elliot Axelrod dies of a heart attack (*St. Elsewhere*).

Brett Johnston dies from AIDS (*St. Elsewhere*).

Luther Hawkins and Penny Franks are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

The Weigert Corporation sells St. Eligius back to its original owner, the Archdiocese of Boston. Dr. Donald Westphall is appointed as its new Chief of Services (*St. Elsewhere*).

Dr. Daniel Auschlander dies of a stroke. Luther Hawkins finds him slumped over at his desk (*St. Elsewhere*).

Several staff members of St. Eligius leave the hospital. Dr. Philip Chandler retires from medicine and moves to Blue Creek, Mississippi with his lover Dr. Roxanne Turner. Ellen Craig accepts the position of Director of Food Services at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cleveland. Her husband Dr. Mark Craig accompanies her. Dr. Jack Morrison moves to Seattle with his son Peter, reuniting with his wife Joanne and her children Caitlin and Chris. Dr. Wayne Fiscus joins the World Peace Organization and begins working as a doctor in Val Verde(Nicaragua). Dr. John Gideon is transferred to another hospital in San Jose, California (*St. Elsewhere*).

Before June: Johnny Truant has tea with Tex, an eccentric millionaire, and meets Ashley (*House of Leaves*).

**June 11:** Jimmy Tate is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**June 21:** While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta "Bobbi" Anderson stumbles upon a metal object which turns out to be the slightest portion of an alien spacecraft that crashed into Earth in prehistoric times (*The Tommyknockers*).

**June:** Caitlin Bree, Alyssa Jones, and Cohee Lundin graduate from North High School, while Banky Edwards graduates from Henry Hudson (*Chasing Amy*).

The astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield exits suspended animation so that he will be the same age as his love Sandra Horn when he returns to Earth in 2027. It does not go according to plan (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

**July 2:** Daisy is born to Calvin Zabo and Jiaying in a village in China (*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*).

**July 16:** In an alternate universe where AKIRA"s devastation of Tokyo was delayed. Tokyo is destroyed in an apparent nuclear explosion. World War III begins (*AKIRA.* Film version*).*

**July 28:** Josie Trent is born. (*Black Hole High*)

**July 31:** Lucie Miller is born in Blackpool (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**Summer:** The Baseball Hall of Fame opens an exhibit honoring the All-American Girl Professional Baseball League (*A League of Their Own*; Real Life).

While on holiday in Miami, Becky Butcher is raped and impregnated by the Homelander(actually Black Noir impersonating him). Her husband, Billy Butcher, realises something is wrong, but can't figure out what (*The Boys*).

**August:** Amie releases a patch for its popular workstation operating system that fixes a flaw in the memory management. (*Digital: A Love Story*)

**September 14**: After 70 years of imprisonment, the Endless Dream finds an opportunity to escape from his confines. He returns to The Dreaming and sets out on a quest to regain his power (*The Sandman*).

**September 15:** Blake Wellington, an immortal, performs a massacre. His Watcher, James Horton, witnesses the event. The Watchers' Tribunal signs him up for a psychological evaluation, and a clean bill of health is returned. Apparently it is a misdiagnosis, as Horton would go on a killing spree within the next few years (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

**September 19:** Pelafina Truant sends Johnny her most insane letter of all (*House of Leaves*).

**September:** Alyssa Jones starts college, and while attending has sex with Shannon Hamilton. The encounter is video-taped, and Hamilton broadcasts it the next day on the campus cable access channel (*Chasing Amy*, assuming Alyssa started college immediately after high school).

Craig Manning is born (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

Derek "Wheels" Wheeler's parents John and Helen are killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver (*Degrassi Junior High*).

**October 2:** Teenager Donnie Darko leaves his bedroom and learns the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. A jet engine crashes into his bedroom while he is gone. Donnie averts the end of the world by allowing himself to be killed by the jet engine. (*Donnie Darko*)

**October 7:** Bryce Lynch is born (*Max Headroom*).

**October 8:** The SCP Foundation discovers SCP-3288 (*SCP Foundation*).

**October 18:** At 1:06pm, 43-year-old Jeff Winston has a sudden, fatal heart attack and the next moment finds that he is in his 18-year-old body in his college dorm room in May 1963. He will repeat his life events, dying sooner and soon each time (*Replay*).

**October 31:** A hellgate is accidentally opened by partying teens (*Night of the Demons (1988)*).

**October:** The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos to win the National League pennant, but lose the World Series in seven games against the Metropolis(New York Yankees). Club owner Bobby Hanes marries reporter Oran Ellis, and team manager Daniel Malone marries pitcher Ruth Smelkinson, in a double wedding ceremony at New Ebbets Field (*The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn*).

**October:** Pelafina Truant receives intensive care. (*House of Leaves*)

**Autumn:** Becky Butcher gives birth to the Homelander's superfetus, dying in the process. Billy manages to kill the fetus, and is taken into government custody. He agrees to keep quiet in exchange for not being convicted of his wife's murder. He is then approached by Greg Mallory with a view to forming an anti-superhuman special team; on Butcher's advice, the team is named The Boys after an English idiom. (*The Boys*).

**November 1:** Pelafina Truant regains temporary lucidity and writes an apologetic letter to Johnny (*House of Leaves*).

**November 2:** \*Reaper instances bring down several BBS hosts and ARPANET servers due to incompatible data handling protocols. The destruction is halted by \*Emilia the poet and her human companion. The events are blamed on the actions of a sloppy hacker (*Digital: A Love Story*, date taken from the launch of the Morris Worm in Real Life).

**November 3:** Pelafina Traunt writes another apologetic letter to Johnny (*House of Leaves*).

**November 8:** Samuel Baker(George H. W. Bush) defeats Michael Dukakis in the U.S. presidential election (Real Life).

In an alternate universe, Michael Dukakis defeats Samuel Baker(George H. W. Bush) in the U.S. presidential election (*Alternate Presidents*).

In an [Alternate Universe] James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to an eighth term as U.S. President (*Sliders*).

On Earth 4, following the death of Richard Monckton, Biff Tannen(Gerald Ford, though on Earth 4 only) defeats Robert Redford in the U.S. presidential election (*Watchmen (2019)*).

On Earth 30, Devon Milford runs for President of the United States (*Amerika*).

In an alternate universe, U.S. President Bob Dole is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")

**November 19:** Luke Girardi is born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

**November 23:** The Seventh Doctor and Ace prevent rival factions (including the Cybermen) from seizing control of the Nemesis (*Doctor Who*).

**November 24:** Pizza delivery boy David Palmer(Barack Obama) resolves to return to law school (*Futurama*).

**November 26:** Last meeting between Johnny and Pelafina Truant (*House of Leaves*).

**November 27:** Pelafina Truant begins to lose her grasp on reality again, but this time she knows it (*House of Leaves*).

**November or December:** Birth of Ichigo to science fiction writer Eriko Yamazaki. Eriko puts her writing on hold to raise her baby (*Digital: A Love Story*).

**December:** Patrick Bateman, a bored yuppie, takes up murder as his mind slowly falls apart (*American Psycho*).

**December 6:** Ryotaro Nogami, who would go on to protect the timeline as Den-O, is born. The time thief Gaoh attempts to destroy this single day in history with the intent of wiping Den-O from existence, but is ultimately defeated by the 2007 version of Ryotaro as Den-O (*Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!*).

**December 24:** Ernest P. Worrell helps a retiring Santa Claus find a successor, Joe Carruthers (*Ernest Saves Christmas*)(While there are many Santa's, and they mostly take turns and help carry out the magic all on one night. In this case, the retiring Santa Claus is Henry Corwin, who's been acting as Santa since 1960. Sadly it seems Joe Carruthers doesn't have long to be Santa given the events of *The Santa Clause* will occur in 1994).

While visiting his estranged family in Los Santos(Los Angeles), a MPD(NYPD) officer is abruptly pulled into a fake terrorist plot to steal bearer bonds from Nakatomi Corporation and singlehandedly foils the attempt (*Die Hard*).

**December 25:** James Halliday receives a TRS-80 as a Christmas present (though he had asked for a Commodore 64) (*Ready Player One*).

**December 31:** Duncan MacLeod and Walter Reinhardt have an inconclusive duel. Reinhardt fakes his death and leaves behind his responsibilities, including his mortal lover Rebecca Lord (*Highlander: The Series*).

**December:** Josh Getrie's science project, investigating the growth of the common cold virus in zero gravity, is chosen by NASA to be launched into space. (*Futurama*)

A man is killed on a vacant lot in the Kamurocho district of Tokyo. Kazuma Kiryu is the prime suspect, and has to clear his name (*Yakuza 0*).

In a bid to get back into the Shimano Family's good graces, Goro Majima agrees to a hit on Makoto Makimura (*Yakuza 0*).

8-year-old Peter Quill is taken from Earth, shortly after the death of his mother Meredith Quill, by the Ravager leader Yondu Udonta. (*Guardians of the Galaxy*).

To battle a skyrocketing crime rate, the United States turns part of Gotham(instead of Manhattan) into a maximum security prison. However in an alternate universe, they turn all of Gotham into a prison(*Escape from New York*).

The population of Dark Falls is transformed into undead monsters by a toxic gas leaked from the nearby plastics factory (*Goosebumps*).

James Marcus assassinated by order of Ozwell Spencer. Marcus' research is taken over by William Birkin (*Resident Evil 0*).

Albert Wesker injects Lisa Trevor with an NE-α parasite, generating the first sample of the G-Virus (*Resident Evil*).

During a party at John K's, Gwen Turner and her boyfriend T.S. Quint meet Brodie Bruce at the Marina Diner. Brodie announces that he has found the perfect girl; unfortunately, this girl (possibly Alyssa Jones) is with Mel Callahan. This does not stop the girl from flirting with Gwen. Later at the party, Gwen and the girl in question have an intimate encounter in a bathroom. This not only depresses Brodie and Mel, but causes T.S. to break up with Gwen (Mentioned in the *Mallrats* novelization. The date is a conjecture.).

Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan are given a time machine to help in finishing their history report (*Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure*).

Gary King, messing around at the fifth year ball, falls off a stage and dislocates his elbow. A metal plate has to be put in (*The World's End*).

The second Robin, Jason Todd, is killed by the Joker. Arthur Fleck in this case.

Peter Page gets a 50cc Suzuki and lets his friend Gary King drive it. Gary runs over his leg, leaving a permanent scar (*The World's End*).

Captain Britain and other heroes form the original Excalibur team(Marvel Comics).

The Manhunters attempt to prevent the rise of the Guardians of the Universe's replacements, but fail (DC Comics).

Darkseid attempts to claim the Anti-Life Equation, but fails (DC Comics).

An alliance of alien races ed by the Dominators attempt to conquer Earth to stomp out the metahuman threat, but fail (DC Comics).

The High Evolutionary tries to forcibly accelerate the evolution of humanity (Marvel Comics).

Demons briefly invade Manhattan (Marvel Comics).

Alien refugees, dubbed Newcomers, arrive in the Mojave Desert and begin new lives in Los Santos( Los Angeles)(*Alien Nation*).

The recently deceased Maitlands enlist bio-exorcist Betelgeuse to evict annoying humans from their home (*Beetlejuice*)(Betelgeuse will eventually end up befriending Lydia Deetz after the film, leading into the *Beetlejuice* animated series).

Holden and Banky work briefly at Brookdale, and then at Food City, where Banky and the manager's daughter have an unsanitary tryst on the milk-room floor. (*Chasing Amy*)

Killer alien clowns threaten Crescent Cove (*Killer Klowns from Outer Space*).

A brief Nuclear World War III occurs, Great Britain escapes it largely unscathed (*V for Vendetta* [comic])

Ninten gains psychic powers and discovers his great-grandfather George's diary and finds out what happened to him and his great-grandmother, Maria. Ninten and two other kids defeat Gigue by taking a simple melody, adding some words and sweet harmony, raising their voices, and singing a melody of love, oh love and prevent an alien invasion (*MOTHER*).

Detective Visser is assigned to catch a Serial Killer who prowls the canals of Amsterdam in a scuba gear (*Amsterdamned*).

Black Slugs mutated by toxic waste terrorize a small town (*Slugs*).

Framed and deranged former cop starts killing Metropolis(New York)citizens (*Maniac Cop*).

Reopened prison in Wyoming is haunted by electrically charged spirit (*Prison*).

A Man named Nada stumbles upon and exposes an alien conspiracy, involving the Visitors(V) who had infiltrated Earth since their attempted invasion(*They Live!*).

Tina Shepard accidentally revives Jason Voorhees from his watery grave with her Psychic Powers (*Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood*).

Janitor/Inventor Joel Robinson is shot into space and forced to watch horrible movies aboard an Earth-orbiting vessel known as the *Satellite of Love* by mad scientists Clayton Forrester and Laurence Erhardt. To keep his sanity, Robinson constructs robot companions Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy, and Cambot from spare parts (*Mystery Science Theater 3000*).

Veronica Loughran begins attending classes at Seton Hall. She hangs out with her friend Sylvan (this is possibly Sylvan Derris, sister to Rick Derris) and sleeps with John Fragson and Rob Stanslyk. She will also suck over thirty different d\*\*ks while she is there, including Willam Black's. At the same time, Caitlin Bree starts to take classes at another college (*Clerks*).

Tokyo is invaded by an army from the Netherworld. Its leader, Talpa, seeks to conquer the world of the living. He is opposed by five teenagers wielding armor powered by the elements (*Ronin Warriors*).

The New Guardians battle Snowflame, a supervillain powered by cocaine and also do some other stuff (*The New Guardians*).

Birth of Reese to Hal and Lois. Francis is left with Lois' parents for six months (*Malcolm in the Middle*).

Superhuman asylum inmate, known only under the moniker The Tick escapes from his interment in a mental institution and takes up a career as a vigilante in The City(*The Tick*).

Jem reveals her secret identity to the world after the Sixth Doctor accidentally reveals it to Rio. Eric Raymond is redeemed after everyone discovers that he had been put on ice by the Zygons. Techrat is outed as a renegade Time Lord. The Misfits break up, and Stormer becomes a TARDIS companion (*Rich's ComixBlog* story "Outrage").

Lee Jones is born. (*Star Cops*)

Bobby and Pamela Ewing divorce for the second time (*Dallas*).

Ray Carter dies of lung cancer (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

Jim McBain dies (*Quantum Leap*).

In an alternate universe, Millions of people are killed in a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Britain is devastated more than in the mian universe(*Threads*).

An injured baseball player named Ed Hamner is given a 1910 baseball card by his young neighbor Paula featuring a player named Monty Hanks. The card allows Ed to travel back in time to 1910 and assume Hanks' identity. There is no trace of his injury (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Adell Alynn Addison is murdered (*Alien Nation*).

Malakai's wife dies of a congenital heart weakness (*Stargate SG-1*).

Marcus Novius Faustus Leo is born (*Romanitas*).

Jane Winters takes her seven-year-old son Dominick Hide, Jr. to play on the beach at Herne Bay, where he builds a sandcastle. She records him with her camcorder. The footage is eventually found by her granddaughter Mavis in 2130. Mavis shows it to her own great-nephew Dominick Hide, who is both Dominick, Jr.'s father and great-grandson as a result of time travel (*The Flipside of Dominick Hide*).

Susan Elizabeth Walker is born (*Miracle on 34th Street*)(Rebootverse specifically)

Friedman and Glynis Figliola are born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

The United States government recalls copper pennies from circulation to make better use of the metal. In later years, such pennies become highly valuable collectors' items (DC Comics).

Jack McCallister is born (*Jack & Bobby*).

Ted Cofell earns his MBA from UCLA (*24*).

In an [Alternate Universe] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Eric runs into Donna at their high school reunion; she's still married to Hyde, who is in jail. Eric also runs into Rhonda, who has become a knockout in the past five years. Meanwhile, Kelso has a beer belly, but Jackie still wants him; and Fez sings some Wang Chung. The alternate 1988 version of Eric has a brief chat with his prime timeline counterpart from the 1970s (*That '70s Show*).

Farmer Ray Kinsella is compelled to build a baseball field on his Iowa farm which is followed by the spirits of deceased baseball players appearing(*Field of Dreams*).

Death of Kiki Ayashiro just days after drafting a new will. Due to suspicious timing, Taro Ninten of the Utsugi Detective Agency is asked to investigate her death (*Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir*).

A homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of Dogs while trying to reunite with a girl named Jenny and escape Mob Boss Bill Sykes(*Oliver And Company*).

## **1989**

**January 12:** Whalestoe Institute director notices that Pelafina Truant's mental health is on the decline, and writes to Johnny about it (*House of Leaves*).

**February 9:** Benjamin Krieg is born (*seaQuest DSV*).

**February 20:** Leonard Fisher is murdered by Alex Brady (*Columbo*).

**February 23:** High school student Laura Palmer is mysteriously murdered in Twin Peaks, Washington (*Twin Peaks*).

**February 28:** Pelafina Truant thinks she is improving and might be able to leave soon. (*House of Leaves*)

In an alternate universe, Caitlin Snow is born at this time (*The Flash (2014)*).

**March 14:** in an alternate universe, Barry Allen is born at this time(*The Flash (2014)*).

**March 21:** Red Coast Base is fully dismantled. A memorial plaque is placed at the site (*The Three-Body Problem*).

**March 31:** Director of Whalestoe Institute retires, is replaced by David J. Draines (*House of Leaves*).

**April 1:** The inmates of Arkham Asylum takes over the facility and take the staff hostage. The Joker(Arthur Fleck) demands that Batman enter the asylum alone, and forces him to run a gauntlet through the building. Unbeknownst to his enemies, Batman(Bruce Wayne Jr) is currently undergoing a psychological breakdown (*Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth*).

**April 3:** An animal-masked hitman begins a killing spree in Miami (*Hotline Miami*).

**April:** Martha Puck is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

Several students at a Japanese high school are murdered by a girl named Ryoba Aishi (*Yandere Simulator*).

**May 3:** Pelafina Truant, her mind in tatters, writes her last letter to Johnny. (*House of Leaves*)

**May 4:** Death of Pelafina Truant by suicide (*House of Leaves*).

**May 5:** David Draines writes to Johnny Truant to tell him about his mother's death (*House of Leaves*).

**May 18:** Trent Appelbaum disappears (*The 4400*).

**May:** Gil Hicks graduates from North High School (*Chasing Amy*).

Dante Hicks and Randal Graves graduate high school (*Clerks*).

FCC public relations officer John F. Byers encounters a beautiful woman at an electronics conference, who convinces him to help her rescue her daughter from a man she claims is her ex-boyfriend. This man turns out to be FBI agent Fox Mulder, and Byers is quickly entangled in a bizarre series of events which will introduce him to Melvin Frohike and Richard Langly, all three of whom who will be confronted with a sinister government conspiracy. (*The X-Files*) Detective John Munch of the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit is assigned to investigate the resulting mess (Crossover with *Homicide: Life on the Street*).

**May - June:** China's under martial law ("We Didn't Start the Fire").

**June 3:** Gavin saves the life of Lorelle Palmer, who was about to die in a car accident, by taking her forward in time to August 2, 2059 (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**June 4:** In Tiananmen Square, nearly 10,000 people protesting for democracy are brutally murdered by the Chinese Communist Party. (Real Life)

**June 24:** In an alternate universe, Iris West (later West-Allen) is born. (*The Flash (2014)*)

The seven-year-old Phillip Whithers dies in the Stockbridge School fire (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**June 27:** The Soviet Union conquers the United Kingdom in a bloodless coup (*Comrade Dad*).

**July 14:** Pamela Barnes Ewing dies (*Dallas*).

**July 24:** In an alternate universe, Felicity Smoak is born (*Arrow*).

**August 1:** One of the hottest recorded days in the history of Metropolis(New York City). Later that night in the predominantly African-American "Bed-Stuy" neighborhood of Brooklyn, a violent riot takes places outside a local pizzeria owned by Italian-Americans (*Do the Right Thing*).

**August 15:** Manuela "Manny" Santos is born. (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*)

**September 8:** Johnny Truant claims his mother's locket, her only remaining possession (*House of Leaves*).

**September:** Peter Stone is born (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

**October 1:** Forty-three children around the world are born to mothers who weren't pregnant that morning (*The Umbrella Academy*).

**October 11:** Linda Frandsen is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**October 12:** In the Main Universe Kalel Zod is sent to Earth, he is the son of General Zod and is sent from the Phantom Zone to Earth as an experiment for Zod to eventually escape. He is found and raised by Bo Duke and his wife, who live on the former Kent Farm.

In an alternate Universe, Kalel's birth and arrival were delayed. Kal-El's ship crash-lands in Smallville, Kansas. He is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent and given the name Clark. Meteor fragments from Krypton, containing numerous varieties of kryptonite, devastate Smallville and kill many of the townspeople, including Lana Lang's parents Laura and Lewis. Lex Luthor's hair falls out after he is exposed to kryptonite (*Smallville*).

On Earth-2, Kal-El's ship is found by Lionel Luthor after it crash-lands in Smallville. Lionel raises the boy, whom he names Clark, as his own son (*Smallville*).

**October 13:** SCP-2273 found outside Donner, Wisconsin (SCP Foundation).

**October 17, 5:04 pm PST:** The Loma Prieta earthquake hits San Fransokyo(Francisco) and the Bay Area, right before Game 3 of the World Series is set to begin. The earthquake causes a massive amount of damage and casualties (Real Life). Stephanie Tanner develops PTSD as a result of the earthquake (*Full House*). Dan Vasser time travels from 2007 to save a person from the earthquake (*Journeyman*). Christine Hollis' parents are killed in the Bay Bridge collapse as an Observer known as "August" watches them. This date is also when an alternate Walter Bishop first begins the amber protocol (*Fringe*). Allison DuBois' high school friend Lyla, who is in Oakland at the time of the earthquake, uses the disaster as an opportunity to fake her own death and start over fresh. (*Medium*)

Daniel Miller is born (*My Life and Times*).

In an [Alternate Universe] San Fransokyo(Francisco) is converted into a citywide maximum security prison after the earthquake (*Sliders*)(Presumably it is converted instead of New York as in *Escape from New York*, likely meaning that film is butterflied away in this universe).

**October 31:** Dr Steve Brule makes his television debut on his mother's "Talent Tonight" TV show, performing the song Farmer in the Dell (*Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule*).

**November:** Steve Rhoades is fired from "The Leading Bank of Chicago" (*Married... with Children*).

**November 9:** The Berlin Wall is demolished, opening the borders to East Germany (Real Life). The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, help tear down the Berlin Wall (*Animaniacs*).

Khan Noonien Singh steals the information on Project Chrysalis from the Beta 5 computer (*Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars*).

In a timeline created by the Elder Gods, World War III breaks out as a result of the Soviet Union entering West Berlin and capturing American airbases. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world are killed by nuclear weapons. This timeline is ultimately negated by the Seventh Doctor (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**December 4:** Troy Barnes is born (*Community*).

**December 20:** During the US invasion of Isthmus(Panama), Alex Mason and Frank Woods undergo a top-secret mission to capture Manuel Noriega, which goes horribly wrong when Raul Menendez intervenes, capturing their handler Jason Hudson and forcing him to give them bogus orders. Woods ends up accidentally shooting Mason while under the impression that he was Menendez, while the real Mendendez releases Noriega, kills Hudson, and cripples Woods for life (*Call of Duty: Black Ops II*).

**December 24:** The Simpson family adopts a racing dog, Santa's Little Helper (*The Simpsons*).

In England, Hellboy visits a dying woman and agrees to deliver a gift to her missing daughter, Annie. He finds Annie in a hidden mansion, where she lives with the rest of her deceased family and her "prince "(*Hellboy*: A Christmas Underground).

**December 31:** The Ghostbusters defeat Vigo the Carpathian (*Ghostbusters II*).

Gary King and his "Five Musketeers" (Andy Knightley, Steven Prince, Oliver Chamberlain, and Peter Page) spend New Year's Eve at the local pub, The Cross Hands. Andy falls asleep on a pool table, and Peter Page gets laid with Erika Leeks of the Marmalade Sandwich (a pair of blonds and a redhead who were always together) (*The World's End*).

Shingen Kishitani uses the demon blade Saika to steal the head of dullahan Celty Sturluson (*Durarara!!*).

Seitaro Yagiri blackmails Shingen into giving him Celty's head (*Durarara!!*).

Celty Sturluson wakes up to find her head and memories gone. She traces her head to Japan, and dons her signature motorcycle gear to sneak aboard a ship, where she is discovered by Shinra Kishitani. Shinra's father offers her shelter while staying in Japan in exchange for her letting him dissect her. (*Durarara!!*)

Kevin Keene transported to Videoland and leads video game heroes against Mother Brain (*Captain N: The Game Master*)(Inthis context the characters are video game stand ins of the actual characters).

Dante Hicks and Randal Graves lock themselves in a freezer at the Quick Stop (*Clerks: The Animated Series*).

Atlantis attacks the surface world (Marvel Comics).

Supervillains join forces and temporarily switch enemies during the infamous Acts Of Vengeance event. During this time, Peter Parker temporarily obtains the powers of Captain Universe, though a freak accident interrupts the process for a while(Marvel Comics).

Ray Kinsella meets the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other banned members of the 1919 White Sox, who begin playing games on his baseball field. Ray is then compelled to seek out Terrance Mann and Archibald "Midnight" Graham to bring them back to Iowa (*Field of Dreams*).

Youngsters are miniaturized by inventor Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray (*Honey, I Shrunk the Kids*).

George Newman makes a bizarre success out of a small-time UHF station (*UHF*).

Corey takes his little brother (who happens to be a video-game whiz) to California (*The Wizard*).

It becomes legal to freeze people who aren't yet legally dead (*Known Space*).

Serial Killer Horace Pinker makes a Deal with the Devil before frying on an electric chair, and returns as an electric ghost (*Shocker*).

Officer Joe Vickers kills teens and worships Satan (*Psycho Cop*).

James Bond(Actually spy Damian Drake) has his licence to kill is revoked (*Licence to Kill*).

Amy Pond is born in Scotland (*Doctor Who*).

Jack Napier becomes the new Joker, opposed by Batman II(AKA Bruce Wayne Jr)

In an alternate Universe, Jack Napier, Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer, falls into a pit of acid during a fight with Batman and is horribly disfigured and turned insane. He then begins a war on Gotham City as The Joker, which eventually leads to his death (*Batman*).

Around this time, during the hype of the new Grey Ghost( Batman) film, Dante performes a stunt in which he leaves a car on Gwen Turner's lawn, climbs to the top of the nearest building and stands in a triumphant pose on the roof top in a homemade Grey Ghost(Batman) costume. Gwen later calls 911 for assistance when she realizes that he can't get down. Dante's stunt is reported in the local newspaper The Courier, with Randal Graves' submited picture of Dante being rescued along side it (*Where's The Beef*).

During the spike of Grey Ghost(Batman) popularity, Randal Graves receives a powerful b\*\*\*\*\*\*b from Sylvan Derris to the soundtrack of the new Grey Ghost(Batman) film in question (*Where's The Beef*).

Joseph "Joe" Dawson gets a promotion in the Watchers' hierarchy. He becomes the Area Supervisor of Seacouver, a position which he would hold until 1997 (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Nancy Goldruff, a former kindergarten teacher, creates Mooby, The Golden Calf for a local network, K-REL (*Dogma*).

Jessica Haggar, daughter of the Mayor of Metro City, is kidnapped by the Mad Gear Gang. Mayor Mike Haggar, Cody Travers and Guy ally to retrieve her, getting involved in a brutal fight with the gang. (*Final Fight*)(The game was supposed to happen in "the present" when released in '89. Some later sources date its events to 1987).

Gary King buys a car from his friend Peter Page. He nicknames it The Beast, and keeps it registered under Peter's name (*The World's End*).

Jason Voorhees finds his way to Metropolis(New York) and seemingly drowns in a flood of toxic waste within its sewer system (*Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*).

Mad scientists Dr. Clayton Forrester and Dr. Laurence Erhardt move to Deep 13, in order to continue their experimentation on Joel Robinson and his robot crew (*Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Crawling Eye*).

Blackwoof and Damsel marry (*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

Serial Killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke fries on an electric chair, only to return as ghost to take revenge on the cop who captured him (*The Horror Show*).

Chipmunks Chip and Dale team up with Gadget Hackwrench, Monterey Jack and Zipper to form the Rescue Rangers (*Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers*)(Here an extension of the Rescue Aid Society).

11-year-old Stuart Pot ("2D") falls from a tree and hits his head, losing all his hair. When his hair grows back, it's azure blue (Gorillaz).

Karen Green begins an affair with a struggling actor named Fowler (*House of Leaves*).

Kasuka Heiwajima and Rokujou Chikage are born (*Durarara!!*).

Birth of Malcolm, named after successful NASCAR racer Rusty Malcolm, to Hal and Lois (*Malcolm in the Middle*).

Eric Draven and his fiancee Shelly are brutally murdered by drug dealer T-Bird and his gang. One year later, Eric rises from the grave, resurrected by mysterious forces as a spirit of vengeance known as The Crow. He takes a bloody and brutal revenge on his killers, as well as their leader, small time drug kingpin Top Dollar (*The Crow*).

James Halliday writes his first game, *Anorak's Quest*, on his TRS-80. Initially intended for just his friends, Ogden Morrow persuades him to release it commercially, and it takes the world by storm. Halliday and Morrow found their own gaming company, Gregarious Games, initially based out of Halliday's basement (*Ready Player One*).

Birth of John Rook in Lake City (*don't take it personally babe, it just ain't your story*).

The United States and the Soviet Union both have moonbases by this time(*Way...Way Out*).

J.R. Ewing and Cally Harper are married (*Dallas*).

Abby Ewing and Greg Sumner are married. (*Knots Landing*)

Olivia Cunningham and Harold Dyer are married (*Knots Landing*).

Edward Raymond is born to Donald and Clare Raymond (*Star Trek: The Next Generation*).

Alex Danvers and Vicki Donahue are born (*Supergirl (2015)*).

A group of psychics are killed by a bunch of puppets (*Puppet Master*).

Krystal Hogan is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

Eric Tanner is born (*ALF*).

In an alterante Universe of the Rebootverse, Donna Troy is born (*Titans (2018)*).

Charles Chandler dies (*Beauty and the Beast (1987)*).

Two teenagers who have spotted the DeLorean time machine time travelling, steal it from Doc Brown while he is visiting Marty's home. They use it to travel to 2015, where they discover Pizza Hut still exists and eat there(Pizza Hut ad).

## **Mid to Late 1980's**

Estimated birth of Anita. She would display psychokinesis during her childhood (*Darkstalkers*)(Anita makes her debut in 1995 as a child. A flash forward by "seven" years features her in her late teens. Estimating her age as originally depicted to be at least 9-years old).

Estimated birth of Lauren, daughter of Crimson Viper/Maya)(A short story in the Street Fighter blog features Lauren as an elementary school student. She mentions her 5th birthday as a cherished memory. Her present seems to be 1994)(*Street Fighter IV*).

Some time after crimelord The Shredder's death, Metropolis(New York) is plunged into a gang war as the factions of the crumbling Foot Clan fight for dominance, and the Shredder Elite Guard wage open war on everyone. The Japanese branch of The Foot sends Karai to bring them under order, and she enlists the Turtles to help her defeat the Elites, in return for releasing them from the blood debt owed by the death of The Shredder. Casey Jones leaves Metropolis(New York) for a time, and marries a pregnant waitress who dies in childbirth, leaving him alone with his adoptive daughter Shadow. April O'Neil's father dies, and she is forced to go to California to deal with his affairs. Splinter is left alone in the woods of Northhampton, where he is severely injured and undergoes a shamanistic vision quest under the guidance of the Rat King (*Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage)*).

## **1980's**

**Summer:** A group of sadists kidnap a woman and torture her to test the limits of human pain (*Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment*).

President Johnny(Ronnie) is kidnapped by ninjas. Blade and Striker prove to be bad enough dudes to rescue the president (*Bad Dudes*).

On Earth 12, AKA Parody earth, Howarts student and Goth Vampire Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way visits this time period, where Tom Riddle has yet to become Voldemort(*My Immortal*)

A young boy, as a prank gone horribly wrong, suffers a traumatic injury from a Fredbear animatronic. The child suffers nightmares following this incident and presumably dies sometime afterwards(This may or may not be the Bite of '87 — details and evidence both for and against it are murky)(*Five Nights at Freddy's 4*).

Jack O'Neill suffers nine broken bones (including skull fractures) after his parachute malfunctions when making a clandestine drop over the Asran-Quraq(Iran-Iraq) border (*Stargate SG-1*).

By this time, 79.7% of the world's population are under the age of 21 (*Logan's Run*).