< 10 Years Ago >
the Manhunters destroy planet Xanshi, framing 30-year-old John Stewart with help from 49-year-old Kanjar Ro. The Guardians of Oa are forced to place him on trial in Citadel court where he proves his innocence, prompting the Manhunters to attack Oa. 49-year-old Kilowog leads thre defense of Oa. 15-year-old Yrra Cynil is the lone survivor of the destruction of Xanshi. She flees to deep space to escape the reach of the Green Lantern Corps, unaware that the act was actually performed by the Manhunters. She begins her advanced combat training under the darkspace warlords.
36-year-old Galius Zed is outspoken against 30-year-old John Stewart when he is blamed for the death of Xanshi, but is the first to accept him when the truth is revealed. They became firm friends.
49-year-old Kanjar Ro helps the Manhunters frame 30-year-old John Stewart of the Green Lanterns for the destruction of Xanchi. When he is exposed he's tried as a war criminal, but escapes to rebuild his fleet. Staging raids on Citadel Space using crews of mind controlled slaves.
23-year-old Shilandra Thane saves several of the Manhunter’s victims populations. she creates the Mosaic World, and dedicates herself to managing it.
38-year-old Neil Emerson is finally sucessful in unlocking the powers of the magnetron. He escapes Earth, and begins absorbing Oan energy, internalizing his control of magnetism, & battling the Green Lantern Corps. He is placed in a coma by the Guardians of Oa.
19-year-old Laira fights the Green Lantern that arrives on Jayd to stop her father. He sees her hesitance and gives her the chance to rebel When he is killed, his ring chooses her as the sector's new Green Lantern, and she goes to Oa rather than confront her father.
The Fisherman returns as the parasite finds a new Atlantean host body, now completely in control. He begins to stage terror raids against Atlantis, capturing dozens of it's citizens to farm for their fear. He battles 31-year-old Arthur Curry, now using the full spectrum of his alien strength. Ultimately Arthur is able to defeat him, removing the parasite and keeping it contained in 56-year-old Nuidis Vulko's labs.
31-year-old Arthur Curry orders the Atlantean sorcerers academy reopened. 56-year-old Nuidis Vulko assists in the reopening, & 14-year-old Garth becomes an apprentice sorcerer.
35-year-old Martin Stein rejects 26-year-old Caitlyn Snow's attempt to seduce him the day of the Nuclear Matrix experiment. Unaware that 34-year-old Henry Hewitt has paid his assistant, 24-year-old Danton Black to sabotage the experiment he is nearly killed in the resulting explosion. His life is saved by his friend 19-year-old Ronnie Raymond. they become the hosts of the Firestorm Matrix. Together, they join the Justice League as Firestorm. 20-year-old Lorraine Reilly meets Ronnie. At first she thinks he's a cocky jock, but soon discovers that he is a decent guy, and they become friends. Caitlyn steals parcels of data from the accident, using them as a breakthrough in her own Biocryonic research. Hewitt begins research to replicate the experiment for himself.
22-year-old Zatanna joins the Justice League.
Solomon Grundy attacks 31-year-old Hal Jordan and the Justice League, who sap him of the magic that animates him, returning him to Slaughter Swamp.
27-year-old Buddy Baker, inspired by the Justice League and with his wife's support, becomes Animal Man again, this time focusing on animal rights. 23-year-old Evan McCulloch takes a contract on his life, but Buddy convinces him that he's wasting his talent as an assassin & that he could "do great things". He moves to Keystone City to become the new Mirror Master.
41-year-old Thomas Oscar Morrow sends his android creation Red Tornado to infiltrate the Justice League, but is defeated when Red Tornado's free will allows him to abandon his creator and join them. Morrow is imprisoned.
Phantom Stranger is offered membership in the Justice League, but disappears without accepting or declining.
35-year-old Jefferson Pierce turns down Justice League membership. putting his career as Black Lightning behind him. 34-year-old Lynn Stewart moves back to Metropolis.
29-year-old Richard Rigel's chemically unlocks his consciousness, developing new senses and weilding more of his brain. He abandons his identity, becoming the Key, administering his psycho chemicals to control people, including the Justice League. He is defeated and put in Arkham Asylum.
67-year-old Adam Blake returns to his life in deep space, serving as hero in all corners of the galaxy.
59-year-old Cliff Steele begins seeing a therapist regularly to cope with the experience of being a disembodied brain. While leaving his sessions, he comes to know 19-year-old Jane Morris, and learn about her condition. He brings her to 59-year-old Niles Caulder to help her understand her alternate personalities and powers. She starts helping the Doom Patrol. Instead of a superhero name, she goes by Crazy Jane, a name from several Yeats poems and the painting by Richard Dadd.
18-year-old Vic Stone finishes the worst of his rehabilitation, and finds that much of his past life is gone.
17-year-old Rachel Roth chooses to leave Azarath after the death of the mystic Azar. She takes the name Raven, swearing to stop her father Trigon. She travels to Earth & assembles a new team of Teen Titans including 16-year-old Dick Grayson, 16-year-old Wally West, 18-year-old Vic Stone, 17-year-old Koriand'r, 14-year-old Gar Logan & 18-year-old Donna Troy, who succeed in trapping Trigon in an interdimensional prison.
14-year-old Sebastian Blood assists in the rise of Trigon, but escapes the battle before his fall.
17-year-old Koriand'r, believing her mother to have been killed by the Gordanians, escapes her captivity. The newly formed Teen Titans find her and help her fend off her captors at the urging of 16-year-old Raven. Unable to return to her home planet, She joins them as Starfire, and imprints herself onto 16-year-old Dick Grayson.
20-year-old Komand'r recieves word that her mother and sister have been killed in Gordanian prison.
18-year-old Donna Troy, finding work as a professional photographer, becomes roommates with 17-year-old Koriand'r, who takes the human name Kori Ander, and starts working as a model.
70-year-old Alan Scott discovers the existence of his children ,16-year-old Jennifer-Lynn Hayden & Todd James Rice, and searches the world to find them, introducing them for the first time, & teaching them to use their powers.
51-year-old Clifford Devoe stages a crimewave in Central City using his mind control technology, looking to permanently upload his consciousness into his computers. He falls into a coma when he is stopped by 33-year-old Barry Allen & 16-year-old Wally West.
34-year-old Albert Desmond is overwhelmed by the philosopher's stone and again becomes Doctor Alchemy. 33-year-old Barry Allen & 16-year-old Wally West use Desmond's formula to destroy the philosopher's stone & free him. He insists on being sent to prison to pay for his crimes.
19-year-old Grant Wilson takes a contract on the Teen Titans, overtaxing his enhancements and dying of a heart attack. 46-year-old Slade Wilson is barely stopped from taking out the Teen Titans after Grant's death. 54-year-old William Randolph Wintergreen tries to convince him not to seek vengeance against the Titans for Grant's death. He meets 15-year-old Tara Markov, a wannabe teenage mercenary, and chooses to take her in as an apprentice in a plan to use her against the Titans, manipulating her romantic fixation on him.
28-year-old Simon Jones's experiments in extra-dimensional communication allow Trigon to contact him from within his prison. He is demonically empowered as a new Acolyte and joins Doctor Light's Fearsome Five.
32-year-old Arthur Light escapes prison and forms the Fearsome Five, including 28-year-old Simon Jones, 37-year-old Mikron O'Jeneus, 19-yand ear-old twins Baran & Selinda Flinders who battle the Teen Titans before they are imprisoned.
25-year-old Clark Kent unlocks the secret of his father's phantom zone projector, and unwittingly frees 33-year-old Dru-Zod & his followers 26-year-old Faora-Ul & 31-year-old Non-Ek. Superman & 3-year-old Krypto battle them, but when they begin to establish their rule over humanity, Clark needs help from 53-year-old Jonathan Kent & 52-year-old Martha Kent to understand what he must do. They are ultimately stopped by the combined efforts of Clark & 39-year-old Lex Luthor (who kills Non). They are returned to the phantom zone.
The Daxamites reclaim their colony when 33-year-old Dru-Zod, 26-year-old Faora-Ul & 31-year-old Non-Ek escape the Phantom Zone. They are imprisoned upon their return, but Zod loyalist factions start to gather.
Brainiac's worldship begins terrorizing whole planets as it actively drains away all knowledge.
Nubia battles the magics of 39-year-old Felix Faust beyond Doom's Door, reaching out to 22-year-old Diana Prince in man's world to tell her that the island is in Jeapordy. She leads 22-year-old Etta Candy, 33-year-old Barry Allen & 31-year-old Hal Jordan into Themyscera to stop Faust from siphoning the magic from the island to open Doom's Doorway. She is victorious, but Hippolyta is forced to banish her from the island for bringing men to it's shores. Etta tells off the Amazons. Nubia is the only Amazon free to come to Diana. She also graduates from Gateway University.
18-year-old Niharika Dyal overpowers the other acolytes and her temple master, and is only stopped from destroying her home by 22-year-old Diana Prince.
23-year-old Evan McCulloch moves to Keystone City to become the new Mirror Master, confronting 33-year-old Barry Allen & 16-year-old Wally West.
27-year-old Ira Billings has 18-year-old Donna Troy as a patient. He manipulates her with his hypnosis technology, but she is able to break through his illusions and expose him. He uses his technology to directly control people into stealing for him, going by Spellbinder, forcing Donna & 22-year-old Diana Prince to navigate his illusions to defeat him.
Mongul attempts to get his revenge on 25-year-old Clark Kent by breaking into his Fortress of Solitude and exposing him to the Black Mercy, trapping him in an illusion of his own ideal world where he has a life alongside all his human friends on Krypton, including a son with Lois Lane. He is defeated by 29-year-old Bruce Wayne, 16-year-old Dick Grayson, and 22-year-old Diana Prince.
47-year-old Regina Darhk moves to steal Atlantean magical archives. Tempest discovers the plan, and her H.I.V.E. Academy, including 37-year-old Mikron O'Jeneus, 22-year-old Derek Reston & 19-year-old twins Baran & Selinda Flinders, fights the Teen Titans, who dissasemble her organization. She initiates a final defense, and her inner circle all commit suicide rather than be captured. She dies in the destruction of her headquarters. Most of the H.I.V.E. Academy go on to join Doctor Light's Fearsome Five and battle the Titans again before they are imprisoned, while Derek Reston steals The Brute Robot and joins the Royal Flush Gang.
22-year-old Derek Reston steals the Brute Robot from H.I.V.E. and joins the Royal Flush Gang, recruited by 39-year-old Mona Wayland with no input from 43-year-old Joe Carny. The Brute kills the former Ace, and takes his place. Derek's weapon designs advance their whole organization, immediately becoming the new Jack. He first meets 16-year-old Melanie Wayland. She doesn't like him.
61-year-old Benjamin Love's crimes are expunged with help from the new H.I.V.E. by a loophole when Uruguay fails to pass legal protection for Metahumans. He is released and begins working in their labs.
33-year-old Werner Vertiz works with the League of Assassins to stage the death of his sister. When his niece, the new Queen Perdita Vladek returns from school in America to assume the throne, 35-year-old Malcolm Merlyn leads the League's attempt to assasinate her, but they are thwarted by 34-year-old Oliver Queen who escorts her across Europe & defeats Merlyn in another ongoing archery battle. Werner retreats to America in exile.
35-year-old Danny Brickwell, in an effort to rid Star City of its vigilantes, begins setting off a series of fires, bombings, and crime sprees to draw them out so he can fight them himself. He is almost successful but is ultimately captured by 34-year-old Oliver Queen, 15-year-old Roy Harper & 26-year-old Dinah Lance. 39-year-old William Tockman secures his organization in his absence. Tockman stops secretly funding 37-year-old Eric Needham, but he continues his crusade against the drug trade of Star City.
26-year-old Dinah Lance moves in with 34-year-old Oliver Queen. 53-year-old Laurel Drake visits and remarks on how much Oliver reminds her of Larry Lance.
15-year-old Roy Harper isn't asked to join Raven's Teen Titans, and begins his casual drug use. He befriends 21-year-old Artemis Crock, and meets street kids 14-year-old Cindy Reynolds & 15-year-old Cisco Ramon, inspiring them to use their powers to protect their neighborhood.
Swamp Thing recovers the remains of Alex Holland and burries them properly. He is able to assist Holland in reuniting with his wife Linda Holland, and finally passing on.
28-year-old Pamela Isley escapes from Arkham and retreats from Gotham to a tropical island. She is persued by 29-year-old Bruce Wayne, but when they work together to stop the local government from testing weapons on the locals, he agrees to allow her to remain.
27-year-old Jervis Tetch develops his hypnosis machine, and begins expanding his teaparties across the city as the Mad Hatter. He is stopped by 29-year-old Bruce Wayne
30-year-old Edward Nygma is released from Arkham. Now a known criminal, he creates his underground 'mystery theater', part live show and part internet sensation. His heists are hidden in plain sight, with no way to connect him to the crimes. He briefly partners with 31-year-old Arthur Brown only to leave him holding all the blame, getting away scott free.
18-year-old Barbara Gordon is able to reverse engineer 31-year-old Arthur Brown's Mystery Theate Network, saving 29-year-old Bruce Wayne & 16-year-old Dick Grayson, and finally earning their trust to learn their identities.
33-year-old Oswald Cobblepot, one of the only criminals in Gotham that can stand up to him, hires the Joker to sew chaos with 26-year-old Roman Sionis's organization, driving him to accept a truce with Oswald, allowing him to appear to 'go legitimate' with the Iceburg Lounge while Black Mask appears to run all of Gotham. He discovers Solomon Grundy in Gotham's undercity, and traps Batman there, forcing them to fight, allowing Grundy to escape.
24-year-old Waylon Jones runs away and takes refuge in the sewers of Gotham City. where he poses a constant menace to 29-year-old Bruce Wayne.
38-year-old Julian Gregory Day resurfaces in Gotham and is caught by 29-year-old Bruce Wayne..
29-year-old Bruce Wayne begins an affair with 26-year-old Vicki Vale, who is suspiscious that he is Batman.
31-year-old Lobo becomes the guardian of a pod of space dolphins.
30-year-old Vril Dox is able to replicate the the powers of 39-year-old Ti'julk Mr'asz using cloned fungal growths sharing his DNA. Ti'julk is able to retire from the Omega Men to Hardcore Station in Citadel space.
24-year-old Michael Jon Carter appears in modern time, saves the president from an assassination attempt, and starts Goldstar Inc.
Norda Cantrell's egg, a relic from the Teth-Adam court, hatches. Norda battles 57-year-old Carter Hall & 51-year-old Shiera Hall, but soon returns to the mountains of Kahndaq.
Frankenstein & The Bride discover that their son was gestated by S.H.A.D.E. and grown into an undead biological weapon. They must work together with the Freedom Fighters to find and destroy their son. The Bride leaves S.H.A.D.E. but refuses to come with Frankenstein, returning instead to the Parisian catacombs.
29-year-old Nathan Prince is tracked by 57-year-old Carter Hall & 51-year-old Shiera Hall to claim the Nth metal in his suit, but hemanages to elude them.
22-year-old Antonio Diego, the strongest specimen in Pena Dura, is used in the Venom experiments. He becomes Bane.
20-year-old Joseph Martin breaks into Star Labs. He is exposed to their mutogenic gene-bomb. He takes the name of a movie character, Atomic Skull, and attempts to be a superhero, but quickly becomes a violent menace. He is stopped by 22-year-old Power Girl.
37-year-old Edwin Alva moves all Alva Technologies research into his own in-house facilities in Dakota City when an experimental mutagenic compound is triggered during a break in by 20-year-old Joseph Martin at Star Labs. They being secretly testing the potential of the compound as a weapon.
33-year-old Will Magnus builds the Metal Men, androids with autonomous personalities thanks to their responsometers. They are able to do all sorts of work from construction to search and rescue.
21-year-old Beatriz Bonilla De Costa is caught in a pyroplastic explosion & gains her green flame powers. She becomes the Brazilian hero Green Fury.
31-year-old Maggie Sawyer, seeing that she is not going to be promoted to chief, assembles her own task force, the Special Crimes Unit, designed to respond to the advanced crimes of Metropolis. 50-year-old Dan Turpin is her first recruit, becoming her right-hand man.
35-year-old Flora Black's pheromone powers cause an overdose in Eillot Weems. She is the sole inheritor of his fortune.
32-year-old Fang Zhifu first encounters the outlaw 23-year-old Yao Fei.
15-year-old Dolphin is found by a merchant sailing ship, where she gets her name and learns sign language.
26-year-old Michael Holt begins to contemplate suicide when Paula is killed by a drunk driver.
24-year-old Ted Kord helps 52-year-old Dan Garrett stop his uncle 42-year-old Jarvis Kord from building & selling an android army. Dan is mortally wounded & passes the Blue Beetle scarab to Ted. He can't activate it, but begins building the equipment to become the new Blue Beetle.
27-year-old Daniel Cassidy and the Blue Devil Crew, including 12-year-old Eddie Bloomberg, go to New Orleans to film Blue Devil 2 in the House of Mystery. They are lost in the paths beyond but manage to unlock the secrets of the house and return home, finishing the movie.
26-year-old Amon Sur captures 31-year-old Hal Jordan and attempts to steal his father's ring. He is defeated but manages to escape justice.
41-year-old Helga Jace begins using Quraci refugees as test subjects, harvesting metahuman DNA for her experiments with triggering Metagenes.
23-year-old David Zavimbe first meets Anansi the Spider, saving people from floods in Nigeria.
25-year-old Tatsu Yamashiro's husband 26-year-old Maseo Yamashiro is murdered in the night by 27-year-old Takeo Yamashiro, who kills their children and burns their home but is unable to kill her as she steals the Soultaker and flees. She begins her war on the Yakuza as Katana.
30-year-old Bones works with his former partner Agent Cameron Chase to create their own casefiles while he works with the Freedom Fighters.
20-year-old Hugh Dawkins accidentally scares a little girl, so he starts marking his fur with a white "t".
29-year-old Kirk Langstrom earns his doctorate.
52-year-old Basil Karlo, still in seclusion, contacts 38-year-old Hugo Strange regarding his experiments with Renuyu, an experimental byproduct of a tainted Gingo-derivative Sionis cosmetic. Volunteering as a test subject, Basil finds that the compound slowly restores his damaged tissue, even reversing the effects of aging on his body. Strange monitors the effects, observing Karlo’s cellular structure gradually losing its cohesion.
29-year-old Hank Henshaw marries fellow astronaut Terri Henshaw.
28-year-old Wu Mei-Xing earns her doctorate in particle physics for her prototype particle accelerator designs.
27-year-old Dai Yokohama earns his doctorate in Biophysics. He joins the Special Research Response Unit, an organization designed to gather data during monster attacks. He meets Yuriko Sakurai, the Unit's tech expert.
26-year-old Zazzala finds her former hive decimated after the death of their queen. She begins rebuilding.
24-year-old Barbara Ann Minerva gets her masters degree, now the world's leading expert on the aquisition of Amazonian Artifacts.
24-year-old Hunter Zolomon joins the FBI.
24-year-old Liam Hawkleigh kills his spotter for threatening to expose his history of unauthorized kills.
24-year-old Lady Emerald is married.
24-year-old Cat Grant, unable to take her husband's drunken abusiveness, takes a job in Metropolis as the head of the Daily Planet's Entertainment & Arts division. She flirts with 25-year-old Clark Kent. She & 27-year-old Lois Lane do not like each other.
23-year-old Jack Ryder becomes the host of his own show, starting a rivalry with his producer, Vera Sweet.
22-year-old Harleen Quinzell graduates with her bachelors degree in psychology, and begins medical school to become a psychiatrist.
22-year-old Silver St. Cloud graduates & moves to Gotham City.
22-year old Emil La Salle goes to prison for burglary.
21-year-old Kate Spencer marries Peter Robinson while still an undergrad.
20-year-old Victor Zsasz's parents are killed.
20-year-old Joar Mahkent kills his rival for the hand of 20-year-old Tora Olafsdatter. He escapes his punishment & flees to America.
19-year-old Dee Tyler earns a bachelor's from MIT in mechanical engineering. She does not pursue a graduate degree or present her hologram technology, instead developing it further in 73-year-old Sandra Knight's workshop.
19-year-old Leslie Willis becomes a radio DJ on an underpowered station.
19-year-old Chen Nuo enlists in the People's Liberation Army, enrolling in flight school.
18-year-old Jennifer Morgan begins planning her expedition into the North Pole, where she will hunt for the source of the mysterious disappearance of Travis Morgan. She first meets adventurer & archeologist 33-year-old Mariah Romanova who agrees to accompany her.
17-year-old Mari Jiwe McCabe witnesses the death of her parents at the hands of her uncle & flees to America, finding her way to Detroit where she begins a modeling career.
17-year-old Kyle Rayner becomes a professional cartoonist & while attending graphic design classes at UCLA. where he meets 19-year-old Alexander Nero, also attending classes after his release from the asylum.
17-year-old Jimmy Olsen finds his way into Gorilla City, and successfully sets up a small coffee shop there, creating his most viral content yet. The "Jimmy Olsen Fan Club" is first formed by his online followers.
17-year-old Jimmy Olsen works with 27-year-old Ralph Dibny & 25-year-old Sue Dibny to solve a series of impossible heists in Metropolis.
18-year-old Siobhan McdDougal goes to college in America.
17-year-old Jade Nguyen kills Weng Chen, and begins studyin under African poison master Spitting Cobra.
17-year-old Luke Fox starts competing in Tae Kwon Do Point Sparring.
17-year-old Heino Okata becomes an independent idol, marketing through his own company as he expands his technology firm, releasing new interface systems that become the new standard in Japan. He buys his offshore island and builds the Most Excellent Sanctuary
15-year-old Karen Beecher graduates high school early, and begins her undergrad studies.
15-year-old Naoko Shinzokesa fights a full invasion of the Black Empire alongside Big Science Action, and joins them.
14-year-old Betty Kane first starts working as a small-time hero, protecting people at night while continuing her training.
14-year-old Eve Eden begins to learn to use her shadow powers.
14-year-old Adam Evans starts making his own music.
13-year-old Timothy Karnes steals a car and is sent into juvenile corrections.
13-year-old Owen Mercer begins competing in extreme sports.
12-year-old Sebastian Blood assists in the rise of Trigon, but escapes the battle before his fall.
11-year-old Grant Emerson's mother Kate Emerson successfully fakes his death, putting him into foster care before she is killed by S.H.A.D.E. agents.
11-year-old Alysia Yeoh tells her parents that she is transgender. Her father refuses to accept her.
6-year-old Atlee develops geomorphic powers due to her family's exposure to the alien quixium. She begins learning how to use them.