< 21 Years Ago >
42-year-old Johhny Chambers is confronted by 55-year-old Edward Clariss after his escape from the Speed Force. To contain him he taps the Speed Force vortex, freeing 41-year-old Jay Garrick, whose connection to the Speed Force finally exhausted. Jay returns to academia where he meets his fellow teacher, 38-year-old Joan Williams, who helps him acclimatize to the modern world.
25-year-old John Constantine and his bandmates attempt to save Astra Logue, an abused girl being chased by a demon, by summoning a demon of his own. They botch the summoning when another demon. Nergal, answers and breaks out of their containment. He tortures John’s friends, and drags the girl to Hell. John attempts to follow to save her but cannot willingly walk into hell, returning with only her arm. He is placed in the Ravenscar Mental institution.
22-year-old Richard Dragon & 26-year-old Ben Turner are recruited by 31-year-old King Faraday & become covert assets for the DEO.
28-year-old Meihui Lan, a full-blooded Homo Magi from Tibet, meets 33-year-old Terry Thirteen as he travels the earth researching the existence of magic. He begins pursuing magic worldwide to document and research it, & she joins him in a whirlwind of romance and adventure.
Kobra begins creating a worldwide network of operatives, including The Fisherman & 24-year-old Wade LeFarge. They attempt to replicate the designs of the Pax Institute, inciting 20-year-old Christopher Smith to use the Institute's weapons against them, first donning the helmet and weapons as Peacemaker.
33-year-old Dru-Zod's control of the Daxamite colony in the Phantom Zone, refusing them the right to govern themselves, leads to them beginning to organize a resistance.
32-year-old Winslow Schott begins being seen with his "wife', actually a robot of his own design.
31-year-old Theo Adam is almost caught grave robbing. He goes legitimate & becomes a guide.
28-year-old Lex Luthor forces a truce in the ongoing gang war in Metropolis between 31-year-old Tobias Whale & The 100 and 22-year-old Bruno Mannheim's Intergang. He grants control of the drug trade to Whale, limiting Intergang to weapon smuggling.
28-year-old Mike Miller is caught and sent to prison. His wife divorces him while he is inside.
28-year-old Speed Saunders earns his masters degree. He begins developing his theories of the connections between Prince Khufu Kan-Tarr and the WWII hero Hawkman.
27-year-old Despero discovers the Flames of Py’tar deep in Kalanor's nuclear desert, awakening the mind-control powers of his 3rd eye. He begins experimenting on his people, building his science cult as he reaches out to other planets, searching for genetic anomalies.
34-year-old Travis Morgan survives a missile attack while flying a reconnaissance mission with a specially outfitted SR-71 Blackbird. He bails over the north pole as his plane crashes, finding one of the rare openings into the trans-dimensional Hollow Earth, Skartaris. He encounters 23-year-old Tara, saving her from a Terrorsaur. He gives her his wristwatch, which she takes as a talisman. They are captured by the Theran forces of 36-year-old Deimos. He is sold into slavery, and meets 30-year-old Machiste as galley slaves. Tara is taken to Thera as a hostage.
26-year-old Victor Fries earns his doctorate in Cryogenic Biology. He begins running the cryogenics lab for Goth-Corp.
23-year-old Sarah Essen is promoted to detective in the GCPD.
23-year-old Medphyll is captured by Citadel Police and placed in the Starlog.
20-year-old Rick Flag begins working in combat zones worldwide.
22-year-old Barry Allen graduates and begins his postgrad work while apprenticing in the Central City police department.
22-year-old Mariah Romanova earns a bachelors degree in anthropology from Princeton, and begins her postgrad work in Archeology.
21-year-old Aram al Ashir's older brother dies in a hunting accident, making him the new crown prince. He flees Kaambuku to become a minstrel & rogue.
21-year-old Lobo is responsible for the destruction of his home planet & the genocide of his species. The effects on him are uncertain.
21-year-old Black Manta kills his H.I.V.E. handlers & steals his ship, the Devil Ray. He becomes a pirate, raiding the seas to expand his technology to challenge Atlantis.
21-year-old Arkkis Chummuck chooses to become an archivist and non-combatant, viewing his people’s warlike ways with sadness.
19-year-old Edward Nygma, bored with stumping people with his puzzles begins to engage in a variety of thefts, leaving small riddles that confound any attempt to find the purpetrator.
18-year-old Bruce Wayne trains briefly under an assumed name with 28-year-old David Cain, who begins developing his theories about replacing language with movement. David is recruited into the League of Assassins.
18-year-old Daniel Cassidy chooses film school over his football scholarship. He moves to LA, where he meets Marla Bloomberg & Norm Paxton.
18-year-old Stanley Kitch goes to college to study pre-law.
18-year-old Carol Ferris goes to college.
18-year-old Ray Palmer is accepted into the prestigious Ivy University in Ivy Town, Connecticut.
18-year-old Guy Gardner goes to college on a football scholarship.
18-year-old Kirk Langstrom goes to college.
18-year-old Hank Henshaw starts college.
18-year-old Richard Rigel goes to college to study chemistry. He makes money on the side by making designer drugs.
17-year-old Floyd Lawton joins the army to escape his father, and becomes a sniper.
18-year-old Adam Strange goes to college to study Archaeology.
14-year-old Tatsu Toro becomes a star pupil of Master Tadashi. She meets 15-year-old Maseo Yamashiro & 16-year-old Takeo Yamashiro. They both fall in love with her.
13-year-old Renee Montoya begins studying kickboxing, where she meets 13-year-old Kate Kane.
13-year-old Mercy Graves becomes a member of a Metropolis Street Gang
12-year-old Princess Turquoise parents are killed by 42-year-old Dark Opal's forces. She becomes the new Lady Turquoise, and begins secretly preparing her house for rebellion against Dark Opal.
8-year-old Delilah “Dee” Tyler is accepted into a young engineer's program.
7-year-old Sadie Nash first meets her father 52-year-old Kyle Nimbus, and begins trying to earn his approval.
7-year-old Jennifer Morgan is told that her father Travis Morgan has been shot down on a secret reconnaissance mission. She has an unexplained belief that there is more to his disappearance than she is being told.
5-year-old Arisia Rrab's father dies on duty, and her uncle becomes the new Green Lantern.
5-year-old Hartley Rathaway is given experimental audio implants which allow him to hear, beginning a lifelong obsession with sound and technology.
3-year-old Eve Eden's mother Queen Maureen flees the creature Incubus, bringing her children to earth.
Toni Monetti is born the daughter of a former US Senator (although truely the result of an alien breeding program).
Grant Emerson is born when S.H.A.D.E. scientists are able to grow the single remaining embryo from the Ultra-Humanite's experiements.
Beryl Hutchinson is born to a working class single mother.
Dawn Granger is born.
The Daxamites, not permitted to govern themselves as Dru-Zod maintains control of their colony, begin organizing a resistance.
Alysia Yeoh is born in Gotham City to Singaporean parents.