S.H.A.D.E.
1902 - The Bride is mind-controlled by the cult leader the Red Swami, grafting her with additional arms as a reflection of his assassination god. When she is freed from his control by agents of the new American paranormal investigation organization S.H.A.D.E., she destroys the cult & becomes an operative of their organization.
1932 - Frankenstein is recovered by S.H.A.D.E. and becomes their operative. He reconnects with The Bride who is also an operative, but refuses to work with him.
1933 - J.A.K.E.'s initial prototype is developed by S.H.A.D.E. & testing begins.
1935 - 28-year-old Vincent Velcoro is sentenced to death, but is given a chance to remute his sentence by volunteering for S.H.A.D.E. experiments.
1937 - 30-year-old Vincent Velcoro's physiology is altered through experimentation. He becomes a vampire.
1938 - 18-year-old Warren Griffith surrenders to S.H.A.D.E. to try to control his transformations.
1939 - Frankenstein becomes the leader of the S.H.A.D.E. wartime assault team, the Creature Commandos, including J.A.K.E., 19-year-old Warren Griffith & 32-year-old Vincent Velcoro.
1942 - 35-year-old Vincent Velcoro earns his pardon, but stays in the fight with the Creature Commandos. J.A.K.E. suffers massive damage fighting a T-Rex on Dinosaur Island. He is rebuilt as J.A.K.E. 2, now with internal weapons.
1944 - S.H.A.D.E. recovers 100 superhuman embryos created by Delores Winters using biological samples from Al Pratt, Roy Lincoln & Iron Munro.
1945 - 38-year-old Vincent Velcoro is killed during the final push into Berlin.
1946 - 26-year-old Warren Griffith dies during the Secret War.
1947 - Frankenstein is lost in the Atlantic during the final mission to kill Hitler's Brain.
40 years ago - Bones is born as the result of a failed mutogenic test by S.H.A.D.E. He is kidnapped by Doctor Love, the scientist in charge of the test, and raised as his experiment.
30 years ago - 25-year-old Langford Terrill begins working for S.H.A.D.E.
28 years ago - 27-year-old Langford Terrill takes a permanent position with S.H.A.D.E. and retires from superheroics, not realizing that it has gone rogue.
26 years ago - 20-year-old Matthew Cable is attached as a support unit to special forces working with S.H.A.D.E. agents.
25 years ago - 30-year-old Langford Terrill's son Ray Terrill is born, and genetically manipulated in utero to enhance his metapowers. S.H.A.D.E. places him in a foster home for observation. 19-year-old Cole Cash is secretly genetically manipulated while serving as a member of Team 7, enhancing his natural psionics.
24 years ago - 22-year-old Matthew Cable completes his term of service with the army. He becomes a reservist while he studies criminal justice, but is approached by S.H.A.D.E. to become an agent, investigating mysterious monster sightings.
22 years ago - 24-year-old Matthew Cable travels to a small european country to track stories of a monster attacking people. He meets Abigail Arcane, one of the victims, who convinces him to look deeper into the creature's origins, proving that the Patchwork Man is her father Gregori Arcane turning into a monster by her uncle Anton Arcane. He helps her destroy her uncle's lab, seeing him fall from his castle to his death. Abigail comes back to the states with him, helping him on his investigations.
21 years ago - 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.
19 years ago - Craig Tresser is headhunted, recruited as an agent for S.H.A.D.E., inspiring his brother Thomas Tresser to begin working to become a government agent.
18 years ago - 28-year-old Matthew Cable arrives in Lousiana with his wife Abigail Cable to track the illusive Swamp Thing. Frankenstein is recovered by the DEO, who commission him to battle his old employers, S.H.A.D.E. 46-year-old Scandal Savage becomes an agent of S.H.A.D.E. handing over secrets of Kobra
17 years ago - 29-year-old Matthew Cable steps down as a S.H.A.D.E. agent when he's hired by a wealthy scientist as an expert in tracking the Swamp Thing.
14 years ago - 7-year-old Grant Emerson's mother Kate Emerson goes on the run, trying to keep him away from S.H.A.D.E.
13 years ago - John Corben is nearly killed in a massive car accident. His body is recovered by S.H.A.D.E., who put his brain into a indestructible robotic body covered with cloned body tissue. He escapes and rampages, but it stopped by Superman.
11 years ago - S.H.A.D.E. agent Craig Tresser stages an assassination of Ben Marshall, Head of Intelligence of Argus. His brother Thomas Tresser goes rogue from Argus, staging his own death and begins using his own spy tech, targeting S.H.A.D.E. as Nemesis.
10 years ago - 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. The Bride & Frankenstein discover that their son was gestated by S.H.A.D.E. and grown into an undead biological weapon. She leaves S.H.A.D.E. and works with him & the Freedom Fighters to find and destroy their son.
8 years ago - 17-year-old Ray Terrill's foster father is killed in a car accident. He discovers his light manipulation powers, and the truth about his actual father, 47-year-old Langford Terrill. He takes up the name the Ray, confronting S.H.A.D.E. When Langford learns the truth about them, he turns on them, sacrificing his life to save his son.
7 years ago - 34-year-old Thomas Tresser exposes S.H.A.D.E's history to 57-year-old Scandal Savage, revealing their wartime records of Vandal Savage's children that were dissected in his effort to replicate his immortality. They shut down the agency. He turns himself in to Argus, going to prison for his time as a rogue agent while Scandal goes back to living on the run.