Hello, all! It's been in my mind for some time to re-post the Earth-44 timeline in a hopefully more accessible format. This kind of a long-term project, so it may take a while.
I intend this thread to be a general clearinghouse of the multiple threads that this project is going to take. I will also be listing the footnotes here. I will probably be somewhat sparing on the footnotes, including them only when necessary. For example, I doubt anyone here will need a footnote telling them that Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1, and so on. Please feel free to offer any constructive criticism that you may have.
(On a side note, this "Earth-44" has nothing to do with the "Earth-44" mentioned in the Multiversity books. The significance of the "44" is simply that "44" was the number of the house I grew up in,)
List of Earth-44 Threads:
Introduction and the Age of Creation (13,700.000,000 B.C. - 4,000,000,005 B.C.)
Pre-History (4,000,000,004 B.C. - 90,000 B.C.)
The Legendary Age (89,999 B.C. - 30,000 B.C.)
Pre-Modern History (29,999 B.C. - A.D. 1600)
The Modern Age (A.D. 1601 - A.D. 1912)
The Heroic Age, Part One (A.D. 1913 - A.D. 1940)
The Heroic Age, Part Two (A.D. 1941 - A.D. 1960)
The Heroic Age, Part Three (A.D. 1961 - A.D. 1970)
The Heroic Age, Part Four (A.D. 1971 - A.D. 1980)
The Heroic Age, Part Five (A.D. 1981 - A.D. 1990)
The Heroic Age, Part Six (A.D. 1991 - A.D. 2000)
The Heroic Age, Part Seven (A.D. 2001 - A.D. 2053)
The Post-Disaster Age (A.D. 2054 - A.D. 2160)
Federation and Imperium (A.D. 2161 - A.D. 2899)
The Democratic Age (A.D. 2900- A.D. 6000)
The Far Future (A.D. 6001- THE END OF TIME)
Appendix One: Some Earth-44 Super-Teams as of 2015
Appendix Two; Presidents of the USA on Earth-44
Appendix Three :The Legacy of the Green Lanterns of Earth
Appendix Four: The Legacy of Spider-Man
Appendix Five: The Legacy of Wonder Woman
Appendix Six: The Legacy of the Batman
Appendix Seven: The Legacy of Superman
Appendix Eight: The Legacy of the Atom
Appendix Nine: A Brief History of the Westchester School
Appendix Eleven: Major League Baseball on Earth-44
Appendix Twelve: The History of the Cybermen in the Earth-44 Universe
Appendix Thirteen: The Legacy of the Flash
Appendix Fourteen: The Legacy of Sherlock Holmes
Appendix Fifteen: A Brief History of the Ghostbusters
Appendix Seventeen: The Extended Marvel Family
How The Earth-44 Timeline Came To Be
Footnotes to Introduction and the Age of Creation:
(1)Dagwan was a long-time member of the Board who took a great deal of interest in the original version of this timeline. Sadly, he passed away not that long ago.
Footnotes to Pre-History:
(2)You will note slight differences in the Doctor's timeline here and there. This is meant to represent the effect of the altered timeline, and is in no way just the Baron writing out characters he doesn't like.
(3)The idea that the Ice Warriors are a branch of Homo Reptilia is not original with me, but I can't remember where I stole the idea from, so I can't give proper credit.
(4)See 1960.
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(5)Not sure where I got the idea of tying the origins of the jedi back to Earth.
(6)The is a divergence from accepted Doctor Who continuity. I just didn't want to clutter up the Solar system.
(7)This is a joke. To my knowledge, no one but me has ever found it funny. I don't care.
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(8)I gather there wasn't a year zero, since zero wasn't invented by the time our current calendar was created.
(9)Another instance where the Doctor's history is slightly different than one might expect.
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(10) For the purposes of this timeline, most of the places Gulliver visited were in other dimensions that he had unwittingly entered.
(11)When I was a kid, I was especially bummed out by Beth March's death, so I took my opportunity to un-do it here.
(12)While she's basically the same character, I imagine that her life is somewhat different than that presented in her stoires.
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(16)This is my tribute to McCay as an important early animator.
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(18)I forget who suggested this idea to me, or I would give credit.
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(23)In proper continuity, this character is the "Golden Age" version of Bongo Comics' Radioactive Man. I'm changing Radio Man's secret identity to Radioactive Man's father to fit him into this combined continuity.
(24)In this combined continuity, all U.S. super-heroes were automatically considered a part of this team. Thus, the various super-teams that existed in other continuities (The Freedom Fighters, the Invaders, the Liberty Legion, etc.) would not have had independent existences. They might have existed as subdivisions within the Squadron, however.
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(29)This is another one that wasn't my idea, that I don't remember whose it was. Sure wish I'd written this stuff down!
(30)I tend to follow the notion that characters are whatever age they appear to be upon their introduction, and thereafter age normally. Thus, I expect that Dick Grayson would be 21, and thereby of an age to romance Ms. Vale. I also don't personally think it's out of character that he would marry fairly young.
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(34)In this timeline, there would be no Midvale Orphanage for our Kara. With two young, super-powered children, the Kents would be glad of a super-powered live-in babysitter, and thus she would come to live with them as Clark's "orphaned cousin", Linda Lee.
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My initial intention was to have second-generation versions of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman be League founders, but for that to work, the Big Three would have had to have kids by 1942, and I wasn't wild about that idea. In Wonder Woman's case, particularly, it would have made it look as though she came to "Man's World" and immediately leapt into the marital bed, as it were.
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(39)"My" origin of Donna Troy is that magical accident created a thirteen year old duplicate of Wonder Woman. After some discussion, she went to live with the Trevors as Diana's "orphaned niece".Soon thereafter, Stephanie Trevor and Donna Troy began fighting crime as the Wonder Girls.
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(45)I am positing that this character is the son of the original.
(46)This is the Marvel Hercules. Presumably, he's bene around for millennia, but this is his first appearance in recent times.
(47)This character is also the son of the original..
(48)This character is the daughter of the original Archie and Betty, and this is Pureheart's sister. (My presumption that Archie chose Betty is indicative purely of my own preference.
(49)The astute reader might be expecting to see the Teen Titans here. I'm leaving them out because in this timeline Dick Grayson Sr. and Roy Harper would be in their late 30's by now, and Garth would be 18, and Donna 17. I just can't see the four of them forming a "kid sidekicks" team at this point.
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(51)Barry and Iris married somewhat earlier in this timeline, although I haven't fixed a year.
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(61)Since Tintin and pals already landed on the Moon, the U.s upped the ante a bit by actually setting up a base there.
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(63)I'm somewhat violating the rule I mentioned back in note (30) here. If Lana Lang was 16 when she was introduced in 1950, she'd be 36 by now, which is a little older than I intended. But it amused me to imagine that Lois Lane and Lana Lang each got to marry a "Superman", so imagine that this is whatever version of Lana Lang that would have been in her early 20's in 1970.
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(66)I realize this probably doesn't mesh well with the "real" Spider-continuity. Gwen Stacy was gone from the books when I started reading them, so I've always thought of Mary Jane as Pete's girlfriend.
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(69)This is my explanation of why Tabitha and Adam were older than they should have been when the sequel-series Tabitha came along.
(70)Purely my own invention here, my idea as to what would be interesitng/amusing jobs for them to end up in.
(71)Did Bobby Drake have a love interest at that time? Whoever she was, he married and had a kid with her, apparently.
(72)Another one that was suggested to me by a member of the board that I can't remember who it was, or I would give proper credit.
(73)Not quite sure what the founding membership of this team was, but I'm leaving a space here in case I find out.
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(78)In this timeline, Power Girl is the daughter of the original Superman. It seemed better to me than for him to have two cousins - both called "Kara" - arrive on Earth separately. ("Hi, I'm Kal-El, this is my cousin Kara, and this is my other cousin Kara.") It's possible, I suppose - I have cousins called Patricia on both sides of my family.
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(80)I realize this is all a bit Plot Convenience Playhouse, but I wanted to have the original Ororo and the Amalgam Ororo be two separate people. Why Felix Faust? He was just the first villain I thought of.
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(So, in this timeline, the "New" Titans of our timeline are the original Titans.)
(88)These are are this timeline's versions of the Amalgam Spider-Boy and Insect Queen. So, here they're siblings instead of lovers. Ah, well, them's the breaks.
Footnotes to The Heroic Age, Part Five:
(89)I read that the character Mario was originally going to be calle d"Mr. Video", so I assigned him (and his brother) the surname "Video", which sort of sounds like an Italian surname.
(90)This is the one self-created character I allowed myself here. I made him up when I was a kid, after I had the perhaps not spectacularly original insight that the main reason Batman was able to do all the things he did was because he was filthy rich, and that even if I was as capable and fit as Bruce Wayne, I would have had a Hell of a time fighting crime with the resources available to me. "Will Bennett" came from names that people have mis-called me over the years. Two separate people at two separate times in my life have been convinced that I was called "Bill" (which I cleverly changed to "Will" to make it seem different) and there was a deaf old nun back in third grade who it took me half a school year to convey to her that I wasn't called "Bennett". So, this character is the closest thing to a "Mary Sue" that I will indulge myself to include here.
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(93)I don't remember much about this show. Did he have a "hero name" that he called himself by? I can't imagine he went around calling himself "the Greatest American Hero".
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(101)I imagine that "Hero High" is actually a nickname for this institution, and that it would be affiliated with the Westchester School. It would cater to adolescent super-humans, the most promising of whom would "graduate" to the Westchester School.
(102)Winston has a much happier lfe here. In this timeline, he is a divorced copy editor for the Times who is romancing his younge rcolleague Juila, and works for jolly old Mr.O'Brien.
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(107)I can't remember which one of you suggested that Charles would be Joanie and Chachi's son, but it fits quite well.
(108)This one I do remember - it was Shlabam's idea. apparenlty, it references a movie I haven't seen.
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(135)I've done away with the "Golden Age" segments of these characters. It's arbitrary, but I prefer explaining them as descendants of older heroes, rather than having to try to shoehorn them back into the 40's.
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(I'm playing fast and loose with Amalgam continuity by having all of these characters as founders of the JLX. I just like the idea.)
(139)This is the “TV” version of the character. I haven’t quite worked out what the relationship is with the “comics” version of the character.
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(143)The program is somewhat less lethal in this timeline.
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(154)This is my reaction to the Seinfeld finale. I thought that if they ever did a reunion show, they could go one of two ways – either they could have become ridiculously reformed characters, and the comedy would be watching them slowly crack and return to their old selves, or they could become ridiculously hardened criminals, and the comedy would be them as criminal masterminds. I chose the latter.
(155)Two more that weren’t my idea, but I don’t remember who suggested them.
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(172) I imagine that this organization would also be affiliated with the Westchester School along with Hero High, so that there would education available for young metahumans from elementary school through university level.
(173)Cassie Lang II is not the same Cassie Lang as the one who was the Stinger. I’m guessing a niece or younger cousin who has the same name. You’ll find that happens a lot on Earth-44.
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(189)I haven’t really gotten into it, but the history of the Time War is fairly different in the Earth-44 universe. At some point I plan to spell it all out, just as soon as I figure it all out myself.
(190)This timeline includes the “Spider-Gwen” version of Gwen Stacy, rather than the Silver Age one. If you like, we could say that this “Gwen Stacy” is the niece of the original, and was named after her.
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(192)The lives of the Earth-44 versions of the Evangelion characters are closer to those in the Shinji Ikari Raising Project than those in the original story. That is, they’re a good deal more light-hearted.
(192)I moved this story from the colony planet Vulcan to Mercury to avoid confusion later on.
(193)This is my explanation for the “wacky” names in The Jetsons.
(194)This is not meant to be Kirby’s “Great Disaster”. It’s my attempt to explain why there are so few super-humans and magic users in most “sci-fi” futures.
Footnotes to The Post-Disaster Age:
(There aren't any. At least, not yet.)
Footnotes to Federation and Imperium:
(195)This is the Doctor Who version of Alpha Centauri.
(196)Mars at this time is an Earth colony, the various Martian race having abandoned the place.
(197)This is a planet settled by friendly Mondasian Cybermen.
(198)This is the Planet X from the Godzilla movies.
(199)This is a planet settled by Homo Reptilia.
(200)This is the planet Saturn Girl will come from,
(201)This is the home of the Treen.
(202)In the original, this story is set on Earth. I moved it to an Earth colony because it would foul up the continuity I want to establish for future Earth.
(203)This is another that was originally set on Earth that I moved to another planet because I didn’t want the Earth destroyed at this point.
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OK, I've cleaned up and re-posted the entire timeline. There will still be more stuff added - various appendices and such.
Comments are always welcome,.
Updates and additions to 1771, 1781, 1784, 1797, 1801, 1803, 1813, 1815, 1820, 1847, 1880 and 2010.
Updates and additions to 851, 1138, 1651, 1980, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2017, 2026 and 2119.
Additions to 1896, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2013.