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My Marvel Universe: Year One

I apologize if this first year is rather uninteresting. It's the setup year after all, this is the beginning. The start of the age of Marvels.

January:

32 year old Doctor Stephen Strange’s hands are irreparably damaged due to a car accident. He will never be able to perform another surgery again. Not long after, he disappears entirely, going completely off the grid with his last known sighting being in Tibet.

20 year old fashion icon Janet Van Dyne and 32 year old scientist Henry Pym meet for the first time, due to Pym’s fascination with Janet’s unique abilities, and a belief that it would be compatible with his pre-existing research into ants. They form a working relationship.

February:

35 year old scientist Reed Richards, 28 year old scientist Susan Storm, 36 year old pilot Benjamin Grimm, and 17 year old flying prodigy Johnny Storm go missing after taking a joyride with an experimental spacecraft and getting blasted with cosmic radiation. They are proclaimed missing, but assumed dead.

40 year old scientist and former teacher Charles Xavier finishes preparations for Xavier’s School for Gifted Children, hiring people with unique capabilities, as well as average people, as staff.

27 year old inventor and CEO of Stark Industries Tony Stark finalizes work on his repulsor technology, creating energy weaponry.

March:

The missing Reed, Ben and the Storm siblings make their grand reappearance as the Fantastic Four, doing battle against the recluse known as the Mole Man. This is the official start of what will be known as the Age of Marvels.

The government agency SHIELD becomes a public entity following this, having begun private investigations into many scientists that could push the field of science to unseen heights.

Professor Xavier, emboldened by the support the Four received following their first appearance, hosts a scientific conference revealing the existence of mutants to the world. The controversy that follows does not deter the Professor, as he begins his own plans for a mutant superhero team following in the Four’s footsteps.

26 year old Bruce Banner finalizes his research into gamma radiation, preparing to show his findings to his backer, 50 year old General Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross.

April:

The Fantastic Four continue to stun and amaze the world with their exploits and scientific discoveries.

In response to the growing anti-mutant sentiments sweeping the world, Janet Van Dyne comes out as one, becoming a stalwart advocate for mutant rights.

Bruce Banner’s demonstration of gamma weaponry goes awry, as he goes into the blast zone to protect 16 year old drifter Erica ‘Ric’ Jones, becoming a monster known as the Hulk.

Pym’s research into Janet's mutant biology provides results, as he discovers unique energy particles that grant her the ability to shrink her size and becomes able to recreate them, though he can’t recreate her energy blasts or wings. He calls them ‘Van Dyne Particles’ at first, though Janet gives him permission to call them ‘Pym Particles,’ which the media and scientific world runs with. With this discovery, Janet and Pym become a superhero duo, at her insistence for positive mutant representation, becoming Ant-Man and the Wasp. Janet acts as an active superhero, while Pym acts as more of a scientific advisor.

May:

Tony Stark goes missing following a plane crash in Madripoor where he’s kidnapped and tortured by a gang of pirates using his technology, ending up with shrapnel lodged in his heart. With the help of 73 year old physicist Ho Yinsen, he manages to create a life-support system to keep himself alive, and create a suit of armor that manages to help him escape from the pirates, though sadly, Yinsen dies before they can make it out together. He is rescued in Singapore by his best friend and 29 year old U.S. Air Force Captain James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes.

The Hulk becomes seen by some as a hero for helping to defeat villains like the Abomination and the Bi-Beast as well as his gentle nature when calm and by others as a villain for his destructive rampages. He himself just wants to be left alone.

36 year old ruler of Latveria Doctor Victor Von Doom has his first encounter with the Fantastic Four, officially beginning a rivalry between himself and their leader, Reed Richards based off of their history in college.

Janet quickly becomes a superstar of the burgeoning superhero community, with Pym becoming a juggernaut of the scientific community alongside Reed Richards. There are rumors of a romantic relationship between the two, which isn’t completely unfounded.

26 year old lawyer Matt Murdock begins his first work as a vigilante, though he hasn’t developed the Daredevil persona as of yet, merely acting as a nameless fighter.

June:

28 year old Tony Stark officially begins his work as Iron Man, posing as his own bodyguard.

Thor Odinson is sent to Midgard, or Earth, by his father to learn humility, taking the guise of 34 year old doctor Donald Blake. He quickly becomes a notorious superhero, as both theologists and scientists are baffled by his mere existence, and as a result, the existence of magic.

Professor Xavier and his allies, 30 year old Sean Cassidy and 23 year old Shiro Yoshida, known as the Japanese hero, Sunfire, go around the world to find worthy candidates for his X-Men team. They discover a mysterious man in Japan with incredible healing capabilities as well as claws of the rare metal adamantium going only by the name of Logan, a 23 year old Kenyan-American woman with power over weather being worshipped as a goddess named Ororo Munroe, a 20 year old Russian farmer with steel skin named Piotr Rasputin, and a 24 year old German circus attraction with a blue demon-like appearance and the ability to teleport named Kurt Wagner. They are hired by Xavier to serve as staff at his school, as well as to be the founding members of his X-Men.

Ben Grimm, the Thing, and the Hulk have their first confrontation when the Fantastic Four are asked to hunt down the Jade Giant, quickly becoming rivals with each other as the Hulk suffers his first ever loss.

July:

WWII hero and former member of the Invaders, a government superhero team made by the Allies, Namor the Sub-Mariner makes his first reappearance in an encounter with the Fantastic Four. It’s rumored that the reason for his seeming immortality is his half-Atlantean biology.

Earth has its first public experience with extraterrestrial life, as a small squad of Skrulls impersonate the Four using their shapeshifting abilities in an attempt to discredit them and have the public destroy them.

Tony Stark works with Reed Richards and Henry Pym to plan an expo to show their super-science to the world. Bruce Banner is invited, but chooses not to attend due to his condition, allowing them to discuss his research without him.

The X-Men are officially brought to America to serve as staff at Xavier’s school after a month of training and preparation.

August:

The Stark Expo goes off without a hitch, defended by Iron Man and the Wasp, who become fast friends, from the tech thief known as the Beetle, 33 year old Abner Jenkins. It is noted that one of 47 year old scientist’s Jonathan Drew’s radiation treated spiders went missing, assumed to be killed by foot traffic. Sadly, expo creator, organizer, and primary funder Tony Stark is unable to attend and demonstrate, his primary assistant 28 year old Virginia ‘Pepper’ Potts filling in his place.

The missing spider bites and empowers 17 year old Peter Parker, attending the expo with his friends, 18 year old Harry Osborn and 17 year old Mary Jane Watson as a birthday present from his aunt and uncle. Over the next few days, Peter’s life radically changes as he gains superpowers, using them to compete in a wrestling shoot match for profit. He allows a criminal to get away, leading to his uncle, 50 year old Benjamin Parker, to be shot dead, widowing 48 year old May Parker. Following this, Peter Parker creates the identity of Spider-Man. In his first official night as Spider-Man, he’s spotted crawling out of his window by Mary Jane, who keeps his identity secret out of respect and love.

Professor Xavier goes searching for the first students of his school, finding 15 year old Scott Summers in a foster home with bandage wrap forced over his eyes, 16 year old Hank McCoy excelling in his athletic pursuits with his gorilla like body, and 14 year old Bobby Drake having frozen a homophobic bully in a block of ice for calling him a slur. 15 year old Warren Worthington III is given to Xavier by his father, an old friend of Xavier, for his own protection. This gives Xavier an idea.

September:

Peter breaks into the Fantastic Four’s Baxter Building, as a way to ‘try out’ for the team, in hopes of getting a job. While told off by the team, he does make friends with them, particularly Johnny, due to being the same age.

Signs of alien activity in Earth's history starts to become apparent, as the Fantastic Four battle against an ancient robot sentry claiming to have been created by a race known as the Kree.

Editor in Chief of the famously anti-superhero, pro everything else left news organization the Daily Bugle, 52 year old J. Jonah Jameson hires Peter Parker due to his impressive photography skills, not knowing that he’s secretly Spider-Man, Jameson’s most hated hero.

October:

The X-Men, made up of Logan, Ororo, Piotr, and Kurt make their first public appearance under the identities of Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler respectively, fighting against the mutant supervillain, and Xavier’s old friend, Magneto, ?? (40 years old, physically) year old Holocaust survivor Erik Lensherr, preventing him from taking over a military base. While they are considered heroes, anti-mutant bigots take into account the casualties that they failed to prevent, holding them to impossible standards that other heroes aren’t.

Xavier discovers the 15 year old mutant Jean Grey in a New York suburb, sensing an incredibly powerful being within her. He decides to take her in personally as his direct ward due to this, as well as their similar powers.

Xavier officially opens Xavier’s School for Gifted Children, taking the five young mutants as students, as well as training them to be potential X-Men.

Peter meets Bobby, who is acting as a superhero named Iceman without Xavier’s permission, and they become fast friends.

November:

The Kree send an up-and-coming Accuser, Ronan, to investigate and judge Earth due to the Kree Sentry’s destruction. He does battle against the Fantastic Four, with them handily beating him despite the power of his Universal Weapon. He determines that Earth is a curious planet worth keeping an eye on, inspiring the Kree to send more agents.

The Skrulls make their first bid for revenge against the Fantastic Four, using cosmic rays to empower one of their greatest warriors, Kl’rt, giving him all the powers of the Fantastic Four, though not as powerful. He almost beats the Four due to his tactical mind but is beaten by Reed making a device to temporarily depower him.

The Four are invited to the highly advanced isolationist African country Wakanda, having a brief encounter with its king and champion, the Black Panther, 30 year old T’Challa. They help him defeat an enemy from his past, 55 year old Ulysses Klaw, and inspire him to become a superhero and ambassador to Wakanda in the states with him appointing the head of his royal guard, the Dora Milaje, 33 year old Okoye, as regent. He also provides the scientific group of Richards, Pym, and Stark with a small cache of Vibranium, a metal with the power to absorb and redirect vibrations that Wakanda has in abundance, for the sake of scientific progress.

Thor and his sibling Loki have their first battle on Earth, with Loki using the power of the Norn Stones to temporarily enhance a gang of criminals to gain enough power to battle against Thor. Loki is defeated, deciding to plot out her next machination more carefully, while some of the criminals retain the power given to them by the Norn Stone, contained in their leader’s crowbar. They later go on to form the Wrecking Crew.

December:

Peter has his first encounter with a man who could be considered one of his greatest enemies, 43 year old Doctor Otto Octavius, Doctor Octopus, a brilliant man denied the recognition he believed he deserved, using his technology to commit crime. He gives Peter his first major loss as Spider-Man, beating him to the point where he considers quitting altogether. Following a pep-talk from Johnny and Bobby, Peter goes after Octavius again, this time beating him.

Sights of a silver being riding on a surfboard in the sky are talked about, most believing it to be nothing more than people seeing things, or hoaxes, or whatnot. The sightings stop after about a week.

The students of Xavier’s School go on their first mission, battling against the Brotherhood of Mutants, a third party in the conflict between Xavier and Magneto, led by Mystique, Raven Darkholme, stealing the idea of training young mutants from Xavier, while adopting more of Magneto’s mindset. The Brotherhood’s membership includes: Mystique’s wife, Irene Adler, Destiny, who has no stakes in the conflict between Xavier, Magneto, and Mystique, merely working with her wife out of love. 15 year old Anna-Marie, Rogue, a troubled girl with the power to steal skills, power, and energy via touch, who forms a rivalry with Jean Grey after temporarily stealing her powers. 14 year old John Allerdyce, Pyro, who forms a rivalry with Bobby due to their opposite power sets. 15 year old Fred Dukes, the Blob, a kid with a layer of protective blubber and personal gravity control, who joined just to be loved and formed a rivalry with Hank McCoy, now going by Beast, due to seeing the two of them as ‘monsters,’ and upset that Hank was loved while he was hated. 16 year old Lance Alvers, Avalanche, a mutant with the power to create quakes, forms a rivalry with Scott Summers, now going by Cyclops, due to his insulting of Xavier and for beating Slim within an inch of his life during their first battle. And their final member, 16 year old Remy LeBeau, also known as Gambit, with the power to charge kinetic energy into objects, who forms a more friendly rivalry with Warren Worthington, now going by Angel, due to his friendly disposition, though they still battle due to being on enemy teams.

Reed Richards and Susan Storm set a date for their wedding, that being the anniversary of the debut of the Fantastic Four.

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