< 20 Years Ago >
J'onn J'onzz creates the identity of John Jones & becomes a private investigator.
24-year-old Jefferson Pierce marries Lynn, and they have their first daughter, Anissa. He returns home to finds a job as a high school teacher. When Peter Gambi is murdered, he becomes Black Lightning to find his murderers. He begins is crusade against 32-year-old Tobias Whale, attacking his drug distribution network.
24-year-old Fang Zhifu is the lone survivor of the Durlan landing in China. He is saved from a flesh-melting pathogen by an experimental mutogenic countermeasure. His body grows chitenous armor is recruited into china's new mutogenic program.
19-year-old Bruce Wayne studies under an assumed identity with 52-year-old Zatara and meets his daughter 12-year-old Zatanna.
22-year-old John Henry Irons gets his bachelors degree & begins studying for his masters in engineering.
41-year-old Johnny Chambers develops his theory that the formula is a mantra to unlock his own hidden genetic potential & founds Quickstart Enterprises.
47-year-old Larry Lance is killed in the line of duty. 43-year-old Cladina Drake forbids 16-year-old Dinah Lance from taking up the mantle of Black Canary, but starts doing it in secret anyway, traveling the world to learn from everyone she can including 23-year-old Richard Dragon & 27-year-old Ben Turner.
4-year-old Jesse Quick's parents 41-year-old Johnny Chambers & 43-year-old Libby Lawrence divorce after she has an affair with 45-year-old John Law.
22-year-old Oliver Queen is shipwrecked.
29-year-old Pat Dugan takes his flight harness design to the government after 35-year-old Sylvester Pemberton dies in combat. He begins working as a robotic weapons specialist.
8-year-old Barbara Gordon's adoptive parents divorce. She stays with her mother while her father, 33-year-old James Gordon returns to Gotham.
12-year-old Brian Markov & 5-year-old Tara Markov are given over to Dr Helga Jace, who helps activate their inherent metagene & strengthen their latent geomorphic powers.
15-year-old Selina Kyle falls in with a group of street thieves led by Mama Fortuna. When she refuses to follow the rules, she is beaten by one of the thieves; 16-year-old Jack Chavez. Later, she follows him to a hidden dojo where she earns a place as a student. Jack is kicked out of the school when he beats her almost to death. When she heals, she begins pulling riskier burglary jobs.
41-year-old Carmine Falcone's father dies, and he takes over the family. He consolidates his power, and effectively wins the war between the families when 23-year-old Sal Maroni agrees to his truce terms. 38-year-old Rupert Thorne becomes Gotham's new Mayor as reward for his loyalty to the Falcones.
42-year-old Jim Harper begins working for Cadmus Labs.
31-year-old Alec Holland is caught in an explosion in his swamp lab and is 'turned into' Swamp Thing.
28-year-old Rita Farr marries 33-year-old Steve Dayton.
28-year-old Joseph Blackfire, after earning degrees in philosophy, theology, criminal justice & history, leaves seminary school before earning his masters in divinity. He travels the world, joining different groups of freedom fighters.
27-year-old Victor Fries' wife Nora develops a congenital disease without a known treatment. Victor begins working to cure her, requireing him to periodically place her in suspended animation.
27-year-old Mark Shaw begins operating as an assassin for the Order of St Dumas.
25-year-old David Connor begins his doctoral studies.
23-year-old Buddy Blank becomes a CPA.
23-year-old Will Magnus earns his doctorate in theoretical mathematics.
22-year-old Vic Sage starts writing investigative stories for the local & campus papers, some of which get picked up by larger papers.
21-year-old Bonnie King is passed over for the Olympic team.
19-year-old Rex Mason joins the marines, where he meets 20-year-old John Stewart.
17-year-old Dan Cassidy wins a national martial arts title.
14-year-old Ted Kord begins inventing for his uncle's company, Kord Industries.
14-year-old Sandra Wu-San's sister dies. She abandons her village to pursue her art & joins the League of Assassins, quickly becoming one of Ra's Al Ghul's greatest prodigies. She takes the name Shiva.
36-year-old Slade Wilson rescues his son 7-year-old Joseph Wilson from kidnappers, but his throat is cut during the process, leaving him mute. Adeline shoots him for jeopardizing their child, costing him his eye.
29-year-old Sam Scudder is caught and sent to prison. He is allowed to keep his mirror.
24-year-old Dmitri Pushkin's daughter is born.
28-year-old Hugo Strange finishes his residency & becomes a practicing psychiatrist and has his theories published.
26-year-old Johnathan Crane begins his residency at Arkham Asylum while teaching at Gotham University. His fear experiments on inmates begins.
24-year-old Albert Desmond earns his masters degree in chemistry. He discovers the theoretical existance of the philosopher's stone and makes it the topic of his doctoral research.
23-year-old Leonard Snart starts his own gang using his own inventions, including his sister 26-year-old Lisa Snart & 21-year-old Mick Rory.
22-year-old Travis Morgan first flies in a battle-zone, becoming an advanced combat & rescue pilot.
21-year-old Harvey Dent starts law school.
21-year-old Roland Desmond goes to prison for armed robbery.
20-year-old John Corben, small time thief, starts running cons.
20-year-old Mark Mardon is caught during a bank robbery & sent to prison. His brother Clyde is his only contact.
18-year-old Pamela Isley goes to college to study botany. She has Jason Woodrue as a professor, and begins developing her brilliant hybrids.
18-year-old Joseph Blackfire attends seminary school.
18-year-old Clark Goodwin begins working as a burlesque performer.
18-year-old Edgar Cizko begins studying pre-med.
16-year-old Manchester Black runs away from home with 10-year-old Vera Black. When she is almost killed by muggers and thrown into the path of an oncoming train his powers manifest, killing everyone on board. He is recruited as a Checkmate asset and she is sent to Universite Nortre Dame Des Ombres.
13-year-old Evan McCulloch runs away, living as a thief and street thug.
14-year-old Barbara Ann Minerva begins adventuring around the world looking for archeological marvels.
14-year-old Kate Kane's father Jake becomes a military adviser to Israel.
14-year-old Tigorr accidentally kills a Citadel guard. He flees his spaceport home for his home planet where he joins the Karnan tribe, taking the name Toghurrhu.
10-year-old Ph'yzzon is sent to begin his warrior training with the warlords of Okaara.
3-year-old Hank & Don Hall are chosen as vessels for T'Charr & Terataya, lower lords of chaos & order that had secretly fallen in love.
Raquel Eruin is born
