< 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.
5-year-old Tara Markov's geomorphic powers manifest. She is taken in to by the royal family so that Dr Helga Jace can help her control her abilities, although secretly this is done so that her more advanced metegene can be studied so that her brother 12-year-old Brian Markov's powers can be developed and enhanced. Her mother moves to America.
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 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.
29-year-old William Tockman incorperates Tockman Inc, becoming one of the most powerful financial players in Star City.
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
