The Entire DCEU Timeline Explained

the dceu has seen its ups and downs for over a decade but the entire story goes back hundreds of thousands of years here's the complete timeline so far around 200 000 years before the main events of the dceu began to play out Gods Ruled the Earth the deity Zeus decided to create a new species similar to the gods but Ares the god of war interfered with Zeus's plan and corrupted the newly made human race in response Zeus created the Amazons and all-female race of noble Warriors who according to Queen hippolyta would influence men's hearts with love and restore peace to the Earth these two civilizations lived together in peace alongside the atlanteans for thousands of years before the Earth was invaded by Steppenwolf and his parademon army the forces of Earth banded together and ultimately managed to defeat and drive out Steppenwolf and his forces although he left behind three mother boxes when he fled each of the three main races on Earth took one of the mother boxes with the intent of keeping them safe years later the war of the Gods broke out in which Ares killed all his fellow Olympians but Zeus managed to create the island of femascara for the Amazons before he died he also fathered Diane Anna with hippolyta although the child was born after he passed away leaving her with no knowledge of her true father later Atlantis sank into the ocean and the deserters left and formed their own Kingdom at some point while all these major events were playing out the enchantress was born and imprisoned alongside her brother Incubus plus the dreamstone was created and The Wizard Shazam imprisoned the seven deadly sins in the rock of Eternity where he remained to guard them according to 2022's Black Adam around 5000 years ago the Middle Eastern nation of conduct was the first major civilization however it was ruled by an evil despot named King Octon luckily the Shazam and his fellow Council of wizards granted magical powers to a young slave boy named harout who led a proletariat Revolution against the evil King this is similar to what the wizard Shazam would do for teenager Billy Batson centuries later to protect and save his father the weak-willed teth Adam her root grants Adam his god-like Shazam Powers unfortunately because her root is temporarily de-powered at that moment he's killed by a hidden assassin's Arrow this enrages the newly superpowered teth Adam and in his rage he murders King Octon In Cold Blood he also loses control of his powers and destroys a large part of the Kingdom itself inadvertently killing many innocent people of kondok Adam is then stripped of his powers by the Council of wizards and is sentenced to be held in a magical prison inside a secret cave in kondok Forever it's largely quiet on the gods and superheroes front for the next couple thousand years and then World War one comes along the conflict draws in Steve Trevor who while fleeing a skirmish with the Germans crash lands on the hidden shores of themiskira unfortunately German soldiers follow and humans invade the mascara for the first time a battle breaks out on the beach and although the Amazons are victorious hippolytus sister and tayapi is killed in combat grieving and convinced that Ares is ultimately behind the Great War a naive Diana decides to accompany Steve back to the human world determined to root out and defeat Ares and once I find them destroy Ares the German armies will be freed from his influence in the process Diana winds up falling in love not just with Steve but with Humanity itself she enthusiastically Embraces much of what human culture has to offer while remaining true to her Amazonian Roots although Diana is successful in defeating Ares and ending the war Steve sacrifices himself in the process Diana Mourns his loss and decides to remain among human permanently while continuing to work as a superhero on Christmas Day in 1974 a young Thaddeus Savannah is on a drive with his father and his older brother Sid when he sees the symbols of the wizard Shazam appear in his Magic 8-Ball thaddeus's surroundings begin acting strangely and he perceives that he and the car have been transported to a strange new place which turns out to be the rock of Eternity there Savannah has his first encounter with Shazam who tells him that he's seeking a champion to inherit his magic however Thaddeus proves himself Unworthy of the Wizard's magic and he's expelled from the rock of Eternity thaddeus's resulting confusion distracts his father which causes a car accident as a result of all this Thaddeus vows to one day find his way back to the rock of Eternity and claim shazam's power for himself several years later in 1980 the baby Kalel is born to jorel and Lara lorevan on the Planet Krypton shortly before the planet's destruction kalel's parents successfully managed to send their son to Earth before the planet implodes killing jorel and Lara along with the rest of the Kryptonian race several months later spaceship crashes in Smallville Kansas where the baby is discovered by Jonathan and Martha Kent who adopt and raise him as their own the following year Bruce Wayne's parents are killed by a Mugger leaving Young Bruce in the care of the family Butler Alfred pennyworth since the end of World War One in 1918 Wonder Woman attempted to operate in secret although not particularly well since she still publicly saves people and takes down bad guys in extremely flashy Ways by day though Diana Prince works as an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institute using her lived experience to inform her specialty in ancient Mediterranean civilizations and cultures there she meets her co-worker the largely forgettable Barbara Minerva who Sparks Diana's interest when the hero notices the dreamstone in her office curious to learn more about the dreamstone Diana and Barbara begin to form a friendship but everything goes sideways when they both wind up unknowingly making wishes on the stone Diana wishes for Steve to come back while Barbara wishes to be more like Diana resulting in her receiving Diana's Powers the stone eventually falls into the hands of oil tycoon Maxwell Lord who tries to use it to gain power and success for himself by essentially becoming the dreamstone Barbara then allies herself with Lord who bestows cat-like Powers upon her turning her into cheetah ultimately though Lord's plans collapse in on themselves the dreamstone's power is lost and all of its wishes are eventually renounced including Steve's Resurrection as a result he and Diana say goodbye yet again I pray that isn't true there's a there's a wonderful big world out there after the chaotic events of the early 80s the second half of the decade is much calmer although it still carries some major developments in 1986 Arthur Curry is born to human Lighthouse Keeper Thomas Curry and the Atlantean Queen Atlanta unfortunately while Arthur is still a baby Atlantean guards attack the curry home determined to return Atlanta to Atlantis to marry King orvax Atlanta is heartbroken and leaves her family behind to keep them safe Arthur is then raised as a human by his father also in the late 80s Clark Kent begins to realize he has superpowers as his powers emerge and grow his parents urge him to keep them to himself and they finally tell him the truth about his Origins Clark initially follows their wishes but their desire to keep his identity secret ultimately winds up leading to Jonathan's death even though Clark could have saved him around the same time while Clark is discovering and struggling to come to terms with his powers Bruce Wayne adopts the secret superhero identity of Batman and he begins practicing his own unique brand of Justice in Gotham in 1990 NASA astronauts encounter an alien creature floating in space the creature has bright pink and blue skin and is shaped like a starfish with a single human-like eye in the middle of its body once inside the shuttle the alien starts attacking and killing off the astronauts it has the ability to release smaller duplicates of itself that attach to a host once attached to the creatures completely control their victims nonetheless staro was eventually captured by the United States government which makes a deal with the corrupt fictional South American government of Corto Maltese in exchange for funds and turning a blind eye to human rights violations the Corto Maltese government agreed to illegally house the dangerous creature and experiment on it in a secret facility dubbed yotenheim meanwhile the Herrera regime that controlled Cordo Maltese at the time used staro to torture kill and control political dissidents such as protesters Freedom Fighters and independent journalists the main scientist heading the project was Gaius Greaves The Thinker who has a comically large head with brain enhancing cyber frenetic sprouting from it Greaves abused staro even derisively dubbing the creature by its comic book name staro the Conqueror as Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent each circle their superhero Destinies in the early 2000s other eventual heroes and villains are just beginning to embark on their origin stories Arthur Curry begins training with Atlanta's advisor volko working to unlock and hone his Atlantean Powers so that he can one day take the throne as king of Atlantis in 2004 Billy Batson is born but he's abandoned by his mother when he's four years old leading to him being placed in the Foster system at the time he believes that he was accidentally separated from his mother and he vows to find her again someday in the late 2000s psychiatrist harleen quinzel gets a job working in Arkham Asylum and winds up falling in love with her patient The Joker The Joker convinces quinzel to help him Escape in return for her efforts he subjects her to electric shock therapy and pushes her into a vat of chemicals which Alters her physical appearance and mental state after emerging quinzel adopts the name Harley Quinn and she and the Joker become two of Gotham's most notorious criminals talk about a workplace where a man's gone wrong during roughly the same time frame archaeologist June moon is possessed by enchantress while exploring the Tres Osos caves in Peru after wrestling with his mysterious Origins for years Clark Kent finally discovers his true identity in 2013. that's when he goes to investigate a mysterious object in Northern Canada and finds the ruins of a Kryptonian ship there he learns his true name Kalel and he also meets Lois Lane using his powers to save her life after finding the answers he'd always been searching for Clark Embraces his powers becoming Superman soon after the Kryptonian General Zod one of the few survivors of the destruction of Krypton demands that Clark be turned over to his care concerned for the people of Earth Clark voluntarily surrenders and Zod attempts to persuade him to join him in his mission to create a new Krypton on Earth Clark refuses and battle Zod destroying much of Smallville and Metropolis in the process that includes the Wayne Financial building where a nearby Bruce Wayne looks on in dismay the destruction wrought by kalel's battle with Zod fuels Wayne's bitter hatred of metahumans the battle eventually ends when Superman kills Zod later Clark begins working at the daily minute where he's reunited with Lois who promises to keep his secret following the destruction of metropolis and the public reveal of Superman Lex Luthor and his company lexcor begin looking into metahumans which leads him to the discovery of Kryptonite in the Indian Ocean Lex Corp soon begins working to develop weapons technology using Kryptonite and while this is happening Lex throws a Gala for the Metropolis Library reopening after being destroyed in Man of Steel Bruce Wayne Clark Kent and Diana Prince all attend the Scala and meet briefly though none of them realize the other's secret identities later Bruce Wayne plots to kill Superman using Kryptonite blaming him for the destruction of metropolis but before he can take action Lex Luthor bombs the U.S capital during Superman's Senate Hearing in the process of investigating lexcor Bruce and Diana discover the metahuman files which include info on Aquaman Cyborg and the Flash Bruce then attempts to carry out his Vendetta against Superman but when Lex Luthor creates Doomsday the heroes team up to fight the monster together doomsday is defeated by Batman Wonder Woman and Superman but Kalel is kill killed in the effort and a disgrace to Lex Luthor is sent to Arkham Asylum in the wake of Superman's death Amanda Waller the director of the advanced research group uniting superhumans known by the acronym Argus becomes worried that equally powerful but malicious metahumans could become a major problem for the United States in response Waller gets the idea to assemble a team of expendable super-powered individuals to resist such a threat which he dubs task force x these individuals are selected from among incarcerated metahumans the inaugural members of task force x are Harley Quinn Deadshot Killer Croc El Diablo Captain Boomerang and Slipknot the team is led by special operative Rick Flagg who's assisted by his sword-wielding bodyguard Katana the team is deployed in response to the re-emergence of enchantress who also releases her brother Incubus task force x nicknamed The Suicide Squad by Deadshot confronts enchantress and Incubus but the group's disorganized and Scattered nature leads to the team nearly disintegrating however the members eventually reassembled to fight the supernatural villains and the anti-heroes are ultimately Victorious Rex flag kills enchantress freeing June Moon from her possession and the rest of task force x returns to prison with improved conditions although the Joker soon breaks Harley free about 5 000 years after his previous defeat Steppenwolf returns to earth in search of his three missing mother boxes he locates the first in semester and attacks queen hippolyta and the Amazons do their best to hold him off but are unsuccessful hippolyta warns Diana of steppenwolf's presence on Earth and Bruce Wayne and Wonder Woman locate metahumans from Lex corp's files including Arthur Curry Victor Stone and Barry Allen the group battles Steppenwolf and Gotham but they're unable to defeat him while Steppenwolf attacks Atlantis to retrieve the Atlantean Mother Box the newly formed Justice League uses the third box to revive Superman thinking he's the key to defeating this overwhelming Villain at first Superman has no recollection of his former life but his memories returned to him after seeing Lois Lane he joins forces with the Justice League and together they manage to defeat Steppenwolf while the team is now all on good terms they part ways each returning to their own lives shortly thereafter Lex Luthor escapes from Arkham Asylum the son of Atlantean king or vax Marius and Queen Atlanta Prince or Marius attacks the surface World hoping to unite the seven sea kingdoms and destroy the land which he blames for his mother's banishment has betrothed the zabelian princess Mara opposes orm's plan but can't get him to listen to her so she heads to the surface to ask Arthur for help together the two go to Atlantis in search of the Trident of atlan and their Journey eventually takes them to Sicily there they fight Black Manta who carries a grudge against Arthur for refusing to save his father when he was dying after narrowly escaping Black Manta Arthur and Mara continued their search for the Trident leading them to the hidden sea at the earth center there Arthur is reunited with his mother and then goes to face the mythical karathan who dubs him worthy of the Trident giving him control over the Seven Seas with his new power Arthur defeats orm and becomes king of Atlantis meanwhile in Philadelphia Billy Batson is placed into the Vasquez foster home and soon thereafter he's transported to the rock of Eternity where he's given the hours of Shazam Shazam yes carry my name and with it you carry all my Powers although he's initially confused Billy quickly adapts to his new powers and basks in the excitement of being a superhero around the same time Thaddeus Savannah finally completes his quest to locate the rock of Eternity and unleashes the seven deadly sins upon Philadelphia determined to stop him Billy passes shazam's Powers onto each of his foster siblings and together they defeat the Demonic Baddie at some point afterward Billy as Shazam meets Superman and convinces him to stop by his school for lunch with his best friend Freddie Freeman 2019 is fairly low-key although a few important events occur Captain Boomerang escapes from prison making him the second member of The Suicide Squad to regain his freedom after the Joker freed Harley in 2016. however Harley and the Joker's romance is ultimately doomed the two eventually break up prompting Harley to blow up the ace chemicals building in her distress meanwhile detective Renee Montoya begins investigating Roman Sionis owner of the Black Mass club and a ruthless local crime Lord in early 2020 teenage pickpocket Cassandra Kane is arrested by the Gotham City PD after being caught stealing Sionis in turn hires Harley to recover a diamond that Cassandra swiped but realizing that the young girl has swallowed the gem Harley breaks her out of jail instead and waits for her to pass the diamond she knows Sionis and his henchmen won't be so patient or merciful gradually Harley and Cassandra develop a friendship and they wind up crossing paths with Huntress Black Canary and Renee Montoya coming together to form an unlikely Alliance together the group manages to defeat Sionis and his henchmen killing the gangster in the process later while the five of them talk about staying together as a group Harley and Cassandra go off on their own and the remaining three continue to fight crime as the birds of prey at the end of 2016 Suicide Squad we saw the Joker rescuing Harley Quinn from the clutches of Amanda Waller then we saw her colorful Misadventures with the ill-fated Birds of Prey at the end of birds of prey we even see Harley and her mischievous Protege Cassandra Kane driving off into the sunset however it seems not too long after her escapades and birds of prey that Harley Quinn is once again caught in the clutches of Waller's task force x she's then sent on A Dangerous Mission storming a beach in Corto Maltese alongside her former comrades Rick Flagg and Captain Boomerang as well as a few others however it's quickly discovered that they were all just decoys sacrificed to draw fire from the main group which includes Bloodsport polka dot man Peacekeeper and rat catcher 2. Harley and Rick find themselves the only survivors of the initial assault on the beach though both eventually meet up with the main team everyone then discovers and fights off staro saving the citizens of Corto Maltese after Amanda Waller is subdued by her underlings back at headquarters it seems Harley has escaped The Suicide Squad for good it by 2022 conduct is no longer the epicenter of civilization instead a high-tech private military group called intergang has taken over the struggling Middle Eastern nation and its people for their resources in this case the fictional eternium teth Adam's magical prison cave is eventually found by an archaeologist and freedom fighter named Adriana tomaz who summons Adam to save conduct from the intergang paramilitary group when Adam awakens Tomas is attacked by intergang thugs Adam easily destroys them then sets out to use his powers to protect condoc teth Adam's violent nature gets the attention of Amanda Waller and the U.S government which summons the Justice Society of America to stop him the team includes Hawkman Dr Fate cyclone and Adam Smasher the heroes and anti-hero fight for a while while a descendant of King Octon takes control of an ancient magical artifact that turns him into a powerful demon named sabok teth Adam and the JSA decide to put aside their differences leading to the defeat of sabok but at the cost of Dr Faith's life afterward teth Adam who decides to go by Black Adam is confined to conduct by the U.S government with Waller threatening him with the presence of Superman to keep him in line [Music] we should talk after the infamous War of the gods that led to the death of the Greek pantheon the defeated Titans took over in the power vacuum this included Atlas whose vicious tyranny eventually led to a human Uprising the humans were helped by the Shazam and the Council of wizards who after defeating Atlas and the Titans created a magical barrier between the human world and the gods realm which was left to rot unfortunately in the first Shazam film Billy Batson broke the magical staff that the Wizards used to trap the Gods in an attempt to stop Dr Thaddeus Savannah Batson succeeds in defeating the villain but also erodes the magical barrier between the gods and man this leads to the daughters of Atlas Calypso hespera and Anthea entering the human world and exacting revenge for killing their father Atlas together they seek the fabled golden apple to sprout the tree of life and create a new world for the gods to reside in which would kill all human life in the end Billy sacrifices himself to stop the goddesses and allows in Thea who Rebels against her sisters to help Humanity to take the golden apple and rebuilt her realm luckily after being buried in the gods realm Billy is resurrected by Wonder Woman due to her demigod status she also uses her power to fix the magical staff the classic superhero The Flash is a Speedster who wears a heat resistant red costume and runs really really fast that's because he can tap into what is dubbed the speed force which allows him to Sprint faster than the speed of light his access to the speed force also gives him the ability to vibrate his molecules to phase out of traps heal super quickly and even travel back in time furthermore Barry feels that with his powerful time traveling ability he can finally undo the tragedy of his past that's why he tries to prevent the death of his mother and exonerate his imprisoned father who was falsely convicted of her murder however like all good time travel stories his temporal Excursion leads to drastic unforeseen consequences Barry unwittingly travels to a different timeline where Zod attacks a world with no known metahumans Kara Zara as Supergirl replaces Kal-El as Superman and Batman is older and played by Michael Keaton from the 1989 film Barry also befriends and teams up with an alternate World version of himself which leads to obvious complications in the space-time Continuum further furthermore like the flashpoint comic book event from 2011 that the flash is Loosely based on his time traveling Adventures will have a lasting and wide-ranging impact on the whole DC Cinematic Universe going forward at the end of The Flash Barry Allen realizes that going back in time to save his mother has damaged the space-time Continuum the damage is so bad that it is eventually going to rip the Multiverse apart and destroy everything if he doesn't go back to make things right we even see universes that include the George Reeves Superman the Christopher Reeve Superman the Nicholas Cage Superman from the unmade Superman lives film The Adam West Batman and many more about to collide with each other unfortunately in this case make things right means Barry has to let his mother die however while Barry does that he makes one smell change that when he goes back to the present allows his father to be freed from prison unfortunately that one small change has universe-wide repercussions when he meets Bruce Wayne in the present he's not played by Ben Affleck or Michael Keaton but rather George Clooney from 1997 Wins Batman and Robin Clooney's Wayne seems to recognize Barry but Barry is shocked and Confused I freeze Batman then in an after credit scene we see that Barry has found Arthur Curry and tries to explain his time travel Adventures however Curry is belligerently and comically drunk and doesn't believe what Barry is telling him Barry does mention though that all the Aquaman he's seen so far look like Momoa confirming that Momoa will remain Aquaman even after James Gunn takes over the DCU foreign

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Length: 22min 35sec (1355 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2023