Marvel Heroes RPG: Continuity Matters!

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When using a canon from the Marvel Universe, when one is playing them it is important to know what has happened in their history here as opposed to the comics. For the purposes of this RPG continuity, all resemblance to comic history generally ends with the beginning of the Civil War. We have no Avengers Disassembled event. We recognize no "One More Day" catastrophe and no "Decimation" (House of M). World War Hulk? Hasn't happened. The Initiative that followed Civil War? Also hasn't happened. What we do have are a list of important events that occurred in the RPG that most of our universe (and therefore played characters) on the site would be aware of.

• Doctor Doom starts a new incarnation of the Hellfire Club consisting of Magneto, Shadow King, and Viper. The group sets events in motion for their plan to put more pressure on the Heroes of America.
• Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) set off the event of Civil War by accidentally destroying a dam that wiped out a city in Texas while battling Ultron.
• The Super Human Registration Act (SRA) was passed in Congress and enforced by SHIELD, forcing any individual with superhuman powers (including mutants) to register or be imprisoned.
• Professor Xavier supported registration, but many of his fellow mutants did not. Emma Frost created a Sanctuary where mutants wishing to escape persecution could thrive. Many of the X-Men joined her and effectively split the school down the middle.
• Tony Stark supported the SRA and Steve Rogers did not, effectively causing a split in the Avengers. Steve (Captain America) formed his own Secret Avengers team to battle the persecution of an unjust government while also protecting the city.
• Sue Storm left Reed Richards and the Fantastic Four after disagreeing with her husband's part in the SRA program. Thing (Ben Grimm) also left.
• Emma Frost discovers the Hellfire Club and retakes her White Queen position for the benefit of her Sanctuary and to watch the club undercover.
  
• Stark became co-director of SHIELD with Maria Hill.
• Norman Osborn was given control over "reformed villains," thus forming a new team known as the Thunderbolts. The Thunderbolts were given the task of hunting superheroes and other unregistered individuals while SHIELD moved back into it's original purpose of protecting the world.
• A new Ultron appears and registers with the government - who hope to use him to capture the unregistered. Ultron betrays them and takes control of all the government sentinels, unleashing them on Genosha.
• The slaughter of many mutants at the hands of the government sponsored Ultron leads to a revision of the SRA law in regards to mutants. While still needing to register, Charles Xavier is put in charge of looking after mutants and they are no longer forced into government service.
• Emma Frost closes the Sanctuary after the revision and the X-men reunite to look after their losses.
• Captain America surrendered and was imprisoned for his treason and left to rot in jail for the remainder of the Civil War. He was later freed by a jury of his peers finding him "Not Guilty" of treason.
• The Civil War quietly closed with Cap's surrender, but the government and the Thunderbolt's hunting of unregistered super-humans continued on.
• Sue Storm returned to her husband after the Civil war ended and the Fantastic Four are attempting to pull themselves back together as a team and as a family.
• Omen, the symbiote spawn of Carnage who was once attached to Black Widow, escaped SHIELD captivity. The scorned symbiote made a call to his fellows in an interstellar cry that brought about the Symbiote Invasion of Earth.
• Maria Hill was "thrown under the bus" for her top secret project of studying the symbiote, and having failed to keep him imprisoned. SHIELD's public image wavered.
• Unknown to the world, HYDRA had already been in possession of a much older symbiote, Harbinger, and had conducted research on him for years. The White Symbiote had been upgraded greatly and his weaknesses were lessened, his fertility unleashed, and his intelligence copied. They planted symbiotes on some of the world's greatest heroes and set up shop at Disney World in Orlando.
• HYDRA and the symbiote hordes were stopped by a collaboration of heroes including teams from SWORD, SHIELD and HAMMER. The threat was neutralized and the world saved.
• The history of the Venom symbiote is somewhat altered in site canon and ties into the above event. Its first major host remains Eddie Brock. Brock remained Venom during our iteration of Civil War. However, during the Symbiote Invasion story line, the Symbiote was transferred to Mac Gargan while Gargan was a member of the Thunderbolts. Later the Symbiote was taken from Gargan and lost. It then found a new host in the form of Flash Thompson.
  
• Black Widow and Iron Man confronted Omen who had taken up residence on Maria Hill and killed him, freeing Hill to recover and resume her duties at SHIELD (where an LMD had been covering for her).
• In the wake of the Civil War, still fresh in people's minds, Jeremy Briggs (CEO of Briggs Chemical, LLC) sponsors the movement for "No More Heroes." He quickly becomes a media darling and society begins to dislike their caped crusaders.
• Apocalypse has returned. His Horsemen include Blob, Deadpool, Wolverine and Phasma (an OC). Wolverine killed Jean Gray during the course of the event.
• New York City saw a (player led) event called "Hellzone" during which the many "gangs of NY" fought and nearly destroyed the city and the heroes had to disarm a nuclear bomb before it blew up Manhattan. There will be obvious scars from this as a lot of the buildings were damaged and the rival leaders (Norman Osborn and Wilson Fisk, notably) barely escaped with any fightng forces left.

This list is not comprehensive (yet) and it is always being adjusted for current major events that are written on site. What you need to remember when making a canon is that, if they weren't involved in any of these things above specifically, they would have been aware of them and it probably impacted at least some of their past. If you hope to include an event from the comics and there is nothing to keep that from happening in the list above, ask a staff member! It could probably happen!

*Note: Just becasue it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean that it won't.