Marvel Rivals Timeline/Reading Order

BabyBomber

BabyBomber

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PRE-TIMESTREAM ENTANGLEMENT
• Collectible: "Galacta's Big Dessert"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Cosmic Tea"
• Team Up Profile: "Ragnarok Rebirth"
• Team Up Profile: "Voltaic Union"
• Team Up Profile: "ESU Alumnus"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Stellar Seasoning"
• Bruce Banner: "Fickle Banner"
• Doctor Strange: "Unexpected Guest"
• Moon Knight: "The Dusk of the Moon Knight"
TIMESTREAM ENGANGLEMENT
• Storm: "Dreamy Dew"
• Collectibles: "Spider-Totem"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Let There Be Rivals"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Just Desserts"
• Season 0: Dooms' Rise Trailer
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Your Biggest Fan"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Snack Time"
• Collectibles: "Darkhold"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Thicker Than Blood"
• Season 1 Eternal Night Falls Trailer
• Team Up Profile: "Fantastic Four"
• Iron Fist: "Fog Over the K'un-Lun Mountains"
• Adam Warlock: "Golden Sail"
• Collectibles: "Celestial Codex"
• Venom: "Betray the Umbra"
• Collectible: "Thread of Fate"
• Hela: "Messenger of the Abyss"
• Loki: "Destined Kingship"
• Thor: "Gone With the Thunder"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Family Affairs"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Lunch"
• Iron Man: "Universal Rules"
• Human Torch: "Fire Exemption Test"
• Squirrel Girl: "Bushwack!"
• Spider-Man: "Unfriendly Neighborhood"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Fall of Midtown"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Blind Devotion"
• Black Panther: "Silence Among the Stars"
• Collectibles: "Vibrani-Chronovium"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Of Gods and Guardians"
• Peni Parker: "Tokyo By Night"
• Black Widow: "Mercury Unsealed"
• Wolverine: "Accompanied Envoy"
• Punisher: "Initiation Ceremony"
• Collectible: "Hive Statue"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Hydra's Hymn"
• Hawkeye: "Going South For the Winter"
• Winter Soldier: "A Helping Hand"
• Captain America: "Battlefield Surgery"
• Stars Aligned Trailer
• Team Up Profile: "Allied Agents"
• Groot: "Groot Always Have Friends"
• Rocket Raccoon: "Ace Agent of the Universe"
• Star-Lord: "Quantum Slingshot"
• Team Up Profile: "Guardian Revival"
• Team Up Profile: "Gamma Charge"
• Scarlet Witch: "Voice From Beyond"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Ancient Game"
• Magik: "Limbo Border"
• Magneto: "Trial of Magneto"
• Team Up Profile: "Metallic Chaos"
• Mantis: "Mantis' Fled"
• Jeff the Land Shark: "Sharknado"
• Psylocke: "Acanti Tales"
• Team Up Profile: "Dimensional Shortcut"
• Namor: "Atlantis Strikes Out"
• Luna Snow: "Guests From the Deep Sea"
• Team Up Profile: "Chilling Charisma"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Sweetest Treat"
• Winter Celebration Gallery Card: "Season's Beatings"
• Team Up Profile: "Planet X Pals"
• Cloak and Dagger: "A Brief Farewell"
• Team Up Profile: "Lunar Force"
• Black Panther: "The Blood of Kings"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Midnight Mission"
• Mister Fantastic: "Reality Check"
• Invisible Woman: "Built to Last"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "At Your Service"
• The Thing: "Gangs of Yancy Street"
• Collectible: "Galacta's Dinner"
• Doom's Rise Gallery Card: "Web-Warriors"
• Team Up Profile: "Symbiote Bond"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Eternal Night Falls"
• Midnight Features: "Blood Moon Over the Big Apple"
• Midnight Features: "The Doctor's Out…Of His Mind!"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Sanctum Sanctorum
• Midnight Features: "Bad Moon (Knight) Rising"
• Midnight Features: "Spider-Man: Villain or Vampire?"
• Midnight Features: "Central Park Goes Goth!"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown
• Midnight Features II: "Vampire Slayer Gone Missing"
• Midnight Features II: "Squirrel Girl Gone Savage?!"
• Midnight Features II: "Rare Occult Book Auction"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Turning the Pages"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Star Turn"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Central Park
• Midnight Features II: "Brighter Days Ahead for NYC?"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Plans Within Plans"
• Collectible: "Pure Blood Chronovium"
• Midnight Features II: "Elderly Heiress Seeks Missing Heirloom"
• Team Up Profile: "Fastball Special"
• Team Up Profile: "Storming Ignition"
• Fortune & Colors Gallery Card: "Of Festivals and Friends"
• Team Up Profile: "Atlas Bond"
• Team Up Profile: "Ammo Overload"

• Doctor Strange: "Unexpected Guest"
• Moon Knight: "Dawn of the New Moon"
• Collectibles: "Darkhold"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Thicker Than Blood"
• Season 1 Eternal Night Falls Trailer
• Iron Man: "Universal Rules"
• Human Torch: "Fire Exemption Test"
• Squirrel Girl: "Bushwack!"
• Spider-Man: "Unfriendly Neighborhood"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Fall of Midtown"
• Scarlet Witch: "Voice From Beyond"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Ancient Game"
• Cloak & Dagger: "A Brief Farewell"
• Team Up Profile: "Lunar Force"
• Black Panther: "The Blood of Kings"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Midnight Mission"
• Mr. Fantastic: "Reality Check"
• Invisible Woman: "Built to Last"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "At Your Service"
• Thing: "Gangs of Yancy Street"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Eternal Night Falls"
• Midnight Features: "Blood Over the Big Apple"
• Midnight Features: "The Doctor's Out... Of His Mind!"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Sanctum Sanctorum
• Midnight Features: "Bad Moon (Knight) Rising"
• Midnight Features: "Spider-Man: Villain or Vampire"
• Midnight Features: "Central Park Goes Goth!"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown
• Midnight Features II: "Vampire Slayer Gone Missing"
• Midnight Features II: "Squirrel Girl Gone Savage?!"
• Midnight Features II: "Rare Occult Book Auction"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Turning the Pages"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Star Turn"
• Empire of Eternal Night: Central Park
• Midnight Features II: "Brighter Days Ahead for NYC?"
• Night Falls Gallery Card: "Plans Within Plans"
• Collectible: "Pure Blood Chronovium"
• Midnight Features II: "Elderly Heiress Seeks Missing Heirloom"
 
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I'll only be able to tune in every once in a while since I'm busy IRL, but I just wanted to get a Rivals thread up so other people can give some timeline insight. Lmk where you think the Hero Stories, Cinematics, and Gallery Cards go in the reading order and what can be changed. I already have an extremely rough starting point and I'll update it as we go

Would it be better to organize the placements by Chronoverse or is there a feasible way to place them like this?
 
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I've been loving this game recently and I'm happy to help with any placements. To give you a rough idea of when everything is set, I have seen a youtuber do videos of the lore and Hero Stories which could help give you a rough foundation on where things should go. The youtuber has been doing vids on the game for the past two weeks, covering most of the events.
 
Many of the placements are based on when the majority of the story occurs (Wolverine/Strange) and based on vague mentions of time passing. Others like Iron Fist or Web Warriors are just placed to the best of my guessing ability. I'm open to suggestions and reasoning for moving things around
 
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Hey minor change, that I know of, Squirrel Girl's story has to come after Iron Man's because Tony sends Doreen away to check on the squirrel delivering chronovium while he deals with the Doombot which leads to her meeting Ratatoskr, fighting Dracula and needing to be rescued by Tony and Moon Knight who are already working together
 
Megatron said:
posting it here since she's more relevant here, but who of you knew that Galacta has an X profile?

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Interesting, it would have been nice if it was more recent and mentioned Rivals but still cool.

Btw @BabyBomber there is a new gallery card for the new event (similar to winter celebration event). It would have to go after winter celebration card as the event celebrates spring or Chinese new year I think.

Fortune & Colours Gallery Card: "Of Festivals and Friends"
 
Frizzy said:
Interesting, it would have been nice if it was more recent and mentioned Rivals but still cool.

Btw @BabyBomber there is a new gallery card for the new event (similar to winter celebration event). It would have to go after winter celebration card as the event celebrates spring or Chinese new year I think.

Fortune & Colours Gallery Card: "Of Festivals and Friends"
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Also that Galacta and the One from rivalsa, Is the same One from her one-shot comic, so It means that She's pregnant during the game or It Is before her comic.
 
Frizzy said:
Interesting, it would have been nice if it was more recent and mentioned Rivals but still cool.

Btw @BabyBomber there is a new gallery card for the new event (similar to winter celebration event). It would have to go after winter celebration card as the event celebrates spring or Chinese new year I think.

Fortune & Colours Gallery Card: "Of Festivals and Friends"
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Thx for the update OG, I'll check it out
 
Oh damn you're right, I remember noticing that I missed him then I still forgot to add him. Prec8 it
Edit: Added. Thx
 
RA30990 said:
No problem, by the way what do you think of Season's Beatings and Of Festivals and Friends
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As far as my opinion on them as stories, I think they're really fun and I hope the Holiday Story trend continues

As far as my thoughts on their placement, I put Season's Beatings at the end bc I saw it as essentially taking place during the game's matches and it's more isolated from the plot threads mentioned in the other stories.

Of Festivals and Friends is more difficult bc it does kinda tie into the 2099/Galactic Empire of Wakanda storyline but with Iron Fist no longer in K'un-Lun. If Iron Fist was present for Shuri hiring the Guardians of the Galaxy then he probably would've come up so I just put it after the featured character's stories. (It's placed after Season's Beatings at the request of @Frizzy)
 
BabyBomber said:
As far as my opinion on them as stories, I think they're really fun and I hope the Holiday Story trend continues

As far as my thoughts on their placement, I put Season's Beatings at the end bc I saw it as essentially taking place during the game's matches and it's more isolated from the plot threads mentioned in the other stories.

Of Festivals and Friends is more difficult bc it does kinda tie into the 2099/Galactic Empire of Wakanda storyline but with Iron Fist no longer in K'un-Lun. If Iron Fist was present for Shuri hiring the Guardians of the Galaxy then he probably would've come up so I just put it after the featured character's stories. (It's placed after Season's Beatings at the request of @Frizzy)
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In my opinion, Season's Beatings should be placed where it is at the moment due to it being Christmas time and having already established the fact that worlds have collided (timestream entanglement) and that mostly all the characters have met each other or interacted with another world by then. Also, I think all the lore stories take place around the same time before Christmas.

And for the Of Festivals And Friends, my explanation would be that it has to take place after Christmas because it celebrates spring or Chinese new year (one or the other), and because Iron Fist has jumped to the galactic empire universe and Black Widow has left the 2099 universe, it would have to be after the timestream entanglement started, which would have to be the new year after the Christmas event.

Also, although I haven't read it myself, will you add the comics they made for the game to the timeline?
 
Frizzy said:
Also, although I haven't read it myself, will you add the comics they made for the game to the timeline?
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I reached out to the writer of the comic a while back and they recommended treating it as a fun side story. Also Peter and Peni seemingly introduce themselves for the first time in the comic while they're on separate teams, when they should've already met on the Web-Warriors.

It ends with the Great Web plot being resolved, glimpses at other groups of characters, and the F4 confronting Dr. Doom.IMG_7396.jpeg

If the comic does fit in I think it'd go at the end
 
"Eternal Night Falls" Gallery Card dropped and it's Jameson commenting on Reed/Tony's disagreement, vigilantes contributing (Squirrel Girl, Cloak and Dagger, Moon Knight), the F4 going in and out of the Baxter Building, and that menace Spider-Man going off in a portal to play with his friends in the future.

It goes after the Web Warriors Gallery Card at the very least and I plan to place it between Invisible Woman's and Season's Beatings. Any thoughts atm on moving around the entries near the bottom?
 
BabyBomber said:
"Eternal Night Falls" Gallery Card dropped

It goes after the Web Warriors Gallery Card at the very least and I plan to place it between Invisible Woman's and Season's Beatings. Any thoughts atm on moving around the entries near the bottom?
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It seems fine by me.
 
I just added the "Midnight Features" Daily Bugle headlines from the Battle Pass' Season Event. They all fit nicely along with Jameson's yapping from the Eternal Night Falls Gallery Card, so I grouped them together.

If the next season has lore like this but separates them like the Season 0 Entangled Moments Gallery Cards then I may separate the Midnight Features' investigations as well
 
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