Slasherverse - Timeline

[Pro Bot]

Army of Darkness vol. 2 #18 seems like it could be referencing Darkman vs. Army of Darkness, which is the only other time I can think of where Ash is transported through a portal during his daily routines (not through time) prior to this. Very subtle though, so maybe coincidental.

 

[Pro Bot]

This image had been brought up before in regards to Cujo and Spawn before. But it also features Edward from Twilight so uhhhhh I guess that series counts now? Also if you look closely at the text in the zombies picture you can see the famous quote from Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Obviously dawn shouldn't count because the Dead series leads to an apocalypse but still interesting to mention


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@JudgeDreddpool

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

@JudgeDreddpool

I'll admit, I completely forgot that sh*t.

 

[Pro Bot]

Fair enough, dude. It was from a while ago.

 

[Chapmike]

Army of Darkness: Forever led into the theatrical cut ending after Ash went through the vortex. After this, Ashes 2 Ashes occurs... then, somehow, 23 years pass before we get to Shop Till You Drop Dead. Blah blah blah, 818793 stories play out until The Long Road Home storyline. Ash rewrites the timeline so everything after Army of Darkness didn't happen, and in 2008 he forgets his Chosen One destiny.

How does that work exactly? The Wise Man is still alive in Ashes 2 Ashes, and tells Ash how he got to his time. Sheila also still has both her hands. Forever's 1300 doesn't fit pre-Ashes 2 Ashes 1300. The only way I can see it work is if the Ash who goes to the cabin at the end of Forever is the one who creates the Ashes 2 Ashes timeline, not the one who goes through the vortex.

 

[Pro Bot]

How does that work exactly? The Wise Man is still alive in Ashes 2 Ashes, and tells Ash how he got to his time. Sheila also still has both her hands. Forever's 1300 doesn't fit pre-Ashes 2 Ashes 1300. The only way I can see it work is if the Ash who goes to the cabin at the end of Forever is the one who creates the Ashes 2 Ashes timeline, not the one who goes through the vortex.

The events of Army of Darkness: Forever get erased (the entire Director's Cut reality, in fact), and also, the Ashes 2 Ashes Wise Man comes from before any of those 1300 events from Forever happen.

Erased or displaced to an alternate Earth, since we're in Marvel. That reality was glimpsed in Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness.

 

[Pro Bot]

Basically, it's no different than how I explained Ash experiencing Ash and the Army of Darkness despite 1300 events not lining up with Dynamite's storyline. He creates a new timeline and eventually returns to his own world, similar to Ash vs Evil Dead's 1982 timeline.

 

[Pro Bot]

Different timelines, as noted here.

 

[Chapmike]

Basically, it's no different than how I explained Ash experiencing Ash and the Army of Darkness despite 1300 events not lining up with Dynamite's storyline. He creates a new timeline and eventually returns to his own world, similar to Ash vs Evil Dead's 1982 timeline.

Alright. And to clear any confusion, does your timeline imply that Ash and Linda in Ashes 2 Ashes go to the cabin on October 9 instead of October 8?

 

[stphylcccs]

I always get confused for like 2 seconds whenever people bring up Ashes 2 Ashes, because that's also the name of the third Pumpkinhead movie and I think people are talking about a direct crossover with Evil Dead…

 

[zombie dude]

In Silent Hill 2 there's a shop that appears in chainsaw massacre. Theres also a reference to Bill from silence of the lambs.

 

[Publius]

In Silent Hill 2 there's a shop that appears in chainsaw massacre. Theres also a reference to Bill from silence of the lambs.

You don't mean Cut Rite, do you? I wouldn't have thought that was part of a chain (not to put too fine a point on it).

 

[zombie dude]

You don't mean Cut Rite, do you? I wouldn't have thought that was part of a chain (not to put too fine a point on it).

Yeah that's the store.

 

[Publius]

Well. I looked into the connections you mentioned.

The spelling of Silent Hill's "Cut-Rite Chainsaws" in Silent Hill, differs from North Texas's Cut-Rite Chain Saws in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, but I think the intent is clear. Evidently Cut-Rite had prospered and expanded between 1986 and 1999, extending as far north as Maine.

Apparently both the first and second games directly refer to "Bill," i.e., 'Buffalo Bill' from
Silence of the Lambs, via old newspapers modeled after the film. So this is a reference to the film series, not the novel series or the Fullerverse television series.

I don't really know the Silent Hill franchise very well at all. I understand the games are in continuity with each other. Does anyone know if the movies are compatible with the games, or if they are separate adaptations?

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

Well. I looked into the connections you mentioned.

The spelling of Silent Hill's "Cut-Rite Chainsaws" in Silent Hill, differs from North Texas's Cut-Rite Chain Saws in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, but I think the intent is clear. Evidently Cut-Rite had prospered and expanded between 1986 and 1999, extending as far north as Maine.

Apparently both the first and second games directly refer to "Bill," i.e., 'Buffalo Bill' from
Silence of the Lambs, via old newspapers modeled after the film. So this is a reference to the film series, not the novel series or the Fullerverse television series.

I don't really know the Silent Hill franchise very well at all. I understand the games are in continuity with each other. Does anyone know if the movies are compatible with the games, or if they are separate adaptations?

Separate adaptations, since the first movie is an adaptation of the first game, the second is a loose adaptation of Silent Hill 3, and the most recent one is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2. At best, separate universes (video games and movies).

 

[Publius]

Separate adaptations, since the first movie is an adaptation of the first game, the second is a loose adaptation of Silent Hill 3, and the most recent one is an adaptation of Silent Hill 2. At best, separate universes (video games and movies).

OK. So for our purposes, what we have is two continuities with viable connections to the Slasherverse: the Silent Hill video-game series and the Silence of the Lambs film series.

The latter, depending on how flexible one wishes to be, may then link to Justin Gustainis's Morris and Chastain Supernatural Investigation series, which has explicit and implicit connections to Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Lilith Saintcrow's Jill Kismet series, Mercedes Lackey's Diana Tregarde series, Simon Green's Nightside series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. franchise, The X-Files and Millennium, Ed and Lorraine Warren, and alternate-universe versions of Mike Carey's Felix Castor and Laurel Hamilton's Anita Blake. From the X-Files
universe, you will rapidly spread out to include dozens of sitcoms and dramas on American, British, and German network television, a great deal of which I have already mapped in a separate project. I recommend not being flexible on this point.

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files

>Dresden Files

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

Night of the Living Dead Franchise
George A. Romero Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead (1978)
1969 - Day of the Dead (1985)
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #4
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #5
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Fearbook #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead Annual
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead

Found this movie that might fit in the Romero timeline. @Pro Bot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesheater
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/FleshEater

Spoiler

 

[Gloryman]

Night of the Living Dead Franchise
George A. Romero Timeline
1962 - The Rise #1
1962 - The Rise #2
1965 - The Rise #3
1968 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)
1968 - Creepshow 3x06, "Drug Traffic/A Dead Girl Named Sue" [2nd Story]
1968 - Diary of the Dead
1968 - Survival of the Dead
1968 - Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #1, "The Death of Death, Part One"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #2, "The Death of Death, Part Two"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #3, "The Death of Death, Part Three"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #4, "The Death of Death, Part Four"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #5, "The Death of Death, Part Five"
1969 - Toe Tags Featuring George Romero #6, "The Death of Death, Conclusion"
1969 - Dawn of the Dead (1978)
1969 - Day of the Dead (1985)
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #4
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead #5
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Fearbook #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #1
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #2
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead: Airborne #3
1971 - Escape of the Living Dead Annual
1973 - Land of the Dead
1973 - Empire of the Dead #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Two #5
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #1
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #2
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #3
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #4
1973 - Empire of the Dead: Act Three #5
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #1
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #2
1979 - Road of the Dead: Highway to Hell #3
1983 - The Living Dead

John A. Russo Timeline
1984 - The Return of the Living Dead
1985 - Return of the Living Dead
1988 - Return of the Living Dead Part II
1993 - Return of the Living Dead 3
2004 - Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005 - Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave
Note: Night of the Living Dead (1968) is referred to an in-universe film based on real events.

Night of the Living Dead (1990) Timeline
1989 - Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Dawn of the Dead (2004) Timeline
2004 - Dawn of the Dead (2004)
2004 - Special Report: Zombie Invasion!
2004 - The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed

Day of the Dead (2008) Timeline
2008 - Day of the Dead (2008)

What's The Living Dead that's set in 1983?

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

What's The Living Dead that's set in 1983?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Dead_(novel)

 

[JudgeDreddpool]

@Pro Bot 3v1 multiplayer nonsense... hard pass!

 

[Pro Bot]

@Pro Bot 3v1 multiplayer nonsense... hard pass!

Set post WWI? Wtf?

 

[Publius]

Technically all of the Saw movies have been post-WWI.

 

[Pro Bot]

You know what I mean.

 

[BMarrow]

 

[BMarrow]

Evil Dead wraith is a prequel apparently

 

[Pro Bot]

I KNEW IT! That's awesome.

 

[Publius]

It appears to be post-World War I.

 

[Pro Bot]

Oh, shut up dude.

 

[Pro Bot]

Obviously, post-WW1 in Saw's case meant shortly after WW1.