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Rman said:
Finally getting to Gen V and is there a reason Marie going to the university is the same day she gets accepted? I feel like it makes sense the show begins June 22nd matching the calendar and not being too long after S3 of The Boys. However, it then makes sense some time would pass between her acceptance letter and her first day. We can even see her acceptance letter say it's for the "Fall Semester". I think a jump to August seems right, unless I'm missing something.
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I also have it starting on June 22 and then it making a time-jump to late-August, since I read that Fall Semester starts in late-August/early September. Only yesterday I finished Gen V, and I couldn't find no other indication of when it takes place, except for an episode (1x05) explictly taking place on a Saturday...
 
isaaac.jpeg said:
I also have it starting on June 22 and then it making a time-jump to late-August, since I read that Fall Semester starts in late-August/early September. Only yesterday I finished Gen V, and I couldn't find no other indication of when it takes place, except for an episode (1x05) explictly taking place on a Saturday...
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Yeah, I think I'm sticking with a general late August/early September placement for now.
 
isaaac.jpeg said:
I also have it starting on June 22 and then it making a time-jump to late-August, since I read that Fall Semester starts in late-August/early September. Only yesterday I finished Gen V, and I couldn't find no other indication of when it takes place, except for an episode (1x05) explictly taking place on a Saturday...
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Okay you should have made that more clear when you previously brought it up.
 
If Preacher were canon-adjacent to The Boys like in the comics' version, the "embrace of Christ the Lord" Black Noir went to was this:
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Truly the most morbid Earth.
 
I guess we can assume in 1x03 of Gen V that the "3 Years Ago" flashback is just when Sam finds out about Compound V, even though I think the clear intent was for it to be when the public does in The Boys S2. I think they were going with the belief that there's a real-time passage between The Boys S2 and Gen V which is 3 years.
 
Rman said:
I guess we can assume in 1x03 of Gen V that the "3 Years Ago" flashback is just when Sam finds out about Compound V, even though I think the clear intent was for it to be when the public does in The Boys S2. I think they were going with the belief that there's a real-time passage between The Boys S2 and Gen V which is 3 years.
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I mean...was Sam at risk of spilling the beans to the public? He was in an institution. Or did his brother know?

Remember the parents knew about Compound V before their kids were born. So it was definitely limited to a select small group of people, and I don't think Sam was ever gonna risk it going public a year prior to when it did.
 
Kirschstar said:
I didn't catch this page because of how little it's utilized. Also, some of the information doesn't seem to match the one here. If you guys are able, can you see if it's accurate?
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I've had to narrow down the years (combined with onscreen dates) by ones that are set in stone like Translucent's death year, Maria's calendar in Gen V episode one, plus lines of dialogue in conjunction how much time passes between episodes/seasons.

I feel like making it "one season per year, in real time" is essentially the "easy" but inaccurate way I've seen fandom sites go about it.
 
Kirschstar said:
I didn't catch this page because of how little it's utilized. Also, some of the information doesn't seem to match the one here. If you guys are able, can you see if it's accurate?
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I had checked that page a few months and it had nothing, that's why I came here and contributed to making the timeline as accurate!

Now I checked again and they seem to only stick to whichever official date is given on-screen. For example, they have the Crash of Flight 37 in "Mid 2019" (although in Gen V it is given a May 28 date, I believe), and then only bother to say "2022 • The events of The Boys Season 3", not broken down in days or even months, and then incorrectly places Gen V Season 1 in 2023, and says the Events of The Boys Seasons 4 will take place in 2024.

I understand that maybe they don't want to take wild guesses and just stick to on-screen dates, but even then they're not placing some dates like the September 30 obituary date for Susan Raynor, and then place Homelander's fake birthday on July 4 due to a social media post. So, it doesn't commit fully.

I would say this timeline in The Comic Board is more accurate, even if we have to contradict some on-screen dates to make sense of it. However, it has room for improvement and can be perfected, of course, and hopefully The Boys season 4 gives us more of an insight in regards to when Gen V season 1 takes place.
 
isaaac.jpeg said:
I had checked that page a few months and it had nothing, that's why I came here and contributed to making the timeline as accurate!

Now I checked again and they seem to only stick to whichever official date is given on-screen. For example, they have the Crash of Flight 37 in "Mid 2019" (although in Gen V it is given a May 28 date, I believe), and then only bother to say "2022 • The events of The Boys Season 3", not broken down in days or even months, and then incorrectly places Gen V Season 1 in 2023, and says the Events of The Boys Seasons 4 will take place in 2024.

I understand that maybe they don't want to take wild guesses and just stick to on-screen dates, but even then they're not placing some dates like the September 30 obituary date for Susan Raynor, and then place Homelander's fake birthday on July 4 due to a social media post. So, it doesn't commit fully.

I would say this timeline in The Comic Board is more accurate, even if we have to contradict some on-screen dates to make sense of it. However, it has room for improvement and can be perfected, of course, and hopefully The Boys season 4 gives us more of an insight in regards to when Gen V season 1 takes place.
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Well said.
 
isaaac.jpeg said:
I had checked that page a few months and it had nothing, that's why I came here and contributed to making the timeline as accurate!

Now I checked again and they seem to only stick to whichever official date is given on-screen. For example, they have the Crash of Flight 37 in "Mid 2019" (although in Gen V it is given a May 28 date, I believe), and then only bother to say "2022 • The events of The Boys Season 3", not broken down in days or even months, and then incorrectly places Gen V Season 1 in 2023, and says the Events of The Boys Seasons 4 will take place in 2024.

I understand that maybe they don't want to take wild guesses and just stick to on-screen dates, but even then they're not placing some dates like the September 30 obituary date for Susan Raynor, and then place Homelander's fake birthday on July 4 due to a social media post. So, it doesn't commit fully.

I would say this timeline in The Comic Board is more accurate, even if we have to contradict some on-screen dates to make sense of it. However, it has room for improvement and can be perfected, of course, and hopefully The Boys season 4 gives us more of an insight in regards to when Gen V season 1 takes place.
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I might need a double check on the timeline too, because I think I might have forgotten some changes suggested to me.
(I try to keep on track, but I'm a very busy individual in my person life...)
 
selfishmisery said:
I might need a double check on the timeline too, because I think I might have forgotten some changes suggested to me.
(I try to keep on track, but I'm a very busy individual in my person life...)
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That's understandable! Thank you for your contribution!

I think as of right now, here, we've narrowed down the four seasons to this:

The Boys S1: May - June 2020
The Boys S2: September - October 2020
The Boys S3: May - June 2022
Gen V S1: June / August - September 2022

Even if the Flight report has a May 2019 date, and even if Homelander is supposed to have a birthday on a patriotic day, I think those two things wouldn't make sense in the overall timeline.

Does the The Boys Wiki have a specific rule about placing dates? Because I know for a fact that, for example, the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki's timeline has rules on who can edit and what they can add. Before their timeline book came out, they just took the evidence and placed the events down to the day, and in some instances they just have a time interval and then calculate the average date to then place that event. That's a big controlled timeline and even they take those "wild guesses", is that something that can be applied to this wiki?
 
There aren't any rules, so you're free to edit whatever you'd like, but if there's a major mistake or anything like that, it'll get reverted.

The timeline you have there looks all right, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that S1 takes place in 2020. You could place S1 in 2019 and Gen V in 2023, and everything would align properly. Sam's Sage Grove freakout would align with the time Annie and Hughie leaked Compound V to the public (2020).

Overall, the show definitely sucks at keeping track of time and whatnot.
 
isaaac.jpeg said:
I had checked that page a few months and it had nothing, that's why I came here and contributed to making the timeline as accurate!

Now I checked again and they seem to only stick to whichever official date is given on-screen. For example, they have the Crash of Flight 37 in "Mid 2019" (although in Gen V it is given a May 28 date, I believe), and then only bother to say "2022 • The events of The Boys Season 3", not broken down in days or even months, and then incorrectly places Gen V Season 1 in 2023, and says the Events of The Boys Seasons 4 will take place in 2024.

I understand that maybe they don't want to take wild guesses and just stick to on-screen dates, but even then they're not placing some dates like the September 30 obituary date for Susan Raynor, and then place Homelander's fake birthday on July 4 due to a social media post. So, it doesn't commit fully.

I would say this timeline in The Comic Board is more accurate, even if we have to contradict some on-screen dates to make sense of it. However, it has room for improvement and can be perfected, of course, and hopefully The Boys season 4 gives us more of an insight in regards to when Gen V season 1 takes place.
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Season 4 likely takes place during the winter. There's behind-the-scenes footage of posters saying "Super Christmas." I personally agree with "one season per year in real-time," but this is one of the few instances where S4 likely won't take place in 2024. This is how I see it.

S1: 2019
S2: 2020
Seven on 7: 2021
S3: 2022
Gen V: 2023
S4: December 2023 (likely ends in incredibly early 2024)
 
Kirschstar said:
Season 4 likely takes place during the winter. There's behind-the-scenes footage of posters saying "Super Christmas." I personally agree with "one season per year in real-time," but this is one of the few instances where S4 likely won't take place in 2024. This is how I see it.

S1: 2019
S2: 2020
Seven on 7: 2021
S3: 2022
Gen V: 2023
S4: December 2023 (likely ends in incredibly early 2024)
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Just did a watchthrough of of the Boys, Gen V, Diabolical, the podcast and the youtube channel in prep for the new season

I think your timeline is mostly accurate, however Seven on 7 appears to start in 2020, just shortly after the events of season 2 as it refers to the events of Season 2 as happening very recently

This does lead to 2021 as being a bit of a "limbo" where nothing happens, I assume the canonical episodes of Diabolical take place in 2021 just so something happens that year. Also there is quite a bit of change up to the status quo between seasons 2 and 3

The shows timeline is a bit awkward, like if you are just watching the show you would assume that season 1 and 2 take place a few months apart, and in season 3 they reference the events of season 2 being "a year ago". However every season has an in-universe date which places it in the year of release
 
If that Mexico spin-off happens I'm wondering if it's going to be a one-and-done season show that serves as an epilogue to this continuity?
 
I'm still sticking with 2022 right now because Presidential election years never line up for the most part in shared universes.

S4 E1 starts on Election Night also. No telling when that is in a fictional 2022 election year so I'll leave that as November.
EDIT: November 8th is close enough I guess.
 
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character said the last time he saw Billy the Butcher was "11 years ago".
Which lines up with the year when Billy's wife was still 'alive' (as far as he knew).

ANY LATER than 2011 would conflict with the time his wife 'died' in January 2012. So the writers are at least keeping in mind how much time passes...
 
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(I'm aware the year 2023 can be seen on the Seven new recruits detailings, but those are TV episodes in-universe that could easily be upcoming. Also "2024" on one of Wrangler's credits, but again, upcoming movie probably in-universe.)
 
S4 E2: Marvin (M.M.) said Sage is 32 years old with an ID that reads her year of birth as "1992". I'll assume that ID is wrong, based on Jeffrey Dean Morgan's line in the previous episode.
 

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