In 1887 H. G. Wells invented the first literary time machine. Years later, time travel has become a popular subject in sci-fi stories.
In 2067, crop blights and dust storms threaten humanity’s survival. Corn is the last viable crop. The crew includes scientists Dr. Amelia Brand (Professor Brand ‘s daughter), Dr. Romilly, Dr. Doyle, and robots TARS and CASE. After traversing the wormhole, Romilly studies the black hole while Cooper, Doyle, and Brand descend in a landing craft to investigate Miller’s planet, an ocean world.
In 1985, Hill Valley, California, teenager Marty McFly lives with his family: his mother Lorraine is an overweight, depressed alcoholic; his cowardly father George is bullied by his supervisor, Biff Tannen; his older siblings are professional and social failures. That night, Marty meets his eccentric scientist friend Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown in the Twin Pines mall parking lot. Doc unveils a time machine built from a modified DeLorean.
In 1995, John Connor is living in Los Angeles with his foster parents. After the trio escape from the T-1000 in a police car, the Terminator informs John and Sarah about Skynet’s history. Finding him at his home, she wounds him but finds herself unable to kill him in front of his family.
Twenty-three days after Thanos used the Infinity Gauntlet to disintegrate half of all life in the universe, Carol Danvers rescues Tony Stark and Nebula from deep space and returns them to Earth, where they reunite with the remaining Avengers—Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and James Rhodes—and Rocket.
In 1984 Los Angeles, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029 and steals guns and clothes. As they hide in a parking lot, Kyle explains to Sarah that an artificial intelligence defense network, Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and initiate a nuclear holocaust.
In a dystopian 2023, Sentinels have been programmed to identify and hunt down mutants and any humans who help them. In Moscow, a small band of X-Men survivors consisting of Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Blink, Warpath, Bishop, Iceman and Sunspot are attacked by the Sentinels, but Kitty sends Bishop’s consciousness back in time a few days to warn the others as to ensure their survival.
In 2015, aliens called Mimics arrive in Germany via an asteroid and swiftly conquer most of continental Europe. By 2020, the United Defense Force, a global military alliance established to combat the alien threat, finally achieves a victory over the Mimics at Verdun using newly developed mech-suits. In Britain, the UDF plans a major invasion of France.
A deadly virus, released in 1996, wipes out almost all of humanity; survivors are forced to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus. In 2035, James Cole is a prisoner living in a subterranean compound beneath the ruins of Philadelphia. Cole is selected to be trained and sent back in time to find the original virus to help scientists develop a cure.
In the 23rd century, the Federation starship USS Kelvin is investigating a lightning storm in space. George Kirk, Kelvin’s first officer, orders the ship’s personnel, including his pregnant wife Winona, to abandon ship while he pilots the Kelvin on a collision course with Narada. Kirk sacrifices his life to ensure Winona’s survival as she gives birth to James T. Kirk.
Harry is back at the Dursleys’ for the summer holidays, where he sees on Muggle television that a convict named Sirius Black has escaped from prison. After being picked up by the Knight Bus, meeting Stan Shunpike, and encountering a large black dog that seems to be watching him, he travels to the Leaky Cauldron, where Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, asks Harry to stay in Diagon Alley for his own protection.
On October 26, 1985, Dr. Emmett Brown arrives in the DeLorean time machine and persuades Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, to travel to the future with him and help their future children, with Biff Tannen witnessing their departure.
On November 12, 1955, moments after witnessing his apparent death, Marty McFly learns that Dr. Emmett Brown was transported to 1885. Marty spots and photographs a tombstone with Doc’s name, dated six days after the letter, and learns Doc was killed by Biff Tannen’s great-grandfather, Buford.