The Beginning

Events

The Creation

• Real World: 13.7 billion years ago. The Big Bang occurs, initiating the beginning of the universe.

• Cthulhu Mythos: According to some, Azathoth is responsible for the Big Bang. ("The Plague Jar" by Allen Mackey)

• Doctor Who, Doctor Who (Expanded Universe): The Time Lords call the Big Bang Event One. (Doctor Who: "Terminus")

• Doctor Who (Expanded Universe): According to the Time Lords, Event One occurred in the year 13,500,017,903 BC. (Transit)

• Futurama: 0 BB (Big Bang). Following a Medium-Sized Bang (historians over-estimate its significance in the future), the Brainspawn come into existence. The Medium-Sized Bang also creates a parallel universe where everyone dresses as cowboys. (Futurama: "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid," "I Dated a Robot")

• Star Trek, Star Trek (Expanded Universe): Omega molecules may have existed at the instant of the Big Bang. (Star Trek: Voyager: "The Omega Directive")

• Transformers (Marvel U.S.), Transformers (Marvel U.K.): The Big Bang is caused by the fusion of the last remnants to survive from the old universe. The new universe forms around Unicron as he rests. (Transformers (Marvel U.S.) #74)

Immediately After the Creation

• DC (Post-Zero Hour), DC (Post-Infinite Crisis): Imperiex is reborn in the new universe and begins his eons-long destiny of remaking the universe again. (Our Worlds At War Secret Files)

• Doctor Who, Doctor Who (Expanded Universe): The Leptonic Era occurs in the first few microseconds of the universe. (Doctor Who: "Time and the Rani")

• Doctor Who (Expanded Universe): Immediately before the end of the parallel dimension into which the previous universe's Time Lords escaped, they transport themselves to the new universe just after the Big Bang. They find they have godlike powers in the new reality, due to its different physical laws, and eventually become known as the Great Old Ones. (Millennial Rites)

• Marvel: The reborn Galen, within his reborn spaceship, is hurled from the Big Bang. Within, Galen begins a metamorphosis- a result of the new and different physical laws and powerful energies present- that will take eons. (Super Villain Classics #1)

• Star Trek, Star Trek (Expanded Universe): Quinn tries to hide the U.S.S. Voyager in the first moments after the Big Bang. (Star Trek: Voyager: "Death Wish")

Other Creations

• Mortal Kombat: At the beginning of time, gods arise in another realm. One of these, Shinnok, has his sons Rayden and Shao Khan battle; Rayden wins, and Shao Khan disappears for a long time. (Unsourced information from The Mortal Kombat Saga)

• Transformers (Films): "Before time began," there was the AllSpark. (Transformers)

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