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Contents 1 Floating timeline in action 2 Cleanup 3 James Bond 4 Too long opening. 5 Other

[edit] Floating timeline in action

http://www.chronologyproject.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=15124#15124 Re Carter /Clinton situation

For other examples of the sliding timscale in action, take a look at this:

http://www.jrhunt.co.uk/thunderbolts/plottriv.htm

Thunderbolts #33 Jolt's kind-of boyfriend wearing a Blink 182 T-Shirt, despite them not being around during Onslaught (Summer '96). Proof of Marvel's sliding timescale? Could be.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_182#Early_career_.281992.E2.80.931996.29 notes that this band did exist and was known as Blink 182 as early as 1995. However, they were not well known in 1996.)

Code of Honor#2, which takes place isochronally around the events of the Dark Phoenix saga: a bit of newspaper can be seen holding a review of the film Swingers, which starred John Favreau, who later played Foggy Nelson and will direct the Iron Man film. Due to the rolling timescale, this is not an anachronism (and was probably not an in-joke, since COH came out before 2003).

Eda Arul now overwrites Idi Amin in MTIO#41, due to Ronald Byrd. See pg 232 of FF Encyclopedia. This was specifically done to avoid topicality.

http://www.geocities.com/marvel_villains/advisor/advisor.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin (The real Idi Amin is dead. He had the inclination to do what Mogul emperor Akbar did not to Hindus.)

08:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)08:33, 30 June 2006 (UTC)Enda80

[edit] Cleanup

A good article overall, but it requires some cleanup. There is a lot of information presented here, but it is unorganized and the writing is hard to follow. Some of this information should instead be bulleted and listed as examples of a floating timeline, rather than just being written seemingly at random in the main body of the article. I'll try and get to it later when I have more time. -Kraw Night 06:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] James Bond

The James Bond of the novels was a veteran of World War II, but is immortal in the movie versions.

This is not strictly correct. James Bond in the movies is not immortal. The James Bond character which appears in Dr.No to Die Another day did live within a floating timeline - though immortality is a different concept entirely. Casino Royal rebooted the movie version of Bond, it is not yet clear whether James Bond (movies) is still living within a floating time-line.

The time-line of the (canon) James Bond novels is frankly just messed up. When the Bond novels returned in the 1980s the author (John Gardner) used a plain and simple floting timeline. Bond had aged sinced his adventures in the 1950s - but not by 30 years. When Raymond Benson took over from Gardner in the 1990s Bond returned to his youthfulness of the much earlier Fleming novels.

Currently the (canon) novels about James Bond's youth make clear that Bond was a young boy during the 1930s. This suggests that in any canon novel set in the 2000s James Bond would be a very old man.

[edit] Too long opening.

Please consider ordering everything by a section, the opening was so big I didn't even bother reading half of it. TheBlazikenMaster 20:27, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other

• Is it worth adding James Bond back in?
• Would Blackadder count? Or Dr Who? TimothyJacobson (talk) 20:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Blackadder doesn't count. Each Edmund Blackadder is an ancestor of the previous one. The timeline is fixed on historical times. Despite each Blackadder sharing traits and names, they are ultimately different characters. Including Baldrick. There's a Christmas Special and several lines that mention this.

Doctor Who doesn't have a floating timeline either. Again, there's references to The Doctor meeting characters in certain timelines, like in the recent episode The Poison Sky. He's a time traveller, but his timeline is also fixed.