Timeline

Past Events

1973

• Birth of Donald Morden: The main antagonist of the series, Donald Morden, is born on January 24th, 1973 in New Brunswick, Canada.

1992

• Birth of Ralf Jones: Ralf of the Metal Slug universe is born on August 25th in the USA.

1997

• Birth of Clark Still: Clark of the Metal Slug universe is born on May 7th in the USA.

2002

• Birth of Alisa Stewart: Alisa is born on July 2nd.

2005

• Birth of Marco Rossi: Marco is born on April 13th in Idaho, USA.
• Birth of Tarmicle Roving: Tarma is born on May 1st in Hokkaido, Japan.

2008

• Birth of Fiolina Germi: Fio is born on October 2nd in Genoa, Italy as the only female child of the wealthy Germi family.

2010

• Birth of Eri Kasamoto: Eri is born on June 16th in Hiroshima, Japan. She is left alone in front of a church.
• Birth of Leona Heidern: Leona of the Metal Slug universe is born in January 10th in an unknown location of South America.
• Birth of Trevor Spacey: Trevor is born on June 25th in Korea.

2012

• Birth of Nadia Cassel: Nadia is born on August 6th in France.

2013

• Birth of Walter Ryan: Walter is born in an unknown date in Australia.

2015

• Birth of Tyra Elson: Tyra is born in an unknown date in the USA.

2023

• A bombing on the Central Park by terrorists cause the deaths of many civilians, amongst them Donald Morden's wife and daughter ^[1].
• Donald Morden defects from the Regular Army and self-promotes to General.
• Morden organizes the many terrorist groups and guerrillas into what became known as the Rebel Army. Several Regular Army soldiers and members defect to Morden's army.

2026

• Start of the Rise of the Rebellion.

Events Depicted in Games

2027

• Metal Slug: 1st Mission: First Mission

2028

• Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001: First Modern War

2030

• Metal Slug 2: Second Modern War
• Metal Slug 3: Third Modern War

2031

• Metal Slug 6: Invaders Invasion
• Metal Slug 4: White Baby Crisis
• Metal Slug 5: Ptolemaic War

2032

• Metal Slug 3D: Oguma Crisis

20XX

• Metal Slug: 2nd Mission: Second Mission (Between Metal Slug: 1st Mission and Metal Slug 2)
• Metal Slug Advance: P.F. Island Occupation (Post-Metal Slug 5)
• Metal Slug 7: Garbage Island Incident (Post-Metal Slug 3D)

2XXX

• The remaining Rebel Army soldiers create a time warp and send their men, along with their futuristic weapons to the past, in order to help Morden launch a new coup d'état.

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