Editing Some Assembly Required (an Avengers PBP game) (section)

===2009===
* Four amateur astronauts return from the first privately funded space flight with mysterious abilities granted through cosmic radiation. They save New York from subterranean invasion and begin careers as "Science Adventurers," dubbed the '''Fantastic Four'''. This marks the beginning of the so-called "Age of Heroes".
* With the Fantastic Four's very public victory over the '''Mole Man''''s monster '''Giganto''', the Monster Hunters disbanded, no longer needed in this new age of heroes.
* Greer Grant marries policeman Bill Nelson.
* '''Dr. Joanne Tumolo''' begins researching the hidden potential in human biology displayed in the emerging population of superhuman marvels. She receives funding from eccentric investor '''Malcolm Donalbain''' &mdash; secretly a '''HYDRA''' asset intending to subvert her work to create superhuman criminal agents.
* Discovering that a government contract he had been hired to work on was infiltrated by North Korean agents, Hank secretly uses his serum and helmet to sabotage them. The incident is investigated but no proof of intervention is found.
* Dr. Ludgate dedicates his time to furthering his occult understanding, and quietly helping people with his skills through a small private psychiatry practice.