2000: DA: Max is born.
- LC: May Alun Caleb escapes to a stone circle outside the town of Barrowby, where he is found dead by authorities. Nick Brooker, a police officer who helped capture Caleb in 1982, investigates Barrowby and narrowly escapes with his life.
- Unbreakable (movie events).
- November 6: L. Sprague de Camp passes away.
- TR: Lara goes missing in Egypt, presumed dead.
2001: The events of 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie) occur.
2002: LC: The Book of Eibon is published by Chaosium Inc., which includes translated portions of the text from Clark Ashton Smith, Lin Carter, and Robert M. Price, among others, as well as some additional material such as Eibon's letters.
- The events of Queen of the Damned (movie).
- Signs (movie events). * The human-harvesting is global, but far less impacting than in the movie, and never publicly known.
- November: TR: Lara Croft and her friend, Sara Pezzini, research the disappearance of an elderly couple in a New York cemetery.
2003: FS: Astronaut John Crichton returns to Earth.
- TR: Following a call of her former Mentor, Werner von Croy, Lara travels to Paris where she is framed for his murder. She then sets out to find the Obscura Paintings and stop Eckhardt from reviving the Nephilim.
2004: FS: The 1 wormhole Crichton knows about is destroyed.
- AL: A Predator shoulder canon is delivered to Ms.Yutani.
- The Village (movie events).
- June: FF: Scaled Composites launches SpaceShipOne past the boundary of space carrying commercial astronaut Mike Melvill, the first person to pilot a privately financed craft into space.
2005: BR: Androids (robots appearing human, with flesh over them in this case) are produced.
- BT: The events of Batman Begins (movie) start the work of The Caped Crusader; The Dark Knight.
2006: Lady in the Water (movie events).
- TR: After being tipped off by a friend, Lara discovers a stone dais - something she has seen before, when her mother disappeared in Nepal - at a temple ruin in Bolivia. Following the trail of James Rutland and her former friend, Amanda, Lara sets out to find sword fragments that will form the legendary sword Excalibur.
2007-2011: TF: Transformers (movie series) timeline. * Planet Cybertron never becomes visible to Earth.
2008: Tony Stark perfects the Iron Man suit with Stark Industries.
- Eagle Eye (movie events).
- The Happening (movie events). * The event is far more isolated than in the movie, and never publicly known.
2009: DA: Max and 11 other X5s escape Manticore's Guilette, Wyoming facility.
- TR: Lara goes beneath the Mediterranean Sea to find what her father believed to be Avalon. After finding 'Nifelheim', Lara searches the interior of the tomb and finds one of Thor's Gauntlets. After being attacked by one of Amanda's mercenaries, Lara sees that the mercenary also stole the gauntlet. She managed to take it back though when she attacked Amanda's ship, which imprisoned the still living Natla.
- TR: In Thailand, Lara discovers that her father already owning the second gauntlet which he kept under the manor.
After collecting the second gauntlet, Lara's doppelgänger destroyed the manor and killed Alister. Nevertheless, she continued to Mexico to collect Thor's Belt. Afterwards, she continued to the Arctic and succeeded to collect Thor's Hammer which she used later to forever eliminate Natla.
2010: SG: A Quantum-Mirror is discovered, made from Naquadah, allows inter-dimensional travel like a stargate allows inter-stellar (7 sigils) and inter-galactic (9 sigils).
- The events of 2010: The Year We Make Contact (movie) occur.
- District 9: The cloaked ship over Johannesburg leaves, the "Prawns" workers remain in the camp outside Johannesburg.
- Predators (movie events)
2011: SB: World Bank declares bankruptcy, global economy finishes collapsing, NATO disbanded.
- BR: Flesh-and-blood androids introduced off-world (extra-earth).