|
| SPOILER WARNING The following text contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. |
|
| THIS ARTICLE IS IN NEED OF CLEANUP You can help out Monster Wiki by re-organizing parts of the article, checking grammar and spelling, and doing other helpful things to correct the article. |
This article is dedicated to the full timeline of events in Monster and Another Monster.
| Pre-1950s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
Pre-1950[]
1900s[]
- Terner Poppe was born.
1930s[]
- Klaus Poppe, later known as Franz Bonaparta, was born in the Czechoslovakian town of Jablonec nad Nisou to Terner Poppe.
1937[]
- Julius Reichwein was born.
1940s[]
- Terner Poppe was involved in the Czechoslovak resistance during World War II.
- Bonaparta fell in love with a young woman from his hometown, but lost to his father. He then brainwashed him out of anger.
- The woman became pregnant by Terner. She left Jablonec and moved to the nearby town of Liberec, where she married another man and later gave birth to Terner's son (Bonaparta's half-brother and the future father of Johan Liebert and Nina Fortner).
1950s[]
- Věra Černá was born.
- Hermann Führ was born.
- Bonaparta became interested in an actress and later married her. He also met his first book editor during this period.
1950[]
- Bonaparta left his hometown and attended college to attain degrees as a psychologist, psychiatrist, and neurosurgeon.
1951[]
- Richard Braun was born on January 25th.
1954[]
- Wolfgang Grimmer was born.
1955[]
- Helenka Nováková was born on August 12th.
1958[]
- Kenzō Tenma was born on January 2nd.
1960s[]
- The reading seminars began being held at the Red Rose Mansion.
- Grimmer is sent to 511 Kinderheim.
1961[]
- The Magnificent Steiner started airing in Germany and France.
1962[]
- Bonaparta left his pregnant wife and started the personality reprogramming experiments as a part of the Czech Secret Police.
- Jaromír Lipský was born.
1963[]
- Adolf Reinhart, later known as Roberto, is sent to 511 Kinderheim after his parents are killed while trying to escape to West Germany.
1966[]
- Bonaparta met Stefan Verdemann, father of Fritz Verdemann.
1968[]
- Grimmer was taken out of 511 Kinderheim and made to undergo spy training.
- Bonaparta publishes Bůh Míru (The God of Peace) under the name Klaus Poppe.
1969[]
- Milan Koláš and Petr Čapek reunited in Prague.
1970s[]
- Bonaparta began the eugenics experiment in order to construct a "perfect" child.
1970[]
- Tomáš Zobák became Bonaparta's new editor.
- Věra Černá and Helenka Nováková tried to escape from Czechoslovakia, but only Helenka succeeded.
1971[]
- Gustav Kottman was born.
1973[]
- Bonaparta published Velkooký, Velkoústý (The Man with the Big Eyes, the Man with the Big Mouth) under the name Jakub Farobek.
1974[]
- Věra Černá met and fell in love with a German-Czechoslovakian soldier.
- Her partner confessed that their relationship was the result of an experiment, but he no longer wanted to be a part of it. The couple attempt to elope, but are caught in the act and separated.
- Věra was then placed under surveillance and her partner was executed.
- Her partner confessed that their relationship was the result of an experiment, but he no longer wanted to be a part of it. The couple attempt to elope, but are caught in the act and separated.
- Helenka Nováková and Hans Georg Schuwald met.
1975[]
- Věra attempted to escape, but went into labor. She gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl who would later be known as Johan Liebert and Nina Fortner. She was not allowed to name them.
1977[]
- Bonaparta published Obluda, Která Nemá Své Jméno (The Nameless Monster) under the name Emil Šébe.
- Margot Langer (aka Helenka Nováková) mysteriously disappeared.
- Karl Neuman was born.
- Julius Reichwein went back to college to study psychology, then stayed at the university to earn his teaching credentials.
1978[]
- Tenma left Japan to head for West Germany.
1979[]
- Tenma enrolled in Düsseldorf University Medical School, also being attended by Rudy Gillen.
- After he graduated, Tenma was hired as a neurosurgeon at Eisler Memorial Hospital.
1980s[]
1980[]
- Hans Schuwald met Věra Černá.
- While looking for Margot, Schuwald paid a visit to her best friend in Prague to see if she knew of the woman's whereabouts, but Věra was unable to provide him with any information. This was also Schuwald's first encounter with the twins.
1981[]
- Anna was taken to the Red Rose Mansion:
- Věra had to decide which one of her children will be experimented on by Bonaparta and his organization. Anna was chosen in the end and was taken to the Red Rose Mansion for days. (It was unknown if Věra knew who she chose as the twins were both dressed the same). During this time, Věra was also taken away and Johan stayed at the Three Frogs, awaiting his sister's return.
- The reading seminars at the Red Rose Mansion came to an end.
- Forty-two people died at the Red Rose Mansion:
- Bonaparta poisoned everyone who participated in the eugenics experiment with nitric acid in their wine.
- The scene was witnessed by young Anna Liebert, who ran home to tell her brother everything she experienced after a brief confrontation with Franz Bonaparta.
- Johan and Anna burned down the Three Frogs:
- Věra told her children that they must live on their own. Consequently, Johan and Anna burned down the Three Frogs and left Prague.
1981-1982[]
- Bonaparta moved to the village of Ruhenheim.
- Johan and Anna traveled through Czechoslovakia. During this period, they spent time with various people who took them in.
1982[]
- Helmut Wolf found the twins on the Czechoslovakian-German border and saved their lives.
- Johan was sent to 511 Kinderheim, while Anna was sent to another orphanage.
- Grimmer visited Akihabara, Japan.
1985[]
- The 511 Kinderheim massacre took place:
- Johan arranged the massacre at 511 Kinderheim.
- Only he and Christof Sievernich survived, and they made plans to meet again in the future.
1986[]
- Johan and Anna were adopted by the Lieberts. (in March)
- Johan and Anna were adopted by the Liebert couple. After settling in, they were paid a visit by Franz Bonaparta, which caused Johan to kill their new parents. Anna found out that her brother was the one who killed, not only the Lieberts but also their former foster parents. As a result, she shot him in the head.
This is where the story of Monster starts:
- Johan is operated on by Doctor Kenzo Tenma: (in April)
- After being shot in the head by Anna, Johan is rushed to Eisler Memorial Hospital and receives treatment from Doctor Tenma, who saves the boy's life over that of the town mayor's and consequently loses his position as the head of neurosurgery.
- Shortly after three of Tenma's superiors are poisoned by Johan.
- Johan and Anna then disappears.
- Johan and Anna live with a man called Rheinhard Dinger.
- Tenma is suspected for murder by Heinrich Runge.
- After conflict with Runge, Tenma resumes his position and the case goes unsolved.
- Johan and Anna travel to Heidelberg to live with a new family. (in May)
- Johan disappears (around October) from Heidelberg, leaving his sister in the care of the Fortners. He plans to come "pick her up" on their twentieth birthday.
1987[]
- Reichwein begins his private counseling service.
- Johan moves to Munich and lives there under the name Franz Heinau. (in March)
1988[]
- Johan leaves Munich and heads for Koln, where uses the alias Michael Reichmann. (around April)
1989[]
- Bonaparta publish the storybook Das Ruhenheim (The Peaceful Home) under the pen name Helmuth Voss.
- Hermann Führ publishes Dorn im Dunklen (Dorn in the Darkness).
- Johan leaves Koln:
- A fire conveniently starts where Johan's school and identification records are kept in Koln; he disappears after this.
- Petr Čapek comes to Germany:
- Petr escapes from Czechoslovakia to Germany and gets involved with right-wing extremists after destroying the life of his "friend," Milan, who invited him over to Germany in the first place.
- Johan moves in with the Schumanns:
- After leaving Koln, Johan lives with the Schumanns in Hanover for about a year. The couple claims he is the child of a relative.
1990s[]
1990-1991[]
- Johan stays with a couple in Hamburg.
- Johan moves in with the Lieberts:
- Johan goes to Bruntal and lands himself with some new foster parents. Coincidentally, this couple's last name is Liebert and they have a deceased son named Johan, so Johan let them believe that he is their son. The new family moves to Offenbach Hesse.
- He does not spend much time with his parents, but doesn't kill them until after he leaves Munich eight years later.
- Johan organizes an underground money laundering business.
1992[]
- Hermann Führ, also known as Fritz Weindler, faked his death to get away from Petr Čapek.
- Johan and Helenka start living together:
- Helenka (aka Margot Langer) retires from prostitution and starts living with Johan in an apartment located in Offenbach Hesse.
1993[]
- Adolf Junkers's trio is hired by Johan:
- Adolf Junkers, along with two other men, is hired by Johan to carry out some of the murders in the middle-aged couple killings.
1995 - 1998[]
- Johan moves in with the Springers.
1995[]
- Gustav Kottmann begins his five-year killing spree.
- Runge finds a link between Junkers and the killings of middle-aged couples. (around March)
- Johan and Tenma meet after nine years: (in April)
- Johan kills off two of the three men he hired in 1993, but Junkers manages to escape. He gets hit by a car while escaping, and receives treatment from Tenma. Johan comes to kill Junkers and, in the process, meets his old doctor.
- Tenma gives his testimony to Runge.
- Runge then starts investigating Johan's whereabouts. He is led to Johan's sister, Anna Liebert, who is currently using the name Nina Fortner.
- Anna's parents are murdered: (in May)
- Anna's parents and a journalist named Jacob Maurer are killed as a result of Johan's plans. She and Tenma escape and go into hiding while she begins recalling her past.
- Tenma becomes a suspect in the killings of Anna's parents and a gardener named Ivan Kürten at Heidelberg Castle.
- Anna meets Mr. Rosso:
- Anna moves to a small village and starts working at an Italian restaurant run by a man named Mr. Rosso. The owner is a former hitman whom Anna hopes will teach her how to kill, but when she realizes how different he has become from his former self, she decides not to.
- Tenma investigates Johan's past while trying to evade the police:
- Tenma investigates 511 Kinderheim and Johan's past. In the process, he saves the life of a young boy named Dieter and contacts his former classmate, Rudy Gillen. After Gillen finally comes to believe in Tenma's testimony, he begins trying to help prove both his innocence and the existence of Johan.
1996[]
- Anna goes to Frankfurt:
- Anna leaves the town she was staying in and ventures to Frankfurt, trying to find and kill her brother. She crosses paths with Günther Gödelitz and The Baby's organization.
- Johan abandons the underground bank:
- When others involved find out about this, they lose their minds deciding how the money will be distributed, causing a massacre to break out.
- Tenma travels to Frankfurt:
- Investigating the murder of the Springers, a family Johan stayed with, Tenma travels to Frankfurt. At their estate, he meets a thief named Otto Heckel.
- The Baby and Čapek try to burn the Turkish district of Frankfurt:
- The Baby, Petr Čapek, and other right-wing extremists try to burn down Frankfurt's Turkish district as a "welcome party" for Johan, but are stopped by Tenma, Anna, Dieter, and Heckel.
- Helenka Nováková is murdered due to her association with Johan. (on November 2nd)
1997[]
- Johan enrolls in the University of Munich.
- Edmund Farren and Richard Braun are [indirectly] murdered by Johan.
- Johan becomes Schuwald's secretary.
- Karl Schuwald and his father are reunited with the help of Johan.
- Johan faints after coming into contact with Emil Šébe's The Nameless Monster.
- Anna encounters The Nameless Monster for the first time since her childhood:
- Lotte introduces to Anna a children's story known as The Nameless Monster then subsequently asks if she's Johan's twin sister.
- Schuwald's book donation ceremony goes up in flames. (September 4th)
- Johan, Anna & Dieter, Tenma, and Runge separately go to Prague.
- Tenma meets Wolfgang Grimmer, who helps him cross the Czech border.
- Mikhail Petrov (the former director of 511 Kinderheim) is murdered by Johan (dressed as Anna), in his home in Prague.
October 1997 - February 1998[]
- All the events in the Prague arc take place:
- Grimmer, Jan Suk and Tenma's involvement with the Czech Secret Police.
- Anna recovering her lost memories in The Red Rose Mansion and being found by Jaromír Lipský, where she and Dieter stays for three months. (until February)
- Runge, who had been pursuing Tenma with great persistence, also uncovering the truth and learns he really is innocent.
- Tenma being apprehended by the police after paying a visit to Bonaparta's former editor, Tomáš Zobák. (December)
1998[]
- The Sleeping Monster is published by Hermann Führ.
- Fearing for Eva's safety, Tenma breaks out of prison, with the help of Gunther Milch.
- Milan Koláš attempts to kill Petr Čapek at the Rödelheim Convention Center, but fails and is killed by the police.
- Three murders are carried out to cover Christof's mistakes.
- Christoph, a Kinderheim survivor and member of the right-wing extremists, makes three fatal mistakes. Johan manipulates three serial murderers to kill several individuals, thus covering Christoph's errors.
- Tenma goes to Prague.
- The Red Rose Mansion is burnt down to the ground by Johan.
- During the burning of the mansion, Johan was encountered by Hermann Führ, the superior pupil Bonaparta created.
- Führ remarks that Johan was speaking to himself, saying, "The end...in the Landscape of the End, there will be only he and I."
- Eva and Martin meet.
- Martin is hired to escort Eva Heinemann around to parties so she can point Johan out to the neo-Nazi group looking to introduce him and Christof Sievernich (unbeknownst to everyone else, the two already knew each other).
- Eva brings Johan and Christof together.
- Martin is killed in a gun fight, when he and Eva tries to run away.
- Eva begins pursuing Christof.
- Eva decides that she wants to be the one to kill Johan, and figures she can most likely learn of his whereabouts through Christof.
- During a confrontation between the two, Christof almost shoots Eva, but Tenma arrives with perfect timing and saves her life. Christof, who has been shot in the ear, is taken to a hospital.
- The Baby is murdered.
- Inner conflict between the extremists results in a hit woman being hired (likely by Christof) to kill The Baby.
- Petr Čapek meets Johan.
- Hearing of The Baby's death, Petr Čapek tries to escape to his mountain villa. In the process, he loses his sanity and ends up killing his driver. When Čapek eventually arrives, he encounters Johan and informs him that Franz Bonaparta is still alive.
- Čapek meets Nina.
- Čapek meets with Anna and tells her about her past/for what purposes she and Johan were created.
- Johan and Anna's reunion.
- Johan and Anna are finally reunited and confront each other about their pasts. Anna nearly commits suicide after their talk but is rescued by Tenma. Afterwards, Petr Čapek appears and tells Tenma that Bonaparta's son is alive in Prague, and that he also gave this information to Johan. Following his message, Čapek is shot to death.
- Locating Franz Bonaparta.
- Johan pays a visit to Jaromír Lipský (not shown) and learns of Franz Bonaparta's current location. He begins wrapping things up by killing his underlings, including a doctor named Horst Grossman. Lipský is also paid visits by Tenma and Runge, who are able to determine Bonaparta's location with his help.
- Anna is hospitalized for a few months as she recovers from the trauma of the reunion.
- The Ruhenheim Massacre:
- The townsfolk start killing each others.
- Roberto and Grimmer die from fatal injuries.
- Bonaparta is shot dead by Roberto.
- Johan is shot in the head by Herbert Knaup, who describes him as "a monster with four heads".
1999[]
- Series conclusion:
- Nina and Dieter start school.
- Runge retires as an officer and becomes a professor.
- Fritz Verdemann proves Grimmer's innocence.
- Eva starts working as an interior designer.
- Tenma tracks down the twins' mother:
- With the help of Heckel, Tenma meets the twins' mother.
- Tenma visits Johan in a police hospital.
- Tenma tells him about his mother.
- Johan is supposedly in a comatose state, but he sits up and begins speaking to Tenma. Following Tenma's departure, Johan's bed is seen empty.
This is where the story of Another Monster starts:
- Kottmann is almost apprehended by the police:
- Gustav Kottmann makes a critical mistake and just barely manages to escape police officials.
- Following this event, he disappears for about a year. Werner Weber's speculation suggests that he was kept safe by some unknown assassin, also known as Hermann Führ, the author of Dorn in the Darkness and Kottmann's favorite writer.
2000s[]
2000[]
- Eugene Molke is shot in dead in his home: (on November 6th)
- Führ enters the home of Eugen Molke (Jaroslav Čarek) and threatens him with a gun. Molke resists and tries to shoot the offender, injuring him slightly, but is in turn shot in the temple.
- A mysterious patient shows up at St. Ursula Emergency Clinic:
- Early morning — A mysterious man with a bleeding arm shows up for treatment at St. Ursula Emergency Clinic, but disappears right after without leaving a trace (Führ).
- Eugen Molke (revealed by police investigations to be Jaroslav Čarek, formerly a high ranking adviser in Omnipol) is found dead in his home. (on November 9th)
- Gustav Kottmann goes on a murderous rampage:
- Gustav Kottmann goes on a murderous rampage at the St. Ursula Emergency Clinic in Salzburg, Austria.
- "Coincidentally," the three people he executes are the only three witnesses who would be able to identify Molke. This is what causes Weber to theorize that Kottmann and whoever murdered Molke had the whole ordeal planned out together (or rather, that Molke's murderer had given Kottmann a false sense of partnership).
- It reminds Weber of the Johan Liebert, or "J" as the media knows him, case and he becomes inspired to delve deeper into the core of it all.
2001[]
- Werner Weber begins his investigations into Johan Liebert and the mysterious Hermann Führ.
- Weber disappears:
- After a phone call with Führ, Weber disappears, leaving only his notes and the sketch of a figure resembling Johan.
2007[]
- Takashi Nagasaki discovers a link to Weber's disappearance: (in March)
- Six years later, Weber still has yet to be found since his mysterious disappearance.
- Takashi Nagasaki coincidentally finds out someone is selling original Helmuth Voss drawings and tries to get his hands on them, but discovers they were bought by someone using the name "Werner Weber."
- Another Monster conclusion: (in May)
- Takashi Nagasaki finally comes into contact with the person who bought the sketches under the name Werner Weber, and finds out it's not the former reporter, but an individual involved with shady book dealers.
- He confronts the man, who tells him his client said to destroy the sketches as soon as he got them. When Nagasaki asks him to describe the buyer, he says it's a person who sits next to one of the world's most powerful political leaders, and that they plan to recreate Bonaparta's experiments.
- "Werner Weber" also tells Nagasaki that his client plans to get in contact with Hermann Führ, claiming he is "the next generation Voss".