User blog comment:LoveWaffle/Ranking 2013's Superhero Movies/@comment-26711120-20140115181923/@comment-1895174-20140117174440

There's a point in Origins where it's established to be 1975, then we get a "Six Years Later" tag, which puts it in 1981. Granted, there could have been more time that passed at some point, but the movie already puts the Three Mile Island incident two years after it actually happened, so it can't really be too much later. Meanwhile, the flashback in The Last Stand is supposed to be 20 years before the events of that movie. It came out in 2006 and takes place in the "not-too-distant future" (which means not today but pretty close), so that happened in 1986 at very least.