Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20160912200936/@comment-4651179-20161031231940

I don't think Marvel puts that much emphasis in the passage of time, specially considering most recent stories are full of timeskips, and clear measurements of time (i.e. "this thing happened X months after this one") that would need to be disregarded in the future so they could be properly applied to the sliding timescale. It has even been recently established in-universe that time is basically putty.

In regards to what is deemed relevant, I consider such thing stories that heavily affect the character or their status quo. It's a given that stories where a character is just there are not relevant. Other stories can be mentioned off-handedly to give the history text some meat, like "After thwarting a plot of the Mandarin to turn everybody into frogs, Iron Man was involved in [insert important event here]." Certain encounters can be mentioned this way, "Following the destruction of his home after [epic battle], Spider-Man moved to Florida. During this time he encountered Hypno Hustler, Armless Tiger Man, and Obnoxio the Clown."