Puppet Master Timeline
?? BC-
Sutekh, brother of
Osiris, kills and dismembers him, and claims his secrets for himself.
?? BC-
Isis resurrects Osiris and Sutekh retreats to the Underworld.
2,000 BC- Birth of the
Watchers1,000 BC- Birth of
Afzel900 BC- Afzel becomes a Watcher
800 BC- Creation of the
Totems780 BC- Instating of the
Masters of Death100 AD- Sutekh declares war on mankind
300 AD- Realizing that only the secret of life will save mankind when Sutekh returns, Afzel betrays the Watchers and escapes Egypt with their secrets. Afzel’s companion,
Kalim is killed by
Blackheart, the leader of the Watchers. Afzel slays Blackheart and his two servants.
302 AD- Using the secret of life, Afzel resurrects Kalim in the form of a doll known as the
Ghoul.
1000 AD- Sutekh’s servants search all of Africa, Europe and Asia for Afzel, but either the trail goes cold, or they’re killed by the sorcerer. So Sutekh raises Blackheart and his servants from the dead and sends them to hunt him down.
1854 AD- The Bodega Bay Inn is built on Scarab Hill. The construction is commissioned by an eccentric mystic who designed it as a nexus of spiritual energy.
RETRO PUPPET MASTER-
1900 AD- In a nightmare, young puppeteer,
Andre Toulon sees the face of a man killing him and his future wife. When creating the puppet
Mephisto, he uses the face from his nightmare as inspiration for the face of the Devil. Mephisto is a mechanical puppet that becomes his star attraction.
1902 AD- Afzel travels to Paris where he’s finally found by Blackheart, and is nearly
beaten to death by two assassins. He is rescued by Andre Toulon. Realizing that his days are numbered, Afzel shares the secret with Toulon, but the young puppeteer refuses to believe him. So Afzel destroys Mephisto, and convinces him that the secret of life is far greater. With his star puppet gone, and after being shown the miraculous Ghoul, Toulon agrees to learn the sorcerer’s teachings. While he is away one day, Blackheart and his servants kill Toulon’s friends and Afzel destroys himself to preserve the truth. Returning home, Toulon uses the secret of life to resurrect his friends as puppets
Blade,
Cyclops,
Pinhead,
Drill Sergeant, and
Doctor Death, and he resurrects Afzel as
Six Shooter. -Sensing that Toulon is now in possession of the secret, Blackheart returns to Paris to kill him, but Toulon’s puppets defend him and succeed in destroying one of the Watchers. To draw him out, Blackheart captures Toulon’s beloved,
Ilsa. Toulon and his puppets confront Blackheart and destroy his servant, throwing Blackheart from the train. Blackheart’s body is broken beneath the wheels of the train, but over many years he recovers and returns to Egypt.
1906 AD- Toulon and Ilsa are married.
1910 AD- Toulon becomes a doctor and teaches medicine.
1914 AD- World War I begins.
1918 AD- The war ends and Toulon and Ilsa move to Berlin, Germany. There, they set up a puppet theater.
1924 AD- Blade, Six Shooter, Cyclops, Pinhead, Doctor Death, and Drill Sergeant are stolen by an agent of Blackheart, with the intent of killing Toulon’s secret once and for all. They are destroyed in a fire just after killing their captor. When Toulon and Ilsa discover them, they are distraught at the loss, but the puppet master recovers their burnt bodies with the hopes that he may someday revive them.
1933 AD-
Hitler comes to power and persecution of the Jews begins
1937 AD-
Herman Strauss is executed for aiding Jews. Toulon decides to use his knowledge of the secret of life to resurrect him in the form of a new puppet named
Pinhead.
1938 AD- American Sergeant
Joseph Sabenstein is captured by Nazis and put to hard labor. Fighting back against his captors, Sabenstein is shot and Toulon brings him back in the form of
Tunneler.
1939 AD- Hitler invades Poland and begins World War II. Bookkeeper,
Hans Sideman and American actor
Arthur Huston are shot by the Gestapo for dissension. Toulon revives them as a puppets called
Jester and
Six Shooter.
Project Night Eagle begins and
General Kron is appointed supervisor, over
Dr. Mesmer and
Dr. Claire.
1940 AD- The Deathcore Project begins.
Dr. Johann Hess is appointed to head of the project.
TOULON’S REVENGE-
1941 AD- Toulon speaks out against Hitler during his shows, which draws the attention of the Gestapo. After a great deal of failure in realizing Project Deathcore, the Gestapo comes to believe Toulon’s procedures could be the secret to the project. Ilsa Toulon is shot by
Major Herman Krauss, and Andre is taken into custody. It is now that he realizes that Krauss was the man whose face he saw in his nightmare those many years ago. Toulon’s puppets allow him to escape custody and the Gestapo endeavors to hunt the puppeteer down. Toulon revives Ilsa in the form of
Leech Woman.
-Raiding the tomb of
Anubis in Egypt, Kron ships the statue of Anubis back to Berlin for Project Night Eagle.
-After assassinating
General Muller, Toulon is sought out by Dr. Hess, who wishes to help him. Branded a traitor, Hess is ordered shot by Krauss and Toulon revives him as his last puppet, Blade. He has a passport forged and prepares to leave Germany but, before he leaves, he and the puppets take their final revenge on Krauss. Posing as Krauss, Toulon leaves Germany by train.
TOMB OF THE PUPPET MASTER-
1941 AD- Toulon encounters General Kron and Dr. Claire on their way back from Egypt. With them is the Egyptian scholar,
Ahmad Bey. Toulon is disguised as Major Krauss and manages to fool the Nazis for some time. His identity, however, is eventually discovered. Toulon and Bey discover the Nazis’ plot to awaken the god Anubis and unleash him upon the Allied forces. Bey reveals himself to be the earthly embodiment of Osiris and fights back against the Nazis with his servants, the
Homunculi, but he and his creatures are eventually destroyed by Claire.
-Although much of the Night Eagle team are killed by Toulon and Bey, Kron survives long enough to awaken Anubis in front of Hitler, himself. But unable to control the gods rage, he and Claire abandon the project and Anubis flees to Egypt. Toulon and his puppets escape Nazi captivity once again and flees into the German countryside.
VAULT OF THE PUPPET MASTER-
1942 AD- Kron sends the
Vampire Korps to hunt down and eliminate Toulon.
-Claire is killed.
CASTLE OF THE PUPPET MASTER-
1943 AD- Kron’s scientists resurrect Claire as the puppet
Bombshell.
-Toulon meets Japanese soldier,
Ken Ishi. Ishi is killed by Kron and Toulon resurrects him as the
Oriental Puppet.
-Kron is killed.
-Toulon escapes to America and settles in Bodega Bay, California. Setting himself up in a room at the Bodega Bay Inn, he begins to feel safe at last. However, he realizes that the Nazis have tracked him down and still want his secrets. Knowing that he will soon have to leave his puppets, he begins work on his ultimate puppet,
Decapitron, who may protect the others from both the Nazis and the Watchers in the future. Unwilling to let them fall into Hitler’s hands, he hides his puppets and all record of the magic and his formulas and shoots himself before the Nazis can catch him.
1944 AD- Learning of Toulon’s death and the disappearance of the puppets, Sutekh seems satisfied that his old nemesis has at last been buried with his secrets.
-Hitler commits suicide and Nazi Germany surrenders.
1985 AD-
Neil Gallagher and
Frank Forrester discover the ancient writings of the Egyptians and they work together with
Alex Whitaker,
Dana Hadley and
Carissa Stamford to find Toulon’s resting place. They track him to the Bodega Bay Inn.
1986 AD- Gallagher takes control of the hotel and begins renovating, searching for
Toulon’s hidden work. He kills the former owners and uses them as test subjects.
1988 AD- Gallagher discovers Toulon’s trunk and begins to study his writings and
procedures.
PUPPET MASTER-
1989 AD- Gallagher kills himself and instructs the puppets to revive him. He sends a psychic signal to his colleagues, requesting them to meet him in Bodega Bay. His wife,
Megan Gallagher receives them and together they try to unravel the mystery of why her husband committed suicide. Meanwhile, Gallagher instructs the puppets to kill all of the psychics in order to preserve his discoveries. But when they realize that Gallagher’s loyalty is only to himself, the puppets turn on him and destroy him.
1990 AD- Whitaker returns to Connecticut, unaware that the puppets have followed him.
-Believing him to be a threat to their master’s secrets, they attempt to eliminate him like the others. But before they can, Whitaker escapes them and runs to the police. But his ravings only land him in an institution.
-Found by an antique collector, the puppets are rounded up and brought across the country to flea market after flea market until they’re discovered and purchased by
Doctor Magrew. And brought to his House of Marvels sideshow.
CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER-
1991 AD- Fascinated by the puppets, Magrew attempts to recreate the process, knowing nothing of Toulon’s actual procedures. After many failures, Magrew comes close when he meets
Robert, a gas station attendant who is a skilled wood carver. His daughter,
Jane, becomes very attached to Robert, but Magrew warns her not to. Because he plans to turn Robert into a puppet. Coming close to realizing his goal, Magrew becomes mad with power and orders the puppets to eliminate everyone in his way. Feverish and delirious, Robert finishes carving his puppet,
Tank, and his spirit is absorbed into it. Furious that they were used, Tank and the other puppets turn against Magrew and kill him.
1992 AD- Tank stays with Jane Magrew to protect her, and the other puppets return to Bodega Bay, inspired by the failure of their last master to take drastic action.
1993 AD- Realizing that no one can properly lead them except their creator, the puppets use the last of their formula to resurrect Andre Toulon. However, Toulon had not planned for this and his soul is not in this rotting body. What they unwittingly bring to life is nothing more than Toulon’s corpse with some twisted memories lingering in his rotten brain.
-The Biotech Corporation begins work on Project Omega, doing research on developing artificial intelligence. Early on, scientists
Lawrence Jennings,
Carlton Baker and
Leslie Piper are assigned to the project. Their progress is slow, but still disturbs Sutekh and leads him to believe that his secrets may have escaped the grave after all. He gathers the Watchers and sends them to scour the world for Toulon’s puppets.
PUPPET MASTER II: HIS UNHOLY CREATIONS-
1994 AD- Trusting Toulon implicitly, the puppets immediately carry out his evil order to kill Megan Gallagher and harvest her brain matter for formula. Taking command of the hotel, just as the government sends a team to investigate Alex Whitaker’s claims, the zombie Toulon kills them all to use for his formula. To aid them, he creates a flame-throwing puppet named
Torch by summoning a spirit of fire. As he carries out his bloody campaign, his decaying brain mistakes
Carolyn Bramwell for the reincarnation of Ilsa, and he hatches a plot to use the new formula to grant he and her immortality. Leech Woman is burnt to death in a stove and Tunneler is beaten into a coma with the base of a lamp. Getting wind of Toulon’s plot and coming to understand that the walking corpse is no more their master than those who tried to control them before him, the remaining puppets hide the formula and work together to destroy the wraith forever.
1995 AD- With three unworthy masters behind them, Leech Woman missing and
Tunneler apparently dead, the puppets decide to cut their losses and return to sleep. Six Shooter, Torch, Jester, and Pinhead return to the trunk with Tunneler’s body, and Blade locks them in, watching over the hotel.
1996 AD- The Bodega Bay Inn is reopened and the owners are unaware of the puppets' presence. While the others sleep, Toulon’s spirit appears to Blade and explains that what they brought back was not he. He has been away and has chosen a new master for them. A worthy master who will visit them shortly.
PUPPET MASTER IV: THE DEMON-
1996 AD- Not long after Toulon’s visit,
Rick Meyers becomes the caretaker of the Bodega Bay Inn during the off-season. Doing development for the Biotech Corporation, Rick uses the solitude of the hotel to work in peace. There, he discovers the locked trunk and revives the puppets. Reading through Toulon’s journal, he begins to understand that the Puppet Master’s secrets hold the key to Project Omega’s success. But, unbeknownst to him, the Watchers have sent their Totems to assassinate the heads of his division, in order to prevent them from discovering his secrets. Blackheart tracks the puppets to the Bodega Bay and sends the Totems there to destroy the Puppet Master and his creations once and for all. Explaining to Rick that he has been chosen, Toulon instructs him to awaken Decapitron. Only the power of Toulon’s mightiest puppet will be a match for Sutekh’s minions. The Watchers, now in the form of the Totems, storm the hotel and attempt to destroy everyone they can find, but Decapitron and the puppets manage to defeat them all.
PUPPET MASTER V: THE FINAL CHAPTER-
1996 AD- With several people dead and all evidence pointing to Rick, he is arrested for murder but is bailed out by Dr. Jennings. Hearing Rick’s story, Jennings decides to investigate these puppets himself, and breaks into the hotel with some thugs. Fearing what Biotech will do with them, Rick returns to collect the puppets and bring them to safety. But, enraged by the defeat of his Watchers, Sutekh takes it upon himself to end this once and for all. Taking the form of the
Master Totem, he crosses over from the Underworld and kills everyone he can find, absorbing their energy. Decapitron is awakened once more and prevents Jennings from apprehending the puppets just in time to confront Sutekh. Foolishly squandering his power, Sutekh becomes vulnerable and Toulon and the puppets combine their strength to destroy him forever. After that, Rick continues to care for the puppets, finally free of Sutekh and his dark servants’ pursuit.
PUPPET MASTER: THE LEGACY-
1999- The story gets royally screwed. Period.
PUPPET MASTER VS. DEMONIC TOYS-
??- Corey Feldman, claiming to be a descendant of Andre Toulon, puts some powder in his hair and breathes through his mouth until he sounds like George Burns. Then he and his teenage daughter get some crappy-looking versions of the puppets to fight some crappy-looking versions of the Demonic Toys. Then a demon in a Santa Claus costume laughs, a guy’s head explodes and a bunch of people speak with bad voice-overs. That’s pretty much it.
