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{{quote|''"103 years have passed since I have been specially summoned. It would have been wonderful if this happened 3 years earlier, but ...ah, never mind."''|''' {{spoiler|Ronnie}}''', ''[[Baccano!]]!''}}
{{quote|''"I guess they thought that humanity would take a few more decades before we would have robots that [[Bee-Bee Gun|shoot bees]].''"|[[The Spoony One]], on ''[[Mega Man 9]]'s'' bee shooting weapon. }}
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* ''Space Pirate [[Captain Harlock]]'' aired in 1977 and begins in the year 2977, yet somehow we'll still be using huge computers and landlines for the next millennium or so.
* The plotline of [[Tenchi Muyo!]] has copious amounts of backstory going back for millenia; however, ALL the big important events seem to have happened a round number of years ago. To name just a few: Ryoko was imprisoned for 700 years, Ayeka and Sasami have been in cold sleep for just as long. Washu is 20,000 years old, and Kagato betrayed her 5,000 years ago.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] with the above page quote from ''[[Baccano!]]!''.
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** But the recent [[Ultimate Universe]]-style miniseries/series of one-shots was published in 2009, and made much of the time difference being exactly 90 years.
* ''[[Marvel 1602]]''.
* The 1965-66 stories about a future [[Superman]] were set in 2965-66 ([[Retcon|or, when someone on the reprint staff noticed this totally contradicted the Legion, 2465-66]].)
== Films ==
* The ''[[Back to The Future]]'' [[Movies]] start in 1985, go back thirty years to 1955, jump forward thirty years to 2015, and go all the way back a hundred years to 1885.
** The original jump was at least justified in that Doc Brown selects 1955 as the date he invented time travel. Going forward to 2015, at the end of the movie, was given as a nice round number, after originally intending to go 25 years instead.
*** Though one could say that Doc Brown only selected these dates because the ''writers'' decided it would be Exty Years From Now.
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* [[Lost in Space]], particularly the original series, was set in 1997.
** Amusingly, this didn't stop one or two set-on-Earth scenes from featuring horse-drawn carts and the like.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' seems to exist for this trope. The number of times a story has been set exactly a whole number of decades (or centuries) in the past or future are too numerous to count. However, there are exceptions.
** The vast majority of these exceptions are when the story in question was a historical piece; for instance, the Crusades, the French Revolution, the fall of Rome, the Battle of Hastings, etc;.
** Some were just when the year was a round number in itself, though these are even fewer and further between. The Ark (original airdate: 1965) was set in the year 10 Million AD.
*** One definite subversion was in the serial "Trial of a Timelord" (original airdate: 1986) - in the first segment, no exact date was given; the second segment was explicitly stated as being set in 2379, however the third segment was set in 2986, which plays the trope straight.
*** "The End of the World" does label the date...as "5.5/Apple/26", and puts it 5 billion years into Earth's future. Where they've presumably put inanimate objects into the numeric system.
** "The Waters of Mars" was meant to take place fifty years ''to the day'' after the airdate. It was out by six days.
** Russ Davies seemed fond of round-numbered years, setting two of his stories in AD 200000 and 200100 respectively. He also "clarified" at some point that the year "5.5/Apple/26" was ''exactly'' AD 5000000000.
* In ''[[Starstuff]],'' Ingrid lives 30 years in Chris's future.
* Averted in ''[[Buck Rogers in The 25th Century]]'' -- the titular astronaut remains frozen for 504 years.
* Averted in ''[[Lexx]]'', where the prologue to the first movie takes place 2,008 years before the rest, and the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 is 4,332 years. The dialogue falls into this trope though, since both those numbers are given in their exact value once, then rounded to the nearest thousand each time it's mentioned later (and they're mentioned a ''lot'').
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