Trope 2000: Difference between revisions

== [[Music and Sound Effects]] ==

* One of the band Silverchair's bigger hits was the single ''"Anthem for the year 2000"'', which seemed to be a bit of a hit out against governments that promised to fix things in the medium to long term future.

* Hum's first album was ''Elektra 2000''

* The [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]] single ''Expo 2000'', filled with repeating soundbytes of different voices saying "the twenty-first century" throughout.

* Gruntilda of ''[[Banjo Kazooie (Video Game)|Banjo Kazooie]]'' has a broom called the Lardmaster 2000.

* The first ''[[Sim City (Video Game)|Sim City]]'' sequel, ''[[Sim City]] 2000'' (1994). The next game followed the theme with ''Sim City 3000'' (1999), but it was later dropped with 2003's ''Sim City 4''.

* The Poltergust 3000 from ''[[Super Mario Bros|Luigi's Mansion]]'', as well as [[Punny Name|Professor E. Gadd's]] later Poltergust models.

* [[BFG]] 9000 in ''[[Doom (Video Game)|Doom]]'' and BFG ''10000'' in ''[[Quake II (Video Game)|Quake II]]''.

== Real Life ==

* Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.

* The Eurofighter Typhoon was known as the EF 2000 for a while.

** It started out as "Jäger 90" (Hunter 90, fighter [aircraft] 90) in Germany.

** The Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle

** The CZ 2000 weapon system

* In 1999, the Hostess company released ''Twinkies 2000'' to the store shelves. They weren't alone; [http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=19991212&uc_comic=su several processed foodstuffs] had special millennium-branded releases that year.

* The Northern German holiday resort Ostseebad [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp,_Germany Damp], built in the early [[The Seventies|70s]], used to be named Damp 2000 originally.

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