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'''The Future''' is where much of "hard" science fiction takes place. The various ''[[Star Trek]]s'' are set here, as are ''[[Babylon 5]]'', ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers In The 25th Century]]'', ''[[Firefly]]'', you name it.
In The Future everything might get worse or better ([[The Future Will Be Better]]).
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* ''[[Guilty Crown]]'' is set in 2039, where a mysterious virus known as "Apocalypse Virus" is spreading. It does, however, blend over with traditional fantasy at times, as the protagonist is able to draw out people's personalities to use them as weapons. Some are more useful than others, though. This power also becomes the cause of some literal [[Fridge Brilliance]], in episode 3.
* [[Aria]] takes place in the 24th Century on the planet Aqua, formerly known as Mars before terraforming transformed it into a water-covered paradise.
* One of the oneshots in the manga ''Robot: Super Color Comic'' takes place in The Future. It's not known how far into the future however humans have long since began living in tall towers, one of the protagonists has apparently never seen wild birds, [[Sailor Fuku]] are no longer worn, and crepes have apparently changed in style (if they aren't nonexistent).
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'' undermines the popular ideas about the future. Life does not get better, nor do we have an [[After the End]] scenario. Instead, selective breeding for stupidity has caused The Future to be actually much worse than the present, but not in a [[Mad Max]] way. The idea came from the '50's short story "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth, which did not receive a credit.
* ''[[Mr. Nobody]]'' takes place in 2092, which is fairly utopian in that ''senescence and death have been eliminated'' through medical technology. The titular protagonist is, at age 118, the last "mortal" human.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Firefly]]'' took place in the early 26th century (the pre-title montage indicates "2517 A.D.") in which Earth (known to everyone as [[Earth-That-Was]]) was stripped of all resources in a mass exodus to [[terraform]]ed planets outside the solar system.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is set in the 2250 and 2260s.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' of course, where [[Humans Are Special]]—so special in fact that they've created ''the'' [[The Federation|United Federation of Planets]] with [[Earth Is the Centre of The Universe|Earth as the capital planet]] which (as far as the residents of the federation are concerned) is a near perfect society.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** But no range finders (only available to a select group of religious fundies), laser designators (Only the Tau have them), or close in air support, just war.
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* [[Halo]] The main trilogy takes place in 2552.
** Bungie's other FPS trilogy, ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' is set in 2794.
* [[Metroid]] uses an alternate calendar, but it's pretty obvious.
* [[Xenosaga]] The human race switched to TC (Transend Christ) in 2510. The first game itself takes place in the year 4767, or A.D. 7277.
* [[Xenogears]] takes place in A.D. 17276-17277, on a distant planet.
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* "[[Aeon Flux]]", though no real time is indicated, and the setup itself seems to change episode to episode.
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' takes place mainly in 2039. The prologue of the first episode takes place in 2019.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is set in the 22nd century (the exact date is never given).
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' supposedly takes place 1000+ years from our time, so it's somewhere in the 3000's.
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