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Perhaps the strangest coincidence is that even in its infancy, this decade has witnessed a lot of blasts from the past. Hasbro has launched [[The Hub]], a TV channel featuring updates of many iconic franchises from [[The Eighties]], such as ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' (which gained a '''major''' [[Peripheral Demographic]] fandom that ''no one'' saw coming) and ''[[Transformers Prime]]''. Starting in 2010, Cartoon Network started airing more TV-PG shows such as ''[[Adventure Time]]'' and ''[[Regular Show]]'', both of which were enjoyed by not only older kids, but people who were kids in [[The Nineties]] (now in their college years and a bit beyond) and also people who were kids in [[The Eighties]] (now full-grown adults) due to their refrences to [[The Eighties]] and their slight similarity to cartoon shows from [[The Nineties]] such as ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]''. The channel also began airing a 2011 reboot of ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats]]''. [[Retro Studios]] has revived the beloved ''[[Donkey Kong Country (video game)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' series from [[The Nineties]] for a [[Donkey Kong Country Returns|new installment]]. The [[Kunio-Kun]] series, too, looks to be on the verge of revival. ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' has opened [[The Nineties]] up as the new nostalgic decade, a testament to how time has passed. [[Paul Reubens]] revived the ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]'' stage show and announced that he wants to do another Pee Wee movie, while [[The Muppets]] made a [[The Muppets (film)|big-screen comeback bid]] after verging on [[Deader Than Disco]] at the [[Turn of the Millennium]]. Two iconic franchises of [[The Sixties]] have also been revived on the big screen (''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' and ''[[Rise of the Planet of the Apes]]'') after a long period of being misbegotten and left in the dust. Even ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' has been released! (''[[Cue the Flying Pigs]]''!)

 

 

This latter explanation is not surprising, given that manned exploration never ventured past Earth's orbit again since the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Apollo program]], the Columbia shuttle disintegrated after two decades of service and the whole shuttle program was recently retired with no evident replacement at sight, which leaves only the venerable Soyuz capsules, active [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong|since the late 60s]], to manage an increasingly [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|budget-shrinking]] International Space Station. The impression held in [[The Seventies]] that by the turn of the century mankind would be roaming at Mars' sands seems now [[I Want My Jetpack|dreadfully far, far away]]. On the other hand, ''commercial'' exploration of space has turned out to be a rather good investment for NASA, with no less than ''five'' separate manned capsules (NASA's Orion, SpaceX Dragon, Boeing CTS-100, Sierra Nevada Dream Catcher, and some unspecified capsule by Blue Origin) four human-rated launch vehicles (human-rated versions of the existing Delta IV and Atlas V; Falcon 9; and the Space Launch System), and two unmanned resupply vessels (the aforementioned Dragon in its cargo configuration, plus the Orbital Sciences Cygnus) under development for deployment some time between now and the early 2020s. Of these, Orion and Dragon are capable of going beyond Low Earth Orbit--and potentially to Mars--while the rest are to be LEO ferries. The era of commercial space transport can be fairly said to have begun some time in 2012, when the Dragon completed testing--including the all-important retrieval <ref> As [[The Daily Show]]'s Jon Stewart said to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, (paraphrased): "There are four entities which have sent something into orbit and then retrieved it intact. These four are the Soviet Union/Russia, the United States, the People's Republic of China...[[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others|and Elon Musk"]]</ref>.--and began operations (first flight to the ISS: 7 May 2012, in cargo configuration). Last but not least, a consortium of super-rich entrepreneurs (among them, [[James Cameron]]) have started a company aimed at [[wikipedia:Planetary Resources|mining asteroids]]. If anything, it might be said to be the decade in which space became no longer exclusive to nations, but became the domain of the private company. This is expected to continue into the 2020s.

* ''[[The Borgias]]''

* ''[[Breakout Kings]]''

* ''[[Burn Notice: the Fall of Sam Axe]]''

* ''[[Call Me Fitz]]''

** ''[[Tokumei Sentai Gobusters]]''

** ''[[Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger]]''

* ''[[Terriers]]''

* ''[[Top Gear US]]''

* ''[[Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril]]''

* ''[[BlazBlue: Continuum Shift]]''

* ''[[Borderlands 2]]''

* ''[[Brawl Busters]]''

* ''[[Darkspore]]''

* ''[[DC Universe Online]]''

* ''[[Disgaea]]''

** ''Sam And Max: The Devil's Playhouse'' (2010)

* ''[[Sega Superstars|Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing]]''

* ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]''

* ''[[Shinobi (series)|Shinobi]]'' series