History Main / RidiculousFutureSequelisation

* ''Manga/SandLand'' had Rao offer Belz a [[Platform/PlayStation PlayStation 6]] and ''[[Franchise/DragonQuest Dragon Quest XVI]]''[[note]]The most recent of either at the time were the Platform/PlayStation2 and ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII''[[/note]] in exchange for helping him find the Phantom Lake.

* Mocked to hell and back in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'', by the creator of the games himself no less; one of the minigames introduced in Update 2 is ''FNAF 57: Freddy in Space'' (itself based off an April Fool's joke on Scott's webpage), a side-scrolling shooter when the antagonist is Scott Cawthon[[spoiler:'s head]] himself, listing off a number of ridiculous sequels and spin-offs (including ''FNAF 61: Freddy vs Bonnie'', said to be the start of the Freddy Cinematic Universe). Considering FNAF has done spectacularly well for an indie franchise made by one guy, [[note]]nearly 20 games (counting spin-offs), [[Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023 a film]], [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes a trilogy of novels]] and [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights two children's anthologies]], and a '''lot''' of merchandise and fan games[[/note]], it is almost certainly SelfDeprecation.

* Mocked to hell and back in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'', by the creator of the games himself no less; one of the minigames introduced in Update 2 is ''FNAF 57: VideoGame/FreddyInSpace'' (itself based off an April Fool's joke on Scott's webpage), a side-scrolling shooter when the antagonist is Scott Cawthon[[spoiler:'s head]] himself, listing off a number of ridiculous sequels and spin-offs (including ''FNAF 61: Freddy vs Bonnie'', said to be the start of the Freddy Cinematic Universe). Considering FNAF has done spectacularly well for an indie franchise made by one guy, [[note]]nearly 20 games (counting spin-offs), [[Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023 a film]], [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes a trilogy of novels]] and [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights two children's anthologies]], and a '''lot''' of merchandise and fan games[[/note]], it is almost certainly SelfDeprecation.

* Mocked to hell and back in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'', by the creator of the games himself no less; one of the minigames introduced in Update 2 is FNAF 57: Freddy in Space (itself based off an April Fool's joke on Scott's webpage), a side-scrolling shooter when the antagonist is Scott Cawthon[[spoiler:'s head]] himself, listing off a number of ridiculous sequels and spin-offs (including ''FNAF 61: Freddy vs Bonnie'', said to be the start of the Freddy Cinematic Universe). Considering FNAF has done spectacularly well for an indie franchise made by one guy [[note]]six games (including World itself and ''[[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]]''), [[Film/FiveNightsAtFreddys2023 a film]] in the works, [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes a book]], and a '''lot''' of merchandise and fan games[[/note]], it is almost certainly SelfDeprecation.

* Lil B, "Video Game Master" mentions ''[[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tekken 8]]'', which can't be too far off. (The arcade version of ''Tekken 7'' was released in March 2015, with the console port released in 2017.)

* In a German novel called ''2049'', set in that year, the protagonists see an ad for ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- the fourth trilogy. At the time this was a joke since ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' was meant to be the last one, but since Disney started making more...

* In ''Film/RealSteel'', there is a promo for the [[http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/hardware/xbox-360/images/6338377/1/?path=2011%2F277%2Fxbox720realsteel_97340_screen.jpg&caption=The%2BXbox%2B720%2Bad%2Bis%2Bvisible%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bright%2Bside%2Bof%2Bthis%2Bshot%2Bof%2Bthe%2Brobot%2Bboxing%2Barena.&blog=1&cvr=43E0 Xbox 720]], as it was probably supposed to be the next Xbox after the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, it ended up being an underestimate if anything: the movie is set in 2020 but the UsefulNotes/XboxOne came out in Fall 2013, with its successor the Xbox Series X being announced in late 2019.

-->'''Yahtzee:''' "Once your budget hits seven digits you're supposed to make Gun Battle Slap Fight Thirty-Seven for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Twelve...!"

** Episode 96: The ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' sequels ''Lester the Unlikely 2'' (Lester pulls down his pants, sucks his thumb and takes a shit), ''Lester the Unlikely 3'' (Cannot get past the title screen. Push start, and Lester falls down and farts), ''Lester the Unlikely 4'' on the SNES (doesn't work at all, causes the SNES to explode), ''Lester the Unlikely 5'' (Not a game. A bag of shit), and ''Lester the Unlikely'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 (Disc made of orangutang diarrhea).

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when the [=PlanEx=] crew meet the Music/BeastieBoys. The Boys' later albums are all separated by several years, but this takes it further.

* ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'' is set in the 853rd Century, on the date that ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' #1000000 (their oldest property) would be published. Despite being the source of the title of the series, this fact never comes up in the story line. What makes this case unique is that it actually is sold to the public '''in real life.'''
* In a ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story, Dredd visits the long-since abandoned New York Times Square. A movie theatre advertises ''Franchise/{{Rocky}} 37'' and ''Film/MadMax 25''.
* ''ComicBook/AntMan2022'': The InfoDump at the beginning of issue 4 mentions a "''Mighty Thor''" issue #4774, published roughly in the 25th century.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C89jht89ln8 This]] early UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 commercial predicts that the [=PlayStation=] 9 will be coming in 2078.

[[caption-width-right:300:This poster is seen in 2027. That means there's four years left and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI eleven more games to go]]. Hurry up, Creator/SquareEnix!]]

* A ''National Geographic Kids'' article from the TurnOfTheMillennium started off with a short story showing the reader as an adult in the 2030s. The reader’s children are said to be watching [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter’s Children: Episode 6]] before school.

** The 2003 novel ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheLastResort The Last Resort'', following the release of the fifth numbered ''Star Wars'' film, has the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz watching "all nine" ''Star Wars'' films in the 2040s. Then in the 2007 novel ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresForeverAutumn Forever Autumn]]'', strongly hints that Creator/GeorgeLucas, who was apparently influenced telepathically by Jar Jar Binks, oversaw the completion of all of them, commenting that he was "way off the mark" by [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Episode IX]]; at that point in real life Lucas had pretty much ruled out doing a third trilogy, then he sold the franchise to Disney. Ultimately, the saga of nine films was concluded in 2019, with a few other films set in the ''Star Wars'' universe too.

* ''Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}'':
** The spin-off novel ''[[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison]]'', published a year before ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' concluded its seven-season run in 2003, established that the show would be in its 792nd season by the year 2600.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', set in 2027, has a poster for a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy XXVII'', a nod to Eidos' then-recent acquisition by Creator/SquareEnix. Though the game was set 16 years in the future and released the same year at ''Final Fantasy XIV'', so the number wasn't really "impossible" back then, just ''a lot faster'' than they'd been coming out. [[labelnote:Note]]At the time in 2011 they averaged 3 games per console generation (said generations last approximately 5-6 years). However, massive delays, cost overruns, scope creep, and eventual project cancellations related to ''FFXV'' (which released in late 2016) slowed development of ''Final Fantasy'' mainline games to a crawl, and it would take another seven years until 2023 for ''FFXVI'' to release. At this rate, we would be very lucky to get a hypothetical ''FFVII'' by 2027, a full ten games fewer than what ''Human Revolution'' over-confidently predicted[[/labelnote]]

* In ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'', the line "Have you played ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV''? I'm still having trouble with ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII''" was changed to reference ''Super Mario Bros. 7'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''.

* A sketch of ''The Impressionable Jon Culshaw'', broadcast in 2004, predicted that the Creator/{{ITV}} network on which it aired would have its ninth numbered channel broadcasting to the lunar and Martian colonies by 2050, at a time when it only had two numbered channels and a handful of unnumbered affiliates. Later that year, [=ITV3=] was launched, followed by [=ITV4=] the next year, which remains the highest numbered ITV channel to this day while a few unnumbered channels have came and gone over the years.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dreamkiller}}'' has a stage where you're sent to the distant future and fighting monsters in an abandoned movie theater. One of the posters seen is that of ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' '''29'''.
* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' You can find a newspaper ad for ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} 13''... with Music/JustinBieber as Drake.

* The Hong Kong parody film, ''Film/FutureCops'', opens in a BadFuture several decades after the film's release (1993), with a shot of a broken-down theater advertising ''Fight Back To School 90''.

* ''Doctor Who''
** The spin-off novel ''Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison'', published a year before ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' concluded its seven-season run in 2003, established that the show would be in its 792nd season by the year 2600.
** The 2003 novel ''The Last Resort'', following the release of the fifth numbered ''Star Wars'' film, has the Eighth Doctor's companion Fitz watching "all nine" ''Star Wars'' films in the 2040s. Then in the 2007 novel ''Forever Autumn'', strongly hints that Creator/GeorgeLucas, who was apparently influenced telepathically by Jar Jar Binks, oversaw the completion of all of them, commenting that he was way off the mark "way off the mark" by [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker Episode IX]]; at that point in real life Lucas had pretty much ruled out doing a third trilogy, then he sold the franchise to Disney. Ultimately, the saga of nine films was concluded in 2019, with a few other films set in the ''Star Wars'' universe too.
** The 2007 novel ''Peacemaker'' has the Tenth Doctor offer to show Martha Jones ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean VI''. The novel was published following the release of the third film.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', set in 2027, has a poster for a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy XXVII'', a nod to Eidos' then-recent acquisition by Creator/SquareEnix. Though the game was set 16 years in the future and released the same year at ''Final Fantasy XIV'', so the number wasn't really "impossible" back then, just ''a lot faster'' than they'd been coming out. [[labelnote:Note]]At the time in 2011 they averaged 3 games per console generation (said generations last approximately 5-6 years). However, massive delays, cost overruns, and eventual project cancellations related to ''FFXV'' slowed development of ''Final Fantasy'' mainline games to a crawl, and it would take until 2023 for ''FFXVI'' to release. At this rate, we would be very lucky to get FFVII by 2027, a full ten games fewer than what ''Human Revolution'' over-confidently predicted[[/labelnote]]

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', set in 2027, has a poster for a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy XXVII'', a nod to Eidos' then-recent acquisition by Creator/SquareEnix. Though the game was set 16 years in the future and released the same year at ''Final Fantasy XIV'', so the number wasn't really "impossible" back then, just ''a lot faster'' than they'd been coming out. [[labelnote:Note]]At the time they averaged 3 games per console generation. Approx 5 years. Being generous they could have been promoting XXV in that time frame. [[/labelnote]]