History Main / TenThousandYears

* Creator/JohnNorman's ''Literature/{{Gor}}'': Years on the planet Gor are measured by locally significant events such as Year X of King Y's reign. For the sake of stability, many locations also date their years in ''CA'', "Contassa Ar" or "from the founding of Ar", Gor's largest city-state. In the first book, it is 10,110 CA.

* Creator/JohnNorman's ''Literature/{{Gor}}'': Years on the planet Gor are measured by locally significant events such as Year X of King Y's reign. For the sake of stability, many locations also date their years in ''CA'', "Contassa Ar" or "from the founding of Ar" (Gor's largest city-State). In the first book, it is 10,119 CA.

Creators will sometimes sometimes try to make it sound like something is positively ancient by stating that it is ten thousand years old. One common example is the supposed sinking of Main/{{Atlantis}}. Many cultures have a distinct word for ten thousand that is often used to refer to any indefinite large number -- in English, for example, it's "myriad". Currently, the development of agriculture is estimated as having occurred ten thousand years ago. And the earliest example of print is much younger than 8,000 BC.

* First Comics' ''ComicBook/{{Mars}}'' by Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel has the advance team of terraformers lose contact with Earth, and decide to let their robots reshape the planet Mars on automatic while they place themselves in stasis pods for ten thousand years, in hopes that Mars will be habitable by then.

* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' currently covers up to 10,600 years of the future.

[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} ...will give ya such a crick in the neck!]]

Creators will sometimes sometimes try to make it sound like something is positively ancient by stating that it is ten thousand years old. One common example is the supposed sinking of Main/{{Atlantis}}. Many cultures have a distinct word for 10,000 that is often used to refer to any indefinite large number -- in English, for example, it's "myriad". Currently, the development of agriculture is estimated as having occurred ten thousand years ago. And the earliest example of print is much younger than 8,000 BC.

** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The number 10,000 is used in many different contexts as a stand-in for the infinite. For example, Wan Shi Tong, the guardian of the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Spirit Library]], describes himself as "he who knows ten thousand things" (which is, in fact, the [[MeaningfulName translation of his name]]).
** In the sequel series, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Harmonic Convergence is an event that occurs once every 10,000 years. During this the spirit of light Raava and the spirit of darkness Vaatu battle to decide whether the next 10,000 years will be those of light or [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt those of darkness]]. Vaatu also claims Harmonic Convergence is something they've expected at least 10,000 times.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode with WesternAnimation/{{Jeannie}} and Babu, the evil djinn had Jeannie trapped behind a glass wall. She told her friends that he intended to keep her there for 10,000 years.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Calamity Ganon was sealed away for 10,000 years by a previous Link and Zelda. The Sheikah tribe developed advanced {{Magitek}} that proved useful in the battle against Ganon. But the other people of Hyrule feared that the Sheikah might turn against them with that same technology and thus forbade them from continuing to use it.

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* Creator/FrankHerbert's ''{{Franchise/Dune}}'': The series begins in the year 10,191 AG, after the Spacing Guild was founded and the Imperium established.

* Creator/JohnNorman's ''{{Literature/Gor}}'': Years on the planet Gor are measured by locally significant events such as Year X of King Y's reign. For the sake of stability, many locations also date their years in ''CA'', "Contassa Ar" or "from the founding of Ar" (Gor's largest city-State). In the first book, it is 10,119 CA.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': You [[spoiler:encounter a droid on Dantooine that claims to be the remnant of an ancient empire. When you ask how long it's been there, its answer indicates at least 20,000 years, long before the Republic came into existence...]] [[SubvertedTrope Except]], as established in the original ''Star Wars'', the Republic was founded over twenty-one millennia before the time of ''Knights of the Old Republic''. Somebody's mind slipped here, whether in-universe or out.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Calamity Ganon was sealed away for 10,000 years by a previous Link and Zelda.

* ''{{VideoGame/Warcraft}}'': The first time the demonic Burning Legion invaded Azeroth was ten thousand years ago, during the War of the Ancients. This also became an important date for many related characters, including the entire night elven race (who were immortal and have been alive since then). Illidan Stormrage's time spent since the War of the Ancients was a little bit different and defines his character, as he had been imprisoned in a lightless prison since then. He tells us this himself during the cinematic:

* ''{{Webcomic/xkcd}}'': After Cueball issues a call for the sheeple to "wake up", his wish is granted literally in the form of sheep-headed men erupting from the ground:

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
** The number 10,000 is used in many different contexts as a stand-in for the infinite. For example, Wan Shi Tong, the guardian of the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Spirit Library]], describes himself as "he who knows ten thousand things" (which is, in fact, the [[MeaningfulName translation of his name]]).

->''"AHH! After ten thousand years, I'M FREE! It's time to CONQUER- EARTH!"''

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}''

Compare ThousandYearReign. May be a case of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale. For spans of time that are ''significantly'' longer, see TimeAbyss.

Compare ThousandYearReign. May be a case of SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.