History Main / TheFuture

* Creator/DCComics's 1980's miniseries ''Conqueror of the Barren Earth'' was a spinoff of ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'', set in the far future when the sun has begun to swell to its red giant stage.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', in the 2021 incarnation of the show, ''Berry in the Big City'', the settings are takes place in hundreds of years after the 2009 series.

* Creator/MarvelComics's answer to the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes was the original [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (not be confused with their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] namesake, which is set in the present day). Eventually, it was established via RetCon that this was the future of a ParallelUniverse, and not the Franchise/MarvelUniverse proper.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] hero ComicBook/TommyTomorrow was a denizen of the far future.

* ''Literature/AckAckMacaque'' by Gareth L. Powell and ''Literature/{{Darwinia}}'' by Robert Charles Wilson both take place in virtual life simulations for [[BrainUpload uploaded minds]] inside a NighInvulnerable computer system in the Heat Death of the universe.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's Empire-''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' novels take place in a galactic civilization so old that concepts like the laws of thermodynamics are considered to be "prehistoric" in origin. The origin of the human species is unknown; characters speculate on which part of the galaxy the oldest settlements are in, and some scientists propose that humans evolved independently on thousands of different worlds. Earth ''does'' eventually turn out to be the home of the human race, but this never becomes common knowledge. [[spoiler:The first book takes place about 25,000 years from now.]]

* Creator/MarvelComics's answer to the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes was the original [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (not be confused with their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks Modern Age]] namesake, which is set in the present day). Eventually, it was established via RetCon that this was the future of a ParallelUniverse, and not the MarvelUniverse proper.

* The ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' universe is set over ''ten thousand'' years into the future. The intervening years are covered in the timeline in a fair amount of detail, and Earth is more or less a wildlife preserve/ historical landmark.

** 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 endless ground-based war. If it ends on one planet, it begins on the other.

* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' undermines the most popular ideas about the future. Life does not get any better, nor do we have any AfterTheEnd scenario. Instead, selective breeding for stupidity has caused The Future to be actually much ''worse'' than the present, but not in a ''Film/MadMax'' way. The idea came from the '50's short story "The Marching Morons" by Creator/CMKornbluth, which did not receive ''any'' credit.

* ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'' takes place five hundred years in the future, specifically 2531, where technology has advanced to a point that planetary colonisation and interstellar spaceflight is anything but a possible reality. In a sense of irony, it is how Earth's decline came to be, as Earth's humans have colonised other planets, leaving no reason for Earth to be still considered as humanity's home planet. In addition all animals [[spoiler:in Tetsunagi]] are now bipedal and have had human sapience, which makes them barely distinguishable from their non-sapient animalistic ancestors.

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* ''ComicBook/TheMetabarons'' takes place with Othon's story at 29892 A.D. according to the ''[[TheRolePlayingGame Metabarons: Universe Guide]]'', though the start of the setting was actually 1795 AD with the [[AlternateTimeline Marie-Antoinette's son getting swapped]] with the son of a former nurse-maid.