History Main / TheFuture

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk 2020}}'' was initially set up in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2020]]. As that year is coming close, the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'', inspired by it, will take place in [[CaptainObvious 2077]].

* In the Franchise/DCUniverse, ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' live 1000 years in TheFuture of The DCU.

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, three millenia after Crystal Tokyo was founded in the 30th century, and a little over four millenia since the canon manga took place. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and the manga's canon timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

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* ''Series/BabylonFive'' is set in the 2250 and 2260s.

* ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'' is set in... "the World That's Coming!!!" Hailed these days as (appropriaately) ahead of its time, it was basically {{Cyberpunk}} before the genre properly existed.

* ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}''

'''The Future''' is typically 200-1000 years after the present time, but there are no real set limits, and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture has been popular at times. TheFuture differs from ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway by the presence of Earth--whether the show is set in San Francisco or whether Earth is a distant legend, there are always ties to Earth that make it significant in the show.

* Creator/MarvelComics's answer to the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} was the original [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (not be confused with their ModernAge 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.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk 2020}}'' was initially set up in the [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 2020]]. As that year is coming close, the videogame ''VideoGame/{{Cyberpunk 2077}}'', inspired by it, will take place in [[CaptainObvious 2077]].

* ''{{Metroid}}'' uses an alternate calendar, but it is still pretty obvious future, with PoweredArmor, space travel and more.

* ''VideoGame/{{F-Zero}}'' is set in the 26th Century.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is a vision of an advanced space age where humans have made contact with many civilized worlds. It is so elaborate that they have even formed a galactic alliance, with Earth as its center of operation. Along with this, Earth has evolved to be an idyllic society with as little major conflict upon it as possible. Also, aside from space travel, technological advancement is used as a source of convenience and comfort, which is perhaps the logical end to what it would become in the real future.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is a vision of an advanced space age where humans have made contact with dozens of different civilized worlds. It is so elaborate that they have even formed an alliance with different planets and developed a universal translator to make communication with any species they meet effortless. Along with this, Earth is a perfect society according to the visions of the shows' creators. Each series even shows a stepping up of technological achievements with each one showing them more advanced than the last, or according to the time periods in which the episodes are set. The exception is Star Trek: Enterprise, which is set before the original series.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has frequently delved into Earth's future, all the way to ''a hundred trillion years'' on, during which time the universe faces imminent collapse. It tends to show it as fairly or sometimes decidedly {{Dystopia}}n. (With Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} [[BroadStrokes not exactly set into stone]], though, the series has shown some fairly contradictory visions of the future which include two contradictory accounts of Earth's ultimate destruction. For the record, it supposedly happens in seven million years time. Though other stories place it at five billion years from now.) ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' regular and ''Who'' expatriate Captain Jack Harkness comes from approximately the year 5000.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' of course, where HumansAreSpecial-- so special in fact that they've created ''the'' [[TheFederation United Federation of Planets]] with [[EarthIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse Earth as the capital planet]] which (as far as the residents of the federation are concerned) is a near perfect society.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/book-of-potential The Book of Potential]] from TheWanderersLibrary is for stories set here.

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, many years after Crystal Tokyo was founded in the 30th century and the ending of the manga in the 20th. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and canon ''Manga/SailorMoon'''s timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, three centuries after the founding of Crystal Tokyo and four centuries after the canon manga. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and canon ''Manga/SailorMoon'''s timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, three centuries after the founding of Crystal Tokyo and six centuries after the canon manga. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and canon ''Manga/SailorMoon'''s timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

* ''WebComic/SailorMoonCosmosArc'' takes place in the 60th century, three centuries after the founding of Crystal Tokyo. [[note]] If you noticed the discrepancy between this and canon ''Manga/SailorMoon'''s timeline, that's a plot point.[[/note]]

* The ''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.

* [[MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''[[Toys/{{Starriors}} Starriors]]'' miniseries by Louise Simonson is set many centuries after solar flares have devastated the Earth.

* Any MarvelComics story featuring time travelers like Kang or Cable is likely to give glimpses of their respective future worlds. Notably, since Marvel (DependingOnTheWriter, anyway) subscribes to a "branching timeline" theory of time travel, these futures need not agree with one another.

* Marvel comics has {{Marvel2099}} which is a CyberPunk world inhabited by LegacyCharacter heroes. It's legal to sell dangerously addictive drugs and the CorruptCorporateExecutive types are even more ruthless. The future kind of sucks. But hey! There's also mass produced holograms and cool genetic engineering stuff!

* The ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series takes place in mid-26th century, the first game occurring in 2552.

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

* [[DCComics DC's]] ''ComicBook/ElectricWarrior'' by [[ComicBook/MoonKnight Doug Moench.]] Somewhat subverted in that we eventually learn [[spoiler: it certainly is the future, but it isn't Earth.]]
* MarvelComics's answer to the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}} was the original [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy (not be confused with their ModernAge 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.

* In the DCUniverse, ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' live 1000 years in TheFuture of TheDCU.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Battlefield}} Battlefield 2142]]'' is set from 2139-2145.