History Series / FutureMan

''Future Man'' is a comedy web series produced by Creator/SethRogen and Evan Goldberg for Hulu released on November 14, 2017 [[https://www.hulu.com/future-man]]. The show follows loser janitor [[TheEveryman Josh Futturman]] (Creator/JoshHutcherson) as he sleepwalks through his life, working a dead-end job at medical research company Kronish Laboratories for crusading scientist Elias Kronish (Creator/KeithDavid), his only escape being the video game ‘’The Biotic Wars’’.

** Wolf is TheBigGuy. He also becomes TheLancer at certain points.

* FreeLoveFuture: In the future, sex is apparently so casual that it's just for "re-charging" before you go into battle. While Wolf and Tiger both say their sterile, there is a plot point that they aren't immune to [=STD=]s. However Tiger says that one of their comrades died from AIDS, perhaps due to all the casual sex. Prior to the last mission, there's an orgy.

* ChekovsGun:

* SterilityPlague: Thanks to Biotic's usage of nanite mist, the entire human race is incapable of reproduction that resulted in Tiger and Wolf being the youngest members of the resistance. In addition, Wolf freaked out at an infant for the first time. [[spoiler: This situation became somewhat moot since TheReveal of Biotics as humans with genetic therapy]].

''Future Man'' is a comedy web series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Hulu released on November 14, 2017 [[https://www.hulu.com/future-man]]. The show follows loser janitor [[TheEveryman Josh Futturman]] (Creator/JoshHutcherson) as he sleepwalks through his life, working a dead-end job at medical research company Kronish Laboratories for crusading scientist Elias Kronish (Creator/KeithDavid), his only escape being the video game ‘’The Biotic Wars’’.

* WholePlotReference: The plot of the series is a combination of ''Film/TheLastStarfighter'' (which Josh points out) and ''Franchise/Terminator''.

* CyanidePill: The Biotics' have small explosives implanted in their skulls which they detonate when the Resistance is close to capturing them alive. However Wolf has become quite good at disabling them before it happens.

* TakeThat: Creator/BillCosby and Creator/JamesCameron. Josh is shocked to learn in 1969 that the former joked about drugging women even back then. When his impression of Cosby makes one black student say he almost stopped liking him, Josh says "Get used to it". Cameron is portrayed as completely egotistical, having programmed his house AI to sing his praises in an over the top manner.

* MadScientist: Subverted with Elias Kronish. While the Resistance views him as such, as seen with his in universe video game appearance in "Biotic Wars" as Dr. Death, he is always presented as a morally conscious person who just wants to do good and help. [[spoiler: Even in the Bad!Future, where Josh initially thinks Kronish has become evil, Kronish willingly kills himself to prevent the Biotic Wars future from occuring.]]

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: When alone with a Biotic under interrogation, Josh gets a ''very'' different view of the future from their side. The Resistance were actively bombing hospitals and medical centers with civilian staff. There’s universal healthcare and a high standard of living. The only people who don’t want a part of it are those living underground and wildly uneducated about the most average social graces. [[spoiler:Josh still decides to side with the Resistance given his bond with the team, and since every Biotic we’d seen up to that point had screamed ‘Die, Resistance scum!’ it’s probably a safe bet there was still exaggeration on their part]]. Even so, they're shown to be pretty brutal. They willong kill anybody who gets in their way, unarmed civilians included. One plan they propose repeatedly is killing Kronish as a ''baby''. [[spoiler: Ultimately though Tiger can't go through with it. She and Wolf get much nicer over time with Josh as an influence too.]]

** Josh states specific actions that need to be avoided in the past, such as dressing anachronistically and drawing attention, or leaving artifacts from the future behind.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Time Travel Device runs on bio-fuel refined from life-forms discovered from deep, deep underwater, also known as Cameronium. [[spoiler:Because Creator/JamesCameron was the one who discovered it]].

* TheDanza: Josh Hutcherson as Josh Futturman.

* AndYouThoughtItWasAGame: Josh is chosen as the savior of humanity after he beats an unbeatable video game. He even points out that this is the exact same plot as The Last Starfighter, thus having difficulty believing Wolf and Tiger.

** That said, certain animal themed members are specialized in areas. Owl, TheSmartGuy, seemed to have been the team leader; Otter and Porpoise were the water team, with Cheetah helping too. Though all Cheetah did was splash around.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Time Travel Device runs on bio-fuel refined from life-forms discovered from deep, deep underwater, also known as Cameronium [[spoiler:because Creator/JamesCameron was the one who discovered it]].

* BottleEpisode: "Pandora's Mailbox" which takes place nearly entirely in the James Cameron Compound, or the J.C.C.

* CoitusUninterruptus: Tiger and Wolf "re-charging", they see no reason this should be a private activity.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Elias Kronish, the man who will create the [=SuperCure=] that sees the rise of the Biotics and brings about a Eugenics War... is really a polite, genuinely nice guy, who just wants to help people. Too bad his work inevitably screws over the rest of the world. [[spoiler:In the Bad!2017, he even created the [=SuperCure=] because his husband died from a staph infection.]]

** Josh regularly cites against doing specific things to mess up the timeline, calling it “[[Subject101 Time Travel 101]],” eventually this gets a BrickJoke with someone calling another trip-up, “Time Travel 102”.
** Anytime someone vaguely recalls seeing the team decades before causing anarchy, they are hazily remembered as “latinos.”

* ShoutOut: Many throughout the entire series. In the first episode alone, Josh compares the plot to the film/TheLastStarfighter.

* TraumaCongaLine: Officer Skarsgaard has to go and tell Officer Santiago’s wife he’s been killed in the line of duty. His ''pregnant'' wife. Whose in-laws are visiting from down south. It just gets worse from there.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: They unknowingly started the Loma Wildfire after blowing up their van.
* WholePlotReference: The plot of the series is a combination of The Last Starfighter (which Josh points out) and Terminator.

* WouldHurtAChild: All members of the Resistance apparently, especially Tiger. [[spoiler: This changes when she goes back to kill baby Kronish. She fully intended too but after learning about how his father died and how his mother would be devastated, she can't go through with it, and ends up becoming a nanny to him.]]
* YouCantFightFate: Certain things seem destined to come to pass: The majority of Tiger and Wolf’s team will die before the jump to 2017. Elias Kronish will live to 2017 and have done practically all the research needed to invent the [=SuperCure=]. Owl will be tortured and “wormed.”

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: When alone with a Biotic under interrogation, Josh gets a ''very'' different view of the future from their side. The Resistance were actively bombing hospitals and medical centers with civilian staff. There’s universal healthcare and standard of living. The only people who don’t want part of it, are those living underground and wildly uneducated about the most average social graces. [[spoiler:Josh still decides to side with the Resistance given his bond with the team, and since every Biotic we’d seen up to that point had screamed ‘die, Resistance scum!’ it’s probably a safe bet there was still exaggeration on their part]].

''Future Man'' is a comedy web series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Hulu released on November 14, 2017 [[https://www.hulu.com/future-man 1]]. The show follows loser janitor [[TheEveryman Josh Futturman]] (Creator/JoshHutcherson) as he sleepwalks through his life, working a dead-end job at medical research company Kronish Laboratories for crusading scientist Elias Kronish (Creator/KeithDavid), his only escape being the video game ‘’The Biotic Wars’’.

''Future Man'' is a comedy web series produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for Hulu released on November 14, 2017 [[[https://www.hulu.com/future-man 1]]]. The show follows loser janitor [[TheEveryman Josh Futturman]] (Creator/JoshHutcherson) as he sleepwalks through his life, working a dead-end job at medical research company Kronish Laboratories for crusading scientist Elias Kronish (Creator/KeithDavid), his only escape being the video game ‘’The Biotic Wars’’.

* ImmuneToPoison: As well as diseases, Biotics are all immune to poison. The characters take advantage of this by poisoning the food used in a special ball at Kronish Labs, which leaves all but the Biotics lying in a pool of their own vomit.

* FacelessGoons: Normally when we see the Biotics, they are wearing battle gear, with helmets obscuring their faces. In the game, they have hideous [[TheBlank blank faces]] underneath, heightening the dehumanizing aspects.

* FutureMeScaresMe: Bad!2017 has an opposite Josh (or rather, Joosh) and he is ‘’not’’ a pleasant person, though he is outwardly a highly successful e-sports celebrity.

* YouCantFightFate: Certain things seem destined to come to pass: The majority of Tiger and Wolf’s team will die before the jump to 2017. Elias Cronish will live to 2017 and have done practically all the research needed to invent the [=SuperCure=]. Owl will be tortured and “wormed.”

* CoitusUninteruptus: Tiger and Wolf "re-charging", they see no reason this should be a private activity.