One Hundred Years Ahead (Russian: Сто лет тому вперёд) is a loose (bordering on In Name Only) adaptation of Kir Bulychev's novel of the same name from his Alice, Girl from the Future cycle, starring Darya Vereshchagina as Alice and released in theatres on April 18, 2024.
The film contains examples of:
- The Ace: Kira Seleznyova is an expert fighter. She also manages to blend in perfectly in the past, and, in her identity of Margarita Stepanovna, becomes a brilliant physics teacher and is awarded Teacher of the Year (a national-level award).
- Action Girl:
- Action Mom Kira Seleznyova is a leading agent of the galactic forces who is able to defeat Rat, the leader of the Piratic Alliance, despite the latter's time-traveling abilities, and holds off Jolly U, Rat's right-hand man and the "muscle" of the duo.
- Alice wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and does intensive exercises in martial arts. Although not at Kira's level yet, she is a pretty capable fighter.
- Adaptational Abomination: Werther in Guest from the Future is a human-looking biorobot. Here, he is a flying machine with no resemblance to humans.
- Adaptational Badass:
- In the books, Kira is an architect, and the one time she is anything beyond an extra, she is a case of Parents in Distress. Here, she is an expert fighter of the Galaxy's forces.
- Rat/Glot is only mentioned to be a great hypnotist in one book out of many — the one that served as basis for this film. However, at most, he is able to make people think he has a different appearance. Here, he can outright take control of another person's body in a voodoo-ish sense.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: In the book, Alice is a natural blonde. Here, her hair is dyed pink.
- Adaptational Heroism: Zig-zagged with Jolly U. He ends up the heroes' ally against a greater evil in the shape of Glot, which certainly never happened in the novel. However, it does happen, albeit on a smaller scale, in another novel in the series, but in it, both pirates join Alice's side, and the one getting wounded in the ensuing battle (although not fatally, unlike in this film) is Rat.
- Adaptational Job Change: A planned job change in this case. In the book, Alice explicitly states that she wants to be a cosmobiologist. Here, she wants to join the special forces.
- Adaptational Slimness:
- Jolly U is quite slender, which is a departure from his trademark Fat Bastard look.
- Fima is round-faced, but not nearly as fat as in the book.
- Adaptational Villainy: In the book, even at their very worst, the pirates targeted individual planets and never threatened the galaxy as a whole. Here, they led a war against the galaxy.
- Adapted Out:
- Nobody in the past save for Kolya and Fima has any counterpart in the novel.
- The mielophone, the central MacGuffin of the book's plot, doesn't appear either.
- Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Glot, the leader of the Piratic Alliance, is absolutely devoid of human emotions. His Dragon Jolly U is cheerful and talkative.
- Age Lift: From 6th-graders (aged around twelve) the main characters are turned into 11th-graders (aged around seventeen).
- Ascended Extra: Kira Seleznyova is rarely mentioned in the books and only has a somewhat prominent role in one of them, but she is a major character here.
- Bad Future: After Glot manages to ensure the pirates' conquest of Earth, the new future of the planet is a bleak Crapsack World with the population enslaved.
- Bittersweet Ending: The pirates are defeated, the good future is restored, and Kolya grows as a person and now has a much better relationship with his classmates, but he and Alice can never meet again.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: Glot, master hypnotist and skilled manipulator, is erased from existence because he can't resist a chance to gloat.
- Bully Turned Buddy: Nastya and Vit'ka, who used to bully Kolya, become Fire-Forged Friends with him over the course of the movie.
- Canon Foreigner: Kolya's classmates Nastya and Vit'ka have no counterparts in the book.
- Death by Adaptation: Both pirates are killed, which never happens in the novel or anywhere else in the book series, except for the ultimately retconned death of Jolly U in the first book he appears in.
- Faint in Shock: Kolya faints after Alice tells him it's the year 2124 and shows him the futuristic panorama.
- Lost in Imitation:
- Jolly U's partner-in-crime Rat is renamed Glot, like in The Mystery of the Third Planet.
- Like in Guest from the Future, Kolya's last name is Gerasimov instead of Naumov.
- Werther, a Canon Foreigner biorobot, first appeared in Guest from the Future (and later became a Canon Immigrant in the books).
- Love Dodecahedron: Kolya is in love with Nastya but later falls in love with Alice. Nastya, meanwhile, is in a relationship with Vit'ka but tries to switch to Kolya after he saves her life.
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: In the past, Glot makes sure Fima never makes the first contact with aliens, which leads to Earth being defenceless against the Piratic Alliance.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Glot never shares his power with Jolly U as promised, which leads to the latter turning against him. However, the fact itself works in Glot's favor.
- The Needs of the Many:
- Kira abandons her family and stays in the distant past for ten years rather than risk another galactic war.
- Later on, Kolya gives up the idea of a romance with Alice since the instability of time travel means there would always be a risk of another temporal catastrophe.
- Never the Selves Shall Meet: If two selves of the same person meet, it leads to their Cessation of Existence. This is how Glot is killed.
- Operation: Jealousy: Kolya's mother and Nastya both suspect that Kolya uses Alice to make Nastya jealous. It's never the case: first he helps her as a friend, and then he ends up really falling for her.
- Promoted to Love Interest:
- In the book, there are at most a handful of hints that Kolya may be having a crush on Alice. Here, they fall in love with each other.
- Incredibly, Jolly U is now at the very least attracted to Kira. In the books, at no point is Kira romantically linked with anyone except her husbandnote .
- Redemption Equals Death: Jolly U is killed soon after turning to the good side.
- Setting Update: Like in Guest from the Future, the "past" sequence was updated to be the creators' Present Day, 2024 in this case.
- Time-Travel Romance: Kolya from 2024 and Alice from 2124 fall in love. However, they can't be together due to the instability of contacts with the past.
- Villainous Crush: Jolly U is implied to have one on Kira. It can seem that his Flirting Under Fire when they are in a vicious fight against each other is an attempt to distract her, but then he does it again when they are on the same side.
