Line #123 Main/TwentyMinutesIntoThePast


1	->''"The past is another country. 1987's just the Isle of Wight."''
2	-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]" (aired in 2005)
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4	A work that is shot so that it looks like it happened sometime in the years before it was actually filmed, often right around the time that the target audience were kids. It's not a [[PeriodPiece historical]] or [[ThatNostalgiaShow nostalgic]] piece related to some specific event, person or story written in that time and thus specifically tied down, but it may have a specific date attached just to increase realism or allow for {{Establishing Shot}}s so you can imagine the mindset of the characters. For instance, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar mindset is used now in works set in that time period even if the story has nothing to do with it; a similar phenomenon has occurred concerning [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]]. It may be tinged with nostalgia, or maybe the props were just easy to pick up at a secondhand store. In recent times, this can be to avoid the parts of modern life that [[TropeBreaker can make the plot unworkable]], such as mobile phones and social media like Website/YouTube and Website/{{Facebook}}.
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6	In some cases, this can be the result of the work in question being a {{prequel}} to a work that was set in the present day, a sequel to a work which took place in the present day in which much less time passes between the works in universe compared to real life, such as an ImmediateSequel, an adaptation of a work that was set in the present at the time of its release, or a work with a long production process that was set in the present when work began on it.
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8	Vaguely related to, and is an [[InvertedTrope inverse]] of, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but without the AppliedPhlebotinum. Compare and contrast NextSundayAD. If anachronisms end up in unchecked, will end up causing PresentDayPast.
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10	Depending on how much time passes in-universe during the series' run, a show that starts off in the PresentDay may become this.
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13	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
18	* ''Literature/{{Another}}'' had the original novel written in 2009 and the anime in 2012, but is set in 1998. The fact that cell phones are less than reliable comes up a few times in the story.
19	* ''Manga/{{Ayashimon}}'' is set in 1992, about thirty years before it was written. Mostly this shows in the manga [[AscendedFanboy Maruo]] reads being from the late 80s and early 90s.
20	* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' started in 2018, but is eventually shown to be set in an AlternateHistory 1997. Mostly this just shows in characters lacking cellphones, but becomes much more significant in Part 2 [[spoiler:when it turns out expectations of a [[UsefulNotes/{{Nostradamus}} 1999 apocalypse]] are very well-founded]].
21	* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''
22	** The original [[Recap/DigimonAdventurePilot pilot]], which sets up the backstory of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', takes place in 1995, while it aired in 1999.
23	** In ''Adventure'' proper, the arc set in the human world, which took place from August 1 to August 3, 1999, aired from September to December 1999. The latest date of August 3 also serves as the date that the human world scenes in the final two episodes, which aired in March 2000, took place.
24	** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' is set in 2005, a few years after ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' with the main characters now in high school, despite airing 10 years later in 2015 and finishing up in 2018.
25	** The follow up movie ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' takes place in 2010, but was released in 2020, to match with the characters now being college aged.
26	** Likewise, the next film ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02TheBeginning'', released in 2023, takes place in 2012, that year being significant as one of the character's birthdates being a UsefulNotes/LeapDay is a plot point.
27	* While ''Manga/{{Erased}}'' started in 2012 (with the anime airing in 2016), its [[TimeTravel "present day" setting]] is in 2006. It even starts on a kind of MisterSandmanSequence, with a TV newscast in the background about the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
28	* ''Manga/HighScoreGirl'' was initially serialized in 2010, but the story itself takes place in the early 90s, beginning in 1991.
29	* ''Manga/ItsToughBeingNeeko'' was serialized in November 2017, but Chapter 21, published in January 2020, had Neeko pick up a Platform/NintendoSwitch on launch day, which was in March 2017.
30	* ''Anime/NegadonTheMonsterFromMars'', created in 2005, has many indications of being set in TheSixties [[RetroUniverse or a future based on predictions from the 60s]].
31	* ''Anime/OccultAcademy'' takes place in 1999 but was released in 2010.
32	* ''Manga/TakopisOriginalSin'' takes place in 2016, five years before the manga was published. [[spoiler:The future segments, on the other hand, take place in 2022.]]
33	* ''Anime/YokaiWatchForeverFriends'' takes place in the 1960s, 60 years in the past.
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The Pre-Crisis ComicBook/{{Superboy}} stories published in ''ComicBook/Superboy1949'' and ''ComicBook/AdventureComics'', via its use of a floating timeline, saw the Boy of Steel's era set in the relative past. As such, an early 1970s story saw ComicBook/LanaLang interested in 50s hula hoops, while the ''ComicBook/Superboy1980'' book saw Clark meeting President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy.
38	* ''ComicBook/PuertoRicoStrong'' is a 2018 anthology. Several comics take place in the recent past, such as ''Family Ends With Me'' taking place in 1969 and ''The Dragon of Bayamón'' taking place in 1973.
39	* ''ComicBook/TheBabysittersClub'' is set in the 1990s according to the technology. It isn't as blatant as in the original books, namely because the fashion is more ambiguous.
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42	[[folder:Fan Works]]
43	* All of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2689121/Mr-FanficGuy Mr. Fanfic Guy's]] fanfics, which are set between 2005 and the present, especially ''Fanfic/TheDayEverythingChanged'', ''Fanfic/HolidayVacation'', most of ''Fanfic/LuckyStarAfterStory'', and ''Fanfic/FromConcertToChaos''.
44	* ''[[Fanfic/ADifferentPointOfView On The Long Route]]'' was written between 2006 and 2009. Its two sequels, one from 2017 and the other from 2018, are set directly after the original, in 2009.
45	* ''Fanfic/AForgottenMemory'' is released in 2022, but it takes place in 2011.
46	* ''Fanfic/AquamanMonster'' is set in the year 2011 and was written in 2024, with flashbacks to Arthur's past growing up in the 90's.
47	* ''Fanfic/FortuneLoverTGSBetaSaruRipTPlusEng0Point75SincereDotZip'' is released in 2020. The fic is about the CharacterNarrator narrating in 2017 (in the form of a discussion board post) about her experience of the titular GameMod, which was supposed to have happened in the early or mid-2010s.
48	* ''Webcomic/SonicLegacy'' is a 2010s fan-comic that starts circa 1991.
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51	[[folder:Film — Animation]]
52	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anomalisa}}'' is set in 2005, and released in 2015.
53	* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'': A newspaper clipping Lupin is seen reading after his escape from the castle sets the year at 1968; curiously, [[Manga/LupinIII the original manga]] was already one year into serialization in real life. The film itself was released in 1979.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'' is a downplayed example, it takes place in 2020, despite being released in early 2021. However production started in 2020 and it was originally meant to be released in 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
55	* ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'': The present-day portions are set in 1982, while the flashbacks to Taeko's childhood take place in 1966; the film itself was released in 1991.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' is a [[StealthPun Period]] [[PeriodPiece Piece]] set in Toronto during the spring of 2002, but was released in 2022.
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59	[[folder:Film — Live Action]]
60	* ''Film/EightMile'', a fictionalization of Music/{{Eminem}}'s early music career, was released in 2002 and is set in 1995, the year before he released his first album.
61	* ''Film/TheAdjustmentBureau'' was released in 2011, but takes place from 2006 to 2009.
62	* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': Based upon a book published in 1974 and adapted to film in 1976, spanning the entire time between the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972 up to UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's second inauguration on January 20, 1973, ending with a montage of headlines related to the Watergate scandal, up to Nixon's resignation from the Oval Office on August 9, 1974.
63	* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' takes place in 1997, shortly after the death of Princess Diana, but was released in 2001.
64	* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'', released in 1973, is set in 1962. The sequel ''Film/MoreAmericanGraffiti'' (1979) takes place in the mid 1960s.
65	* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': Set in the late 1980s, released in 2000. [[Literature/AmericanPsycho The original novel]] was published in 1991, but satirized the '80s so specifically (thanks to it being in very recent memory at the time) that the filmmakers decided to make the movie a PeriodPiece once it was SavedFromDevelopmentHell.
66	* ''Film/AnimalHouse'', released in 1978, set in 1962.
67	* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', released in 1979, set in an unstated year at the height of the Vietnam War (likely between 1968 and 1970, as Colby's failed mission to assassinate Kurtz is stated to have occurred in late 1967, and US troops started withdrawing in large numbers after 1970).
68	* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': The framing scenes are in 1985 when the movie was filmed, while the core story takes place in 1955. ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' and ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'', which were both filmed in 1989, with the former releasing that year and the latter in 1990, continue to set the present day in 1985, [[ImmediateSequel as the story begins promptly when the first movie ends.]]
69	* ''Film/BadDayAtBlackRock'' set in 1945, released in 1955.
70	* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', released in 1998, was set during the first Gulf War in 1991.
71	* ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', released in 1999, is a {{Found Footage Film\|s}} about an amateur film crew's disappearance in 1994.
72	* ''Film/BobRoberts'' is a 1992 film set in 1990, with the lead-up to UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar as an important backdrop to the story.
73	* ''Film/{{Bombshell\|2019}}'', released in 2019, covers the 2016 sexual harassment scandal surrounding Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.
74	* ''Film/BoogieNights'' is set from 1977 to 1984, during the peak of the disco era, but released in 1997.
75	* ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'': Released in 2007, but takes place in 2004, opening with Bourne on the run from Russian authorities during ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' and [[OnceMoreWithClarity recontextualizing that film's ending scene]] during the third act.
76	* ''{{Film/Boyhood}}'' was released in 2014, but set from 2002 to 2013.
77	* ''Film/BoyErased'', released in 2018, takes place in the period when gay conversion camps were under debate in the mid-2000s.
78	* ''Film/TheCaliforniaKid'': Aired in 1974, set in 1958.
79	* Despite having been filmed and released in 1942, ''{{Film/Casablanca}}'' is set in 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor. This is because the plot doesn't work without the U.S. still being neutral in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
80	* ''Film/{{Casino}}'' was released in 1995; the film takes place from the early 70's to the early 1980's, and ends with the character lamenting the Las Vegas pivot to family attractions and resorts in the 1990's up to the present day.
81	* ''Film/CastAway'' was released in 2000, and takes place between 1995 and 1999.
82	* ''Film/{{Clue}}'' is set in 1954, released in 1985. The plot is set against a backdrop of [=McCarthyism=] but doesn't use any specific events. (Except the TV broadcast of the [=McCarthy=] inquiry, which is used more as an EstablishingShot.)
83	* ''Film/TheCollegeAdmissionsScandal'' was released in 2019, several months after the story first broke and the crimes started taking place in 2011.
84	* ''Film/CoolRunnings'': Released in 1993, set during the 1988 Winter Olympics.
85	* ''Film/{{Damage}}'': John was convicted of manslaughter in February of 2002 and was released four-and-a-half years later, placing the film in mid-2006. The film was released in late 2009 in the UK and early 2010 in the US.
86	* ''Film/DarkShadows'' was released in 2012 but set in TheSeventies. The series it was adapted from ran from 1966 to 1971.
87	* ''Film/DazedAndConfused'': Set in 1976, released in 1993.
88	* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': Released in 1989, set in 1959.
89	* ''Film/DefinitelyMaybe'': Released in 2008, set during Clinton's first presidential run in 1992.
90	* ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'': Released in 2017, covers Creator/GregSestero's friendship with Creator/TommyWiseau from 1998 to 2003, centering particularly on the making of ''Film/TheRoom2003'' during the latter part of that period.
91	* ''Film/DonnieDarko'', released in 2002, set in 1988.
92	* The 2011 Creator/TomHanks film ''Film/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose'' is set during and shortly after 9/11.
93	* ''Film/{{Elvis\|2022}}'': Released in 2022, it has its framing device set in 1997 as the dying UsefulNotes/ColonelTomParker recounts working with Music/ElvisPresley from the 1950s up to Elvis's death in 1977.
94	* ''Film/FinalDestination5'': [[spoiler:The ending reveals it's this trope, released in 2011 but actually set right before the [[Film/FinalDestination1 first movie]], thus setting the events around 1999-2000, although sharp-eyed viewers will catch on that the personal electronics are a bit dated before the ending]].
95	* ''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'' starts in 1978 then via TimeTravel goes to 1986, when the movie was made.
96	* ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', which itself began with a flashback to the initial murders in 1958, is indicated by [[spoiler:the death date on Pamela Voorhees' grave]] in ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' to take place in 1979, a year before it was released. Interestingly though, the titular Friday the 13th is said to be June 13, which was a Friday in 1980, but a Wednesday in 1979. The first sequel ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' (1981) has a prologue set two months after the first film before a five year TimeSkip.
97	* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': Set during the Vietnam War in 1968, based on the semi-autobiographical book ''The Short-Timers'' published in 1979, and released in 1987.
98	* The Creator/JimCarrey remake of ''Film/FunWithDickAndJane'' is set in early 2000, and was released in 2005.
99	* ''Film/GlassOnion'' was filmed in 2021, released at the end of 2022, but is set in May 2020, during the height of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
100	* ''Film/TheGodfatherPartIII'' is set in 1979, only 11 years prior to its 1990 production.
101	* ''Film/GoneGirl'' was released in 2014, but is set in 2012, the same year that [[Literature/GoneGirl the novel it adapts]] was released.
102	* ''Film/GoodFellas'' was released in 1990 and is set from 1955 to 1980.
103	* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
104	** ''Film/Halloween1978'' begins by showing Michael's first kill in 1963 before skipping ahead 15 years to the present day.
105	** ''Film/HalloweenII1981'' takes place in 1978 due to [[ImmediateSequel directly picking up where the last movie left off]].
106	** ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'' (1989) begins immediately after the end of ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' in 1988 before skipping ahead a year.
107	** ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' (2002) begins in 2001, three years after the events of ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', which itself was explicitly twenty years after the original film, before skipping ahead a year.
108	** ''Film/HalloweenKills'' (2021), in a similar situation to ''Halloween II'', takes place in 2018 due to picking up right after ''Film/Halloween2018''.
109	** ''Film/HalloweenEnds'' (2022) begins with a prologue in 2019, before skipping ahead three years.
110	* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'' was released in 2008, but takes place in 2004. (It was filmed four years after [[Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle the first movie]], but takes place immediately after it ends).
111	* ''Film/{{Hours\|2013}}'' takes place in 2005 but was released in 2013.
112	* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' was released in 1990, but takes place in 1984.
113	* ''Film/TheHurtLocker'' was released in 2008, but set in the second year of [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the Iraq War,]] in 2004.
114	* ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'' begins at the start of the 2007/08 financial crisis and ends in 2015. The film was released in 2019.
115	* ''Film/IntoTheWild'' was released in 2007 and is set from 1990 to 1992.
116	* ''Film/It2017'' was released in 2017, but takes place in 1989. This is to make it possible for the sequel to take place in the present day.
117	** The [[Film/ItChapterTwo sequel]] takes place in 2016 (It strikes every 27 years), though was released in 2019.
118	* The first three films of ''Film/TheKarateKid'' film series take place over one year (1984-1985). While [[Film/TheKarateKid1984 the first film]] was indeed released in 1984, [[Film/TheKarateKidPartII the second film]] was released in 1986 and [[Film/TheKarateKidPartIII the third film]] was released in 1989.
119	* ''Film/TheKillerThatStalkedNewYork'': Released in 1950, set in 1947 (it deals with a fictionalized version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_outbreak 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak]]).
120	* ''Film/LadyBird'' was released in 2017, and takes place in 2002.
121	* ''Film/LoveAndOtherDrugs'', made in 2010, set in 1996.
122	* ''Film/MadameWeb2024'' is set in 2003, while released in 2024.
123	* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}:'' Released in 2008, set in an unspecified time in the 1990s. The biggest giveaway to the period is that nobody has a mobile phone, but this has no bearing on the plot.
124	* A few of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse movies wound up as this to [[ExtremelyShortTimespan fit timelines]] to others that are set the same year of release. ''Film/{{Thor}}'' (2011) is stated to have occurred the same week as the previous year's ''Film/IronMan2''. ''Film/IronMan3'' (2013) is set in the previous year, ending on [[AnAssKickingChristmas Christmas]]. 2017 had ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' happening a few months after its 2014 predecessor, and ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' ([[SeriesContinuityError glaringly wrong title card apart]]) some months after the previous year's ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. ''Film/BlackWidow2021'' is supposed to happen between ''Civil War'' and 2019's ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. And in the case of a PeriodPiece, ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' is set in 1995.
125	* ''Film/TheMiseducationOfCameronPost'' is a 2018 film set in 1993. This is because it's about a teenage girl being forced into [[CureYourGays gay conversion therapy]], which started to become widely scorned a few years after the film's setting.
126	* ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'': Set in the 1980s, released in 2007.
127	* ''Film/{{Nomadland}}'' is set from 2011 to 2013, during the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, but was released in 2020.
128	* With ''Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict'' explicitly taking place in 1982 and 26 years after ''Film/TheOmen1976'', that retroactively pushes the first movie's events back to 1956 (and those of the first sequel, ''Film/DamienOmenII'' (1978), to 1963).
129	* ''Film/OrphanFirstKill'': The movie is set in 2007 despite being released in 2022. Justified due to its prequel status, with the [[Film/{{Orphan}} first one]] also taking place in then-present 2007 albeit at a much later date.[[note]]The first movie was released in 2009, but principal photography took place at an earlier date on November of 2007.[[/note]]
130	* ''Film/PrimaryColors'' set during Bill Clinton's election campaign in 1992, released in 1998 which is ironically the year his scandals broke into public view.
131	* ''Film/RedRocket'': Released in 2021, filmed in 2020, and set in 2016 if the Trump and Clinton clips from the presidential election are any clue.
132	* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
133	** ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' was filmed and released in 1976, but the film begins in November 1975 and ends on New Year’s Day 1976.
134	** ''Film/RockyII'', released in 1979, takes place from New Year’s Day to Thanksgiving 1976, due to [[ImmediateSequel picking up directly after]] ''Film/{{Rocky}}''.
135	** ''Film/CreedIII'', released in 2023, takes place in 2020, which also retroactively moves the events of ''Film/{{Creed\|2015}}'' (2015) and ''Film/CreedII'' (2018) back a few years from when they were released.
136	* ''Film/{{Shampoo}}'' was released in 1975, but set on and around Election Day in 1968. Part of this is because co-writers Creator/WarrenBeatty and Creator/RobertTowne were unable to get financing at first.
137	* ''Film/{{Shiri}}'' was released in 1999, while its plot spans 1992-1998.
138	* ''Film/{{Sick}}'' was released in January 2023, but set in April 2020, as stay-at-home orders were issued for the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.
139	* ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' was released in 2012, but set in 2008. A subplot concerns the Philadelphia Eagles season that year, as Pat Sr. is a big Eagles fan and frequently bets at their games, with a climactic point being at the playoffs between the Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys, a ForegoneConclusion to anyone with a cursory knowledge of football.
140	* ''Film/{{Skinamarink}}'' was released in 2022 but is set in 1995, to justify the AnalogHorror aesthetic.
141	* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'': Set in 2003, released in 2010.
142	* ''Film/SpaceJam'', released in 1996, set during 1993-94, and ending during UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan's return to the Chicago Bulls in 1995.
143	* ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'', released in 2015, covers the Boston Globe investigation into the Catholic Church's history of sexual abuse. While the DistantPrologue is set in 1976, the main events of the film occur during 2001-2002.
144	* ''Film/TheSquidAndTheWhale'' was released in 2005, but set in 1986.
145	* ''Film/StandClearOfTheClosingDoors'' was released in 2013 and takes place during the lead-up to Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.
146	* ''Film/{{Submarine}}'' was released in 2010, and takes place in the 80s, though it doesn't have much of the era other than a lack of modern technology.
147	* ''Film/{{Super 8}}'', released in 2011, is set in 1979, mostly because that was the beginning of the Creator/StevenSpielberg era.
148	* ''Film/SuperDarkTimes'': Set in TheNineties, released in 2017.
149	* ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'': While the film was released in 2005, it is set in the late 1990s, before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (1998) which closes the film. The novel on which it was based was released in 1994.
150	* ''Film/ThreeKings'' was released in 1999 and set in the aftermath of the 1991 Iraq War.
151	* ''Film/{{Titanic\|1997}}'': While the film is mostly a period piece set during the titular ship's ill fated maiden voyage in 1912, the present day framing device of Old Rose telling the story takes place in 1996, a year before the film's release at the end of 1997.
152	* ''Film/TradingPlaces'', which started filming in December 1982 and was released in June 1983, takes place from November 1982 to January 1983.
153	* ''Film/UncutGems'' was released in 2019, but set in 2010-12.
154	* The segment "10/31/98" from the 2012 anthology film ''Film/{{VHS}}'' is an example. The costumes worn by the young men on their way to a Halloween party are all pop-culture and news references from 1998.
155	* ''Film/Warm1978'' was set in 1975.
156	* ''{{Film/Watchmen}}'', set in an alternate 1985, but released in 2009.
157	* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'', made in 1998, was set in 1985.
158	* ''Film/{{Wings\|1927}}'': Released in 1927, takes place in 1917-18. Despite this, [[HollywoodCostuming the female characters are wearing the fashions of the 1920s, not the 1910s]].
159	* ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'': Released in 2013, set in the 1990s.
160	* ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'': Released in 2012, set during the build-up to Osama bin-Laden's death in 2011.
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163	[[folder:Literature]]
164	* ''Literature/TwentyMinutesIntoThePast'': Released in 1989, the modern day settings outside of the framing story are set in 1987.
165	* Despite being set in the eponymous date and immediately after, later works in the ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' series have started to use this since the American town of Grantville was transported to that time from the year 2000 - so writers must be careful to give their computers only the capabilities and programs they would have had then, for instance.
166	* ''Literature/AdrianMole'': Each book in the series is set 1-2 years before it was released (published 1982-2009, set in 1981-2008)
167	* ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', published in 1991, is set in the late '80s.
168	* ''Literature/AreYouSeeingMe'' was published in 2014 and is set in 2010.
169	* ''Literature/AxiomsEnd'', released in 2020, is set in 2007.
170	* ''Literature/TheBlackFoxOfBeckham'' was published in 2019 and is set a year or two before fox hunting was banned in England in 2005.
171	* ''Literature/TheBlueNosedWitch'' is stated to have happened no more than "four or five Halloweens ago" from The50s when it's set.
172	* The novel ''Literature/BlueValentine'' was published in 2018 but the events take place in 2009.
173	* ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' was published in 1958 and is set in 1943-1944.
174	* ''Literature/TheCasualVacancy'' was written in 2012 but never gives a precise date, though certain pop culture references put it late in the aughts.
175	* ''Literature/{{Capital}}'' is set in the 2008 financial crash but was published in 2012.
176	* ''Literature/TheCaseFilesOfIbrahimHelsing'', while being first published in 2021, take place in the year 2019.
177	* ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'': 2013's ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling''[='s=] use of ChekhovsNews specifically places it during certain landmark events of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010#Campaign the 2010 UK general election]].
178	* ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'', from the ''Literature/DearAmerica'' series, was published in 2002 and takes place in 1968. Also unusual for the series, in that the most recent year before that is 1941 and the vast majority of the books take place in the 19th century.
179	* Don [=DeLillo=]'s ''Literature/FallingMan'' was published in 2007 and is set in New York immediately after the September 11 attacks of 2001.
180	* ''Literature/Dekada70'', originally written around 1982 and set in, well, TheSeventies in the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}. TheFilmOfTheBook came out in 2002 and spans a time period roughly from 1969–1983.
181	* ''Literature/FateZero'' was originally written in 2007, while the main plot, a prequel to ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' set during the previous Holy Grail War 10 years prior, takes place in the mid-1990s.
182	* ''[[Literature/TouchingSpiritBear Ghost of Spirit Bear]]'' was released in 2008, but takes place just as Cole and Peter get back to Minneapolis from the island in ''Literature/TouchingSpiritBear'', setting the book around 2003.
183	* ''Literature/TheGirls'' was published in 2016 but seems to be set sometime in the early years of the 21st century. Evie is described as middle-aged rather than old (she was 14 in her 1969 flashbacks, so 61 in 2016, 45 at the turn of the century), and an off-hand reference to a San Francisco woman getting killed by pit bulls is an apparent allusion to the 2001 death of Diane Whipple.
184	* ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' is set between 1991-1998 or so while [[Literature/HarryPotter the books]] were released 1997-2007 and [[Film/HarryPotter the films]] 2001-2011. Both the books and movies mostly avoid exact years, which, combined with the general lack of modern technology in the Wizarding world, means they could easily be set anywhere from around the 80s to the 2000s, although the films definitely look like they are set in the aughts (despite officially taking place in the nineties as well).
185	* ''Literature/TheMissus'': The first book in the series, ''Literature/TheMister'', was published and presumably set in 2019. ''The Missus'' was published four years later in 2023, but as it begins exactly where ''The Mister'' ended (which is set over a few months), this book is set a few years earlier.
186	* Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles'' was published in 1920, but takes place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. It is made clear by the fact that Hercule Poirot is himself a Belgian war refugee. It is also mentioned in the second chapter that "the 16th of July fell on a Monday." Using this clue, it can be inferred that the story itself takes place in 1917.
187	* ''Literature/ModernVillainess'' was published in 2020, but the main plot is set in the mid-2000s. Some AlternateHistory is involved, but solely used to justify the continued existence of the Kazoku class.[[note]]UsefulNotes/WorldWarII effectively ended in a draw--Germany won at Normandy, but Japan still couldn't stomach the nuclear bombs. As a result, Japan was able to wrestle out a ''conditional'' surrender, which limited US influence on the country to foreign and defense matters.[[/note]]
188	* ''Literature/NoCountryForOldMen'', published 2005, set in 1980.
189	* ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'' was published in 1999 and takes place in the 1991-92 school year.
190	* The first two books of ''Literature/ThePlatinumKey'' series were published in 2015 but set around 2007.
191	* ''Literature/{{Sisterland}}'' was published in 2013, with most non-flashback chapters set in 2009.
192	* ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'', the famous novel by Creator/JamesJoyce was published between 1918 and 1920, yet is set on the perfectly ordinary day of June 16, 1904.
193	* ''Literature/TheUsualRules'', published in 2003, takes place in the months after the 9/11 attacks. The main character's mother worked in the Twin Towers and died in the attacks. Really, when it was written, it was more like 5 minutes into the past.
194	* Creator/JulesVerne ''loves'' this trope, despite [[CommonKnowledge everybody assuming]] [[PopculturalOsmosis his books are meant to be futuristic]]:
195	** ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' (1864), set in 1863
196	** ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' (1871), set in 1866
197	** ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' (1873), set in 1872
198	** ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' (1874), set in 1865
199	** ''Literature/TheChildrenOfCaptainGrant'' (1868), set in 1864
200	* The majority of Creator/RosemaryWells' works would sometimes take place at a certain decade such as the 1950s, 1970s, or between the 1980s and 1990s.
201	** While the ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'' series is still ongoing since 1979, the setting would sometimes be a mix between the 1940s and late 70s since the characters still use old fashioned radio to listen to music and a radio show. But the characters are never seen owning any televsions. Which is odd since in one of the later books and a couple episodes of the animated series would sometimes show a character owning a handheld video game called the Game Bunny.
202	** In the Yoko & Friends, Yoko series and the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' appears to be set during the late 90s but the characters are dressed in clothes that are mostly common during the 70s and 60s while they still own 50s and 60s style cars.
203	* ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere'', published in 2017, set in 1997-98, with copious references to pop culture at the time, including the Lewinsky scandal, which in this book was overshadowed by a local child custody battle.
204	* ''Literature/MyYearOfRestAndRelaxation'': Published in 2018, set between 2000 and 2001.
205	* ''Literature/{{Rogue}}'' was published in 2013 but set in 2006, when [[spoiler:Congress banned the over-the-counter sale of pseudoephedrine]].
206	* ''Literature/Harmony2016'' is set mostly in 2012, with flashbacks from the late 2000s and early 2010s.
207	* ''Literature/MiracleCreek'' was published in 2019 and revolves around an explosion in the summer of 2008 and the trial a year later.
208	* ''Literature/{{Shtum}}'', published in 2017, set in the spring and summer of 2011.
209	* ''Literature/LoveAnthony'', published in 2012, set in 2010 and early 2011.
210	* ''Literature/TheresMoreThanOneWayHome'', published in 2017, set in mid-2004.
211	* ''Literature/IThinkILoveYou'' was published in 2011 and set half in 1974, half in 1998.
212	* ''Literature/LanguageArts'', published in 2015, set in the school year of 2012-2013.
213	* ''Literature/IfIFallIfIDie'' was published in 2015 but seems to be set in TheNineties, judging by the lack of internet and the mention of [[TheEighties shoulder pads]] in a flashback to Will's early childhood.
214	* ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' is set ten years before its release, having been serialized from 1859-60 and taking place in 1849-50.
215	* ''Literature/TheWindUpBirdChronicle'' was published in 1995 and is set mostly around 1985-1986.
216	* ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' was released in 2000 but is set from 1990-1998.
217	* ''Literature/BlueIguana'' was published in 2013 and set in 2008, when [[spoiler:seven iguanas were killed in an attack]].
218	* ''Literature/IslandsEnd'' was published in 2011 and set in 2004, at the time of [[spoiler:the tsunami that devastated the Andaman Islands]].
219	* The ''Literature/{{Stim}}'' books were published in 2013 and 2014 but set in 2010 and 2011, on time for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Canterbury_earthquake two]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2011_Christchurch_earthquake earthquakes]] to strike.
220	* ''Literature/PostHighSchoolRealityQuest'' was published in 2017 and is set in 2009 and 2010, during Buffy's freshman year of college.
221	* ''Literature/{{Sanctuary}}'' was published in 2022 and is set in the winter and spring of what is revealed late in the book to be 2018.
222
223	* ''Literature/TheManyHalfLivedLivesOfSamSylvester'', published in 2022, has the protagonists investigating a thirty-year-old murder. That murder occurred in the school year of 1988 and 1989, so the book must take place in 2018 and 2019.
224	* ''Literature/CemeteryBird'' was published in 2011 and is set between 1983 and 2004.
225	* ''Literature/UnderSuspicionSeries'': The first seven books were published between 2014 and 2020, but the series begins slightly earlier in 2013. The books also take place over a shorter time period of two years (give or take a few months), so the series as a whole qualifies, being published from the early 2010s to the early 2020s, but being set from 2013 to 2015.
226	** ''Literature/IveGotYouUnderMySkin'' was published in 2014, though it's retroactively established in the sequel, ''Literature/TheCinderellaMurder'', that it takes place a year earlier in 2013. In ''The Cinderella Murder'' it's stated that it's been nearly a year since the episode covering the Graduation Gala murder aired and it's also established that the Cinderella Murder occurred twenty years ago in 1994, firmly placing the second novel in 2014.
227	** ''Literature/AllDressedInWhite'' was published in 2015, though based on the timeline it's set a year earlier in 2014, a few months after ''The Cinderella Murder''; it's mentioned in both this novel and the preceding one that it's been nearly a year since ''Under Suspicion'' aired its first episode and just over five years since Laurie's husband was killed; the latter occurred around the same time Amanda – the missing bride central to ''All Dressed in White'' - disappeared.
228	** ''Literature/TheSleepingBeautyKiller'' was published in 2016 and is set in 2014, a month after the epilogue of ''All Dressed in White'' (two months after the main events of the novel).
229	** ''Literature/EveryBreathYouTake'' was published in 2017 and is set two years earlier in 2015, about two months after the events of ''The Sleeping Beauty Killer'' (which was set in late 2014).
230	** ''Literature/YouDontOwnMe'' was published in 2018 and is set three years earlier in 2015.
231	** ''Literature/PieceOfMyHeart'' was completed and published in 2020, while being set in July 2015, five years earlier.
232	* ''Literature/TheChangeRoom'': The book is set in 2011, to judge by the fact the Arab Spring's prominent on the news. It was published in 2017.
233	* ''Literature/SorryBro'': The book came out in January 2023, but is set c. June 2015.
234	* ''Literature/EricOrLittleByLittle'' was published in 1858 but is set in the late 1840s, judging by the date on [[spoiler:Russell's tombstone]].
235	* ''Literature/TheMermaidOfBlackConch'' was published in 2020 but is set in 1976. David's journal entries, in which he writes about his romance with a mermaid decades ago, are dated to 2015 and 2016.
236	* ''Literature/TheOctoberChild'' was published in 1976 and follows the first four years of the autistic boy Carl's life. When Carl is three, Adrienne asks Douglas to take her to a movie that from her description sounds like ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure''. That movie was released in Australia in 1973, which means that Carl was probably born in 1969.
237	* The ''Literature/WildOrchid'' books were published in 2005, 2011, and 2012, but are set in 2002 and 2003.
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239
240	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
241	* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' is set primarily between 2002 and 2004, and aired between 2015 and 2022. Certain segments are set immediately before and during the events of ''Series/BreakingBad'' (2008–2010), while its "present day" segments are set in late 2010.
242	* The five years in which ''Series/BreakingBad'' was airing all take place exactly two years in-universe (2008-2010 in-show for 2008-2013 in reality), making the later seasons this trope.
243	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': While the 1968-1989 run of the show was adamant on not setting historical stories ''too'' soon to their airdates (for example, 1989's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric "The Curse of Fenric"]] had its setting moved from TheSeventies to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII), several ones in both the Classic and Revival Series are set anywhere from 20 or so years ago to just six:
244	** The past portions of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead "Mawdryn Undead"]] are set in 1977 (making this the first ''Doctor Who'' story to feature a "historical" setting from when the show itself was airing), while the present portions are set contemporaneously to the serial's 1983 airdate. The decision to do this directly caused the massive ContinuitySnarl that is the UNIT Dating Controversy, as earlier UNIT stories were instead set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
245	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen "Delta and the Bannermen"]] aired in 1987 and is set in 1959.
246	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] aired in 1988 and takes place just after the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild "An Unearthly Child"]] in 1963.
247	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]] first aired in 2005 and is set in 1987.
248	* [[Series/FargoSeasonOne Seasons one]] and [[Series/FargoSeasonThree three]] of ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' are set in, respectively, 2006 and 2010, but first aired in 2014 and 2017. [[Series/FargoSeasonTwo Seasons two]] and [[Series/FargoSeasonFour four]], on the other hand, are straight period pieces, being set in 1979 and 1950.
249	* ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' made in 1999-2000 was set in 1980.
250	* ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'', being [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory loosely based]] on the childhood of chef Eddie Huang (born 1982), takes place in the 1990s.
251	* ''Series/GenerationKill'' came out in 2008 and is set at the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.
252	* ''Series/{{Girlboss}}'' aired in 2017 and is set in 2006, the year the Nasty Gal fashion company was founded (the series is a heavily fictionalized retelling of how this happened).
253	* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' made its debut in 2013, and is set in the 1980s.
254	* ''Series/HappyDays''. Set in the 1950s-1960s, ran from 1974 to 1984.
255	** The same goes for its spinoff ''Series/LaverneAndShirley''.
256	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is an interesting example, as the main story takes place in the present, but is told from the future's perspective as if it were taking place 20-something years in the past.
257	* ''Series/TheKidsAreAlright2018'' was released in 2018 and is set in the 1970s.
258	* The 2006 ''Series/{{Life on Mars\|2006}}'' and its [[Series/LifeOnMars2008 2008 American counterpart]], which both take place in 1973.
259	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' started out as PresentDay (namely 2004), but was definitely this by at least the second season. [[TimeTravel Then it got more complicated]].
260	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' takes place during the Korean War, but it would have been twenty minutes in the past when it aired in the '70s and '80s. Now, it's more like forty minutes.
261	* In season 2 of ''Series/MrRobot'' this is almost an ExaggeratedTrope, as it was released in 2016 and explicitly takes place around early summer 2015 (computers, newspapers, and the like often show the date).
262	* ''Series/MrsAmerica'', the 2020 miniseries starring Creator/CateBlanchett, is set in the early 1970s.
263	* ''Series/OurFriendsInTheNorth'' aired in 1996 and took place in 1964, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1987 and 1995.
264	* ''Series/PaperGirls'': The girls travel to 2019, while the series was released just a little while later in 2022.
265	* Sam and Al on ''Series/QuantumLeap'' were natives of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but Sam always leaped into the recent past.
266	* Script/{{Powerpuff}}: A sizable chunk of the pilot was set from 1996 to 2013, before the remainder of it resumed in the present day of 2021.
267	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
268	** In the April 8, 2000 episode hosted by Creator/ChristopherWalken, there was the "More Cowbell" sketch which satirized Music/BlueOysterCult's recording of [[Music/AgentsOfFortune "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"]] set in 1976.
269	** In the Season 47 episode 18 on April 16, 2022, there was [[https://youtu.be/EvUCEGcOCf0 a skit]] about Music/TheBlackEyedPeas making the songs "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow". It was made in 2022 but set in 2008, both on April 16.
270	* ''Series/StormOfTheCentury'': While the miniseries was released in 1999, it's set in the late 1980s.
271	* ''Series/StrangerThings'' famously uses this trope to lean heavily on 1980s nostalgia and pop culture. Aimed in large part at people who would have been the same age as the early-teen protagonists at the time, the show was first released in 2016, with the first four seasons spanning the time period Fall 1983-Spring 1986.
272	* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' has this for part of the pilot, since it starts in 1999 before time jumping them to 2007 (the year the show premiered). It allows for some real world events to surprise them, like 9/11.
273	* ''Series/That70sShow'': Aired from 1998 to 2006 and is set in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the 1970s]], specifically spanning 1976-1979 (ending at midnight on January 1, 1980).
274	* ''Series/That80sShow'' aired in 2002 and is set in the 1980s.
275	* ''Series/That90sShow'': Premiered in 2023 and is set in 1995.
276	* ''Series/{{Treme}}'' Ran from 2010-2013, Set in Recently post-Hurricane Katrina 2005 era New Orleans.
277	* ''Series/TrueDetective'' season one aired in 2014 and covers three concurrent storylines set in 1995, 2002, and 2012. Season three, released in 2019, jumps back and forth between 1980, 1993, and 2015.
278	* In a {{Downplayed}} example, ''Series/TwinPeaks'' originally ran from 1990-1991 but was explicitly set in 1989.
279	** Similarly, the revival series (''Twin Peaks: The Return'') was released in 2017, but since it was a plot point that the series took place exactly twenty-five years after the original run, it was presumably set circa 2014.
280	* ''Series/WeAreWhoWeAre'': The series was set in 2016, and released fall 2020.
281	* The beginning of ''Series/TheXFiles'' is set in early 1992 though the show started in 1993.
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283
284	[[folder:Music]]
285	* Music/TheHumanLeague: According to the spoken-word intro on the Fast Product version, "Circus of Death" takes place in 1962; the song itself was first released in 1978 and was re-recorded for ''Music/{{Reproduction}}'' a year later.
286	[[/folder]]
287
288	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
289	* ''TabletopGame/TalesFromTheLoop'': Released in 2017, with a setting that is set in TheEighties (in an explicit homage to KidHero media from that [or that references said] era, from ''Film/TheGoonies'' to ''Series/StrangerThings''). A future expansion book, "Things From The Flood", provides information for the same setting in TheNineties.
290	[[/folder]]
291
292	[[folder:Video Games]]
293	* ''VideoGame/AnnieLastHope'' is set in the 1990s, despite being released in 2020. There are posters for the then-new movies, ''Film/PulpFiction'' and ''Film/TheProfessional'', pasted all over the subway walls and shopping malls, and several video arcades can be visited.
294	* ''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'' was released from 2010 to 2011 and has the present day setting take place in 1986, 6 months after the ending of ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''.
295	* ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'': The original Famicom version came out in 1989 and specifically dates the events of the game to 1988. The English localization swaps this out for an AmbiguousTimePeriod, choosing to instead set the game ''sometime'' in the '80s without giving an exact year.
296	* ''VideoGame/EternalEvil'', being a {{retraux}} to old-school SurvivalHorror, is released in 2022 but set in 2001.
297	* ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'': Released in 2009, set in September of 2004.
298	* ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'' was set in 1986-1987 and released in 1999, but you wouldn't notice it at first glance -- especially since the main character has a Platform/SegaSaturn, which was released in '96.
299	** However, anachronistic issues like the above are only true for the first game. The second game is mostly set in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Kowloon Walled City]], which had been torn down for five years by 1999.
300	* ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'':
301	** ''House of the Dead 4'' dialed back on the ridiculous TimeSkip ''III'' pulled and is set in 2003... two years before its release date of 2005.
302	** ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'', released in 2009, goes even further back as an explicit prequel to the rest of the series, being set in 1991.
303	** ''House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn'' finally came out in 2018, but is an {{interquel}} set in 2006, between ''4'' and ''III''.
304	* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'': Released in 2009, the game is canonically set in 2001, as it is set eight years after Origins, which in turn is set in 93 if the Easter Egg detailing the re-opening of the titular Asylum is anything to go by. At the time of release the game seemed to take place in the time it was made (The year before The New '10s started) with the exception of the digital bars on cells that shock you if you try to escape.
305	* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' was released in 2014 with the trailers, and in-game itself, telling you of a Grand Reopening of the restaurant! [[TomatoSurprise Turns out it takes place during 1987]], so it's [[StealthSequel actually a prequel]] to the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys previous game]], which is itself (most likely) set in 1993. ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' are more ambiguous about when they’re set, but they likely both take place in either the TheEighties or TheNineties as well.
306	* ''VideoGame/FobiaStDinfnaHotel'' is released in 2022, and set in 2009 - 10. You'll find emails and diaries referencing the dates throughout.
307	* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series, most of the games in the "''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' era" (i.e. the ones released during MediaNotes/TheSixthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames) were explicitly set in the past:
308	** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' are explicit period pieces, respectively released in 2002 and 2004, and set in 1986 and 1992. [[spoiler:Since the setting of ''San Andreas'' is an {{expy}} of early-90s California, the final missions feature [[HistoricalInJoke the GTA universe's counterpart to the 1992 LA riots.]]]]
309	** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'' are focused more on being direct {{prequel}}s to ''Vice City'' and ''III'' while still happening to be period pieces, respectively released in 2005 and 2006, and set in 1998 and 1984.
310	** The little-known ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoAdvance'' is one of these as well, launching concurrently with ''San Andreas'' in 2004 and set in 2000 as a more direct (though also [[GaidenGame less-connected]]) prequel to ''III''.
311	** Even ''GTAIII'' itself is this, more or less unintentionally. It's set around autumn of 2001, about the same as its October '01 release, but ostensibly takes place somewhere between August to the first week of that September, because very little was [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents changed in response]] to [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the World Trade Center attacks]].
312	** Likewise, in the "HD era" games, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned'' and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'' were released in 2009 but set in late 2008, and the multiplayer content for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' was released from 2014 onward, but takes place in early 2013. ''GTAV'' also has an opening mission set in 2004, a full decade prior to its release and the setting of the rest of the game.
313	* ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne Telltale's The Walking Dead]]'' begins at the onset of the zombie apocalypse, which would coincide with the beginning of the comic book. This would mean that the game, first released in 2012/13, is initially set in 2003. Using the protagonist Clementine's age to follow the same timeline, that would mean that [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo the game's second season]] (released in 2013/14) is set circa 2005, [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree the third season]] (released in 2016/17) is set around 2007, and [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour the fourth and final season]] (released in 2018/19) is set somewhere in the vicinity of 2010-2011.
314	* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'':
315	** ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' was released in 2006. The main game itself is set in 1995, with the framing device of a documentary recorded in 2005.
316	** ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizonLegacy'' was released in 2011, but is set in 1998, owing to being a [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/AceCombat2'', which did release in '98.
317	** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' is normally not an example (released in January 2019, set from May to December of that year), but its VR campaign fits, being set in 2014.
318	* According to an official "Campster" site parodying Friendster, ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', which was released in 2006, is set during 2003.
319	* ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', released in 2019, is initially set in late 1999.
320	* ''Franchise/LifeIsStrange'' franchise:
321	** The original ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' is set in October 2013, but was [[EpisodicGame episodically]] released throughout 2015.
322	** The 2017 {{prequel}} ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'' takes place in May 2010, with a WholeEpisodeFlashback to September 2008 included in the bonus material released in 2018.
323	** An {{interquel}} game, ''VideoGame/TheAwesomeAdventuresOfCaptainSpirit'', was released in June 2018 and set in December 2016.
324	** The full episodic 2018/19 {{sequel}} ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' begins in October 2016 and spans until July 2017.
325	** ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeTrueColors'' takes place in April/May 2019 and was released in September 2021. The Deluxe Edition features a [=DLC=] bonus episode starring Steph, the events of which take place March-December 2018.
326	** ''VideoGame/TellMeWhy'', a SpiritualSuccessor to the ''Life Is Strange'' series by the original developers, uses the same technique, being set in November 2015 and released in 2020.
327	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' takes place in [[YearX 20XX]], but comparing the calendar to RealLife and background elements to the series' plotline indicates that it's 2016. The game was released in Japan in September 2016, but this trope applies for the overseas release, which was in April 2017.
328	* ''VideoGame/Event0'' was released in 2016 and set in an alternate 2012, where space travel advanced ''far'' faster than it did in the real world, to the point where the setting is a late 80s-model space ship complete with vinyl records, [=CRT=] monitors, and ugly carpets and wallpapers.
329	* The fifth game in the ''VideoGame/DeltaForce'' series, ''[[VideoGame/DeltaForceBlackHawkDown Black Hawk Down]]'', eschews the normal near-future setting in favor of a period piece set in 1993 during and around the Battle of Mogadishu. However, some of the missions take place a decade later in 2003, when the game itself was released, with the missions in the expansion ''Team Sabre'' following suit, set and released in 2004.
330	* ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint: Cold War Crisis'' was released in 2001 and set in 1985, with an epilogue of 1991. Its spiritual sequel, ''VideoGame/{{ARMA}}: Armed Assault'', was set in mid-2006 and was released in late 2006. Later ''ARMA'' games go progressively further into the future instead, though with the scenario editor allowing to set custom campaigns as far back as 1980, depending on the game.
331	* ''VideoGame/PostalIII'' doesn't explicitly state when it takes place, but through its political commentary all but outright says it's the very tail end of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's presidency in 2008, which made it [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece immediately dated]] when it actually came out in 2011.
332	* ''VideoGame/DeathTrips'' takes place on the Halloween of 2008, but was released in 2018.
333	* ''VideoGame/{{Superliminal}}'': Portable stereos and clunky computer monitors abound, along with explicit environmental mentions that the year is 1991. However, environmental text also include notes made in 2014 and 2008.
334	* ''VideoGame/RemorseTheList'' is released in 2022, and set in 1996. You can even collect Gameboys and classic VideoGame/{{Tetris}} consoles as EasterEgg items to unlock key features.
335	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
336	** After ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', which were set NextSundayAD (set in respectively July and September of 1998, released respectively in March 1996 and January 1998), ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'' went for this; both are still set around the same time frame (September and then December 1998) but released afterwards (September 1999 and February 2000).
337	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' jumped the timeline up to late 2004, which still fell into this because it came out in early 2005, before later main numbered entries would go for being set later in the same year of or in the year after their release (save for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'', which released in May 2021 and is set that February).
338	** ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles The Darkside Chronicles]]'', beyond chapters that are {{light gun\|Game}}-style retellings of prior games, center around new events in 2002 and 2003, but were released respectively in 2007 and 2009.
339	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations'' takes place in 2005, with flashbacks to 2004, and was released in 2012. ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2 Revelations 2]]'' follows suit, set in 2011 and releasing in 2015.
340	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' released in 2001 and is set in the early '90s.
341	* While the bulk of ''VideoGame/TerraInvicta'' takes place NextSundayAD and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, the game's start date is fixed to October 1st, 2022
342	* ''VideoGame/UnchartedDrakesFortune'' was released in 2007. The [[VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves sequel]] confirms (in a conveniently captioned photo in Drake's journal) that it took place in 2001.
343	* ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'' came out in 2019 and is set in a 1999 [[AnachronismStew that looks suspiciously like 2019]].
344	* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'' was released in 2009 and takes place in 1991, 2 years after the events of ''Film/GhostbustersII''.
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346
347	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
348	* ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'':
349	** ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' was first released in the early 2000s, but takes place in 1983. It's unlikely the series would work if the characters had modern day conveniences such as internet access or easily accessible cellphones. In fact, at the start of the second season of the AnimatedAdaptation, we see a now adult Rena in 2006. [[spoiler:She is now quite melancholy due to being the SoleSurvivor of her ''entire town'' after an incident in 1983.]]
350	** Likewise, ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Umineko]]'', released starting in 2007, is largely split between a series of murders in October 1986 and its aftermath in 1998. Both can be pretty anachronistic when it suits them, mostly when the author wants to make some reference to some mid-2000s moe trope or another.
351	* ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'' was released in April 2012 and takes place in December 1988.
352	* ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'' was released in August 2016, and takes place on the night before Halloween in 2010.
353	** The prequel, ''VisualNovel/GenbaNoKizuna'' started production after ''Shinrai'' and takes place on September 12, 2010.
354	* ''VideoGame/KatawaShoujo'' is a 2012 visual novel set in 2008. This is a result of it being FrozenInTime: the game's development began around 2008.
355	* ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', released in 2009 and mostly looking like it, is canonically set in 2001, as it is set eight years after ''Videogame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', which in turn is set in 93 if the Easter Egg detailing the re-opening of the titular Asylum is anything to go by.
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359	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' is an interesting case. It started its run in 2002, and is still going strong in 2018. WordOfGod says that [[http://elgoonishshive.wikia.com/wiki/El_Goonish_Shive_Timeline the fan-made timeline on the wiki]] is canon, meaning that the events of the comic take place in 2013-2014... so the comic began as NextSundayAD but is by now set in the recent past.
360	* ''Webcomic/NextSoundOfTheFuture'': The comic was started in 2022 but takes place in 2018.
361	* ''Webcomic/YumeHime'' is set in 2010, but started in 2014. According to the annotations, the story begins on the day it was first conceived.
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365	* ''WebVideo/ArtificialAceAttorney'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CATbF3u579Q Hotel Turnabout]]" was posted on July 17, 2022, and involves a murder incident in June 2022
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369	* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'': While the show is set in a ThemeParkVersion of the Middle Ages, Ned Frischman, a character that comes across a time traveling device thanks to a heap of DeusExMachina, is from the year 1994 - ten years before when the show started airing.
370	* Once every few seasons, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' does an episode of this.
371	** "The Way We Was" (1991), from the turn to TheSeventies, which featured Homer as a teenager, trying to date Marge. It featured bell-bottom pants and a Volkswagen Mini Bus.
372	** "I Married Marge" (also 1991) is set in [[TheEighties 1980]], showing Homer and Marge seeing ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' in theaters and Homer inadvertently giving away the film's [[ItWasHisSled (then-)big plot twist]] as they're leaving.
373	** "Lisa's First Word" (1992), which features Homer and Marge as a young couple with baby Bart, is set in 1983-84: Marge has a throw-away line about the final episode of ''M.A.S.H.'', and later in the episode there are numerous references to the 1984 Olympics.
374	** "That 90s Show" (2008) is set in TheNineties and was a 30-minute AffectionateParody of that decade. It had Homer and Marge in college, with Homer in a generic GarageBand and Marge with a '90s Creator/JenniferAniston haircut.
375	** Of course, being a LongRunner operating on ComicBookTime, ''The Simpsons'' features NegativeContinuity when it comes to deciding just ''which'' era is currently Twenty Minutes In The Past. If one considers a suitable timespan for this trope to be the last two or three decades, say, then a lot of that period by now falls within the period the show has actually been running in RealLife (the latter is lampshaded in "Lisa's Sax" when Homer says that in 1990, "Tracey Ullman was entertaining America with songs, sketches, and crudely drawn filler material").
376	** The third act of "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" is a retelling of ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' set in the not-so-distant past.
377	-->'''Homer''': It was a dark time for mankind, a time when madness and ignorance ruled... the 1970s.
378	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. In "Meet the Quagmires", Peter and Brian travel back in time so Peter can relive life as an 18-year old.
379	** ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'''s first ChristmasEpisode was similar, where Stan travels back in time to the 70s to stop Creator/JaneFonda from (somehow) ruining Christmas. [[spoiler:It ends with Stan traveling back in time again, this time to the '80s, where he has to undo all the damage caused by his first trip by shooting UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan.]]
380	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': While made in, and set during the 90s, when the 2000s rolled around, the show stuck around in the 90s. This is firmly established in ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', where the villain talks about how he was holding revenge for thirty years since 1968 (the movie was released in February 2001, but takes place in June 1998).
381	* Poked fun at in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', wherein the cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' travel through time [[ItMakesSenseInContext to sue the present day]] - which, at the time ''Harvey Birdman'' aired, was now set further forward in time and [[{{Zeerust}} more futuristic]] than ''The Jetsons''.
382	-->'''George Jetson:''' We're from the future.\
383	'''Elroy Jetson:''' Yeah, the 21st century!\
384	'''George Jetson:''' The magnificent far-off year of ''2002''!\
385	'''Birdman:''' ''(glances at desk calendar, dated 2004, the back to George while narrowing his eyes) [[DeadpanSnarker Really.]]''\
386	'''George Jetson:''' ''Yes'', talking ape-man! We are from a society much advanced over your own! A society driven by sprockets! A technological marvel that gives us items such as... '''this!''' ''(pulls out a cell phone [[TechnologyMarchesOn as big as his torso]]; cue Peanut [[FunnyBackgroundEvent answering a call on his own, much smaller cell phone]])''
387	* While ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' was initially treated as taking place the same year it first aired in 1997, it continued into 2000, yet in-series calendars still say '97, making the later episodes examples of this.
388	* ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'', which premiered in 2024, as the title suggests, is a SequelSeries that picks up where ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' left off when it ended in 1997.
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