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* ''Film/Spaceballs'' had a throwaway reference to a fictitious movie titled ''Rocky 5 . . . thousand.''
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* Poland 2050 is a political movement founded by Szymon Hołownia after his presidential campaign for the 2020 Polish presidential election.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_2050]]
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-->'''Rufus 3000:''' I am known as Rufus 3000. I come from the future.
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-->'''Rufus 3000:''' No. But I am one of three thousand hyper-evolved descendants of Rufus Prime.
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-->'''Rufus 3000:''' No. But I am one of three thousand hyper-evolved descendants of Rufus Prime.
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* Cyberpunk 2013, later ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk2020}}'', currently Cyberpunk Red. As the game was originally set in its eponymous years, it has now been moved to our near future, appx 2040's, with added in-universe history explaining how that timeline diverged from ours in many small and large ways.
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* The Website/FourChan board /r9k/ stands for "Robot 9001", a reference to a program thought up by ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' (called Robot 9000 instead) that discouraged memes by filtering and banning posters.
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* ''Series/OceanGirl'': The MasterComputer of ORCA is H.E.L.E.N 3000, later upgraded to H.E.L.E.N 6000.
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* ''Toy/GIJoe'': During TheEighties, this action figure line featured a subteam called [[http://yojoe.com/action/subteams/battleforce2000.shtml Battle Force 2000]] whose purpose was to test experimental, futuristic weaponry and vehicles.
* ''Toy/GIJoe'': During TheEighties, this action figure line featured a subteam called [[http://yojoe.com/action/subteams/battleforce2000.shtml Battle Force 2000]] whose purpose was to test experimental, futuristic weaponry and vehicles.
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* The German art rock/{{krautrock}} group Music/LaDusseldorf released a song named "Cha-Cha 2000" in 1978. That is, maybe the number is a play on its length, [[EpicRocking 20:00 minutes]].
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* Gary the Gadget Guy from ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'' almost always puts "3000" after the names of his inventions. He sometimes uses "2000" and "1000" for prototypes.
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* Face 9000 from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' is a computer who answers the kids' questions. He also has a brother named Face 9001.
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* In "Wonder Tool" from ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'', a salesman named Willy talks Manny into trying out a new tool called Wonder Tool 3000 that is supposed to be an all-in-one tool. It turns out to have more than a few kinks.
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* Toys/{{LEGO}} has used this trope on occasion, +2 for ''[[Toys/LEGOSpace Ice Planet 2002]]'' and +10 for ''[[Toys/LEGODinoAttack Dino 2010]]''.
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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** InUniverse, there is the Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
** InUniverse, there is the Spytron 2000, with which the Spy makes himself look like other characters, as well as store cigarettes.
** InUniverse, there is the "Pomsom 6000" for the Engineer; a sci-fi themed laser rifle which has the ability to drain 10% of cloak or uber-charge on hit.
** InUniverse, there is the Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
** InUniverse, there is the Spytron 2000, with which the Spy makes himself look like other characters, as well as store cigarettes.
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**InUniverse, there is the The Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
**InUniverse, there is the The Spytron 2000, with which the Spy makes himself look like other characters, as well as store cigarettes.
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* In ''VideoGame/EvilGenius2'', your minions have a high-tech lair-building device called the Lair Builder 5000. According to teaser videos, it is literally the five-thousandth iteration of the design, and the first 4,999 were hilariously problematic.
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* There was a "future Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}" set of comics, usually one-shots within the digests, called ''Archie 3000''.
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* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'': In "Patang Hurdang", Samosa builds an air glider called the Glider Launcher Samosa 2000 to get Vada out of the sky. When that one fails to work, he follows it up with the Glider Launcher Samosa 5000 and the Glider Launcher Samosa 10000.
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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 81, the robot Mr. Slowy brings out to help Paddi is called the Life Saver 3000.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. In "A Sitch in Time", Kim is visited by a FutureBadass version of Rufus the [[TeamPet naked mole rat]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. In "A Sitch in Time", Kim is visited by a FutureBadass version of Rufus the [[TeamPet naked mole rat]].
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-->'''Kim:''' You're from the Year 3000?
-->'''Rufus 3000:''' No. But I am one of three thousand hyper-evolved descendants of Rufus Prime.
-->'''Rufus 3000:''' I am known as Rufus 3000. I come from the future.
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* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s Wrestling/{{Xyberhawx 2000}}.
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* When [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors The Legion of Doom]] made their Wrestling/{{WWE}} comeback in 1998, they were renamed "Legion Of Doom 2000". In reality, the only things that had been updated for the new millennium were their trademark shoulder pads, which now had new and improved SpikesOfVillainy, and their manager, having swapped Wrestling/PreciousPaulEllering for [[MsFanservice Sunny]].
* ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[=WrestleMania=] XVI''.
* In Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999, Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Vampiro teamed up with [[Music/Insane Clown Posse The Insane Clown Posse]] to form [[PowerStable Deadpool]]. Later, Raven got back with the clowns and joined Wrestling/BallsMahoney to form Deadpool 2000 in ICP's [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]].
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Jay and Mark at one time teamed as The Briscoes 2000 in reference to the year they debuted in, in order to distinguish themselves from the unrelated Briscos, a more established brother tag team.
* The Spoiler 2000 was probably not the 2000th wrestler [[LegacyCharacter to wear the mask]], but he did take it up in the year 2000.
* The short-lived unsuccessful WWE tag team Tekno Team 2000. They had a futuristic gimmick and were billed as being ahead of their time, but only lasted little more than a year.
* ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[=WrestleMania=] XVI''.
* In Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999, Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Vampiro teamed up with [[Music/Insane Clown Posse The Insane Clown Posse]] to form [[PowerStable Deadpool]]. Later, Raven got back with the clowns and joined Wrestling/BallsMahoney to form Deadpool 2000 in ICP's [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]].
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Jay and Mark at one time teamed as The Briscoes 2000 in reference to the year they debuted in, in order to distinguish themselves from the unrelated Briscos, a more established brother tag team.
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* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'' is set in the year 2009, so it's noted that a rifle originally called the [=AR2000=] has been marketed as the [=AR3000=] for the past nine years.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'' episode "Rhythm Judge", Bello lampshades this when Mina shows off her newest invention, the Drumsticks 6000.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofenshmirtz's invention of the week was a WeatherControlMachine called the Gloominator 3000[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment -inator]]. "Summer Belongs to You" has the Sun-Beater 3000, which inspires a bit of LampshadeHanging from Buford.
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** Dr. Doofenshmirtz's invention of the week was a WeatherControlMachine called the Gloominator 3000[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment -inator]].
** "Summer Belongs to You" has the Sun-Beater 3000, which inspires a bit of LampshadeHanging from Buford.
** Dr. Doofenshmirtz's invention of the week was a WeatherControlMachine called the Gloominator 3000[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment -inator]].
** "Summer Belongs to You" has the Sun-Beater 3000, which inspires a bit of LampshadeHanging from Buford.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' goes twenty times better than the standard, although the current timeline is in or near the 42nd millenium.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Pip-Boy 3000, a newer model that attaches to the user's arm.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'', in "Arctic Rescue: The Great [=McStuffins=] Meltdown," a lot of the technology in the "improved" [=McStuffinsville Hospital=], such as the Checkup 3000, is named this way.
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* The Münch Mammut 2000 motorbike might be a case of Trope2000, too. On the other hand, it could be named after its displacement of roughly 2,000ccm and/or its production run that started in the year 2000.
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-> ''"It's a name, followed by a big number!"''
-->-- '''Buford''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb: Summer Belongs to You!''
By adding a large number on the end of a [[NamingConventions name]], you can imply it is a more advanced/futuristic version of an already existing person/product. By "large number", we generally mean over a thousand, as very few examples are only a hundred times better than version 1. The names tend to be used for specific things in works, and will only sometimes be used to [[TitleByNumber name the work itself]] (more common if they [[TheNamesake share the name]]).
This trope rose to prominence in the lead-up to the 21st century, because in the late 1990's people were excited about the upcoming year 2000. As part of the Information Age boom, many associate the TurnOfTheMillennium with advances in technology and improved power sources, which would lead to a number of examples overlapping with AnnualTitle (works that are named based on proximity to the year of release). People began releasing new properties of old works with 2000 as part of the name, to attract audiences to the "new and updated" release. While naming a work 2000 now is ''passé'' (since 2000 is in the past), years like 2040 and 3000 continue to collect examples that showcase "futurism" (because they haven't happened yet).
If you're looking for the actual year 2000, that's TurnOfTheMillennium. This trope is a SubTrope to NamingConventions, and shares some overlap with AnnualTitle for works released near the year 2000, as well as TitleByNumber (any work that includes a number in the title). For another area with arbitrary multiples of 1000, see PinballScoring.
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* The original name of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'''s cute mascot was "R2000". His name was later finalized as "Masha".
* ''[[Anime/TimeBokan Kaitou Kiramekiman]]'' was the first and only ''Time Bokan'' series to carry the ''Time Bokan 2000'' label as a subtitle.
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* British sci-fi comic ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' (est 1977, but still going strong).
* There was a "future Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}" set of comics, usually one-shots within the digests, called ''Archie 3000''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}''.
* The ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' comics featured the Destructo-Kat 3000 and the Baked Bean-O-Matic 3000 Electro-Flatulator.
* ''Alien Pig Farm 3000''
* ''Comicbook/{{Marvel 2099}}''
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* The titular object from ''Fanfic/ThePezDispenserAndTheReignOfTerror'' is initially named the PEZ 6000. After it gets stolen by the villain and upgraded to deadly force, it's renamed the PEZ ''[[UpToEleven 6,000,000]]''.
* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'' is set in the year 2009, so it's noted that a rifle originally called the [=AR2000=] has been marketed as the [=AR3000=] for the past nine years.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''. Though in that case, it was released just before 2000.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000''
* ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio3000'': Because when the magic in a wooden puppet is replaced/upgraded to ArtificialIntelligence, logically one just [[RandomPowerRanking adds a large number]], yes?
* ''Anime/Pokemon2000'': First released in 1999, released overseas (in the US) in the year 2000.
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* ''[[Film/OneAprilTwoThousand 1. April 2000]]'': This 1952 film is an Austrian satire in which the Allied occupation of UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} continues until 2000.
* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': An InUniverse example with the [[AIIsACrapshoot HAL 9000]] computer.
* The sequel to the first ''Film/BluesBrothers'' movie was ''Blues Brothers 2000''. Released in 1998.
* ''Film/Cherry2000''
* Creator/StephenChow's ''Film/FromBeijingWithLove'': An InUniverse example with the "Kill-You-Dead 3000". As an AffectionateParody of ''Film/JamesBond'' movies, this is a "gadget" which [[spoiler:was really a bunch of dangerous items roped together -- picture a keychain with a knife, stick, glass bottle etc.]]
* ''Film/DeathRace2000''. The "2000" was understandably dropped from the 2008 remake ''Film/DeathRace'', although "3000" and "2020" were apparently considered as alternatives at various points during the production.
* ''Film/Dracula2000'':
** The title alone got it green-lit by Miramax. When Harvey Weinstein had the meeting to set the film in motion, he was asked if the script was any good. He said it was awful, but "it's called Dracula 2000!"
** Known as ''Dracula 2001'' in the UK, because it wasn't released there until then.
* ''Dracula 3000'', a scifi vampire film (no relation to the former entry).
* ''Film/Escape2000'': Previously titled ''Escape from the Bronx'' or ''Bronx Warriors 2'', it was re-titled by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
* ''Film/Godzilla2000'', which was actually released in the US in 2000.
* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': A 1977 Italian ReligiousHorror movie, where nuclear energy may bring about the Apocalypse as described in the Literature/BookOfRevelation.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': This film, released in 1981, had a WorkingTitle of ''Telepathy 2000'', reflecting its setting of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ''Film/Splattenstein2000'': This is the second installment in the ''{{Film/Splattenstein}}'' series of Finnish low-budget splatter films.
* ''Film/TurkeyShoot'': Released in the US as ''Escape 2000''.
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* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': InUniverse, many of the gadgets created for this series are named with big round numbers for [[RuleOfCool impressive effect]], such as the Turbo Toilet 2000 and the Goosey-Grow 4000.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Series 2000'' -- which, ironically, ended publication near-immediately after the year 2000 finally rolled around.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': InUniverse example with the Nimbus 2000. Apparently previous models were numbered 1000, 1001, 1500 and 1700, so it is a mere coincidence. The next model is the 2001, possibly to make [[TheRival Malfoy]] getting one first all the more annoying.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': InUniverse example with the Solarian League Navy having a program called "Fleet 2000"[[note]]the HH date is coming up on the year 2000 Post Diaspora, which would be 4103 anno domini[[/note]], which is supposed to be a significant upgrade of combat capability. While there ''are'' improvements in the hardware, much of it is merely window dressing, modifying the outwardly visible aspects of the hardware like displays and such to be more photogenic.
* ''Magazine/Mondo2000'': TheNineties gave us this CyberPunk {{UsefulNotes/subculture}} magazine. According to the editors, the name was deliberately chosen to give the magazine an "expiration date", embracing the fact that this morning's "CuttingEdge" is tomorrow's {{Zeerust}}.
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* ''Beyond Tomorrow'' was an Australian science and invention documentary series based on The BBC's ''Tomorrow's World''. Originally titled ''Towards 2000'', the show got a make-over in 1985 and the producers decided 2000 was too close to be aiming "towards" any more. They changed it to ''Beyond 2000'', but changed names again, to ''Beyond Tomorrow'', since "beyond 2000" now also seems old-fashioned...
* ''Series/TheBigSpin'': In January 1999 this was briefly renamed ''Big Spin 2000''.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'':
** InUniverse, Frasier throws a party that nobody comes to. It turns out that his neighbor (who lives in apartment number 2000) has lured all the guests to his own party, with a banner reading "Winston Party 2000". Frasier is determined to respond in kind, until it is pointed out that "Crane Party 1901" doesn't sound quite as edgy and 'party of the future'-like.
** InUniverse, a vacuum cleaner appeared, called the Dirt Scourge 2000. When Daphne tries to clean Marty's chair, the vacuum breaks due to sheer amount of dirt. Frasier quips: "Dirt Scourge 2000, no match for the Dirt Pile 1957."
* ''Series/FullHouse'': An InUniverse SubvertedTrope when Jesse and Joey tried to sell their new hair spray shield the Spray Guard 2000--and one!
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': The InUniverse "Binford 6100" line of products.
* ''Series/KnightRider'':
** InUniverse, "KITT" is an acronym for '''K'''night '''I'''ndustries '''T'''wo '''T'''housand.
** Based on KITT's name, [[MarketBasedTitle the French release]] is ''K2000''.
** ''Film/KnightRider2000'': TheMovie of the series.
* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': The recurring segment, "In the Year 2000", which continued well past the actual year.
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'': A spoof 'retro' [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] series, which lovingly recreated the feel of a turn-of-the-'80s science & technology show in the vein of ''Tomorrow's World'', had its "Music 2000" segment "predicting" what music would be like in the year 2000. In 2005.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' was originally going to be titled ''Mystery Science Theater 2000''. Best Brains changed the title because the year 2000 was too soon in the future (though the 2000 was meant to be a version number, someone just thought it meant the year).
* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': InUniverse, the team tests whether one can find a needle in a haystack, so Adam Savage creates a needle-finding machine christened the Needlefinder 2000.
* {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s ''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'': A short-lived remake of the classic game show titled ''Double Dare 2000'' aired throughout the appropriate year.
* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': InUniverse, Conky the robot's full name is "Conky 2000".
* ''Series/ThatPeterKayThing'': InUniverse, Marc Park -- an arrogant pop star -- releases a Christmas album called, "Christmas 2000", swearing that he's not doing it to cash in on the millennium craze. The interviewer points out that it's actually Christmas 1999.
* ''{{Series/Raggs}}'': InUniverse, every single contraption made has a multiple of 100 or 1,000 slapped on the end of it.
* A variation, ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' in Australia was briefly re-named ''Sale of the '''New''' Century'' in 2000.
* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': InUniverse during the first season, Dr Sean made a useless handcrafted fishing pole which he dubbed the "Superpole 2000".
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'': A children's version spinoff is called ''Wheel 2000'', despite airing in 1997.
* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': InUniverse, Ryan Stiles has used the name "[=XK-5000=]" a couple of times for imaginary inventions.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace'': InUniverse, Jack has a one-man show called "Just Jack!" which he later updates to "Just Jack 2000!"
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[[folder:Music And Sound Effects 2000]]
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_jbluF0qo 3030]]'': The sci-fi concept rap album by Dan the Automator and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (Deltron in the album), which takes place in the same year. The followup album, ''Event II'', takes place in the year 3040, although it was actually released closer to [[ScheduleSlip fifteen real-world years]] after the first than ten.
* Music/BazookaGirls had a Eurobeat track called "velfarre 2000", named after a popular nightclub that has since closed (but re-opened as Nicofarre, owned by ''Website/NicoNicoDouga'').
* {{Music/Daze}}: The Eurodance group had a single, "Sex 2000", in their 1999 album, ''They Came to Rule''.
* Music/FatboySlim's track "Acid 8000".
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords: Most likely deliberately subverted in their song "The Humans are Dead", which starts "The distant future...The year 2000..." and goes on to poke fun at various science fiction concepts. (Unless they really did write it when they were very, very young.)
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}'s song "Ape Dos Mil", a Spanish BilingualBonus, as the name means "Ape 2000".
* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' song "19-2000".
* {{Music/Hum}}'s first album was ''Elektra 2000''
* Music/JeanMichelJarre's ''Sessions 2000'': Released in 2002, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it contained material recorded during something similar to electronic jam sessions in 2000]].
* The Music/{{Kraftwerk}} single ''Expo 2000'', filled with repeating soundbytes of different voices saying "the twenty-first century" throughout.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_%28software%29 Music 2000]], the sequel of Music, a composing, sequencing, and video making facility on the Playstation. They took it UpToEleven with Music 3000, which was a significantly worse bit of Software.
* Music/OutKast member Andre 3000 (stage name for Andre Benjamin).
* Music/Powerman5000, an AlternativeMetal band.
* Pulp's 'Disco 2000' superficially plays this trope straight by using it in the song's name, but truthfully probably subverts it in being a more nostalgic, wistful song than the glitzy, futuristic title would suggest. It does lyrically look forward to the date: ''"Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown"''. As sung by a 32-year-old in 1995.
* Music/{{Silverchair}}: One of the band's bigger hits was the single "Anthem for the year 2000", which seemed to be a bit of a hit out against governments that promised to fix things in the medium to long term future.
* Let's talk about electronic musical instruments, shall we?
** Korg used to make a Polyphonic Ensemble PE-2000. Then again, it was meant to be a companion to the PE-1000.
** And they made the CR-8000 drum machine, their only one with four digits.
** Roland had the early preset synth SH-2000 which is actually a slimmed-down SH-1000.
** Farfisa's biggest home organ in [[TheSeventies the late 1970s]] was the Maharani 2000, successor to a similar model named just Maharani.
** The Powertran Transcendent 2000, lackluster as it may be.
** Creator/SequentialCircuits: Their first sampler is named the Prophet 2000, with 2000 definitely meaning nothing but hypermodern (because it was released in 1985).
** Creator/{{Kurzweil}}:
*** Makers of music workstations, they've had several models, which skip numbers to encourage the idea that these are much more advanced than previous models. They've released the models K150, K250, K1000, and K1200 during the late 20th century.
*** Shortly after having been sold to Young Chang, in 1991, they released a very powerful music workstation named K2000 which was several years ahead of its time and, if fitted with the sampling option, outshone every last sampler on the market.
** E-mu Systems named the successor of their rack-mounted [=Proteus/1=] [=ROMpler=] expander Proteus 2000. It came out in 1999. The orchestral version [=Proteus/3=] was followed by the Virtuoso 2000.
** Sometimes, 2000 aren't enough. Roger Linn's last masterpiece under his own flag was the Linn 9000.
** The Akai S2000 is a kind of [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] because it's actually the cheap little brother of the S3000 and S3200 models.
** The Akai [=MPC2000=] and [=MPC2000XL=], on the other hand, remained the must-have drum samplers for quite a while. Roger Linn was involved with both.
** Japanese synth manufacturers seemed to love four-digit numbers for their virtual-analog synths in [[TheNineties the late '90s]]: Roland JP-8000 (named after the Jupiter-8) and Korg [=MS2000=] (named after the MS-20).
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[[folder:Pinball 2000]]
* Creator/{{Atari}}'s widebody ''Time 2000'', released in 1977. The instruction card boasts "Experience the future of pinball!"
* ''Pinball/BlackKnight2000'': The 1989 {{pinball}} game, and {{sequel}} to 1980's ''Pinball/BlackKnight''.
* Creator/BrianSchmidt's BSMT 2000[[note]]"BSMT" stands for "Brian Schmidt's Mouse Trap"[[/note]] audio DSP, used in many Creator/DataEast and early Creator/{{Stern}} {{pinball}} games. The first game to use this was Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/BatmanDataEast Batman]]'', released 1991, and the last was Creator/SternPinball's ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' released in 2003.
* ''Cirsa Sport 2000'' was a futuristic sports-themed pinball table released by Unidesa in 1988.
* ''Pinball/SafeCracker'' has the CANDY 2000 security system.
* Creator/SternElectronics' ''Pinball/Flight2000'', released in 1980.
* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' "Pinball 2000" platform, which was their last pinball platform before leaving the pinball business in 1999. It integrated a video screen into pinball. Ironically, after 1999, pinball went right back to using the familiar dot matrix displays that they had been using for most of TheNineties, largely because Williams went out of business after releasing only two Pinball 2000 tables (''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' and ''Pinball/StarWarsEpisodeI'').
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling 2000]]
* When [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors The Legion of Doom]] made their Wrestling/{{WWE}} comeback in 1998, they were renamed "Legion Of Doom 2000". In reality, the only things that had been updated for the new millennium were their trademark shoulder pads, which now had new and improved SpikesOfVillainy, and their manager, having swapped Wrestling/PreciousPaulEllering for [[MsFanservice Sunny]].
* ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[=WrestleMania=] XVI''.
* In Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999, Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Vampiro teamed up with [[Music/Insane Clown Posse The Insane Clown Posse]] to form [[PowerStable Deadpool]]. Later, Raven got back with the clowns and joined Wrestling/BallsMahoney to form Deadpool 2000 in ICP's [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]].
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Jay and Mark at one time teamed as The Briscoes 2000 in reference to the year they debuted in, in order to distinguish themselves from the unrelated Briscos, a more established brother tag team.
* The Spoiler 2000 was probably not the 2000th wrestler [[LegacyCharacter to wear the mask]], but he did take it up in the year 2000.
* The short-lived unsuccessful WWE tag team Tekno Team 2000. They had a futuristic gimmick and were billed as being ahead of their time, but only lasted little more than a year.
* The Obscenely Expensive [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Jeritron 5000]]!
* The last iteration of [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the nWo]] in WCW was referred to as [=nWo=] 2000.
* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s Wrestling/{{Xyberhawx 2000}}.
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[[folder:Stand Up Comedy 2000]]
* Creator/MelBrooks and Creator/CarlReiner performed an updated version of their "2000 Year Old Man" routine, titled "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" (performed in 1997).
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[[folder:Tabletop Game 2000]]
* ''TabletopGame/Twilight2000'', a game from the 1980s set in the war-torn future year 2000.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' goes twenty times better than the standard, although the current timeline is in or near the 42nd millenium.
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[[folder:Toy 2000]]
* ''Toy/GIJoe'': During TheEighties, this action figure line featured a subteam called [[http://yojoe.com/action/subteams/battleforce2000.shtml Battle Force 2000]] whose purpose was to test experimental, futuristic weaponry and vehicles.
* Toys/{{LEGO}} has used this trope on occasion, +2 for ''[[Toys/LEGOSpace Ice Planet 2002]]'' and +10 for ''[[Toys/LEGODinoAttack Dino 2010]]''.
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[[folder:Video Game 2000]]
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': InUniverse, Gruntilda has a broom called the Lardmaster 2000.
* ''Chessmaster *000''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': Used InUniverse with the {{BFG}} 9000.
* ''VideoGame/DuneII'' received a remake/sequel in 1998, titled ''Dune 2000''.
* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'':
** The Pip-Boy 2000, manufactured by [=RobCo=] Industries/Vault-Tec, is a handheld computer device used by the player character in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel''.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Pip-Boy 3000, a newer model that attaches to the user's arm.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Also existing in this game is the Pimp-Boy 3 Billion.
* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'': The WorkingTitle for the third game was "Gran Turismo 2000". It was changed to "Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec" when the year 2000 came and went by the time the final version was released.
* ''VideoGame/JauntTrooper'', an AfterTheEnd {{Roguelike}} series, first appeared in 1987 as ''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''.
* Creator/SeibuKaihatsu: A number of their later arcade hits, including ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}} II'', ''Zero Team'', ''VideoGame/RaidenFighters 2'', and ''Raiden Fighters JET'', were rereleased in 2000 with "2000" appended to the end of the title. Some of these rereleases are commonly mistaken as bootlegs due to using cheaper, inferior sound hardware.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'': InUniverse, they have the Cyber-Sniff 2000.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': InUniverse, used as for The Poltergust 3000, as well as [[PunnyName Professor E. Gadd's]] later Poltergust models.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Porsche Unleashed'' was called ''[[{{MarketBasedTitle}} Need for Speed 2000]]'' in Germany due to its release date.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': Used InUniverse with the {{BFG}} 10000.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': InUniverse, they have the Maimtron 9000, a clockwork HumongousMecha.
* ''VideoGame/SimCity'': The first sequel was 1994's ''[=SimCity=] 2000''. The next, released in 1999, is ''[=SimCity=] 3000''. The pattern ended with 2003's ''Sim City 4''.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** InUniverse, there is the Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
** InUniverse, there is the Spytron 2000, with which the Spy makes himself look like other characters, as well as store cigarettes.
** InUniverse, there is the "Pomsom 6000" for the Engineer; a sci-fi themed laser rifle which has the ability to drain 10% of cloak or uber-charge on hit.
* ''Top Gear 3000'': Third installment of the ''VideoGame/TopGear'' game series, with a futuristic setting.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'', the PC arcade game by Creator/EpicGames (then Epic [=MegaGames=]), was re-released in 1999 as ''Tyrian 2000''.
* ''UltraSuperDeathGorefestChainsawer3000''
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': InUniverse, Goblin and gnome SchizoTech beat this trope to death.
* ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNKMillenniumFight2000''. [[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium The sequel]] is subtitled ''Mark of the Millennium 2001'' (''Millionare Fighting 2001'' in Japan).
* The Henchman 800 and 1000 in ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}} M/Arena''. In an inversion, the 1000 is actually an older model, with the 800 apparently being new and improved in comparison.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}} 2000'' for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, a 1994 sequel to the original 1981 arcade game. Atari followed up with ''VideoGame/{{Defender}} 2000'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlezone|1980}} 2000''.
** ''Tempest 2000'' itself was also followed up by ''Tempest 3000'' and ''[=TxK=]'', the latter of which became a more official sequel as ''Tempest 4000''.
* The sequel to ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Solo Bass Mix'' was ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Solo 2000'', released in December 1999. This was followed by ''Solo 4thMIX'' which was the last ''Solo'' game.
* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 3050'' for the UsefulNotes/SuperNES. Though it is set in the year 3050.
* The hospital in ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'' includes the "Vend-A-Cure 9000", an immobile robot that talks, accepts urine samples, and drops [[MagicAntidote anti-gonorrhea pills]].
* ''Faceball 2000''
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010''.
** ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' parodies the game with the level "Future Fuckballs 2010".
* ''Firepower 2000'', a MarketBasedTitle for the 1992 top down shooter ''Super SWIV''. Oddly, while it DOES take place in the then-future, it's set in 1997 instead of 2000.
* The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) is perhaps better known by its later name: the UsefulNotes/Atari2600.
** Its successors, the Atari 5200 and the Atari 7800.
* ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} TDR 2000''.
* The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo game ''Super Baseball 2020'', released 1991.
* ''VideoGame/TaikoNoTatsujin'' has '''22''' songs where the title ends with 2000. [[http://taikotime.blogspot.fr/2010/08/namco-original-showcase-2000-songs.html A complete list of the songs can be found here.]]
** Then there is the AprilFoolsDay special song ''Yokuderu 15300''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]It is simply ''Yokuderu 2000'', but sped up [[GoroawaseNumber 7.65]] times.[[/labelnote]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Speedball}} Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe]]'', one of the computer-controlled teams is named "Rage 2000." The game also received a VideoGameRemake for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 2000 titled ''Speedball 2100''.
* ''Galaxy 5000'', a futuristic VehicularCombat game by Creator/{{Activision}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem.
* ''Videogame/IttleDew'' and ''VideoGame/SlapCity'' have a [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower very strong]] [[FishPerson platypus man]] named Ultra Fishbunjin 3000.
* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' uses a variation on this naming convention for its E-Liter 3K, a powerful charger-type weapon. The newer model that appears in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' is called the [[SerialEscalation E-Liter 4K]].
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[[folder:Web Animation 2000]]
* In the DVD-exclusive ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "Comic Book Movie", Strong Bad refers to the Hollywood cliche of [[HellBentForLeather putting comic book superheroes in one color, head-to-toe leather, regardless of whether they wear it in the comic,]] as "[=LeatherQuest=] 2000".
* [[WebAnimation/PonyDotMov MAGIC.MOV]]: The [[RobotMe R-Dash 5000]].
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[[folder:Web Comic 2000]]
* Combining this with Ridiculous Future Sequelisation, ''WebComic/CommanderKitty'' brings us the [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/01/16/mittens-has-another-cunning-plan/ Funstation 3000.]]
* ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'' brings us the [[http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=108 DiveMaster 4000.]]
* ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' [[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20001229.shtml lampshades it.]]
-->'''Checkerboard Nightmare:''' I was living in the year 2000 all this time! I knew it was 2000, but... Man, I ''blew'' it! Do you ''realize'' we were living in ''the year 2000?!''\\
'''Vaporware:''' Yup.\\
'''Checkerboard Nightmare:''' I could have tacked "2000" onto the end of so many things. What a waste.
* [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Jane Crocker's]] Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Stirring Solution 5000, which [[ForkFencing happens to be]] her WeaponOfChoice.
* ''Webcomic/KidRadd'' has the Gnarlborg 2000.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has the Fruit Fucker 2000.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' has the [[https://www.xkcd.com/2000/ xkcd Phone 2000]], the seventh in its series and the 2000th comic.
* ''Webcomic/JuvenileDiversion'', set in the years 1988 and 1989, has the Saunders Virtual Reality Creator 6000.
* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'': The Electro-plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000, a cutting edge steampunk device to automatically generate genre fiction summaries.
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[[folder:Web Original 2000]]
* Website/{{Neopets}} used this trope a lot when naming their space themed weapons and [=PetPets=], as well as a good portion of the battledome items.
* Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel [[RunningGag tends to]] name his new tools of destruction this way, though usually with the number 5,000,000. His names for said tools tend to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin due to Lauri's imperfect English, for example [[FunetikAksent de Fraying Pan Mekker Faif Milyonn, de Slaisser Faif Milyonn]], and [[RuleOfThree de Vörm Mekker Faif Milyonn.]] (he's made many more than these)
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[[folder:Western Animation 2000]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Episode L.I.Z.Z.I.E features a mind controlling helmet meant to brainwash the male sex. "The Yes Dear 5000? They SELL these things!?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', for its 2000 season, suffixed the titles of the first four episodes with "2000" as a parody of this trope.
** The second episode is called "Weight Gain 4000", which is the name of a bodybuilding supplement used in the episode.
** Another episode had Cartman wearing the "Kidney Blocker 2000" ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to prevent Stan from taking one of his kidneys]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s pilot episode was called "Space Pilot 3000", as the hero is cryonically frozen for just under one thousand years on the turn of the century.
** One episode has a machine called the "Juicinator 4000", named so because it was already 3000.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "Toga! Toga! Toga! 2000!" (Itself something of a casting/Landis-sequel reference to ''Blues Brothers 2000''.)
** Another episode featured the Ultrahouse 3000.
* The cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' includes a character, Widget, who is always creating inventions with a '3000' slapped at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' (the animated series): Many of the episodes involve something to do with the design, sale, production, etc. of the "Gruntmaster 6000", which was just a trimmed down version of the "Gruntmaster 9000". The name was created in the first episode, when Dilbert had to come up with a name for a new product, and [[spoiler:Dilmom]] suggested the name. Later, after finding out that the VP wasn't going to like the name they came up with (due to a NoodleIncident in the VP's childhood, only it was promptly [[AvertedTrope revealed]]), Dilbert suggested "The Gruntmaster". Possible LampshadeHanging ensued immediately after, when the VP said something was missing, and [[spoiler:Dogbert]] added the 6000 suffix. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the Gruntmaster ended up being a very strangely-designed ''exercise machine'', and during product testing, a family of hillbillies broke a component that created a '''[-BLACK HOLE-]'''.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' sometimes featured machines whose name included a multiple of a thousand. When asked why a machine is named "Thing Y000", the answer is always "Because Thing X999 failed".
* On ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', Ootsie and Bootsies' toys were often named in this manner and they would often say that they were "twice as good as (toy with number half that of the newer toy.)"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has a electronics shop called "Ripley 2000".
** Lampshaded in "The Refund" when Darwin asks "Why is it 2000 anyway? It's not like it's the future anymore."
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofenshmirtz's invention of the week was a WeatherControlMachine called the Gloominator 3000[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment -inator]]. "Summer Belongs to You" has the Sun-Beater 3000, which inspires a bit of LampshadeHanging from Buford.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Romance Academy 7 is made by "Year 2000 Electronics". [[TheDitz Soos]] replies with "Man, I can't wait for the year 2000!" [[DontExplainTheJoke The episode was released in 2014, and the series takes place during Summer 2012.]]
* Combined with ThingOMatic in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlaminThongs'' where all of Holden's inventions are named "the <something>-o-matic 2000".
* The synthesizer that [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] wants to buy with the prize money in "Spelling Bee" is the ToneMaster 2000.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Subverted in the episode "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo buys a magic kit labeled "Magic 2000", but later reveals that the kit actually has 2000 pieces in it.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000''. While the show does fellow a group of students at a creative arts school, it takes place in the present day (i.e. TheNoughties). The title alludes to creator [[CelebrityToons André "3000" Benjamin]], who voices their teacher.
* "WesternAnimation/{{Automania 2000}}" is a satirical 1963 cartoon about a future in which humanity is literally drowned in a flood of giant gas-guzzling cars.
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[[folder:Real Life 2000]]
* Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.
** The Re.2000 designation was a model number series assigned to Reggiane to avoid confusion with the C.200 model numbers assigned to Macchi and the G.50 model numbers assigned to Fiat.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_2000 Mirage 2000.]]
* The Eurofighter Typhoon was known as the EF 2000 for a while.
** It started out as "Jäger 90" (Hunter 90, fighter [aircraft] 90) in Germany.
* The ''Annals of Improbable Research'' kept a collection of these under the heading "Project [=AIRHead=] 2000".
* For some horrible reason, number plates in the Australian state of New South Wales had "Towards 2000" as their state motto towards the end of the 90s. As they entered the year itself and the Sydney 2000 Olympics drew closer, a series of number plates celebrating the aforementioned year and event soon sprung up.
* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] 2000, named after its year of release. Although this was dropped in the desktop versions with XP and Vista, the server versions kept the year theme with Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, and 2016.
** Averted with Windows ME, short for Millennium Edition. This was the last DOS-based Windows (2000 was NT-based, and XP merged the two lines).
** Also played straight with its productivity suite counterpart, ''Office 2000'' (which would stick to year naming afterwards).
* This trend was once annoyingly common in Internet usernames, to the point where ''Yahoo!'' would offer this (and 2001) as an alternative to a taken name during registration.
* Appliance manufacturers also seem fond of this: the ''[=TurboFry 2000=]'', among others.
** Montgomery Ward's store appliance brand was called Signature 2000. Ironically enough, 2000 ended up being the year Montgomery Ward declared bankruptcy.
* Somewhat played straight: UsefulNotes/{{Xbox360}}. They couldn't just call it the Xbox 2 because that would put them a step behind Sony; no, they had to have 180 2s to beat Sony's 3. Of course, their other option was Xenon, so maybe it was for the best. [[StealthPun It's because it's a revolution]]. Mind you, the Revolution was named the Wii. And as any number of Internet wags will tell you, turning 360 degrees leaves you right back where you started.
** Inverted by the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which uses a comically ''low'' number rather than a comically ''high'' one. The ubiquitous joke being that it's two big steps backward from the third Xbox, and three steps behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, or just 359 steps back from its predecessor.
** The marketing reason, if you want to believe them, is that the 360 is supposed to revolve around your entertainment, while the Xbox One is supposed to be the ''one'' device for all your entertainment needs (in addition to game playing, disc-watching and streaming, you can also hook it up to your cable/satellite/telco box and watch it through the One).
** It also ties in with the other "One"-prefixed products of Microsoft's ([=OneDrive=], [=OneNote=], etc.), making it one of their equivalents to Apple's [=iThing=], too.
* Lever 2000. Yeah it's soap with 2000 on it. Who knew?
** Hey, it's for ''all'' your 2000 parts. Now, count 'em!
* The PC company "Gateway 2000" later changed their name to just "Gateway" in 1998. At that point, it probably didn't seem so cutting edge.
* PC hardware companies tend to use high numbers for their models, though it's not just for marketing, it's more a MeaningfulName. For example, the sane ones use the largest digit as the generation number for that product, with the rest of the numbers indicating relative performance within each other.
* Averted by car names, where a 2000 usually means that the engine has a displacement of (roughly) 2000cm³ (2 liters). Examples are the Alfa Romeo Spider 2000[[note]]the 2 liter version was called Spider 2.0 in the second half of the 1980s - again a MeaningfulName; the 1600cm³ version became the Spider 1.6[[/note]] (other variants were the Spider 1300 and the Spider 1600). Or the BMW 2000[[note]]with a twist a few years later on - the later BMW 2002 also had a 2 liter engine and the "02" just indicates that it was a later, more modern version[[/note]].
* The Swedish tilting bullet train X2000.
* The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS) introduced their "Bahn 2000" (Railway 2000) concept in the late 1980s, complete with a new electric locomotive class, the Re 460 also known as "Lok 2000" (Locomotive 2000).
* ABB Henschel's [=Eco2000=] locomotive platform from the mid-1990s. All that came out of it were prototypes rebuilt from older locomotives before the [=ADtranz=] merger, the German class 101 express locomotive, and its derivative, the UsefulNotes/NewJerseyTransit [=ALP46=].
* The Münch Mammut 2000 motorbike might be a case of Trope2000, too. On the other hand, it could be named after its displacement of roughly 2,000ccm and/or its production run that started in the year 2000.
* Hamburg's standard harbor ferry class of the 21st century, the "Fähre 2000" (Ferry 2000).
* The [=MAN=] truck line [=F2000=].
* In TheEighties, one school's chosen [[PublicServiceAnnouncement anti-drug curriculum]] had a goal of making society drug-free by the year 2000. [[spoiler:It didn't work.]]
* There are several firearms with a 2000 in their name, some of the more famous being:
** The PP-2000 sub-machine gun
** The FN F2000 assault rifle
** The Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle
** The CZ 2000 weapon system
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thameslink_Programme Thameslink Programme]] was originally called "Thameslink 2000". The name change might have something to do with the numerous schedule slips -- at the time of writing, it's expected to be complete by 2018.
* In the Philippines, the hardtop version of the 1980 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corona Toyota Corona]] was marketed as the "Corona 2000" due to its 2000cc engine. That and its body style earned it the nickname [[CoolCar "Macho Car"]].
* In 1999, the Hostess company released ''Twinkies 2000'' to the store shelves. They weren't alone; [[http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=19991212&uc_comic=su several processed foodstuffs]] had special millennium-branded releases that year.
* The Northern German holiday resort Ostseebad [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp,_Germany Damp]], built in the early [[TheSeventies 70s]], used to be named Damp 2000 originally.
* The Pontiac 6000: an average sedan made six thousand times more awesome.
* Due to a common naming format, British legislation introduced in 2000 apes this format, including the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000 Terrorism Act 2000.]].
* A brand of shower gel called "Shower 2000," around since at least the mid-'90s (when shower gel still seemed a bit futuristic). Interestingly enough, it's [[http://www.colorandflavorshop.com/product.php?productid=13149 still available.]]
* As of 2013, public transportation in Western Germany offers a ''[=Ticket2000=]'', introduced in 1991.
* The JPEG 2000 image standard. Though it was meant to be a improvement, created in the year 2000, on the original JPEG standard.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000 Video 2000]] standard, but even 2000 wasn't enough to beat VHS.
* The Netherlands called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio Terrestrial Trunked Radio]] network for police, fire and ambulance "C2000". This network, plagued by delays and various problems, was introduced in... 2004.
* Some of Penzeys' spice blends follow this trope; e.g. Chili 3000 ("the chili of now") and Chili 9000 ("the chili of tomorrow").
* A 1969 RCA television set called the Two Thousand [[https://gizmodo.com/5038235/rcas-1969-two-thousand-tv-was-computerized-vision-of-future-for-2000]]. Made in a limited run of 2,000, with a price of $2000, it had computer memory and such actual 21st-Century features as storing your favorite channels. It wasn't flat-screen, though, but it looked pretty sleek.
* The Hardi Rubicon 9000 crop sprayer, though it's more of a MeaningfulName as the 9000 comes from its 9000 liter tank.
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-> ''"It's a name, followed by a big number!"''
-->-- '''Buford''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb: Summer Belongs to You!''
By adding a large number on the end of a [[NamingConventions name]], you can imply it is a more advanced/futuristic version of an already existing person/product. By "large number", we generally mean over a thousand, as very few examples are only a hundred times better than version 1. The names tend to be used for specific things in works, and will only sometimes be used to [[TitleByNumber name the work itself]] (more common if they [[TheNamesake share the name]]).
This trope rose to prominence in the lead-up to the 21st century, because in the late 1990's people were excited about the upcoming year 2000. As part of the Information Age boom, many associate the TurnOfTheMillennium with advances in technology and improved power sources, which would lead to a number of examples overlapping with AnnualTitle (works that are named based on proximity to the year of release). People began releasing new properties of old works with 2000 as part of the name, to attract audiences to the "new and updated" release. While naming a work 2000 now is ''passé'' (since 2000 is in the past), years like 2040 and 3000 continue to collect examples that showcase "futurism" (because they haven't happened yet).
If you're looking for the actual year 2000, that's TurnOfTheMillennium. This trope is a SubTrope to NamingConventions, and shares some overlap with AnnualTitle for works released near the year 2000, as well as TitleByNumber (any work that includes a number in the title). For another area with arbitrary multiples of 1000, see PinballScoring.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga 2000]]
* The original name of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'''s cute mascot was "R2000". His name was later finalized as "Masha".
* ''[[Anime/TimeBokan Kaitou Kiramekiman]]'' was the first and only ''Time Bokan'' series to carry the ''Time Bokan 2000'' label as a subtitle.
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[[folder:Comic Book 2000]]
* British sci-fi comic ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' (est 1977, but still going strong).
* There was a "future Franchise/{{Archie|Comics}}" set of comics, usually one-shots within the digests, called ''Archie 3000''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}''.
* The ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' comics featured the Destructo-Kat 3000 and the Baked Bean-O-Matic 3000 Electro-Flatulator.
* ''Alien Pig Farm 3000''
* ''Comicbook/{{Marvel 2099}}''
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[[folder:Fan Fic 2000]]
* The titular object from ''Fanfic/ThePezDispenserAndTheReignOfTerror'' is initially named the PEZ 6000. After it gets stolen by the villain and upgraded to deadly force, it's renamed the PEZ ''[[UpToEleven 6,000,000]]''.
* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'' is set in the year 2009, so it's noted that a rifle originally called the [=AR2000=] has been marketed as the [=AR3000=] for the past nine years.
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[[folder:Film 2000 -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''. Though in that case, it was released just before 2000.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000''
* ''WesternAnimation/Pinocchio3000'': Because when the magic in a wooden puppet is replaced/upgraded to ArtificialIntelligence, logically one just [[RandomPowerRanking adds a large number]], yes?
* ''Anime/Pokemon2000'': First released in 1999, released overseas (in the US) in the year 2000.
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[[folder:Film 2000 -- Live-Action]]
* ''[[Film/OneAprilTwoThousand 1. April 2000]]'': This 1952 film is an Austrian satire in which the Allied occupation of UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} continues until 2000.
* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': An InUniverse example with the [[AIIsACrapshoot HAL 9000]] computer.
* The sequel to the first ''Film/BluesBrothers'' movie was ''Blues Brothers 2000''. Released in 1998.
* ''Film/Cherry2000''
* Creator/StephenChow's ''Film/FromBeijingWithLove'': An InUniverse example with the "Kill-You-Dead 3000". As an AffectionateParody of ''Film/JamesBond'' movies, this is a "gadget" which [[spoiler:was really a bunch of dangerous items roped together -- picture a keychain with a knife, stick, glass bottle etc.]]
* ''Film/DeathRace2000''. The "2000" was understandably dropped from the 2008 remake ''Film/DeathRace'', although "3000" and "2020" were apparently considered as alternatives at various points during the production.
* ''Film/Dracula2000'':
** The title alone got it green-lit by Miramax. When Harvey Weinstein had the meeting to set the film in motion, he was asked if the script was any good. He said it was awful, but "it's called Dracula 2000!"
** Known as ''Dracula 2001'' in the UK, because it wasn't released there until then.
* ''Dracula 3000'', a scifi vampire film (no relation to the former entry).
* ''Film/Escape2000'': Previously titled ''Escape from the Bronx'' or ''Bronx Warriors 2'', it was re-titled by ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
* ''Film/Godzilla2000'', which was actually released in the US in 2000.
* ''Film/Holocaust2000'': A 1977 Italian ReligiousHorror movie, where nuclear energy may bring about the Apocalypse as described in the Literature/BookOfRevelation.
* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': This film, released in 1981, had a WorkingTitle of ''Telepathy 2000'', reflecting its setting of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ''Film/Splattenstein2000'': This is the second installment in the ''{{Film/Splattenstein}}'' series of Finnish low-budget splatter films.
* ''Film/TurkeyShoot'': Released in the US as ''Escape 2000''.
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[[folder:Literature 2000]]
* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': InUniverse, many of the gadgets created for this series are named with big round numbers for [[RuleOfCool impressive effect]], such as the Turbo Toilet 2000 and the Goosey-Grow 4000.
* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Series 2000'' -- which, ironically, ended publication near-immediately after the year 2000 finally rolled around.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': InUniverse example with the Nimbus 2000. Apparently previous models were numbered 1000, 1001, 1500 and 1700, so it is a mere coincidence. The next model is the 2001, possibly to make [[TheRival Malfoy]] getting one first all the more annoying.
* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': InUniverse example with the Solarian League Navy having a program called "Fleet 2000"[[note]]the HH date is coming up on the year 2000 Post Diaspora, which would be 4103 anno domini[[/note]], which is supposed to be a significant upgrade of combat capability. While there ''are'' improvements in the hardware, much of it is merely window dressing, modifying the outwardly visible aspects of the hardware like displays and such to be more photogenic.
* ''Magazine/Mondo2000'': TheNineties gave us this CyberPunk {{UsefulNotes/subculture}} magazine. According to the editors, the name was deliberately chosen to give the magazine an "expiration date", embracing the fact that this morning's "CuttingEdge" is tomorrow's {{Zeerust}}.
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[[folder:Live Action TV 2000]]
* ''Beyond Tomorrow'' was an Australian science and invention documentary series based on The BBC's ''Tomorrow's World''. Originally titled ''Towards 2000'', the show got a make-over in 1985 and the producers decided 2000 was too close to be aiming "towards" any more. They changed it to ''Beyond 2000'', but changed names again, to ''Beyond Tomorrow'', since "beyond 2000" now also seems old-fashioned...
* ''Series/TheBigSpin'': In January 1999 this was briefly renamed ''Big Spin 2000''.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'':
** InUniverse, Frasier throws a party that nobody comes to. It turns out that his neighbor (who lives in apartment number 2000) has lured all the guests to his own party, with a banner reading "Winston Party 2000". Frasier is determined to respond in kind, until it is pointed out that "Crane Party 1901" doesn't sound quite as edgy and 'party of the future'-like.
** InUniverse, a vacuum cleaner appeared, called the Dirt Scourge 2000. When Daphne tries to clean Marty's chair, the vacuum breaks due to sheer amount of dirt. Frasier quips: "Dirt Scourge 2000, no match for the Dirt Pile 1957."
* ''Series/FullHouse'': An InUniverse SubvertedTrope when Jesse and Joey tried to sell their new hair spray shield the Spray Guard 2000--and one!
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': The InUniverse "Binford 6100" line of products.
* ''Series/KnightRider'':
** InUniverse, "KITT" is an acronym for '''K'''night '''I'''ndustries '''T'''wo '''T'''housand.
** Based on KITT's name, [[MarketBasedTitle the French release]] is ''K2000''.
** ''Film/KnightRider2000'': TheMovie of the series.
* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': The recurring segment, "In the Year 2000", which continued well past the actual year.
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'': A spoof 'retro' [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] series, which lovingly recreated the feel of a turn-of-the-'80s science & technology show in the vein of ''Tomorrow's World'', had its "Music 2000" segment "predicting" what music would be like in the year 2000. In 2005.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' was originally going to be titled ''Mystery Science Theater 2000''. Best Brains changed the title because the year 2000 was too soon in the future (though the 2000 was meant to be a version number, someone just thought it meant the year).
* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': InUniverse, the team tests whether one can find a needle in a haystack, so Adam Savage creates a needle-finding machine christened the Needlefinder 2000.
* {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s ''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'': A short-lived remake of the classic game show titled ''Double Dare 2000'' aired throughout the appropriate year.
* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': InUniverse, Conky the robot's full name is "Conky 2000".
* ''Series/ThatPeterKayThing'': InUniverse, Marc Park -- an arrogant pop star -- releases a Christmas album called, "Christmas 2000", swearing that he's not doing it to cash in on the millennium craze. The interviewer points out that it's actually Christmas 1999.
* ''{{Series/Raggs}}'': InUniverse, every single contraption made has a multiple of 100 or 1,000 slapped on the end of it.
* A variation, ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' in Australia was briefly re-named ''Sale of the '''New''' Century'' in 2000.
* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': InUniverse during the first season, Dr Sean made a useless handcrafted fishing pole which he dubbed the "Superpole 2000".
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'': A children's version spinoff is called ''Wheel 2000'', despite airing in 1997.
* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': InUniverse, Ryan Stiles has used the name "[=XK-5000=]" a couple of times for imaginary inventions.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace'': InUniverse, Jack has a one-man show called "Just Jack!" which he later updates to "Just Jack 2000!"
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[[folder:Music And Sound Effects 2000]]
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7_jbluF0qo 3030]]'': The sci-fi concept rap album by Dan the Automator and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien (Deltron in the album), which takes place in the same year. The followup album, ''Event II'', takes place in the year 3040, although it was actually released closer to [[ScheduleSlip fifteen real-world years]] after the first than ten.
* Music/BazookaGirls had a Eurobeat track called "velfarre 2000", named after a popular nightclub that has since closed (but re-opened as Nicofarre, owned by ''Website/NicoNicoDouga'').
* {{Music/Daze}}: The Eurodance group had a single, "Sex 2000", in their 1999 album, ''They Came to Rule''.
* Music/FatboySlim's track "Acid 8000".
* Music/FlightOfTheConchords: Most likely deliberately subverted in their song "The Humans are Dead", which starts "The distant future...The year 2000..." and goes on to poke fun at various science fiction concepts. (Unless they really did write it when they were very, very young.)
* Music/{{Glassjaw}}'s song "Ape Dos Mil", a Spanish BilingualBonus, as the name means "Ape 2000".
* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' song "19-2000".
* {{Music/Hum}}'s first album was ''Elektra 2000''
* Music/JeanMichelJarre's ''Sessions 2000'': Released in 2002, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it contained material recorded during something similar to electronic jam sessions in 2000]].
* The Music/{{Kraftwerk}} single ''Expo 2000'', filled with repeating soundbytes of different voices saying "the twenty-first century" throughout.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_%28software%29 Music 2000]], the sequel of Music, a composing, sequencing, and video making facility on the Playstation. They took it UpToEleven with Music 3000, which was a significantly worse bit of Software.
* Music/OutKast member Andre 3000 (stage name for Andre Benjamin).
* Music/Powerman5000, an AlternativeMetal band.
* Pulp's 'Disco 2000' superficially plays this trope straight by using it in the song's name, but truthfully probably subverts it in being a more nostalgic, wistful song than the glitzy, futuristic title would suggest. It does lyrically look forward to the date: ''"Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown"''. As sung by a 32-year-old in 1995.
* Music/{{Silverchair}}: One of the band's bigger hits was the single "Anthem for the year 2000", which seemed to be a bit of a hit out against governments that promised to fix things in the medium to long term future.
* Let's talk about electronic musical instruments, shall we?
** Korg used to make a Polyphonic Ensemble PE-2000. Then again, it was meant to be a companion to the PE-1000.
** And they made the CR-8000 drum machine, their only one with four digits.
** Roland had the early preset synth SH-2000 which is actually a slimmed-down SH-1000.
** Farfisa's biggest home organ in [[TheSeventies the late 1970s]] was the Maharani 2000, successor to a similar model named just Maharani.
** The Powertran Transcendent 2000, lackluster as it may be.
** Creator/SequentialCircuits: Their first sampler is named the Prophet 2000, with 2000 definitely meaning nothing but hypermodern (because it was released in 1985).
** Creator/{{Kurzweil}}:
*** Makers of music workstations, they've had several models, which skip numbers to encourage the idea that these are much more advanced than previous models. They've released the models K150, K250, K1000, and K1200 during the late 20th century.
*** Shortly after having been sold to Young Chang, in 1991, they released a very powerful music workstation named K2000 which was several years ahead of its time and, if fitted with the sampling option, outshone every last sampler on the market.
** E-mu Systems named the successor of their rack-mounted [=Proteus/1=] [=ROMpler=] expander Proteus 2000. It came out in 1999. The orchestral version [=Proteus/3=] was followed by the Virtuoso 2000.
** Sometimes, 2000 aren't enough. Roger Linn's last masterpiece under his own flag was the Linn 9000.
** The Akai S2000 is a kind of [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] because it's actually the cheap little brother of the S3000 and S3200 models.
** The Akai [=MPC2000=] and [=MPC2000XL=], on the other hand, remained the must-have drum samplers for quite a while. Roger Linn was involved with both.
** Japanese synth manufacturers seemed to love four-digit numbers for their virtual-analog synths in [[TheNineties the late '90s]]: Roland JP-8000 (named after the Jupiter-8) and Korg [=MS2000=] (named after the MS-20).
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[[folder:Pinball 2000]]
* Creator/{{Atari}}'s widebody ''Time 2000'', released in 1977. The instruction card boasts "Experience the future of pinball!"
* ''Pinball/BlackKnight2000'': The 1989 {{pinball}} game, and {{sequel}} to 1980's ''Pinball/BlackKnight''.
* Creator/BrianSchmidt's BSMT 2000[[note]]"BSMT" stands for "Brian Schmidt's Mouse Trap"[[/note]] audio DSP, used in many Creator/DataEast and early Creator/{{Stern}} {{pinball}} games. The first game to use this was Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/BatmanDataEast Batman]]'', released 1991, and the last was Creator/SternPinball's ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' released in 2003.
* ''Cirsa Sport 2000'' was a futuristic sports-themed pinball table released by Unidesa in 1988.
* ''Pinball/SafeCracker'' has the CANDY 2000 security system.
* Creator/SternElectronics' ''Pinball/Flight2000'', released in 1980.
* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' "Pinball 2000" platform, which was their last pinball platform before leaving the pinball business in 1999. It integrated a video screen into pinball. Ironically, after 1999, pinball went right back to using the familiar dot matrix displays that they had been using for most of TheNineties, largely because Williams went out of business after releasing only two Pinball 2000 tables (''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' and ''Pinball/StarWarsEpisodeI'').
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling 2000]]
* When [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors The Legion of Doom]] made their Wrestling/{{WWE}} comeback in 1998, they were renamed "Legion Of Doom 2000". In reality, the only things that had been updated for the new millennium were their trademark shoulder pads, which now had new and improved SpikesOfVillainy, and their manager, having swapped Wrestling/PreciousPaulEllering for [[MsFanservice Sunny]].
* ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 2000'' actually did take place in 2000, but it was a significant departure from the usual naming scheme; if it had been named like previous and future events, it would have been ''[=WrestleMania=] XVI''.
* In Wrestling/{{WCW}} in 1999, Wrestling/{{Raven}} and Vampiro teamed up with [[Music/Insane Clown Posse The Insane Clown Posse]] to form [[PowerStable Deadpool]]. Later, Raven got back with the clowns and joined Wrestling/BallsMahoney to form Deadpool 2000 in ICP's [[Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling]].
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor's Jay and Mark at one time teamed as The Briscoes 2000 in reference to the year they debuted in, in order to distinguish themselves from the unrelated Briscos, a more established brother tag team.
* The Spoiler 2000 was probably not the 2000th wrestler [[LegacyCharacter to wear the mask]], but he did take it up in the year 2000.
* The short-lived unsuccessful WWE tag team Tekno Team 2000. They had a futuristic gimmick and were billed as being ahead of their time, but only lasted little more than a year.
* The Obscenely Expensive [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho Jeritron 5000]]!
* The last iteration of [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder the nWo]] in WCW was referred to as [=nWo=] 2000.
* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}'s Wrestling/{{Xyberhawx 2000}}.
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[[folder:Stand Up Comedy 2000]]
* Creator/MelBrooks and Creator/CarlReiner performed an updated version of their "2000 Year Old Man" routine, titled "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000" (performed in 1997).
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[[folder:Tabletop Game 2000]]
* ''TabletopGame/Twilight2000'', a game from the 1980s set in the war-torn future year 2000.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' goes twenty times better than the standard, although the current timeline is in or near the 42nd millenium.
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[[folder:Toy 2000]]
* ''Toy/GIJoe'': During TheEighties, this action figure line featured a subteam called [[http://yojoe.com/action/subteams/battleforce2000.shtml Battle Force 2000]] whose purpose was to test experimental, futuristic weaponry and vehicles.
* Toys/{{LEGO}} has used this trope on occasion, +2 for ''[[Toys/LEGOSpace Ice Planet 2002]]'' and +10 for ''[[Toys/LEGODinoAttack Dino 2010]]''.
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[[folder:Video Game 2000]]
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': InUniverse, Gruntilda has a broom called the Lardmaster 2000.
* ''Chessmaster *000''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'': Used InUniverse with the {{BFG}} 9000.
* ''VideoGame/DuneII'' received a remake/sequel in 1998, titled ''Dune 2000''.
* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'':
** The Pip-Boy 2000, manufactured by [=RobCo=] Industries/Vault-Tec, is a handheld computer device used by the player character in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel''.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Pip-Boy 3000, a newer model that attaches to the user's arm.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Also existing in this game is the Pimp-Boy 3 Billion.
* ''VideoGame/GranTurismo'': The WorkingTitle for the third game was "Gran Turismo 2000". It was changed to "Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec" when the year 2000 came and went by the time the final version was released.
* ''VideoGame/JauntTrooper'', an AfterTheEnd {{Roguelike}} series, first appeared in 1987 as ''[=DoomsDay=] 2000''.
* Creator/SeibuKaihatsu: A number of their later arcade hits, including ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}} II'', ''Zero Team'', ''VideoGame/RaidenFighters 2'', and ''Raiden Fighters JET'', were rereleased in 2000 with "2000" appended to the end of the title. Some of these rereleases are commonly mistaken as bootlegs due to using cheaper, inferior sound hardware.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry7LoveForSail'': InUniverse, they have the Cyber-Sniff 2000.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': InUniverse, used as for The Poltergust 3000, as well as [[PunnyName Professor E. Gadd's]] later Poltergust models.
* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Porsche Unleashed'' was called ''[[{{MarketBasedTitle}} Need for Speed 2000]]'' in Germany due to its release date.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': Used InUniverse with the {{BFG}} 10000.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': InUniverse, they have the Maimtron 9000, a clockwork HumongousMecha.
* ''VideoGame/SimCity'': The first sequel was 1994's ''[=SimCity=] 2000''. The next, released in 1999, is ''[=SimCity=] 3000''. The pattern ended with 2003's ''Sim City 4''.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'':
** InUniverse, there is the Cow Mangler 5000, a sci-fi themed rocket launcher for the Soldier.
** InUniverse, there is the Spytron 2000, with which the Spy makes himself look like other characters, as well as store cigarettes.
** InUniverse, there is the "Pomsom 6000" for the Engineer; a sci-fi themed laser rifle which has the ability to drain 10% of cloak or uber-charge on hit.
* ''Top Gear 3000'': Third installment of the ''VideoGame/TopGear'' game series, with a futuristic setting.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'', the PC arcade game by Creator/EpicGames (then Epic [=MegaGames=]), was re-released in 1999 as ''Tyrian 2000''.
* ''UltraSuperDeathGorefestChainsawer3000''
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': InUniverse, Goblin and gnome SchizoTech beat this trope to death.
* ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNKMillenniumFight2000''. [[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium The sequel]] is subtitled ''Mark of the Millennium 2001'' (''Millionare Fighting 2001'' in Japan).
* The Henchman 800 and 1000 in ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}} M/Arena''. In an inversion, the 1000 is actually an older model, with the 800 apparently being new and improved in comparison.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}} 2000'' for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, a 1994 sequel to the original 1981 arcade game. Atari followed up with ''VideoGame/{{Defender}} 2000'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlezone|1980}} 2000''.
** ''Tempest 2000'' itself was also followed up by ''Tempest 3000'' and ''[=TxK=]'', the latter of which became a more official sequel as ''Tempest 4000''.
* The sequel to ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Solo Bass Mix'' was ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution Solo 2000'', released in December 1999. This was followed by ''Solo 4thMIX'' which was the last ''Solo'' game.
* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 3050'' for the UsefulNotes/SuperNES. Though it is set in the year 3050.
* The hospital in ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'' includes the "Vend-A-Cure 9000", an immobile robot that talks, accepts urine samples, and drops [[MagicAntidote anti-gonorrhea pills]].
* ''Faceball 2000''
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010''.
** ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' parodies the game with the level "Future Fuckballs 2010".
* ''Firepower 2000'', a MarketBasedTitle for the 1992 top down shooter ''Super SWIV''. Oddly, while it DOES take place in the then-future, it's set in 1997 instead of 2000.
* The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) is perhaps better known by its later name: the UsefulNotes/Atari2600.
** Its successors, the Atari 5200 and the Atari 7800.
* ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}} TDR 2000''.
* The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo game ''Super Baseball 2020'', released 1991.
* ''VideoGame/TaikoNoTatsujin'' has '''22''' songs where the title ends with 2000. [[http://taikotime.blogspot.fr/2010/08/namco-original-showcase-2000-songs.html A complete list of the songs can be found here.]]
** Then there is the AprilFoolsDay special song ''Yokuderu 15300''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]It is simply ''Yokuderu 2000'', but sped up [[GoroawaseNumber 7.65]] times.[[/labelnote]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Speedball}} Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe]]'', one of the computer-controlled teams is named "Rage 2000." The game also received a VideoGameRemake for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 2000 titled ''Speedball 2100''.
* ''Galaxy 5000'', a futuristic VehicularCombat game by Creator/{{Activision}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem.
* ''Videogame/IttleDew'' and ''VideoGame/SlapCity'' have a [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower very strong]] [[FishPerson platypus man]] named Ultra Fishbunjin 3000.
* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' uses a variation on this naming convention for its E-Liter 3K, a powerful charger-type weapon. The newer model that appears in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' is called the [[SerialEscalation E-Liter 4K]].
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* In the DVD-exclusive ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "Comic Book Movie", Strong Bad refers to the Hollywood cliche of [[HellBentForLeather putting comic book superheroes in one color, head-to-toe leather, regardless of whether they wear it in the comic,]] as "[=LeatherQuest=] 2000".
* [[WebAnimation/PonyDotMov MAGIC.MOV]]: The [[RobotMe R-Dash 5000]].
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* Combining this with Ridiculous Future Sequelisation, ''WebComic/CommanderKitty'' brings us the [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/01/16/mittens-has-another-cunning-plan/ Funstation 3000.]]
* ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'' brings us the [[http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=108 DiveMaster 4000.]]
* ''Webcomic/CheckerboardNightmare'' [[http://www.checkerboardnightmare.com/d/20001229.shtml lampshades it.]]
-->'''Checkerboard Nightmare:''' I was living in the year 2000 all this time! I knew it was 2000, but... Man, I ''blew'' it! Do you ''realize'' we were living in ''the year 2000?!''\\
'''Vaporware:''' Yup.\\
'''Checkerboard Nightmare:''' I could have tacked "2000" onto the end of so many things. What a waste.
* [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Jane Crocker's]] Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Stirring Solution 5000, which [[ForkFencing happens to be]] her WeaponOfChoice.
* ''Webcomic/KidRadd'' has the Gnarlborg 2000.
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has the Fruit Fucker 2000.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' has the [[https://www.xkcd.com/2000/ xkcd Phone 2000]], the seventh in its series and the 2000th comic.
* ''Webcomic/JuvenileDiversion'', set in the years 1988 and 1989, has the Saunders Virtual Reality Creator 6000.
* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'': The Electro-plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000, a cutting edge steampunk device to automatically generate genre fiction summaries.
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* Website/{{Neopets}} used this trope a lot when naming their space themed weapons and [=PetPets=], as well as a good portion of the battledome items.
* Lauri Vuohensilta of the Hydraulic Press Channel [[RunningGag tends to]] name his new tools of destruction this way, though usually with the number 5,000,000. His names for said tools tend to be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin due to Lauri's imperfect English, for example [[FunetikAksent de Fraying Pan Mekker Faif Milyonn, de Slaisser Faif Milyonn]], and [[RuleOfThree de Vörm Mekker Faif Milyonn.]] (he's made many more than these)
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Episode L.I.Z.Z.I.E features a mind controlling helmet meant to brainwash the male sex. "The Yes Dear 5000? They SELL these things!?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', for its 2000 season, suffixed the titles of the first four episodes with "2000" as a parody of this trope.
** The second episode is called "Weight Gain 4000", which is the name of a bodybuilding supplement used in the episode.
** Another episode had Cartman wearing the "Kidney Blocker 2000" ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to prevent Stan from taking one of his kidneys]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s pilot episode was called "Space Pilot 3000", as the hero is cryonically frozen for just under one thousand years on the turn of the century.
** One episode has a machine called the "Juicinator 4000", named so because it was already 3000.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "Toga! Toga! Toga! 2000!" (Itself something of a casting/Landis-sequel reference to ''Blues Brothers 2000''.)
** Another episode featured the Ultrahouse 3000.
* The cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' includes a character, Widget, who is always creating inventions with a '3000' slapped at the end.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' (the animated series): Many of the episodes involve something to do with the design, sale, production, etc. of the "Gruntmaster 6000", which was just a trimmed down version of the "Gruntmaster 9000". The name was created in the first episode, when Dilbert had to come up with a name for a new product, and [[spoiler:Dilmom]] suggested the name. Later, after finding out that the VP wasn't going to like the name they came up with (due to a NoodleIncident in the VP's childhood, only it was promptly [[AvertedTrope revealed]]), Dilbert suggested "The Gruntmaster". Possible LampshadeHanging ensued immediately after, when the VP said something was missing, and [[spoiler:Dogbert]] added the 6000 suffix. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the Gruntmaster ended up being a very strangely-designed ''exercise machine'', and during product testing, a family of hillbillies broke a component that created a '''[-BLACK HOLE-]'''.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' sometimes featured machines whose name included a multiple of a thousand. When asked why a machine is named "Thing Y000", the answer is always "Because Thing X999 failed".
* On ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', Ootsie and Bootsies' toys were often named in this manner and they would often say that they were "twice as good as (toy with number half that of the newer toy.)"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has a electronics shop called "Ripley 2000".
** Lampshaded in "The Refund" when Darwin asks "Why is it 2000 anyway? It's not like it's the future anymore."
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofenshmirtz's invention of the week was a WeatherControlMachine called the Gloominator 3000[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment -inator]]. "Summer Belongs to You" has the Sun-Beater 3000, which inspires a bit of LampshadeHanging from Buford.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Romance Academy 7 is made by "Year 2000 Electronics". [[TheDitz Soos]] replies with "Man, I can't wait for the year 2000!" [[DontExplainTheJoke The episode was released in 2014, and the series takes place during Summer 2012.]]
* Combined with ThingOMatic in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlaminThongs'' where all of Holden's inventions are named "the <something>-o-matic 2000".
* The synthesizer that [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] wants to buy with the prize money in "Spelling Bee" is the ToneMaster 2000.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Subverted in the episode "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo buys a magic kit labeled "Magic 2000", but later reveals that the kit actually has 2000 pieces in it.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000''. While the show does fellow a group of students at a creative arts school, it takes place in the present day (i.e. TheNoughties). The title alludes to creator [[CelebrityToons André "3000" Benjamin]], who voices their teacher.
* "WesternAnimation/{{Automania 2000}}" is a satirical 1963 cartoon about a future in which humanity is literally drowned in a flood of giant gas-guzzling cars.
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* Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.
** The Re.2000 designation was a model number series assigned to Reggiane to avoid confusion with the C.200 model numbers assigned to Macchi and the G.50 model numbers assigned to Fiat.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_2000 Mirage 2000.]]
* The Eurofighter Typhoon was known as the EF 2000 for a while.
** It started out as "Jäger 90" (Hunter 90, fighter [aircraft] 90) in Germany.
* The ''Annals of Improbable Research'' kept a collection of these under the heading "Project [=AIRHead=] 2000".
* For some horrible reason, number plates in the Australian state of New South Wales had "Towards 2000" as their state motto towards the end of the 90s. As they entered the year itself and the Sydney 2000 Olympics drew closer, a series of number plates celebrating the aforementioned year and event soon sprung up.
* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] 2000, named after its year of release. Although this was dropped in the desktop versions with XP and Vista, the server versions kept the year theme with Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, and 2016.
** Averted with Windows ME, short for Millennium Edition. This was the last DOS-based Windows (2000 was NT-based, and XP merged the two lines).
** Also played straight with its productivity suite counterpart, ''Office 2000'' (which would stick to year naming afterwards).
* This trend was once annoyingly common in Internet usernames, to the point where ''Yahoo!'' would offer this (and 2001) as an alternative to a taken name during registration.
* Appliance manufacturers also seem fond of this: the ''[=TurboFry 2000=]'', among others.
** Montgomery Ward's store appliance brand was called Signature 2000. Ironically enough, 2000 ended up being the year Montgomery Ward declared bankruptcy.
* Somewhat played straight: UsefulNotes/{{Xbox360}}. They couldn't just call it the Xbox 2 because that would put them a step behind Sony; no, they had to have 180 2s to beat Sony's 3. Of course, their other option was Xenon, so maybe it was for the best. [[StealthPun It's because it's a revolution]]. Mind you, the Revolution was named the Wii. And as any number of Internet wags will tell you, turning 360 degrees leaves you right back where you started.
** Inverted by the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which uses a comically ''low'' number rather than a comically ''high'' one. The ubiquitous joke being that it's two big steps backward from the third Xbox, and three steps behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, or just 359 steps back from its predecessor.
** The marketing reason, if you want to believe them, is that the 360 is supposed to revolve around your entertainment, while the Xbox One is supposed to be the ''one'' device for all your entertainment needs (in addition to game playing, disc-watching and streaming, you can also hook it up to your cable/satellite/telco box and watch it through the One).
** It also ties in with the other "One"-prefixed products of Microsoft's ([=OneDrive=], [=OneNote=], etc.), making it one of their equivalents to Apple's [=iThing=], too.
* Lever 2000. Yeah it's soap with 2000 on it. Who knew?
** Hey, it's for ''all'' your 2000 parts. Now, count 'em!
* The PC company "Gateway 2000" later changed their name to just "Gateway" in 1998. At that point, it probably didn't seem so cutting edge.
* PC hardware companies tend to use high numbers for their models, though it's not just for marketing, it's more a MeaningfulName. For example, the sane ones use the largest digit as the generation number for that product, with the rest of the numbers indicating relative performance within each other.
* Averted by car names, where a 2000 usually means that the engine has a displacement of (roughly) 2000cm³ (2 liters). Examples are the Alfa Romeo Spider 2000[[note]]the 2 liter version was called Spider 2.0 in the second half of the 1980s - again a MeaningfulName; the 1600cm³ version became the Spider 1.6[[/note]] (other variants were the Spider 1300 and the Spider 1600). Or the BMW 2000[[note]]with a twist a few years later on - the later BMW 2002 also had a 2 liter engine and the "02" just indicates that it was a later, more modern version[[/note]].
* The Swedish tilting bullet train X2000.
* The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS) introduced their "Bahn 2000" (Railway 2000) concept in the late 1980s, complete with a new electric locomotive class, the Re 460 also known as "Lok 2000" (Locomotive 2000).
* ABB Henschel's [=Eco2000=] locomotive platform from the mid-1990s. All that came out of it were prototypes rebuilt from older locomotives before the [=ADtranz=] merger, the German class 101 express locomotive, and its derivative, the UsefulNotes/NewJerseyTransit [=ALP46=].
* The Münch Mammut 2000 motorbike might be a case of Trope2000, too. On the other hand, it could be named after its displacement of roughly 2,000ccm and/or its production run that started in the year 2000.
* Hamburg's standard harbor ferry class of the 21st century, the "Fähre 2000" (Ferry 2000).
* The [=MAN=] truck line [=F2000=].
* In TheEighties, one school's chosen [[PublicServiceAnnouncement anti-drug curriculum]] had a goal of making society drug-free by the year 2000. [[spoiler:It didn't work.]]
* There are several firearms with a 2000 in their name, some of the more famous being:
** The PP-2000 sub-machine gun
** The FN F2000 assault rifle
** The Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle
** The CZ 2000 weapon system
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thameslink_Programme Thameslink Programme]] was originally called "Thameslink 2000". The name change might have something to do with the numerous schedule slips -- at the time of writing, it's expected to be complete by 2018.
* In the Philippines, the hardtop version of the 1980 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corona Toyota Corona]] was marketed as the "Corona 2000" due to its 2000cc engine. That and its body style earned it the nickname [[CoolCar "Macho Car"]].
* In 1999, the Hostess company released ''Twinkies 2000'' to the store shelves. They weren't alone; [[http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=19991212&uc_comic=su several processed foodstuffs]] had special millennium-branded releases that year.
* The Northern German holiday resort Ostseebad [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp,_Germany Damp]], built in the early [[TheSeventies 70s]], used to be named Damp 2000 originally.
* The Pontiac 6000: an average sedan made six thousand times more awesome.
* Due to a common naming format, British legislation introduced in 2000 apes this format, including the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Act_2000 Terrorism Act 2000.]].
* A brand of shower gel called "Shower 2000," around since at least the mid-'90s (when shower gel still seemed a bit futuristic). Interestingly enough, it's [[http://www.colorandflavorshop.com/product.php?productid=13149 still available.]]
* As of 2013, public transportation in Western Germany offers a ''[=Ticket2000=]'', introduced in 1991.
* The JPEG 2000 image standard. Though it was meant to be a improvement, created in the year 2000, on the original JPEG standard.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_2000 Video 2000]] standard, but even 2000 wasn't enough to beat VHS.
* The Netherlands called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio Terrestrial Trunked Radio]] network for police, fire and ambulance "C2000". This network, plagued by delays and various problems, was introduced in... 2004.
* Some of Penzeys' spice blends follow this trope; e.g. Chili 3000 ("the chili of now") and Chili 9000 ("the chili of tomorrow").
* A 1969 RCA television set called the Two Thousand [[https://gizmodo.com/5038235/rcas-1969-two-thousand-tv-was-computerized-vision-of-future-for-2000]]. Made in a limited run of 2,000, with a price of $2000, it had computer memory and such actual 21st-Century features as storing your favorite channels. It wasn't flat-screen, though, but it looked pretty sleek.
* The Hardi Rubicon 9000 crop sprayer, though it's more of a MeaningfulName as the 9000 comes from its 9000 liter tank.
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