History Main / WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture

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* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': An in-universe case: the futuristic CyberPunk MMO ''Gun Gale Online'''s currency is credits.
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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': The universally accepted currency is "Units", thus sidestepping the "credit in credits" problem mentioned above while still adhering to the trope.

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* In ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'', the Corpus MegaCorp, Grineer Empire, and [[PlayerCharacter Tenno]] all spend credits. It's not clear who backs the Credit, as it's extremely rare for the Grineer and Corpus to ''not'' be in -- at minimum -- low-level conflict.

* ''VideoGame/StarTradersFrontiers'' does it in a unique way where there are three "tiers" of it: Credits, Marks, and Shillings, in descending order. Although the latter two are exclusive to {{Word Of God}}, as it's stated that one Credit is worth 1,000 Marks, and one Mark is worth 100 Shillings. To quote the [[https://startraders.gamepedia.com/Credits wiki page]]: "Most Faction citizens and [[LibertyOverProsperity Indies]] will only ever see Shillings and the occasional Mark in their lifetimes." Knowing this, it's understandable as to why they aren't ingame, as most profitable trades are in the thousands of Credits at least, and the higher-end ships can go over a million (which would be equal to 100 billion Shillings).

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* In ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'', [=ComStar=] -- a telecommunications NGOSuperPower that controls the SubspaceAnsible network -- issues their own currency, the C-Bill, which [[PracticalCurrency directly translates into transmission time]] on the network. The C-Bill's name is derived from [=ComStar's=] "Letters of Credit" used in the organization's early history when negotiating transmission privileges with governments. While C-bills are the preferred payment method of PrivateMilitaryContractors due to its stability and nigh-universal acceptance, the various Great Houses each produce their own currencies, collectively referred to as "House Bills". The C-Bill is the only one to get a definite canon exchange rate with RealLife money; one of them is worth about ten US dollars. Exchange rates for the C-Bill and the various Successor State currencies are seldom given in sourcebooks, probably because they're quite variable, but are implied to be rather low.

* Although credits made frequent appearences in [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends spin-off novels]] and even a [[TabletopGame/StarWarsD6 licensed roleplaying game]], this was averted by the ''Franchise/StarWars'' movies until 1999, when ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' has Qui-Gon Jinn offer Republic credits to Watto for starship parts. Both ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' show price negotiations, but the specific type of currency is never mentioned.
-->'''Obi-Wan''': We can pay you two thousand now, plus fifteen when we reach Alderaan.

* Despite frequent appearences in [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends spin-off novels]] and even a [[TabletopGame/StarWarsD6 licensed roleplaying game]], credits weren't mentioned onscreen in a ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie until 1999, in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Both ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' show price negotiations, but the specific type of currency is never mentioned.

* Despite frequent appearences in [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends spin-off novels]] and even a [[TabletopGame/StarWarsD6 licensed roleplaying game]], credits weren't mentioned onscreen in a ''Star Wars'' movie until 1999, in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. Both ''Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''show price negotiations, but the specific type of currency is never mentioned.

* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' is set in 2084, where a company offers FakeMemories of a two-week Mars holiday to the hero for 899 credits.
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'': {{Parodied}}, as the currency is always referred to as "[[SpaceX space bucks]]."

* ''Series/BabylonFive''': The only credits seem to be the Earth Alliance (i.e. human) ones; other species have their own currency (and even Earth Alliance member states have their own, such as the Northam Dollar). Since humans are one of the major merchant powers of the ''B5-verse'', credits seem to be accepted fairly widely; it helps that they're all-electronic. Nevertheless, the Centauri ducat seems to have more [[JustForPun currency]] in interspecies transactions -- particularly in shady dealings, as the ducat can come in hard cash (gold coins, it seems) and is thus untraceable.

-->--@dcgrodz [[https://twitter.com/dcgrodz/status/1573281650586386433?lang=en on Twitter]][[note]]One of several tweets half-seriously clarifying what the difference between science-fiction and fantasy are[[/note]]

* "The Marching Morons", by C.M. Kornbluth, {{discusse|dTrope}}s this. A man is roused from suspended animation hundreds of years in the future. Assuming that life is like science fiction, he asks about their money -- supposing they use credits -- and is told they use dollars.

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* ''WebAnimation/MundoUltimateNewsCp'' Icetown citizens uses Barpoint quantum cryptocurrencies.
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Accounting lectures in the future must be terribly confusing things. [[SchmuckBait For fun]], try asking a real accountant [[BerserkButton what they think]] about naming a currency this in RealLife.[[note]]"So as you can see, on 10 June we credited 35 credits to your line of credit and debited 7 credits from your debit card. Then we debited 8 credits from your line of credit and credited 14 credits to your debit account."[[/note]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', as seen [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fc01292.htm here.]]

** In truth, the way the TNG and post-TNG Trek universe depicted money is highly contradictory and complicated. For example while many on Deep Space Nine use money as a matter of routine, there's a whole episode -- "In The Cards" -- in which Jake repeatedly and positively states that he doesn't have money because he is human. Despite that, there are many casual mentions of money here and there. Fans sometimes try and write these off as hyperbole. In truth it's just inconsistent writing. The simplest canon explanation is that only certain planets (Earth and Risa are two mentioned) are moneyless, while most planets have their own currency and use gold-pressed latinum as a medium of interplanetary exchange. Bashir can afford Quark's holodecks because he gets a stipend from the Federation while stationed on [=DS9=], Jake can't because he's not employed by the Federation or anybody else during that episode (although later in the series he does work a couple jobs). One thing they don't explain is how Sisko's dad on Earth can have a restaurant staff without a payroll... It may be the same thing as with Picard's wine, it's more of a hobby than a way to earn a living. As for credits, it may be the only reason why the Federation even has them is to deal with non-federation planets.
** ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' uses several currencies, of which the most basic is Energy Credits or EC for short. These are mostly used on the Exchange, the in-game item auction house. GPL, as well as dilithium (in both raw ore and refined forms), and various other currencies (including Perfect World's microtransactional currency ZEN) can be used too.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' (known as "Creds" in street slang). Their global status is very [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent on the writer of the story.]] Other, real world currencies have cropped up occasionally.

* ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' has a little more complex a take on things. The currency, known as ISK (Inter-Stellar [[XtremeKoolLetterz Kredits]][[note]]which just happens to be the currency code for the Icelandic króna[[/note]]), is not so much a global currency as it is a global ''exchange'' currency. Planetary economies and sometimes individual planetary nations almost all have their own currencies, ISK was merely setup as an exchange medium to manage the obscene amounts of money being used at the inter-stellar level -- the popular saying goes you can retire comfortably planet-side basically anywhere in the cluster on [[ZillionDollarBill single digit amounts of the stuff]]. And despite that, the economy is such that the de-facto unit of currency is in millions of isk. Ask someone for a price, and they say '50', they mean 50 MILLION isk. Guess the CasualInterstellarTravel isn't all that casual...
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Similar to the EVE example. Every country/government/planet has their own currency, while "credits" are actually just a short-hand exchange rate for money. There are several high-powered accounting firms tasked with monitoring and adjusting exchange rates among every currency, so if you bought a gun your account would be subtracted dollars and they would be given ... whatever they use. Credits is just an easy way for everyone to get an idea of what prices are. They don't actually "exist" like money does.

* ''VideoGame/{{Freelancer}}''

** ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' however has one "credit" that is used by everyone except the Sand People, despite the civil war and weakness of the backing government.

* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'' has caseys e.g. "kilo-calories”. Also a case of PracticalCurrency; they're backed by ''food'' - one casey can be exchanged anywhere in the civilized world for a one-thousand-calorie block of "[[FutureFoodIsArtificial soya]]". RealityEnsues in that the laws of supply and demand are still in effect -- it takes a ''lot'' of caseys to purchase, say, a pound of caviar. Add in that the book ''begins'' at the [[ApocalypseHow/Class1 Class One]] stage of an anticipated ''[[ApocalypseHow/Class3A Class Three]]'' [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], nine-tenths of the world's [[DepopulationBomb population died]] ''before the first page'' and those same laws mean the casey is depreciating at an ''exponential'' rate because there's a surplus of food compared to the amount of manpower left in the world AKA ''humans left alive.''

* In ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'', [=ComStar=] -- a telecommunications NGOSuperPower that controls the SubspaceAnsible network -- issues their own currency, the C-Bill, which [[PracticalCurrency directly translates into transmission time]] on the network. The C-Bill's name is derived from [=ComStar's=] "Letters of Credit" used in the organization's early history when negotiating transmission privileges with governments. While C-bills are the preferred payment method of PrivateMilitaryContractors due to its stability and nigh-universal acceptance, the various Great Houses each produce their own currencies, collectively referred to as "H-Bills".

* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' uses "credits" specifically for XCOM, as the Council abstracts the fact 16 different nations are funding the project. It also makes things handy to ensure all transactions go through the Council. Note that in this game, a single credit is worth a lot: The complete maintenance of a top-of-the-line fighter plane, a monthly cost that would be around tens thousands of US dollars, amounts to only 20 credits a month.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': The universally accepted currency is "Units".

** Many factions mint and back their own "credit" with varying acceptance. Credits are often chits or coins, or just transferred electronically, but in ComicBook/MarvelStarWars, they [[http://images.plurk.com/68f3c28f0475105ebd649e6a69cf56ad.jpg look like bills.]] Come the reboot, both ''ComicBook/DarthVader'' and ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' establish that credits are physically small metal bars.

** There's some inconsistency, however, especially in the spin-off media, like ''[[Series/{{K9}} The Custodians]]'' saying that Britain uses credits in 2050 but ''The Last Dodo'' novel saying they use euros in 2062. Generally any story where humanity has colonized other planets will have everybody using credits.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Most future human civilizations use credits. There's some inconsistency like ''[[Series/{{K9}} The Custodians]]'' saying that Britain uses credits in 2050 but ''The Last Dodo'' novel saying they use euros in 2062. Generally any story where humanity has colonized other planets will have everybody using credits. Some aliens living in the modern day like the [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Stoish]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Inter Minorians]] were shown using credits but these were likely different currencies than the ones humans would go on to use. The Inter Minorians called theirs "Credit Bars".

* ''Literature/FoundationSeries'':

* ''VideoGame/FZero'' doesn't bring up currency very often, being a straightforward racing series. In the comic that came in the original ''F-Zero'' manual, Falcon states a bounty is worth 500,000 "Galactic Credits." However, in one of ''GX'''s story mode cutscenes, the currency seems to be "space credits," and the prize for winning an expert class grand prix is one billion space credits.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Most future human civilizations use credits. There's some inconsistency like ''[[Series/{{K9}} The Custodians]]'' saying that Britain uses credits in 2050 but ''The Last Dodo'' novel saying they use euros in 2062. Generally any story where humanity has colonized other planets will have everybody using credits. Some aliens living in the modern day like the [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Stoish]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Inter Minorians]] were shown using credits but these were likely different currencies than the ones humans would go on to use (The Inter Minorians called theirs "Credit Bars".

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Most future human civilizations use credits. There's some inconsistency like ''[[Series/K9 The Custodians]]'' saying that Britain uses credits in 2050 but ''The Last Dodo'' novel saying they use euros in 2062. Generally any story where humanity has colonized other planets will have everybody using credits. Some aliens living in the modern day like the [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Stoish]] and the
[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Inter Minorians]] were shown using credits but these were likely different currencies than the ones humans would go on to use (The Inter Minorians called theirs "Credit Bars".