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7	If a year is related to your work, then name it after that!
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9	Usually, that's because the year is relevant in some way, such as being the year of the events it depicts, but it doesn't have to be.
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11	This trope is for whenever a year is mentioned in a title.
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13	SubTrope of TitleByNumber.
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15	If the year in the title is the year of release, or plays on it, then it's the SubTrope, AnnualTitle.
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17	It may occur in tandem with OneWordTitle, for titles that are just numbers that are also years and are written in numerical form, like ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''. And also a lot of overlap with EventTitle because a year is a span of time for things to happen in.
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20	!!Examples
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22	[[foldercontrol]]
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24	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
25	* ''[[Anime/BubblegumCrisis Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040]]''
26	* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellSAC2045''
27	* ''Anime/Pokemon2000'', released in the year 1999.
28	* The manga ''X'' was released in English as ''Manga/{{X1999}}'', after the year in which it is set.
29	[[/folder]]
30
31
32	[[folder:Comedy]]
33	* 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).
34	[[/folder]]
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'': Released in 1977, and continued to 2000, and beyond.
38	* ''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'': a CrisisCrossover published in 1991 by DC Comics in which the heroes try to discover which one of them will [[FaceHeelTurn turn into the evil dictator]] Monarch ten years in the future.
39	* ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'': Set in the year 3000.
40	* Creator/DCComics:
41	** ''ComicBook/Batman66'': Titled for the year in which the '60's TV series it is a comic book continuation of began.
42	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman77'': Set in the seventies, as a continuation/expansion of the [[Series/WonderWoman1975 TV series that ran from 1975 to 1979]].
43	** ''ComicBook/Superman78'': Set in the seventies, as a continuation of Creator/ChristopherReeve's Superman.
44	** ''ComicBook/Batman89'': Set in the late eighties as a continuation of the Creator/TimBurton Film/{{Batman\|1989}} films.
45	* Creator/MarvelComics:
46	** Creator/NeilGaiman's comic ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'' (Also used ExtyYearsFromPublication, as it was published in 2002).
47	** The ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' line, where every book has ''2099'' in its title (''Comicbook/ThePunisher2099'', ''Comicbook/GhostRider2099'', etc.
48	* ''[[https://www.comics.org/series/15377/ Archie 3000!]]'': Set in the distant future, it ran for 16 issues from May 1989 to July 1991.
49	* ''ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree'' was a miniseries by Creator/AlanMoore and some of his favorite collaborators published by Creator/ImageComics and parodying early Creator/MarvelComics, like of the titular year.
50	* ''ComicBook/Transformers84'': A prequel to the [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel original 80s Marvel comic]] to celebrate the franchise's 35th anniversary. Despite the name, none of the events of the story take place in 1984.
51	[[/folder]]
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53	[[folder:Fan Works]]
54	* ''Fanfic/Homecoming2026'': The 2026 in the title is the year of the Whateley Academy homecoming.
55	* ''Fanfic/PsychedelicEpiphanySeries'': The first chapter, ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/321475/1/yearly-epiphany/year-0-hearthswarming-ephiphany Year 0: Hearthswarming Ephiphany]]'', about the beginning of the first year, or zeroth year, of [[spoiler:Epiphany's life]].
56	[[/folder]]
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58	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
59	* ''WesternAnimation/Automania2000'': About the future, released in the year 1963.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', although it was technically released in December 1999.
61	* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000'', follow up to the original 1981 film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', released in 2000.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	* ''[[Film/OneMillionBC One Million BC]]'', and its remake, ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC''.
66	* ''Film/TenThousandBC''.
67	* ''Film/FourteenNinetyTwoConquestOfParadise''.
68	* The Russian film ''1612''.
69	* ''Film/SeventeenSeventySix''.
70	* ''Film/Winchester73'', a 1950 film referring to the Winchester rifle that first entered production in 1873.
71	* The movie ''Film/{{Novecento}}'' meaning "1900", released 1976.
72	* The 1985 film ''1914'', about a town ravaged by influenza and the WWI soldiers who return there.
73	* ''Film/NineteenSeventeen'', a 2019 film about UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, titled for a year where that war was happening and when the events of the story take place.
74	* ''Film/TheUnforgettableYear1919'', a Russian movie released in 1951.
75	* ''Film/Paris36'' is set in 1936 and was made in 2008.
76	* Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', scripted by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale. Released in 1979, set a few days after the Pearl Harbor attacks.
77	* ''Film/SummerOf42'', released in 1971. Also ''Class of '44,'' the sequel released in 1973.
78	* ''September 30 1955'', a movie from 1977, with the date being the day Creator/JamesDean died.
79	* ''Film/ClassOf1984,'' released in 1982 (which has ''nothing'' to do with the above class of 1944).
80	* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': It takes place in 1984, but was made in 2020.
81	* ''1991: The Year Punk Broke'': Released in 1992, about events in the preceding year.
82	* ''Film/OneAprilTwoThousand'': This 1952 film is an Austrian satire in which the Allied occupation of UsefulNotes/{{Austria}} continues until 2000.
83	* ''Film/DeathRace2000'', released in 1975, set in 2000.
84	* ''Film/{{Scanners}}'': This film, released in 1981, had a WorkingTitle of ''Telepathy 2000'', reflecting its setting of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
85	* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' and its sequel ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
86	* ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', a disaster film based on the MayanDoomsday predictions, was released in 2009.
87	* The movie ''Film/TwoThousandFortySix'', which refers to both a year and a hotel room.
88	* ''Film/BladeRunner2049''. And its [[Film/BladeRunnerShorts companion shorts]] as well -- ''Black Out 2022'', ''2036: Nexus Dawn'' and ''2048: Nowhere to Run''.
89	* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398918/ 2084]]''
90	* ''Film/Dracula3000'', a sci-fi vampire film (no relation to the former entry).
91	* ''Film/SixtyFive'', a sci-fi movie where the main character ends on a prehistoric Earth, 65 million years prior to the present.
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94	[[folder:Literature]]
95	* The ''America 2040'' series of books, written from 1986 to 1988. Oddly enough, the title is a bit of a misnomer; most of the series takes place in space, and only a small portion of the first book is set in 2040.
96	* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "[[Literature/TwoFourThreeZeroAD 2430 A.D.]]": The title is the year of the setting, when all of the world's animal biomass is predicted to consist entirely of human beings.
97	* Creator/RobertoBolano's ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'' could possibly be a year, although it is not mentioned in the novel itself. It ''is'' mentioned in one of his other novels, however.
98	* Creator/EricFlint's ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'' books.
99	* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. InUniverse, the protagonist ''thinks'' this is probably the current year, but due to the totalitarian state he lives and the nature in which it controls all information, he can't be sure. Out-of-universe, George Orwell planned to name it ''1948'' (the book was released a year after he finished it, in 1949), but he just flipped the last two digits to indicate a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture timeframe.
100	* ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'': Multiple, following an IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming pattern of "[Year]: [Phrase with "Odyssey" in it.]":
101	** ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.
102	** ''2010: Odyssey Two''.
103	** ''2061: Odyssey Three''.
104	** ''3001: The Final Odyssey''.
105	* David Peace's "Red Riding Quartet" series of novels, adapted as the TV series ''Series/RedRiding'', are titled ''Nineteen Seventy-Four'', ''Nineteen Seventy-Seven'', ''Nineteen Eighty'' and ''Nineteen Eighty-Three''. A later stand-alone novel by him was called ''[=GB84=]''.
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108	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
109	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Christmas Show 1952"]]
110	* ''Series/TwentyFiftySeven'' is a speculative docudrama that tried to predict technological advances that would occur by that year.
111	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory1984'', the ninth season of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'', primarily takes place in...wait for it...1984! It pays homage to the slasher genre popular in the '80s.
112	* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' has a few episodes titled after the years in which they are (at least partially) set:
113	** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episodes "Star City 2046" and "Camelot/3000" (a ShoutOut to the comic book series ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'').
114	** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' episode "Star City 2040."
115	* ''Series/BeyondTomorrow'': This is 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...
116	* The German spy thriller series ''Series/Deutschland83'', set in 1983, and its sequel series ''Deutschland '86'' and ''Deutschland '89''.
117	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode "[[Recap/HeroesS03E231961 1961]]".
118	* The season one finale of ''Series/HaltAndCatchFire'' was simply titled "1984" partly in reference to Apple's "1984" ad for the Platform/{{Macintosh}}.
119	* ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'': There's an episode called "New Year's Eve 1960".
120	* The HBO Latin America original series ''Series/Magnifica70''.
121	* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' was retitled ''Space 2063'' (after the year it kicks off) in several European countries.
122	* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Several episodes used a year as the title:
123	** "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E211969 1969]]": A solar flare causes the gate to malfunction and strand the team in 1969.
124	** "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E162010 2010]]": The episode is set in the year 2010, ten years ahead of the show's "present day" timeline at the time that it was aired, as well as [[ShoutOut referencing]] ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact''.
125	** "[[Recap/StargateSG1S5E102001 2001]]": A [[SequelEpisode prequel episode]] to "[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E162010 2010]]", and therefore referencing ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
126	* ''Series/TotalRecall2070''
127	* When ''Series/MatchGame'' was revived in 1973, it was revived as ''Match Game '73,'' with the year updated every New Year's Eve through the end of the CBS run in 1979. This did not apply to the concurrent syndicated run; since there was no guarantee when those episodes would air, or even if they'd air in the right order, adding the year would have been pointless.
128	* The ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "Class of '99", featuring Creator/VincentPrice in a bizarre dystopia TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Music]]
132	* "Summer of '69" by Music/BryanAdams, released in 1985. It's actually a {{subver\|ted trope}}sion: WordOfGod confirms the 69 is [[Lol69 actually the sex act]].
133	* "1997" by {{Music/Ash}}, released in 1996 - named for the release year of Film/ANewHope.
134	* "1984" by Music/DavidBowie, inspired by ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and released in 1974.
135	* "1985" by Music/BowlingForSoup, a cover of Music/SR71's, the latter of which was released in 2004.
136	* "1848" by Music/{{Galadriel}}.
137	* The Zager & Evans hit "In the Year 2525" follows humanity's progress through the distant future. It starts in the titular year and continues through 3535, 4545, 5555, 6565, 7510, 8510, and 9595, ending at an unspecified date 10,000 years later.
138	* "Year 3000" by Music/{{Busted}}, later CoveredUp by Music/TheJonasBrothers.
139	* ''[[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.
140	* "1642 Inprisonment" by Music/KingDiamond.
141	* "Overture 1383" by Music/YngwieMalmsteen.
142	* Music/PaulMcCartney and Music/{{Wings}} did a BSide titled "1985", released in 1974. It was released alongside the "Band on the Run" album.
143	* The TitleTrack of the Music/{{Motorhead}} album ''1916'', about a soldier in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
144	* The band Music/NeonTrees released a song called "1983" in 2010.
145	* Music/NinjaSexParty: In "6969", the band travels to the year 6969, hoping for [[Lol69 some sex-related escapades]].
146	* "1999" by Music/{{Prince}}, released in 1982.
147	* "'39" by Music/{{Queen\|Band}}.
148	* "2002" by Anne-Marie, which begins in 2002 then skips forward to seven years later.
149	* "1973" by Music/JamesBlunt.
150	* "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four)" by Music/{{Eurythmics}}, released in 1984 as part of the soundtrack to... well, [[Film/NineteenEightyFour guess]].
151	* The album ''[[Music/TwentyOneTwelve 2112]]'' by Music/{{Rush\|Band}}.
152	* "Music/NineteenSeventyNine" by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins, released in 1996.
153	* Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture'', about Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia (there were a buttload of wars in that year).
154	* Music/JeanMichelJarre's ''Sessions 2000'': Released in 2002, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it contained material recorded during something similar to electronic jam sessions in 2000]].
155	* Two Music/DmitriShostakovich symphonies:
156	** Symphony No. 11 in G minor ("The Year 1905"), composed in 1957.
157	** Symphony No. 12 in D minor ("The Year 1917"), composed in 1961.
158	* Disco 2000, by Music/{{Pulp}}, written in 1995. Uses the year 2000 as a LiteralMetaphor for a fresh start with an [[ChildhoodFriendRomance unrequited childhood crush.]]
159	* Music/VanHalen released their album ''1984'' in that very year.
160	* ''Music/NineteenEightyNine'', Music/TaylorSwift's fifth studio album. The title refers to year Swift was born, as well as the album's 80's synth-pop influences.
161	* T-POCKET's hit Music/{{Vocaloid}} song "1925", released in 2009.
162	* Music/NewOrder's [[Music/SubstanceNewOrderAlbum "1963"]] is named as such after the year when UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was assassinated, taking place in January of that year and using imagery related to the killing as an analogy for a man [[TheBluebeard murdering his wife to elope with his mistress]].
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165	[[folder:Software]]
166	* Creator/{{Microsoft}}
167	** Platform/MicrosoftWindows: Used for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. Averted with subsequent releases of desktop Windows, but the server versions continue to play it straight.
168	** Almost all versions of Microsoft Office and its component applications.
169	** Used for most versions of Visual Studio as well, save for the one released in 1998, which was instead named Visual Studio 6.0.
170	* [[Platform/{{Unix}} Ubuntu]] names its releases using the format {last 2 digits of year}.{2 digit month}. For instance, the version released in April 2022 is 22.04.
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173	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
174	* ''TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD'', AKA ''Traveller 2300''. The 2300 is the century in which the game takes place.
175	* ''TabletopGame/Twilight2000'', a game from the 1980s set in the war-torn future year 2000.
176	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' goes twenty times better than the standard, although the current timeline is in or near the 42nd millennium.
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179	[[folder:Theatre]]
180	* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''.
181	* ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'', which is set in the stated year.
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder:Toys]]
185	* ''Franchise/GIJoe'' has a subteam called "Battle Force 2000", whose purpose is to "field-test experimental equipment under battlefield conditions". The figures and vehicles were introduced in 1987 and stayed in production for a few years, then were reissued as fan club exclusives in 2017.
186	* ''Toys/LEGODinoAttack'' (which was released in 2005 and is set in 2010) has the MarketBasedTitle ''Dino 2010'' in Europe.
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189	[[folder:Video Games]]
190	* ''VideoGame/NineteenEightyX'', a retraux game from 2019 which is set in the titular year.
191	* ''VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo''. Recently remade as ''1942: Joint Strike''.
192	* ''VideoGame/SeventyFiveFiftyFourGloriousMemoriesRevived'', the title being a reference to May 7th, 1954, during the Việt Minh's victory over France at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu which the game is attempting to re-create.
193	* The ''VideoGame/AnnoDomini'' series are all named ''Anno [Year]''.
194	* ''VideoGame/Battlefield1942'' and ''1943'': Named after years during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, which is when the games take place. Released in 2002.
195	* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2042'': Released in October 2021.
196	* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2142'': Named after [[AfterTheEnd a futuristic war set in a new ice age]] between two factions [[FightToSurvive fighting to survive]] in 2142. Released in 2006.
197	* ''VideoGame/Cyberball2072''.
198	* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''.
199	* ''Empire City: 1931'', a shooting arcade game released in 1986. You take on NYC gangsters in the titular year.
200	* ''VideoGame/HongKong97'': Released in 1995.
201	* The first ten games of the ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters King of Fighters]]'' series, from '94 to 2003. Plus 2006, but that one is a localization re-title of ''King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2'', not a main-series game.
202	* ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' takes place in an AlternateHistory {{steampunk}} version of London in 1886.
203	* ''VideoGame/Robotron2084''.
204	* ''Spirit Of Speed 1937'' was a racing game originally released in 1999. It was set in 1937, using period-appropriate cars.
205	* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' is a more subtle example than most. The game was released in 2000, an actual Year of The Dragon, and the story takes place on an in-universe Year of The Dragon, which in the setting is when fairies deliver Dragon Eggs, which are the main collectible in the game.
206	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter2010'': Released in 1990 and set in the [[ExtyYearsFromPublication distant and terrifying future of the year 2010]].
207	* The 1984 sequel to ''VideoGame/TimePilot'' was titled, well...''Time Pilot '84''. Oddly, unlike the original game, you're never actually told what year(s) the action is set in.
208	* ''{{VideoGame/Wipeout}}'' ''2097'' and ''2048''.
209	* ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'': Y (Year) - II (2) - K (1000).
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212	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
213	* ''VisualNovel/ASummersEndHongKong1986'' is set in 1986.
214	[[/folder]]
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216	[[folder:Web Original]]
217	* ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'' is set almost 16,000 years in the future; its sequel, ''20020'', also qualifies.
218	[[/folder]]
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220	[[folder:Western Animation]]
221	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has two episodes referencing the year they take place.
222	** "Space Pilot 3000": The pilot episode, showing how Fry was cryogenically frozen as midnight strikes on New Year's Eve 1999 and wakes up almost 1000 years later in New Year's Eve 2999. By the end of the episode, it's New Year's Day 3000.
223	** "Decision 3012" takes place during the 3012 Presidential election.
224	* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', when Soos finds an old video game made by "Year 2000 Electronics", [[CloudCuckooLander Soos]] doesn't realize that the year 2000 was more than a decade before his own time.
225	--> '''Soos:''' Man, I can't wait for the year 2000!
226	* ''WesternAnimation/Phantom2040'', futuristic adaptation of ''The Phantom''.
227	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': An episode called "Reptar 2010", named for the ShowWithinAShow that's named for its future setting of 2010.
228	* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2020'' by Creator/HannaBarbera Studios, about a marine research facility on the ocean floor. 2020 is said by the OpeningNarration as the year it's set in:
229	--> This is the year two thousand and twenty.
230	* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' by Creator/CartoonNetwork Studios is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2020'', wherein an undersea community has GoneHorriblyWrong, implied that 2021 is the year it's set in.
231	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' parodied and mocked the trope in season 4 by having the first four episodes end with 2000 for no reason other than to mock its overuse at the time.
232	[[/folder]]

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