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Contest: ENTER SF&F Avatar Contest: Futures Passed

theenglish

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Heads up everyone! This theme for this week is "Futures Passed" which means any SF&F that was took place in a future year at the time it was made, but that year is now done and gone.

They can be from a movie, television show, or comic/graphic novel that was set in the future when it was made, had characters time travelling to a future year that has now passed, or had characters from what is still our future travelling to the past as long as that past is now our past too. By this I mean Star Trek IV would not be acceptable because it was set in the present day for the time it was made, Picard season 2 doesn't count because the characters travelled to 2024, but some other Star Trek episodes might be acceptable if the characters had travelled to a year later than the episode/movie took place but prior to 2023.

There are probably a lot of Doctor Who episodes that have done this so I will accept no more than one avatar per doctor.

Shows that take place in the future and merely reference events from the past do not qualify.

Image sizes of avatars must not exceed 200x200px and file sizes must not exceed 1mb.

You may enter up to 3 times.

This contest will remain up until next Saturday evening, PST.
 
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Blade Runner (1982), set in the distant future of 2019
 
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Destroy All Monsters (1968) set in the far-off year of 1999!!!

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Escape from New York (1981) set in the far-off year of 1997!!!

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Akira (1988) set in the far-off year of 2019!!!
 
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Timecop (1994), set (largely) in 2004

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Quantum Leap (1989 - 1993), with the show's "present" set in 1995 - 1999/2000
(If this one doesn't count because not enough of the show took place in the "present", let me know; I have some others up my sleeve if need be.)
 
I think that counts because Al was always in the present, and because there were episodes set in the present.

I should mention I wouldn't count Buck Rogers in the 25th century because other than the opening narration in the pilot/movie there was nothing set in 1987.
 
It just hit when I was looking through the thread that no one had posted Lost in Space, and I was shocked.
 
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