List of works of fiction set in 2020

This is a list of works of fiction set largely or wholly in 2020.

Comics

• Iron Man 2020 (1984)
• 2020 Visions (1997)
• Sekirei (2004)

Novels

• Perfect Dark: Initial Vector by Greg Rucka (2005)
• Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat (2011)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne (2016)

Computer and video games

• Raid 2020 (1989)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991): The level "Neon Night Riders" takes place in 2020.
• Super Baseball 2020 (1991)
• SimCity 3000 (1999): Microwave power plants are invented in 2020.
• Keitai Denjū Telefang (2000)
• Command and Conquer: Generals (2003)
• Half-Life 2 (2004)
• Perfect Dark Zero (2005)
• Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006)
• Crysis (2007)
• Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
• Supreme Ruler 2020 (2008)
• MAG: Massive Action Game (2010): The second war of the S.V.E.R starts off in 2020.
• Senran Kagura (2011)
• Battlefield 4 (2013)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (2013) (UR-1 Incident part only, while the rest of the game is set in 2027)
• Call of Duty: Strike Team (2013)

Other games

• Cyberpunk 2020 (1990)

Film

• Roujin Z (1991)
• Mission to Mars (2000)
• Yesterday (2002)
• Reign of Fire (2002)
• I, Robot (2004): Although the film is set in 2035, the U.S.R. robotics company in the film is said to be founded in 2020.
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
• Thunderbirds (2004)
• Real Steel (2011)
• A Fairly Odd Movie (2011)
• Annihilation Earth (2009)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014). The meteor containing the mimic alien race hit Germany in 2015. The movie itself is set five years later in 2020.
• Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016)

Television

• Sealab 2020 (1972)
• Terrahawks (1983)
• Knights of God (1987)
• Dark Angel (2000), second half of Season One and first half of Season Two
• Supervolcano^[1] (2005)
• Sekirei (2008): The series takes place in Tokyo of the "New Eastern Imperial Capital".
• Dollhouse (2009): The events of the series finale takes place.
• Doctor Who: The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood (2010)
• The series finale of Glee (2015) takes place in this year.

Music

• Ace Enders and a Million Different People has a song on their debut CD The Secret Wars called "Bring Back Love (Year 2020)". It is about helping the financially unstable and bringing back a general love among humans.
• In Head Automatica's song, "Graduation Day", the music video foretold that in the year 2020, the goth girl who is graduating will become the President of the United States.
• In Eminem's song, "We Made You", from his 2009 album Relapse, the rapper mentions the year 2020 in the outro of the song, in the line "Dr. Dre, 2020, yeah!".
• At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that "By the year 2020, no child will be left behind" which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gangsta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

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