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A trope Older than You Think, that of a story that informs us the future will not be full of doomsday scenarios or nightmarish dystopias, but in fact the time when all troubles will be behind us. Or, at the very least, the future will hold fewer burdens than that of the past. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It could also be more personalized, where the characters we've been following (or at least some of them) can at least look forward to a better tomorrow. This is somewhat of a generational/cyclical trope in some ways: Science Fiction in the optimistic post-WWII era in the U.S. featured easy travel to other planets, flying cars, the triumph of democracy and universally-recognized human rights, etc. Around the late '60s and '70s, dystopic scenarios became increasingly common, however usually there was a hero who successfully undermined the dictators or exposed the dark secret that deceived the people, and the dystopia was overcome (Logan's Run, Soylent Green possibly with the hero's publicly-proclaimed end reveal; later, The Running Man). Around the '80s and '90s dystopian Crapsack Worlds would often stay dystopian Crapsack Worlds, with the drama centering more on heroes (or Anti Heroes) dealing with life as best they can and maybe accomplishing some bit of good in the process. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This trope is especially popular in religions. Most of them promise some sort of salvation or enlightenment for their followers if they just keep on believing in the Second Coming or whatever positive future might be coming. Politicians also love to promise a better future when they get elected. No Real Life examples are needed. Compare I Want My Jetpack and World Half Full, where someone longs for this to be true and where a person or group of people try to invoke this respectively. Grass Is Greener likewise can deal with characters and their delusion that that place or time that isn't now and here is always going to be better when they get there. Contrast Older Is Better and Nostalgia Filter. Also related to Future Society, Present Values. |
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In The Pendragon Adventure books the original version of Third Earth, which is Earth in the 51st century, is practically perfect. It's an idealistic paradise where the humans are entirely happy, and all of knowledge and history is easily available. | |
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Subverted in Analogue: A Hate Story. Hyun-ae, an ill girl, is made a Human Popsicle because of this trope. Her family freezes her in the hope that someone will eventually find a cure for her condition. Then she's awakened a few hundred years later in a No Woman's Land. | |
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From the New World: After the Crapsaccharine World's society goes to bust, Saki and Satoru know that their future will be better for their child. | |
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In season 4 of Fringe, Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham are always looking forward to their perfect future in which they will raise their daughter and life will be peachy keen. | |
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Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come welcomes a bright future for Jazz. | |
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"Tomorrow Is Mine" from the film Cabaret expresses faith that the future will belong to the protagonist. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Sarcophagus", Natalie and Curtis Grainger awaken after 1,000 years in stasis to find that Earth has benefited significantly from its alliance with the race to which the alien in the Neolithic burial chamber belonged. The two species live in harmony on Earth. | |
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"The sun'll come out, tomorrow / Bet your bottom dollar, that tomorrow / There'll be sun / Just thinkin' about, tomorrow / Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow, till' there's none" | |
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You can see this with the last novels of the Discworld, the first books show a planet locked in Medieval Stasis dominated by bloodthirsty warlords, petty tyrants and mad priests with a huge mistrust between most races, nations and rigid social hierarchies, in the last books of the series the Discworld is entering an industrial/modern revolution, wars, plague and famine are going extinct, racism, social and religious bigotry are in decline, freedom of press as well as mass communications are a thing and Ankh-Morpork as well as other major nations are becoming prosperous, cleaner, more efficient, secure and equalitarian societies, Terry Pratchett gives the Discworld one last goddess, Iron Girder, the personification of the Idea of Progress. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Profile in Silver", after admitting that he is a time traveler from 2172, Professor Joseph Fitzgerald tells John F. Kennedy that his greatest dreams have been fulfilled. By the 22nd Century, humanity has eliminated tyranny, war and poverty and has gone to the stars. | |
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A central premise of the Star Trek franchise is that technology and science makes life better. There's no racism either; humans are finally getting along with each other. Not played entirely straight, however. According to Star Trek, humanity will pass through a horrific World War III and its dystopian aftermath before reaching the utopian age in which the franchise takes place. It does work out in the long run, but there's a hefty dose of Earn Your Happy Ending. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2: In Serah's time of 5AF, humanity lives in tiny communities that eke out a living while fighting off monsters. In every timeline after that, humans are doing better. 400AF is nightmarish but once the timeline is changed, a grand society has been developed where the greatest problem is slight boredom. Noel comes from a Bad Future but he went back in time to invoke this trope. | |
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"The Future" by Sparks. In the future fun is fun / In the future lots of sun... | |
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Practically said word-for-word by Lelouch in the second-to-last episode of Code Geass. Whilst Charles zi Britannia sought the past, and Schneizel el Britannia seeks to preserve the present, Lelouch seeks the future. | |
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Barbarella has to have the concept of "war" spelt out for her as the universe has been at peace for centuries. As the inhabitants of Tau Ceti might be in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility she's given a Ray Gun to defend herself, but the only one the President of Earth can find for her has to be borrowed from the Museum of Conflict. | |
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"Fate" in Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic is a force that moves the world towards a better future for people in general. However, individual people can really get screwed over by Fate and suffer horribly. The main bad guys like to track these people down and give them the ability to fight Fate—to the detriment of everyone around them. | |
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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: The film starts with Rufus informing the audience that his future is great in every imaginable way, but he has to go back in time and make sure Bill and Ted have an adventure so that they can become musicians who properly inspire the world. | |
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Codex Equus: The Fifth Age is depicted as this in Codex Galactica entries. Thanks to the Church of the Stars finally coming clean about the Void Sovereign and what happened during the first 'Void Aeon', every prominent character we know of was able to Ascend to godhood and Equusian civilization was able to make huge magical/technological progress necessary to reach the stars. Once that happens, the Void Sovereign breaks free from his prison and tries to destroy Equus for good, but everyone has become so powerful by this point that the battle is tipped in their favor this time, with Diamond Tiara/Queen Elpis serving as their vanguard as the Bearer of Hope. They defeat and kill the Void Sovereign, saving the galaxy from his threat, and are able to expand to and/or colonize other worlds afterward. | |
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The end of Uncle Vanya has Sonya delivering a monologue to her Uncle about how though their life sucks now, it will be better in Heaven, and they will finally get to rest. | |
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Ultraman Max: This is a hope for the majority of the heroes throughout the series and a common Shut Up, Hannibal! to alien invaders. The Distant Finale shows that yes, it will be. Humanity has become a more peaceful, better society, it's subtly implied the Delos (the other civilization living on the planet) have come out of hiding and now live peacefully with mankind, and Kaito and Mizuki are Happily Married with their grandson leaving on an exploration of the galaxy. | |
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A common theme in Sun Ra's music. In Space Is the Place he looks for a planet to take the Afro-American race to where they can live in better peace and harmony. | |
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The Miracle" by Queen concludes with the lines: "One day you'll see/ a time will come/ when we will all be friends." | |
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The "Old Woman Laura" arc of All-New Wolverine shows a future where the heroes have won, save for Doctor Doom who remains the last villain holding out in Latveria (taking him out is an important part of the story' s plot). | |
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Transmetropolitan's Spider Jerusalem, despite being a violently cynical misanthrope, genuinely believes this. He just wishes that it would happen FASTER. | |
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Music/Gorillaz have "Clint Eastwood" from their album Gorillaz | |
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