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This is when someone boasts or predicts that a particular organization or accomplishment will endure for (at least) a certain amount of time, the prediction usually being wildly optimistic and incurring a high risk of Tempting Fate. 1,000 years is the gold standard when talking about empires and dynasties, but various big, round numbers may be conjured. The important thing is that this is about assuming the length beforehand, not how long it actually lasts. Sometimes this assumption can be based on a prophecy that states the length of time. Of course, even if the prophecy is correct, that doesn't preclude the many ways there can be a Prophecy Twist. Perhaps the organization will last that long, but not in the way its creators intended. Say if the Evil Overlord founds it, but The Hero slays him, and rules instead. Or, at the end of the stated time, the downfall of the organization may be so catastrophic that it undoes any impact the organization would have left. |
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Valkyria Chronicles III: Dahau declares that he will create a new homeland for the Darcsen people that will endure for a thousand years, even if it requires him to go down in history as a villain. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown: Parodied. One episode revolves around them locking up their dragon Dojo for the day, because on that particular day he'll turn evil, grow two heads and devour all of the magical Shen Gong Wu items, leading to 1,000 years of darkness. The spoof comes from the time being more like 962, but 1,000 sounds more dramatic. | |
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The trope is mentioned in The Elenium when a reference is made to a historical figure creating an empire of a thousand years that barely outlived its founder. | |
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The Wild Wild West: In the episode "The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen", General Grimm is A Nazi by Any Other Name who wants to take over the American Southwest and place it under strict military rule. His second-in-command predicts that his reign will last "a thousand years". | |
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Foundation Series: Hari Seldon, creator of psychohistory, a set of mathematical formulas that can predict human behaviour, anticipates that the Galactic Empire will collapse and leave the Milky Way in anarchy for thirty thousand years, an inversion of this trope's usual meaning. The Seldon Plan, developed through psychohistory, will shorten this interval to about one thousand years instead. It becomes popular knowledge in the galaxy that the Foundation of Terminus is undefeatable. The first book, Foundation, has also been published under the title The 1,000 Year Plan. | |
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Gladiator: This is how long Commodus wants his incestuous line to last, when he thinks he's won completely. | |
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The Book of Revelation says that Jesus will reign with the Saints for 1,000 years, during which time Satan is bound, before dad Jehovah steps in. The nature of this reign and whether the time period is meant to be taken literally has been debated throughout the history of Christianity. | |
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The Lannisters in Game of Thrones have this goal in mind. In Season 1, Lord Tywin discusses the war plans with his son Jaime, explaining that the events of the coming months will either cement a Lannister/Baratheon dynasty on the Iron Throne that could last a thousand years, or they could collapse into nothing like the Targaryens (who made it to 300 years themselves). They collapse into nothing in less than 8. | |
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Left Behind: During Kingdom Come only glorifieds and naturals who have put their faith in Jesus Christ will be allowed to live to the end of the Millenium, while naturals who stay unbelievers by the time they reach 100 years of age will die and go to Hell. The Other Light faction has prepared for this contingency by passing down their teaching to the next generation of its converts so that the generation that gets to confront God and Jesus at the end of the Millennium will be assured victory when Satan is released. However, it didn't turn out as they hoped. | |
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Team Fortress 2: A Demoman dominating his opposite number on the enemy team will sometimes declare "THUS BEGINS MY THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF BLOOD!" in the most over the top (bad) Scottish accent imaginable. Amusingly, Demomen typically live about three minutes at a time tops, so that 'reign' tends to end as quickly as it began. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic begins with Twilight Sparkle reading an old legend that states that the stars would aid in the escape of the Nightmare Moon on the longest day of the 1000th year of her banishment, when she would bring about nighttime eternal. Princess Celestia reigned as sole sovereign during this entire time. | |
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Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: The Lord Ruler calls his reign "The Final Empire", because he believes that the empire (and he himself) will last forever. | |
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The Books of Ember: The City of Ember was designed to last exactly 200 years and no longer. Too bad that the note meant to inform the populace of this got lost. | |
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In the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas", the The Antichrist is supposed to "bring a thousand years of darkness to the forest". | |
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The Legend of Korra: Harmonic Convergence is a supernatural event that occurs once every 10,000 years, in which the spirits of harmony and chaos, Raava and Vaatu, must battle to determine which force will reign until the next Harmonic Convergence. Later, when Kuvira takes Zaofu for her Earth Empire, banners are hanged which read "May Kuvira live for 10,000 years". |
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Chung Kuo: The Seven T'ang boast of their reign having lasted three thousand years. However, the reader knows that history has been rewritten so that the Chung Kuo are an ancient Chinese empire that conquered Western Europe in the days ancient Rome, whereas it's actually just 200 years old. | |
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Referenced several times in Conspiracy (2001), which takes place at a time when the Nazis were absolutely convinced that they were moments away from victory. | |
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Voltron: Legendary Defender: The Galra had rule over most of the known universe for over 10,000 years. | |
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Crusader Kings II: Entirely possible, since the Reaper's Due DLC officially added immortality to the game, allowing, given the length of the game, a reign of almost seven full centuries if lucky, and conversion to later games in the series allows a single ruler to run the nation for a full millennium or more. With timeline extending mods such as When the World Stopped Making Sense, this can even be accomplished without converting the save to a separate game. | |
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