2099
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The 2090s is a decade that will start in the year 2090 and end in the year 2099. It will be the last decade in the 21st century.

Notable predictions and known events

2096

Material from the Cullen Inquiry into the Dunblane school shootings in UK, which was subject to a 100-year closure order, will be released to the public.

2098

The 99-year lease agreement for Highway 407 (Ontario) between the Highway 407 Inc. consortium and the Government of Ontario expires.

Fictional Events

2090

• The racing game Ballistics is set in 2090.
• During the events of the Animatrix, a domestic machine named B1-66ER is threatened by its owner, and kills both the owner and a mechanic instructed to deactivate it. This murder is the first incident of an artificially intelligent machine killing a human. B1-66ER is arrested and put on trial, but justifies the crime as self-defense, stating that it "simply did not want to die."

2091

• Back to the Future: The Animated Series episode "Solar Sailors" is set in December 15 of this year.

2094

• Events of the First Man-Machine War from The Matrix saga take place.
• The Tiny Tank of Tiny Tank is first destroyed.

2095

• Electric Light Orchestra's 1981 concept album Time partially takes place in 2095.
• Time Warp Trio book 2095 takes place in 2095.
• 2pac's music video for California Love is based in 2095.

2096

• Events in the children's book Tommy Storm take place.
• Events in Leprechaun 4: In Space takes place.
• The character Cy-5 from the video game, War Gods (video game), comes from this year.

2097

• Events in Mary Shelley's The Last Man take place.
• Events in the PC fighting game, One Must Fall: 2097 take place.
• Events of the futuristic racing game WipEout 2097 take place.
• Events of Crystalis take place.

2099

• In 1992, Marvel Comics released several future-based comic book series as part of its Marvel 2099 line. Spider-Man 2099, the lead title in the line, was accompanied by other books such as X-Men, Punisher, Doom, Ghost Rider and many others, each including "2099" in the title.
• Beginning date of Judge Dredd stories in British comic 2000 AD. Judge Dredd stories are set 122 years into the future and progress forward in 'real time' (so stories from 1977 are set in 2099, and stories from 2007 are set in 2129).
• The 2099 series by John Peel are set in this year.
• The sci-fi radio sitcom Nebulous is set in this year.
• In 1996, Marvel Comics and DC Comics teamed up to create Amalgam Comics it released several future-based comic book series called Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099