# What has happened since  2000?

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**Created:** [July 11, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-since-2000/502645 "2009-07-11T04:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-since-2000/502645/21 "2009-07-14T16:53:11Z")

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In comic books (hey, they’re part of pop culture) the biggest event of the decade has been the launch of the Marvel Ultimate line (which began in 2000). They basically started a series of parallel comic book series which used new versions of established characters.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-since-2000/502645/22 "2009-07-14T17:30:13Z")

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Who reset their universe? DC?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-since-2000/502645/23 "2009-07-14T20:19:21Z")

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Marvel and DC both reset their universes about once a year. Why bother trying to keep up? There’s no point trying to recap “events” like House of M or Civil War or Infinite Crisis or 52 because everything ends up pretty much back where it started.

That’s one reason I think the Ultimate line has been so successful. It wasn’t trying to remake the main Marvel universe so it didn’t feel constrained to follow established history.

Oh yeah, the other big thing in comic books since 2000? Zombies. Lots and lots of zombies.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-has-happened-since-2000/502645/24 "2009-07-14T21:09:21Z")

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> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#):
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> What about WHo Want to be a Millionaire? Weren’t all these shows offshoots of the writer’s strike?

No, the writers strike was in 2007-8. _Millionaire_ premiered in 1999 and created a brief quiz-show craze (just as _Survivor_ created a reality craze when it premiered the same year).

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