28 is the sum of all its divisors (except the number itself). Specifically, 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28. It's also a 'happy number', meaning when you repeatedly add the squares of its digits, you eventually reach 1 (2^2 + 8^2 = 4 + 64 = 68, 6^2 + 8^2 = 36 + 64 = 100, 1^2 + 0^2 + 0^2 = 1).
February is the only month with 28 days (except during a leap year), there are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet, Woodrow Wilson was the 28th US President and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the 28th entry in the MCU.
28th century
Films
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - 2740
Mutant Chronicles - 2707
Bill & Ted Face the Music - 2720
Video games
Marathon¹ (1994) - 2794
Xexyz - 2777
Privateer 2: The Darkening - 2790
Terminal Velocity - 2704
¹ntbcw upcoming 2025 entry of same name.
Dan Simmons' 1989 sci-fi novel Hyperion (the first in the Hyperion Cantos series), is set in 2732.
Miscellany
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| Left 4 Dead The fourth part of first campaign No Mercy is The Hospital. To reach Rooftop Finale, a lift must be called which terminates on Floor 28. |
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| Cabin 28 |
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| The Life and Times of Savior 28 Over the course of decades, titular superhero S-28 renounces violence. |
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| 28 Days |
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| 28 Days - 28 Days |
Units of time
Mindset will soon become clear.
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Absurdist satirical black comedy is set in London, on the third or fourth anniversary of a nuclear war that lasted two minutes and 28 seconds.
La Jetée (1962)
Chris Marker's b/w short runs for 28 minutes and is constructed almost entirely from still photographs, telling a story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.
Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys and TV series of same name lifted several concepts from featurette.
My Dead Girlfriend (2006)
Opening text:
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Shoot 'em in the head..."
Night of the Living Dead (1968).
28 HOURS LATER
28 Days Later (2002)
A laboratory in Cambridge housing highly aggressive chimpanzees infected with a virus dubbed 'Rage' is infiltrated by animal rights activists. When one such member frees one of their 'torture victims', test subject attacks her and succumbs to the virus, triggering a societal collapse.
Standalone sequel 28 Weeks Later was released in 2007.
Last Rites (2006), aka Gangs of the Dead and City of the Dead was later released in the UK as 48 Weeks Later.
Can't think why?
Ha ha ha.
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| 28 Months After (2012) |
Heed my advice. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME.
28 Months Later never came to fruition, but 28 Years Later is a direct sequel to Days.
The madness continues and/or ends in January 2026 with The Bone Temple.
Final flourish
Windjammers was released for the Neo Geo in 1994.
Guess what?
Dotemu developed and published sequel for the Switch, PS4 etc in 2022.
Tron (1982) was one of the first films to use substantial CGI.
Its first sequel was Tron 2.0 (2003), but Tron: Legacy (2010) decanonized events, relegating video game to an alternate continuity.
By the way, 2010 - 1982 = 28.
(Ahem).
One more.
Outbreak (1995)
Film begins in 1967, then jumps 28 years to 1995.
WOW!
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