History Film / SpaceTruckers

* KillerRobot: The "[[AMechByAnyOtherName cyborgs]]" with {{Energy Weapon}}s for [[UnusualWeaponMounting heads]], BladeBelowTheShoulder (in sword, claw, and scissor configurations), and AbnormalLimbRotationRange allowing them to rotate their neck and compress into a disturbing travel form.

* MadScientist: Dr. Nabel

* OneManArmy: In the opening, a single cyborg in successive order takes down an armoured vehicle, an outpost, a gunship and at such rapid rate that the scientists believe it merely to be communication problems only for it to stand outside the room and massacre it's way through a heavily-armed security force without so much being slowed.

* PaperThinDisguise: Cindy briefly manages to fool a few space pirates into thinking she's their captain by just wearing his jacket, hat and sunglasses... even though she's shorter and lacking his [[SeadogPegLeg metal peg leg]].

* PaperThinDisguise: Cindy briefly manages to fool a few space pirates into thinking she's their captain by just wearing his jacket, hat and sunglasses... even though she's shorter and lacking in his [[SeadogPegLeg metal peg leg]].

* MadeOfIron: Nabel manages to be the only person to survive a direct upclose attack by a cyborg, and while fatally wounded in a later second attack, still lived long enough to tell John about them.
* MadScientist: Nabel

* CombatTentacles: A B.M.W. robot that gets stuck to a door by Cindy proceeds to attack her by opening its belly and releasing a multitude of metallic tendrils that constrict her. Mike intervenes by freezing them with a fire extinguisher, allowing Cindy to break free [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattering]] them.

* MicrowaveMisuse: Canyon takes care of a B.M.W. robot by smashing a microwave on its head and turning it on causing its head to get fried before being sent into the vacuum of space.

* SingleTaskRobot: Mr Zesty uses an android that looks like an old woman as the keypad to get to his lair. The robot is designed to sit in a bathroom stall and scream and rant at whoever tries to get in the stall until they either leave, or stick their fingers in her mouth and enter the code to activate an elevator to take them to Zesty's lair. This serves as an effective deterrent for both civilians and law enforcement, as anyone who barges in on her is too mortified to suspect the ruse.

* MicrowaveMisuse: Canyon takes care of a B.M.W. robot by smashing a microwave on its head and turning it on causing its head to get fried before being sent it into the vacuum of space.

* CentrifugalGravity: The Inter Pork station has a spinning section that houses a diner that uses this system to provide gravity a la ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', complete with curved floors. However, unlike Odyssey, the section where freighters dock is stationary, meaning that matching the angular velocity for docking is not required.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mr Zesty, a black market trader, dresses in loose fitting robes, wears lipstick, and big hoop earrings. Several viewers have mistaken him for an old lady.

* TooDumbToLive: Nabel. He tells Saggs how the BMW cyborg who just murdered hundreds of employees is only loyal to Saggs who plans to use and a whole army of them to invade Earth, and doesn't expect to be made ''deniable''. Subverted in that Nabel survived the BMW's attack, using cybernetics to heal himself and becomes a pirate.
* UsedFuture: very much so.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: Surprisingly hard. No artificial gravity except for magnetic boots and rotating space stations; space suits are in common use; there is no FasterThanLightTravel at all (the entire movie takes place within Earth's solar system); and even in the late 22nd century, spacecraft are still launched into space using booster rockets. Everyone freaks out when someone pulls a gun inside a pressurized space vehicle; on the other hand, what Hollywood Science there is is mostly played for laughs and one-off gags.

* SpaceIsNoisy: Despite the film's use of hard sci-fi tropes, everything in space still makes nose.

* SpacePolice: Police cruisers InSpace, complete with sirens and flashing lights, pursue Canyon's rig until they are called off by Saggs.

* CentrifugalGravity: The Inter Pork station has a spinning section that houses a diner that uses this system to provide gravity a la ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', complete with curved floors.

* CentrifugalGravity: The Inter Pork station has a spinning section that houses a diner that uses this system to provide gravity a la ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey'', complete with curved floors.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Newly appointed President Saggs ''could'' have gotten away with everything scott-free, if he hadn't tried to blow up the heroes with, well, see the entry for KarmicJackpot.

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Unless the cabin pressure of the diner is unreasonably high, the pressure differential shouldn't have been enough for Keller to be violently squeezed through a 12-inch hole.

* AsteroidThicket: The Pachyderm narrowly avoids going through a cluster of "black rocks", hard-to-see asteroids

* TooDumbToLive: Nabel. He tells Saggs how the cyborg who just murdered hundreds of employees is only loyal to Saggs who plans to use and a whole army of them to invade Earth, and doesn't expect to be made ''deniable''. Subverted in that Nabel survived the cyborg's attack, using cybernetics to heal himself and becomes a pirate.

''Space Truckers'' is a 1996 film by Stuart Gordon starring Creator/DennisHopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Creator/CharlesDance.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Keller in the Space Diner. At first it seems like his butt plugged up the hole in comedic fashion (He's played by Creator/GeorgeWendt after all) but then he ''folds in half''.

''Space Truckers'' is a 1996 film by Stuart Gorton starring Creator/DennisHopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Creator/CharlesDance.

* KillerRobot: The "[[AMechByAnyOtherName cyborgs]]" with {{Energy Weapon}}s for [[UnusualWeaponMounting heads]], BladesBelowTheShoulder (in sword, claw, and scissor configurations), and AbnormalLimbRotationRange allowing them to rotate their neck and compress into a disturbing travel form.

* TooDumbToLive: Nabel. He tells Scrags how the cyborg who just murdered hundreds of employees is only loyal to Saggs who plans to use and a whole army of them to invade Earth, and doesn't expect to be made ''deniable''. Subverted in that Nabel survived the cyborg's attack, using cybernetics to heal himself and becomes a pirate.

* DangerRoomColdOpen: With a very dark twist: The attack on the base with the BigBad and MadScientist in it at the start was just a demonstration of the Cyborg's combat power. But it wasn't a simulation. They really did let the Cyborg slaughter dozens of their own {{Mook}}s, in highly gruesome ways, as part of the test.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Newly appointed President Scrags ''could'' have gotten away with everything scott-free, if he hadn't tried to blow up the heroes with, well, see the entry for KarmicJackpot.

'''Scrags''': (presses button to detonate case just as case hits limo)\\

'''Mike Pucci''': ''Somebody fragged Scrags.''\\

* MechaMooks: Scrags has Nabel build him an army of {{Killer Robot}}s as a backup plan, in case his negotiations to buy out the Earth government break down. According to Nabel, the robots are activated in waves: 1, 2, 4, 8... Considering what even one of those things can do, it's pretty clear that an army of these things is unstoppable.
* MegaCorp: Scrags has enough money and influence to ''buy out the entire Earth government''.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: surprisingly hard. No artificial gravity except for magnetic boots and rotating space stations; space suits are in common use; there is no FasterThanLightTravel at all (the entire movie takes place within Earth's solar system); and even in the late 22nd century, spacecraft are still launched into space using booster rockets. Everyone freaks out when someone pulls a gun inside a pressurized space vehicle; on the other hand, what Hollywood Science there is is mostly played for laughs and one-off gags.

--> Nabel: Light me

* TooDumbToLive: Nabel. He tells Scrags how the cyborg who just murdered hundreds of employees is only loyal to Scrags who plans to use and a whole army of them to invade Earth, and doesn't expect to be made ''deniable''. Subverted in that Nabel survived the cyborg's attack, using cybernetics to heal himself and becomes a pirate.

--> '''Scrags:''' If I could, I'd promote you on the spot. But I'm afraid all this has to be deniable. Which means ''you'' have to be deniable.

Either way your mileage may vary as to whether or not it is SoBadItsGood or So Bad It's Horrible ([[TakeAThirdOption or if it's actually okay]]).