History Film / SpaceTruckers

* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture: Credits are the currency in this future, as we learn during Canyon's arguing about his payment with Keller.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Pachyderm has no artificial gravity, meaning the bottle of mustard seen near the beginning is weightless while the ship isn't accelerating, decelerating, or turning. However, when John Canyon hits the breaks, that bottle of mustard keeps hanging in the air in the same place; it doesn't preserve its momentum and slam into the front of the cabin.

* AlienBlood: There are a number of violent deaths throughout the movie (including but not limited to disintegrations, bisections, limbs coming off, and decapitations) but, likely in order to retain a PG-13 rating, everyone bleeds purple and yellow goop. It's never explained in-universe why this happens.

* NoOSHACompliance: If the glass of the portholes in the Space Diner can be shattered with a simple bullet shot, that place is bound for disaster if micrometeorites come by.

* AstronomicZoom: The movie opens in Neptune's orbit and then zooms towards Titan, goes through its atmosphere, passes a frozen canyon in its barren icy wasteland before finally arriving at a military outpost where the VillainOpeningScene plays out.

* ReEntryScare: Canyon decides to sacrifice the Pachyderm by dangerously guiding it to plummet into the Earth's atmosphere, roasting all the remaining BMWs with the violent friction.

-->'''John Canyon:''' No, no, no, no no, Jackie, that's not - that's not the way to throw a punch in zero gravity. See, ''this'' is the recommended technique! [Proceeds to punch Jackie [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom causing him to fly across the load]] into the opposite wall and knocking one of his teeth out].

* TeethFlying: Jackie's bloody tooth does so in zero gravity after being punched by Canyon.

-->'''John Canyon:''' No, no, no, no no, Jackie, that's not - that's not the way to throw a punch in zero gravity. See, ''this'' is the recommended technique! [Proceeds to MegatonPunch Jackie, causing him to fly across the room into the opposite wall and knocking one of his teeth out].

* AssholeVictim: Keller gets the most memorably weird ThrownOutTheAirlock death of the film, but given that he's a FatBastard BadBoss, no one will feel too sorry about it.

* AstronomicZoom: The movie opens in Neptune's orbit and then zooms towards Titan, goes through its atmosphere, a frozen canyon in its barren icy wasteland before finally arriving at a military outpost where the VillainOpeningScene plays out.

* CoolStarship: The space truckers, especially Canyon's "Pachyderm", literally resemble regular trucks, but tweaked to function [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]. On paper this sounds lazy, but it's actually pulled off well and they look cool. Captain Macanudo's [[Anime/CaptainHarlock Deathshadow]]-looking pirate cruiser is also pretty rad.

* ExtyYearsFromPublication: This 1996 movie has a story that takes place exactly two hundred years later, in 2196.

* ExtyYearsFromPublication: This 1996 movie has a story that takes place exactly a century later, in 2196.

* CoolStarship: The space truckers, especially Canyon's "Pachyderm", literally resemble regular trucks, but tweaked to function [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]. On paper this sounds lazy, but it's actually pulled off well and they look cool. Captain Macanudo's [[Anime/Captain Harlock Deathshadow]]-looking pirate cruiser is also pretty rad.

* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Creator/CharlesDance sacrificed his dignity to play a cyborg space pirate with a chainsaw-like motorised penis (complete with rip cord).

* GreasySpoon: That floats in space with a spinning donut shape to keep gravity going, a la ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' (along with the white colour scheme). Keeping with the trend of mixing truckers and trucker culture with sci-fi.

** As luck would have it, the explosive money briefcase Mike tosses out of the hospital room lands on Sagg's limo killing him instead.

* RealMenWearPink: Mike is puzzled at the request of having to wear a pink outfit while working of Inter Pork, and Keller simply explains that's the color of the pigs.

It is also a sci-fi comedy involving [[OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap Square Pigs]], [[SpaceTrucker Truckers]] InSpace, KillerRobot {{Cyborg}}s, and a CorruptCorporateExecutive upgrading to PresidentEvil.

* MayDecemberRomance: Canyon (played by an at the time 60 year old actor) is attracted to Cindy (played by a 32 year old) and gives her a ride to Earth with the promise of getting married, until his CharacterDevelopment makes him accept that it's not fair and that she and Mike are more in love... but luckily he just grows quickly interested in Cindy's mother, who's still a 38 year old Creator/BarbaraCrampton thanks to her medical HumanPopsicle-conservation.

* PaperThinDisguise: Cindy briefly manages to fool a few space pirates into thinking she's their captain by just wearing his jacket, hat, cigar and sunglasses... even though she's shorter and lacking his [[SeadogPegLeg metal peg leg]].
* FingerInTheMail: At the space diner, Canyon talks to some fellow space truckers about a fallen trucker Kev, who got captured by Captain Macanudo after getting into a scum cluster, and the only thing the pirates sent back a tennis ball can containing Kev's penis.

** Some space pirates get sucked out into the void when the heroes open the Pirate Ship's "mouth" to escape.

** The police stops chasing after Canyon's truck by a voice ordering them to let them go, a voice belonging to Saggs, who's pulling the strings to have his killer cyborg army transported to Earth in secret.

-->'''John Canyon:''' No, no, no, no no, Jackie, that's not - that's not the way to throw a punch in zero gravity. See, ''this'' is the recommended technique. [Proceeds to punch, causing Jackie to fly across the room into the opposite wall and knocking one of his teeth out].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Keller stops his goon from firing a gun inside Canyon's rig because they'd all get sucked into space. When later a fight breaks out in the Diner, the same guy pulls out a gun again and guess what happens.

* MadScientist: Dr. Nabel. He only manages to be the lesser of two evils compared to Saggs, as he's the man behind the creator of the NighInvulnerable killer robots and doesn't show remorse for the deaths of all the people in the Triton base, soldiers and fellow scientists alike.