History Franchise / StargateVerse

* SuperWeight:
** Type 0: Scientists, Villagers.
** Type 1: SG-1, SG-3, most series regulars.
** Type 2: The Goa'uld, the Tok'ra, the Jaffa, Hybrids, Teyla.
** Type 3: The Wraith, The Tollan, the Priors, Adria, Khalek.
** Type 4: The Replicators, The Asurans, The Asgard[[note]]They may qualify as type 3, but during most of the series their forces and resources are constantly tied up fighting back just about everyone else and manage to give the Replicators, the Goa'uld system lords, the Wraith and the Ori a run for their money, sometimes several at once, earning them a Type 4 rating[[/note]].
** Type 5: The Ancients, The Ori, Anubis, Adria after ascending, Planet Builders(possibly. Type 4 at least based on their star system constructing and shuttle transporting instantaenously between galaxies feats).

* CoolGuns: The protagonists' FN P90s, which are eventually adapted as a standard personal weapon for a better punch against armored enemies.

* Creator/BigFinish audio plays, which can no longer be purchased from the official websites due to rights issues.

[[caption-width-right:300:Earth's Stargate]]

* PlausibleDeniability

** 1 guess which country's space battle ship is destroyed.

* {{Aliens}}: Being a franchise that involves going to ther planets, the Stargate-verse has a decent amount of alien species.

** A invention of the Goa'uld is the sarcophagus, which was used to rapidly injuries and cure illnesses. Constant use of sarcophagus can reverse various genetic disorders, such as poor eyesight, extended one's lifespan[[note]]Though if they have a symbiote they both become functionally [[{{Immortality}} immortal]].[[/note]] and even [[ResurrectiveImmortality revive the dead]] in some cases. Unfortunately, it can't fix various forms of brain damage, its use can become addictive, it can be used for {{Brainwashing}} and can cause psychological side effects when used regularly.

** Goa'uld, a race of snakelike parasites who, until recently, ran most of the galaxy by pretending to be gods. Goa'uld require an individual of another species to host them in order to survive, and most Goa'uld take full control over their host. They steal technology, filling their "parasite" role in multiple ways. Most prominent is their sarcophagus technology, which they can use to heal themselves (or to bring their corpses back to life). Unfortunately, this rejuvenation process is part of what makes them so evil (as revealed when Daniel becomes addicted to using a sarcophagus... and his personality mirrors that of a Goa'uld).

** Nox, an ancient and super-advanced race of peaceful tree-huggers who keep to themselves and live in seclusion, aided by the ability to render themselves and others invisible. It is likely that many of Earth's various legends of "The Little People" or "The Fair Folk" are actually about the Nox. They maintain an Actual Pacifist stance, refusing to defend themselves when threatened, (mostly because death is a minor inconvenience when you can resurrect the dead), although when pushed, they are perfectly capable of whisking away enemies back through the Stargate without their weapons. They were one of the Four Races, most likely The Heart of the group.
** Asgard, an ancient and super-advanced race with the classic "gray alien" appearance, who inspired the Norse gods, and occasionally bail our sorry backsides out when we get in over our heads, now supposedly extinct, (although Atlantis revealed that more ruthless offshoot called the Vanir live in Pegasus). Unlike most such advanced species the Asgard have proved to be friendly, helpful, (as much as they can), and all things considered actually decent and polite as well, capable of acknowledging humanity's flaws compared to themselves, (and acknowledging where humanity can help them), without coming across as condescending and smugly superior. A member of the Four Races, acting as The Lancer to the Ancients.
** Ancients, an ancient and super-advanced race who built the Stargates and Atlantis, then most died from a plague and others evolved into Energy Beings. Their society shakes down, so far as we know, into the "Alterans", the original parent race which built the gates, the "Lanteans", who moved to the Pegasus galaxy and did more or less the same thing, and the "Ori", their evil cousins, and final SG-1 Big Bad. Though we evolved separately, humans and ancients are more or less the same biological species, and most of the population of the Pegasus galaxy evolved similarly. They are also non-interfering to the extreme, to the point of seeming like total jerks. The Leader of the Four Races.

** Ursini, about 1.2m (4') tall vaguely humanoid (seems like a recurring theme with advanced Stargate Universe aliens) brown-skinned insect-like aliens with whom the crew of Destiny have first encountered on a derelict stargate-seeding ship. They also possess advanced spaceships, stun guns and other pieces of advanced technology. Their language is as for now incomprehensible, though it remains to be seen whether they will learn English from Telford or not. They aren't particularly hostile, but the first contact didn't end on good terms due to difficulties communicating. They are probably waging a war with something else. As of "Deliverance," they're apparently extinct.

* FantasticNirvana: Ascension is a classic pathway towards AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence with a great deal of inspiration taken from Buddhism. Along with achieving EnlightenmentSuperpowers, the key to the process is elevating the mind, resolving the unfinished business tying you to the physical world, and achieving inner peace; achieving this state of mind will allow you to transcend physical existence and spend all eternity observing the universe as a godlike EnergyBeing. This usually takes years of introspection, but Daniel Jackson is able to fast-track the process on his deathbed with help from [[BigGood Oma Desala]], allowing him to make peace with his life as it was and Ascend. Furthermore, numerous illicit shortcuts exist throughout the various series - hence why malevolent Ascended beings like [[OmnicidalManiac Anubis]] and [[PathOfInspiration the Ori]] exist.

** ''Can Only Kill Part Of Him'': Anubis is a half-ascended EnergyBeing, something less than the Ancients but still effectively immortal. Destroying his physical container or his host only releases his essence, which is indestructible as it's only an avatar of his higher-dimensional form. The only way to positively kill him is by collective vote of the Ancients, which they refuse to do. [[spoiler:Trapping him in eternal battle works too, although that technically only deactivates both him and his opponent.]]

* RussianGuySuffersMost: [[UpToEleven Taken to ridiculous extremes]]. If a Russian character or characters make an appearance in an episode, something bad ''is'' going to happen to them. No exceptions. Russians are basically the SGC's version of Redshirts.

* {{Cucoloris}}: To avoid CGI costs, the open gate is in many shots offscreen but its flickering light -- produced by a stagehand warping a flexible mirror -- illuminates the rest of the scene.

* MinovskyPhysics: The stargates' "wormhole physics" are pretty consistent. Matter only goes one way (from dialing gate to receiving gate), but energy and gravity can go both ways. A gate can only stay open for 38 minutes (give or take a few seconds), barring extreme energy or TimeDilation effects on one end. Any matter that is caught in the [[FanNickname "kawoosh"]]/vortex when the gate opens (or tries to travel from receiving gate to dialing gate) is disintegrated. Dialing six chevrons and the point of origin gets you to another gate in your galaxy. Dialing seven chevrons and the point of origin dials a gate to another galaxy ("dialing another area code" is the analogy). Dialing all nine chevrons targets a specific gate by its "serial number", for lack of a better term, instead of its location in space. Sending a wormhole past or through a star is a Very Bad Idea: it may cause problems for the star (e.g. retarding fusion), or if it happens during a solar flare, may cause the wormhole to [[TimeTravel travel through time]] as well as space.

* ''Series/StargateOrigins'' (2018) - A {{Prequel}} series following Catherine Langford, the daughter of the archaeologist who discovered the original Stargate.[[/index]]

* KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: With one exception (see WeWillUseLasersInTheFuture below), Earth firearms are favored over any of the {{Ray Gun}}s favored by more advanced offworld cultures. SG-1's "The Warrior" specifically demonstrates the FN Herstal P90 to outperform the Goa'uld staff weapon in every area except ammunition capacity (the staff relies on a liquid naquadah power cell which is never once shown to run dry). The SGC's starships also follow this philosophy, with railguns as the primary weapon until the Asgard give them the sum total of their collected knowledge, including extremely powerful energy weapons, in the ''SG-1'' finale. And even then, the Asgard plasma beams can't track small targets so the railguns are still used for point defense. In the case of the of the FN P90 v. staff weapon example, a rather justified point was made. Staff weapons were designed to terrorize and intimidate targets who were often unarmed or barely so, meaning that spray and pray tactics and lots of collateral damage were perfectly valid and acceptable. The P90 was designed as an actual weapon of war where the point was to kill a target, not scare it. Other tradeoffs in other weapons were similar justified -- unreliable, difficult to use, or what have you.

To most of the Earth-bound humans in it, the Stargate-verse is [[PlausibleDeniability indistinguishable from the universe in which we viewers live]]. It's present-day, there isn't a whole lot of AppliedPhlebotinum that you'd notice, and human history has unfolded just the way you remember, so far as you know. About the only difference is that there's about 80 billion dollars in the US military budget that no one can adequately account for. Oh, wait....

To most of the earth-bound humans in it, the Stargate verse is [[PlausibleDeniability indistinguishable from the universe in which we viewers live]]. It's present-day, there isn't a whole lot of AppliedPhlebotinum that you'd notice, and human history has unfolded just the way you remember, so far as you know. About the only difference is that there's about 80 billion dollars in the US military budget that no one can adequately account for. Oh, wait....