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* AlmostDeadGuy: Lopez stays alive for just long enough to turn over control of the corvette to the ''Canterbury'' survivors.

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* AlmostDeadGuy: Lopez stays alive for just long enough to turn over control of the corvette ''Tachi'' to the ''Canterbury'' survivors.



* ContinuousDecompression: Downplayed as those inside have time to seal it and the equipment to do so. Unfortunately all the rooms around them are also exposed to vacuum, meaning they are trapped in there and running out of oxygen. Alex takes a sedative to buy them time and fortunately Holden is able to bargain for the marines to rescue them too.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: The four remaining ''Canterbury'' crew members fall into a badass corvette. Alex has to pilot it out of the ''Donnager'' while still groggy from the sedative he took.

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* ContinuousDecompression: Downplayed as those inside have time to seal it and the equipment to do so. Unfortunately Unfortunately, all the rooms around them are also exposed to vacuum, meaning they are trapped in there and running out of oxygen. Alex takes a sedative to buy them time time, and fortunately Holden is able to bargain for the marines to rescue them too.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: The four remaining ''Canterbury'' crew members fall into a badass corvette.corvette - the ''Tachi''. Alex has to pilot it out of the ''Donnager'' while still groggy from the sedative he took.



* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Holden gets into a MexicanStandoff with a wounded soldier from the people who boarded the ''Donnager''. Unfortunately he's using the man's own rifle which is safety-keyed not to shoot his own armor.

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* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Holden gets into a MexicanStandoff with a wounded soldier from the people who boarded the ''Donnager''. Unfortunately Unfortunately, he's using the man's own rifle which is safety-keyed not to shoot his own armor.



* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Fred Johnson meaningfully warns that, if he's replaced as project manager on ''The Nauvoo'', all sorts of things might go wrong with the ship. Of course, he can keep those bad things from happening, as long as he keeps the job.

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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Fred Johnson meaningfully warns that, if he's replaced as project manager on ''The Nauvoo'', the ''Nauvoo'', all sorts of things might go wrong with the ship. Of course, he can keep those bad things from happening, as long as he keeps the job.

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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The Martian SpaceMarines make no secret of how much they despise an Earther like Holden, but give their lives to get him to safety.

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* MauveShirt: Shed gets decapitated by a railgun slug in the middle of the attack on the ''Donnager''.


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* SacrificialLamb: Shed has been set up to be one of the main characters of the show for the first few episodes, but gets suddenly decapitated in the middle of the attack on the ''Donnager''.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Fred Johnson not-too-subtly threatens the Mormons with unspecified bad stuff happening to the ''Nauvoo'' if they decide to replace him.

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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Fred Johnson not-too-subtly threatens the Mormons meaningfully warns that, if he's replaced as project manager on ''The Nauvoo'', all sorts of things might go wrong with unspecified the ship. Of course, he can keep those bad stuff happening to things from happening, as long as he keeps the ''Nauvoo'' if they decide to replace him.job.
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* BoomHeadshot: Shed meets his end by way of a headshot. ''With a railgun.'' '''''That cleanly decapitates him.'''''
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* ContinuousDecompression: Downplayed as those inside have time to seal it and the equipment to do so. Unfortunately all the rooms around them are also exposed to vacuum, meaning they are trapped in there and running out of oxygen. Alex takes a sedative to buy them time and fortunately Holden is able to bargain for the marines to rescue them too.


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* TemptingFate: Shed tells Alex that everything's going to be alright seconds before a stray shot decapitates him and opens a hole into the vacuum of space.

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* FantasticRacism: The Martians towards Earthers.



* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The Martian SpaceMarines make no secret of how much they despise an Earther like Holden, but give their lives to get him to safety.
* NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont: Holden gets into a MexicanStandoff with a wounded soldier from the people who boarded the ''Donnager''. Unfortunately he's using the man's own rifle which is safety-keyed not to shoot his own armor.



* RedShirt: The entire crew of the ''Donnager''.

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* RedShirt: RedShirtArmy: The entire crew of the ''Donnager''.


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* SittingOnTheRoof: Or lying on it, in this case.
* SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: Miller finds a group of people betting on a fatal attempt to slingshot around Jupiter.
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Corrected the first sentence - it was Miller who found the corpse, not Holden


The ''Donnager'' gets attacked by a mysterious fleet. Holden's pursuit of Julie leads him to a difficult-to-identify corpse. Avasarala and Fred Johnson both observe the ''Donnager'' attack, but are too far away to do anything about it.

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The ''Donnager'' gets attacked by a mysterious fleet. Holden's Miller's pursuit of Julie leads him to a difficult-to-identify corpse. Avasarala and Fred Johnson both observe the ''Donnager'' attack, but are too far away to do anything about it.
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* TwoKeyedLock: The self-destruct on the ''Donnager'' requires thumbprints from both Yao and her lieutenant.1

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* TwoKeyedLock: The self-destruct on the ''Donnager'' requires thumbprints from both Yao and her lieutenant.1
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: A railgun shot tears through the pressurized brig without igniting the air, spraying shrapnel throughout the cabin, or even noticeably warping the points where it penetrated the wall.
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* TitleDrop: When the ship starts rumbling, Alex says that it can only mean one thing: "CQB".

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* TitleDrop: When the ship ''Donnager'' starts rumbling, shaking violently, Alex says that it can only mean one thing: "CQB".

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* TwoKeyedLock: The self-destruct on the ''Donnager'' requires thumbprints from both Yao and her lieutenant.

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* TitleDrop: When the ship starts rumbling, Alex says that it can only mean one thing: "CQB".
* TwoKeyedLock: The self-destruct on the ''Donnager'' requires thumbprints from both Yao and her lieutenant.1
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The ''Donnager'''s captain, although angry after Holden blamed Mars for the attack on the ''Canterbury'', is willing to make a deal with him, and when it turns out that the ships attacking the ''Donnager'' were the same as those that attacked the ''Canterbury'', makes sure to get Holden to safety so he can testify to what happened.
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'''Season 1, Episode 4''':
!CQB

The ''Donnager'' gets attacked by a mysterious fleet. Holden's pursuit of Julie leads him to a difficult-to-identify corpse. Avasarala and Fred Johnson both observe the ''Donnager'' attack, but are too far away to do anything about it.

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* AlmostDeadGuy: Lopez stays alive for just long enough to turn over control of the corvette to the ''Canterbury'' survivors.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: The four remaining ''Canterbury'' crew members fall into a badass corvette. Alex has to pilot it out of the ''Donnager'' while still groggy from the sedative he took.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Assuming the series continues to follow the books, Avasarala's conversation with her grandson on the roof foreshadows [[ColonyDrop the main plot]] of [[Literature/NemesisGames book 5]] (notably, in the book published most recently before the TV series began).
* GenerationShip: The ''Nauvoo'', which is being built by OPA-aligned Belters for a century-long Mormon colonization attempt on Tau Ceti.
* MauveShirt: Shed gets decapitated by a railgun slug in the middle of the attack on the ''Donnager''.
* OnlyMostlyDead: Havelock survives being impaled and left for dead.
* RedShirt: The entire crew of the ''Donnager''.
* SelfDestructMechanism: As soon as the corvette gets away, Captain Yao blows up the ''Donnager'' to prevent their mysterious attackers from capturing it.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Fred Johnson not-too-subtly threatens the Mormons with unspecified bad stuff happening to the ''Nauvoo'' if they decide to replace him.
* TwoKeyedLock: The self-destruct on the ''Donnager'' requires thumbprints from both Yao and her lieutenant.

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