History Series / BattlestarGalacticaReimagined

* DeathGlare: Helo to Roslin, after she berates him for trying to rescue his daughter by killing immortal Athena. Adama to a [[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Adama_Glare good many people.]]

** The only reason Baltar did that was because he panicked when Helo asked "Are you Gias Baltar?" (Thinking he was going to be arrested for his inadvertent role in the Cylon attack) and wanted to divert attention from himself.

* PreviouslyOn ''BattlestarGalactica''... : Often with the voice of someone who dies in the episode.

* {{Nepotism}}: Extensively played with. Lee Adama gets accused of this by Kendra Shaw concerning his assignment to command of the Battlestar Pegasus by his Admiral father, which "your daddy just gave to you, like he was tossing you the keys to a new car". However, Adama only appointed him to the post after first going through two senior officers who both died. Likewise with Lee becoming President - while Adama was committing something close to a military coup by refusing to recognize Zarek's control of the Colonial government despite being legally entitled, Zarek was an unreliable power-seeker and Lee one of the few people available. Baltar also espouses this for sympathy baiting in his political writings when he questions whether the fleet will ever be run by someone whose last name ''isn't'' Adama. But while the above examples are justified, Adama senior does have a strong tendency to let Lee, his assumed daughter Kara, and others close to him get away with a lot of crap, and spends an inordinate amount of time and manpower to search for Thrace when she is stranded on a planet, even at the expense of fleet security.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: In the finale, Kara assumes the role of this trope in its classical literary meaning, by simply puffing out of sight, just after confirming her journey was over and that felt good. And that is not-so-just after she doped out the coordinates of our Earth from a Cylon-song, being someone once went to another one and died there, and simply returned. She came out be a some sort of instrument for God's mysterious ways.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Poor Apollo and Tyrol. Apollo lost Starbuck to Anders, Dualla to herself, and Starbuck disappears into thin air. And Tyrol never got to live in that house with Boomer, or even had that kid with Cally. What's more his reincarnation of his lover from a past life, Tory, was never even considered, and she was the one who killed Cally and Tyrol then killed her in a fit of vengeful rage.

* MST3KMantra: In the commentary to ''Razor'', the showrunners admit that they have no idea how Kara and Lee could know that Kendra Shaw might [[spoiler: think she deserved to die]], since she never confides in anyone about her part in the massacre of the civilians' families. (In an earlier draft, she told Starbuck.) "It's television! Don't worry about it!"

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Boomer and Apollo]], both prevented by forces outside their control, Gina, successfully, also [[spoiler: Upon return from the nuked Earth(?), Dualla kills herself out of despair. D'Anna passively commits suicide by staying behind. [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Cavil]], hilariously, in the series finale.]]

* EyeLightsOut: Badly damaged Centurions.

** Considering that the original is basically Literature/TheBookOfMormon in space, they did a very nice job and may actually what the original director intended.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Everyone has a reason for doing what they do, no matter how morally questionable. As a result, only four major characters have crossed the MoralEventHorizon during the show's run.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Boomer. First she's Cylon ManchurianAgent, then she doesn't want to be one, then she fails to overcome her programming and shoots Admiral Adama. Then she tries to make peace between cylons and humans and, failing that, she tries to kill her counterpart's daughter and betrays her model number, causing a civil war. Then she [[spoiler: escapes with the Final Cylon when the others want surgically to remove her brain. But wait, there's more! She emotionally manipulates Tyrol into freeing her and then gets back at Athena by sleeping with her unknowing husband and kidnapping their daughter who she uses as a hostage in her plan to escape, a plan which ultimately ''cripples Galactica''. ''Then'' she starts having second thoughts when she starts bonding with Hera and realizes exactly what she's just done. Make up your mind, woman!]]

* PersonalEffectsReveal: Usually happens whenever an important character dies, like [[spoiler:Billy, the "nameless" pilots of "Scar", Kat, Starbuck, Dualla, several Cylon characters, ect.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Too many to list...
** The numbers 5 (Final Five Cylons, 5 priests of the unnamed God, etc.) and 12 (12 Colonies of Kobol, 12 models of human Cylons, 12 Lords of Kobol) keep popping up, the twelve being a reference to twelve signs of the Zodiac which also inspire the names of the colonies. Not to mention Gaius Baltar, who is absolutely convinced he's the [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]]. In "The Hand of God," at the end, he leans backward on a balcony, stares up at the sky, and says "I am an instrument of God." Then, in "Torn," he is imprisoned on a Cylon basestar, grows out his hair and beard, and wanders around in a white robe.
** The 12 colonies (despite their names) were pretty much meant to symbolize the 12 tribes of Israel. It borrowed from Mormon theology, which posits a lost 13th tribe; in the ''Galactica'' mythos they're looking for the lost 13th colony, which of course is Earth.
*** The 13 colonies (or 12 minus Earth) could also be a reference to [[{{Eagleland}} America's 13 colonies]].
** And then the symbolism gets cranked up in Season 4. Gaius Baltar, still with beard, becomes the leader of a religious cult that preaches love and tolerance. In the GrandFinale, Baltar [[spoiler: brokers peace between humans and Cylons and gets to be with Number Six, his angel]]. And to top it off, Baltar is played by a Jewish actor named James Callis.
** It gets cranked even FURTHER with [[spoiler: Starbuck's return from the dead and eventual disappearance into thin air]]. Ronald D. Moore himself describes Bill, Lee and Kara as the show's equivalent of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
** As mentioned before, it is a RecycledInSPACE Book of Exodus.

* [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past The DRADIS]]: The human body of a Cylon baseship when it jumps. She seems to enjoy it. IfYouKnowWhatIMean. [[spoiler: Not to mention Anders' psychic sex with the Colony's Hybrid by way of ECM]]
** The word "Frak", invented by the original series (though spelled different) as a stand-in for the F-word, is now used so liberally (along with [[UnusualEuphemism other stand-in words]]) that the whole crew now [[ClusterFBomb curse like sailors]]. Parodied in [[http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/frakking-galactica.html this Robot Chicken sketch]].

** [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Tricia Helfer]], who has become synonymous with FanService.
** [[AwesomeMcCoolname Rekha Sharma]], better known as Tory Foster falls between this line and FetishFuel due to her position as a woman in power...

* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Poor Apollo and Tyrol. Apollo lost Starbuck to Anders, Dualla to herself, and Starbuck disappears into thin air. No, that ''[[FanonDiscontinuity never]]'' [[CanonDiscontinuity happened]]... And Tyrol never got to live in that house with Boomer, or even had that kid with Cally. What's more his reincarnation of his lover from a past life, Tory, was never even considered, and she was the one who killed Cally and Tyrol then killed her in a fit of vengeful rage.]]

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: In the finale, Kara assumes the role of this trope in its classical literary meaning, by simply puffing out of sight, just after confirming her journey was over and that felt good. And that is not-so-just after she doped out the coordinates of our Earth from a Cylon-song, being someone once went to another one and died there, and simply returned. She came out be a some sort of instrument for God's mysterious ways. And I still don't get WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic]]

* CoolShip: Subverted with the Galactica, which survives thanks to being an obsolete old bucket (while remaining very cool indeed) and played straight with the Pegasus and the Cylon Basestars.

* ContractualImmortality: Adama, [[spoiler:Starbuck.]]

** Then again, this basically happens to everyone, female or otherwise. After all, it's a pretty dark show.
** In season 4.5 [[spoiler: it doesn't matter that Felix Gaeta lead a bloody mutiny that cost scores of lives, his natural audience appear and final monologue on his childhood insures that when Adama puts him in front of the firing squad, a cutie is getting broken.]]
** Speaking of Adama, in season 4 [[spoiler: Tigh's revelation that he is a Cylon comes damn close to breaking the Old Man. Not a conventional candidate for a BreakTheCutie, but most viewers will agree it fits.]]
*** It went so far so that it might be considered a case of BrokenMakesTheCutie, since before this [[spoiler:Tigh]] wasn't that popular of a character. Now [[spoiler:he's]] one of the most popular.

*** The Earth arc is essentially a BreakTheCutie attempt against the ''audience''.

* BeingGoodSucks: And how! Then again, BeingEvilSucks too. Just ask [[spoiler:Cavil]].

* TheMomo: Averted. Boxey was in the pilot miniseries and Bastille Day, but cut from Water and Kobol's Last Gleaming, then vanished into the ether. So no Muffit whatsoever!

** Several musical themes from the Original Series have been arranged and repurposed for the soundtrack and as source music in the Reimagined Series. The most prominent example is probably the Colonial Anthem, which is a new arrangement of the Original Series main theme.

** In fact we saw [[spoiler: Kara/Lee doing it back on New Caprica]] in one of the early episodes of season three, covering some flashbacks of the first days of that colony.

* {{CloudCuckooLander}}: The Hybrids. Sometimes they will blurt a piece of information only certain people can interpret as anything important and [[spoiler: Anders becoming one implies that brain damage might have much to do with their state.]] Gaius Baltar also comes off as this to anyone who catches him conversing with ([[FetishFuel or doing other things to]]) Head Six.

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: The various incarnations of Six...but most especially Baltar's Head Six.

* TogetherInDeath: As of the GrandFinale, [[spoiler: presumably Kara and Anders' ultimate fate]]. Since he said he'd [[spoiler:"See her on the other side."]], which, oddly enough, were the exact words she said to [[spoiler: ''Lee'']] before [[spoiler: her]] death. Afterlife FanFic has become unsurprisingly popular.