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Trope name is Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale, not any of its subpages. Discussion here.


** Virtually all spaceships have windows as their primary external view. As a rule, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance most objects more than a few miles away are progressively harder to see]]. Yet even warship commanders stand perched by the windows at the front of their ship's bridges. Note that this is what makes the ThatsNoMoon trope possible.

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** Virtually all spaceships have windows as their primary external view. As a rule, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance most objects more than a few miles away are progressively harder to see]].see. Yet even warship commanders stand perched by the windows at the front of their ship's bridges. Note that this is what makes the ThatsNoMoon trope possible.



** [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass Something with the mass of the Death Star]] should never have been able to maintain such a low geostationary orbit over Endor, and even if it could, the gravitational effects on the moon should have been enormous.
** Likewise, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfEnergy the amount of energy]] required to completely consume something as massive as the Death Star should have burned the atmosphere right off of Endor when it exploded. But instead it all just miraculously dissipated a short distance beyond the Death Star's radius.

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** [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass Something with the mass of the Death Star]] Star should never have been able to maintain such a low geostationary orbit over Endor, and even if it could, the gravitational effects on the moon should have been enormous.
** Likewise, [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfEnergy the amount of energy]] energy required to completely consume something as massive as the Death Star should have burned the atmosphere right off of Endor when it exploded. But instead it all just miraculously dissipated a short distance beyond the Death Star's radius.
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** The Emperor looks so fragile, ill, and old compared to the imposing looks of his {{Dragon}}, Darth Vader. Moreover, Vader himself is the one to defeat him in TheClimax, even if just by virtue of exploiting the weakness of the Emperor's Force Lightning technique.

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** The Emperor looks so fragile, ill, and old compared to the imposing looks of his {{Dragon}}, [[TheDragon Dragon]], Darth Vader. Moreover, Vader himself is the one to defeat him in TheClimax, even if just by virtue of exploiting the weakness of the Emperor's Force Lightning technique.
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* SympatheticVillainDespicableVillain: Emperor Palpatine is the series' BigBad, but his [[TheDragon dragon]], Darth Vader, appears more. The prequel trilogy reveals Vader has a [[TragicVillain tragic backstory due to Palpatine's manipulations.]] In the end, Vader reforms through his love for his son Luke and, to save his life, turns on his master and kills him, sacrificing himself in the process.
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* SciFiFlyby: If a spaceship of any size is shown, expect the camera to make one of these.

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