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7 | ->''"The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently, we've waded out a little way, and the water seems inviting."'' |
8 | -->-- '''Creator/CarlSagan''' |
9 | |
10 | Tropes relating to outer space, spaceships, space travel, and space colonies. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] tropes [-[[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]-] |
11 | |
12 | Before deciding to put a trope in this index, please check the sub-indexes and see if any of them are applicable. |
13 | ---- |
14 | !! Tropes: |
15 | [[index]] |
16 | [floatboxright: |
17 | '''Media index:''' |
18 | + SpaceStories |
19 | |
20 | '''Trope indexes:''' |
21 | + AlienTropes |
22 | + ArtisticLicenseSpace |
23 | + FasterThanLightIndex |
24 | + {{Heliotropes}} |
25 | + IndexOnTheMoon |
26 | + PlanetaryTropes |
27 | + {{Spacecraft}} |
28 | + SpaceGeologyTropes |
29 | + StellarIndex |
30 | + ThisIndexEarth |
31 | ] |
32 | * AccidentalAstronaut: A character either accidentally launches the spacecraft they are in or they became an unwilling "astronaut" by stowing away on the spacecraft. |
33 | * AncientAstronauts: Aliens who developed space travel long before humans influenced ancient history by doing things like being mistaken for gods, building pyramids, etc. |
34 | * ApesInSpace: Monkeys and apes as astronauts rather than humans. |
35 | * ArbitraryWeaponRange: Weapons in space have a minimum or maximum range. |
36 | * ArtificialGravity: Spaceships and space stations with artificial gravity systems. |
37 | * ArtisticLicenseSpace: Astronomy does something that, in the real world, it shouldn't do. |
38 | * AsteroidMiners: People who mine from asteroids. |
39 | * AsteroidThicket: An area in space with a lot of dangerous asteroids. |
40 | * AstralFinale: The last episode takes place in space. |
41 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Characters who can breathe in space. |
42 | * BlindJump: Usually, people have to calculate something before going into faster-than-light mode, but there's no time to do that, so they'll have to do it without calculating. |
43 | * BoardingParty: Boarding a ship. |
44 | * BornUnderTheSail: A whole culture of sailors/skyship drivers/spaceship drivers. |
45 | * TheBridge: The bridge of a starship. |
46 | * BridgeBunnies: Young women who control the spaceship from the bridge. |
47 | * BurialInSpace: Someone dies in space and has a funeral ritual. |
48 | * ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: Everyone on Earth has something bad happen to them (they die, get infected etc) but there are astronauts who aren't affected and either survive in a post-apocalyptic world or save the other people. |
49 | * CameFromTheSky: Something huge falls out of the sky and lands on Earth. |
50 | * CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: A parody of sci-fi heroes. |
51 | * CasualInterplanetaryTravel: Interplanetary travel is no big deal. |
52 | * CasualInterstellarTravel: Interstellar travel is no big deal. |
53 | * CentrifugalGravity: Scientifically accurate artificial gravity through rotation. |
54 | * ColonizedSolarSystem: The solar system is settled by humanity. |
55 | * ColonyDrop: The world is in danger because of something huge falling from the sky. |
56 | * ColonyShip: A spaceship with a whole colony on it. |
57 | * ContinuousDecompression: Explosive decompression is way more powerful than scientifically possible and lasts for way longer. |
58 | * CoolStarship: A cool, unusual spaceship. |
59 | * CorralledCosmos: People only hang out in a certain area of space. |
60 | * CosmicMotifs: Space used as a motif. |
61 | * CultColony: A religious cult living in a colony in space. |
62 | * CyborgHelmsman: Cybernetically-augmented spaceship pilots. |
63 | * DangerInTheGalacticCore: The center of the galaxy. |
64 | * DangerousOrbitalDebris: Orbiting remains of dead satellites or destroyed spaceships. |
65 | * DeflectorShields: A force field. |
66 | * DramaticAlienVTOL: Alien spaceships land slowly. ''Really'' slowly. |
67 | * DramaticSpaceDrifting: A body or pieces of a body floating in space after a space battle. |
68 | * DropPod: A single-use military vehicle dropped from the sky. |
69 | * DropShip: A ship designed to carry people and/or supplies to and from a planet or moon. |
70 | * DysonSphere: A thing in space big enough for a whole solar system. |
71 | * EscapePod: Like a lifeboat but for a spaceship. |
72 | * TheExactCenterOfEverything: In the very center of the galaxy or the universe(s), there is something ''really'' important waiting. |
73 | * ExplosionsInSpace: Something explodes in space in an unrealistic way. |
74 | * ExplosiveDecompression: People explode in space. |
75 | * ExposedStarshipBridge: A starship or spaceship's design places the bridge (i.e. the most important part of ship) in a location that easily exposes it to danger. |
76 | * EverythingInSpaceIsAGalaxy: Handfuls of stars and planets are treated as entire galaxies. |
77 | * FasterThanLightTravel: Spaceships that can move faster than light. |
78 | * FishbowlHelmet: The usual accompaniment to a LatexSpaceSuit. |
79 | * FTLTravelSickness: Traveling faster than light can do bad things to people who aren't properly protected. |
80 | * FlyingSaucer: A spaceship shaped like a saucer. |
81 | * GalacticConqueror: A villain who wants to conquer or destroy the ''whole universe''. |
82 | * GalacticSuperpower: Someone has political power over a large area of space. |
83 | * GenerationShips: A starship has several generations living and dying on it. |
84 | * GeneticAdaptation: Outsiders adapt to a hostile environment (such as that on other planets) by genetically modifying themselves. |
85 | * GravitySucks: Gravity is depicted as "catching" or "sucking" things. |
86 | * {{Heavyworlder}}: Someone from a planet with more gravity than Earth. |
87 | * HomeworldEvacuation: The planet is no longer inhabitable, forcing (a portion of) the populace to pack up and leave for elsewhere. |
88 | * HurlItIntoTheSun: Throwing something into a star. |
89 | * HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: The dimension used for teleportation/warp speed is dangerous. |
90 | * HyperspaceLanes: When travelling faster than the speed of light, you have to go certain places at certain times. |
91 | * HyperspeedAmbush: Using hyperspace to attack. |
92 | * HyperspeedEscape: Using faster-than-light travel to escape. |
93 | * ImprovisedMicrogravityManeuvering: Using thrust to push oneself through space. |
94 | * IndustrializedMercury: The planet UsefulNotes/{{Mercury}} is used as an industrial hub for a ColonizedSolarSystem. |
95 | * InexplicableCulturalTies: Aliens with pretty Earth-like cultures. |
96 | * InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Somebody's face is visible through a space helmet. |
97 | * InterplanetaryVoyage: A story that focuses on the difficulties of a space voyage. |
98 | * InterstellarWeapon: A weapon that will hit something light-years away. |
99 | * KillSat: A satellite designed to kill. |
100 | * LatexSpaceSuit: A very tight spacesuit. |
101 | * LibertariansInSpace: A setting where Earth has become narrow-minded and nonconformists are sent to live in space. |
102 | * LifeInZeroG: Lifeforms that have evolved to live in the gravityless void. |
103 | * LightspeedLeapfrog: A spaceship that can't travel faster than light is beaten by one that can. |
104 | * {{Lightworlder}}: Someone from a low-gravity planet. |
105 | * LostColony: A human colony in space that's lost contact with Earth. |
106 | * MaleSunFemaleMoon: The sun portrayed as male and the moon as female. |
107 | * MegaMawManeuver: A huge spaceship uses its door to "swallow" a smaller one. |
108 | * MentalSpaceTravel: "Teleporting" people to other planets by uploading their brains to their destination. |
109 | * TheMilkyWayIsTheOnlyWay: Nobody can go beyond the Milky Way. |
110 | * TheMothership: The flagship of an alien army. |
111 | * NegativeSpaceWedgie: A strange, dangerous event in space. |
112 | * NoEndorHolocaust: Something huge explodes but leaves little to no collateral damage. |
113 | * NoGravityForYou: A villain whose weakness is they can't fight in zero-gravity. |
114 | * NoSeatBelts: Spaceships don't have safety belts. |
115 | * NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Never seeing a godlike alien as an actual deity. |
116 | * NoWarpingZone: An area where travelling faster than light is not allowed. |
117 | * NuclearTorchRocket: Amp up your piddly little chemical rockets by heating the propellant with nuclear power. |
118 | * OldSchoolDogfight: Planes and spaceships fighting like pre-Cold War planes even when they logically shouldn't. |
119 | * OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap: Natural things are more expensive than an artificial version of it. |
120 | * OrbitalBombardment: Shooting from orbit. |
121 | * OrionDrive: Using nukes to travel through space. |
122 | * OurDarkMatterIsMysterious: Dark matter makes up as much as 4/5 of the visible universe. Nobody knows what it actually is, so writers fill in the gaps. |
123 | * OurWormholesAreDifferent: Exploiting wormholes. |
124 | * PlanarShockwave: When something explodes in space, there's a ring of... stuff. |
125 | * PlanetaryRelocation: Relocating planets. |
126 | * PortalNetwork: Space travel via portals. |
127 | * PoweredByABlackHole: Harnessing a black hole as a power source. |
128 | * PsychicStarshipPilot: Psychics are the ideal pilots for faster-than-light travel. |
129 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: Ramming a spaceship with another always destroys one of them. |
130 | * RamScoop: A spaceship that fuels itself by collecting hydrogen directly from space. |
131 | * ReentryScare: While someone reenters the atmosphere, it goes quiet for dramatic effect. |
132 | * RocketlessReentry: Going back to Earth from space without using rockets. |
133 | * RoguePlanet: Planets not in orbit around (a) star(s) |
134 | * SalvagePirates: Being saved and endangered at the same time by pirates. |
135 | * SaveSat: A satellite crashing down has a beneficial/defensive effect. |
136 | * SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Sci-fi writers make distances in space seem smaller than in reality. |
137 | * SciFiFlyby: Used as an establishing shoot to tell the audience that what they're seeing is a CoolShip. |
138 | * ShinyLookingSpaceships: A spaceship that looks shiny. |
139 | * SilentRunningMode: A vessel going silent to avoid detection. Often used by spaceships. |
140 | * SleeperStarship: A slow spacecraft that puts the passengers in hibernation until they arrive at their destination. |
141 | * SmallUniverseAfterAll: Easily travelling to other galaxies. |
142 | * SolarSail: Spaceships that run with a device like a sail but that uses the sun's power. |
143 | * SpaceAmish: Space travelers who use more primitive technology. |
144 | * SpaceBase: The villain's space station. |
145 | * SpaceBattle: Fighting in space. |
146 | * SpaceBrasilia: An alien species with only one form of architecture. |
147 | * SpaceCadet: Kind of like a police officer but in space. |
148 | * SpaceCadetAcademy: Where you learn to be a space cadet. |
149 | * SpaceClothes: People wear wacky clothes in space. |
150 | * SpaceClouds: Nebulae that seem like clouds. |
151 | * SpaceColdWar: A war in space that's sort of like the Cold War. |
152 | * SpaceCossacks: A rugged group of outlaws lost in space. |
153 | * SpaceElevator: An elevator or similar that takes people to space. |
154 | * SpaceElves: Elvish, smug, possibly superior aliens. |
155 | * SpaceEpisode: An episode of a normally Earth-set series is set in space. |
156 | * SpaceFighter: A little spaceship designed for combat. |
157 | * SpaceFriction: If a spaceship breaks, it will slow down and eventually stop. |
158 | * SpaceIsAir: Spaceships are like planes. |
159 | * SpaceIsAnOcean: Space is compared to the ocean. |
160 | * SpaceIsCold: Things freeze in space. |
161 | * SpaceIsMagic: Space is incomprehensible. |
162 | * SpaceIsNoisy: You can hear noises in space. |
163 | * SpaceIsSlowMotion: Things move slowly in zero-gravity. |
164 | * SpaceIsolationHorror: Horror derived from the emptiness and loneliness of space. |
165 | * SpaceJews: An alien that has traits associated with a racial/religious stereotype. |
166 | * SpaceMadness: Being in space makes you insane. |
167 | * SpaceMarine: Troops in spaceships that are sort of like marines. |
168 | * SpaceMask: Face or head protection that's somehow a substitute for a full space suit. |
169 | * SpaceMaster: Characters who have the ability to control the fabric of space and spatial dimensions. |
170 | * SpaceMines: Like {{Sea Mine}}s but in space. |
171 | * SpaceNavy: A military fleet of spaceships. |
172 | * SpaceNomads: People who live in space and don't really have a place to call home. |
173 | * SpaceOpera: An epic adventure story set in space. |
174 | * SpaceOrcs: Brutish, violent and primitive aliens. |
175 | * SpacePeople: People who live in space. |
176 | * SpacePirates: Pirates in space. |
177 | * SpacePlane: A spacecraft that looks and can take off and land like an airplane. |
178 | * SpacePolice: An organization of peacekeepers in space. |
179 | * SpaceRomans: An alien culture that resembles a historical Earth culture. |
180 | * SpaceSailing: Spaceships that look like sea ships. |
181 | * SpaceSector: Specific regions in space are described as "the Something Sector" or "Sector Something". |
182 | * SpaceStation: An artificial structure in space. |
183 | * SpaceSuitsAreSCUBAGear: Space suits with visible air tubes. |
184 | * SpaceTravelVeto: Opposition, restrictions or bans on space travel. |
185 | * SpaceTrucker: People who haul cargo from one planet to another. |
186 | * SpaceWestern: A cowboyish story set in space. |
187 | * SpaceWhale: Creatures on space that resemble whales. |
188 | * SpaceX: An alien creature has the word "space" somewhere in its name. |
189 | * SpaceZone: Unrealistic video game space. |
190 | * SpaceshipSlingshotStunt: Heading towards an item with heavy gravity in space so that they'd get flung back into space like a slingshot. |
191 | * SpySatellites: Satellites that watch you from space. |
192 | * StandardAlienSpaceship: Alien ships are smooth and colorful. |
193 | * StandardEstablishingSpaceshipShot: The spaceship entering the screen to establish how cool it is. |
194 | * StandardHumanSpaceship: Spaceships piloted by humans all look the same. |
195 | * StandardizedSpaceViews: Stock space scenes. |
196 | * StandardSciFiFleet: Spaceship classification similar to the navy. |
197 | * StandardStarshipScuffle: Spaceships fighting. |
198 | * StandardTimeUnits: A group of planets that have one way of measuring time. |
199 | * StarshipLuxurious: A spaceship with very large rooms. |
200 | * StealthInSpace: A spaceship can turn itself invisible. |
201 | * StellarStation: A type of space station in close orbit around the Sun or other stars. |
202 | * SubLightspeedSetting: A setting with space travel at strictly slower-than-light speeds. |
203 | * SubspaceAnsible: Faster-than-light space communication. |
204 | * SubspaceOrHyperspace: Areas of space that can do things that are impossible in regular space. |
205 | * SublightSubterfuge: Normally, you would use FTL to travel interstellar distances. But your situation isn't normal. |
206 | * SuperheroesInSpace: Superheroes whose missions commonly take place beyond Earth. |
207 | * {{Teleportation}}: Disappearing from one location and reappearing in another. |
208 | * {{Terraform}}: A planet's enviroment is artificially changed to better suit a species, human-like or otherwise. |
209 | * ThrownOutTheAirlock: Someone gets thrown out of a spaceship's airlock without a spacesuit on. |
210 | * TimeDilation: Time passes slower in space. |
211 | * TractorBeam: A beam of light that can pull things through space. |
212 | * TranshumansInSpace: Humans in space who have been augmented. |
213 | * TransplantedHumans: Humans that came from space because their ancestors were taken from space. |
214 | * TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Aliens specify that they're talking about our time, not their time. |
215 | * UngovernableGalaxy: It's impossible for a whole galaxy to have a government. |
216 | * UnitedSpaceOfAmerica: Interstellar travel programs work in a similar way to American culture. |
217 | * UniversalUniverseTime: The whole universe uses the same measurements of time. |
218 | * UnnecessarilyLargeVessel: A ship is way bigger than it needs to be. |
219 | * UnrealisticBlackHole: A black hole that doesn't work like a real black hole. |
220 | * WagonTrainToTheStars: A series takes place on a ship. |
221 | * TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: The Earth is the leader of an interplanetary group, but some of the planets start a revolution. |
222 | * WeaponizedExhaust: A spaceship's exhaust fumes are used as a weapon. |
223 | * WhatOtherGalaxies: Dialogue that suggests this is the only galaxy. |
224 | * WizardsFromOuterSpace: Fantasy stuff happens in space. |
225 | * ZeroGSpot: Sex in space. |
226 | * ZodiacMotifs: Constellations that are used as a motif. |
227 | [[/index]] |
228 | |
229 | !!Useful Notes: |
230 | [[index]] |
231 | * UsefulNotes/BlackHoles |
232 | * UsefulNotes/TheMilkyWayGalaxy |
233 | * UsefulNotes/{{Planets}} |
234 | ** UsefulNotes/DwarfPlanets |
235 | * UsefulNotes/TheSolarSystem |
236 | ** UsefulNotes/TheSun |
237 | ** Solar System Planets: |
238 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Mercury}} |
239 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} |
240 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} |
241 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} |
242 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Jupiter}} |
243 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} |
244 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Uranus}} |
245 | *** UsefulNotes/{{Neptune}} |
246 | ** Natural Satellites / Moons: |
247 | *** UsefulNotes/TheMoon |
248 | *** UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfJupiter |
249 | *** UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn |
250 | *** UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfUranus |
251 | [[/index]] |
252 | ---- |
253 | ->[-''[[Creator/MelBrooks See! TROPES! IN! SPAAAAAAAAAACE!]]''-] |
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