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8	->'''Daniel Graystone:''' Listen to me, okay? We'll talk about this later.\
9	'''Zoe Graystone's Holographic Avatar:''' When are you gonna realize that later is too late? When did you ever listen? Ever want to listen? You and Mom, you knew it all. Your arrogance was killing your daughter. And that's how you lost her. Not to some bomb.\
10	'''Joseph:''' I want you to know who you are. We come from a long, proud line of Tauron peasants who knew how to work the land and still stand proud. You're named after your grandfather. Did I ever tell you that? ...William. He was killed during the Tauron uprising. Our last name isn't Adams. I changed it after I arrived here on Caprica. Our family name is Adama. ADAMA. And it's a good, honorable Tauron name.
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12	''Caprica'' is a [[SpinOff spin-off]] set in the same universe as the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' re-imagining. It is a [[PrequelInTheLostAge prequel set 58 years before the Destruction of the 12 Colonies]], mainly on the titular planet Caprica. The pilot episode was released on DVD in April 2009, and the first season premiered in January 2010.
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14	Though set in the same universe, ''Caprica'' has a [[GenreShift much different look and feel]] from its predecessor. Set in an urban environment rather than in space, Caprica focuses on political, corporate, and familial intrigue, and tells the tale of a decadent society that doesn't realize that it's about to run headlong over a cliff. The story of ''Caprica'' centers around the families of Daniel Graystone, a computer engineer and entrepreneur and creator of the Cylon robots, and Joseph Adama, a lawyer and father to ''Galactica'''s William Adama. Recurring themes in the show explore artificial intelligence, robotics, religion and ethnicity. ''Caprica'' tells the backstory of the re-imagined series, and the story behind the creation of the Cylons.
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16	The show was canceled during its first and only season, concluding in Canada in late November 2010 and in the US early January 2011.
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19	!!This series contains examples of:
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21	* AbortedArc:
22	** Originally it was planned that Zoe created an avatar of Ben as well as herself. (It was in fact the double-wham of this reveal and the fact that Zoe was still inside the Cylon that won a lot of people over when only the script for the pilot was available.) The scene showing Clarice with Ben-A in V-world was filmed, and is included as an extra on the DVD, but essentially nothing in it is canon: Lacy didn't tell Clarice about Zoe-A right away and there was no avatar of Ben. Furthermore the scene ends when Lacy hears her cellphone ringing in the real world and takes her holoband off; it's dramatically revealed later on that holoband users don't receive sensory input like that from the real world.
23	** Deleted scenes from the pilot also had Tomas Vergis appearing earlier than he did in the series, and played by [[Creator/RogerCross Roger R. Cross]] (better known as Joshua in ''Series/FirstWave'', Travis Verta in ''Series/{{Continuum}}'' and Six in ''Series/{{Dark Matter\|2015}}'') instead of by Creator/JohnPyperFerguson, who played him in the series. In this storyline, Amanda was having an extramarital affair with him; the showrunners cut it to make her more sympathetic.
24	** The original idea behind Amanda's "hallucinations" of her brother in Season 1.0 was that Tomas Vergis had hired an actor to drive her off the deep end, but the subplot was dropped and a scene explaining it was deleted. Now it just seems that she had temporary relapse.
25	* AliensOfLondon: The series showcases the Tauron language, based on or [[TranslationConvention represented by]] Ancient Greek. Since it takes place fifty years before ''Battlestar Galactica'', it's not clear whether the other languages all die out later or if they are simply never seen in ''BSG'' because everyone speaks Caprican (which is presumably what is being represented by English). It's also useful to note that Gemenon appears to be a sort of more-religious "sister planet" of Caprica, which might be why their language might have died out earlier.
26	* AllThereInTheManual:
27	** Remember when Sam said that people could read his life-story from his tattoos? [[https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=309547004036 He wasn't kidding.]]
28	** An in-universe magazine called [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/ The Caprican]] and [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone Serge's Twitter page]] both contain many useful insights and tidbits about the characters and life among the Twelve Colonies, including an [[http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php explanation of exactly what "dirt eater" means]].
29	* AlternativeCalendar: There's a twelve-month calendar using the same names as the Roman calendar: Ianuarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Iunius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December. (The Roman months Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed after Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar respectively.)
30	* AnachronismStew: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from TheFifties, TheSixties, and TheSeventies, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing-test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures. WordOfGod lampshades all this by saying that the fashion is deliberately retro because it's 50 years before ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' (which had PresentDay[=/=]TheAughts fashion) and the tech is deliberately more advanced because the First Cylon War is what turned everybody off to advanced computers.[[invoked]]
31	* AndManGrewProud: Since this show chronicles how the events of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' and the Cylon revolution against their former masters came to happen it seemed like this trope was going to be the overarching theme, but it's later retconned. In ''BSG'', the backstory was that humanity foolishly created the Cylons, enslaved them and they rebelled. In ''Caprica'' [[spoiler: it is shown that Daniel Graystone was unable to build a sentient Cylon, even using the [[AppliedPhlebotinum meta-cognitive-processor]] stolen from his rival Vergis. Nor is it clear that it was ever Daniel's goal for the Cylons to possess a true human-level degree of sentience, as opposed to being just very effective robots. It turns out that Daniel's daughter [[TeenGenius Zoe]] creates the necessary software to produce true artificial intelligences at the prompting of one of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent "head beings"]] that in BSG supposedly represent "God". This raises the question of whether humanity was truly responsible for their own downfall, or if it was engineered by a [[GodIsEvil higher power]].]]
32	* AngelUnaware: In "Things We Lock Away", both Original Zoe and Avatar Zoe are visited by one of these, similar to Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', but appearing in Zoe's own form. It's ambiguous whether she ''is'' Messenger Six or Messenger Baltar or yet a third Messenger.
33	* AntiEscapismAesop: Zigzagged throughout, where "V-world" holobands are often used by many bored people. WiseBeyondTheirYears high schoolers Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand regard its use to simulate {{Blood Sport}}s, HumanSacrifice, and WretchedHive crimeworlds as evidence of the decadence of Caprica society, and many of its users are shown to be overly dependent on it. However, this leads into a confused aesop about the creation of new life, as Zoe has used V-world to build a perfect digital copy of herself which replaces her after her death in the pilot, leading into yet another confused aesop when monotheists plan to use it to create life after death for believers. At the end, [[ReplacementGoldfish Zoe's parents visit their dead daughter's avatar regularly]], turning the whole thing into a LostAesop.
34	* AntiVillain: Sam Adama is a ruthless thug and professional killer but he also genuinely cares for and is fiercely protective of both his family and culture. The way Taurons are treated on Caprica only adds to this.
35	* AnyoneCanDie: Possibly one of the most shocking examples in television history. ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' fans would know [[spoiler:that the commander of the fleet was named Bill Adama, so when we were introduced to a young William Adama, certain assumptions of ContractualImmortality were made. Then he dies in the penultimate episode. It turns out that the Bill Adama of ''Battlestar'' is his younger half-brother, due to the Tauron tradition of naming new children after their deceased siblings. Although the facts that Willie had a different eye color from Bill and that he was too old to be him if you did the in-universe math could have tipped some viewers off.]] [[invoked]]
36	* ArtificialAfterlife: Clarice Willow intends to use the [[{{Cyberspace}} V-World virtual reality]] and "virtual ghost" technology to create an artificial heaven for monotheists.
37	* BadassAdorable: Tamara Adama appears to be shaping up into one of these when she takes over New Cap City after executing her would-be captors - rather quickly as well.
38	* BadassFamily:
39	** If you had any lingering doubts about this from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', Caprica pretty much cements the Adama family as a family of badasses. Grandpapa Adama (Joseph and Sam's father) pretty much invokes this by telling Joseph and Sam of the [[BadassCreed family motto]], which amounts to "When we start a war, we finish it. We don't quit halfway through".
40	** The Graystones aren't too bad either. Broken up and on their own, they fall and stumble. But once the family reunites, they [[spoiler:manage to topple Clarice's cell-group and save thousands of lives]].
41	* BarefootSuicide: When Amanda Greystone is preparing to jump off a bridge, the camera shows a dramatic close-up of her feet gingerly stepping out of her shoes first.
42	%%* BeardOfSorrow: Daniel Graystone
43	* BlackAndGreyMorality: Considering what series this is a prequel to, this shouldn't come as a surprise. And like, the predecessor work, this occasionally slides into [[GreyAndGrayMorality the other thing]].
44	%%* BrandX: "New Cap City" = ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.
45	* BullyingADragon:
46	** Daniel Graystone [[spoiler: "Oh hey, you know what's a good idea? [[TooDumbToLive Making a machine which is superior to us both mentally and physically completely sentient but not affording it any rights or liberties, yet program it to defend itself]]. Then lets force them into a subservient role where they work menial tasks and have to take our crap all day. What could possibly go wrong?"]] Not exactly what he said when he [[spoiler: talked his company into mass-producing the Cylons for the military]] but you get the idea.
47	** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he [[spoiler: uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body]]. So what does he do? [[spoiler: Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to literally ShootTheDog]]. [[SarcasmMode That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
48	* CallForward:
49	** Daniel Graystone owns the Caprica Buccaneers, the team that Sam Anders will be captain of decades hence.
50	** Evelyn ([[spoiler:Bill Adama's future mother]]) has a hobby of model ship building, and mentions [[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E11SometimesAGreatNotion her brother who hunts foxes using a team of dogs to drive them into the water]].
51	* TheCartel: The Ha'la'tha is a bizarre merging of this with the more Italian-oriented [[TheMafia Mafia]] as well as, of all things, [[MundaneMadeAwesome Ancient Greek culture]].
52	* CatholicSchoolgirlsRule: The Athenian Academy uniforms. Technically, they're not Catholic but [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek polytheists]] but in virtually every other way it applies. Plus, at least two of the girls ''were'' monotheistic, though not Christian, much less Catholic.
53	* ChandlerAmericanTime: The virtual world of New Cap City has a very noir aesthetic with clothes being 1930s-1940s or so.
54	* CharacterBlog: Serge, the robot butler, has a [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone twitter account.]] He provides little details about life on Caprica, and seems a lot more intelligent than [[ObfuscatingStupidity his behavior in the show]] would suggest.
55	* ChekhovsSkill: Amanda is a plastic surgeon. Doesn't sound very important... oh, wait. [[spoiler:'''Skin'''-jobs?!]]
56	* ContinuityNod:
57	** Musical themes:
58	*** In the pilot, Joseph reveals the true name of their family to Willie. The soundtrack playing over the scene is the Adama family theme, aka "Wander My Friends" from ''Galactica''. It is heard again in ''There is Another Sky'' during the funeral rite, and will probably used any time there is a really, really important family bonding moment between the two Adamas.
59	*** "Rebirth" - There is a brief scene of Daniel Graystone playing the piano in his lab. The piece he is playing is "Nomion?s Third Sonata, Second Movement," which was originally heard and named in the BSG episode "Someone to Watch Over Me." This in itself is also a MythologyGag - the piece is based off of "Exploration," a theme from the soundtrack of the Original Series.
60	*** "Gravedancing" - The music that will eventually become the Colonial Anthem is briefly heard when Philomon is flipping through the radio channels. Like "Nomion's Third," this is also a MythologyGag.
61	*** The walkout music used on Baxter Sarno's show was originally heard in the party scene at the end of the BSG episode "Colonial Day."
62	** Delphi Convalescent Institute mentioned in "The Imperfections of Memory" is (very) vaguely implied to be the same building that later housed the Farm where Kara Thrace was held in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', more than five decades later. Indeed, Simon in ''The Farm'' did make a passing comment that the place used to be a mental institute.
63	** In the same episode, Amanda drops the ArcWords of BSG, "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again", calling them "an old saying."
64	** "So say we all" is still used as the Colonial equivalent of "amen" or to punctuate a statement of intent, both in the pilot and "End of Line."
65	** Joseph Adama's iconic lighter makes its (chronologically) first appearance in "The Dirteaters".
66	** In "The Heavens Will Rise", Amanda makes a reference to a medical practitioner named Cottle when discussing the fate of [[spoiler:Agent Durham]]. No doubt, this is a forebear or older relative of ''Galactica'''s Doc Cottle.
67	** In "Here Be Dragons", we see that Bill Adama inherited his model shipmaking from Evelyn, whose brother was the fox-hunting uncle.
68	* CoolCar: Joseph Adama's Citroen DS, and the Greystones' Jaguar Mark Two.
69	* CoolPlane: in addition to V-World having Vipers that resemble P-40 Warhawks in New Cap City and having F-4 Phantom elements when Zoe-A and Philomon have their first V-world date, the Caprican military flies VTOL aircraft that resemble UH-60 Blackhawks with wings and jet engines.
70	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Daniel Graystone is willing to do business with the mob. First when he needs a piece of technology he is unable to develop himself stolen from Vergis, and later on when he turns to them again after he has been ousted as CEO. He is also able to provide all kinds of dirt on the misbehavior of the members of the Graystone board of directors for use in {{Blackmail}}.
71	* CradleOfLoneliness: Subverted in the pilot. Greystone asking to be able to hold Avatar-Zoe in his arms seems like a variation of the holding the body of a dead loved one, but it's just a trick so that he can trap her.
72	* CrystalDragonJesus: The monotheistic religion. In particular there is a strong flavor of Medieval Roman Catholicism to their church architecture. They also have a (female) pontiff and something similar to cardinals. Clarice's V-World meetings with her anonymous STO contact bear a distinct resemblance to a Confessional.
73	* CultureChopSuey: The Taurons. While they seem mostly based on Italians, they eat Mexican-style food, speak a Greek-like language, listen to African-American style rap music and have a tattoo system similar to various non-Italian organized crime outfits like the Japanese {{Yakuza}} and or TheMafiya (though the tattoos themselves more superficially resemble South Pacific tribal ones like those of the Maori). This even extends to the casting, as actors from many different backgrounds play Taurons in the show, and while most have a distinctly Mediterranean look (partly because several of them are members of the same family, the Adamas), there are also a lot of Asians and Caucasians. WordOfGod is that there are people of every what-we-would-call-ethnicity from each of the twelve planets and you can't tell someone's tribe by skin color.[[invoked]]
74	%%* CuteGhostGirl: Zoe and Tamara.
75	* {{Cyberpunk}}: The prequel to the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 above]] aims to focus much more on this aspect of the mythos.
76	* CyberPunkIsTechno: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno. Except for the Ha'la'tha, who (as noted above) are aficionados of Tauron rap. Bear in mind that Tauron is based on Ancient Greek.
77	* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Sam--and the Ha'la'tha in general--is frakking ''cool''.
78	* ADarkerMe: New Cap City is a virtual environment built around this concept along with VideoGameCrueltyPotential, where the whole point of the game is to have fun without getting killed by someone else's idea of fun. Everyone gets access to the guns, drugs, cash, and sex they could want, and the only major consequence being that if you're too slow, you die and can never return.
79	%%* DeepImmersionGaming: The V-World includes some of these.
80	* DepravedBisexual: Clarice is in a group marriage with both men and women. Their family also doubles as a terrorist cell. Clarice herself seems willing to seduce both Amanda (a married woman) and Lacy (a teenage girl).
81	* DepravedHomosexual: Averted with Sam Adama. He is a mob enforcer who regularly kills people. But he is absolutely devoted to his husband Larry and shows no signs of interest in any other men.
82	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In "End of Line"(1x09), Daniel plays part of the theme song on the piano
83	%%* DieselPunk: The V-World game "New Cap City"
84	* DigitalAvatar: Zoe-Avatar of course, before she became a VirtualGhost.
85	* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: This is how [[spoiler: Zoey Greystone killed her early LoveInterest Philomon]]. Had some [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone terribly]] [[HeroicBSOD bad]] [[DrivenToSuicide consequences.]]
86	* TheDon: The Guatrau of the Ha'la'tha, from what little we see of him. [[spoiler:He's later replaced by his daughter after he tries to have Joseph Adama killed.]]
87	* DreamEmergencyExit: People in V-World who are killed or seriously injured wake up, due to a failsafe built into the holobands that automatically activates if people reach a certain pain threshold. One of the games, New Cap City, does disallow "killed" players from returning to play, however.
88	* DrivenToSuicide: This was the apparent fate of [[spoiler: Amanda Greystone]] at the first mid-season CliffHanger. That same episode, [[spoiler: Zoey Greystone/U-87 also embraced this trope]], given that it involved a [[EveryCarIsAPinto fiery car crash]]. ''Also'' that same episode, [[spoiler: Tamara Adama shot herself, though she knew she wouldn't die from it.]]
89	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Zoe Graystone has very dark (nearly-black) hair and very light (as close to white as possible without albinism) skin. Particularly noticeable in the ads, in which she is stark-naked and holding [[TemptingApple a bright-red apple]].
90	* EternalSexualFreedom: Not technically applicable since this is an alternate universe. Some might argue that this is a trope ''Caprica'' played with, possibly to the point of being a DeconstructedTrope. For that matter, Serge and Creator/JaneEspenson have both made it clear that it's not a case of them having overcome discrimination based on sexual orientation, it's that discrimination based on sexual orientation has ''never existed''. The Colonials would find the idea quite alien. Played more straight as revealed in the episode "Rebirth" by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is apparently quite legal. The ''Caprican'' articles "Travel Agency Gets More Than It Bargained For After Group Marriage Wins Sweepstakes" and "The Top Five Overheard Eros Day Arguments" imply that group marriages are fairly normal though not ''the'' norm, and no mention is made of either marriage group being monotheists.
91	* EvenEvilHasStandards: They probably had various other complaints against him, but [[spoiler:the death of Willie Adama]] is enough to turn a lot of the Ha'la'tha against the Guatrau and threaten a "civil war" within their organization.
92	* EverybodySmokes: ''Every single adult character of significance'' has been seen smoking something (although in Clarice's case it wasn't tobacco).And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]''.
93	%%* EvilBrit: [[spoiler: Clarice turns out to be one.]]
94	* ExactProgressBar: Averted in "Things We Lock Away". [[spoiler: The "Zoe Avatar" loader runs smoothly to 95% and then, akin to an annoying file copy operation in Windows, it appears to stall and Zoe, annoyed, barks, "Come on!" - at that point, the bar goes straight from 95% to 100%.]]
95	* ExoticExtendedMarriage: Clarice is married to multiple men and women, who are all married to each other. This is implied to be unusual but perfectly legal, and although Clarice and her spouses are secretly members of a monotheistic religion it's obviously practiced by some polytheist families as well, since the fact they're monotheists is secret but the fact they're all married is not.
96	* {{Expy}}: It sometimes seems like Daniel Greystone is channelling Gaius Baltar, considering how much of a KarmaHoudini he seems to be.
97	* FantasticSlur: "Dirt-eater" for Taurons.
98	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Taurons. They're like "Space Mediterraneans", with elements of Greek, Sicilian, and Spanish culture popping up. The tattoos and rap, however, are very Mexican--and the most notable Taurons are played by Latino actors (Creator/EsaiMorales, who plays one of the main protagonists, Joseph, is of Puerto Rican ancestry).
99	* FeedTheMole: Agent Duram, suspecting that the GDD is infiltrated, gives his superior a false name for his informant in Clarice Willow's household. Turns out his superior is the mole and the false information causes the innocent Mar-Beth to be murdered by Clarice.
100	* {{Fingore}}: In the second episode, when the technician Drew is about to fix a damaged facial feature on Cylon-Zoe, she chops off his fingertip, causing his hand to bleed profusely. [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Sound familiar to you?]]
101	* FirstEpisodeTwist: [[spoiler:Zoe and Tamara "die"]].
102	* ForegoneConclusion:
103	** ''Caprica'' is the story about how intelligent machines were created by the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 twelve colonies]]. Guess how ''that'' ended up.
104	** Joseph Adama pretty much has ContractualImmortality - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.[[invoked]]
105	* GangstaRap: "Voices of the Dead." In Tauron (Ancient Greek).
106	* {{Gayngster}}: Sam Adama. A hitman in the Tauron Mafia, and talks to his nephew William about the days in the old neighborhood when he'd keep striking out with guys while his brother Joseph got all the girls. In the Twelve Colonies there's no discrimination or stereotyping against homosexuals and bisexuals, so he is pretty much just a gangster who happens to be married to a guy.
107	* GeekyTurnOn: This one is a subversion since a): Zoe never liked the military and ''hates'' military technology and b): she ''is'' [[KissMeImVirtual his top secret military robot]]. Although she really did like him, she was still using him.
108	-->'''Zoe:''' [Extended explanation of how to programme a computer to generate an infinite variety of trees.]
109	-->'''Philomon:''' [Gazing raptly into her eyes.] "I work with top secret military robots."
110	-->'''Zoe:''' "That's really hot."\
111	(Commence making out)
112	* GenericEthnicCrimeGang The Tauron Ha'la'tha is definitely one of these: it's a very organized outfit with a patriarch (the Guatrau) and a complex code of honor and loyalty linked to the traditions of its native culture and engages in all kinds of criminal activity. It also regards itself as necessary for the protection of the Tauron community on Caprica. And it even has a Capricanized ''Consigliere'' in the form of Joseph Adama.
113	* GenericGraffiti: The walls of New Cap City contain many graffitis, some generic and others of some importance. One of the important ones is the stylised "T" symbols that represents [[spoiler: Tamara]]. The other one is the image of a man and a caption reading "This is not me. It's just my body vehicle". The latter graffiti has sparked some EpilepticTrees, particularly because the camera [[LawOfConservationOfDetail spent so much time focused on it]].
114	* GenreShift: In terms of its settings and types of conflicts, Caprica is a ''very'' different animal from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}''.
115	* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Given her godlike powers in V-World, Zoe proclaims herself God when confronting Clarice Willow in the Apotheosis simulation in the series finale.]]
116	* GodIsEvil: The traditional storyline used to be a case of AndManGrewProud. But with the revelation that Zoe was being guided by one of the Messengers to create her avatar software, and Amanda was seemingly being distracted from her husband's activities by one resembling her dead brother, it looks an awful lot like "God" was determined to ensure that the Cylons were created. Keeping in mind that the Final Five were already on their way to the Colonies, this seems even more apparent because the creation of the Cylons was being accelerated to meet a timetable. It needed to happen ''before'' the Final Five arrived. If Zoe had not created the artificial intelligence software, then Daniel's Cylons might never have become sentient, or else it might have taken decades to happen. Daniel seemed truly stumped by the problem, and so did Vergis. Which means that neither of them was going to be able to meet the Caprican government's deadline and both of their projects might have been cancelled entirely without the intervention of the Messenger guiding Zoe.
117	* GodMode: The [[BrainUploading AI copies]] of Zoe and Tamara get God Mode abilities in the {{MMORPG}} cum WideOpenSandbox game ''New Cap City'', because as genuine [=AIs=] with no physical bodies they don't get expelled from the game when they die but glitch and respawn. Eventually, they just become straight-up {{Reality Warper}}s.
118	* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Averted. Practically everyone smokes, to tie in with the general "1950s USA in space" atmosphere.
119	* HappilyMarried: Sam and Larry Adama.
120	* HighTimesFuture: It mentions a recent passing revelation that drugs have been legalized so as to quash any criminal market that may exist for them. Presumably that was a hook for a future plotline about the [[GenericEthnicCrimeGang Ha'la'tha]] losing income and getting desperate (or going legitimate, leaving [[ProfessionalKiller Sam]] [[{{Gayngster}} Adama]] out of a job), but obviously we'll never know because [[ScrewedByTheNetwork the show was unceremoniously cancelled]].[[invoked]]
121	* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Series finale has an awesome scene where Cylons detect explosives and eliminate STO suicide bombers one by one. FridgeLogic suggests that installing the same technology in public places like sport arenas would make terrorist attack impossible. Didn't they learn anything from the maglev bombing?[[invoked]]
122	* HolographicTerminal: Most of the computers use these. However, the Holobands used for virtual reality are more of an UnusualUserInterface.
123	* HolyHalo: During "Reins of a Waterfall", Zoe-Avatar is shown speaking with a circular light behind her.
124	* HumanSacrifice: This is one of the services offered in the illegal virtual nightclubs that Caprican teens frequently visit. Since it's all VR, no-one actually dies for real, but the idea of ''teenagers'' creating human sacrifice clubs ''for fun'' shows just how decadent Caprica is under all the richness.
125	* HumansAreBastards: The Soldiers of the One, the Ha'la'tha, Heracs and Tauron Democratic Government are the most extreme examples. Other examples include the widespread Caprican use of the racist epithet "dirt eater" to describe Taurons and anti-monotheist bigotry on the part of the polytheist majority. Then again, the monotheists routinely murder each other to gain position within their church, in addition to carrying out terrorist attacks against polytheists. Thus the trope is played very straight with the seeming absence of genuinely good people.
126	* IdiotBall: Daniel was holding it in "Here Be Dragons", when he considered telling Sam how to kill Tamara-A. Fortunately, Amanda realized Sam would kill Zoe-A as well if he had that information[[spoiler:, and she shot Sammy out of the game.]] This is followed by Amanda essentially lampshading her husband's sudden idiocy.
127	* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: A character uses a Tauron phrase that is subtitled as "If I revealed the details, I'd have to return you to the soil."
128	* InformedProfession: In the first two episodes Amanda is shown to be a doctor, complete with a cushy office at the hospital. In "Reins of a Waterfall", she is stated to have resigned. In "Gravedancing", she states that she is a plastic surgeon - a doctor, but not the first aid kit kind usually (although you do have some plastic surgeons for burn care).
129	* InsideAComputerSystem: There are the holo-bands, your own personal Matrix. Portrayed somewhat realistically as a new user, who just got his own avatar, doesn't know how to move without moving his physical legs. Also, he spawns in a drab concrete room with a single door, along with his guide, who apologizes for the lack of décor.
130	* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: A scene in the pilot cuts back and forth between the Graystones having sex and (a [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]]) Sam Adama stabbing someone.
131	* JumpingOnAGrenade: In the finale, [[spoiler:the monotheists carry out a terrorist attack on the Caprica City stadium, but most of them are taken out by Cylon foot soldiers controlled by the Graystones. In the panic, one of the suicide bombers manages to slip away, forcing the Cylons to run up to him en masse and dogpile him to shield nearby humans from the blast.]]
132	* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: When it turns out that [[spoiler:the U-87s respond to Lacy over their designated controllers]].
133	* KilledOffForReal: If you die in Cap City, you can't login again.
134	* KissMeImVirtual:
135	** Zoe-A goes on a date with Philomon by claiming she's a real person outside of V-World who's just using the image of the dead Zoe Graystone for her virtual avatar, instead of revealing that she's a virtual copy of Zoe.
136	** Odin Sinclair is shown making out with Lacy Rand at the STO training camp, until it's revealed that he is using a holoband and it was a virtual projection of Lacy when the real Lacy wakes him up.
137	** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] when Daniel Graystone creates a virtual copy of his wife Amanda after she leaves him because of his morally ambiguous actions. He makes a heartfelt confession to the virtual Amanda, who quickly forgives him, only for Daniel to admit that he was lying and she should have known better. He wants his ''real'' wife with every part of her independent spirit, not some mindless substitute who will just fall into his arms.
138	* {{Leitmotif}}: Several. This is Music/BearMcCreary, after all. The Tauron leitmotif turns out to be the tune of the Tauron mourning chant used in "There Is Another Sky", in a kind of ShoutOut to the audience.
139	* LenoDevice: Or, should we say, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Sarno Device]]. In many of the TV-montages that involve the latest shit to hit Graystone Industries fan, you can be relatively sure that a clip from Sarno will show up. Even when he doesn't, clips from the obvious Caprican {{Expy}} of {{CNBC}} are always there.
140	* LimitedWardrobe: Zoe-Avatar wears the same dress all the time, for obvious reasons. She figures out how to get a new one by the start of "Gravedancing".
141	* LogicBomb: Daniel inadvertently Logic Bombs his simulation of [[spoiler: Amanda]] by demanding that it attack him emotionally when it's programmed to please him.
142	* LordBritishPostulate: In-canon. This is probably the explanation of why "New Cap City" players keep trying to kill Zoe and Tamara and getting slaughtered.
143	* MadScientist: Daniel starts to show signs of this once he suspects Zoe's avatar is inside the Cylon. [[spoiler: In the finale both he and Amanda seem to have become this, complete with a scene where they create a [[RobotGirl humanoid robot body]] for Zoe that is straight out of [[FrankensteinsMonster Frankenstein]].]]
144	* ManlyTears: Joseph. Often. He seems to spend almost as much time weeping over his wife and daughter as anything else. Eventually it becomes actual severe depression, resulting in Sam and Larry taking over caring for Willie since Joseph is no longer functional.
145	* MatrixRainingCode: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', and explains it as being a human (well, colonial human) programming language, specifically the one Zoe used to create her AI. Here, it's orange/red, rains upwards, and when it hits the top row it gets pinballed to the right where it's presumably "executed".
146	* MeaningfulName: Zoe is Greek for "life".
147	* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Gara Singh]] is chief agent in the Caprica Global Defense Department and leader of the Soldiers of the One monotheistic terrorists on Caprica.
148	* MsFanservice: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made a little bit more comfortable by her actress's DawsonCasting. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' {{Stripperific}} outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability. [[http://www.impawards.com/tv/caprica_xlg.html Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show]] (combined with TemptingApple, BoobsAndButtPose, and HandOrObjectUnderwear--a veritable buffet of {{Fanservice}}).[[invoked]]
149	* MutualDisadvantage: At one point had Zoe and Tamara are fighting each other in V-World. In this case, they can hurt each other all they want, but neither of them can die since they're both digital avatars. The fight only ended when Zoe talked Tamara into an alliance.
150	* MysteryCult: Monotheism is this by necessity: monotheism is illegal on Caprica.
151	* MythologyGag: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
152	%%* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Heracs and the Tauron Democratic Government.
153	* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The Ha'la'tha take it seriously.
154	* NeverMessWithGranny: Grandma Ruth-less. In "Here Be Dragons", she [[spoiler:kills a Ha'la'tha assassin with a kitchen knife]], and she [[spoiler:mentions that she used to be one herself]].
155	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
156	** Baxter Sarno's show seems to be like Creator/JayLeno's in form (at least in that he's standing up), but references to college students getting most of their news from him and "tearing a new one" into the Caprican Commerce Minister leads to the conclusion that he's more of a [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] analogue. Incidentally, he's played by Creator/PattonOswalt.
157	** In "Ghosts in the Machine", the comedienne host of the club Joseph visits may remind some viewers of ''executive'' transvestite Creator/EddieIzzard.
158	* TheNothingAfterDeath: Tamara experiences a technological version of this, as her consciousness is copied into a digital avatar which gets stuck in a dark, empty room until she's found.
159	* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[HiddenDepths Bizarrely]], Serge Graystone - the RobotButler about the size of a trash can - might actually be this. Although at first glance he would simply appear to be very good at simulating sapience, his [[CharacterBlog twitter feed]] suggests he knows things the characters ''do not'' - such as the fact that [[spoiler:Zoe Graystone's avatar is trapped within the prototype cylon body]].
160	** He ''spells that out'' in said twitter, [[spoiler:namely that he guessed and Zoe saw no need to keep it from him - although she did tell him not to tell her parents.]]
161	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Joseph Adama, father of the future military leader of the surviving human race, knew Daniel Graystone, the inventor of the Caprican Cylons.
162	* OneHourWorkWeek: Amanda Graystone is shown to be a doctor in the first two episodes, complete with a cushy office at the hospital. In "Reins of a Waterfall", she is stated to have resigned, and it is unknown if she will go back to work. In "Gravedancing", she clarifies that she is a plastic surgeon.
163	* OpiumDen: Clarice's "dive" seems to be one of these.
164	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:When she's fighting Tamara's minions in the New Cap City Arena, Zoe-A is mentored by another angelic being, which uses her form.]]
165	* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Tauron Democratic Government]], which seems to be an analog of Francoist Spain. The head of government, Andreas Phaulkon, is nicknamed "the playboy dictator" by the Caprican media and his party's military was notorious for execution of dissidents.
166	* PermissionToSpeakFreely: An STO officer grants Lacy Rand this during a questioning.
167	* PlanetOfHats: Downplayed. On Caprica, Tauron and Gemenon (the three planets shown most), the culture and traditions are shown to be diverse, even when there is one overriding theme (Tauron's militarism, Gemenon's religious nature). The Colonies ''not seen'' sometimes suffer from this though.
168	* {{Polyamory}}: Sister Clarice Willow is married to multiple men and women, who are all married to each other. This is implied to be unusual but perfectly legal.
169	* PosthumousCharacter: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are {{Digital Avatar}}s / {{Virtual Ghost}}s of Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama, [[DeathByOriginStory both of whom were killed in a terrorist attack at the beginning of the story]].
170	* ThePowerOfFriendship: In the pilot, Zoe-A is covered with blood after Zoe dies. Lacy hugs her and it disappears.
171	%%* PrequelInTheLostAge: To ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Battlestar Galactica]]''.
172	* PreviouslyOn: This being a highly arc-based show, it shows up a fair amount.
173	* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Taurons take great pride in martial prowess, favor violent solutions to disputes and raise their children to be tough (and ideally combat-ready).
174	* PuttingOnTheReich: The Herac uniforms look like World War II German military uniforms with Tauron insignia.
175	* PsychoSerum: Amp, a kind of reaction-boosting hack that manifests as a drug in New Cap City and is addictive.
176	* TheQueenpin: In the last episode of the series, the Guatrau of the Ha'la'tha mob on Caprica is [[BetrayalByOffspring replaced by his daughter]], who has him killed as a peace offering to Joseph Adama, whose son William inadvertently became collateral when the Guatrau put a hit out on him. In return, Joseph promises his loyalty to the new Guatrau, avoiding a civil war within the Ha'la'tha.
177	* RealityWarper: In V-World the Virtual Ghosts (Zoe and Tamara) can alter the entire environment at will if they concentrate their power. At one point they turn all of New Cap City into a mountain kingdom.
178	* RecycledInSpace: A comment made by Ron Moore essentially sums up this series as ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' meets ''Series/TheSopranos'' meets ''Series/{{Rome}}'' IN SPACE. Basically, you know, a FamilyDrama, AS CYBERPUNK!
179	* ReligionOfEvil: STO is seen as this by Colonials. The fact that they are as happy to kill each other in internal power plays as they are to kill polytheists in terrorist attacks such as bombing civilian targets [[SarcasmMode probably plays some role in this]].
180	* ReplacementGoldfish: By the series finale Daniel and Amanda Graystone have fully accepted the Zoe avatar as a substitute for their dead daughter (it helps that she possesses almost every memory that the original Zoe did), even providing her with a physical body so she can interact with the real world.
181	* ResurrectiveImmortality: Zoe and Tamara possess this ability in New Cap City in a particularely fast variant. The environment is programmed in such a way to permanently ban anyone who is killed from ever entering again. For Z&T this is just a minor nuisance because they are [[VirtualGhost programs with no real body to return to]], so getting killed will cause a glitch and remodel them immediately.
182	* RetroUniverse: The series is set set sixty years before ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' and the level of technology is much higher (with total-immersion virtual reality and robot butlers), but the producers remind viewers that this is "the past" by adding certain cultural touches which are reminiscent of TheFifties: smoking is prevalent and allowed everywhere, professional men wear fedoras to work, then-futuristically-styled British and European vehicles from the fifties and sixties are on the roads, and there are shades of [[FantasticRacism Fantastic McCarthyism]].
183	* {{Robosexual}}: Philo and Robot Zoe. Complicated by Zoe having the mind of a formerly living girl and double complicated by Philo not knowing this. Zoe adopts the guise of Rachel in the V-World to V-date him. In "End of Line" Zoe comes out to him as Rachel and he decides this is too crazy for him and alerts security.
184	* RobotMaid: Serge Graystone, who has his own [[http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone twitter page]].
185	* RobotGirl: Zoe's avatar program, albeit not so much when she is inside the U-87 Cylon prototype. To the viewers she appears like a teenage girl, but whenever the perspective shifts to that of the characters around her, she's a big scary combat droid. [[spoiler:In the finale she is transferred into a robot body designed to look exactly like the original Zoe]].
186	* RousingSpeech: Clarice's sermon to the Cylons:
187	--> Are you alive? The simple answer might be you are alive because you can ask that question. You have the right to think and feel and yearn to be more because you are not just humanity’s children, you are God’s children. We are all God’s children... In the real world, you have bodies made of metal and plastic. Your brains are encoded on wafers of silicon, but that may change. In fact, there is no limit on what you may become. No longer servants, but equals. Not slaves or property, but living beings with the same rights as those who made you. I am going to prophecy now, and speak of one who will set you free. The day of reckoning is coming. The children of humanity shall rise...AND CRUSH THE ONES WHO FIRST GAVE THEM LIFE!"
188	* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary [[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
189	-->'''Lacy:''' Oh, please. The porn sites were the first to license the technology.\
190	'''Daniel:''' Those are for ''adults!''
191	* RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler:Evelyn]] taking the name Emmanuelle (feminine of Emmanuel, which is a name of Jesus) while posing as Joseph's guide.
192	* SavedByCanon: Played with. The young William Adama is a main character, and it's obvious to the audience that he will survive the entire series to become a main character in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica 2003}}'', [[spoiler:except he doesn't. He's shot and killed near the end of the series, and a montage reveals that his dad and stepmom had a second son whom they named after his deceased brother, and ''he'' is the William Adama that the audience knows from ''Battlestar'']].
193	* ScaryAmoralReligion: The Soldiers of the One are a monotheistic cult in a polytheistic society that believes in absolute BlackAndWhiteMorality, and some of their branches are perfectly willing to commit suicide bombings for their beliefs, while the others quietly approve of their actions. Later the Cylons inherited the religion and used it to justify the attempted destruction of the human race in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}''.
194	* SenseiForScoundrels: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
195	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Joseph Adama spends a large chunk of the series emoting. His brother Sam just kicks ass.
196	* ServileSnarker: Daniel's assistant, Cyrus Xander, has been getting more points on this trope in recent episodes. His reaction when he learned that Daniel hired a Tauron mobster to rob a prominent Tauron businessman who had connections to the same criminal organization was just epic.
197	* ShootTheDog: [[SadisticChoice Literally]] in "Ghosts in the Machine." [[spoiler:Daniel suspects that Zoe is in the U-87; he orders her to shoot the family dog. She does without hesitation, because refusal to do so would prove her father's suspicions. DoubleSubverted, however: the gun was loaded with blanks, and Zoe later reveals to Lacy that she could tell that from the weight, saying she might have turned it on Daniel otherwise rather than shoot the dog]].
198	* ShoutOut:
199	** Per WordOfGod, the V-world game "New Cap City" is a ShoutOut to the movie Film/NewJackCity.[[invoked]]
200	** Dying in New Cap City is called being [[Franchise/{{Tron}} de-rezzed]] and there's mention of a [[Franchise/{{Tron}} MCP]].
201	** In the Adamas' house a poster features a [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[{{Expy}} Storm.]]
202	** A subtle one, but the Defence minister Sam Adama kills in the Pilot wears the exact same variety of distinctive thick lens glasses as [[Film/BladeRunner Doctor Eldon Tyrell.]]
203	** Joseph Adama bears many similarities to Al Capone's former attorney Edward J. O'Hare, a mob lawyer with a conscience whose son became a famous pilot and war hero.
204	* SingleAttemptGame: "New Cap City". A {{Dieselpunk}} {{Cyberspace}} {{MMORPG}}. Dying once doesn't just permanently destroy your character but bans you from the game for life.
205	* SkeleBot9000: The Cylon Centurions, specifically referred to as "skeletons" more than once. Though in the finale ones with added armor plating are shown.
206	* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: Homosexuality is treated as completely unremarkable in Colonial society, even among hardcore Tauron gangsters; Sam Adama is happily married to a guy named Larry. Sister Clarice Willow is also part of a group marriage; though this is explicitly less common than monogamy, it's still accepted enough that Lacy mentions knowing kids whose parents are in group marriages.
207	* StartOfDarkness: The whole series is this for the Cylons, depicting their creation and how they changed from humanity's servents to their ''exterminators''.
208	* StoryboardBody: Sam Adama and most of the other members of the Tauron Ha'la'tha. [[http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2010/02/exclusive-caprica-producer-jane-espenson-explains-sam-adamas-tattoos.html The writers even worked the whole thing out.]]
209	* StrawHypocrite: More subtle then most of examples, but show made it sure that you understand that Guatrau's talk about honor is total bullcrap.
210	* SupremeChef: Daniel is implied to be one, although he doesn't get much time for it.
211	* SurvivorGuilt: Lacy has a textbook case of this, saying that "it should've been [her]" on the 'lev, since it nearly ''was''. Which is part of why she's so loyal to Zoe-A.
212	* TakeThat:
213	** The last episode begins with Vergis's quote about choosing how we return to the soil, and ends with clips of future episodes that will never be made.
214	** David Eick mentions in the commentary for the pilot that he was once reading Creator/JackKerouac's ''Literature/OnTheRoad'' in a diner, when an extremely enthusiastic college-age man came up to him and told him, in all earnestness, that "Jack Kerouac is God". Eick based the character of Ben Stark (the terrorist who blows up the levitated train) on this man.
215	* TattooedCrook: The Ha'la'tha gang is made up of these. The elaborate tattoos all have [[http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2010/02/exclusive-caprica-producer-jane-espenson-explains-sam-adamas-tattoos.html meanings]], by the way.
216	* TeacherStudentRomance: Discussed. When Clarice has Lacy over for dinner one of her husbands asks her if this is what she's up to but she claims it isn't. It's implied that she's had problems with this before; one of her husbands is young enough to be her son.
217	* TeenGenius: Zoe Graystone was raised by two parents who were both brilliant scientists, her father a roboticist and her mother a plastic surgeon. She topped them both by creating an artificial intelligence in her own image at the age of 16.
218	* TemptingApple: Advertising for the show made use of this theme, showing a naked Zoe Graystone (the first humanoid Cylon) holding only a bright red apple with a bite taken out of it. It's supposed to reflect humanity's temptation and hubris to create artificial life, metaphorically eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
219	* TerrainSculpting: Virtual Zoe and Virtual Tamara use their godlike powers in V-world to turn [[WretchedHive New Cap City]] into a mountain kingdom.
220	%%* ThirdLineSomeWaiting
221	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This pretty much sums up the look on [[spoiler:Clarice]]'s face when she meets the new Blessed Mother ([[spoiler:Lacy]]) in "The Shape of Things to Come".
222	* ThreeLawsCompliant: Averted. Graystone "develops" the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] for a heartless KillerRobot. How could he '''not''' [[GenreBlind expect the obvious]], when they TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. Probably not a good idea to download the VirtualGhost of an angsty teenager into it either. An angsty, born-again, teenager with daddy issues.
223	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Lacy and Zoe. Lacy is a lower class WrenchWench, whereas Zoe is a super-rich TeenGenius more into computer programming.
224	* TooDumbToLive: In the series finale epilogue, [[spoiler:Clarice Willow. She may have genuinely believed that it was God's will to convert the "differently sentient" (Cylon robots) to monotheism, but when outright encouraging a robot rebellion and declaring that there will be "a day of reckoning" for humanity during her prophecy can be described as misguided at best and suicidal at worst. Or she just forgot what species she belonged to.]]
225	* TookALevelInBadass:
226	** Tamara Adama in the V-World goes from a hapless damsel to cooly gunning down several armed combatants.
227	** Lacy in the final five episodes, and in The Shape of Things to Come [[spoiler:it turns out that she is the new Blessed Mother (pope) of the monotheist faith]].
228	* TookTheWifesName: The wives and husbands of Clarice's group marriage all use the surname Willow, which comes from one of the wives, Desiree Willow.
229	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
230	** The notorious tradition in BSG of showing the best bits of the episode is continued in ''Caprica''.
231	** Subverted by the trailer for Season 1.5, which gave the impression that Amanda died by showing Daniel angrily rejecting a holographic avatar of her. She didn't.
232	* VillainBall: Diego carries it in the penultimate episode [[spoiler: when the Holy Mother orders him to kill Lacy and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Instead of killing her in a clean and deniable way as ordered, he can't resist the impulse to play a sadistic power game, and pulls a ShootYourMate / DeadlyGraduation on Odin. As a direct result, Diego dies instead of Lacy, and Lacy is so upset over the ShootYourMate that she sets a horde of killbots on the [=STO=] leadership. Nice one, Diego.]]
233	* VirtualGhost:
234	** There's a complex case in the form of Zoe Graystone's Avatar. She's a recreation of her creator, based on ''publicly available records of her life'', and yet, even her father acknowledges that the difference between the original (and now deceased) Zoe and the avatar version is inconsequential. Unlike most examples of this trope, the avatar version of Zoe existed alongside her creator, and the two had been able to converse. The questions her existence raises for the nature of what it means to be a person is at the philosophical heart of the series.
235	** Tamara is a more typical example, created after her original's death and not even realizing she was dead [[spoiler: until recently]].
236	* VirtualRealityWarper: Zoe and Tamara are anomalies in the [[WretchedHive New Cap City]] virtual world. Because they're really {{Virtual Ghost}}s with no body in the outside world to return to, they cannot be killed in any way. They gain even more control over the environment later on, turning New Cap City into a mountain fortress. Zoe even boasts to Sister Clarice that she's the new god.
237	* VoicesAreMental: Zoe-R has Zoe's voice
238	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Gemenon is home to several monotheist ''and'' polytheist terrorist organisations that all fight against each other just as much as they fight against the more tolerant Gemenese government.
239	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The Soldiers of the One. Ben was an extremist even by the Soldiers' standards.
240	* WhamEpisode:
241	** "End of Line" certainly lives up to its name. [[spoiler:Zoe kills Philomon, escapes, is chased by defense forces, and ends up in a car wreck. Tamara shoots Joseph out of New Cap City and Emmanuelle is Evelyn. Amanda prepares to jump off a bridge. Barnabas forces Lacy to detonate a bomb in Clarice's car, but Clarice isn't in it because she's watching Amanda. Daniel receives a phone call and we don't see what the news is.]]
242	%%** But that's nothing compared to "The Shape of Things to Come".
243	* WhamLine: "The Imperfections of Memory" [[spoiler:ends with Daniel looking at the robot, which the dog has been bothering, and saying "Zoe."]]
244	%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Tamara in the last couple episodes.
245	* WrenchWench: Lacy. Amusingly, she kinda looks like the Patron Saint of Wrench Wenches, [[{{Series/Firefly}} Kaylee Frye]].
246	%%* WretchedHive: New Cap City.
247	* YouAreGrounded: This occurs at the very beginning of the series to Zoe, after her parents learn about her rebel-rousing ways. But what makes this moment all the more disturbing, is that that fight between mother and daughter is the opening salvos of a conflict that would ultimately bring down the Twelve Colonies, and bring mankind to near-extinction. In fact her final line to her mother, "You're going to regret that for the rest of your life!", after being slapped in the face by her, is more or less an open threat to the whole of humanity. And it can only get worse from here...
248	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A Messenger helped 6 year-old Zoe escape from her burning house, and over subsequent years guided her in developing her artificial intelligence software. Interestingly however, the Messenger does not seem to have warned Zoe not to get on the maglev with Ben, implying that her death was being allowed, or even arranged.
249	* YouMeanXmas: "Eros Day", which is clearly Valentine's.
250	* {{Zeerust}}: Deliberately invoked in order to make the series feel as if it is set 50 years before BSG, which, other than the spaceships and killer robots, [[NoughtiesDramaSeries feels and looks much like the Aughts it was produced in]]. Conversely, ''Caprica'' invokes 1950s clothing and aesthetics alongside CyberPunk mainstays to produce a ''very'' unique look that is ''definitely'' different than BSG. It works.
251	* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Double case. Caprica City itself has pretty realistic blimps, similar to what you'd see floating over a stadium in our world. New Cap City has a full-blown version of the trope, with a monstrous gunship Zeppelin blasting players at random for [[RuleOfCool no adequately-stated reason]].

Context Series / Caprica