Literal Wild Card
For a character with unpredictable allegiance, see Wild Card.
In many Tabletop Games, players will have their options limited by the supplies they have on hand, meaning if you don't have the last piece required to make a play, you'll have to make do without. However, some games have alternatives that can be subbed in for the missing piece. For example, if a player held two red cards, two green cards, and a wild card, they could use their wild to make a three-of-a-kind in either color without having to wait. Or if you need five stones to build something and only have four, you can spend them and a wildcard resource to build it without having to wait for your fifth stone.
Melting Pot Sci Fi Setting
Some science fiction stories have no aliens in them and only focus on humans. However, a lot of sci-fi settings go the other route and have a plethora of different species intermingling together in the setting, and whilst each species will have a home world, they'll often interact when it comes to dealing with each other out in space. The reason for this is that many sci-fi writers just think sticking to humans and only humans is boring when you have the opportunity to make up your own interesting species.
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