Here are tropes commonly associated with the genres Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk, sub genres of Speculative Fiction, in particular 20 Minutes into the Future. Both also have strong ties to Film Noir style. To read more about said genres, go ahead and visit their pages. If you want to know more about how to write one of your own, then check out Write a Cyberpunk Story.
Themes and Concepts
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
- Big Brother Is Watching
- Capitalism Is Bad
- Corporate Warfare
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Cyberpunk for Flavor
- Data Drive MacGuffin
- Do Androids Dream?
- Everything Is Online
- Existentialism
- Gaia's Lament
- Gang War
- Good Prosthetic, Evil Prosthetic
- Grey-and-Gray Morality
- Industrialized Evil
- Information Wants to Be Free
- Machine Worship
- The Madness Place
- Police State
- The Singularity
- Society Is to Blame
- Technophobia
- Transhumanism
- War for Fun and Profit
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?
- Your Mind Makes It Real
Settings and World
- 20 Minutes into the Future
- Advert-Overloaded Future
- Always Night
- Arcology
- Black Market
- Chemical Messiah
- City Noir
- City Planet
- Coolest Club Ever
- Corporate Conspiracy
- Crapsaccharine World
- Crapsack World
- Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary
- Cyberspace
- Divided States of America
- Dystopia
- Evil, Inc.
- Extreme Speculative Stratification
- False Utopia
- Gangbangers
- Hacker Cave
- Hacker Collective
- Hive City
- Industrial Ghetto
- Industrial World
- Inside a Computer System
- Japan Takes Over the World
- Layered Metropolis
- Law Enforcement, Inc.
- Mad Scientist Laboratory
- Mega City
- MegaCorp
- The Metaverse
- Neon City
- Next Sunday A.D.
- N.G.O. Superpower
- Nightmarish Factory
- One Nation Under Copyright
- Peace & Love Incorporated
- Privately Owned Society
- Private Intelligence Agency
- Private Military Contractors
- Research, Inc.
- Shiny New Australia
- Skyscraper City
- The Syndicate
- Techno Dystopia
- The Triads and the Tongs
- Toxic, Inc.
- Urban Hellscape
- Urban Segregation
- Vice City
- World of Ham
- Wretched Hive
- Yakuza
Technology and Story Elements
- Androids and Detectives
- Artificial Human
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Limbs
- Artificial Limbs Are Stronger
- Attack Drone
- Augmented Reality
- Auto Doc
- Biodata
- Biopunk
- Black Market Produce
- Body Backup Drive
- Brain/Computer Interface
- Brain in a Jar
- Brain Transplant
- Brain Uploading
- Cassette Futurism
- Cryo-Prison
- Cyborg
- Designer Babies
- Deus est Machina
- Drone Deployer
- Dueling Hackers
- Electronic Telepathy
- Fantastic Drug
- Full-Conversion Cyborg
- Future Food Is Artificial
- Hollywood Hacking
- Human Popsicle
- The Internet
- Magical Computer
- Mind-Reformat Death
- Morality Chip
- Neural Implanting
- Online Alias
- Rapid DNA Test
- Robot
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- Schizo Tech
- Sentry Gun
- Sinister Surveillance
- Surveillance Drone
- Techno Dystopia
- Unusual User Interface
- Virtual Celebrity
- Virtual Ghost
- Virtual-Reality Warper
- Virtual Sidekick
- Virtual YouTuber
- Voice with an Internet Connection
- Weirdly Underpowered Admins
- Wetware CPU
Character Types
- Corporate Samurai
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- The Cracker
- Cyber Ninja
- Digitized Hacker
- Evil Luddite
- Hackette
- Hired Guns
- Honest Corporate Executive
- Internal Reformist
- Mad Scientist
- Playful Hacker
- Private Detective
- Reluctant Mad Scientist
- Robot Master
- Salaryman
- Sociopathic Soldier
- The Stateless
- Street Samurai
- The Turret Master
Stylistic Elements
- Cool Shades
- Cyber Green
- Badass Longcoat
- Cybergoth
- Cyberpunk Is Techno
- Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
- Film Noir
- Mechanical Muscles
- The Future Is Noir
- Technology Porn
- Tron Lines
- Used Future
