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There are many differences between Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but some things blur the lines between them. Regardless, there are lots of ways that trope from both can overlap.

Sister Trope to Gun/Sword Counterpart, compare Magic Versus Science, Speculative Fiction Tropes, Magitek. Not to be confused with Fantasy Counterpart Culture, though the two could overlap.

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Tropes:

• Alchemy — Chemistry Can Do Anything
• All Myths Are True — All Theories Are True
• Aura Vision — Stat-O-Vision
• Bioluminescence is Cool — Tron Lines (though the latter can sometimes be found in fantasy)
• Chainmail Bikini — Latex Spacesuit
• Creating Life — A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Constructed World — A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far Far Away...
• Cool Airship — Cool Starship
• Doing in the Wizard — Doing in the Scientist
• The Fair Folk — The Greys
• Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes — Alien Tropes
• Fantastic Science — Fictional Field of Science
• Fantasy Gun Control — Nuclear Weapons Taboo
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink — Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink
• Functional Magic — Psychic Powers
• Golem — Ridiculously Human Robot
• Heroic Fantasy/Low Fantasy — Planetary Romance
• High Fantasy — Space Opera
• Instant Runes — Matrix Raining Code
• The Legions of Hell — Everything's Deader with Zombies/Mecha-Mooks
• Lilliputians — Nanomachines
• Lizard Folk/Snake People — The Reptilians
• Magibabble — Technobabble
• Magic Carpet — Hover Board
• Magical Land — Inside a Computer System
• Magitek/Magic Powered Pseudoscience — Magic from Technology
• Mithril — Unobtainium
• Our Elves Are Better — Space Elves
• Our Monsters Are Weird — Starfish Aliens
• Portable Hole — Pocket Dimension
• The Sky Is An Ocean — Space Is an Ocean
• Standard Fantasy Setting — Standard Sci-Fi Setting
• Steam Punk/Diesel Punk — Cyber Punk/Bio Punk (arguably)
  • Gaslamp Fantasy — Steam Punk/Diesel Punk/Cattle Punk
  • Gothic Punk — Cyber Punk
• The Undead — Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
• Urban Fantasy — Urban Sci Fi
• Weird West — Space Western

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