Speculative Fiction Tropes - Television Tropes & Idioms

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- Our Monsters Are Different
Otherworld Tropes
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We Will Not Use An Index In The Future

See also:

The Grand List Of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
Turkey City Lexicon

Absent Aliens
Abusive Precursors
Adam And Eve Plot
Aesoptinum
AI Is A Crapshoot
Airborne Aircraft Carrier
Alien Abduction
Alien Invasion
Aliens Of London
Alien Sky
Aliens Speaking English
Aliens Steal Cable
The Alliance
All Myths Are True
All Planets Are Earth Like
All The Myriad Ways
Alternative Calendar
Alternate Universe
Amazon Brigade
Ancient Astronauts
Ancient Conspiracy
- Milkman Conspiracy
Ancient Tradition
And Man Grew Proud
Antagonists Assimilate
Apocalypse How
Apocalyptic Log
Arbitrary Skepticism
Area 51
Arm Cannon
Artificial Gravity
Artificial Limbs
Ascended Fanboy
As You Wish
The Asteroid Thicket
Automaton Horses
Babel Fish
Bad Blue Lighting
Bad Moon Rising
Balance Between Good And Evil
Because Destiny Says So
Become A Real Boy
Beethoven Was An Alien Spy
Beware Of Hitchhiking Ghosts
Bizarre Alien Biology
Blood Sport
Body Snatcher
Body Surf
Boldly Coming
Brain In A Jar
The Bridge
Call A Rabbit A Smeerp
California Doubling
- BBC Quarry
- Kirks Rock
Cant Argue With Elves
Captains Log
Cargo Cult
Casual Interstellar Travel
City In A Bottle
Clap Your Hands If You Believe
Cloning Blues
Coconut Superpowers
Cold Sleep Cold Future
Colony Drop
Connecticut Yankee
Conspiracy Placement
Contagious Powers
Cool Boat
Cool But Inefficient
Cool Horse
Cool Ship
Cosmic Keystone
Cosy Catastrophe
Creepy Monotone
Crossing The Streams
Crossover Cosmology
Crystal Clear Picture
Crystal Spires And Togas
Cut The Juice
Days Of Future Past
Dead To Begin With
Death From Above
Death Ray
Death World
Decade Dissonance
Deflector Shields
Depopulation Bomb
Deus Est Machina
Deus Sex Machina
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu
Die Or Fly
Disintegrator Ray
Distress Call
Divided States Of America
Do Anything Robot
Doing In The Wizard
Dolphins Dolphins Everywhere
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Drop Ship
Earth Is The Center Of The Universe
Earth Shattering Kaboom
Elaborate Underground Base
Electric Torture
Elemental Baggage
The End Of The World As We Know It
Energy Weapon
- Frickin Laser Beams
- Laser Blade
- Wave Motion Gun
Eternal English
Eternal Prohibition
Evil Costume Switch
Evil Detecting Dog
Evil Hand
Evilutionary Biologist
Evolutionary Levels
Explosive Decompression
- Thrown Out The Airlock
Expospeak
Exty Years From Now
Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong
Failsafe Failure
The Fair Folk
Fantasy Kitchen Sink
Fantastic Racism
Faster Than Light Travel
The Federation
Five Races
Flat Earth Atheist
Floating Continent
Flying Saucers
Food Pills
Forgotten Phlebotinum
Freak Lab Accident
Future Badass
Future Imperfect
Future Music
Future Slang
Gaias Vengeance
Gattaca Babies
Gendercide
Genetic Engineering Is The New Nuke
Genetic Memory
Genie In A Bottle
Ghost In The Machine
Giant Flyer
Glamour Failure
Going Critical
Golem
Half Human Hybrids
Hate Plague
Hemisphere Bias
Hive Mind
Holographic Terminal
Homemade Inventions
Horde Of Alien Locusts
Horse Of A Different Color
Hour Of Power
How Unscientific
Hugh Mann
Humanity Is Superior
Human Popsicle
Human Resources
Humans Are Special
Humans By Any Other Name
Hyperspace Is A Scary Place
I Cannot See Myself
I Know That Gun
I Love Nuclear Power
Immortality Immorality
Immune To Bullets
Inside A Computer System
Insignificant Little Blue Planet
In Space Everyone Can See Your Face
In Spite Of A Nail
Instant AI Just Add Water
Instant Cooldown
Intangible Man
Interspecies Romance
Invisible Aliens
Invocation
It Only Works Once
Its A Small World After All
The Jor El
Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Julius Beethoven Da Vinci
Kill All Humans
Kill Sat
The Kingdom
Kiss Me I Am Virtual
The Kobayashi Maru
Kryptonite Factor
- Kryptonite Ring
Landfill Beyond The Stars
Law Of Alien Names
Least Common Skin Tone
Lensman Arms Race
Life Energy
Liquid Assets
Literal Genie
- Wishplosion
Literary Work Of Magic
Living Ship
Living Toys
Losing Your Head
Lost Colony
The Lowest Cosmic Denominator
Mac Guffin Girl
Mad Scientist Laboratory
Magic Feather
Magic Pants
Magic Versus Science
Magitek
The Magocracy
Malus Ex Machina
Manchurian Agent
Mars Needs Women
May Contain Evil
Masquerade
Meanwhile In The Future
Mechanical Lifeforms
Mega Corp
Mid Season Upgrade
Mike Nelson Destroyer Of Worlds
Mindlink Mates
Military Mashup Machine
Minovsky Particle
Mobile Suit Human
Monster Of The Week aka MOTW
More Than Infinite
Mundane Utility
Muggle Foster Parents
Mulder Moment
My Species Doth Protest Too Much
Nanomachines
Negative Space Wedgie
The Neutral Zone
New Eden
New Neo City
No Big Deal
No Biochemical Barriers
No Control Group
No Endor Holocaust
No New Fashions In The Future
No Paper Future
No Seat Belts
No Sex Allowed
No Such Thing As Space Jesus
No Waterproofing In The Future
Non Mammal Mammaries
Not Using The Zed Word
Not Wearing Tights
Now Do It Again Backwards
Nuke Em
Numbered Homeworld
Old School Dogfighting
One World Order
Only Fatal To Adults
Opposite Sex Clone
Organic Technology
Our Version
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Out Of Time Out Of Mind
Pardon My Klingon
Patrick Stewart Speech
Patronymic
People Jars
Peril Rollover
Person Of Mass Destruction
Personality Chip
Phantasy Spelling
- Magick
Pinocchio Syndrome
Planet Eater
Planet Looters
Plausible Deniability
Plot Relevant Age Up
Popsicle Splat
Portal Network
Portal Splat
Portal To The Past
Post Modern Magik
The Power Of Love
Powers That Be
Precursors
- Neglectful Precursors
Prime Directive
Projected Man
Prophecies Rhyme All The Time
Psycho Serum
Puny Earthlings
The Puppetmasters
The Quest
Radioactive Teenage Samurai Robot Wombats
Ragnaroof Proofing
Ramming Always Works
Ridiculously Human Robots
Red Alert
Refugee From TV Land
Ret Gone
Robo Speak
Robotic Reveal
San Dimas Time
Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Science Fiction Versus Fantasy
Science Marches On
Scifi Ghetto
Sci Fi Name Buzzwords
Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale
Script Reading Doors
Second Chance
Secret Handshake
Self Fulfilling Prophecies
Send In The Clones
Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
Shapeshifting Squick
Shiny Looking Spaceships
Shooting Superman
Showing Off The New Body
Single Line Of Descent
The Singularity
Skepticism Failure
Some Kind Of Force Field
Someone Has To Do It
Something For Everyone
Soul Jar
Soylent Soy
Space Amish
Space Cadet
Space Clothes
Space Friction
Space Is An Ocean
- Space Sailing
Space Is Magic
Space Is Noisy
Space Pirates
Space Police
Space Romans
Space Whale
Special Effect Branding
Split At Birth
Spock Speak
Square Cube Law
Standardized Space Views
Stanley Steamer Spaceship
Straw Vulcan
Streaming Stars
Subspace Ansible (FTL Radio)
Sufficiently Advanced Alien
Super Hero Speciation
Super Multi Purpose Room
Super Powered Robot Meter Maids
Super Soldier
Supervillain Lair
Superweapon Surprise
Suspended Animation
Swiss Army Appendage
The Symbiote
Technology Levels
Technopath
Techno Wizard
Teleporters And Transporters
- Tele Frag
Telescoping Robot
Thats No Moon
Thorin Adjective Noun
Thunderbolt Iron
Time Stands Still
Time Travel
Toasted Buns
To Serve Man
Touched By Vorlons
Tower Of Babel
Translation Convention
Transplanted Humans
Trans Universe
Tron Lines
Truly Single Parent
Two-D Space
Two Of Your Earth Minutes
Ultimate Evil
Undead Tax Exemption
Unguided Lab Tour
Unit Confusion
Unncessarily Large Interior
Unpredictable Results
Unusual User Interface
Upgrade Artifact
Used Future
Useless Superpowers
Vampire Detective Series
Veganopia
Very Loosely Based On A True Story
Vichy Earth
Waking Up At The Morgue
Wayback Trip
We Are As Mayflies
We Will Not Use Photoshop In The Future
We Will Not Use Stage Make Up In The Future
We Will Use Manual Labor In The Future
Weaksauce Weakness
Weird Science
What Is This Thing You Call Love
Whedon Thyndrome
Who You Gonna Call
Why Am I Ticking
Wishplosion
Witch Species
A Wizard Did It
Wonder Twin Powers
World War III
The World Is Not Ready
World Shapes
Worthless Yellow Rocks
Year Inside Hour Outside
You No Take Candle
Your Mind Makes It Real
Your Universe Or Mine
Zeerust
Zeppelins From Another World
Zeroes And Ones
Zero G Spot

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