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alt title(s): Stargate SG 1 
You know, you blow up one sun and suddenly everyone expects you to walk on water. — Samantha Carter
Popular Science Fiction series (1997-2007) following on from Stargate the movie (with fairly significant Retconning), following the adventures of the US Air Force's SG-1 team as they travel through a wormhole to planets called P3-something or other. Started out as more light-hearted Nineties Adventure fare, gradually grew more heavy and serious as its mythology progressed. YMMV as to which was better.
Lasting for 10 seasons, it was the second longest running Sci-Fi show in US history. However, the show was not renewed for an 11th season. Two DVD movies have so far been made - Stargate: The Ark Of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.
It should be noted that as they are simply modern day Americans, Stargate's earthling characters rarely suffer from Genre Blindness (although the aliens on the show certainly do, leading the audience to believe that soaking up enough pop-culture means that I Know Mortal Kombat). The main characters are very aware of the trappings of science fiction, and not afraid to show it. For instance, they suggested calling Earth's first FTL ship the "Enterprise".
Spinoffs: Stargate Atlantis, the animated non-canon Stargate Infinity (see Five Man Band), Stargate Universe.
These and other cliches will be available to you all for one more day of training with me. After that, you'll either be assigned to an SG team... or not.
— Jack O'Neill (Proving Ground)
This show provides examples of:
- Abusive Precursors (The Ori are outright evil)
- Acting For Two ("Tin Man", "Point Of View", "Double Jeopardy", "Ripple Effect" & any episode with Ba'al and his clones.)
- Adventure Towns (technically, adventure planets, but the effect's the same...)
- Affably Evil (Ba'al)
- Aliens Speaking English (despite Dr. Jackson in the original movie having to translate the naturally-evolved ancient Egyptian spoken by humans, and thrown out the window as the plot required)
- It cannot be over-emphasized how jarring this was in the early seasons. SG-1 clearly still expects incomprehensible languages- Jackson is consistently asked to work his magic before the locals surprise everyone by speaking up in English. Yet they never question it. Later seasons wisely call less attention to the whole thing.
- This troper thinks that the Ancients had something to do with this, as Ancient evolved into Latin and Latin into English and so on. They DID have almost complete influence over both the Milky Way and Pegasus galaxies, after all.
- Makes little sense as even Earth has managed to "evolve" dozens of languages from a Latin root.
- Do people speak something else then english in the series? Maybe in their universe everyone on earth speaks english. I havent seen all the episodes, but all episodes i did see had either alien languages, english or aliens speaking english.
- All Your Base Are Belong To Us (various Foothold Situations)
- Almost Lethal Weapons (Zats, etc.)
- And, ironically, the Big Bad's main weapon.
- Alternate Universe: Loads and loads of them. For extra fun, a bunch end up converging on the gate, and two dozen Sam Carters are left working together to figure out a solution.
- Ancient Astronauts (pretty much every ancient culture ever)
- Armor Is Useless: For the Goa'uld and Jaffa
- Ascend To A Higher Plane Of Existence: Trope Codifier
- Badass: Teal'c can knock a man out with an avocado at 100 yards.
- Backed By The Pentagon (specifically the US Air Force)
- Bald Of Awesome (Teal'c before season 8, General Hammond)
- Beware The Nice Ones (Reese is an absolutely adorable little android girl who just wants to be friends with you and to play with her toys. Do not anger her. If you're lucky, she'll just throw you through a wall. If you you're not, well, her "toys" happen to be Replicators, and they will annihilate all human life on the planet if she feels threatened.
- Big Bads (First The Puppet Masters, the Goa'uld, especially Apophis. Then the AI Is A Crapshoot Replicators. Then evil Goa'uld turned energy being Anubis. Finally, a whole RACE of evil Energy Beings called the Ori, and their Dark Messiah Adria. Honorable mention goes out to Ba'al, The Starscream, who played secondary villain to most of the above, and managed to outlast them all.)
- Big Damn Villains (Sort of. The Replicators kill off most of the Goa'uld at the end of Season 8—fitting the trope—but on the other hand the only thing preventing SG-1 & Co. from doing that themselves was practicality, not morality—which is not in the spirit of the trope.)
- Black Speech (The language of the Goa'uld)
- Blunt Metaphors Trauma (Teal'c and Vala)
- Board To Death (Ba'al to all his clones) At least most of them.
- Boom Stick (Teal'c and the Jaffa's signature weapon. Later also used by the Ori Soldiers.)
- Brainwashed (several times)
- By The Eyes Of The Blind
- California Doubling (Canadian variant)
- Cannot Tell A Joke (Teal'c)
- Cargo Cult (More or less the basic premise of the show)
- Catchphrase Indeed
- Ya think?
- Ah, fer cryin' out loud!
- Jaffa, kree!
- Yeah, I get that a lot.
- That's what I'm talking about!
- Lunch?
- Chevron seven locked
- Chekhovs Armoury (Everyone they meet. Everything they find. Everything they bring back. Everything they do to their Stargate
beyond simple dialling. Even the Engaging Chevrons is a plot point in some episodes (because it's so slow.))
- Chick Magnet: It seems that every other female character will try to get into Daniel's pants at some point. Marginal example because Daniel often gives in. Lampshaded in an early episode when O'Neill says at this rate, he's going to have a girl on every planet.
- Clarke's Third Law
- Clip Show: Also parodied in "200"
- Clone Degeneration
- Close Enough Timeline
- Colonel Badass (now, who might it be?..) Carter? Mitchell?
- Commuting On A Bus, (O'Neill)
- Complete Monster (Anubis)
- Conspiracy Theorist (Martin Lloyd in the episode "Point of No Return")
- Cool Gate Duh!
- Cool Old Guy (Hammond, Landry, Bra'tac and Jacob Carter)
- Cop Boyfriend (For Sam. It doesn't last.)
- Cosmopolitan Council (The Goa'uld, surprisingly. Doesn't make them any less evil though.)
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome (Every single main character gets at least one of these at one point or another, even Hammond. And sometimes even single-appearance characters get one.)
- Even Chevron Guy Walter gets one in an Expanded Universe Big Finish audio drama, where he single-handedly stops an enemy menace from destroying the Stargate at great personal risk to his own life. After this entire adventure? He responds with...
I'm no hero. I just press buttons. I'm just... the Chevron Guy.
- Crowning Moment Of Funny - "Window of Opportunity," specifically the "This is a time loop so you can get away with anything" montage. Also, Daniel Jackson in the episode "The Sentinel".
Lieutenant Kershaw: I feel better just knowing there's an archaeologist watching our backs.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: (holds up a knife) Yeah, which end do the bullets go in again?
- Cunning Linguist (Daniel Jackson)
- Daydream Surprise (in the episode "Grace")
- Deadpan Snarker (Jack O'Neill, with Daniel Jackson occasionally getting into the act; the latter mentions, after annoying a Russian officer, that he's been spending too much time with Jack. People meeting Jack for the first time will sometimes ask the question, "Is he always like this?")
Ba'al: You dare mock me?
O'Neill: Ba'al, come on, you should know me by now. Of course I dare mock you.
- Death By Pragmatism: On occasion.
- Death Is Cheap (But only if your name is Daniel Jackson, who dies between 6 and 22 times over the course of the show, depending on whether you count presumed deaths, alternate realities/timelines, All Just A Dream episodes, expanded universe audio dramas, etc.)
- Delivery Guy (Daniel Jackson, right after finding Sha're again, Goa'uld-infested and heavily pregnant with Apophis' child, and to a woman giving birth alone in a temple.
- Description Cut (In "Cure", regarding O'Neill)
- Destructive Saviour (The Tok'ra see the Tau'ri this way)
- Did Not Do The Research (Mostly averted, but a couple episodes are particularly egregious, especially the Mongols in "Emancipation".)
- Being radically different from the originals was a major plot point. The fact that any of the cultures they meet are recognizable AT ALL is much more egregious in terms of Anthropology, given the millennia that have supposedly passed.
- The above statement was referring to Daniel's highly erroneous statements in that episode, not the actual depiction.
- Directed By Cast Member (Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, and Christopher Judge all wrote or directed episodes.)
- Dude Not Funny: YOU try laughing at the episodes with Martin when uou have a paranoid schizophrenic relative who goes on about everything from black helicopters to shadowy government figures planting bombs in her yard. Just try it.
- Still funny to the majority of people who don't have brushes with such people in Real Life.
- Evil Is Sexy (Most of the Goa'uld, especially the female ones. There's also Adria of the Ori, played by Morena "sponge bath" Baccarin)
- Justified in the former case because Goa'uld seek out the most healthy and beautiful of humans to serve as their hosts and justified in the latter case by the fact that Adria inherits her hotness from her mother Vala.
- Engaging Chevrons (The Trope Namer)
- Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor(Naturally, the Genre Savvy O'Neill doesn't trust anybody who appears to lack a sense of humour.)
- Evil Twin
- Eye Open
- Facial Markings: Jaffa
- Fake American (Amanda Tapping was born in England and has spent most of her life in Canada.)
- Michael Shanks is from Canada. Gary Jones (Walter "The Chevron Guy") was born in Wales, but now lives in Canada. Most of the guest actors are from Canada. They corrected this (sort of) in Stargate Atlantis by having Dr. Rodney McKay, who's from Canada, played by David Hewlett who's actually from Canada.
- Fake Nationality(Perhaps most notably, English actors Gary Chalk and Marina Sirtis play Russians.)
- Fake Russian (with Bilingual Bonus and shades of No Fourth Wall at times if you can handle the bad grammar)
- Feed The Mole
- Fetish Fuel: Has its own page.
- Five Man Band Only really prevelant in later seasons.
- Floating Continent (Floating city, really)
- Forgotten Phlebotinum (Since a major part of SG-1's mission statement is to find useful technology, this is averted a lot. But it inevitably happens even more.)
- Genre Savvy (Pretty much the whole team, but O'Neill and Mitchell stand out)
- Ghost City (In "Bain", "Ascension", "2001", and "Menace")
- Girlish Pigtails (Subverted by Vala.)
- God Emperor- Standard Goa'uld PR theme.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly (how the Ori get their power)
- Gosh Dang It To Heck - When particularly annoyed, Mitchell will exclaim "Mary and Joseph!" Given his delivery, he may as well have left the first name in.
- Government Conspiracy
- Green Eggs: Played straight in season 4's "Beneath the Surface;" lampshaded the following season, in "Wormhole X-Treme!"
- Groundhog Day Loop (the mostly-comedic "Window of Opportunity" episode, a fan favorite)
- Guns Akimbo (Teal'c silently trades his standard staff weapon for dual P-90s between the 8th and 9th seasons likely to commemorate his people's freedom.)
- Hero Of Another Story (Colonel Makepeace; later Colonel Reynolds when Makepeace is revealed to be The Mole)
- Hey Its That Guy (as location shoots were mostly done in Vancouver, there is the occasional appearance of someone from the new Battlestar Galactica. Also, MacGyver. Having nothing to do with Vancouver, several Star Trek actors made guest appearances. And Seasons 9 and 10 turned into 'cancelled show central', with actors from Farscape, Andromeda and Firefly turning up, mainly as Jonas Quinns.)
- Hide Your Pregnancy: (Four times, three actresses. Amanda Tapping was in the last months of her pregnancy when filming began for Season 9, leading to Carter being temporarily assigned to Area 51. Lexa Doig became pregant with her and husband Michael Shanks' second child during filming for Season 10, resulting in her character of Dr. Carolyn Lam having a greatly reduced prescence and all but disappearing from the show. Claudia Black was also pregnant with her first child in Season 9, resulting in her character Vala Mal Doran being trapped in the Ori galaxy for much of the year before her return in the last two episodes of the season. When filming began for the SG-1 movie Continuum, Black was again pregnant, but since the role of Qetesh was an important part of the story, Black wore a loose-fitting dress and was filmed from angles that would minimize her stomach, as well as having obstructions placed in the camera's line of sight. Inverted in the second season episode "Secrets", when the actress playing Sha're (Vaitiare Bandera) was actually very pregnant with her then-partner Michael Shanks' child.
- Holodeck Malfunction: The episode "Avatar".
- Hot Scientist (Sam Carter)
- How Many Times Must I Kill You (Apophis and Ba'al are this trope given physical form, though Ba'al kind of has an excuse.)
- Ho Yay (Sort of hinted at with Jack & Daniel, although you almost have to want to see it. Further explored in the world of Fanfic)
- Hufflepuff House (The Tollan, and to a lesser extent the Tok'Ra, who in millennia haven't earned nearly as many victories as the Tau'ri in a scant 10)
- Of course, the Tok'Ra, being Goa'uld, have the life spans for it. Also, they were trying to set it up so that they could take out all of the system lords at once. On at least two seperate occasions, two different Tok'Ra(Jacob/Selmak and Dellek) point out that their lack of showy victories is on purpose — the humans' tendency to find the biggest bad guy they can and kill him often makes the situation worse, by consolidating power in the hands of a few tyrants rather than having it split among many fractionated, squabbling system lords.
- Given the total lack of *any* progress towards their end by the Tok'ra this troper is less than impressed by their reasoning.
- Even more true now that going by canon the Tau'ri have totally shattered the System lords, been the driving force in defeating a race of super adaptive machines threatening two galaxies, killed off a race of super powered religious fanatics dozens of eons old, and appear well on there way to purging a fourth hostile alien race that defeated the much lauded Ancients. They did all this in about a decade with a tenth the starting technology of the Tok'ra and come out stronger for it. In fact now being probably more powerful then the Tok'ra ever were. Hufflepuff indeed.
- However, it's arguable that without the millenia of Tok'ra fighting the Goa'uld, they would have been so strong as to be impossible to defeat by the time the Tau'ri went through the Stargate.
- Human Aliens: Mostly Justified as Transplanted Humans, but the Ancients' deal was never really clarified
- the Ancients actually ARE the ancestors of the human race, without THEM we would look other wise
- Humans By Any Other Name ("Tau'ri", meaning "those from the first world." Admittedly more original than most other examples)
- Hurricane Of Puns (When Ba'al begins cloning himself, Ba'al-related puns become quite common)
- Hypocritical Humor (In "Disclosure", the Chinese ambassador actually manages to say the phrase, "The Chinese government does not believe in keeping secrets from its people" with a completely straight face, which is a bit like hearing Josef Stalin declare that killing people is wrong.)
- I Can See My House From Here
- I Come In Peace:
Jack O'Neill: "We come in peace. We hope to leave in one... piece".
- I'll Take Two Beers Too (when the team is under the influence of appetite-increasing phlebotinum)
- Idiot Ba'al (Pretty much everyone holds it at some point. Specifically, any Goa'uld (villain or not), any planet visited by a Prior of the Ori, and SG-1 from time to time.)
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The Jaffa, although justified in later episodes when Jack explains that the staff weapons are designed to intimidate, while human weapons are designed to kill.
- The quote is just too epic to pass up:
Col. O'Neill: {Hefts a Staff weapon} "This is a weapon of terror. It's made to intimidate the enemy." {Returns Staff to owner, hefts P90} "This is a weapon of war. It's made to kill your enemy."
- Implacable Man
- In Harms Way (Carter is a real adrenaline junkie in her spare time.)
- Instant Awesome Just Add Dragons (One of Merlin's tests)
- Jacob Marley Warning (Ernest to Daniel in "The Torment of Tantalus")
- The John Henry - Stargate SG-1's humans, who firmly believe that good old-fashioned Earth bullets work better than Goa'uld weapons. They get their chance to prove it once the Replicators enter the scene. That and guns are easier to shoot than a staff weapon.
- It's really the Goa'uld's fault for this; they know that their annoying enemies (the humans) use relatively primitive - at least by their standards - ballistic weapons, yet they don't upgrade the Jaffa's armor. There's a reason the humans keep using guns: they work!
- Jonas Quinn (The original Jonas Quinn, no less, although Cameron Mitchell fits the trope better.)
- Just Friends: Averted, Subverted, Invoked and Lampshaded with Jack and Sam. Averted: Jack and Sam are forced to admit their feelings, after which they are aware that they both feel the same. Subverted: In the Groundhog Day Loop episode "Window of Opportunity", Jack in one loop takes advantage of the repeating day to give Hammond his resignation for the sole reason of grabbing Sam and kissing her. Invoked: Later on, Carter feels that she and O'Neill won't ever be able to be together, so she begins to date other guys. Lampshaded: A deleted scene from Stargate Atlantis indicates that they intend to continue their relationship after O'Neill's retirement.
- Justified Trope (The show actually bothers to explain why almost every planet with a gate is suspiciously earth-like with a single culture, why the Goa'uld are so cartoonishly over-the-top and take so long to wise up, why the precursors were so neglectful, and more. And if it doesn't get justified, it probably gets lampshaded at some point. Including Lampshade Hanging itself...)
- Kick The Wrong Dog: Played straight in the series finale when Daniel, having gotten fed up with what he thinks are Vala's intentionally shallow attempts at flirting and seducing him, lashes out with a nearly minute-long rant about her shortcomings that reduces Vala, who actually is genuinely attracted to him, to tears. It's especially shocking coming from Daniel of all people, but a close listen as his rant goes on reveals that he shifts from disparaging her actions to voicing his own insecurities and hesitancy about them having a relationship. And when a disturbed Daniel realizes both this and how badly he's hurt her, he quickly lets Vala know that he does return her feelings. You can guess what happens next. And considering that they spend the next fifty years together before Sam reverses time, apparently they work out any remaining issues.
- Killed Off For Real Janet Frasier
- Killed To Uphold The Masquerade
- The Kirk (More often than not, Samantha or Daniel)
- Knights Templar: Plenty, but particularly the rogue NID, which became the Trust.
- Large Ham : (All of the Goa'uld, except for Ba'al occasionally. Anubis in particular did this a lot).
- In all fairness though, they've considered themselves gods for millenia and aren't used to being thought of as less.
- Layman's Terms (Frequent. Especially whenever Daniel or Sam try to explain something to O'Neill)
- Long Runners (about a decade - and counting, if you include the spinoffs...)
- Lower Deck Episode
- Ludd Was Right
- Luke I Am Your Father: Wonderfully played with and
averted torn to shreds during the 200th Episode. For a moment, you almost believe...!
- Magical Defibrillator (Averted. When they appear, it seems defibrillators are used directly to revive someone. Except they never, ever, work. In SG-1, a defibrillator is a total waste of space - it either fails to work on the person they're trying to resuscitate, or the person will revive on their own before the paddles can be applied. Or, occasionally, a while after the defibrillator has failed.)
- If that's playing it straight, I'd hate to see what you call crooked.
- Magic From Technology
- Magnificent Bastard (Ba'al, who manages to cunningly outlast the Ori and all the other Goa'uld, including Anubis, with a combination of devious plans, a disarmingly charming personality, a thorough understanding of Earth culture, the technical brilliance to adapt Ancient technology for his own ends, and (during the last couple seasons) plenty of xerox-copy clones.)
- Masquerade (The World Is Not Ready)
- Lampshaded during the episode Small Victories. When Thor's Replicator-infested ship is about to descend into Earth's atmosphere, it's said that the President is going to reveal the existence of aliens and the Stargate to the world if they can't shoot it down.
- Not that it would have made much of a difference. If the Replicators had taken a real foothold on Earth then before long there wouldn't be anyone left alive to appreciate the disclosure.
- The McCoy Jack would often drop the sarcasm to be genuinely concerned about the episode's moral plight... or bug Sam and Daniel incessantly about why they couldn't be Big Damn Heroes this episode.
- MIB (NID, who start out as a sometimes-antagonistic, sometimes-allied "The Ends Justify The Means" civilian counterpart to the SGC, but later lose the antagonistic aspects once the shady leaders form a different group.)
- Mook Face Turn (Teal'c, and eventually the entire Jaffa race do a Mook Face Turn into La Resistance and gain independence)
- Moral Dissonance: Early on, Daniel kills a vatfull of Goa'uld hatchlings, back when they were thought to be Always Chaotic Evil. The fact that they later found some good ones should have made him at give at least a little pause about that incident, but it's never mentioned; the writers may not even have remembered that it happened.
- Not really. The Goa'uld are always evil. The only good ones are the Tok'ra, and they're a dying race.
- The Tok'ra are actually the same species as the System Lords. That species is Goa'uld. Most Goa'uld are evil and the team didn't know that until they found the Tok'ra. Remember when they first encountered the Tok'ra and they had to be convinced the Tok'ra weren't evil?
- The Goa'uld are evil because of a combination of Genetic Memory and the sarcophagi. The Tok'ra queen intentionally chose not to be evil and doesn't pass her memories down AND the Tok'ra do not use the sarcophagus. The Goa'uld are Always Chaotic Evil, the Tok'ra have a choice.
- Mr Exposition (Two of them, Daniel for the culture and Carter for the science. Whenever one of them is missing, the other tends to fill in anyway: any bit of Imported Alien Phlebotinum will have both 'Goa'uld language' and 'strange radiation'. Jonas is a physicist who's studied every single one of Daniel's notes, so he can be either too. (Though Jonas is usually The Watson during briefings.))
- Even Teal'c can fill this role (though more often in the early seasons), usually in a context of "Yes, I encountered this race/weapon/artifact/person while serving as First Prime to Apophis, and I will now tell you all about it."
- And how can we forget Mr. Cameron "I've read every mission report EVER" Mitchell, who, between the aformentioned mission briefs and his Grandma's wisdom, was a walking pile of Genre Savvy.
- Mundane Solution
- MundaneUtility: Stargates are used to transport materia (normally people, whole ships in terms of supergates), energy waves (including several transmission frequencies), weapons, in case of one episode a even golf game.
- They can also be used as weapons themselves, showing how Anubis tried to destroy the Earth Gate via a device which fires energy on his gate resulting in energy storage overheat and thus explosion of the other.
- Or they are connected to a black hole and suck up materia from a star resulting in its explosion.
- Mythology Gag Sam's "Reproductive Organ" speech from the pilot returns only to be mocked in later seasons.
- Neglectful Precursors (Really, really bad parents, those Ancients)
- Never Be A Hero (Subverted, sorta)
- Newer Than They Think The P90 is often identified with the Stargate series, but it didn't show up until a third of the way through season 4.
- Nightmare Fuel (The Replicator-ized Merrick from The Ark of Truth certainly qualifies.)
- No Such Thing As Space Jesus
- Only Mostly Dead (Daniel, just, Daniel)
- Only One Name (Teal'c, later rectified with Teyla and Ronon on Stargate Atlantis being given complete names and even military rank for Ronon)
- Only The Author Can Save Them Now (Against the Ori)
- Open The Iris (actually about eyes, so it's only the Trope Namer, not an example))
- Operation Jealousy (Alternate Carter: "I'm kind of attracted to Daniel.")
- Our Wormholes Are Different (The most prominent being the ones connecting stargates of course.)
- Our Presidents Are Different (depending on the universe and timeline)
- Path Of Inspiration ("Hallowed are the Ori.")
- Planet Of Hats (many)
- Pretty Little Headshots (How Mitchell finally gets rid of Ba'al in Continuim.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy (at least two different cultures, in two different galaxies, both of which produce a main character)
- Portal Splat: The Stargate is open as long as the directors say, so it's not unusual for characters to miss the wormhole. Also, when the iris is closed on the receiving end of a wormhole, anything that attempts to travel through it suffers a 'bugs on a windshield' death. O'Neill coldly orders this done to poor old Rene Auberjonois, but to be fair he was a racist supremacist leader.
- Power Walk (SG-1 frequently enters the Stargate (and exits the other side) in this manner. In fact, the times they don't Power Walk usually indicate that something is wrong.)
- Product Placement (In one of the best uses of this trope, Samantha Carter uses a Dell Inspiron laptop in the first 8 seasons of the show. Though it could have originally been considered as a Red Stapler effect, her switching to a Dell XPS in season 9 sealed the deal.)
- Public Domain Artifact (everything from the Sword in the Stone to Thor's Hammer. Usually Imported Alien Phlebotinum of some sort)
- Punctuation Shaker
- Rage Against The Heavens (strictly against the Ori, but they are clearly a thinly disguised version of a popular real life religion although after defeated, people admit the teachings aren't bad, it was the soul stealing it was used for)
- Taken to its logical most extreme.
- Ragnarok Proofing: Ancient technology still works after being abandoned for a million years.
- Recycled The Series
- Red Shirt: virtually every Russian character that stepped through a Stargate. (Lampshaded, as the Russians angrily point this out. In fact, you could say they're something of a Red Army)
- Relationship Upgrade: Daniel and Vala in the series finale, though it gets undone by the time reversal.
- Reluctant Warrior: Daniel Jackson.
- Remember When You Blew Up A Sun (Trope Namer)
- Reset Button (used very rarely (except in time-travel episodes), and then
never usually not without some kind of repercussions for using the button itself)
- In the series finale, though, there was a literal reset button... which still had a somewhat drastic repercussion for one of the characters.
- Road Runner Vs Coyote - "The Bounty"
- Role Association - the title card says Richard Dean Anderson, your brain reads MacGyver.
- Unless you're under a certain age, in which case it's really weird to see Jack O'Neill with a mullet when you catch the odd MacGyver rerun.
- Tricolours With Rusting Rockets (the Russians manage to acquire a Stargate and briefly run their own programme. Later, Russian officers are part of the international programme)
- Scary Dogmatic Aliens (the Goa'uld and especially the Ori)
- Screw The Rules, I'm Doing What's Right This trope is used quite a bit.
- In the first season episode Enigma, Daniel Jackson goes against orders to help the Tollan get to their stargateless new world.
- In the first season finally Within the Serpent's Grasp the whole of SG1 disobeys orders to launch a first strike against Apophis and his assault upon the planet after the Obstructive Bureaucrat and Corrupt Bureaucrat Senator Robert Kinsey shuts down Star Gate Command.
- In the Ori arc, three ascended ancients are shown to do this to help humanity.
- In the pilot episode, O'Neil(l) admits, in his roundabout way, that on the first trip, he didn't fulfill the mission to the letter, because a) genocide against the Abydonian slaves wouldn't be right, and b) technically, they did nuke Ra, who was the actual threat.
- The Scrappy (Makepeace, which makes it all the more satisfying when he turns out to be The Mole
- Season Finale
- Send In The Clones (Ba'al's clones (to great comedic effect) and, to a much lesser extent, The Asgard.)
- Shipping (Lots and lots of shipping, hetero and slash)
- Shirtless Scene Daniel Jackson, and often. In fact, this should probably be Butt Naked Scene when it comes to him.
- Show Within A Show ("Wormhole X-Treme!", used twice to great comedic effect, including the celebrated 200th episode)
- Shout Out
- Carter's "It took fifteen years and three supercomputers to MacGyver a way to open the gate" line, improvised by Tapping.
- O'Neill wanted to call the Prometheus the Enterprise.
- Used with glee in "1969," with plenty of Star Wars references.
- Don't forget Daniel calling himself "Hans Olo" in Prometheus Unbound.
- In Tangent he claims to be "The Great and Powerful Oz."
- The American submarine briefly mentioned in the episode "Small Victories" as being ready to destroy the Russian sub is named ''Dallas''.
- Walter "The Chevron Guy" Harriman. (His first name is a shout out to Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, and he actually pulls a Radar in the first episode of Season Nine: "Sir, the personnel files you're about to request are right there on your desk.")
- There are a whole lot of Simpsons references, since it's O'Neill's favorite show.
- Single Biome Planet: Common, but implied to be due to mistakes by the charachters in assuming the small area they explore is what the whole planet is like. One member concluded Earth was an ice planet when she ended up in Antarctica.
- Sisyphus Vs Rock
- Sorting Algorithm Of Evil
- Spock Speak: Teal'c. Indeed.
- Standardized Leader: Averted. O'Neill was mainly mourning his son in the original movie, but his character wasn't really fleshed out. So he would have been this trope in the series had that not changed.
- Unfortunately shows a little bit of this in Stargate Universe, where he's a minor supporting character.
- Stargate City: This show is how Vancouver got that nickname.
- Stock Footage (the gate dialling and opening - sometimes subverted with powerful effect when things go wrong)
- Story Arc (at least one per season)
- Sufficiently Advanced Alien (lots of them. The Asgard, the Goa'uld, the Ancients, and those are just the ones that aren't technically a Planet Of Hats, I haven't even gotten to the Nox or the Tolans or... you get the idea)
- In the end, it turns out that humanity is playing catch-up in terms of technological achievements...with everyone.
- Which means, towards the end of the series Earth now has technology from all of them to use in their own spaceships.
- Takahashi Couple (Gender Flipped with Vala as the Jerk With A Heart Of Gold and Daniel as a type "B" Tsundere).
- Tastes Like Friendship (Daniel feeds random alien, random alien becomes his friend)
- Tear Jerker (The season 1 episode, 'Torment of Tantalus'. Earnest, having been alone on a world for 50 years with no human contact (the Stargate lost power and closed just after he went through, his bosses assumed he was dead and never went after him), hugs Daniel and says, tearfully, "About time.")
- This troper was more confused that he hasn't gone insane.
- He did. Unless seeing your wife when she isn't even on the same planet as you is normal.
- The seventh-season episode "Heroes." The in-show tribute video at the end actually did bring tears to General Hammond's actor, a former Vietnam-era army sergeant. And for the regular viewers... fan-favorite regular Dr. Frasier is killed instantly while treating a wounded airman during an offworld firefight. Her memorial service consisted of a list of names of people she saved during her time at Stargate Command.
- Techno Babble (mostly courtesy of Carter, McKay, and a couple of others)
- O'Neill serves as a bit of a Greek Chorus when this happens, speaking on behalf of sci-fi fans everywhere. He either interrupts Carter to ask a simple "yes or no" question, or else irritatedly inform her that he does know what photosynthesis and supernovas are, thank you.
- Temporary Love Interest (several)
- The Hathor Effect (Trope Namer)
- They Called Me Mad (Daniel Jackson and his grandfather)
- Time Compression Montage (Unending, the series finale, had one of these, set to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?")
- Time For Plan B (O'Neill likes to poke fun at this line)
Reynolds: "Not much faith in Plan A?"
O'Neill: "Since when has Plan A ever worked?"
- Time Travel (multiple times, including alternate timelines)
- Touched By Vorlons (Daniel, Anubis, Priors, Carter and O'Neill)
- Teleporters And Transporters (the Gates, the Rings, Asgard beaming)
- The Umbridge (General Bauer in "Chain Reaction")
- Tretonin (Trope Namer)
- Two Keyed Lock (Sometimes it's passwords, sometimes it's keys)
- Un Canceled (Seasons 5, 6, 7, and 8 were expected to be the last. The non-renewal after season 10 was totally unexpected.)
- Ungrateful Bastard (The SG-1 after partnership with just about any Goa'uld or Ori)
- Unusual Euphemism: "I told her that she should attempt procreation...with herself."
- Villain Pedigree (The Ori and Replicator pull this on the Goa'uld)
- Voice Of The Legion
- Wasteland Elder (Several, usually one per Adventure Town— err, planet)
- We Have Forgotten The Phlebotinum (several cases of needing something from another base, planet, or needing a bit of MacGyvering to make a new Dohickey.
- Wham Episode Again, in the episode Heroes, the death of Dr. Janet Fraiser. To add extra oomph, Killed Off For Real is played with in this episode, as two characters receive potentially fatal wounds before it's revealed quite shockingly that Janet, who the viewer doesn't even know got injured, is the one who actually died.
- Who's On First? (The Goa'uld Yu resulted in some of this)
- Why Am I Ticking (Cassandra)
- Wire Dilemma: All the wires are yellow, so Jack has to guess which to cut.
- The Woobie: Daniel, perhaps?
- The World Is Always Doomed
Mitchell: I think that was dealt with when you guys saved the world for the sixth or seventh time.
O'Neill: Ah, who's counting?
Mitchell: T'ealc, apparently. He mentions it quite a lot.
- Xanatos Gambit (good guys and bad guys alike had loads of them)
- Year Inside Hour Outside (In the series finale, Sam does this to keep the Oydyssey from getting blown to smithereens while she uses the extra time to try and figure a way out of danger. The good news is that she succeeds. The bad news is that it takes her fifty years.
- You Cant Go Home Again
- You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me Practically O'Neill's catchphrase in later seasons.
Tropers, Kree!
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