We have liftoff!
"The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently, we've waded out a little way, and the water seems inviting."
Tropes relating to outer space, spaceships, space travel and space colonies.
Before deciding to put a trope in this index, please check the sub-indexes and see if any of them are applicable.
If you were looking for the concept of recycling a show's premise with a new setting, that's Recycled In Space.
Categories:
Tropes :
- Ancient Astronauts
- Apes in Space
- Arbitrary Maximum Range
- Artificial Gravity
- Asteroid Miners
- Asteroid Thicket
- Astral Finale
- Batman Can Breathe in Space
- Blind Jump
- Boarding Party
- The Bridge
- Bridge Bunnies
- Burial in Space
- Came from the Sky
- Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
- Casual Interstellar Travel
- Colony Drop
- Colony Ship
- Continuous Decompression
- Cool Starship
- Corralled Cosmos
- Cult Colony
- Deflector Shields
- Dramatic Alien VTOL
- Dramatic Space Drifting
- Drop Pod
- Drop Ship
- Dyson Sphere
- Escape Pod
- Explosive Decompression
- Explosions in Space
- Faster-Than-Light Travel
- The Final Frontier
- Flying Saucer
- Galactic Superpower
- Generation Ships
- Gravity Sucks
- Heavyworlder
- Hurl It into the Sun
- Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
- Hyperspace Lanes
- Hyperspeed Ambush
- Hyperspeed Escape
- Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
- Inexplicable Cultural Ties
- In Space, Everyone Can See Your Face
- Interstellar Weapon
- ISO Standard Human Spaceship
- Kill Sat
- Latex Space Suit
- Libertarians In Space
- Lightspeed Leapfrog
- Lost Colony
- The Man in the Moon
- Mega-Maw Maneuver
- Melancholy Moon
- The Milky Way Is the Only Way
- The Mothership
- Negative Space Wedgie
- No Endor Holocaust
- No Gravity for You
- No Seat Belts
- No Such Thing as Space Jesus
- No Warping Zone
- Old-School Dogfight
- Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
- Orbital Bombardment
- Orion Drive
- Our Wormholes Are Different
- Planar Shockwave
- Portal Network
- Ramming Always Works
- Ram Scoop
- Reentry Scare
- Rocketless Reentry
- Salvage Pirates
- Save Sat
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
- Shiny-Looking Spaceships
- Small Universe After All
- Solar Flare Disaster
- Solar Sail
- Space Amish
- Space Base
- Space Battle
- Space Brasília
- Space Cadet
- Space Cadet Academy
- Space Clothes
- Space Clouds
- Space Cold War
- Space Cossacks
- Space Elevator
- Space Elves
- Space Fighter
- Space Flecks
- Space Friction
- Space Is Air
- Space Is an Ocean
- Space Is Cold
- Space Is Magic
- Space Is Noisy
- Space Is Slow Motion
- Space Jews
- Space Madness
- Space Marine
- Space Mines
- Space Navy
- Space Nomads
- Space Opera
- Space People
- Space Pirates
- Space Plane
- Space Police
- Space Romans
- Space Sailing
- Space Station
- Space Suits Are SCUBA Gear
- Space Western
- Space Whale
- SpaceX
- Space Zone
- Spaceship Slingshot Stunt
- Solar Sail
- Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
- Standardized Space Views
- Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
- Standard Starship Scuffle
- Standard Time Units
- The Stars Are Going Out
- Starship Luxurious
- Star Killing
- Stealth in Space
- Streaming Stars
- Subspace Ansible (FTL Radio)
- Subspace or Hyperspace
- Teleporters and Transporters
- Thrown Out the Airlock
- Time Dilation
- Tractor Beam
- Transplanted Humans
- Two of Your Earth Minutes
- Ungovernable Galaxy
- United Space of America
- Universal Universe Time
- Unnecessarily Large Vessel
- Unrealistic Black Hole
- Wagon Train to the Stars
- The War of Earthly Aggression
- Weaponized Exhaust
- Weird Moon
- What Other Galaxies?
- Wizards from Outer Space
- Zero-G Spot
