Basic Trope: Energy barriers that protect a vehicle, location or person.
- Straight: Admiral Alice's ship is protected by an energy field.
- Exaggerated: An entire planet is protected by an energy field.
- Downplayed: Captain Space has a gadget that produces a buckler made of energy.
- Justified: Admiral Alice's ship is a very big target that can't just maneuver around attacks, so it needs some sort of protection.
- Inverted: Deadly Force Field
- Subverted: Captain Space's energy buckler malfunctions.
- Double Subverted: But he quickly fixes it with Percussive Maintenance.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Some ships have energy shields, while others have physical armor.
- Averted: There are no energy fields.
- Enforced: It cuts down production costs to communicate the state of the shields through dialogue compared to showing damage to physical armor.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Since some trade routes have been targeted by Space Pirates, companies start commissioning cargo ships with energy shields.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A spy infiltrates the enemy's base to sabotage their shield generator so they can't produce their force field and are open to attack.
- Discussed: "Attacking the enemy's base won't be so easy. They have a very strong force field".
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better, as they bypass energy fields entirely.
- Reconstructed: But physical armor is useless against Energy Weapons, so both kinds of weaponry and protection are useful in the right circumstances.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: The heroes must Hold the Line until The Cavalry arrives, but the base's force field is already compromised.
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