History Podcast / GirlInSpace

* AndIMustScream: After [[spoiler:Kai]] is stunned, X worries that he is undergoing this, being fully aware and conscious while trapped inside an unresponsive metal shell. [[spoiler:It turns out he's just fine though.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: It initially appears that [[spoiler:Thorssen]] spontaneously rebels against her employer, but it gradually becomes apparent that she has been working with some powerful people to set it up for some time. Then there's the fact that she [[spoiler:[[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome singlehandedly captures both the Councilor and his ship]]]] while everyone else is off tending to their wounds.

* ManInTheMachine: Kai, a cyborg who had his brain and spinal cord inserted into a robot body after being dismembered by an explosion.

* Really700YearsOld: Kai mentions to the Fixer - who is an old woman - that he has worked for the company longer than she has been alive.

* AnArmAndALeg: Kai's idea of inflicting a "flesh wound" on [[spoiler:the Fixer]] is to blow her leg off.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Aural receptors malfunctioning." It's Charlotte's way of telling you she's not going to answer.

* DeadpanSnarker: The Girl, constantly. Justified given both her decades of isolation and the rudeness with which her visitors treat her.
** Charlotte is even worse though.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: The Girl/X
** TheLancer: Captain Miles Chen
** TheBigGuy: Kai and Thorssen: renegade members of the security team.
** TheSmartGuy: Dani: a resourceful doctoral student.
** TheChick: Charlotte: a quirky, female-gendered A.I.
** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler:X's clone "brother," Cyrus.]]

* MeaningfulName: Chance, whom it always seems like there is a chance he's finally going to switch sides. [[spoiler:So far he hasn't.]]

* [[ScaryBlackMan Scary Black Woman]]: Frost, whom most people are terrified of with good reason.

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: [[spoiler:Although technically it's done on the bridge ''between'' two airlocks. When Captain Chen and X are pursued by flying combat drones they hit upon the idea of shooting a hole in the connector bridge's wall to suck the drones into space.]]

* PluckyComicRelief: Despite being competent enough to [[spoiler:care for all of the ''Cavatica's'' injured]] by herself, she still gets used for this occasionally, especially when she is zipping around, [[GRatedDrug high on her first coffee.]]

* EvilOldFolks: Both Councilor Van Gough and the menacing "Fixer" sent by Caldwell Enterprises is an elderly woman.

* EvilOldFolks: The menacing "Fixer" sent by Caldwell Enterprises is an elderly woman.
* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler:In episode 110 a graveyard full of these is discovered the ''Cavatica's'' greenhouse. It turns out the Girl's parents had been burying them there for years after using them as test subjects for unknown experiments. Given that the Girl is one herself,]] this understandably leads to a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]].

** Being named after Ra, [[Myth/EgyptianMythology the Egyptian god of the sun]] makes pretty good sense for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an actual sun.]] [[spoiler:It makes even more sense after it is revealed that the sun is alive and [[PhysicalGod capable of interacting with its environment.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Clones are not regarded by many to actually be human [[spoiler:unfortunately this includes the Girl.]]

* SmugSnake: The Councilor and his underlings, Fixer and Frost, are any indication, this seems to be a job requirement for higher-level management at Caldwell Enterprises.

* TheDragon: Frost, the "Councilor's Assistant" who's job seems to be nothing more than torturing and/or brutally murdering anyone the councilor points at.

* Ivory "Thor" Thorsson: a [[BoisterousBruiser Boisterous Bruiser]] who brings a lot of pain once the mutiny gets underway.
* Being named after Ra, [[Myth/EgyptianMythology the Egyptian god of the sun]] makes pretty good sense for [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an actual sun.]] [[spoiler:It makes even more sense after it is revealed that the sun is alive and [[PhysicalGod capable of interacting with its environment.]]

* AndIMustScream: After [[spoiler:Kai]] is stunned, X worries that he is undergoing this, being fully aware and unconscious while trapped inside an unresponsive metal shell. [[spoiler:It turns out he's just fine though.]]

''Girl In Space'' is a science fiction/mystery podcast created by Sarah Rhea Werner and launched in September 2017. The titular Girl has spent all 9000 days of her life on board the Cavatica: an interstellar research vessel created by the mandate of the enigmatic Ra Initiative. Despite now having only the ship's malfunctioning A.I., Charlotte, for company, the Girl enjoys a really pleasant life, tending to the plants and animals in the ship's greenhouse, conducting various scientific experiments, and repeatedly watching the only film left available to her: ''Film/JurassicPark''. Unfortunately, the Cavatica is slowly shutting down, its systems and components failing and malfunctioning due to age. But this problem takes a backseat on the day when the Girl sees the light of an approaching ship in the distance. It seems that the Ra Initiative's long-absent creators finally want their property back: not just the ship, but its lone human occupant herself...

* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler:In episode 110 a graveyard full of these is discovered the Cavatica's greenhouse. It turns out the Girl's parents had been burying them there for years after using them as test subjects for unknown experiments. Given that the Girl is one herself,]] this understandably leads to a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]].

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: No one - including the Girl - can figure out how [[spoiler:Charlotte]] is being powered. It turns out that [[spoiler:she is somehow being powered by the Girl's comatose mother!]]

* ExpendableClone: [[spoiler:In episode 110 a graveyard full of these is discovered the Cavatica's greenhouse. It turns out the Girl's parents had been burying them their for years after using them as test subjects for unknown experiments. Given that the Girl is one herself,]] this understandably leads to a [[HeroicBSOD Heroic BSOD]].

* CrapsackWorld: The picture that the fleet's members paint of life back among the rest of the human race isn't pretty, with people literally enslaved by various megacorporations and amenities once taken for granted now utterly unheard. [[spoiler:In fact, the reason they want the Cavatica so badly is that it contains the ''last known reserve of plant and animal life in existence!]]

* Catchphrase: "Aural receptors malfunctioning." It's Charlotte's way of telling you she's not going to answer.

* ArcWords: The Girl's missing parents are fond of setting these up, including such hits as ''FIND ME'', ''Do not judge us too harshly," and ''Honorem Lutem Sanguine.''

* GeniusLoci: [[Ra: the red dwarf star that is the story's setting.]] Later episodes suggest that it may not only be alive, but sentient.

* GeniusLocii: [[Ra: the red dwarf star that is the story's setting.]] Later episodes suggest that it may not only be alive, but sentient.