History Podcast / Wolf359

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Even Eiffel, after all that Hilbert's done to him, seems really uncomfortable with the way Kepler treats him.]]

* GutturalGrowler: Hilbert's voice plunges lower and lower over the course of the series. By Season 3, it is here. Partly caused by the need to make him easily distinguishable from Eiffel, who has the same voice actor.

* ADayInTheLimeLight: The mini-episodes between "Overture" and "Happy Endings" depict the recruitment processes for each of the main characters and how they either joined Goddard Futuristics or were promoted to their present situation:
** "Once in a Lifetime" is about Minkowski.
** "Rebranding" is about [[spoiler: Marcus Cutter aka "William Carter" recruiting Dmitri Volodin for retrovirus research.]]
** "Language Mapping" is about Maxwell.
** "Greensboro" is about Lovelace.
** "Things That Break Other Things" is about Jacobi.
** "Decommissioned" is about [[spoiler: Unit 214, later reprogrammed into Hera as part of an ultimatum from Cutter.]]
** "Pagliacci" is about Eiffel [[spoiler: getting released from jail after making a deal with Cutter.]]
** "Kansas" is about Kepler.

* ADayInTheLimeLight: The mini-episodes between "Overture" and "Happy Endings" depict the recruitment processes for each of the main characters and how they joined Goddard Futuristics:

** "Pagliacci" is about Eiffel [[spoiler: getting released from jail as part of a deal with Cutter.]]

* ADayInTheLimeLight: The mini-episodes between "Overture" and "Happy Endings" depict the recruitment processes for each of the main characters and how they joined Goddard Futuristics:
** "Once in a Lifetime" is about Minkowski.
** "Rebranding" is about [[spoiler: Marcus Cutter aka "William Carter" recruiting Dmitri Volodin for retrovirus research.]]
** "Language Mapping" is about Maxwell.
** "Greensboro" is about Lovelace.
** "Things That Break Other Things" is about Jacobi.
** "Decommissioned" is about [[spoiler: Unit 214, later reprogrammed into Hera as part of an ultimatum from Cutter.]]
** "Pagliacci" is about Eiffel [[spoiler: getting released from jail as part of a deal with Cutter.]]

** Minkowski loves musicals. In "Box 953" she stages an impromptu performance of [Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance] and in"Need to Know" we learn she applied to Tisch's musical theatre department.

Wolf 359 is a SciFi {{Sitcom}} RadioDrama, with strong {{Horror}} and {{Thriller}} elements mixed in. It chronicles the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Hephaestus, a (fictional) space station orbiting around Wolf 359, a (real) star located 8 light years away from Earth. The stalwart team of misfits has been tasked with a series of experimental tasks and obscure mission objectives, among them [[FirstContact searching for signs of alien life]].

* YouGotSpunk:
-->'''[[spoiler: Kepler, to Lovelace]]:''' Oh, that's right. You're ''funny.''

%%* FiveManBand:
%%** The Leader: Minkowski
%%** The Lancer: Hera
%%** The Smart Guy: Hilbert
%%** The Big Guy: [[spoiler: Lovelace]]
%%** The Chick: Eiffel

* SneezeOfDoom: Subverted in "Extreme Danger Bug".

%%* ArmorPiercingSlap: When Maxwell confronts Jacobi about the way he lost his cool during "Time to Kill," it involves a few of these.

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: The series has been all over the place in terms of accuracy, though it has made the effort to be mostly correct. For instance, listeners who are familiar with the physics of light will have picked up immediately [[spoiler:that the music transmissions Eiffel listens to throughout the early installments weren't from Earth]]. Things like [[spoiler:the true nature of Wolf 359]] are inaccurate, but it's commented on in-universe. However, the series takes a lot of licenses in thermodynamics, orbital mechanics, and basic physics. Solar storms do not have event horizons, and stars [[spoiler: can't instantly change color or increase their own mass]]. That ain't how it works.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* SuddenlyShouting: Kepler does this frequently when he's angry, or when he wants people to think he's angry. Taken UpToEleven in "Desperate Times," when he goes off on Jacobi and Maxwell for [[spoiler: their supposed failure to properly monitor the power grid and get Hera fixed so she no longer randomly crashes, respectively. Not that it's actually their fault, technically.]]

* AbsenteeActor: "Cigarette Candy" only has one of the three main cast members.

* AdultFear: In "Limbo", Eiffel reveals that [[spoiler: he drunkenly caused a car crash that deafened his daughter and seriously injured two high schoolers.]]
** For Minkowski, the realization that her crew (and especially Eiffel) look to her for instructions when she often doesn't know what to do, and might not be able to get everyone home alive.
** Similarly, Lovelace ''was'' unable to save her crew, and is traumatized as a result.
** Hera's fear of people "putting their fingers in [her] head" initially seems pretty AI specific, but definitely corresponds to some very human adult fears: losing or forgetting herself (as to a brain injury or senility), losing control of herself/being violated, being erased/"killed", etc.

* TheMovieBuff: Eiffel