Basic Trope: Adding the prefix "Space" to something to make it seem cooler or more advanced.
- Straight: "Do not make us use our Space Guns on you."
- Exaggerated: "Space Captain's space log, space stardate Space 23460.4."
- Downplayed: "Land the space ship and get the water ships ready for use."
- Justified:
- A lot of the materials on a ship were made in space, which alters their forms compared to those made on a planet.
- Certain normal items outright won't work in space. For example, Space Guns are made from materials designed to work in a vacuum, such as powdered lubricants and light-weight ceramics. Normal guns would instantly become jammed when the workings friction-weld or the oil boils away when fired. Likewise, they may have shell catchers or be caseless somehow (self-contained ammo like gyrojets to avoit heat buildup) to avoid flinging cartridges around where they can cause malfunctions, and plaster bullets to avoid puncturing the ship's hull.
- "Space" is the brand-name. People get the idea that their products are intended for use in, or made in, actual space.
- "space rabbit" describes "smeerp" rather well.
- Inverted: "Well those Earth black holes aren't as dangerous as the normal ones."
- Subverted: "This rocket has a lot of space... saving compartments."
- Double Subverted: "... that are secured by space padlocks."
- Parodied:
- Things that are already in space are called this.
"Space we're space tracking a space comet space traveling in a space nebula space approximately 3.5 space light years space away."- Only one character uses the "space" prefix, who's extremely excited to travel into space and annoys the other characters by talking in this way.
- Zig Zagged: A person at a call center gets a call from someone saying he can't find the space bar. The caller, rather than being someone hopeless with computers, is actually an astronaut on a space station trying to find a place to get some beer. The astronaut receives directions leading him there, says thanks, but wants advice about asking his girlfriend for more space.
- Averted: Even the word "spaceship" is replaced with a different term.
- Enforced: The author wants to hammer in the idea that nobody is used to "conventional" items.
- Lampshaded: "Yeah, it sometimes feels lazy to rely on that for naming the new equipment."
- Invoked: "You know what, we're out the planet's atmosphere here! just to remind everybody, I'm putting space in front of everything."
- Exploited: A voice recognition is set so that it will go off at "space bomb", as the rest of the people would only call it a "bomb" aside from the target.
- Defied: "Just because you invented that gun in space does not make it the "space" equivalent. Just call it a damn gun."
- Discussed: "I guess on a space factory they might just feel it's the easiest way to think up new names."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Equipment made in space isn't as sturdy or reliable due to zero gravity not making them strong enough to handle typical use.
- Reconstructed: Equipment made in zero gravity and a vacuum is invaluable to the tech of the future. Some materials would not be possible without these factors.
- Played For Laughs: "Ow, you space kicked me in my space nuts!"
- Played For Drama: A man cannot live on Earth due to a medical condition. He calls everything on his station this, to remind him of home in some form.
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