At some point we're going to have to cut all the aversions, because if a third of the examples are aversions, then unless they can distinguish themselves in their aversions (like the Mass Effect quote does), we should get rid of them.
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Seems like well over a third by now. When every example is either an aversion or a justification, it doesn't come across as a real trope.
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- "The missile running out of fuel" is still an arbitrary maximum range. You're in space; there's no atmosphere. Once the propellant runs out, what's slowing the missile down?
- Absolutely nothing. But if there's no fuel, there's no way to guide the missile either.
That's why missles are "drones" in Star Fleet Battles which have explosive warheads that do explode when fuel runs out to prevent them striking the ship that fired them, or becoming "mines" that any civilian ship could run into. Star Fleet Battles (original 1970's version) is a real scientific (written by a USAF officer & friends) attempt to rectify the Hollywood Star Trek with known physics and military hardware up until the 1980s. It should be required reading for anyone wanting to write space battles.
Merged with Arbitrary Minimum Range into Arbitrary Weapon Range:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16702139900.30557400&page=1#comment-22
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.