Tropes in Space

"SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE."

- Space Core



That is, (ahem), TROPES! IN!! SPAAAAAAAAAACE!!! Tropes relating to outer space, spaceships, space travel and space colonies.

Alien Tropes have their own index.

If you were looking for the concept of recycling a show's premise with a new setting, that's Recycled in Space

Categories:
 * Alien Tropes
 * Faster Than Light Index
 * Heliotropes
 * Index On the Moon
 * Spacecraft
 * Stellar Index
 * This Index Earth

Tropes :

 * Alien Sky
 * All Planets Are Earthlike
 * Ancient Astronauts
 * Apes in Space
 * Arbitrary Maximum Range
 * Artificial Gravity
 * Artsy Moon
 * Asteroid Miners
 * Asteroid Thicket
 * Baby Planet
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * The Battlestar
 * Blind Jump
 * Binary Suns
 * Boarding Party
 * The Bridge
 * Bridge Bunnies
 * Burial in Space
 * Came From the Sky
 * Captain Space, Defender of Earth!
 * Casual Interstellar Travel
 * Casual Interplanetary Travel
 * City Planet
 * Colony Drop
 * Continuous Decompression
 * Cool Starship
 * Corralled Cosmos
 * Conveniently Close Planet
 * Counter-Earth
 * Cult Colony
 * Deface of the Moon
 * Deflector Shields
 * Dramatic Alien VTOL
 * Dramatic Space Drifting
 * Drop Pod
 * Drop Ship
 * Dyson Sphere
 * Earth Is the Center of The Universe
 * Earthshattering Kaboom
 * Earth That Used to Be Better
 * Earth-That-Was
 * Escape Pod
 * Explosive Decompression
 * Thrown Out the Airlock
 * Explosions in Space
 * Faster-Than-Light Travel
 * Flying Saucer
 * Generation Ships
 * Genesis Effect
 * Gravity Sucks
 * Heavyworlder
 * Hemisphere Bias
 * Hostile Terraforming
 * Hurl It Into the Sun
 * Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
 * Hyperspace Lanes
 * Hyperspeed Ambush
 * Hyperspeed Escape
 * Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
 * Inexplicable Cultural Ties
 * Insignificant Little Blue Planet
 * In Space Everyone Can See Your Face
 * Interplanetary Voyage
 * Interstellar Weapon
 * ISO Standard Human Spaceship
 * It's a Small World After All
 * Kill Sat
 * Landfill Beyond the Stars
 * Latex Space Suit
 * Lightspeed Leapfrog
 * Lost Colony
 * The Man in The Moon
 * Melancholy Moon
 * The Milky Way Is the Only Way
 * The Mothership
 * Multicultural Alien Planet
 * Naming Your Colony World
 * Negative Space Wedgie
 * New Eden
 * No Endor Holocaust
 * No Gravity for You
 * No Seat Belts
 * "No Warping" Zone
 * Numbered Homeworld
 * Old School Dogfighting
 * One Product Planet
 * One World Order
 * Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
 * Our Wormholes Are Different
 * Planar Shockwave
 * Planet Eater
 * Planet Looters
 * Planet of Hats
 * Planet of Copyhats
 * Planetary Romance
 * Planetville
 * Pluto Is Expendable
 * Portal Network
 * Ramming Always Works
 * Reentry Scare
 * Salvage Pirates
 * Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
 * Shattered World
 * Shiny-Looking Spaceships
 * Single Biome Planet
 * Small Universe After All
 * Space Amish
 * Space Base
 * Space Battle
 * Space Brasilia
 * Space Cadet
 * Space Clothes
 * Space Clouds
 * Space Cold War
 * Space Cossacks
 * Space Does Not Work That Way
 * Space Elevator
 * Space Elves
 * Space Fighter
 * Space Flecks
 * Space Friction
 * Space Is an Ocean
 * Space Sailing
 * Space Is Cold
 * Space Is Magic
 * Space Is Noisy
 * Space Is Slow Motion
 * Space Jews
 * Space Madness
 * Space Marine
 * Space Mines
 * Space Navy
 * Space Opera
 * Space People
 * Space Pirates
 * Space Plane
 * Space Police
 * Space Romans
 * Space Station
 * Space Suits Are Scuba Gear
 * Space Western
 * Space Whale
 * Space X
 * Space Zone
 * Solar Sail
 * Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
 * Standardized Space Views
 * Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
 * Standard Starship Scuffle
 * Standard Time Units
 * Stanley Steamer Spaceship
 * The Stars Are Going Out
 * Starship Luxurious
 * Star-Killing
 * Stealth in Space
 * Streaming Stars
 * Subspace or Hyperspace
 * Subspace Ansible (FTL Radio)
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Terraform
 * That's No Moon
 * Time Dilation
 * Tractor Beam
 * Transplanted Humans
 * 2-D Space
 * Two of Your Earth Minutes
 * United Space of America
 * Universal Universe Time
 * Unrealistic Black Hole
 * Uranus Is Showing
 * Vulcan Has No Moon
 * Wagon Train to The Stars
 * The War of Earthly Aggression
 * Weaponized Exhaust
 * Weird Moon
 * Wizards From Outer Space
 * World Shapes
 * Zero-G Spot