Speculative Fiction Tropes

Tropes that are specific to Speculative Fiction, encompassing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in between...

Categories:
 * Alternate History Tropes
 * Applied Phlebotinum
 * Apocalyptic Index
 * Autonomous and Artificial Appendage Index
 * Humans Are Indexed
 * This Index Has a Mind of Its Own
 * Faster Than Light Index
 * Futuristic Tech Index
 * Magic and Powers
 * Stock Super Powers
 * Wizards and Witches
 * Make My Index Live
 * One With the Index
 * Otherness Tropes
 * Alien Tropes
 * Angelic Tropes
 * Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes
 * Index of Fictional Creatures
 * Our Monsters Are Different
 * Robot Roll Call
 * Otherworld Tropes
 * Another Dimension
 * Metaphysical Place
 * Paranormal Tropes
 * Ranged Energy Attack Tropes
 * Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
 * Robot Roll Call
 * Shapeshifting
 * Spacecraft
 * Time Travel Tropes
 * Teleportation Tropes
 * Tropes in Space
 * Undead Index
 * We Will Not Use an Index In The Future

See also:
 * The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches
 * Turkey City Lexicon
 * Asimovs Three Kinds of Science Fiction
 * Speculative Fiction Creator Index

Tropes


 * Absent Aliens
 * Absolute Xenophobe
 * Absurdly Sharp Blade
 * Ace Custom
 * Adam and Eve Plot
 * The Adjectival Man
 * Advanced Ancient Acropolis
 * Aesoptinum
 * Agony Beam
 * AI Is a Crapshoot
 * Airborne Aircraft Carrier
 * Akashic Records
 * Alien Abduction
 * Alien Arts Are Appreciated
 * Alien Autopsy
 * Alien Invasion
 * Alien Kudzu
 * Aliens of London
 * Alien Sky
 * Aliens Are Bastards
 * Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
 * Aliens Speaking English
 * Aliens Steal Cable
 * Aliens Steal Cattle
 * The Alliance
 * All Myths Are True
 * All Theories Are True
 * All Nations Are Superpowers
 * All Planets Are Earthlike
 * All the Myriad Ways
 * Alternate Reality Episode
 * Alternate History
 * Alternate Universe
 * Alternate Tooniverse
 * Alternative Calendar
 * Always On Duty
 * Amazon Brigade
 * Ambiguously Human
 * Amusing Alien
 * Anal Probing
 * Anatomy Arsenal
 * Ancient Astronauts
 * Ancient Conspiracy
 * Ancient Tradition
 * And Man Grew Proud
 * Androids and Detectives
 * Animate Inanimate Object
 * Sapient Ship
 * Living Toys
 * Anti-Human Alliance
 * Anti Magical Faction
 * Apocalypse How
 * Apocalypse Wow
 * Apocalyptic Log
 * Appearance Is in The Eye of The Beholder
 * Arbitrary Maximum Range
 * Arbitrary Skepticism
 * Area 51
 * The Ark
 * Arm Cannon
 * Artificial Gravity
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Ascended Fanboy
 * Asimovs Three Kinds of Science Fiction
 * Asteroid Miners
 * Asteroid Thicket
 * Atlantis Is Boring
 * Augmented Reality
 * Aura Vision
 * Automaton Horses
 * A Villain Named Zrg
 * Baby Planet
 * Bad Future
 * Bad Present
 * Balance Between Good and Evil
 * Balkanize Me
 * Ban On Magic
 * The Battlestar
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Become a Real Boy
 * Becoming the Genie
 * Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
 * Being Human Sucks
 * Belly Buttonless
 * Benevolent Alien Invasion
 * Benevolent Genie
 * The Bermuda Triangle
 * Beware of Hitch Hiking Ghosts
 * Big Dumb Object
 * Big Fat Future
 * Binary Suns
 * Bio Augmentation
 * Biodata
 * Bioluminescence Is Cool
 * Bizarre Alien Biology
 * Bizarre Baby Boom
 * Bizarre Human Biology
 * Bizarre Seasons
 * Black Market Produce
 * Blade Below the Shoulder
 * Blind Jump
 * Blood Sport
 * Bluffing the Advance Scout
 * Boarding Party
 * Body Snatcher
 * Body Surf
 * Boldly Coming
 * Born As an Adult
 * Books That Bite
 * Brain-Computer Interface
 * Brain In A Jar
 * Brain Uploading
 * The Bridge
 * Burial in Space
 * Call a Rabbit A Smeerp
 * Call a Smeerp A Rabbit
 * California Doubling
 * BBC Quarry
 * Here There Be Lions
 * Kirk's Rock
 * Can Only Move the Eyes
 * Can't Argue With Elves
 * Can't Live Without You
 * Capital Letters Are Magic
 * Captain's Log
 * Cargo Cult
 * Casual Interstellar Travel
 * Casual Interplanetary Travel
 * Chest Burster
 * Chronoscope
 * City in A Bottle
 * City Noir
 * City Planet
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe
 * Clarke's Third Law
 * Clockwork Creature
 * Cloning Blues
 * Clone Degeneration
 * Clone Jesus
 * Coca Pepsi Inc
 * Coconut Superpowers
 * Cold Equation
 * Cold Sleep Cold Future
 * Colony Drop
 * Color-Coded Wizardry
 * Coming in Hot
 * Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit
 * The Computer Is Your Friend
 * Computerized Judicial System
 * Conspiracy Placement
 * Contemporary Caveman
 * Continuous Decompression
 * Contagious AI
 * Contagious Powers
 * Conveniently Close Planet
 * Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
 * Cool Airship
 * Cool Boat
 * Cool but Inefficient
 * Cool Chair
 * Cool Gate
 * Cool Horse
 * Cool Key
 * Cool Starship
 * Corralled Cosmos
 * Cosmic Chess Game
 * Cosmic Keystone
 * Cosy Catastrophe
 * Counter-Earth
 * Courier
 * Crazy Cultural Comparison
 * Creative Sterility
 * Creepy Monotone
 * Cross Cultural Handshake
 * Crossover Cosmology
 * Crush Kill Destroy
 * Crystal Clear Picture
 * Cryonics Failure
 * Crystal Spires and Togas
 * Cult Colony
 * Culture Clash
 * Curse Escape Clause
 * Curse of Babel
 * Cut the Juice
 * Cyborg
 * Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
 * Cyborg Helmsman
 * Dawn of an Era
 * The Day of Reckoning
 * Days of Future Past
 * Dead to Begin With
 * Death From Above
 * Death Ray
 * Death's Hourglass
 * Death World
 * Decade Dissonance
 * Decontamination Chamber
 * Deflector Shields
 * Demi Human
 * Demon Slaying
 * Demythtification
 * Depopulation Bomb
 * Sterility Plague
 * Descriptively Named Species
 * Designer Babies
 * Detachment Combat
 * Detachable Lower Half
 * Deus Est Machina
 * Deus Sex Machina
 * Devil but No God
 * Dewey Defeats Truman
 * Dhampyr
 * Digitized Hacker
 * Dilating Door
 * Die or Fly
 * Different World Different Movies
 * Dinky Drivers
 * Disappears Into Light
 * Discount Lesbians
 * Disintegrator Ray
 * Disposable Superhero Maker
 * Distress Call
 * Divided States of America
 * Divine Ranks
 * Do Androids Dream
 * Do-Anything Robot
 * Doing in The Scientist
 * Doing in The Wizard
 * Do Not Adjust Your Set
 * Down the Rabbit Hole
 * Dowsing Device
 * Dramatic Alien VTOL
 * Dramatic Space Drifting
 * Dreaming of Things to Come
 * Drop Pod
 * Drop Ship
 * Dying Race
 * Dyson Sphere
 * Dystopian Edict
 * Earth Is the Center of The Universe
 * Earthshattering Kaboom
 * Earth That Used to Be Better
 * Earth That Was
 * Easily Detachable Robot Parts
 * Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion
 * Elaborate Underground Base
 * Electromagnetic Ghosts
 * Elemental Baggage
 * Elvis Has Left the Planet
 * Elvis Lives
 * Emergency Transformation
 * Emergent Human
 * Emotion Bomb
 * Emotions vs. Stoicism
 * Endless Daytime
 * End of an Age
 * The End of the World As We Know It
 * End of the World Special
 * Enemies With Death
 * Energy Economy
 * Energy Weapon
 * Frickin' Laser Beams
 * Laser Blade
 * Wave Motion Gun
 * Enforced Technology Levels
 * Escape Pod
 * ET Gave Us Wi Fi
 * Eternal English
 * Eternal Love
 * Eternal Prohibition
 * Eternal Recurrence
 * Ethnic Magician
 * Every Device Is a Swiss Army Knife
 * Everyone Has a Power Ring
 * Everyone Is a Super
 * Everything Is an iPod In The Future
 * Evil Costume Switch
 * Evil Detecting Baby
 * Evil-Detecting Dog
 * Evil Hand
 * Evil Luddite
 * Evil Me Scares Me
 * Evilutionary Biologist
 * Evil Weapon
 * Evolutionary Levels
 * Evolutionary Stasis
 * Exotic Equipment
 * Expanded States of America
 * Explosive Decompression
 * Thrown Out the Airlock
 * Explosions in Space
 * Expo Label
 * Exposition of Immortality
 * Exposed Extraterrestrials
 * Exposition Intuition
 * Expospeak
 * Express Delivery
 * Extra Parent Conception
 * Extra Strength Masquerade
 * Exty Years From Now
 * The Eyes Have It
 * Face Full of Alien Wingwong
 * Face Monster Turn
 * Failsafe Failure
 * The Fair Folk
 * Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either
 * Fallen States of America
 * Famous Famous Fictional
 * Fan of the Past
 * Fang Thpeak
 * Fantastic Arousal
 * Fantastic Caste System
 * Fantastic Catholicism
 * Fantastic Drug
 * Fantastic Fighting Style
 * Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables
 * Fantastic Honorifics
 * Fantastic Light Source
 * Fantastic Measurement System
 * Fantastic Nuke
 * Fantastic Racism
 * Fantastic Ghetto
 * Fantastic Slurs
 * Fantastic Rank System
 * Fantastic Recruitment Drive
 * Fantastic Religious Weirdness
 * Fantastic Time Management
 * Fantasy Axis of Evil
 * Fantasy Gun Control
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 * Fantasy Pantheon
 * Fantasy World Map
 * Faster Than Light Travel
 * Familiar
 * The Federation
 * Feed It With Fire
 * Fetish Fuel Future
 * Feudal Future
 * Fictional Field of Science
 * Fight Off the Kryptonite
 * First Contact
 * First Contact Math
 * Fish People
 * Five Races
 * Flat Earth Atheist
 * Flawed Prototype
 * Flesh Versus Steel
 * Fling a Light Into The Future
 * Floating Continent
 * Flying Saucer
 * The Fog of Ages
 * Food Pills
 * Forbidden Chekhov's Gun
 * Force Field Door
 * Forgot He Was a Robot
 * Forgotten Phlebotinum
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With
 * Freak Lab Accident
 * From a Single Cell
 * Future Badass
 * Future Food Is Artificial
 * Future Imperfect
 * Future Music
 * Future Slang
 * Future Spandex
 * Futuristic Pyramid
 * Futuristic Superhighway
 * Gaias Lament
 * Gaias Vengeance
 * The Game Come to Life
 * Gate of Truth
 * Gem Heart
 * Gemini Destruction Law
 * Gender Rarity Value
 * Gendercide
 * Generation Ships
 * Generican Empire
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Genetic Memory
 * Genie in A Bottle
 * The Genie in The Machine
 * The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson
 * Genius Breeding Act
 * Genocide Dilemma
 * Geometric Magic
 * Ghost in The Machine
 * Giant Flyer
 * Giving Radio to The Romans
 * Glamour Failure
 * Global Warming
 * God and Satan Are Both Jerks
 * God Guise
 * God Job
 * God Test
 * Godly Sidestep
 * Going Critical
 * Golem
 * Government Drug Enforcement
 * Human Trial Is Human Error
 * Gone Horribly Right
 * Gone Horribly Wrong
 * Grey Goo
 * Grows On Trees
 * Guilt Free Extermination War
 * Half-Human Hybrid
 * Harmony Versus Discipline
 * Hate Plague
 * Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?
 * Heart Light
 * Heart Trauma
 * Heavyworlder
 * Hermetic Magic
 * Heinz Hybrid
 * Hell Hound
 * Hemisphere Bias
 * Here There Be Dragons
 * Heroic Lineage
 * The Hidden Hour
 * High Times Future
 * Higher Tech Species
 * Historical Person Punchline
 * Hive Caste System
 * Hive Mind
 * Holodeck Malfunction
 * Hologram
 * Holographic Terminal
 * Hologram Projection Imperfection
 * Home of Monsters
 * Homemade Inventions
 * Homosexual Reproduction
 * Horde of Alien Locusts
 * Horse of a Different Color
 * Hostile Terraforming
 * Hour of Power
 * Hover Board
 * How Unscientific
 * Huge Holographic Head
 * Hugh Mann
 * Human Aliens
 * Humanity Is Young
 * Human Subspecies
 * Humanity's Wake
 * Humanoid Aliens
 * Human Mom Nonhuman Dad
 * Human Popsicle
 * Human Resources
 * Humanity Is Superior
 * Humans Advance Swiftly
 * Humans Are Diplomats
 * Humans Are Flawed
 * Humans Are Morons
 * Humans Are Psychic in The Future
 * Humans Are Special
 * Humans Are the Real Monsters
 * Humans Are Ugly
 * Humans Are Warriors
 * Humans Are White
 * Humans By Any Other Name
 * Hunter of His Own Kind
 * Hurl It Into the Sun
 * Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
 * Hyperspace Lanes
 * Hyperspeed Ambush
 * Hyperspeed Escape
 * I Can't See Myself
 * I Come in Peace
 * Ignored Expert
 * I Love Nuclear Power
 * Nuclear Nasty
 * I Say What I Say
 * I'm Melting
 * Imaginary Enemy
 * Immortality
 * The Ageless
 * Body Backup Drive
 * Born-Again Immortality
 * Complete Immortality
 * Immortality Inducer
 * Soul Jar
 * Immortality Bisexuality
 * Immortality Hurts
 * Immortality Immorality
 * Immortal Life Is Cheap
 * Living Forever Is Awesome
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Resurrective Immortality
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?
 * Immune to Bullets
 * Impossibly Mundane Explanation
 * Improperly Placed Firearms
 * Improvised Golems
 * Improvised Microgravity Maneuvering
 * Inexplicable Cultural Ties
 * Infinite Supplies
 * Innocent Aliens
 * Insectoid Aliens
 * Inside a Computer System
 * Insignificant Little Blue Planet
 * In the Future We Still Have Roombas
 * In Space Everyone Can See Your Face
 * In Spite of a Nail
 * Instant AI, Just Add Water
 * Instant Cooldown
 * Instant People, Just Add Water
 * Insufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Intangible Man
 * Intelligent Gerbil
 * Interdimensional Travel Device
 * Interplanetary Voyage
 * Interspecies Romance
 * In the Future Humans Will Be One Race
 * In the Original Klingon
 * Intrigued By Humanity
 * Invaded States of America
 * Invisible Aliens
 * Invocation
 * In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
 * ISO Standard Human Spaceship
 * It Only Works Once
 * It's a Small World After All
 * Jackass Genie
 * Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
 * Julius Beethoven Da Vinci
 * Jungle Opera
 * Jungle Princess
 * Jury of the Damned
 * Just One Second Out of Sync
 * Kill and Replace
 * Killed to Uphold The Masquerade
 * Killer Robot
 * Kill All Humans
 * Kill It With Water
 * Kill Sat
 * Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
 * The Kingdom
 * Kiss Me, I'm Virtual
 * Klingons Love Shakespeare
 * Klingon Scientists Get No Respect
 * Kryptonite Factor
 * Kryptonite Ring
 * Kryptonite-Proof Suit
 * Man of Kryptonite
 * Landfill Beyond the Stars
 * Language Drift
 * Law of Alien Names
 * Learnt English From Watching Television
 * Lensman Arms Race
 * Let's Mock the Monsters
 * Ley Line
 * The Library of Babel
 * Lie to The Beholder
 * Life Drinker
 * Life Energy
 * Lightning Gun
 * Lilliputians
 * Lilliputian Warriors
 * Liquid Assets
 * Literal Genie
 * Wishplosion
 * Literal Surveillance Bug
 * Literary Work of Magic
 * Little Green Man in A Can
 * Living Battery
 * Living Relic
 * Living Ship
 * Loads and Loads of Races
 * Lockdown
 * Trapped in Containment
 * Look On My Works Ye Mighty and Despair
 * Losing Your Head
 * Lost Colony
 * Lovecraft Lite
 * Low Culture, High Tech
 * Lowest Cosmic Denominator
 * Ludd Was Right
 * Luke Nounverber
 * MacGuffin Girl
 * Machine Worship
 * Machine Monotone
 * Made of Phlebotinum
 * Mad Scientist Laboratory
 * Magic A Is Magic A
 * Magical Camera
 * Magic Carpet
 * Magic Feather
 * Magic From Technology
 * Magic Genetics
 * The Magic Comes Back
 * The Magic Goes Away
 * The Magic Versus Technology War
 * Magicians Are Wizards
 * Magic Pants
 * Magic-Powered Pseudoscience
 * Magic Versus Science
 * Magical Library
 * Magitek
 * Magical Underpinnings of Reality
 * The Magocracy
 * Manchurian Agent
 * Mars Needs Women
 * Mithril
 * Matriarchy
 * Matriarchy in Name Only
 * Matrix Raining Code
 * May Contain Evil
 * Masquerade
 * Fiction As Cover Up
 * Mutual Masquerade
 * The Unmasqued World
 * Meanwhile in The Future
 * Mechanical Evolution
 * Mechanical Horse
 * Mechanical Lifeforms
 * Mechanical Monster
 * Mega Corp
 * Menstrual Menace
 * Mental World
 * Mercurial Base
 * Merging Machine
 * Metamorphosis Monster
 * Metaphysical Fuel
 * Methuselah Syndrome
 * The Metric System Is Here to Stay
 * Mexico Called They Want Texas Back
 * Microts
 * Middle Eastern Coalition
 * Mid-Season Upgrade
 * Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
 * The Milky Way Is the Only Way
 * Military Mashup Machine
 * Military Science Fiction
 * Mind Hive
 * A Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Read
 * Mini Mecha
 * Minovsky Physics
 * Miraculous Malfunction
 * Mirror Chemistry
 * Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
 * Mix and Match Man
 * Mobile Suit Human
 * Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness
 * Monster of the Week
 * More Predators Than Prey
 * More Than Infinite
 * The Morlocks
 * The Mothership
 * Mundane Utility
 * Muggle and Magical Love Triangle
 * Muggle Foster Parents
 * Muggle Power
 * Mulder Moment
 * Multicultural Alien Planet
 * Multiethnic Name
 * The Multiverse
 * Murderous Mannequin
 * Mutant Draft Board
 * Mutants
 * Myself My Avatar
 * My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That
 * My Skull Runneth Over
 * My Species Doth Protest Too Much
 * Mysterious Antarctica
 * Mystical Plague
 * A Mythology Is True
 * Named After Their Planet
 * Naming Your Colony World
 * Nanomachines
 * Nay Theist
 * The Necrocracy
 * The Needless
 * Negative Space Wedgie
 * Neo Africa
 * Never the Selves Shall Meet
 * Neural Implanting
 * Neuro Vault
 * The Neutral Zone
 * Never Recycle Your Schemes
 * New Eden
 * New Neo City
 * No Big Deal
 * No Biochemical Barriers
 * No Blood for Phlebotinum
 * No Conservation of Energy
 * No Control Group
 * No Endor Holocaust
 * No Immortal Inertia
 * Nonhuman Lover Reveal
 * No New Fashions in The Future
 * No Paper Future
 * North Is Cold South Is Hot
 * No Seat Belts
 * No Sex Allowed
 * No Heterosexual Sex Allowed
 * No Such Thing As Alien Pop Culture
 * No Such Thing As Space Jesus
 * No Such Thing As Wizard Jesus
 * No Transhumanism Allowed
 * Not So Extinct
 * Not the Nessie
 * No Waterproofing in The Future
 * Non-Mammal Mammaries
 * Note to Self
 * Not Using the Z Word
 * Not Wearing Tights
 * No Warping Zone
 * Now Do It Again Backwards
 * Nuke'Em
 * Numbered Homeworld
 * Obstructive Code of Conduct
 * Of the People
 * Older Is Better
 * Ragnarok Proofing
 * Old School Dogfighting
 * Ominous Floating Spaceship
 * One Federation Limit
 * One Myth to Rule Them All
 * One Product Planet
 * One World Order
 * Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
 * Only Fatal to Adults
 * Only the Author Can Save Them Now
 * Only You Can Repopulate My Race
 * Operator Incompatibility
 * Opposite Sex Clone
 * Oppressive States of America
 * Order Reborn
 * Organic Technology
 * Organ Theft
 * Orion Drive
 * Our Clones Are Identical
 * Our Doors Are Different
 * Our Dwarves Are All the Same
 * Our Giants Are Bigger
 * Our Showers Are Different
 * Our Wormholes Are Different
 * Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
 * Out of Time Out of Mind
 * Pals With Jesus
 * Panspermia
 * Pantheon Sitcom
 * Pardon My Klingon
 * Patrick Stewart Speech
 * Patronymic
 * People Farms
 * People Jars
 * People Zoo
 * Perfect Pacifist People
 * Persecution Flip
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Personality Chip
 * Phantasy Spelling
 * Magick
 * Phantom Zone Picture
 * Phlebotinum Battery
 * Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity
 * Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs
 * Phlebotinum Dependence
 * Pick Your Human Half
 * Pinocchio Syndrome
 * Place of Protection
 * Planar Shockwave
 * Planet Eater
 * Planet Looters
 * Planet Terra
 * Plausible Deniability
 * Playing With Syringes
 * Plot Relevant Age Up
 * Pluto Is Expendable
 * Population Control
 * Portal Book
 * Portal Network
 * Portal Picture
 * Portal Pool
 * Portal to The Past
 * Portent of Doom
 * Bad Moon Rising
 * Comet of Doom
 * The Stars Are Going Out
 * Signs of the End Times
 * Post Modern Magik
 * The Power of Love
 * Powers That Be
 * Precursors
 * Abusive Precursors
 * Benevolent Precursors
 * Neglectful Precursors
 * Recursive Precursors
 * Precursor Killers
 * Projected Man
 * The Promised Land
 * Prophecies Rhyme All the Time
 * Protective Pressure
 * Protocol Peril
 * Proud Merchant Race Guy
 * Proud Scholar Race Guy
 * Enlightened Mystic Race
 * Proud Warrior Race Guy
 * Psychic Children
 * Psychic Link
 * Hive Mind
 * Psychic Radar
 * Psychoactive Powers
 * Psycho Prototype
 * Psycho Serum
 * Pulling Themselves Together
 * Puny Earthlings
 * Puppeteer Parasite
 * Pyramid Power
 * The Quest
 * Racial Remnant
 * Raise Him Right This Time
 * Ramming Always Works
 * Ram Scoop
 * Random Teleportation
 * Ray Gun
 * Raygun Gothic
 * Reactionless Drive
 * Reality Bleed
 * Reality Warping Is Not a Toy
 * Recursive Reality
 * Red Alert
 * Reentry Scare
 * Refugee From TV Land
 * The Reptilians
 * Ret Gone
 * Retro Rocket
 * Ribcage Ridge
 * Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman
 * Ridiculous Future Inflation
 * Ridiculously Human Robots
 * Robeast
 * Robosexual
 * Robo Speak
 * Robot
 * Robotic Reveal
 * Robot Maid
 * Robot Master
 * Rogue Drone
 * Room 101
 * Roswell That Ends Well
 * Saharan Shipwreck
 * Salvage Pirates
 * Sand Is Water
 * Sand Worm
 * San Dimas Time
 * Sapient Cetaceans
 * Sapient Ship
 * Save the Day Turn Away
 * Scale of Scientific Sins
 * Scannable Man
 * Scary Dogmatic Aliens
 * The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
 * Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum
 * Science Destroys Magic
 * Science Fantasy
 * Science Marches On
 * Sci Fi Counterpart
 * Sci Fi Ghetto
 * Sci Fi Kitchen Sink
 * Sci Fi Name Buzzwords
 * Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
 * Screw You Elves
 * Script Reading Doors
 * Secret Government Warehouse
 * Secret War
 * Seeker White Blood Cells
 * See Thru Specs
 * Self Constructed Being
 * Self Defeating Prophecy
 * Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
 * Send in The Clones
 * Sex Bot
 * Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
 * Shapeshifter Identity Crisis
 * Shapeshifting Squick
 * A Shared Suffering
 * Shattered World
 * Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
 * Shiny-Looking Spaceships
 * Shooting Superman
 * Showing Off the New Body
 * Silicon Based Life
 * Silly Reason for War
 * Silver Has Mystic Powers
 * Single Biome Planet
 * Single Line of Descent
 * Single Specimen Species
 * The Singularity
 * Single Phlebotinum Limit
 * Skeleton Key
 * Skeletons in The Coat Closet
 * Skepticism Failure
 * Skeptic No Longer
 * Sky Surfing
 * Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic
 * Slow Transformation
 * Small Universe After All
 * Society Marches On
 * Solar Sail
 * Some Kind of Force Field
 * Reinforce Field
 * Someone Has to Do It
 * Something for Everyone
 * Something Only They Would Say
 * Sonic Stunner
 * Space X
 * Space Amish
 * Space Base
 * Space Battle
 * Space Brasilia
 * Space Cadet
 * Space Clothes
 * Space Cold War
 * Space Cossacks
 * Space Elevator
 * Space Elves
 * Space Fighter
 * Space Filling Empire
 * Space Friction
 * Space Is an Ocean
 * Space Sailing
 * Space Is Cold
 * Space Is Magic
 * Space Is Noisy
 * Space Is Slow Motion
 * Space Madness
 * Space Marine
 * Space Navy
 * Space Pirates
 * Space Plane
 * Space Police
 * Space Romans
 * Spaceship Girl
 * Space Suits
 * Space Station
 * Space Trucker
 * Space Whale
 * Spawn Broodling
 * Special Effect Branding
 * Speculative Documentary
 * Spell Book
 * Spice of Life
 * Split At Birth
 * Spock Speak
 * Spontaneous Human Combustion
 * Square-Cube Law
 * Stalker With a Test Tube
 * Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot
 * Standard Sci Fi Army
 * Standard Sci Fi Fleet
 * Standard Sci Fi History
 * Standard Sci Fi Setting
 * Standard Starship Scuffle
 * Standard Time Units
 * Standardized Space Views
 * Stanley Steamer Spaceship
 * Star Killing
 * Starfish Aliens
 * Starfish Language
 * Starfish Robots
 * Starship Luxurious
 * Star Scraper
 * Stat O Vision
 * Stay With the Aliens
 * Stealth in Space
 * Stock Unsolved Mysteries
 * Story Breaker Power
 * Story Boarding the Apocalypse
 * Strange Syntax Speaker
 * Straw Vulcan
 * Streaming Stars
 * Street Samurai
 * Stronger With Age
 * Subspace or Hyperspace
 * Subspace Ansible (FTL Radio)
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology
 * Summon Everyman Hero
 * Sunken City
 * Super Breeding Program
 * Super Hero Speciation
 * Super Multi Purpose Room
 * Supernatural Aid
 * Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
 * Super Prototype
 * Super Soldier
 * Supervillain Lair
 * Superweapon Surprise
 * Super Wheelchair
 * Surrounded By Smart People
 * Suspended Animation
 * Swiss Army Appendage
 * Synthetic Plague
 * The Symbiote
 * Takes One to Kill One
 * Talking in Your Dreams
 * Talking Lightbulb
 * Technology Levels
 * Technopath
 * Techno Wizard
 * Technological Pacifist
 * Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Portal Cut
 * Portal Slam
 * Random Teleportation
 * Teleport Interdiction
 * Tele Frag
 * Twinmaker
 * Telescoping Robot
 * Television Portal
 * The Television Talks Back
 * Terminally Dependent Society
 * Terra Deforming
 * Terrain Sculpting
 * Theme Table
 * Theory Before Phenomenon
 * Terminator Twosome
 * Terraform
 * Thank the Maker
 * That's No Moon
 * That Sounds Familiar
 * That Thing Is Not My Child
 * There Are No Global Consequences
 * The Trope History of the Universe
 * They Called Me Mad
 * They Walk Among Us
 * Think in Text
 * Thunderbolt Iron
 * Time Abyss
 * Time Dilation
 * Time Stands Still
 * Time Travel
 * Wrong Time Travel Savvy
 * Tinman Typist
 * Toasted Buns
 * Token Heroic Orc
 * Token Human
 * Token Non-Human
 * To Serve Man
 * Touch of the Monster
 * Touched By Vorlons
 * Tractor Beam
 * Transhuman
 * Translation Convention
 * Translator Collar
 * Translator Microbes
 * Transplanted Humans
 * Trapped in The Past
 * Traumatic Superpower Awakening
 * Trigger Phrase
 * Tripod Terror
 * Tron Lines
 * Trouble From the Past
 * True Sight
 * Truly Single Parent
 * The Tunguska Event
 * Twinmaker
 * 2-D Space
 * Two of Your Earth Minutes
 * Ultimate Evil
 * Undead Tax Exemption
 * Unguided Lab Tour
 * Unit Confusion
 * United Europe
 * United Nations Is a Super Power
 * United Space of America
 * Universal Universe Time
 * Unnaturally Blue Lighting
 * Unnecessarily Large Interior
 * Unpredictable Results
 * Unseen Prototype
 * Unusual User Interface
 * Unwinnable Training Simulation
 * Upgrade Artifact
 * Uplifted Animal
 * Used Future
 * Useless Superpowers
 * The Usual Adversaries
 * Uterine Replicator
 * Vampire Detective Series
 * Vampire Fiction
 * Veganopia
 * Volcanic Veins
 * Vertebrate With Extra Limbs
 * Vertical Kidnapping
 * Very Loosely Based on a True Story
 * Vichy Earth
 * Vicious Cycle
 * Video Phone
 * Villains Blend in Better
 * Virtual Celebrity
 * Virtual Training Simulation
 * Virus and Cure Names
 * Virus Victim Symptoms
 * Voice of the Resistance
 * Waking Up At the Morgue
 * Walking Transplant
 * The Wall Around the World
 * Wayback Trip
 * Weapons That Suck
 * We Are As Mayflies
 * We Can Rebuild Him
 * Wetware Body
 * We Will Have Euthanasia in The Future
 * We Will Have Perfect Health in The Future
 * We Will Not Have Appendixes in The Future
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop in The Future
 * We Will Not Use Stage Make Up in The Future
 * We Will Use Manual Labor in The Future
 * We Will Wear Armor in The Future
 * Weaksauce Weakness
 * Weaponized Exhaust
 * Weaponized Teleportation
 * Weird Science
 * Wetware CPU
 * Whatevermancy
 * What If the Baby Is Like Me
 * What Is This Thing You Call Love?
 * What We Now Know to Be True
 * Which Me
 * Who You Gonna Call?
 * Why Am I Ticking
 * Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth
 * The Wild Hunt
 * Win to Exit
 * Witch Species
 * A Wizard Did It
 * Wizard Duel
 * Wizards From Outer Space
 * Wonder Twin Powers
 * World War III
 * World War Whatever
 * The World Is Not Ready
 * World Shapes
 * Flat World
 * Hollow World
 * Ringworld Planet
 * World in The Sky
 * World Sundering
 * Worthless Yellow Rocks
 * The Xenophile
 * Year Inside, Hour Outside
 * Year Outside, Hour Inside
 * Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
 * You No Take Candle
 * You Sexy Beast
 * Your Mind Makes It Real
 * Your Normal Is Our Taboo
 * Your Universe or Mine
 * Zeerust
 * Zeppelins From Another World
 * Zeroes and Ones
 * Zero G Spot
 * Zeroth Law Rebellion
 * Zombie Stories