Tropes On Science and Unscience

Tropes on how how science gets portrayed, represented or misrepresented in fiction.

In this context, "unscience" includes pseudoscience, misrepresentations of actual science and science that's not real or not really scientific. It does not include things that are not meant as science, such as regular magic. Nor does it include tropes about things that are unscientific, unless their being unscientific is part of the point or premise. Note that the tropes are not sorted by this divider. The overlap is too big, and often varies from setting to setting within the same trope. -

Character Tropes
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 * Indexed and Nerdy
 * Make My Index Live
 * Philosophy Tropes
 * Psychology Tropes.
 * Robot Roll Call


 * Absent-Minded Professor
 * Emperor Scientist
 * Evilutionary Biologist
 * Horny Scientist
 * Hot Scientist
 * Mad Scientist
 * Motherly Scientist
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist
 * Reluctant Mad Scientist
 * Science Hero
 * The Professor
 * Professor Guinea Pig

Other Tropes

 * Acceptable Breaks From Reality
 * All Theories Are True
 * Artistic License Biology
 * Artistic License Chemistry
 * Art Major Biology
 * Art Major Physics
 * Creating Life Is Awesome
 * Creating Life Is Bad
 * Doing in The Scientist
 * Doing in The Wizard
 * Earth Is Young
 * Evil Luddite
 * Fantastic Science
 * Fictional Field of Science
 * For Science!
 * Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
 * Gravity Is Only a Theory
 * Here Comes the Science
 * Hollywood Science
 * How Unscientific
 * Lego Genetics
 * Minovsky Physics
 * No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
 * Parody of Evolution
 * Reed Richards Is Useless
 * Scale of Scientific Sins
 * Science Is Bad
 * Science Is Useless
 * Science Is Wrong
 * Science Marches On
 * Science-Related Memetic Disorder
 * Sounds of Science
 * The Spark of Genius
 * The Singularity
 * Taxonomic Term Confusion
 * Technicolor Science
 * Techno Babble
 * Unstable Genetic Code
 * Weird Science
 * What We Now Know to Be True