Cyberpunk Tropes

Here are tropes commonly associated with the genres Cyberpunk and Post Cyber Punk, sub genres of Speculative Fiction, in particular Urban Sci Fi. Both also have strong ties to Film Noir style. To read more about said genres, go ahead and visit their pages. If you want to know more about how to write one of your own, then check out Write a Cyber Punk Story.

Themes And Concepts

 * AI Is a Crapshoot
 * Big Brother Is Watching
 * Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
 * Do Androids Dream?
 * Everything Is Online
 * Gaia's Lament
 * Grey and Gray Morality
 * Machine Worship
 * Police State
 * Society Is to Blame
 * The Singularity
 * Transhumanism
 * Your Mind Makes It Real

Settings and World

 * Always Night
 * Black Market
 * City Noir
 * Coolest Club Ever
 * Crap Saccharine World
 * Crapsack World
 * Cyberspace
 * Divided States of America
 * Dystopia
 * Hacker Cave
 * Industrial Ghetto
 * Japan Takes Over the World
 * Mega City
 * Mega Corp
 * The Metaverse
 * Neo Africa
 * Next Sunday AD
 * NGO Superpower
 * Nightmarish Factory
 * One Nation Under Copyright
 * Privately-Owned Society
 * Skyscraper City
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future
 * Wretched Hive

Technology and Story Elements

 * Artificial Humans
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Biodata
 * Black Market Produce
 * Brain-Computer Interface
 * Brain In A Jar
 * Brain Uploading
 * Cyborg
 * Designer Babies
 * Deus Est Machina
 * Dueling Hackers
 * Future Food Is Artificial
 * Hollywood Cyborg
 * Hollywood Hacking
 * Human Popsicle
 * Magical Computer
 * Morality Chip
 * Neural Implanting
 * Neural Interface
 * Online Alias
 * Ridiculously-Human Robots
 * Schizo-Tech
 * Sinister Surveillance
 * Unusual User Interface
 * Virtual Celebrity
 * Virtual Ghost
 * Voice With an Internet Connection
 * Wetware CPU
 * We Will Use Manual Labor in The Future

Character Types

 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Corporate Samurai
 * The Cracker
 * Evil Luddite
 * Hackette
 * Internal Reformist
 * Playful Hacker
 * Private Detective
 * Salaryman
 * Street Samurai

Stylistic Elements

 * Cool Shades
 * Badass Longcoat
 * Cyber Goth
 * Cyberpunk Is Techno
 * Cyberpunk With a Chance of Rain
 * Film Noir
 * The Future Is Noir
 * Technology Porn
 * Tron Lines
 * Used Future