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'''Zoe Graystone's Holographic Avatar:''' When are you gonna realize that later is too late? When did you ever listen? Ever want to listen? You and Mom, you knew it all. Your arrogance was killing your daughter. And that's how you lost her. Not to some bomb. }}
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'''''Caprica''''' is a [[Spin-Off]] set in the same universe as
Though set in the same universe, ''Caprica'' has a [[Genre Shift|much different look and feel]] from its predecessor. Set in an urban environment rather than in space, Caprica focuses on political, corporate, and familial intrigue, and tells the tale of a decadent society that doesn't realize that it's about to run headlong over a cliff. The story of ''Caprica'' centers around the families of Daniel Graystone, a computer engineer and entrepreneur and creator of the Cylon robots, and Joseph Adama, a lawyer and father to ''Galactica'''s William Adama. Recurring themes in the show explore artificial intelligence, robotics, religion and ethnicity. ''Caprica'' tells the backstory of the re-imagined series, and the story behind the creation of the Cylons.
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Originally it was planned that Zoe created an avatar of Ben as well as herself. (It was in fact the double-wham of this reveal and the fact that Zoe was still inside the Cylon that won a lot of people over when only the script for the pilot was available). The scene was filmed, and is included on the DVD, but essentially nothing in it is canon: Lacy didn't tell Clarice about Zoe-A right away and there was no avatar of Ben. Furthermore the scene ends when Lacy hears her cellphone ringing in the real world and takes her holoband off; it's dramatically revealed later on that holoband users don't receive sensory input like that from the real world.
* [[Acting for Two]]: Alessandra Torresani plays Original Zoe, Zoe-Avatar, Zoe-Robot (voice), Messenger Zoe and Zoe-Skinjob. Technically the robot and the skinjob are the same entity as the avatar.
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* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Zoe in the series finale.}}
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Remember when Sam said that people could read his life-story from his tattoos? He wasn't kidding.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103065829/http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/ The Caprican] and [http://twitter.com/SergeGraystone Serge's Twitter page] both contain many useful insights and tidbits about the characters and life among the Twelve Colonies, including an [https://web.archive.org/web/20130717054530/http://showblogs.syfy.com/caprican/opinion/racism-an-unacceptable-aspect-of-caprican-life.php explanation of exactly what "dirt eater" means].
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: The Heracs and the Tauron Democratic Government.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Of course, series is set on another planet, but we have clothes from the fifties, more or less modern-looking cars, futuristic flying machines, absolutely modern-looking computers and cell phones alongside with futuristic but more or less realistic computer systems, Turing test-passing robots and a virtual reality device which apparently affects the brain directly and creates incredibly realistic pictures.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: If your body falls asleep or, for some reason, becomes paralysed, you will remain conscious and active in the V-World but be incapable of pulling yourself out unless someone forces you to de-rez. It is a minor example but one can imagine how harrowing it might be for the user. Other players thought this was the case with Tamara until it turned she could not de-rez at all.
** There was mention of how Tamara's holoband should have timed out already, meaning there probably is a security device to prevent people from staying on too long, possibly not realizing they're starving to death while eating only virtual foods. The "Sleeper" story also seemed more of a myth than anything.
* [[And Man Grew Proud]]: Since this show chronicles how the events of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Oddly, the writers seem to have retconnned this theme. In BSG, the backstory was that humanity foolishly created the Cylons, enslaved them and they rebelled. In ''Caprica'' {{spoiler|it is shown that Daniel Graystone was unable to build a sentient Cylon, even using the [[Applied Phlebotinum|meta-cognitive-processor]] stolen from his rival Vergis. Nor is it clear that it was ever Daniel's goal for the Cylons to possess a true human-level degree of sentience, as opposed to being just very effective robots. It turns out that Daniel's daughter [[Teen Genius|Zoe]] creates the necessary software to produce true artificial intelligences at the prompting of one of the [[Our Angels Are Different|"head beings"]] that in BSG supposedly represent "God". This raises the question of whether humanity was truly responsible for their own downfall, or if it was engineered by a [[God Is Evil|higher power]].}}
* [[Angel Unaware]]: In "Things We Lock Away", both Original Zoe and Avatar Zoe are visited by one of these, similar to Messenger Six and Messenger Baltar from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Sam Adama is a ruthless thug and professional killer but he also genuinely cares for and is fiercely protective of both his family and culture. The way Taurons are treated on Caprica only adds to this.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Possibly one of the most shocking examples in television history. ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Badass Family]]: If you had any lingering doubts about this from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** The Graystones aren't too bad either. Broken up and on their own, they fall and stumble. But once the family reunites, they {{spoiler|manage to topple Clarice's cell-group and save thousands of lives}}.
* [[Badass Grandma]]: Grandma Ruth-less
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* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: The Athenian Academy uniforms
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Amanda is a plastic surgeon. Doesn't sound very important... oh, wait. {{spoiler|'''Skin'''-jobs?!}}
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Digital cloning rather than genetic, but the same
* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** Musical themes: In the pilot, Joseph reveals the true name of their family to Willie. The soundtrack playing over the scene is the Adama family theme, aka "Wander My Friends" from ''Galactica'' It is heard again in ''There is Another Sky'' during the funeral rite, and will probably used any time there is a really, really important family bonding moment between the two Adamas.
*** ''Rebirth'' - There is a brief scene of Daniel Graystone playing the piano in his lab. The piece he is playing is "Nomion?s Third Sonata, Second Movement," which was originally heard and named in the BSG episode "Someone to Watch Over Me." This in itself is also a [[Mythology Gag]] - the piece is based off of "Exploration," a theme from the soundtrack of the Original Series.
*** ''Gravedancing'' - The music that will eventually become the Colonial Anthem is briefly heard when Philomon is flipping through the radio channels. Like "Nomion's Third," this is also a [[Mythology Gag]].
*** The walkout music used on Baxter Sarno's show was originally heard in the party scene at the end of the BSG episode "Colonial Day."
** Delphi Convalescent Institute mentioned in ''The Imperfections of Memory'' is (very) vaguely implied to be the same Farm Kara Thrace was held in ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In the same episode, Amanda drops the [[Arc Words]] of BSG, "All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again", calling them "an old saying."
** "So say we all," both in the pilot and "End of Line."
** Joseph Adama's iconic lighter makes its (chronologically) first appearance in ''The Dirteaters''.
** In "The Heavens Will Rise," Amanda makes a reference to a medical practitioner named Cottle when discussing the fate of {{spoiler|Agent Durham}}. No doubt, this is a forebear or older relative of Galactica's Doc Cottle.
** In "Here Be Dragons," we see that Bill Adama inherited his model shipmaking from Evelyn, whose brother was the fox-hunting uncle.
* [[Cool Car]]: Joseph Adama's Citroen DS, and the Greystones' Jaguar Mark Two.
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** On the other hand: {{spoiler|Daniel Graystone is willing to do business with the mob. First when he needs a piece of technology he is unable to develop himself stolen from Vergis, and later on when he turns to them again after he has been ousted as CEO. He is also able to provide all kinds of dirt on the misbehavior of the members of the Graystone board of directors for use in blackmail}}.
* [[Cute Ghost Girl|Cute Virtual Girl]]: Zoe and Tamara.
* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]: The clothing is given a 1950s look, but the music is techno.
** Except for the Ha'la'tha, who (as noted above) are aficionados of Tauron rap. Bear in mind that Tauron is based on Ancient Greek.
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!]]:
* [[Dawson Casting]]: High school-aged Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand are played by Alessandra Torresani and Magda Apanowicz, who are both in their twenties. Genevieve Beuchner is a borderline case, being 18 while playing 16 year old Tamara.
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Amanda Graystone's brother.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Daniel's assistant, Cyrus Xander, has been getting more points on this trope in recent episodes. His reaction when he learned that Daniel hired [[What an Idiot!|a Tauron mobster to rob a prominent Tauron businessman who had connections to the same criminal organization]] was just epic.
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* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Clarice is in a group marriage with both men and women. Their family also doubles as a terrorist cell. Clarice herself seems willing to seduce both Amanda (a married woman) and Lacy (a teenage girl).
* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: Averted with Sam Adama. He is a mob enforcer who regularly kills people. But he is absolutely devoted to his husband Larry and shows no signs of interest in any other men.
* [[
* [[Digital Avatar]]: Zoe-Avatar of course, before she became a [[Virtual Ghost]].
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: During "Reins of a Waterfall", Zoe-Avatar is shown speaking with [[Holy Halo|a circular light behind her]]. (This is also a [[Continuity Nod]]; the halo and the stained-glass window that casts it are similar to Starbuck's mandala from BSG.)
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** The episode ''Rebirth'' adds to this by revealing that Sister Clarice has a group marriage which, while unusual, is quite legal.
** For that matter, Serge and Jane Espenson have both made it clear that it's not a case of them having overcome discrimination based on sexual orientation, it's that discrimination based on sexual orientation has ''never existed''. The Colonials would find the idea quite alien.
** Although it isn't elaborated on in the series, the Ancient Greeks had some ''interesting'' views on sexuality. For example, [http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/perry/109.htm anal penetration was considered shameful], while [https://web.archive.org/web/20150503175101/http://www.livius.org/ho-hz/homosexuality/homosexuality.html pederasty was considered educational].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: They probably had various other complaints against him, but {{spoiler|the death of Willie Adama}} is enough to turn a lot of the Ha'la'tha against the Guatrau and threaten a "civil war" within their organization.
* [[Everybody Smokes]]: And it fits the retro-future setting even better than ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Just to be clear: ''every single adult character of significance'' has been seen smoking something (although in Clarice's case it wasn't tobacco).
* {{spoiler|[[Evil Brit]]}}: {{spoiler|Clarice turns out to be one.}}
* [[Fantastic Slur]]: "Dirt-eater" for Taurons.
* [[First Episode Spoiler]]: {{spoiler|Zoe and Tamara "die"}}.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: ''Caprica'' is the story about how intelligent machines were created by the [[Battlestar Galactica
** Also Sam Adama seems to be training his young nephew Willie into being part of the Ha'la'tha. But we know that he'll become a Viper pilot and eventually [[The Captain]].
*** The story here seems to be just ''how'' little Willie Adama breaks away from his lawless roots to become the man he is rather than ''whether'' he will break away.
**** False. As of the finale, we have discovered that {{spoiler|Willie Adama and Bill Adama are not the same character. Willie is his older, deader brother.}}
** Joseph Adama pretty much has [[Contractual Immortality]] - Considering the interactions he is described as having had with Lee Adama and Romo Lampkin later in his life, he will probably never be in any serious mortal danger (from the audience's point of view) during the time setting of ''Caprica''.
* [[Gangsta Rap]]: "Voices of the Dead." In Ancient Greek.
* [[Gayngster]]: Sam Adama. A hitman in the Tauron Mafia, and talks to his nephew William about the days in the old neighborhood when he'd keep striking out with guys while his brother Joseph got all the girls. [[Eternal Sexual Freedom|In the Twelve Colonies there's no discrimination or stereotyping against homosexuals and bisexuals]], so he is pretty much just a gangster who happens to be married to a guy.
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* [[Genre Blindness]]: Daniel Graystone {{spoiler|"Oh hey, you know what's a good idea? [[Too Dumb to Live|Making a machine which is superior to us both mentally and physically completely sentient but not affording it any rights, liberties, yet program it to defend itself]]. Then lets force them into a subservient role where they work menial tasks and have to take our crap all day. What could possibly go wrong?"}} Not exactly what he said when he {{spoiler|talked his company into mass-producing the Cylons for the military}} but you get the idea.
** And nearing the finale of the first half-season he once again shows himself to be completely blind to the genre when he {{spoiler|uploads his daughters virtual-ghost into the Cylon prototype. It all goes horribly wrong and for awhile he thinks her avatar is dead yet later he begins to suspect she is still in the body.}} So what does he do? {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|Tortures the Cylon prototype by setting it on fire and forcing her to]] literally [[Shoot the Dog]].}} [[Sarcasm Mode|That totally is not going to come back and bite you in the ass Dan.]]
* [[Genre Shift]]: In terms of its settings and types of conflicts, ''Caprica'' is a ''very'' different animal from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Happily Married]]: Sam and Larry Adama. You heard me. And no, Sam ''isn't'' short for Samantha. Amanda and Daniel Greystone count, too, but if Amanda knew what Dan was up to...
** As of Gravedancing she does, and they're still (and maybe even more) [[Happily Married]].
** This stands out in contrast to the troubled relationships of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** Possibly subverted pretty damn hard with the midseason finale. {{spoiler|After the reveal that Daniel had the chip he used in the Cylons stolen from a rival corporation and that two people were killed in the robbery it is hinted at that Amanda is having serious doubts about their marriage. It's also heavily implied at the end that she may have killed herself.}}
* [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]: Series finale has awesome scene where cylons detect explosives and eliminate STO suicide bombers one by one. [[Fridge Logic]] suggest that installing the same technology in public places like sport arenas would make terrorist attack impossible. Didn't they learn anything from maglev bombing?
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** Note that one of her husbands is young enough to be her son.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Amanda Greystone.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Idiot Ball]]:
** Amanda Graystone apparently brought one to the memorial for the victims of the lev bombing, because she stands up in front of the crowd and announces that she thinks her daughter was partly responsible for the bombing that killed their loved ones. Then she acts surprised when the victims' families start rioting
:Somewhat justified: The last time she spoke to Zoe was on very bad terms which clearly becomes an immense source of [[Survivor Guilt]] for her. Add this to the fact that she had recently learned many things about Zoe that she previously did not know: that she had a boyfriend, that she had plans to leave, that she was a monotheist etc... Her {{spoiler|admission of Zoe's guilt}} was most likely caused by a [[Heroic BSOD]] and not a planned or even rationally-thought act.
** Perhaps a better example is Ben. He's a religious extremist, and he detonates a suicide bomb on a train as part of some vague attack on people of other religions. For now, let's ignore the fact that it probably would've been very simple for him to rig the bomb with a timer, or detonate it remotely, and his sacrifice was therefore meaningless. More importantly, he decided to do this when his girlfriend Zoe was with him. Although less extreme, she belonged to the same religion as him, and apparently would have been very valuable to their movement had she lived. So far, we've been offered absolutely no explanation, even implicitly, for his decision to involve her in his random suicide bombing. Apparently, the only reason he did it was so that Zoe's digital clone could wax existential and try to find her own purpose in life
:However, Ben is implied to be closer to Barnabas, who favored more aggressive tactics as opposed to Clarice's quest for apotheosis. For all we know, Barnabus pegged Ben to blow the train with Zoe to disrupt Clarice's position in the STO.
** Yeah, {{spoiler|if you think your daughter is in the robot, psychological torture is really the right way to go about drawing her out,}} Daniel.
** Daniel was holding it in "Here Be Dragons", when he {{spoiler|considered telling Sam how to kill Tamara-A}}. Fortunately, Amanda {{spoiler|realized Sam would kill Zoe-A as well if he had that information, and she shot Sammy out of the game}}. This is followed by Amanda essentially lampshading her husband's possession of the [[Idiot Ball]].
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* [[Little Miss Badass]] / [[Badass Adorable]]: As of "There Is Another Sky", {{spoiler|Tamara Adams' Avatar}} is well on her way to becoming one.
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Daniel inadvertently Logic Bombs his simulation of {{spoiler|Amanda}} by demanding that it attack him emotionally when it's programmed to please him.
* [[Matrix Raining Code]]: Caprica emulates the Cylon example from ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Zoe is Greek for "life".
* [[Meganekko]]: Avatar Zoe as "Rachel".
* [[Mole in Charge]]: {{spoiler|Gara Singh}}.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Zoe is a borderline case, made a little bit creepy by her character's apparent age, only to be made [[Dawson Casting|a little bit more comfortable by her actress]]'. In many episodes, particularly early on, she has a tendency to wear ''very'' [[Stripperific]] outfits and she even appears ''naked'' at one point, though this was clearly intended to represent her vulnerability ([[Fetish Fuel|though this can still be sexy]]). [http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r170/meshel73/Caprica/CapricaPoster_07.jpg Particularly exemplified in promotional posters for the show] (combined with [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]], [[Over-the-Shoulder Pose]], and [[Hand or Object Underwear]]
* [[Mythology Gag]]: From the pilot - Obviously, the Centurion prototype saying "By your command."
* [[Neighbourhood Friendly Gangsters]]: The Ha'la'tha take it seriously.
* [[No Bisexuals]]: Averted with the whole Willow clan, being at least four women and four men all married to one another.
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** Otherwise, this trope is largely averted. In Caprica, Tauron and Gemenon (the three planets we saw extensively), the culture and traditions and culture are shown to be diverse, even when there is one overriding theme (Tauron's militarism, Gemenon's religious nature). The Colonies ''not seen'' sometimes suffer from this though.
* [[Polyamory]]: Sister Clarice has multiple wives and husbands. The participants are ''all'' each other's spouses. And it's legal.
* [[Posthumous Character]]: Zoe-A and Tamara-A are [[Digital Avatar
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: In the pilot, Zoe-A is covered with blood after Zoe dies. Lacy hugs her and it disappears.
* [[Prequel in the Lost Age]]: To ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [["Previously On..."]]: This being a highly arc-based show, it shows up a fair amount.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Taurons.
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* [[Religion of Evil]]: STO is seen as this by colonials. [[Sarcasm Mode|Wonder why]]...
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: By the series finale Daniel and Amanda Graystone have fully accepted the Zoe avatar as a substitute for their dead daughter (it helps that she possesses almost every memory that the original Zoe did), even providing her with a physical body so she can interact with the real world.
* [[Retcon]]: And how. {{spoiler|When Admiral Adama mentions his mother in BSG he never mentions that she was killed in a terrorist bombing and he never mentions a sister at all. Joseph Adama, said to have spent his life with crooks and fiends to understand their motivations is made into a shady mob lawyer who's in the process of chickening out of attending to Tauron mob trials. The first Colonial Cylon - though not the first Cylon ever, as BSG viewers know there were Cylons on Kobol but the human characters of ''Caprica'' don't - is presented as a young girl accidentally stuck in a robot's body; the said girl is part of an extremist religious cult who basically spouts "One True God" rhetoric Cylons and Baltarists were known for in the BSG series, but the cult's followers were either non-existent in the BSG or were never mentioned for some inexplicable reason. The existence of the cult, and the fact that its members killed Adama's family, is never mentioned, even when Baltar basically restarts it. Further confounding is the fact that Zoe is never seen, nor mentioned in the BSG by anyone. We always knew the Colonials downgraded their tech after the Cylon War, but ''Caprica'' shows levels eclipsing the ''Battlestar Pegasus''.}}
** This is the Revision version of Retcon, however, not the Rewrite. See the Retcon page for the distinction.
** It'd be rather odd for Zoe to still be peeking up 50 years later, especially when her final disposition is unknown, given the events of the finale and subsequent cancellation-and the notion that buried in the Cylon mind is a seething pot of youthful indignation makes some sense. Some elements are averted in the finale, when {{spoiler|Joe and Sam escape the Ha'la'tha by killing the Guatrau and replacing him with his daughter, and it becomes clear that Admiral Adama is the second of Joe's children to bear the name William.}} A lot of personal change can happen in 50 years.
** A lot of the first example given here is actually a subversion of this trope, since {{spoiler|it turns out the William Adama who appears in virtually every episode of this series is not Commander Bill Adama}}.
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* [[Romance on the Set]]: Genevieve Buechner (Tamara) and Richard Harmon (Heracles)
* [[Rousing Speech]]: {{spoiler|Clarice's sermon to the Cylons:}}
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* [[The Rule of First Adopters]]: Lacy and Daniel discuss the Holoband, essentially an easy on, easy off, voluntary [[Matrix]]. [[The Internet Is for Porn|Guess who]] first adopted the technology.
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'''Daniel:''' Those are for ''adults!'' }}
* [[Screwed by the Network]]:{{verify|reason=MOD: It's been a decade - if any of this entry is still relevant, please reduce it to a single line, not an entry with three sequential replies.}} Syfy just revealed that the second half of season 1 will air a full year after the season began, just ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** It's been moved up to October
*** And has just (10/27/10) been completely canned, up to and including removing all future episodes from the lineup until sometime in 2011, which will end the series at that point. Ouch.
**** Amazon is still "confirming" that the Season 1.5 DVD set will be released on December 21. If this is true, then the last five episodes will premiere on DVD. Can't you just imagine Syfy execs pointing to the low ratings for the aired episodes in 2011, because people have already seen them on DVD, and saying it justifies the cancellaton?
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: Sam Adama tries to be this to his nephew William.
** Although we all know that [[Battlestar Galactica
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** William Adama learned you get more from one's enemies than your friends from his Grandma Ruth-less. Which he applies with the Cylons.
*** Oops. {{spoiler|No}}.
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** Dying in New Cap City is called [[Tron|de-rezzed]] and there's mention of a [[Tron|MCP]].
** In the Adamas house a poster features a [[Final Fantasy VII|spiky-haired sword-wielding]] [[Expy|Storm.]]
* [[Space Jews|Space Mexicans]]: The Taurons.
** Closer to Space Sicilians, though in closer inspection their culture is closer to Greek.
* [[Stargate City]]{{context}}
* [[
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Daniel is implied to be one, although he doesn't get much time for it.
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Lacy has a textbook case of this, saying that "it should've been [her]" on the 'lev, since it nearly ''was''. Which is part of why she's so loyal to Zoe-A.
* [[Take That]]: The last episode begins with Vergis's quote about choosing how we return to the soil, and ends with clips of future episodes that will never be made.
* [[Teen Genius]]: Zoe
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: In "End of Line"(1x09), Daniel plays part of the theme song on the piano
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: This pretty much sums up the look on {{spoiler|Clarice's}} face when she meets the new Blessed Mother in "The Shape of Things to Come".
* [["Three Laws
** Probably not a good idea to download the [[Virtual Ghost]] of an angsty teenager into it either.
*** {{spoiler|An angsty, born-again, teenager with daddy issues}}
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Lacy and Zoe.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In the series finale epilogue, {{spoiler|Clarice Willow. She may have genuinely believed that it was God's will to convert the "differently sentient" (Cylon robots) to monotheism, but when she outright encourages a robot rebellion and declares that there will be "a day of reckoning" for humanity during her prophecy can be described as misguided at best and suicidal at worst. Or she just forgot what species she belonged to.}}
* [[Took a Level
** Lacy in the final five episodes, and in The Shape of Things to Come {{spoiler|it turns out that she is the new Blessed Mother (pope) of the monotheist faith}}.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: Even though the pilot has been available since April 2009, it was only released on DVD and did not actually air on television until January 2010. Anyone who watches commercials leading up to the series premiere on TV will find out that both Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama die very early on. This is only natural, because said incident occurs near the beginning of the pilot and drives all the subsequent plot. [[Death
** That said, the notorious tradition in BSG of showing the best bits of the episode is continued in ''Caprica''.
** Subverted by the trailer for Season 1.5, which gave the impression that Amanda died by showing Daniel angrily rejecting a holographic avatar of her. She didn't.
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* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Zoe-R has Zoe's voice
** Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]] in that Daniel deliberately programmed the robot to be a copy of Zoe and may well have given it her voice, although this same unit did not use her voice when it eliminated the Serge-like targets while her personality was dormant.
** Another possible explanation is that the programming that makes Zoe-A sound like Zoe in V-world has adapted itself to the voice synthesizer in the robot body, just as she has adapted to moving in her new robot body.
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: Gemenon is home to several monotheist ''and'' polytheist terrorist organisations that all fight against each other just as much as they fight against the more tolerant Gemenese government.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Soldiers of the One. Ben [[Turned Up to Eleven|was an extremist even by the Soldiers standards.]]
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** Others are mentioned in DVD commentary. The {{spoiler|Head-Zoe}} in "Things We Lock Away" would have been {{spoiler|Head-Six or Head-Baltar}} if {{spoiler|Tricia Helfer or James Callis}} had been available. And Zoe might have {{spoiler|met one of the Final Five in V-world}} in Season 2.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Tamara in the last couple episodes.
* [[Wrench Wench]]: Lacy. Amusingly, she kinda looks like the Patron Saint of Wrench Wenches, [[Firefly|Kaylee Frye]]. Comparison: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110810032953/http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Kaylee23.jpg
* [[Wretched Hive]]: New Cap City.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: The show loves to take actors and actresses who played minor and supporting roles in BSG and cast them in minor and supporting roles in Caprica:
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** In "End of Line," the Caprican military procurement officer is played by Jill Teed, who previously appeared as Master-of-Arms Hadrian in Season 1.
** STO soldier Diego is a twofer - he is played by Ryan Robbins, who was the officer at Armistice station in the Miniseries and Charlie Connor in Seasons 3 and 4.
** In "Apotheosis," the Atlas Arena cameraman that Daniel knocks out is played by Mike Dopud, who previously appeared as Gage, a member of the ''Battlestar Pegasus'' rape gang.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: "Eros Day." [[Sarcasm Mode|One wonders what that might be]]...
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Averted. People in V-World who are killed or seriously injured just wake up, due to a failsafe built into the holobands that automatically activates if people reach a certain pain threshold. One of the games, New Cap City, does disallow "killed" players from returning to play, however.
* [[Zeerust]]: Deliberately invoked in order to make the series feel as if it is set 50 years before BSG, which, other than the spaceships and killer robots, [[Noughties Drama Series|feels and looks much like the Aughts it was produced in]]. Conversely, ''Caprica'' invokes 1950s clothing and aesthetics alongside [[Cyberpunk]] mainstays to produce a ''very'' unique look that is ''definitely'' different than BSG. It works.
** Also - all the cars are 1950's cars!
** [[Word of God]] (through a video blog on Hulu) describe it as [[Gattaca]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Dark City]].
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: The Athenian Academy uniforms feature a Grade C. Likewise Lacy wears a booted Grade C in virtual space in one episode.
* [[Zeppelins from Another World]]: Double case. Caprica City itself has pretty realistic blimps, similar to what you'd see floating over a stadium in our world. New Cap City has a full-blown version of the trope, with a monstrous gunship Zeppelin blasting players at random for [[Rule of Cool|no adequately-stated reason]].
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