- 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
- Make My Index Live
- One With the Index
- Otherness Tropes
- Otherworld Tropes
- 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
Category:Speculative Fiction Tropes
Tropes that are specific to Speculative Fiction, encompassing Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in between...
* The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés
Subcategories
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
A
- Anatomy Arsenal (38 P)
B
- Body Snatcher (7 P)
H
K
- Killer Robot (14 P)
O
- Ominous Tropes (16 P)
- One With the Index (24 P)
- Our Clones Are Identical (15 P)
R
T
- Transhuman Tropes (30 P)
V
- Vampire Fiction (244 P)
Z
- Zombie Stories (168 P)
Pages in category "Speculative Fiction Tropes"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,155 total.
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- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
- Absent Aliens
- Absolute Xenophobe
- Absurdly Sharp Blade
- Abusive Precursors
- Ace Custom
- Adam and Eve Plot
- The Adjectival Man
- Advanced Ancient Acropolis
- Aesoptinum
- The Ageless
- Agony Beam
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier
- Akashic Records
- Alien Abduction
- Alien Arts Are Appreciated
- Alien Autopsy
- Alien Invasion
- Alien Kudzu
- Alien Scrappy
- Alien Sky
- Aliens Are Bastards
- Aliens Never Invented the Wheel
- Aliens of London
- Aliens Speaking English
- Aliens Steal Cable
- Aliens Steal Cattle
- All Myths Are True
- All Nations Are Superpowers
- All the Myriad Ways
- All Theories Are True
- The Alliance
- Alternate History
- Alternate Reality Episode
- Alternate Tooniverse
- Alternate Universe
- Alternative Calendar
- Always on Duty
- Amazon Brigade
- Ambiguously Human
- Amusing Alien
- Anal Probing
- Ancient Astronauts
- Ancient Conspiracy
- Ancient Tradition
- And Man Grew Proud
- Androids and Detectives
- Animate Inanimate Object
- Anti-Human Alliance
- 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
- Asimov's Three Kinds of Science Fiction
- Asteroid Miners
- Asteroid Thicket
- Atlantis Is Boring
- Augmented Reality
- Aura Vision
- Auto Doc
- Automaton Horses
B
- Baby Planet
- Bad Future
- Bad Moon Rising
- Bad Present
- Balance Between Good and Evil
- Balkanize Me
- Ban on Magic
- The Battlestar
- BBC Quarry
- 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
- Benevolent Precursors
- The Bermuda Triangle
- 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 Backup Drive
- Body Surf
- Boldly Coming
- Books That Bite
- Born as an Adult
- Born-Again Immortality
- Brain Uploading
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Breeding Cult
- The Bridge
- Bullpups Are Futuristic
- Burial in Space
C
- California Doubling
- Call a Rabbit a Smeerp
- Call a Smeerp a Rabbit
- 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 Interplanetary Travel
- Casual Interstellar Travel
- Chest Burster
- Chronoscope
- City in a Bottle
- City Noir
- City Planet
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe
- Clarke's Third Law
- Clockwork Creature
- Clone Degeneration
- Clone Jesus
- Cloning Blues
- Coca-Pepsi, Inc.
- Coconut Superpowers
- Cold Equation
- Cold Sleep, Cold Future
- Colony Drop
- Color-Coded Wizardry
- Comet of Doom
- Comically Misidentified Foreign Technology
- Coming in Hot
- Complete Immortality
- Compound Interest Time Travel Gambit
- The Computer Is Your Friend
- Computerized Judicial System
- Concentrated High-Calorie Goo
- Conspiracy Placement
- Contagious AI
- Contagious Powers
- Contemporary Caveman
- Continuous Decompression
- Conveniently Coherent Thoughts
- Conveniently-Close Planet
- Cool Airship
- Cool Boat
- Cool but Inefficient
- Cool Chair
- Cool Gate
- Cool Horse
- Cool Key
- Cool Starship
- Corralled Cosmos
- Cosmic Chess Game
- Cosmic Close Call
- Cosmic Keystone
- Counter-Earth
- Courier
- Cozy Catastrophe
- Crazy Cultural Comparison
- Creative Sterility
- Creepy Monotone
- Cross-Cultural Handshake
- Crossover Cosmology
- Crush! Kill! Destroy!
- Cryonics Failure
- Crystal Clear Picture
- Crystal Spires and Togas
- Cult Colony
- Culture Clash
- Curse Escape Clause
- Curse of Babel
- Cut the Juice
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Cyborg
- Cyborg Helmsman