- 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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- Death's Hourglass
- Decade Dissonance
- Decontamination Chamber
- Deflector Shields
- Demihuman
- Demon Slaying
- Demythtification
- Depopulation Bomb
- Descriptively Named Species
- Designer Babies
- Detachable Lower Half
- Detachment Combat
- Deus Est Machina
- Deus Sex Machina
- Devil but No God
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Dhampyr
- Die or Fly
- Different World, Different Movies
- Digitized Hacker
- Dilating Door
- Dinky Drivers
- Disappears Into Light
- Discount Lesbians
- Disintegrator Ray
- Disposable Superhero Maker
- Distress Call
- Divided States of America
- Divine Ranks
- Do Androids Dream?
- Do Not Adjust Your Set
- Do-Anything Robot
- Doing In the Scientist
- Doing In the Wizard
- Down the Rabbit Hole
- Dowsing Device
- Draconic Divinity
- Dramatic Alien VTOL
- Dramatic Space Drifting
- Dreaming of Things to Come
- Drop Pod
- Drop Ship
- Dying Race
- Dyson Sphere
- Dystopian Edict
E
- Eager Young Space Cadet
- Earth Is the Center of the Universe
- Earth That Used to Be Better
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom
- 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
- End of an Age
- The End of the World as We Know It
- End of the World Special
- Endless Daytime
- Enemies with Death
- Energy Economy
- Energy Weapon
- 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
- Evil Costume Switch
- Evil Hand
- Evil Luddite
- Evil Me Scares Me
- Evil Weapon
- Evil-Detecting Baby
- Evil-Detecting Dog
- Evilutionary Biologist
- Evolutionary Levels
- Evolutionary Stasis
- Exotic Equipment
- Expanded States of America
- Explosions in Space
- Explosive Decompression
- Expo Label
- Exposed Extraterrestrials
- Exposition Intuition
- Exposition of Immortality
- Expospeak
- Express Delivery
- Extra Parent Conception
- Extra-Strength Masquerade
- Exty Years From Now
- The Eyes Have It
F
- Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
- Face Monster Turn
- Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either
- Failsafe Failure
- The Fair Folk
- Fallen States of America
- Familiar
- 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 Ghetto
- Fantastic Honorifics
- Fantastic Light Source
- Fantastic Measurement System
- Fantastic Nuke
- Fantastic Racism
- Fantastic Rank System
- Fantastic Recruitment Drive
- Fantastic Religious Weirdness
- Fantastic Slurs
- Fantastic Time Management
- Fantasy Axis of Evil
- Fantasy Gun Control
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink
- Fantasy Pantheon
- Fantasy World Map
- Faster-Than-Light Travel
- The Federation
- Feed It with Fire
- Fetish Fuel Future
- Feudal Future
- Fiction as Cover-Up
- Fictional Field of Science
- Fight Off the Kryptonite
- First Contact
- First Contact Math
- Fish People
- Five Races
- Flat Earth Atheist
- Flat World
- 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
- Frickin' Laser Beams
- From a Single Cell
- Future Badass
- Future Food Is Artificial
- Future Imperfect
- Future Music
- Future Slang
- Future Spandex
- Futuristic Pyramid
- Futuristic Superhighway
G
- Gaia's Lament
- Gaia's 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
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks
- God Guise
- God Job
- God Test
- Godly Sidestep
- Going Critical