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The following are [[Subjective Tropes]] relating to [[Firefly]].
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* [[Accidental Aesop]]: From the main page under [[Strawman Political]], the Core Worlds are [[Crystal Spires and Togas|peaceful and prosperous]], but [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|the government can do damn near anything they want]] to their citizens as long as they can [[I Did What I Had to Do|justify it]] -- such as [[Playing With Syringes|cut up little girls' brains]] or {{spoiler|[[Government Drug Enforcement|dose entire planets with mind control drugs]]}}. The Rim Worlds are [[Crapsack World|anarchic and destitute]], but [[ItsIt's Up to You|you can always look your accuser in the eye and settle it one way or another]] -- or even [[Training the Peaceful Villagers|round up a posse of fellow victims and exact some frontier justice]]. The [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|argument]] seems to be that ''[[Order Versus Chaos|a healthy civilization needs both]]'' and any attempt to "[[Utopia Justifies the Means|rid the world of sin]]" will do [[Gone Horribly Wrong|nothing but harm]] in [[Gone Horribly Right|the long run]]. Powerful stuff.<br /><br />As for the Aesop being Accidental, see [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Political?]], below.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Is Jayne a [[Psycho for Hire|barely-restrained murderous idiot,]] or is this a [[Obfuscating Stupidity|facade]] created to ensure he has [[Dismotivation|minimal responsibilities]] and [[Almighty Janitor|maximum opportunities]] to [[Blood Knight|hurt people he dislikes?]] Mal often relies on Jayne to accomplish impressive tasks with no supervision and little foreknowledge -- and he always does, [[Lovable Traitor]] tendencies notwithstanding.
** How exactly River's psychic abilities work is up to interpretation. The two most common theories are that either she's precognitive and can sense things before they happen, or that she possesses exceptional telepathic awareness of her surroundings which, coupled with her extreme intellect, lets her ''predict'' what's going to happen through analysis. Or maybe both at the same time.
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* [[Cult Classic]]
* [[Ear Worm]]: The title theme is the ''first'' example listed under [[Live Action TV]] on that page for a reason. Also frequently mentioned are the Fruity Oaty Bars jingle and the Ballad Of Jayne Cobb.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: River, who went from being a secondary character -- who still had quite a bit of focus on in the main series -- to being one of the two leads in [[The Movie]]. She's on the [[TVAll The Tropes Wiki Drinking Game]] for a ''reason.'' It's also telling that her entry on [[Firefly (TV)/Characters|the character page]] is twice as long as the others.
* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Averted. Dr. Matthias is a banal and rather boring person. The sort of person who would be running a government brainwashing project in other words.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Saffron, but she ''is'' played by [[Christina Hendricks]].
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* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: A young [[Zac Efron]] plays a young Simon Tam in a flashback from "Safe".
* [[Too Good to Last]]
* [[What an Idiot!]]: The guy who just beat you up and defeated your gang of [[Mooks]] offers to give you back all the money owed to your boss and let you go, no hard feelings. Do you A) gratefully accept the unexpected mercy, or B) threaten to hunt down and murder the man while standing between him and his rotating engine intake?
* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Political?]]: People seem to want to read politics into ''Firefly'' everywhere, with critics interpreting it as everything from an anti-Big-Government libertarian parable, to a racist, pro-Confederate perspective on the Wild West. The show is, in fact, fairly apolitical; with the exception of some possible feminist overtones (which are typical of [[Joss Whedon]]'s work), ''Firefly'' does not seem to have one specific political "message" as much as people would like to believe. Whedon even qualifies that, if anti-government messages '''do''' sneak in, that is because the story is essentially Mal's story, and it all comes from his perspective as a bitter ex-soldier who fought against the big bad government.
** The premise did come from journals of Confederate soldiers in the frontier. Whedon wanted to make a series based on the losers of a [[Civil War]].
* [[The Woobie]]: River.
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