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* [[Deadly Gas]]: The cyanide gas trap in ''In Heaven Now Are Three''.
* [[Derelict Graveyard]]
* [[Dueling Hackers]]:
* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Hunt, from his half-Paradine heritage.
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Tarn Vedra as Seefra-1, then literally with the destruction of Earth.
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** Bartolome Naz in And Your Heart Will Fly Away is an expy of [[Dr. Strangelove]].
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: The [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Magog]].
* [[Family Values Villain]]: Not exactly what most people would call family values. But Nietzcheans often adore their families and apparently their children. One of the few [[Pet the Dog|touching]] things about them. Though they believe their children are extensions of themselves so arguably it is kind of selfish.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Not just for/against aliens, either; the Knights of Genetic Purity hunt down all modified human-offshoots.
** As Dylan points out, only 12% or so of the humans in the ''entire known universe'' fall under their definition of "pure".
* [[Flanderization]]: Oh, so very much.
* [[Flat Character]]: After Season 2, all of them. Robert Hewitt Wolfe planned major [[Character Development]] for the ''Andromeda'' crew. After he was fired, [[Status Quo Is God]] took effect in regards to their emotional growth.
▲** If post-Ouroboros Trance is adult Trance, then does that make pre-Ouroboros underaged Trance? [[Less Disturbing in Context|Much less squicky]] once it's established that she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|several billion years old]] [[Genius Loci|star]] using an [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|artificial humanoid body]] as a sockpuppet.
* [[Gaia's Vengeance|Gaia's avengers]]: The Restorians, lead by the Balance of Judgment, a [[Knight Templar]] [[Sapient Ship|warship AI]].
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The final episode of season 4.
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** One very horrible offender is in a scene, where Dylan says "Tyr, try not to destroy the warship." The subtitles say "Tyr. Get rid of the warship."
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Trance Gemini.
* [[Guile Hero]]: Capt Hunt is several times told that "he thinks like a Nitzchean". As every Nizchean aspires to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] that is considered a great compliment.
* [[Heroic Lineage]]: Every Nitzchean boasts of his ancestry and aspires to be someone else's heroic ancestor. Except they view themselves in brutally [[The Social Darwinist|pseudo-biological]] terms, consciously trying to pass on their genes.
**Their idea of heroism is simply "proving oneself a [[Badass]]" with no other considerations other then [[Pragmatic Villainy|what works]] for that purpose. Oddly that philosophy would be self-destructive in real life as it is necessary to cooperate to achieve anything including survival. If every Nitzchean really behaved as he was supposed to, they would be mopped up by inferiors as easily as Romans mopped up Celts.
**Oddly enough one could imagine a future ethnoreligious group something like the Nitzcheans. Tribal organization has proven itself as a useful format in the past, works among some peoples today and even advanced democracies sometimes feel the need to fall back on a pseudofamilial figure like a powerless monarch. People in societies like that do obsess with lineage in much the way Nitzcheans do and in the future might justify it just the way the Nitzcheans do and even use appropriate imagery such as the double-helix bracelet representing the joining of DNA in a wedding. Real Life versions of tribal societies though are seldom as amoral as them as that would be societal suicide.
* [[Humans Are Special]]: [[A Is]] are horrible at guessing, which makes humans and other organic life forms are far better at slipstream navigation. Also, ship [[A Is]] seem to make poor commanders, are more effective in combat when working with a crew.
** Averted partly when the AI Ryan is given command of... well, himself, aka the Wrath of Achilles.
* [[Hyperspace Lanes]]: Several star systems are strategically important because you need to travel through
** In one episode, they're trying to get to Tarn Vedra (the lost capital planet of the old Commonwealth) by following a ridiculously complicated sequence of slipstram routes. Several of the steps are jumps between ''different galaxies!''
*** In defence of the pilots, the guy who planned the route was insane.
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* [[Recycled in Space]]: The basic premise is [[wikipedia:Genesis II %28film%29|Genesis II]] and [[wikipedia:Planet Earth (TV pilot)|Planet Earth]] in space.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]
* [[Revised Ending]]: sort of. The original series developer, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, wrote a non-canon (technical [[Fanfic]]) one-act-play of an outline, entitled [https://web.archive.org/web/20120417071506/http://www.roberthwolfe.com/Coda/Andromeda___Coda.pdf Coda] (warning, PDF) for how he envisioned the series to play out past the point of his departure.
* [[A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma]]: Seamus calls Trance "an enigma wrapped in a riddle with a tail in the middle."
* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]
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* [[Time for Plan B]]
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: Doyle. She's fine once she gets over the initial shock.
* [[Too Dumb to
* [[Troubled but Cute]]
* [[Vehicle Title]]
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