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* [[The Captain]]: Commander Jansen.
* [[Chase Scene]]: Done with ''floor waxers.''
* [[The Chosen One]]: Ryder.
* [[Cool Starship]]: <s> The Galactica</s> The Southern Sun.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Sort of. ''[http://agonybooth.com/recaps/Space_Mutiny_1988.aspx The Agony Booth]'' tells us that the VHS packaging claims the film features "''breathtaking special effects from the team that brought you [[Star Wars]]''." This is ''technically'' true, in the sense that the team that worked on ''[[Star Wars]]'' went on to do SFX for the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' series, [[Stock Footage]] from which was used for ''[[Space Mutiny]]''. The rest of the film's special effects, [[Special Effects Failure|on the other hand]]...
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* [[Greek Chorus]]: The Bellerians
* [[Groin Attack]]: Repeatedly. On the same guard.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Kalgan is played by John Phillip Law, who starred in ''[[Danger: Diabolik]]'' and as the blind angel Pygar in ''[[Barbarella]]''. Reb Brown, AKA "He who has many names", also starred in ''[[Yor, the Hunter from the Future]]'' as the title character, and played [[Captain America (comics)]] in a (mercifully) busted pilot movie. Let's not forget that the actor playing the Santa is Cameron Mitchell.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Verbatim from Ryder as he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|called out for letting Professor Spooner burn to death]].
** It doesn't even make sense, since he was teleported out of the fire by an automatic ejection system.
* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Daughter]]: The mutineers attempt this by capturing Lea. Unfortunately, she's savvy enough to get out on her own.
* [[I Meant to Do That]]: The filmmakers claim that ''Space Mutiny'' is supposed to be a spoof.
** The people with the distribution rights to the film don't. The packaging for the un-MSTed version of the film clearly states "It's Hilarious... But Not On Purpose".
** Then there's the whole [[Creator Backlash]] thing (see above). They ''meant'' it to be bad, but still didn't want the blame?
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* [[Mickey Mousing]]: When MacPherson stabs a dissenting crew member.
* [[Mooks]]: The Enforcers.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Ryder's [[Man On Fire|gruesome method]] of dispatching the helpless MacPherson.
* [[Neutral Female]]: Lea's attempts to help out in a firefight are marginally effective at best. At worst, she does more damage to Ryder than to Kalgan, because she shoots ''Ryder's'' go-kart.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: Averted, [[Railing Kill|big time]].
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* [[People Jars]]: Kalgan tends to freeze prisoners (or [[You Have Failed Me|failure subordinates]]) in cryogenic suspension rather than kill them outright. This is actually a fairly canny move, as once he's taken over the ship he can thaw them out so they can still be useful to him. Unfortunately the movie didn't have a budget for a cryogenics lab so they just hung four or five guys wrapped in plastic up on a coat rack.
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Not the actual pirates in the movie, who at least try to do something, but this trope does apply to Captain Devers.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: The Mortuary Keeper is just there running the facility where failed Mooks are frozen until necessary. He may work for the villain, but when the heroes arrive he asks if they need help or would like a cup of tea. He also answers all their questions about the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Evil Plan]]. He doesn't really seem evil at all.
** You could arguably count Lobster Boy and the Enforcers as a whole, though they're at the very least openly mean-spirited.
* [[Railing Kill]]: The [[Trope Namer]], seeing as they appear in abundance. Hell, it even appears in the poster above.
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* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: After the final make-out session, the camera cuts to a shot of the whatever's engines flaring as it boosts upwards across the screen.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Ryder mentions an "auxiliary backup system."
* [[Slasher Smile]]: For no readily apparent reason, Lea sports one of these while accidentally firing on Ryder's Enforcer kart... thus making her shooting at Ryder not appear accidental at all.
* [[Space Clothes]]: An unfortunate double standard seems to be set: women often wear Space Leotards (though some do get to wear actual uniforms), the men mostly...don't. The captain wears a silvery muumuu.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Again, taking Cisse Cameron's word for it, this film was still perhaps ''too good'' at emulating the films it was trying to spoof.
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* [[Stock Footage]]: All the space footage was taken from ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'''s stock footage.
** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in [[Star Trek]].
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.
** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."
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