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* [[Complete Monster]]: Durka, Natira.
** War Minister Ahkna has no qualms about {{spoiler|killing the last original Eidolon as well as planning to kill Aeryn and John's child.}}
* [[Crazy Awesome]] - By the end of the series, everyone has had their moments, particularly Crichton. Whenever things don't go according to plan (which happens most of the time), or even in the rare cases where things do (... doesn't really happen a lot), Crichton, Aeryn, D'Argo, Chiana, Pilot, Moya... okay let's just say nearly all of the main characters, end up running on [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] with a healthy serving of [[Xanatos Roulette]]. By the middle of season 3 you have entire ''episodes'' that are just [[Crazy Awesome]]. "Revenging Angel," anyone?
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Both of the theme tunes. Also, ''The Last Stand''—The music that plays during the {{spoiler|destruction of the Command Carrier}} at the end of season 3. Since the words are the "Dies Irae", it also counts as [[Ominous Latin Chanting]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Sadness]]: YMMV but {{spoiler|Talyn and Crais's sacrifice at the end of season 3, where they blow themselves up to save everyone, Crais waking Talyn up for just long enough for them to die together}} might count as one. Especially considering the lead-up with {{spoiler|Talyn trying and failing to control his psychological problems to the point where he attacks his own mother}}.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Scorpius.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Sikozu. Okay, "evil" is a bit of a stretch, though she ''is'' the only character who ever warms to Scorpius {{spoiler|and eventually joins him once Scorpius goes back to the Peacekeepers}}. But I think we can all agree on the "sexy" bit.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Crichton and Scorpius. "Insert the rod, John!" Crichton lampshades it a few times.
{{quote|'''Crichton''': "Get a new girlfriend, Scorpy!"}}
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Crichton, in one of his many flip-out moments in "Crackers Don't Matter," writes the name of the villain-of-the-week T'raltixx on a door. How does he know how to spell it, much less get it right? Then you realize: He doesn't! Nobody in the show technically speaks English except for Crichton, so he probably just made it up. Likewise when Crichton occasionally speaks in Spanish and the others have no problem understanding him (thanks to the Translator Microbes); an exception being "Crichton Kicks" where the microbes can't handle Klingon! This is explained by Sikozu not using translator microbes - her brain can't handle them, possibly {{spoiler|because she's a bioloid}}. She learns languages extremely quickly but must be presented with their structure, rules, and alphabet. Because Crichton taught her English but dropped in the Klingon on a whim (actually a true-blue [[Throw It In]] by Ben Browder, which is why Raelee Hill had that look on her face after he said it), Sikozu wasn't able to process what he said. And there are actually a lot of subtle references and minor events that have significant impact episodes after they're introduced.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: It began as a fairly generic [[Space Opera]] with outstanding special effects and above-average writing. Most fans would agree that the show grew the beard toward the end of Season 1, when Crichton first donned Peacekeeper clothing. From then on it [[Darker and Edgier|just got darker]].
* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: In the Season 1 episode "Back and Back and Back to the Future" (one of the earliest examples of a [[Darker and Edgier|dark episode]]), Crichton's forward-flashes in time depict [[Femme Fatale|Matala]] aggressively performing sex acts on him, and the scenes very much come across as though she's raping him. {{spoiler|Flash forward to the Season 4 two-parter "What Was Lost", in which Crichton is raped by Grayza.}}
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* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Even by 2002 standards, the PC game is pretty much balls.
* [[Recycled Script]]: "Through the Looking Glass" (written by David Kemper) was based on a pitch he made to ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' years earlier.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Exactly who qualifies as ''the'' scrappy may vary a great deal from viewer to viewer, but a lot of people hated Jool—including the other characters... [[Rescued
** While much of the fandom found Stark's "quirkiness" amusing and his sadness woobifying, others found his constant screeching and endangering of the crew to be extremely grating and his constant wailing about whatever new sad thing he bumped into to be rather [[Wangst]]y.
* [[Seasonal Rot]]: Season 3 is generally less well-regarded than the others and saw the show's ratings steadily decline as a result. Season 4, which took the series' inherent weirdness and dialed it [[Up to Eleven]] in a variety of ways, is also sometimes seen as this.
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* [[Too Good to Last]]: And ''how!''
* [[Ugly Cute]]: It's a guarantee that most viewers will see some characters as this. NamTar's original form is a good example.
* [[Villain Decay]]:
** Crais when the [[Stern Chase]] got old and Scorpius stepped up to became the [[Big Bad]], eventually leading to a [[Heel Face Turn]].
** Harvey started out as another Scorpius who, by virtue of being in Crichton's head, could win a lot and be consistantly scary. By the end, he's cracking jokes about [[E=MC Hammer]]. He was also created to avert this trope in the original Scorpius - it allowed Wayne Pygram to show up as often as the writers wanted, without forcing them to have Scorpius defeated each week, letting him keep his menace for when the original ''did'' make an appearance.
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