Sphere: Difference between revisions

* [[Closed Circle]]: A typhoon makes it impossible to leave the underwater enviroment for a week.

* [[Drinking On Duty]]: In the novel, Petty Officer Fletcher is described as having a noticeable odor of alcohol on her breath during the first squid attack.

* [[First Contact Math]]: In the novel, this is the way Harry manages to first make meaningful contact with the mysterious alien presence.

* [[Gender Bender]]: Of ''corpses.''

* [[Ghost Ship]]: A deserted spacecraft, a [[Big Dumb Object]] {{spoiler|which grants uncontrollable psychic powers}}, and several monsters.

* [[Hand Wave]]: The movie gets [[Helium Speech|silly voices created by the helium atmosphere]] out of the way after a brief comic relief scene by having everyone don "voice regulators".

* [[Hard On Soft Science]]: Discussed and subverted in the novel. One of the [[Jerkass]] physicists asks what somebody from such a useless field as psychology is doing on the mission. Norman, the psychologist protagonist, points out) what terrible people skills the average physicist has. It turns out the psychologist is {{spoiler|the only one mentally stable enough to handle the nigh-omnipotence the titular sphere gives without killing everyone.}}

* [[Helium Speech]]: This trope is used often in works set deep underwater and is played straight in the novel. Appears only briefly in the film.

* [[Hot Scientist]]: Dr. Elizabeth "Beth" Halperin, though she doesn't start off that way. Reality warping at work.

* [[I Always Wanted to Say That]]: Ted, on "[[We Come in Peace]]".

* [[Ice Cream Koan]]: Many. Beth even [[Lampshades]] that Jerry is channeling Deepak Chopra. Beth herself comments that the Zen masters would say that the Sphere was a ball that wanted to be caught.

* [[Inertial Dampening]]: The spaceship discovered at the bottom of the ocean features water-filled chair systems to help counteract high g-forces.