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{{quote|''"[[To Serve Man|We don't require our food to agree with us.]]"''
|'''Wraith Queen'''}}
'''''Stargate Atlantis''''' is a spin-off of the popular sci-fi show ''[[
SG-1 spent its seventh season searching for a "lost city", which they believed was actually [[Ancient Astronauts|a ship]] belonging to the [[Precursors|Ancients]]. Finding a way to travel to the city via a very long Stargate jump to the Pegasus galaxy, an expedition was put together to assess the new location, what threats it may have and the radical leftover technology there might be.
''Stargate Atlantis'' is similar in tone to ''[[
The show branches off from ''[[
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== A-G ==
* [[Action Girl]]:
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** Amelia Banks, [[Mauve Shirt|one of the control room technicians]], is well-trained in kicboxing. She starts a relationship with Ronon [[Hot Amazon|after he sees her beating up one of Michael's hybrids.]]
* [[Actor Allusion]]: In "Brain Storm" Jennifer Keller, played by [[Jewel Staite]], references her previous role (Kaylee of ''[[Firefly]]'') and her fascination with strawberries.
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* [[The Alliance]]: One episode in Season 4 features a brief alliance between the Atlantis team, several Wraith hives, and the Travelers to destroy the Replicator homeworld. They succeed.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Deleted scenes included on the DVD releases give a lot of supplemental information, and even tentatively conclude several plotlines that reach back to ''[[
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]:
** In the first season the Genii seize Atlantis for a brief time after the majority of the expedition evacuates to avoid a dangerous hurricane.
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* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The all-female expedition team from season five episode "Whispers".
* [[And Man Grew Proud]]: The pilot reveals that the Greek myth of [[Atlantis]] was inspired by the true story of the Ancient city: A great civilization that sank beneath the waves of the ocean. The Greeks simply did not understand that it happened on another planet.
* [[And Then What?]]: Todd the Wraith asks ''the heroes'' this with regards to their plan to {{spoiler|genetically re-engineer the Wraith so that they no longer need to prey upon humans}}, as it is all that the Wraith have ever known
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: "The Shrine"; "The Seer". Really, Col. Carter, remember that time you and SG-1 encountered the exact same situation?
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In a first season episode, Rodney is about to receive gene therapy, prompting the following exchange with Dr. Beckett:
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'''Dr. Rodney McKay:''' A mouse retrovirus?
'''Beckett:''' It's been deactivated.
'''McKay:''' Well, are there any side effects?
'''Beckett:''' Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel... }}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Rodney McKay had a few minor appearances on ''SG-1'' as a rival with pseudo-[[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] for Samantha Carter. The character intended to be the smart guy was originally to be called "Ingram" and be black, but was re-written as McKay after David Hewlett joined the cast.
* [[The Asteroid Thicket]]: They actually use [[Asteroids|the game]] as an expository device when they need to shoot their way through the "edge" of a thicket, and the situation become even worse when they point out how this thicket is actually [[Sci
* [[As You Know]]: When Woolsey tries it with Ronon, [[Subverted Trope|Ronon says that he actually did not know that]]. [[Double Subverted|Woolsey follows up that he previously explained it personally]], [[Zig Zagged Trope|but Ronon says he missed that meeting, and Woolsey says that]] ''[[Zig Zagged Trope|he saw Ronon there]]''.
* [[Atlantis]]: In this series, it's an ancient city-cized spaceship, rather than an ancient mythical continent.
* [[Back for
* [[Back
* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Lieutenant Ford (And briefly Teyla and Ronon) gains increased strength and a resistance to Wraith stunner technology after he is injected with an enzyme that the Wraith produce as part of the feeding process. [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|Too bad it also drove him insane]].
* [[Badass in
* [[Badass in Distress]]:
** Sheppard is kidnapped and tortured by Kolya in order to extort Weir's help in toppling the Genii government; he is forced to team up with Kolya's Wraith prisoner (Todd) in order to escape while his team tries to find him.
** In "Sateda" Ronon is re-captured by the Wraith faction that turned him into a runner and is used again as hunting prey. He is saved by the arrival of the Atlantis team and a well-timed drone.
* [[Bait and Switch Tyrant]]: Woolsey taking over the command of Atlantis.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Teyla in most of her "civilian" clothes.
* [[Bash Brothers]]: Ronon and Teal'c... versus the Wraith.
* [[Battle in
* [[Beach Episode]]: In the commentary for the first-season episode "Sanctuary", actresses Rachel Luttrell and Tori Higginson discuss the feasibility of having a beach episode. They mention that there must be at least one floor in Atlantis that is at sea-level and whose edge can serve as a boat/swimming dock to stand in for a sand beach. However, they also mention that they are happy that Atlantis lacks an ''actual'' beach, because if it did Teyla would probably wind up in a [[Barely
* [[Beneficial Disease]]:
** Sheppard is resistant to Lucius Lavin's mind-control pheromones because he has a cold and cannot smell anything.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]:
** Elizabeth Weir repeatedly. First demonstrated by her smackdown to Kavanagh in "Thirty-Eight Minutes".
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'''Kavanagh''': You wouldn't do that. We'll talk about this later.
'''Elizabeth''': ''Never again''. Now Kavanagh. Get. Back. In. There! }}
** Teyla. After Ronon manipulated her to arrange a meeting in order to assassinate Kell, the man who betrayed thousands of people on Sateda to save himself, Teyla calmly waits until they are in a quiet spot, then slams him against the wall and draws a knife against his throat.
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* [[Big Bad]]: Several Chief among them are the Wraith (among which no single Wraith has managed to claim the title of overall leader, although Todd managed to get pretty close even though he cooperated with Atlantis more often than against them), but there's also the Asurans (lead by Oberoth), Michael and his Hybrid faction, and the evil Asgard were to be another significant adversary before the cancellation.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
** In "Miller's Crossing," Sheppard, Ronon and the NID burst in to save McKay and his sister when they have been kidnapped and she experimented upon.
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** In the finale, {{spoiler|Carson Beckett}} pulls this with {{spoiler|''Atlantis itself''}}.
* [[Big Eater]]: McKay, whose hunger and obsessive eating is a frequent point of discussion and even, occasionally, a plot point.
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* [[Body Horror]]: "The Seed"
* [[Boldly Coming]]: Sheppard, several times, and never without heavy [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Rodney:
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** This gem from "McKay and Mrs Miller";
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'''Sheppard''': I was just saying hello!
'''McKay''': Sure you were... [[Star Trek|Kirk!]] }}
* [[Booby Trap]]: The Runner in "Tracker" sets up at least three traps in the woods in order to keep himself from being tracked back to the shelter where he has hidden the wounded young girl he is caring for. After Ronon manages to dodge the second trap, he comments that "[[Worthy Opponent|he's good.]]"
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: When he is not being a [[Colonel Badass]], Colonel Sheppard prefers to do as little work as possible and describes himself as lazy. Some of the show's funnier moments have been other characters reacting to his quick and often out-of-the-box thinking. In the alternate reality belonging to "Rod" McKay, their Sheppard averts this, being both an active member of Atlantis' [[
* [[Bottle Episode]]: In the commentary for "Hot Zone," writer Martin Gero explains that a benefit of the vast sets constructed for the series is that they can produce bottle episodes (Episodes that are filmed entirely on already-constructed sets with a minimum of special effects) that still have the large scope of a regular episode. They specifically mentioned that episode and the preceding "Thirty-Eights Minutes," which still managed to feature several different groups of characters operating in distinct locations.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]:
** The Ancients. Over the course of the series you realise how utterly careless and arrogant they were and how badly they screwed up both the Pegasus Galaxy and the Milky Way. Lampshaded by McKay in "The Tao of Rodney" after an accident with an Ancient Device will either cause him to ascend or kill him.
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** The Vanir, a rogue faction of Asgard who were trapped in the Pegasus Galaxy after their intergalactic ships were destroyed and willing to do ''anything'' to ensure their own survival. When Sheppard and Rodney call them out on their actions, that they're the ''Asgard'' and supposed to be the ''[[Big Good|good guys]]'', their response is to point out how well that mentality helped their brethren become extinct in the Milky Way.
* [[Bulletproof Human Shield]]: When Sheppard is being chased by the Genii in "Remnants" he captures one with a tree snare and hides behind his hanging body while he shoots the other two soldiers.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: The only Atlantis personnel to die in "Whispers" is Captain Vega, who had been implied (In [[Hide Your Lesbians|deleted scenes]]) to be a lesbian.
* [[California Doubling]]: Or rather Vancouver, par for the course for ''Stargate''.
* [[Call Back]]: When Colonel Carter is packing her equipment at the SGC in preparation for taking command of Atlantis, Teal'c gives her a farewell speech, which culminates with the statement that "[[Spock Speak|undomesticated equines]]" (Wild Horses) could not keep him from visiting her. She laughs and [[Lampshade Hanging|says]] "nice [[Call Back]];" Teal'c had first referred to horses in such a manner back in season one of ''[[
* [[Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough]]: Major Sheppard and Sergeant Bates in the first season. Bates, a [[Semper Fi|Marine]] non-com, is much more blunt than Sheppard, and spends much of the first season arguing with him over what he sees as too-lenient restrictions on the Athosians, who Bates see as a security risk.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Yes, that really is Rachel Luttrell singing in the episode "Critical Mass".
* [[Casual Danger Dialogue]]: He is rarely ''casual'' about it, keeping with his usual manic and panicked personality, but McKay is frequently sidetracked by random or inane conversations in the midst of high-pressure or dangerous situations. The other members of the team frequently need to remind him that now is not the time to pursue that train of thought.
* [[Caught
* [[The Cavalry]]: "The Siege," the season one finale and season two opener, sees the [[Semper Fi|US Marines]] arrive to defend Atlantis from Wraith attack, and then the USS ''Daedalus'' arrives [[Gunship Rescue|to drive off the remaining forces]].
* [[Celebrity Star]]: The world's greatest physicists are trapped in a building with an [[Applied Phlebotinum]] device that is about to kill them all. Said physicists include the director of the Hayden Planetarium and ''Stephen Hawking''. So of course, out of all of them, the one fellow Dr. McKay chooses to help him save the day is Bill Nye the Science Guy. The episode also allows for a [[Funny Moments]] when Rodney asks Neil deGrasse Tyson [[Pluto Is Expendable|if he has made any children cry today]].
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* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: Sheppard points out to prospective-queen Harmony that being in charge is not fun and games, and that you need to put the needs of your people ahead of your own essentially all the time.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: When Rodney McKay was first introduced on SG-1 he was a much more smug, self-confident character with noted sexism. Starting with the pilot of ''Atlantis'', his general self-confidence transformed into intellectual arrogance and he became more panicked and unsure when it came to women.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In "Midway", Ronan and Teal'c find themselves inside a room with a couple of spacesuits. By the end, Sheppard manages to avoid death by entering one of these.
* [[City of Weirdos]]: "Vegas" points out how very easy it would be for a Wraith to hang out in Las Vegas and have nobody notice.
* [[Climb, Slip, Hang, Climb]]: Sheppard does it in "Quarantine".
* [[Clingy MacGuffin]]: In "Tracker", the Runner Kyrik was in possession of an ancient armband artifact that fused onto him, and allows him to teleport long distances as long as it's powered up.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: Carson's clone never knew he was a clone until he managed to make it back to Atlantis.
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* [[Conflict Killer]]: Teyla and Sergant Bates had a growing conflict throughout season one, where Bates believed that Teyla was a security risk that was feeding information to the Wraith, either willingly or subconsciously. This came to a head in "The Siege, Part 1" where they exchanged physical blows after Bates made an explicit accusation after a mission went wrong. {{spoiler|Later in the episode Bates was discovered beaten so severely that Beckett felt it was best to keep him in a medically induced coma, attacked by a Wraith that had secretly been in the city for weeks; after the beating he was shipped out of the base for treatment and never returned to Atlantis}}.
* [[Continuity Porn]]: In "''Doppplerganger''", Carter refers to the events of "''Cold Lazarus''", where they encountered a similar form of Crystal Entity that briefly impersonated Jack O'Neill, "''The Gatekeeper''" which was where they first acquired Virtual Reality technology, as well as her time being taken over by an alien entity in "''Entity''".
* [[Cool Gate]]: It is ''Star'''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Courtroom Episode]]: "Inquisition"
* [[Crazy Enough to Work]]: When Martin Gero and Brad Wright were discussing the conclusion to "Hot Zone," the original plan had been for the charactes to simply generate an electro-magnetic pulse using equipment in McKay's lab. After realizing that this idea did not have much emotional power, Wright mentioned that nuclear explosions generate an EMP and Gero commented that that was crazy. According to the commentary for the episode, Wright's response was "so crazy it just might work."
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** Seems to have been a requirement to join the Atlantis expedition, but most of the time it is Sheppard.
** Todd the Wraith is the one Wraith to really seem to ''enjoy'' deadpan sarcasm.
* [[Decapitation Presentation]]: In "The Last Man", Michael does this with the head of {{spoiler|a Wraith queen}}.
* [[Death By Pragmatism]]: Used with many [[Shoot the Dog]] moments.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Atlantis tends to bring out the best in people.
** Woolsey, continuing his arc from ''SG-1'', noticably lightens up and becomes less bureaucratic from his earlier appearances, even the producers referred it as "his redemption".
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* [[Delivery Guy]]: McKay to Teyla in the season 5 opener.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: When Zelenka explains to Elizabeth that the Ancient computer system is incredibly redundant and difficult to erase, Elizabeth repeats his 'redundant' statement right back to him. [[Never Heard That One Before|Zelenka explains how that never gets old]].
* [[Development Hell]]: Production for the direct to DVD film ''Extinction'' has been put on hold indefinitely due to the cancellation of ''[[
* [[Die Hard
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: McKay does it so frequently that listing individual examples here is simply impractical and would take up half the page. Lampshaded in "Trio," where Carter points out that if Keller had not interrupted him, he would have gone on all day.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: In "Vegas," Detective John Sheppard barely scrapes by on his performance reviews, has illegal gambling debts, and quits his job to skip town after stealing money from a crime scene.
* [[Discount Lesbians]]: Depending on how you count these things, "Duet" features either the ''Stargate'' franchise's first gay kiss or first lesbian kiss, but not both. {{spoiler|1=Laura Cadman, whose conciousness was trapped in the body of Rodney McKay, took control of his body and [[Kissing Under the Influence|kissed both Katie Brown and Carson Beckett]]}}.
* [[Distant Prologue]]: "Rising"
* [[Doctor. Doctor. Doctor.]]: John Sheppard, Samantha Carter, Steven Caldwell and Abraham Ellis are all [[Colonel Badass|Colonels]]. Leads to a [[Funny Moments]] when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNY3YyDR-A all of them are put in the same room] and greet each other.
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* [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Otho gets Sheppard to hand over his weapons and agree to accompany him to the Tower by pleading that he think of his life and the lives of the surrounding civilians, many of whom would be killed if Sheppard tried to resist.
* [[Dramatic Space Drifting]]: Two examples, both involving Asuran replicators (nanite robots).
** The first is after an Asuran scientist does a [[Heel Face Turn]]. When the other replicators detect this they wirelessly reprogram him, causing him to attack the Atlantis team. They beam him into outer space, with the episode closing on a shot of him floating around.
** The second is of {{spoiler|Dr. Weir (now turned replicator) and her Ascension-seeking brethren}} floating in space after she tricked them into following her through the Stargate to protect the rest of the expedition.
* [[Dress
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Sheppard's brother in "Outcast", who stayed behind to take care of the family business while Sheppard was out on military ventures across the world after having a fallout with his father. They eventually manage to reconcile after their father's death.
* [[Early
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: When the Genii were originally introduced they maintaned a facade as primitive farmers in order to remain hidden from the Wraith, keeping up the charade even with regular trading partners and "friends." The facade was completely dropped by season two, where the Genii were known as a militaristic society to the galaxy at large, and had been for several decades.
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: ''Meredith'' Rodney McKay
* [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: Sheppard and Woolsey's plots in "Remnants" began to deconstruct a little more than halfway through the episode, but it is only in the final scene that {{spoiler|1=we learn McKay's plot was ''also'' being manipulated by the AI, and Zelenka was never actually in the episode at all.}}
* [[Enemy Mine]]: "Common Ground," the introductory episode of Todd the Wraith, featured him and Sheppard working together to escape a Genii base. This would lay the foundation for later episodes, where Todd would collaborate with Atlantis against both Michael and the Replicators.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]:
** Before you knew his name you only knew Sheppard as the one to save [[Stargate SG-1
** Ronon's introductory episode has him getting into a fistfight with Ford (who was inhumanly strong [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|and crazy]] because of a [[Psycho Serum]] accident) and not only matching him in combat, but seemed to have the edge.
** Colonel Ellis, commander of the ''Apollo'', clashes with the Atlantis expedition personnel over how to deal with the Replicators and dismisses McKay's technical abilities as a potential weapon, highlighting how he is [[Replacement Flat Character|less cooperative and used to the Pegasus galaxy than Colonel Caldwell]].
* [[
* [[Evil Is Visceral]]: The Wraith use [[Organic Technology]] and are not very pretty themselves.
* [[Expy]]:
** Ronon to Tyr Anasazi from ''[[Andromeda]]''.
** Beckett to [[Star Trek:
* [[Face Death
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Otho}} towards the conclusion of "The Tower."
* [[Fake American]]: Most of the main cast are Canadians playing Americans. In the original cast, only Joe Flanigan (American playing an American) and David Hewlett (Canadian playing a Canadian) were actually playing their correct nationalities. They are, by coincidence, also the only characters to appear in every episode of the series.
* [[Fake Nationality]]: [[Playing
** Zelenka. David Nykl was born in the Czech Republic, but having lived most of his life in Canada he is not using his normal accent.
** Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett); born in Scotland, grew up in Canada, and has spent time back and forth.
* [[Fan Service]]: McKay conjures up an image of Col. Carter to act as a conversation/idea foil for himself as he tries to figure a way out of a sinking Puddle Jumper. At one point he imagines her in nothing but a skimpy pink bathing suit. Yes, Rodney creates his own fanservice and the audience gets to observe for free. Hewlett has remarked at conventions that, due to having recently given birth, Amanda Tapping admitted herself that she didn't fit in her own bra anymore. Hewlett then spent the entire shoot looking in any direction except Tapping's.
* [[Fakeout Escape]]: Sheppard uses this in "Aurora" to escape from a virtual-reality cell.
* [[Famous Last Words]]: When Peter Grodin [[Heroic Sacrifice|stays behind]] to bring the Ancient Satellite Weapon online, he laments that his only regret is that he was unable to get enough power to fire off a ''second'' volley and take down ''another'' Wraith Hiveship;
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* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Sheppard.
** [[The Lancer]]: Teyla.
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* [[Foreign Language Tirade]]:
** Zelenka is known to rant in Czech when frustrated.
** Hermiod frequently complains about humanity in Asgard, which is actually just English in reverse.
* [[Geeky Turn On]]: Dr. Weir distracts a scientist by talking about ''[[
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sheppard repeatedly show an awareness of sci-fi cliches and what roles they play, that Ronon is "Chewie" and Beckett is "McCoy".
* [[Get Back to
* [[Get It Over With]]: The third-season episode 'Common Ground', where the Wraith [[Magnificent Bastard|Todd]] is first introduced. After repeatedly feeding on Sheppard to the point that he has almost become a desiccated corpse, Sheppard intones him to do this. {{spoiler|Then Todd gives back all the life-energy he took from him because he helped him escape from a Genii prison.}}
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'''Todd''': As I told you, John Sheppard, there are many things about Wraith that you do not know. }}
* [[Go
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Col. Sheppard; Rodney McKay was quite surprised to find that Sheppard has a [[
* [[Good News, Bad News]]:
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'''Sheppard:''' What is it?
'''McKay:''' There's little or no chance of getting the DHD working - the system is completely out of wack. It's gonna take some incredibly intricate re-routing of the power in order-
'''Sheppard:''' Woh, woh! What's the good news?
'''McKay:''' That was the good news. The bad news is we lost life support. }}
* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: When they are trapped in a collapsed mining facility, Carter, Keller and McKay try to climb out using a makeshift grappling hook. They joke about making a [[Grappling Hook Pistol]] part of the standard mission gear for all off-world missions.
* [[Greater Need Than Mine]]: After the control room of Atlantis is blown up (again), Col. Sheppard finds Ronon sitting on the ground with a large shard of glass sticking out of his shoulder. Sheppard asks him why none of the medics are attending to him, and Ronon says he wouldn't let them, because others in the room need help more. Shepherd immediately calls BS on this, and orders one of the medics to see to Ronon's injuries. Ronon actually loves to pull this when he gets injured. Which isn't very often, actually.
* [[Guile Hero]]: The Atlantis team.
* [[Gunship Rescue]]: "The Siege, Part 3" opens with the ''Daedalus'' [[The Cavalry|emerging from hyperspace to save Atlantis from the Wraith assault]].
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* [[Hell
* [[Hellish Pupils]]: The Wraith.
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Major Lorne
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** Griffin in "''Grace Under Pressure''" who defied McKay's order and forcibly sealed him in the rear compartment of the Jumper, knowing full well that this was a death sentence as the cockpit window was seconds from cracking and pouring in several-hundred feet of ocean water.
* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Halling calls Teyla out on this in "Suspicion".
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* [[Hey, You]]: When Woolsey is being reviewed and graded by the IOA he attempts to show how well he has settled in by addressing Atlantis personnel by their first names and referencing individual hobbies that they have. However, he accidentally calls Chuck "Chet" and, when Chuck corrects him, spends the rest of the episode referring to him as "you."
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* [[Hidden Depths]]: Sheppard. He off-handedly mentions he passed the Mensa test, solved a brainteaser that even Rodney could not and one of the few items he took with him to Atlantis was a copy of ''[[War and Peace]]''.
* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: Captain Alicia Vega, introduced in the premier episode of season five, was intended to be first canonically gay character in the Stargate verse. However, the only implication of this fact was a single scene at the end of the episode where, after [[Absolute Cleavage|unzipping her jacket]], Vega invited Jennifer Keller to join her for a drink. This scene, and all of Vega's other scenes in the episode except for an exchange with Colonel Carter, was deleted from the episode before airing, [[Bury Your Gays|and she was killed in her next appearance]].
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** O'Neill cites Sheppard's record of having disobeyed orders, only to be immediately called on his own record of the same by Weir.
** From the episode "McKay and Mrs. Miller":
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'''Zelenka:''' Thank you.
'''McKay:''' Yes, but try not to encourage him. He's got a bit of an ego. }}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The writers literally could not think of a way to make the plot of "Midway" happen, so they [[Retcon|recorded new dialogue for McKay that was inserted into the "Previously on..." opening with clips from "The Return"]] where he specifically mentions how they are ''not'' taking the standard precautions that they have taken on every other gate under SGC control.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: McKay believes that the way to get a pair of ten year old boys to help them out of danger is for Carter to lift up her shirt, since that is how you get a male kids attention. [[Defied Trope|Carter points out that they can survive without resorting to that]].
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Zadek tries this with Ellia in "Instinct". [[Tear Jerker|It doesn't work.]]
* [[I Like Those Odds]]: Often stated by Ronon.
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'''Ronon:''' "Then it'll be a fair fight." }}
* [[I'm a Doctor, Not
** "For the last time, I'm a doctor, not a bloody fighter pilot!"
** "I'm a bloody medical doctor, not a magician!"
* [[Immune to Bullets]]:
** The Wraith (at first, before [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]] set in). Later seasons [[Hand Wave]] the Wraiths increased vulnerability to bullets by explaining that their healing ability is directly proportional to how recently they have fed; with more Wraith awake and less food to go around, they begin to lose their advantage.
** The Asurans.
* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Averted, the Wraith frequently manage to shoot Atlantis personnel, including the stars of the show, but since they only use stunners the cast can keep coming back for more.
* [[Impossible Task Instantly Accomplished]]: McKay uses this as a [[Badass Boast]].
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* [[Infinite Supplies]]: Throughout the first season the expedition refers to the problems that will arise when their supplies run low due to their isolation from Earth, [[Played Straight|but they never actually run into a problem]].
* [[Inflationary Dialogue]]: Sheppard's claims about how many Wraith he killed in "Sateda".
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: This exchange from episode 5.15, as Richard Woolsey sees that a women he has been flirting with found his balcony hang-out spot:
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'''Woman''': ...What?
'''Woolsey''': [[Digging Yourself Deeper|I mean you’ve entered my little personal area]].
[[[Beat]]]
'''Woolsey''': ...This is where I come... to be alone with my thoughts. }}
* [[Instant Expert]]: Sheppard when it comes to Ancient Technology. He was even recruited after accidentally sitting in the Ancient Control Platform in Antartica, managing not only to activate it but demonstrate an exceptional level of control, despite having ''[[Genius Ditz|no idea]]'' what he was doing!
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* [[Ironic Echo]]: When Ronon refuses Teal'c's help in learning to handle the I.O.A. he insists that he knows "how to play the game." In response, Teal'c [[Berserk Button|insults Ronon's Satedan history]] and Ronon [[Not Helping Your Case|draws his gun in anger]]. Teal'c calmly comments that Ronon would never dream of doing such a thing in his upcoming I.O.A. meeting since he does, of course, know "how to play the game."
* [[Jerkass]]: Kavanagh, described by the producers as the most irritating person in three galaxies.
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'''Kavanagh''': Yes?
'''Hermiod''': Shut... up... please... }}
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Not one specific point, but a general mentality. When Teyla finally has enough of Sergeant Bates' insinuations that she is either a willing traitor or unwilling information leak, Sheppard points out that Bates is the head of base security and it is his ''job'' to look for potential threats.
* [[Jerk
** Rodney, oh so much Rodney.
** In "Tracker," when Keller has been kidnapped by a Runner in order to treat the young girl in his care, the child explains that he is not really mean, he just acts that way. Keller comments that she knows someone just the same, but the nature of the episode means that she could be talking about [[Love Triangle|Rodney]] ''[[Love Triangle|or]]'' [[Love Triangle|Ronon.]]
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* [[Kangaroo Court]]: The trial in "Inquisition". {{spoiler|They arguably could have convicted Atlantis fairly on the charges, but instead they had one war survivor looking for a scapegoat and another judge being bribed by the Genii to vote guilty.}}
* [[Kind Restraints]]: Sheppard is confined to his room while turning into the iratis bug, he asked for it, he warned everyone, yet no one seemed to take him seriously.
* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]: When we are first introduced to him, Commander Kolya of the Genii is having a sparring session with some of his military subordinates.
* [[Kissing Under the Influence]]:
** In "Duet," McKay had the conciousness of Laura Cadman, a Marine, trapped within his mind. She was able to take control of his body for brief moments, longer if he was sleeping or voluntarily surrendered control, and she twice took the opportunity to kiss other members of the Atlantis expedition. {{spoiler|First she kissed Katie Brown, a botanist with whom Rodney had a date, and then she kissed Carson Beckett right before the dangerous experiment that would either restore her to her own body, or kill her and Rodney both.}}
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** While possessed by ancient warrior entities, Phebus (Elizabeth) kisses Thalen (Sheppard) in order to convince the other Atlantis personnel present that they were husband and wife.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Ronon initally assumed he was the last of the Satedans. "Reunion" reveals that 300 Satedans survived in shelters outside of the city and migrated to other world such as Belkan and Manaria when they realised that their was nothing left to rebuild.
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* [[Last
* [[Left It In]]: In "Letters from Pegasus", McKay gives a videotaped message to Ford, who is editing a bunch of these messages together to send back to Earth. McKay recorded the message while severely sleep-deprived, so it is full of rambling, back-tracking, and McKay telling Ford to edit out the last thing he just said.
* [[Life Drinker]]: All the Wraith, who drain the life from their victims and have no natural lifespan if they are well-fed. The process is referred to as "feeding," and the victim visibly ages during the process; those who are fed on until death become mummified husks. The Wraith refer to the effect on the victim as "taking years" from the victim, although Beckett explains that the aging process is actually due to a complex chemical interaction that humans do not completely understand.
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* [[Love Triangle]]: At the end of season four and the beginning of season five, Ronon and Rodney both begin to have feelings for Keller, and in "Tracker" they admit their feelings to each other and agree to allow Keller to make the decision. {{spoiler|She ultimately choses Rodney, but a deleted scene in "Trio" (lightly) implies that it was because Ronon took too long to make a move after their first spark in "Quarantine."}}
* [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]]:
** The Wraith were first introduced as ''[[Big Bad|the]]'' [[Big Bad|ultimate evil in the universe]]. They were the race that [[Precursor Killers|killed the Ancients]], and the Atlantis team spent much of the first few seasons running and hiding from them. They were practically [[Immune to Bullets]] due to their rapid [[Healing Factor]], requiring huge amounts of firepower to bring down, and just ''two'' of their Hiveships posed enough of a threat to Atlantis to warrant the team trying to blow the place up themselves, rather than let them get their hands on it. After a couple seasons, however, they die just as easily from a burst of P90 fire as any other enemy Mook, although they sometimes can eat a few pistol rounds and keep coming, and their ships tend to go down even easier. By the series finale, Sheppard is [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|casually mocking most of the Wraith he comes into contact with]].
** The first attack by the Mist Monsters in "Whispers" manages to grab {{spoiler|Captain Vega}} in total silence, without being seen by the other people present even though they were looking at her at the time, and kill her in the few seconds before the other team members catch up. The Monsters never manage to kill another Atlantis member in the rest of the episode.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Teyla. Threaten her child, {{spoiler|get thrown off a skyscraper}}.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Richard Woolsey, perennial stuffed-shirt bureaucrat, meets a beautiful scientist aboard Atlantis who persuades him to go to movie night and come out of his shell. {{spoiler|Too bad she is a mental projection from an AI that was created after gleaning his romantic and sexual desires from his mind}}.
* [[Married to
* [[Mauve Shirt]]:
** Dr. Peter Grodin was a science officer introduced in "Rising" that served as Elizabeth Weir's assistant and primary control room technician during the first season. Craig Veroni had previously appeared in the episode "Grace" of ''[[
** Sergeant Bates is appointed by Dr. Weir as head of Atlantis security, and spends much of season one butting heads with Major Sheppard over how to treat the Athosians as a potential security risk.
** Chuck the Technician was a nameless character for the first three seasons until Torri Higginson accidentally [[The Danza|called him by the actor's first name]] [[Sure Why Not|and that was kept in the show]]. He recurred until the finale as one of Atlantis's operators and technicians.
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* [[Mental Story]]: In "Home", the main characters apparently manage to return to Earth, but it is actually an illusion of Earth fabricated from the memories in their heads.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Major Sheppard kills Colonel Sumner after he had been fed upon by the Wraith. When Colonel Dillon Everett, a friend of Sumner's, arrives on Atlantis, he wonders just what made Sheppard feel that, after only knowing Sumner for a few days, he was qualified to make that call. {{spoiler|When Everett himself is fed on by a Wraith he tells Sheppard that he made the right call, and wishes that Sheppard had been there for him.}}
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Rodney McKay and his talents of obliterating planets, solar systems, alternate universes....
* [[Mile
* [[Monster Clown]]:
** Mentioned half-jokingly by Sheppard when one of the natives asks him if he is afraid of the Wraith. He says no, what he is really afraid of is clowns, eventually adding he is at war with them. They try to fight them off, he says, but there are hundreds of them, [[Clown Car Base|pouring out of Volkswagens]].
** Brought out for real when Rodney McKay and Sheppard are being attacked by an entity that feeds on [[Your Worst Nightmare|their worst nightmares]]: rowing a boat through a stormy whale-infested sea... with a clown sitting behind them.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: '''Too much to list here'''. Lampshaded occasionally... ONLY occasionally.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Colonel Sheppard; Ronon Dex
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* [[Multitasked Conversation]]: When Woolsey is seeing the mental projection of an AI in "Remnants" he tries to hide it from the other Atlantis personnel since it would make him seem crazy. When he eventually winds up talking to real people and the AI at the same time he tries to pretend that his (Almost panicked) dialogue with the AI is meant for the real person.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]:
** Sheppard received a black mark on his service record, which was referenced as far back as the pilot, when he disobeyed orders in an attempt to rescue a downed pilot in [[The War
** Ronon blames himself for bringing the Wraith to a village where he once spent the night when he was Runner.
** McKay destroyed [[Insistent Terminology|5/6]] of a solar system when he let his hubris get the better of his judgement.
* [[My Sister Is Off
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* [[Neglectful Precursors]]: The Ancients and ''how''. They accidentally created the Wraith, created the Asuran replicators, and for some reason, a device that creates tumours in your body that ''explode''. After a few seasons [[Broken Pedestal|many characters no longer regard them as the wisest of all species]].
* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: When Zelenka tells Elizabeth that the Ancient computer system is incredibly redundant, Elizabeth [[Department of Redundancy Department|repeats the 'redundant' statement right back to him]] and he explains how that joke never gets old.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Atlantis team woke up the Wraith prematurely when they arrived, who feed on many humans. They created Michael, who killed many humans, quite a few of them by using the Hoffan drug that the Atlantis team helped develop three seasons earlier. They reprogrammed the Asurans to attack the Wraith... who did so by killing humans (their food). Finally, they gave the Lost Tribe the means to defeat the Wraith which - you guessed it - caused the deaths of many of humans. In other words, they are basically responsible for almost every recurring villain in the show.
* [[Nice to
* [[Not Helping Your Case]]: Carter asks Teal'c to travel to Atlantis in order to help tutor Ronon in how to properly deal with the I.O.A., who has a new member that is insisting on personal interviews with all aliens serving on SG teams. Ronon, however, insists that he does not need any such help, since he "knows how to play the game." So, Teal'c [[Berserk Button|insults Ronon's Satedan history]] and drives Ronon to draw his gun; [[Ironic Echo|which of course he would never do, since he knows how to play the game]].
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]: McKay
* [[The Nth Doctor]]: When Elizabeth Weir reappeared in the shows fifth season she was portrayed by Michelle Morgan, since her consciousness was in the body of a human-form Replicator.
* [[Nuke
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: McKay. In "The Brotherhood", "Inferno" and "Trio", he shows that he is completely unaware when a woman is actually interested in him until it is spelt out for him.
* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Atlantis Expedition originally only had ''two'' commissioned officers assigned to its security forces, Marshall Sumner (Colonel, USMC) and Aiden Ford (Lieutenant, USAF). The last-minute inclusion of John Sheppard (Major, USAF) brought that total to three, which is extremely low for an expedition whose personnel number in the hundreds.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sheppard tries to get Ronon to heed Teal'c's advice on dealing with the I.O.A., pointing out that he has to know ''something'' since he is something like a hundred years old. Teal'c was 159 years old during the airing of "Midway."
* [[Ominous Crack]]: This has happened to McKay twice, probably because his [[Oh Crap]] expression is so funny.
** In "Grace Under Pressure", Rodney and Lieutenant [[Red Shirt]] crash a puddle-jumper into the ocean on a test flight. They look out at the water in wonder and then - surprise! - [[Ominous Crack]]. Redshirt manages to push Rodney into the other section of the jumper before the cabin floods.
** In "The Ark", Rodney is stuck somewhere in the space station looking out at space. He starts panicking when he spots a piece of equipment hurtling toward the glass from outside. It hits... and nothing happens. Rodney's relief quickly turns into terror as the glass starts to crack. He only just gets into his space suit in time.
* [[One
* [[Only Known
* [[Organic Technology]]: The Wraith.
* [[Other Me Annoys Me]] In one episode, an alternate universe version of Rodney McKay appears. This version is charming, extroverted and socially skilled. The regular Rodney ends up disliking him because everyone seems to like him better.
* [[Overt Rendezvous]]: Sheppard meets his ex-wife -- who works for the Department of Homeland Security -- on a park bench, in order to ask her to illegally dig up some classified information for him.
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: Hermiod, the Asgard engineer aboard the ''Daedalus'', expresses displeasure by cursing in his native tongue.
* [[Paused Interrupt]]: In the "The Eye" episode, Weir and Sheppard's conversation was supposed to be interrupted by Kolya yanking the radio away. This stopped her line five seconds before it moved.
* [[Perfect Poison]]: Averted and played straight in "The Tower." The Lord Protector has been [[Averted Trope|slowly poisoned over the past few months in order to hasten his death]], but at the conclusion {{spoiler|Otho}} dies almost instantly when he is cut by a poisoned knife.
* [[Perma
* [[Pirate Girl]]: Larrin of the Travellers, while maybe not technically a pirate all the time, she sure acts like one in her first appearance.
* [[Plot Tailored to
* [[Portal Slam]]: Like ''[[
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: The Wraith's ability to regenerate varies on the episode. However, to the show's credit, they justified this by saying that their regeneration capacity was dependent on how recently and how much they had fed on life force.
* [[Precision F
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Harmony spends most of her self-titled episode infatuated with Sheppard, even asking him to marry her {{spoiler|1=before switching her affections to McKay at the end}}.
* [[Precursor Killers]]: The Wraith
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** From all indications, this was the reason why the Wraith wiped out the Satedans, and Ronon Dex continues their tradition on Atlantis. Each time the team hears tales of supposed super-soldiers killing many Wraith, Ronon remarks that they must be Satedans, and once was absolutely correct.
** During the fourth season, Teal'c, the [[Stargate Verse]]'s original Proud Warrior Race Guy, visits the city.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: In ''Critical Mass'', it is revealed that {{spoiler|Colonel Caldwell}} has become host to a Goa'uld in the employ of one of the ''[[Stargate SG
* [[Putting
** The Genii, although they become (relatively) friendly to Atlantis as the seasons go on.
** Downplayed in a season two episode that features a society which deports its prisoners to the vicinity of the planet's Stargate so the Wraith will feed only on them, where the Magistrate's uniform bears some fascistic overtones.
* [[Quip to Black]]: The second-to-last episode, "Vegas", was originally titled "CSI: Atlantis". It features an alternate universe where the cast is essentially transplanted into CSI, and "Detective John Sheppard" does a textbook one-liner at the end of [[The Teaser]].
* [[The Rashomon]]: "Sunday"
* [[Real Dreams Are Weirder]]: "Doppelganger" has a bunch of alien-induced nightmares, so naturally McKay feels the need to tell everyone about his perfectly ordinary ''[[Moby Dick]]''-inspired nightmare.
* [[Reality Subtext]]:
** When Col. Samantha Carter leaves [[Stargate SG-1
** Jason Momoa got a large tattoo on his left forearm between the filming of seasons two and three, forcing Ronon to likewise get a tattoo in the series. This was applied in "Reunion," where the application apparently hurt and forced Ronon to lightly slap the person doing the inking; Jason had not told the producers about the tattoo, and they were unhappy to learn about it after the fact.
** Teyla became pregnant in the fourth season when Rachel Luttrell became pregnant in real life.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: John Sheppard in "Home" was the first person to discover their reality was faked by the fog aliens. Its heavily implied that Sheppard's instincts are what alerted him to this before McKay, who would only discover the truth due to ''facts''.
* [[Real Men Get Shot]]: When McKay asks if the rope burns on his hands are going to leave scars in "Trio," Keller remarks that chicks dig scars.
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* [[Realpolitik]]: When the [[Designated Hero|heroes]] are ''put on trial'' for [[What the Hell, Hero?|their previous actions]], Sheppard basically argues that they are not fighting for right or wrong, but rather they are fighting for ''themselves''.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Col. Caldwell. At times he is even more reasonable than Weir.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Ronon and Teal'c in the episode "Midway".
* [[Red Shirt]]:
** The season one finale featured three characters isolated on an Ancient weapon satellite. The writers knew they were going to kill ''somebody'', so they had all three characters wear red.
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* [[Redshirt Army]]: The crew of Ancients who briefly resumes control of Atlantis before the replicators hand them their collective ass.
* [[Reentry Scare]]: On more than one occasion.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?]]: Doctor McKay's lovely talents for destruction of innocent random systems is continually referenced [[Inverted Trope|to remind him of his failures and hubris]].
* [[Replacement Flat Character]]:
** Kavanagh is a [[Replacement Flat Character]] to McKay, where the shallow role being filled is "recurring [[Jerkass]] scientist who disagrees with the friendlier main-character scientist, and is always wrong".
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* [[Revival Loophole]]: Used to save Sheppard in "Thirty-Eight Minutes".
* [[Royal Brat]]: Harmony in the episode of the same name.
* [[Royally Screwed
* [[Running Gag|Running Gags]]
** Asking Ronon if his gun is set to stun.
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* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: Michael offers to not destroy Atlantis if Teyla willingly accompanies him and brings her son with her. She is willing to do so, [[Genre Savvy|but knows that Michael is not trustworthy and demands that he deactivate the self-destruct first]].
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Clone-Beckett pulls this on a Wraith Commander, goading him into feeding on him... then reveals to the collapsing Wraith that ''Beckett has the Hoffan virus''.
* [[
** The first season episode "Home." {{spoiler|It concludes with the mist assuring them that they are back in the real world}}.
** "The Real World." It is ''probably'' back to reality by the end, but Sheppard remarks that for all he knows, it has just switched to ''his'' fantasy.
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]: When they are trapped in a Puddle Jumper and awaiting rescue, doctors Lee and Cavanaugh spiritedly discuss the merits of [[Michael Bay]]'s ''[[Pearl Harbor]]''. Lee is disdainful of the project, but Cavanaugh believes that the film has "weight" and will [[Vindicated
* [[Semper Fi]]:
** Colonel Marshall Sumner, the original commander of the military forces of the Atlantis expedition, was a member of the United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Bates, who Dr. Weir appointed as head of Atlantis security, frequently clashes with the more laid-back Air Force officer John Sheppard throughout the first season.
** When the SGC gets a ZPM and sends a relief military force to protect Atlantis from the Wraith they are commanded by Colonel Dillon Everett, USMC.
* [[Send in
* [[Sexiled]]: When Carson and Allison Porter are flirting (Very obviously) in "Whispers," Sergeant Dusty leaves to secure the perimeter and explains that she will be back in twenty minutes, unless she sees a sock on the door.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: John Sheppard. His Afghanistan-visions in "Phantoms", Crystal-Entity Sheppard "Doppleganger" and Hallucination-Kolya in "Remnants" all hint that there is a part of him that ''really'' wants to punish himself.
* [[Shout
** In the second episode of the first season, Sheppard looks at the size of the incoming Monster of the episode, looks at the proposed containment unit for it and says "[[Jaws (
** In "The Defiant One" Rodney calls Sheppard "[[Star Trek|Kirk]]" when he wants to do battle with the Wraith that they discover. This also leads into a [[Running Gag]] of referring to Sheppard as Kirk when he [[Boldly Coming|gets involved with alien women]].
** A frustrated Rodney once refers to Ronon and Teyla as ''[[Conan]]'' and ''[[Xena]]''
** In Episode 10 of the Second season, while piloting a Wraith Dart, John Sheppard gives us this immortal line.
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'''John Sheppard''': "We were getting along so well.
'' "Autopilot Engaged" appears on the computer screen''
'''John Sheppard''': "Oh, Autopilot? Nononono, No!"
''"Dock Procedure Loaded and Activated" appears on the computer screen'''
'''John Sheppard''': " [[The Phantom Menace|R2, I need you to turn the Autopilot off.]]
[[Beat Panel|Beat]]
'''John Sheppard''': "Now!" }}
** In "Outcast," Dr. Lee is trying to think up how to destroy the Replicator that is on the loose, and mentions that if it was a movie they would drop it into a [[The Terminator|vat of molten lead]] or [[The Lord of the Rings (
** Part of Rodney's long numerical computer password, as revealed in season four's "Quarantine," is [[The
** In "Quarantine," Sheppard is preparing to free climb four floors up the outside of the main Atlantis tower. When Teyla asks if this is possible, Sheppard replies that "[[Batman]] did it all the time!" As he is completing the climb--and has just saved himself from falling to his death--the [[Theme Music Power
** In "The Hive," Sheppard is talking to a fellow prisoner, Neera {{spoiler|who turns out to be a Wraith-worshipper placed there to pump Sheppard for information}}, and mentions his [
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'''Sheppard''': "Clowns? Oh yea, the clowns. Well, we fight them, too. Entire armies, spilling out of Volkswagens. We do our best to fight them off, but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}ogvKogtJw9c they keep sending them in]." }}
** Dr. Bill Lee comparing the function of the McKay-Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge to that of the "Twilight Bark" from ''[[One Hundred and One Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians]]'', his kids' favourite movie. When no-one gets the reference, he instead refers to the [[Gondor Calls for Aid|the beacons]] being lit in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: A subdued example. When a group of living Ancients is rescued and demands the return of the city, one of the things their leaders bring up is how the expedition awakened the Wraith. Woolsey is quick to retort that it was the Ancients' own negligence that made the Wraith such a threat in the first place. Though she still sticks to her demands, that marked the end of any attempted moral high ground on her part.
* [[Single
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Dr. M. Rodney McKay, obviously.
* [[Spock Speak]]: Teyla rarely uses contractions in her speech, if ever. Compared even to other Pegasus natives the Athosians appear to be a very formal in their speech.
* [[The Sociopath]]: The Crystal Entity from ''Doppleganger'' is explicity referred to as such because of how much it enjoys scaring people, quite literally, to death in their dreams.
* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]: Sheppard ''loves'' this trope. Therefore we have the Wraiths Steve, Bob, Michael and Todd.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: The pilot starts with a visit to the arctic expedition by SG-1's Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson.
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* [[Take Off Your Clothes]]: McKay, Carter and Dr. Keller are trapped in an abandoned mine, and McKay suggests that everyone disrobe so they can make a rope by tying their clothes together. Keller immediately gets started while Carter responds by producing a coil of actual rope which was in one of the boxes. McKay is clearly disappointed.
* [[Techno Babble]]: An in-universe example while stalling for time:
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* [[Teleport Interdiction]]: The crew of the ''Daedalus'', in their first appearance, plans on destroying a bunch of Wraith ships by using Asgard beaming technology to beam nukes onto them. It works the first three times they try it. After that, the Wraith figure out how to jam the beam.
* [[Then Let Me Be Evil]]: Michael. Immediately after the experiment designed to stop him being [[
* [[Throw It In]]: After Torri Higginson accidentally called the Gate Technician by his real name, "Chuck", the producers decided to keep it in and make it has official name, since he had not had one until that point.
* [[Tomato in
** The titular character in "''Michael''" realising that he is not a human with amnesia, but he is actually a ''Wraith''.
** Halfway through "This Mortal Coil" {{spoiler|the primary cast discovers that they are all Replicator-built ''copies'' of the Atlantis staff.}}
* [[Too Clever
* [[Took a Level
* [[Touched
* [[Transplant]]:
** David Hewlett's role as Dr. Rodney McKay originated in ''SG-1'', where he was brought in as a pseudo-rival to Samantha Carter in two separate episodes. The character was originally ''not'' supposed to feature in ''Atlantis'', but when Hewlett joined the cast the writers decided to resurrect the old character instead of [[You Look Familiar|having him play a new character]].
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* [[The Usurper]]: "Harmony" revolves around a plot by the sister of the prospective-queen trying to have her sister killed so that she can claim the throne.
* [[Vampiric Draining]]: The Wraith take your [[Life Energy]] through their hands. It is stated to be the only way they can gain sustenance and a recently fed Wraith also gets an extra [[Healing Factor]]. This [[Life Energy]] is stated to have some kind of biological basis, but it basically behaves like magic with people growing old during a feeding and the process being reversible.
* [[
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: An in-universe example in which Sheperd and McKay find an ancient game in Atlantis in which they are able to control two neighboring countries. Two years after they first played the game, they find out that [[Oh Crap|the countries are real and that they have been changing the lives of real people.]]
* [[Villainous Crush]]: Michael becomes obsessed with Teyla, and has created this fantasy where, after he abducts her, she will voluntarily choose to remain with him. {{spoiler|Guess who kills him}}.
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** Both the Wraith and the humans of the Altantis expedition point out that no matter how many Wraith ships they destroy, the Wraith will just send more.
** When the Genii have Sheppard and McKay cornered in "Harmony," the Genii commander points out that they cannot escape since they have limited ammunition but he has unlimited men. Tellingly, once he is dead the Genii forces beat a quick retreat.
* [[West Coast Team]]: To the original ''[[
* [[What Does This Button Do?]]: McKay claims exclusive rights to this trope, reasoning that he is the only person competent enough to fix what will almost inevitably go wrong upon doing so, while others will turn to him for the same. In "Sunday", this turns out to be painfully true.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
** Particularly bad in the case of {{spoiler|Repliweir}}.
** The Asurans. There is a faction that deeply wants to change their nature and learn Ascension and are non-malevolent.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** A clip show is actually skillfully done in which the Pegasus Galaxy call the Atlantis Expedition out for all the chaos they have caused.
** "Michael" loves to point this out, that for all their preaching about morality, in regards to torturing and experimenting on prisoners, they violated it several times because of the flimsy justification that human rights do not apply when the enemy ''isn't'' human.
* [[What You Are in
* [[Wild Card]]: Todd the Wraith, oh so much.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The Wraith enzyme, which confers increased strength and a resistance to Wraith stunner technology, also mentally imbalances the human mind. Rodney McKay explained that, while under the influence of the enzyme, it seemed to him like everybody ''else'' was crazy.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: When Ronon dodges the second [[Booby Trap]] in "Tacker," all he has to say of the Runner he is tracking is "he's good."
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Sheppard won't fight back in "Travellers" despite being kidnapped and repeatedly assaulted, despite the fact that as a soldier it is his duty to escape. The reason? His captor is a woman.
* [[
** Colonel Marshall Sumner, the original military commander, and Sergeant Bates, head of Atlanis security, are members of the [[Semper Fi|United States Marine Corps.]]
** Major/Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard, who replaces Sumner as ranking military officer, and Lieutenant Aiden Ford, Sheppard's next senior officer, are members of the United States Air Force.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: How Sheppard motivates Elizabeth to overcome the nanite infection in "The Real World."
* [[You Can See the Explosion from Orbit]]: In the episode "First Strike", multiple explosions can be sen from an orbital vantage point.
*
* [[You! Get Me Coffee!]]: In "Whispers," Sergeant Dusty mentions that she transferred to Atlantis from the SGC because there are "more bad guys that need killing," but Sheppard keeps assigning her to guard Carson and Porter instead of investigating the mystery of the deadly monster experiment.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: In "Irresponsible," when one his subordinates reports that Sheppard managed to escape, Kolya draws his pistol, points it at the reporting officer and pulls the trigger...which does nothing. [[Subverted Trope|The subordinate thanks Kolya for his life and goes back to duty, vowing to do better.]] [[Double Subverted|Kolya then turns to another subordinate and orders him to have his gun fixed]].
* [[You Look Familiar]]:
** Craig Veroni, who played Dr. Peter Grodin, first appeared in ''[[
** The Lord Protector from "The Tower" originally appeared twice in ''SG-1'' as Harlan, the amazingly annoying inhabitant of Altair who turned SG-1 into robots.
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** Jewel Staite was a Wraith before she was Dr. Keller. Not very noticeable however, since the Wraith part required full prosphetic make-up that made her virtually unrecognizable.
** In a fairly ludicrous example, an actress in the early episode [[Stargate Atlantis
** Christopher Heyerdahl played a character named Pallan on ''SG-1'', and the Athosian Halling on ''Atlantis''. His largest role is the Wraith Todd. At one point he even portrayed both Halling and Todd ''in the same episode'' (without any shared screentime however).
** Paul McGillion, who plays Dr. Carson Beckett, first appeared in the Stargate 'verse as Young Ernest Littlefield in the SG-1 episode "The Torment of Tantalus". Incidentally, he was the first human to travel through Earth's Stargate in modern times.
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