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* Humans, who -- thanks to the diaspora -- live everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy. Those from Earth specifically are called the [[Humans by Any Other Name|Tau'ri]]. Humans also inhabit the Pegasus Galaxy and the unnamed galaxy of the Ori due to being "seeded" through genetic engineering by the Ancients and Ori.
* Goa'uld, a race of [[Starfish Aliens|snakelike parasites]] who, until recently, ran most of the galaxy by pretending to be [[A God Am I|gods]]. Goa'uld require an individual of another race or species to host them in order to survive, and most Goa'uld take full control over their host. They steal technology, filling their "parasite" role in multiple ways. Oh, and their sarcophagus technology, which they can use to heal themselves (or to bring their corpses [[Back
** Some Goa'uld, however, decided that this system of involuntary symbiosis was evil. They call themselves Tok'ra, which means "Against Ra" (who was the Goa'uld emperor [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil|at the time]]). Tok'ra live in voluntary symbiosis with their humanoid hosts. [[Not So Different|Usually]]. Also, they don't use the sarcophagus technology.
* Jaffa, a human-descended race genetically modified by the Goa'uld to serve as their [[Slave Race|soldiers]] and as [[Body Horror|organic life support systems]] for juvenile Goa'uld. After the fall of the Goa'uld, the Jaffa attempt to form a democratic, egalitarian society despite the fact that their history consists entirely of killing one another over their masters' territorial disputes. It turns out about as well as you'd imagine.
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* [[Russian Guy Suffers Most]]: [[Up to Eleven|Taken to ridiculous extremes]]. If a Russian character or characters make an appearance in an episode, something bad ''is'' going to happen to them. No exceptions. Russians are basically the SGC's version of Redshirts.
** 1 guess which country's space battle ship is destroyed.
*** Be fair: The Americans have lost more ships than the Russians so far. In fact, a [["Wake
* [[Science Fiction]]
* [[Space Is Noisy]]
* [[Sterility Plague]]: The Asgard suffer from the fact that they have totally abandoned sexual reproduction in favor of cloning.
** This is also how the {{spoiler|Aschen}} conquer planets: by mixing sterility-inducing drugs into "miracle medicines". This winds up backfiring when {{spoiler|(thanks to time shenanigans) SG-1 finds out and slips them a list of suggested Gate addresses. That start [[
* [[Subculture]] (military)
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]
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[[Category:Trope Overdosed]]
[[Category:The Verse]]
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