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* [[Black Market Produce]]: The orange in the first episode.
* [[Book Ends]]: The season begins with the Shannons coming to Terra Nova and ends with them returning to Terra Nova, complete with the same sound track.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: [[Zig Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]] with famous geologist Horton. At first Maddy is just disappointed that he doesn't seem like the person who wrote the book, then she learns that he's a fraud when his hand-written letter doesn't match his current signature, and ''then'' the fraud (who was Horton's research assistant) claims the real one wasn't as nice as Maddy believes. Maddy is torn on whether or not to believe him, but her mother points out that the real one took the time to respond to a hand-written letter in a [[No -Paper Future]] with a letter of his own.
* [[Can't Kill You - Still Need You]]: Taylor decides not to execute {{spoiler|Curran, a soldier he previously exiled for murder. Instead, he appoints his former subordinate to be his spy among the Sixers. He later proves instrumental in rescuing Skye's mother.}}
* [[Casual Danger Dialog]]: Nate Taylor. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by being ''that'' [[Badass]]. Averted with the teenagers.
* [[Chekhov MIA]]: Taylor's son went missing a few years back. {{spoiler|He's behind the Sixers, or at least they work for him by proxy.}}
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** Episode Three's pterosaurs, meanwhile, raise it to an art form.
** Skye does it to herself when... {{spoiler|coiling up the parasite in Hunter's stomach. He's talking about how his feelings when the parasite breaks and slides back inside.}}
** {{spoiler|Jim walks in on Maddy getting intimate with Reynolds. Their fault for doing so in the jungle near the makeshift camp, of course. Maddy very nearly ruins it herself, as she often does, but Reynolds [["Shut Up" Kiss|gets her back on track]].}}
** Lucas too. It appears that his father as finally gotten through to him, and they share a warm hug. That is until Lucas literally stabbed his father [[In the Back]].
* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]: Harnessed by 22nd-century technology in order to send the "pilgrimages" back in time to Terra Nova.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] as the reason why 22nd-century scientists determined Terra Nova was in a different "[[Alternate Universe|timestream]]", after they sent a mechanical probe through the [[Negative Space Wedgie]] and it never showed up in the present era. The probe, for its part, currently rests on a monument in the middle of the Terra Nova settlement.
** {{spoiler|Until it got blown up in the Phoenix Group's attack. The [[Stable Time Loop]] may still be in play.}}
* [[No -Paper Future]]: It's implied that non-digital media is pretty much dead in the future. With Earth's resources effectively gone, this is understandable.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: {{spoiler|Blowing up Hope Plaza is treated as a permanent solution, even though the technology behind it should be something easily reproducible (albeit time-consuming and costly on that scale).}}
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: Jim Shannon pretends that an explosion has made him deaf, mentally inhibited with partial amnesia, and left him with a limp. He blows his cover when he beats the shit out of {{spoiler|Lucas and a few Phoenix soldiers}} with his crutch to defend his son.
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* [[Population Control]]: In the future, families are limited to two children each.
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]: [[Zig Zagging Trope|Zig-Zagged]]:
** With a dash of [[Super -Persistent Predator]]: Judging by the early episodes, most theropods, fictional species and otherwise, think of nothing but murder all day. Parodied [http://www.flickr.com/photos/babbletrish/6188862899/ here]. However, it's not that big of a stretch for a hungry predator to go after humans.
** Averted with the giant centipede, which doesn't attack Jim; he just freaks out when it crawls over his hand.
** When Taylor and Mira are forced to team up against a pair of slashers the justification for the pursuit is that the dinosaurs are claiming new territory and see them as threats to be chased away, not just food.
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* [[Sadistic Choice]]: Taylor was made to choice between saving his wife or his son.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Frequently.
* [[Sci -Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: At the end, the family comments on how much bigger the moon is, 85 million years in the past, as it drifts from the earth at about half a centimeter per year. However, at that rate, the moon would only have drifted about 425 kilometers out of its total 400,000 km. distance -- not enough to make such a significant difference in appearance. It could be that the smogginess of their century-of-origin meant they'd never seen the optical illusion that makes the moon ''look'' larger when it's near the horizon.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Nathaniel Taylor. Well, it's more like {{spoiler|"Screw the corrupt corporations in 2149 who want to strip-mine the Cretaceous Period, I'm doing what's best for the future of humanity!"}} But you get the idea.
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: The basic plot. {{spoiler|Until Nate Taylor reveals that it's a lot different than so.}}
* [[Shell -Shock Silence]]: Done from Jim's perspective early in the season finale when he wakes from a three-day coma and stumbles around the badly-damaged settlement to find Phoenix Group soldiers everywhere and Lucas and Mira in charge. Jim soon runs into Elizabeth, who restores his hearing and fills him in on what he missed.
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* [[The Slow Path]]: Taylor was first through the portal, with the next person right behind him... but that next person didn't arrive for 118 days from Taylor's perspective.
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: {{spoiler|When Jim infiltrates Hope Plaza, he brings a carnotaur with him to even the odds.}}
* [[Super -Persistent Predator]]:
** The Slashers are ''really'' determined to get into that jeep. The carnotaurs, however, realistically freak out and retreat as soon as the sonic pulse guns start firing.
** In the next episode, the pterasaurs are really determined to get to their hatching ground aka {{spoiler|the Terra Nova base}}.
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