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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The novelization adds in a lot of detail, such as defining Dr. McCrae's "ESP" as a [[Unusual User Interface|wireless cybernetic interface]], and a wonderfully grim conversation regarding [[Food Pills|rehydrated Christmas dinner]], complete with [[Squick|rehydrated giblets]].
** It also explains why just letting the decompressed cargo hold's contents escape the ship wasn't an option. It was apparently full of pharmaceuticals.
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: One of Reinhardt's breakthroughs.
* [[Badass Automaton]]: V.I.N.CENT and Maximillian.
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* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: It starts out as a hard sci-fi exploration flick, in that the Palomino maneuvers like a real spacecraft with the main thruster and attitude jets, and everyone in the spacecraft is weightless except when they are under acceleration, etc. Then Dr. McCrae is asked to use her ESP to talk to their [[Robot Buddy]]. Then they board the Cygnus, which has ''[[Artificial Gravity]]'' developed by Reinhardt from his research on the black hole. There's a gradual process of moving from 4 to 1 on the scale, with a debatable return to 4 near the end, where the characters moving outside the Cygnus are doing so with panic because they're essentially swimming around inside atmosphere ''flowing from a breach in the ship's hull''. Then they travel through the black hole itself [[Gainax Ending|into the afterlife(?).]]
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]
{{quote|'''[[The Captain|Dan Holland]]:''' It's only dinner.
'''V.I.N.CENT:''' ..."said the spider to the fly."}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Charlie's reaction when {{spoiler|he figured out the probe ship they're using to escape the Cygnus is actually programmed to go inside the black hole}}.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: Dr. McCrae has a telepathic link with V.I.N.CENT, thanks to a cybernetic impant in her brain.
* [[Rage Helm]]: Maximillian has a bright red eye with a furrowing brow sculpted/painted above it, making it look like he's permanently scowling.
* [[Recycled IN SPACE!]]: ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''. Both it and ''The Black Hole'' involve a ship captained by a [[Mad Scientist]] rebelling against conventional authority, who reluctantly takes the heroes on board because doing so is their only chance of survival, and who intends to dive his ship into a maelstrom. Only one of the protagonists is sympathetic to the captain's scientific achievements. There are [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]] scenes in both stories.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Alex Durant}} figures it all out... too late.
* [[Reinventing the Telephone]]: Dr. McCrae's abilities are clarified in the novelization.
* [[Robot Buddy]]: V.I.N.CENT and Old B.O.B. Maximillian, not so much.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The ''Cygnus'''s interior resembles a high tech-cathedral of steel and glass with mammoth, lengthy corridors and ominous lighting.
* [[Sound-Only Death]]: {{spoiler|Durant}}'s murder.
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Old B.O.B. (he got his accent from having been programmed in Houston).
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** Maximillian's own spinning claw-saw would also qualify.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Had Capt. Holland listened to his instincts and not flown near the ''Cygnus'' (which they knew was too close to The Black Hole), the ''Palomino'' would remain undamaged and would have returned home safe and sound.
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* [[The Voiceless]]: Maximilian never actually speaks; he presumably is able to communicate somehow, but not on-screen, which of course makes him all the more unsettling.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The Black Hole is likened to a gateway to Hell. Or Heaven. Have doubts? Watch that climax again... [[Nightmare Fuel|if you dare]].
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