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* [[Dressing As the Enemy]]
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: {{spoiler|Harry Booth}} turns out to be "Chicken"; Alex Durant is a "Bat", completely [[Ho Yay|smitten with Reinhardt]].
* [[
* [[Explosive Decompression]]
* [[Expy]]: V.I.N.CENT is a ''slightly'' less effeminate, considerably more competent [[Star Wars|C-3P0]] ([[X Meets Y|with an R2-D2 style body]]).
* [[Family
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Reihardt spending eternal punishment in hell, while being trapped in Maximillian's body.}}
* [[Five
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The basic script was written in the mid 70s, with it being inspired by the [[Disaster Movie|disaster films]] that were made at the time, but [[Development Hell|lingered in pre-production, possibly on the verge of Disney scrapping it]]. Then, ''[[Star Wars]]'' came out...
* [[For Science!]]: Dr. Reinhardt's ostensible motivation.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: Glowy but otherwise realistic.
* [[From My Own Personal Garden]]: During [[Big Bad|Reinhart]]'s [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]] moment, he tries to pass off the garden as "tiny" but it was, in fact, huge {{spoiler|in order to feed the entire zombified crew.}}
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: V.I.N.Cent. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized)
** Not to mention B.O.B (BiO-sanitation Battalion) and Captain S.T.A.R (Special Troops Arms Regiment).
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: Dr. Reinhardt has the mad scientist's disheveled long beard.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Everyone, both sentry robots and humans, wields two of the double-barreled laser pistols (one barrel above the handle, one below) issued on the ''Cygnus''.
* [[Homage]]: Apart from the obvious similarities to ''2001'' and ''[[Star Wars]],'' there are definite hints of ''[[Forbidden Planet]].''
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Cygnus, named for a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_<!-- 28constellation29 constellation]] which probably has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-1 a black hole]]. -->
* [[Mecha Mooks]]: The sentry robots.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]
{{quote| '''[[The Captain|Dan Holland]]:''' It's only dinner.<br />
'''V.I.N.CENT:''' ..."said the spider to the fly." }}
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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.
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* [[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
* [[Space Madness]]: Dr. Reinhardt.
* [[Swirly Energy Thingy]]: The funnel-shaped accretion disc around the black hole.
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