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This is a page intended to [[Blue Shifting|blue-shift]] popular tropes used in [[Science Fiction]] that are documented on the wiki. All of the original entries come from ''[http://www.geocities.ws/evilsnack/cliche.html The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés]''. On the original, clichés are further categorized with icons, but those are left out here due to formatting problems.
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! colspan=2 | The Symbols:<br /><small>''(Not the same icons as used on the original list)''
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| [[File:Green tick.svg|12px]] || The green check marks those items which are not so bad, but have been used so many times that it takes a really strong treatment to lift them out of the slush pile. They will not destroy an otherwise well-written story, and some of the classics employ these elements (and employ them well).
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| [[File:McCormick Sleep.svg|15px]] || The triple Z marks those items which were mildly interesting the first time around, but simply provoke a response along the lines of "been there, done that" on the re-runs. Only a truly bizarre twist on these ideas can give them new life.
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| [[File:Green x.svg|11px]] || The green cross marks those items which are baloney, but are tolerable for the sake of dramatic effect as long as the events of the story do not depend on them.
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| [[File:Vraagteken.svg|9px]] || The red question mark indicates those items which support the plot, but raise questions that should be answered in order for the story to be taken seriously. For instance, having a robot bleed oil when it gets shot is pretty lame; having a hydraulic robot leak hydraulic fluid when shot is creditable.
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| [[File:Bull icon 05.svg|15px]] || The bull marks those items which for one reason or another are bull. Reasons include flatly contradicting the known laws of nature, introducing an irreconcilable contradiction, requiring the characters involved to have the IQ of a banana peel, or being abysmally stupid for some other reason.
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| [[File:Delta-shield.svg|11px]] || The Starfleet logo marks those items for which Star Trek has been an offender.
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| [[File:Pig icon 05.svg|15px]] || The piggy marks those items that are unconscionably sexist.
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| [[File:Racism icon-fr.svg|15px]] || The Klansman hood marks those items that show racial, ethnic, or religious bigotry.
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It should be noted that these are not "clichés" in the sense that we describe them. Clichés are a priori bad; trite and overused. What is described below is merely a list of Tropes, which are neither [[Tropes Are Not Good|good]] nor [[Tropes Are Not Bad|bad]].
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