10 Science Fiction Tropes We Will Never Get Tired Of

We ’ve call out various movie and TV tropesthat we never require to see againin the past . But today we ’re calling tending to the silly , stupid , vivid and hilarious scifi trope that we absolutely , positively have it away — and hope we never subsist in a world without them .

Gigantic Clear Tubes

Gargantuan unclouded tube are the future . This is what movies have instruct us and now we pass up to dwell in a fancied hereafter without monstrous , clear thermionic vacuum tube . Not only do these blank saving creations lend and air of suspended belief , they ’re also multi - useable . mammoth clear tubes can be used for medical healing , blank space travel , intergalactic hibernation , cryogenic freezing . Whatever your scientist , medical officer or evil prison warden affectionateness desire , a tube can render that function for you . What better style to travel through time and distance than in an elegant , totally translucent tube-shaped structure ? We ’ve see the futurity , and the future is mammoth clear tubes .

Where You ’ve Seen It : Independence Day , Event Horizon , Star Wars , Minority Report , Night of the Creeps , G.I. Joe : Retaliation .

Fun Robes

Pants are barbaric . set free your leg from the roughshod old man tyranny of pants . The future is pave in robe . Everyone wear off robe ! We ’ve become so wonted to the wondrous public of futuristic robe wearing that seeing any form of future god , or foreign political chemical group in pant just calculate downright preposterous . How do you know if this somebody is to be respected , well are they wearing a robe or jorts ? If it ’s a gown , then you better bow .

Where You ’ve Seen It : Prometheus , Logan ’s Run , Beneath The Planet Of The Apes , Tron : Legacy , Star war

Imposter Test

“ How do I know you ’re you ? ” The only affair more clever than intergalactic aliens traveling to the Earth , or ego - aware artificial intelligence activity , or some dumb clone , is you . Thanks to the time abide by “ imposter examination ” science fiction motion picture have rent us all fuck that mankind will win , because we ’re clever . Hell if a gang of teenagers can visualize out how to economise the world by snort squeeze - up Empirin , then maybe there ’s a glimmer of hope for humanity after all . The imposter test tell us all , that we ’re number one and super smart . Plus once the imposter test is originate we then get to see the clip - honored scifi tradition of slowly , and patiently wait for someone to fail say imposter test . And it ’s never who you surmise .

Where You ’ve see It : The matter , The Faculty , Blade Runner , 6th Day , Pod People .

Futuristic Product Placement

Futuristic intersection emplacement is either the best thing or just a entire incubus . perhaps the very best consumption of this trope is every shot in Back To The Future , from Mr. Fusion , futuristic Jaws , and fancy Pepsi , to the power - lacing Nikes . This indicate us the futurity we can not possess , but might be able to guess . However this trope can be shout . In The Island Michael Bay just arrange all of his clones in Pumas called it a nighttime . But even when it ’s bad ( Will Smith try on on a pair of Converse shoes like that ’s a thing in I , Robot bad ) , we still got ta have it . How else will we get laid that this is the future tense unless J.J. Abrams show us a fancy new Nokia phone , and then recite a character to say Budweiser directly into the camera 88 time ?

Where You ’ve Seen It : The Island , Demolition Man , Back To the Future , Star Trek , Minority Report , I- Robot .

Video Phones

In the future , we use Facetime all the clip . You wanna make a call ? Put a shirt on , because it ’s sound to be on - photographic camera no matter how unnecessary or windy the scene is . Hello , who is this ? You know who this is because that ’s their face . No demand for Bluetooth bull or wireless mics ; this is a video , motherfucker . Look into the future and the future is your face in this camera making accidental raw sound call to glacial Sylvester Stallone .

Scientist Explains Complicated Theories With Random Objects

skill is hard , and sometimes we just need to pause and break down things down , preferably with the help a witty scientist who is exceedingly frazzled , or lacking - minded , or being a dick and hitting on some short adult female trap in a car with him . Always pause for science . Even when it ’s not science .

Where You ’ve Seen It : Jurassic Park , “ Chaos ” ; Event Horizon , “ How shameful jam employment ” ; Ghostbusters , “ That ’s a big Twinkie ” ; The Core , “ The orchard apple tree is Earth ” ; Independence Day , “ We ’ll give them a cold ” ; Armageddon , “ Make a fist around a nuclear bomb . ”

Elaborate Post-Apocalyptic Gangs

When the cosmos ends , there are only two important matter one must do : feel water and find the right gang with a fashion aesthetic that suits your end - of - the - wold needs . The dependable matter about any type of film set in a mob - rein future tense are the elaborate ensemble . Where do they find these kit ? Why are football pad and mohawks good for the desert , but not shades or hats ? Where is everyone finding the proper instrument for face painting and/or face tattoos . Do n’t over think it , just get in the gang .

Where you ’ve find out it : Doomsday , Mad Max , The warrior , Waterworld .

Futuristic Slang

Because nobody knew what “ warp speed ” was until scifi invented it . How did we know that these were n’t the droids we were looking for , if we did n’t have scifi to evidence us what the heck “ droids ” were ? And we have n’t even gotten to the curse words yet . Bless BSG for “ frak , ” the successor parole for “ fuck . ” For some ground , it just worked . Perhaps it was blind commitment ? Same perish for Firefly / Serenity for butchering together English and Chinese and creating a plebeian space slang that no one ever really pronounced all that well , but we got you , Firefly .

Where you ’ve seen it : Serenity , Battlestar Galactica , Farscape , Star Trek , Star Wars … .

Control Rooms Motherfucker

Give us a multi - screened control room and we will give you our attention . Nothing says science fiction substantially than an elaborated control room . Ten extra detail if it ’s fulfill with retro gearing and nonsensical lever tumbler and bar . Twenty extra dot if the control room at any point errupts into ecstatic applause . One hundred gunpoint if the shot starts astray then zooms in on one , unsuspicious controller room operator who gets”the call , ” only to run off in a exasperated , scare - fuel tizzy .

Where you ’ve seen it : The Dark Knight , Serenity , Cabin In The Woods , War Games , The Hunger Games : Catching Fire , The Matrix Reloaded .