40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned

We’ve already eclipsed the cigarette technology envisioned by ‘The Fifth Element’
40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned

Why would NASA vote on the “most plausible” sci-fi film? What good could possible come from that?

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I just don't think beasts would listen to a hairless freak like this guy

THE BEASTMASTER The books by Andre Norton: A science- fiction western with a Navajo protagonist. The movie: A blond Cona
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Puzzled?! I was downright perplexed!

COMMANDER CODY, MEET COMMANDO CODY. You were probably puzzled by the fact that there's a random clone trooper called Cody in Revenge of the Sith. Не is a tribute to Commando Cody --a hero from 1950s science fiction serials. CRACKED.COM

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Scotty doesn't know

'-Well, Scotty? - Beats me, but isn't she a beauty? -Interesting design. - 0've never seen anything like her. And:ion propulsion, at that. They could

Speculative Science

The X-Files Chris Carter didn't think of the show as science fiction. Carter preferred the term speculative science, with the character of Scully helping ground the show. If it weren't for Scully, I think the show could be just kind of loopy, Carter said. CRACKED.COM

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Social Commentary

CRACKED.COM Tired sci-fi tropes (that still work) Social commentary Some call it woke sci-fi, but actual sci-fi buffs call it just sci-fi. Just make the commentary or allegory or theme not too on the nose (or be talented), and things should be fine. For a brilliant classic example, see RoboCop, but for more recent stuff see Snowpiercer, Mad Max: Fury Road, or Don't Look Up.

Big deal, I watch movies when I should be working all the time

40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned
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We just saved you a few hours

TORCHWOOD intended to be adult science fiction, but its first two seasons come across as immature and sophomoric. All you need to know: They hunt alie

Keep up the good work, dweebs

40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned

Corbin Dallas would have blown O's with the best of them

In The Fifth Element (1997), future cigarettes have a large filter and very little tobacco. BOIN Less than 20 years later, we've already moved on... C

Real life is always cooler.

EMPIRE TeE In science fiction, whenever a probe is launched it is basically shot like a missile and crashed into the planet. Real-life science is much

Uh oh, the government has invented guns that can disperse crowds, we're in for it now.

40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned

Can't stop imagining the Terminator coming to life and ripping off we comics.

Machines becoming so intelligent that they escape our control and turn against us is a staple of science fiction. In March, 2016, Microsoft unveiled T

I do not wish to be perceived.

Facial recognition technology is already used in advertising. And while some ads are just as invasive as in Minority Report, others are interactive an

Professor X should've patented that thing

CRACKED.COM Professor X wears a device to increase his mind power for better telepathy This fis Emotiv EPOC, a device that uses your brainwaves to con

The hologram Bible will outlive the human race. As God intended.

CRAGKED.oOM HOLY BIBLE Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a nanostructured glass they call Superman memory crystal. A dis

Perhaps quantum computing will unlock the count-sideways

NASA uses the T-minus countdown because of the movie Woman in the Moon Before NASA existed, the 1929 sci-fi silent film used a countdown clock before launching a rocket. CRACKED.COM

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Mastication is a sin

Lost Tropes Sci-Fi food pills Like flying cars, jet packs, or a sustainable future, full meals in pills are a forgotten trope from older, more naive sci-fi. Just pop a couple and you're done! SUGAR ATOES CHICKEN PIE CRACKED.COM

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Captain Video walked so that Dr. Who could do whatever he does

The first sci-fi series 1949 CARTAIN VIDEO CRACKED.COM Captain Video and His Video Rangers was a kids' show with a $25 prop budget per episode.

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Urkel got the last laugh.

Family Matters FIRST EPISODE LAST EPISODE Chicago cop After subjecting tries to cop to a decade balance the of sci-fi torture, needs of his quirky nei

No thanks. That's enough.

Sci-fi has always been obsessed with long-distance face-to-face communication. FUNsU Ito Oocupation: SurerAtor Now that we have it on almost every dev

Yeah, so does Howard Stern

40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned

The origin of the dino nugget

CRACKED COM Scientists created chickens with dinosaur faces. con In 2015, researchers from Yale and Harvard, possibly with funding from John Hammond,

Who can blame him?

'RON SAM FLYNN BRINGS QUORRA INTO LEGACY THE REAL WORLD. SINCE SHE PREVIOUSLY If E=mc2 ONLY EXISTED IN THE m=52kg DIGITAL REALM, THAT m/s MEANS HER BO

Hot new diet trend: sci-fi conspiracies

HDAO If we are living in the Matrix, it is possible that no one is actually overweig overweight. Outside of the Matrix (where everyone is a human batt

It's the only logical explanation

Can the Universal Translators in STAR TREK Read Minds? This would explain how they can translate idioms or figures of speech such as 'fall in line' an

This holographic meeting could have been a holographic email

HOLOGRAPHIC MEETINGS IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE ARE COMMON, BUT ALWAYS INVOLVE STATIONARY PARTICIPANTS. HOWEVER; IN THE LAST JEDI, WE SEE MAZ KANATA IN

Sci-Fi and the Bible have a lot in common

F In Sci-Fi, having sex is basically the path to Penny ZDreadful Buffy the Vampire Slayer Grimm damnation.

The Chronic-- WHAT?! --cles of Riddick

Pitch Black A sci-fi horror movie, similar to Alien. The Chronicles of Riddick A sci-fi epic, similar to Dune. CRACKED.COM

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