In every sci-fi film ever

69. pod head + wiggly appendages + spindly exoskeleton = horrific, unknowable alienness

70. tall, elegant alien slowly tilts head to the side, radiating compassion

palms gradually extend outwards, a gesture of pure peace and goodwill

71. more blinking lights than is conceivably necessary

72. some kind of monk

73. 'spice'

74. Sound waves can travel through a vacuum.

75. Space ships fly and manoeuvre through space as though they were aircraft.

76. various races of cartoonishly 'weird'/monstrous looking aliens tend to hang out together in bars, as if they're only 'alien' vis a vis humans but not to each other

77. White plastic everywhere - spacesuits, spaceships, spaceplates, spacephones, spacedoors, spacetoilets

78. Conflict of logic results in malfunctioning A.I.

79. post-apocalyptic villains who dress like the hell's angels crossed with sigue sigue sputnik

80. someone's wearing an eyepatch

81. "don't you see...[insert detailed explanation of how the aliens are just like us, whether because warlike or peaceful]...they're just like us."

82. Movie is clearly some classic book, just IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
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83. ancient religion whose teaching are pretty unclear beyond awesome telepathic or telekinetic powers

84. wise-cracking robot

85. "Based on the short story by Phillip K Dick"

86. In a time travel movie, a character who can't believe that Ronald Reagan was/is/is going to be President.

87. Character staring blankly into space, is plugged into some kind of computer network.

85. city of the future resembles 20th century community college campus designed in the brutalist style

88. ^^^

89. British accents (especially for villains)

90. Holographic terminals

85b. Movie adds several dozen plot points to PKD story to avoid being 11 minutes long

91. Mega-weapons that can blow up planets/suns/galaxies/etc.

85b. Movie adds several dozen plot points to PKD story to avoid being 11 minutes long

Ha.

92. Sleep chamber/cryogenics.

93. Air lock opening, whooshing someone and assorted space appliances to their space doom.

^^^ that reminds me

94. Fog spurting out from doors and/or rooms for no good reason.

Like, should freon gas or whatever really be injected into the air people are breathing in order for the auto-doors to open? That doesn't happen when I go into the supermarket. Seems unsafe...

95. interfacing with universe-inside-the-global-computer-network involves hurtling through black space/neon light ripped off from tron/early rave videos/starfox. (this may have peaked around 1999.)

96. "good day, citizen."

"good day, officer motorcyclehelmet."

"aren't you a 53b-class drone? it's highly irregular to be out of your pod-center without authorizing documentation."

"important mission for the unit director, officer. i'm, uh, personally retrieving utility data from individual buildings because the, uh, docutube system is.......jammed."

"i'm going to call this in, citizen. wait right here."

*flees*

"halt, citizen!"

97. "We only have x minutes before the oxygen runs out!"

98. Some bullshit MacGuffin.

99. world that resembles ours in every detail is revealed to be a technologically-induced dream

100a. Race/class issues displaced onto robots.

100b. Race/class issues displaced onto aliens.

These two are mutually exclusive, cuz the plot would break or something.

Similarly:

101a. Alien falls in love with human.
101b. Robot falls in love with human.

9b. Bad aliens' spaceship interior is lit by a nasty color like red or or green or yellow and be super dark. Also, have random sparks.

102. Computers are naturally combustible.

103. Teenagers with multi-coloured hair and dressed like 90s ravers.

104. sweeping a halogen light over someone can diagnose any illness

105a. Big super-bright/white-walled military planning rooms with clear panels w/ star charts and maps and shit.

105b. Space Generals that have distinctive face tattoos or markings and are ambiguously ethnic.

106. 99% of world lives in steamy shanty-town watching CRT Televisions.

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"Suck it, Janeway! I've been promoted to Space General!"

107. Deserted ship.
107a. "Let's see if we can pull up the ship's log."
107b. "Where did they all go?"
107c. "They're all dead."

108. hyper-intelligent aliens particularly struck by "complex" earthly art

xp LOL I was thinking exactly of a mix between Chakotay and General Organa from Star Wars (who btw was the Viceroy of Alderaan and an opponent of deregulation during the days of the Old Republic, according to some nerdy SW wiki I used to look up his name).

109. Extreme and awkward contextualization of phenomena which should be everyday/mundane, i.e. you or me tossing off an explanation of the internet/cell phones/microwaves when we first come into contact with one for the sake of some audience in the 1930s.

This is genuinely in every sci-fi movie ever.

110. 'Artificial gravity' on spaceships.

111. techno-circa-1990 soundtrack as music of the future