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09/12/2005 Entry: "Long list of sci-fi cliches."
Long list of sci-fi cliches. Or as I like to call it, "story ideas." It's a really long list, but here are a few I liked and have noticed before.
The government bans music, painting, dancing, or some other art form; only the hero seems to care enough to do anything about it.
A technological innovation prompts a large portion of society to violently suppress it.
The less technologically advanced a culture is, the more spritually advanced it is.
An entire society is run by a computer. Maybe it goes beserk.
An being is sent to earth on a mission of assassination or genocide; it changes its mind after getting to know (and perhaps fall in love with) one or more humans.
Superheroes wear primary colors (red, blue, and yellow).
Supervillains wear secondary colors (green, purple, and orange).
All alien females, galaxy-wide, use cosmetics the same way that Western women do.
An alien tongue is translated into perfect English, except for gratuitious use of alien units of time and distance.
Aliens who are vastly more intelligent and advanced than we are, but we beat them anyway by "ingenuity," plain guts, or exploiting an Achilles Heel.
Explorers are greeted as gods by the natives, who cling to this belief in spite of everything the explorers do and say.
When the Evil Overlord dies, none of his surviving henchmen move into the power vacuum; instead, his empire collapses.
