15 cliches that are often used in science fiction films (5 photos)

Why reinvent the wheel if everything has already been invented? It is true, many science fiction films use quite standard and generally accepted cliches.





Still from the movie "Starship Troopers"

Sometimes this already begins to irritate, as too frequent use becomes boring.

1. If a robot is killed, then its light bulb must go out. It is possible that it flickers at first. The robot also prefers to explode.

2. Aliens really want to take over or destroy the Earth. Why do they need our planet among a trillion other planets?



3. All aliens understand English perfectly by default. Many people even speak it.

4. Interestingly, gravity on all planets is approximately the same.

5. Aliens often take on the appearance of people. But now we see that it is an alien, but not in its appearance, and the heroes of the film do not notice.

6. The most popular sound of laser firing is pew-pew. And in general, directors forget that there is a vacuum in which “everything is wrong.”





7. Often warlike aliens are armed with hefty banduras. And the “soldiers” themselves have such an appearance that we can easily understand which of the aliens is in charge and which is the soldier. Do these civilizations really have the same division? like on Earth?

8. It is very surprising that almost all aliens have two arms (grabbers) and two legs (walkers). As a last resort - tentacles.

9. If the alien is female, then it may have pronounced “certain physiological characteristics.” Sometimes they coincide with earthly ones.

10. It is also surprising that all the aliens are approximately human-sized. They cannot be three kilometers high or be one and a half mm in size.

11. Our future is usually made in high-tech style - houses, cars, people. It’s as if there are no other landscapes that have been preserved.

12. If a “second-class society” is shown, then there are definitely feral people running around in the ruins of the 19th century, and there are garbage dumps all around.

13. Medicine from the future is a kind of fairy tale that is not based on anything. One device or capsule can treat everything.



14. Flying cars. Why do these vehicles have the appearance of a car?

15. There are videophones everywhere, as if someone is controlling it. Now, of course, we have no difficulties making video calls. But we don’t need these videophones everywhere.

In general, of course, science fiction is a fairy tale for adults. Children believe in the existence of a magic wand, an airplane carpet, and wizards. So do adults - they are shown a teleport, as well as the possibility of moving between galaxies and stars, where the distance is measured in billions of light years.

Over time, all these clichés and cliches begin to be ridiculed. Take, for example, the comedy with the participation of Louis de Funes "The Gendarme and the Aliens." The “anthropomorphism” of the aliens and their ability to transform into people is perfectly ridiculed. Like a cherry - with such a development of their civilization, they need oil for lubrication.