What sci-fi cliche(s) do you hate?
Added 2024-08-14 08:07:28 +0000 UTCThose who have even an interest for science fiction have plenty of things to love it. Sometimes it’s the story or characters or the imaginative setting itself that sucks us in.
With that said, there’s some tropes or cliches of science fiction that often annoys us to no end. Me? I’m not fan of certain alien invasion fiction, specifically when the invading extraterrestrials in question are doing it because they require a new home world. The most recent example of this I can think of is in Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” on Disney+, where the Skrulls are taking over Earth because Nick Fury failed to help find them a suitable planet.
On top of there being hundreds of billions of planets out there in the Milky Way Galaxy and trillions throughout the known universe, I can think of several planets throughout the MCU that could be suitable for a new home world. The Skrull don’t have to declare war on Earth or wipe out humanity when there’s other alternatives. This entire plot doesn’t need to happen.
This cliché is especially stupid when it’s revealed that said alien invaders have terraforming technology, like in “Man of Steel” or in the backstory of the TV show “Defiance”. These invaders have the ability to change the biosphere and climate of entire planets, and yet none of them think to terraform either Mars or Venus or any other planet outside of the Solar System? They need to kill billions of people in the process in order to make it work? You think aliens intelligent enough to cross light-years would be pragmatic.
How about you? What sci-fi cliche(s) do you hate the most, and tell us why?
