History Film / SpaceTruckers

* HeyItsThatGuy: Creator/CharlesDance plays the MadScientist turned SpacePirate who created the {{Killer Robot}}s. It's definitely hilarious to see [[Series/GameOfThrones Tywin Lannister]] with half his face replaced with cybernetics - and eventually reduced to HalfTheManHeUsedToBe.

* CatchAndReturn: One of the {{Killer Robot}}s catches a grenade thrown at it, then starts spinning wildly and tosses the grenade right back.

* SpaceTruckers: Since it's the damn ''title,'' you can sure bet that it's invoking this trope.

* GreasySpoon: That floats in space with a spinning donut shape to keep gravity going, a la ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''(along with the white colour scheme). Keeping with the trend of mixing truckers and trucker culture with sci-fi.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
--> '''Scrags:''' If I could, I'd promote you on the spot. But I'm afraid all this has to be deniable. Which means ''you'' have to be deniable.

Either way your milage may vary as to whether or not it is SoBadItsGood or So Bad It's Horrible ([[TakeAThirdOption or if it's actually okay]]).

* DinerBrawl: Takes place in the greasy spoon below
* GreasySpoon: That floats in space with a spinning donut shape to keep gravity going, a la ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''(along with the white colourscheme). Keeping with the trend of mixing truckers and trucker culture with sci-fi.

'''Saggs''': (presses button to detonate case just as case hits limo)\\

* KillerRobot: The "[[AMechByAnyOtherName cyborgs]]" with {{Energy Weapon}}s for [[UnusualWeaponMounting heads]] BladesBelowTheShoulder (in sword, claw, and scissor configurations) and AbnormalLimbRotationRange allowing them to rotate their neck and compress into a disturbing travel form.

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: surprisingly hard. No artificial gravity except for magnetic boots and rotating space stations; space suits are in common use; there is no FasterThanLightTravel at all (the entire movie takes place within Earth's solar system), and even in the late 22nd century, spacecraft are still launched into space using booster rockets. Everyone freaks out when someone pulls a gun inside a pressurized space vehicle; on the other hand, what Hollywood Science there is is mostly played for laughs and one-off gags.

* SpacePirate: The protagonists go "off-road" in order to avoid being stopped by the authorities but end up getting captured by a giant pirate ship, which literally swallows them. These pirates were complete with cybernetic false limbs and a skull-and-crossbones flag.

* SpacePirate: The protagonists go "off-road" in order to avoid being stopped by the authorities but end up getting captured by a giant pirate ship, which literally swallows them. These pirates were complete with cybernetic false limbs and a skull-and-crossbones flag.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The villain gives the heroes a briefcase full of cash and the paperwork for a new rig (on the launch pad and ready to go). Of course, this is the same guy who turned the creations of the MadScientist against him, so the audience knows something is up. The heroes fight about keeping '''really'' dirty money for a job they didn't actually do, and the case goes out the window, directly towards the villain's limo...as he's about to remote detonate the explosives.
--> Mike Pucci: Somebody fragged Scrags.
--> John Canyon: You know, I think it was us.

* OutlivedYourUsefulness:

* DangerRoomColdOpening: With a very dark twist: The attack on the base with the BigBad and MadScientist at the start was just a demonstration of the Cyborg's combat power. But it wasn't a simulation. They really did let the Cyborg slaughter dozens of their own {{Mook}}s, in highly gruesome ways, as part of the test.

* GreasySpoon: That floats in space with a spinning donut shape to keep gravity going, a la [[TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]](along with the white colourscheme). Keeping with the trend of mixing truckers and trucker culture with sci-fi.

* KillerRobot: The "[[AMechByAnyOtherName cyborgs]]" with {{Energy Weapon}}s for [[UnusualWeaponMounting heads]] BladesBelowTheShoulder (in sword, claw, and scissor configurations) and AbnormalLimbRotationRange allowing them to rotate their neck and compress into a disturbing travel form.

Space Truckers is A 1996 film by Stuart Gorton starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and CharlesDance.

* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: CharlesDance sacrificed his dignity to play a cyborg space pirate with a chainsaw-like motorised penis (complete with rip cord).

Space Truckers is A 1996 film by Stuart Gorton starring Dennis Hopper, Stephen Dorff, Debi Mazar and Charles Dance.

* ClassicallyTrainedExtra: Charles Dance sacrificed his dignity to play a cyborg space pirate with a chainsaw-like motorised penis (complete with rip cord).

* MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness: surprisingly hard. No artificial gravity except for magnetic boots and rotating space stations; space suits are in common use; there is no FasterThanLightTravel at all (the entire movie takes place within Earth's solar system), and even in the late 22nd century, spacecraft are still launched into space using booster rockets.

* KillerRobot: The "[[AMechByAnyOtherName cyborgs]]" with {{Energy Weapon}}s for [[UnusuallWeaponMount heads]] {{Blades Below The Shoulder}} (in sword, claw, and scissor configurations) and AbnormalLimbRotationRange allowing them to rotate their neck and compress into a disturbing travel form.

Either way Your Milage May Vary as to whether or not it's SoBadItsGood or So Bad It's Horrible (or if it's actually okay).

* WeCanRebuildHim: The MadScientist that created the killer robots was betrayed by turning his Killer Robot creations against him. Fortunately for him, he's able to rebuild himself, turning himself into a grotesque mish-mash of man and machine, later taking up a new life as a pirate.

It is also a sci-fi comedy involving square pigs, [[SpaceTrucker Truckers]] InSpace, KillerRobot {{Cyborg}}s, and a CorruptCorporateExecutive upgrading to PresidentEvil.