History PlayingWith / EscapePod

* '''Exaggerated''': The escape pods have escape pods.

* '''Downplayed''': The ship has ejector seats, but they only get you out of the ship.

* '''Subverted''': The EnsignNewbie runs to the escape pods…but is stopped halfway when TheCaptain points out they can just eject the warp core and be done with it.

* '''Double Subverted''': The ''Troperion‘s'' hull is punctured by a stray shot, forcing them into the escape pods after all.

* '''Parodied''': The escape pods seat 30 people, despite being the size of a phone booth, and they’re NOT bigger on the inside. Much squeezing and awkwardness ensues.

* '''Exploited''': [[MundaneUtility The escape pods are used as guest-rooms when not in use.]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Instead of costly life-support systems, the modern EscapePod design is just a [[HumanPopsicle a cryo-chamber, a distress-signal, a long-lived battery and a black box]]. Even if the inhabitant is not thawed for a thousand years, their eventual rediscovery and recovery is almost assured.

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* '''Enforced''': They’re Recycling The Castaway [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], so of course they need a lifeboat.

** The pods are just emergency shelters; they don't jettison. One big ship's easier to find and has more resources to secure aid than a bunch of little ones. They're called "escape pods" because you "escape" ''to'' them, not ''in'' them.

** The pods are just emergency shelters; they don't jettison. One big ship's easier to find and has more resources to secure aid than a bunch of little ones.

** The '''Troperion''' is shaped like a HumongousMecha, and the escape pods fire out of it’s ass.

* '''Played For Drama''': [[ClosedCircle The crew ejects to escape their exploding ship…]][[TenLittleMurderVictims but the mole escaped with them.]] The situation grows tense as the hunt for the mole continues, to say nothing of dwindling supplies...

* '''Zig Zagged''': The ''Malicious'' had it’s escape pods removed, to force those onboard to [[BurningTheShips fight to the death.]] However, Emperor Evulz snuck one aboard so that he [[Hypocrite can make his secret escape.]] As he flies away laughing however, it suddenly detonates; his treacherous underling had installed explosives in it to prevent his escape. Evulz escapes in his escape pod’s escape pod, however, and [[OutGambitted uses it to board his minion’s craft and hijack it.]]

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** The emergency compartments are modular attachments, and can be easily jettisoned by way of a button near the airlock.

* '''Reconstructed''': Instead of costly life-support systems, the modern EscapePod design is just a [[HumanPopsicle a cryo-chamber, a distress-signal a long-lived battery and a black box]]. Even if the inhabitant is not thawed for a thousand years, their eventual rediscovery and recovery is almost assured.

** There are not dedicated “escape” pods as such: the pods aboard the ''Troperion'' pull triple duty as EscapePods, DropPods and BoardingPods.

* '''Parodied''': The escape pods seat 30 people, despite being the size of a phone booth, and they’re NOT bigger on the inside. Much squeezing and awkwardness ensures.

* '''Deconstructed''': The pods have no FTL, cramped conditions, a limited supply of food and air, and [[Sci-FiWritersHaveNoSenseofScale are almost always too far from a planet to perform re-entry; to say nothing of how hard they are to discover in the limitless blackness of space.]] The “Escape” pods of the ''Troperion'' have no survivors: [[ShaggyDogStory just cadets who died slower than those left on the ship.]]

* '''Played For Drama''': [[ClosedCircle The crew ejects to escape their exploding ship…]][[ TenLittleMurderVictims but the mole escaped with them!]] The situation grows tense as the hunt for the mole continues, to say nothing of dwindling supplies...

* '''Averted''': No escape pods are mentioned. If they need to leave the ''Troperion'' in a hurry, they just use the [[SpaceFighters onboard combat-shuttles.]]
* '''Enforced''': They’re Recycling TheCastaway [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], so of course they need a lifeboat.

* '''Reconstructed''': Instead of costly life-support systems,the modern EscapePod design is just a [[HumanPopsicle a cryo-chamber, a distress-signal a long-lived battery and a black box]]. Even if the inhabitant is not thawed for a thousand years, their eventual rediscovery and recovery is almost assured.
** SubspaceAnsibles exist in this universe, and the [[FeudalFuture laws of chivalry are well-respected.]] As a result, escape pods are always quickly found and picked up.

** There are not dedicated “escape” pods as such: the pods aboard the ''Troperion'' pull triple duty as EscapePods, DropPods and BoardingPods..

* '''Inverted''': BoardingPods that get you onto a ship instead.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The ''Malicious'' had it’s escape pods removed, to force those onboard to [[BurningTheShips fight to the death.]] However, Emperor Evulz snuck one aboard so that he [[Hypocrite can make his secret escape.]] As he flies away laughing however, it suddenly detonates; his treacherous underling had installed explosives in it to prevent his escape. Evulz escapes in his escape pod’s escape pod, however, and [[OutGambited uses it to board his minion’s craft and hijack it.]]

* '''Reconstructed''': Instead of costly life-support systems, EscapePods are just a [[HumanPopsicle black box, a cryo-chamber, a distress-signal and a long-lived battery]]. Even if the inhabitant is not thawed for a thousand years, their eventual rediscovery and recovery is almost assured.