History WesternAnimation / SolarOpposites

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: [[spoiler:It takes 3 months for Cherie to traverse a backyard as a shrunken person. Doing so would take several hours at most.]] It also doesn't help that the size of the shrunken people [[YourSizeMayVary changes routinely]] from being a few inches to smaller than a pez.

* HideYourLesbians: Zig-zagged. The show always dances around the nature of Korvo and Terry’s relationship. The two bicker like a couple, own a house with kids, share a bed, and even kissed in one episode. Their relationship with touched upon in a couple of episodes including the season 1 finale. In addition both Korvo and Terry were revealed to be bisexual but their sexualities were revealed outside of their relationship due to inviting other partners into bed with them.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is named after an invention in the episode (usually beginning with a "The"). The only exception is the season's penultimate episode "Terry and Korvo Steal a Bear" which is actually referring to a [[HeroOfAnotherStory vague sub-plot in the episode]] while nearly the entirety of the episode is about the people in the Wall.

* EvilVsEvil: Revealed to be the case between the Shlorpians and Silver Cops. While the Shlorpians are {{Planetary Paarsite}}s that destroy whole worlds to make copies of their Homeworld, the Silver Cops are a corrupt law enforcement agency that uses the very drugs they attempt to stamp out; and are more than willing to frame innocents to keep their pure image.

** In [[spoiler:the wall, Pezlie]] has been [[spoiler:kidnapped and branded by a sadistic nun]].

* CerebusRetcon: "99 Ships" does this to the series main setup. [[spoiler: Aisha reveals that the Shlorp that exploded was only one of many formed from the original Shlorpian Homeworld. The Shlorpians are not refugees from an extinct planet, but a race of {{Planetary Parasite}}s that aggressively terraform planets all across the universe. When one Shlorp becomes uninhabitable they send out 100 ships to restart the cycle.]]

* NobodyPoops: Played with in that whosoever Shlorpians are stated to not have anuses, they are fully capable of defecation via vomiting.

* CerebusRetcon: "99 Ships" does this the intro explaining the premise. [[spoiler: Aisha reveals that the Shlorp that exploded was only one of many formed from the original Shlorpian Homeworld. The Shlorpians are not refugees from an extinct planet, but a race of {{Planetary Parasite}}s that aggressively terraform planets all across the universe. When one Shlorp becomes uninhabitable they send out 100 ships to restart the cycle.]]

* CerebusRetcon: "99 Ships" does this the intro explaining the premise. [[Spoiler: Aisha reveals that the Shlorp that exploded was only one of many formed from the original Shlorpian Homeworld. The Shlorpians are not refugees from an extinct planet, but a race of {{Planetary Parasite}}s that aggressively terraform planets all across the universe. When one Shlorp becomes uninhabitable they send out 100 ships to restart the cycle.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The aliens try to adjust to the neighborhood and fit into Earth culture. This means that they are subject to realistic consequences; Korvo in the pilot says they need to flee before the cops realize they were responsible for Funbucket's rampage, while Jesse and Yumyulack are threatened with expulsion due to Yumyulack conducting scientific experiments at school and sometimes terrorizing their classmates. They find out that shrinking kids their age is no good; Linda points out they'll get arrested if he goes to the police, so Yumyulack switches to shrinking adults.
** Cherie and Tim find out that [[spoiler:there's a way out of The Wall, meaning they can escape, get help, and maybe try to regain their normal life. Season 2 puts the kibosh on that with Cherie and the Duke. It turns out that when Tim accidentally left Cherie to fend for herself and their baby in his attempt to murder her and make sure no one knows about the exit, she has to spend weeks if not months stuck ''in'' the backyard. This ironically lets her bond with the Duke, who ends up in the same boat and they work together to survive but can't leave the area. Don't forget only being an inch tall means that a few feet become a long distance, especially with predators and hazards]].

** "99 Ships": [[spoiler: The Shlorpians aren't refugees fleeing the destruction of their home, but a race of PlanetaryParasites who spread across the galaxy by aggressively terraforming planets into copies of their original homeworld. Whenever one Shlorp copy becomes uninhabitable, one hundred ships leave to begin the cycle all over again, creating an exponential threat to the rest of the galaxy.]]

** "99 Ships": [[spoiler: The Shlorpians aren't refugees fleeing the destruction of their home, but a race of PlanetaryParasites who spread across the galaxy by aggressively terraforming planets into copies of their original homeworld. Whenever Shlorp copy becomes uninhabitable, one hundred ships leave to begin the cycle all over again, creating an exponential threat to the rest of the galaxy.]]

* AlienAbduction: According to Yumyulack, the Shlorpians had been examining humans for thousands of years. As evident by the fact that he didn't know what a brain was or how it worked, not much progress had been made.
* AlienBlood: The Shlorpians blood is blue.
* AliensAreBastards: Korvo discusses this, writing off their unintentional destruction of the town in order to give life to a fictional character as a case as them being [[BlueAndOrangeMorality aliens with a different set of morals that humans couldn't understand.]] Except that he says this to avoid responsibility in for said destruction.
* AnAlienNamedBob: Two of the Shlorpians are named Terry and Jesse.
%%* AliensSpeakingEnglish

* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Cherie is forced to give birth by herself with nobody around to help her, then forces herself to return to the wall knowing that she can get access to supplies outside like she can in the wall to help her daughter survive.]]

A second eight-episode season was released on March 26, 2021. The show was also renewed for a twelve-episode third season in June 2020.

** Yumyulack delivers it to Jesse in the second episode; sometimes there ''is'' no FreudianExcuse for why a person decides to be mean and violent. People can choose to be assholes for no reason just as they can choose to be good. [[spoiler:To drive the point home, he sets a murderous suit on autopilot and wipes out the Neo-Nazis threatening to kill them for crashing their bar]].

** ''The Rad Awesome Terrific Ray'': Korvo provides one in the ending monologue of the episode, "Not every media product or TV show needs to provide a lesson of some kind, a show can just be a show".
* ArtisticLicense: Mice can hold their breath for several minutes rather than several seconds, and swim for days. [[spoiler:Unless Molly deliberately drowned rather than find a way out, she shouldn't have died after forcing the hatch closed]].

* KillerRobot: P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A ... unintentionally. Korvo created her just so that he and Terry could have a wife to complain about their new Man cave. The reason she has freaking rocket launchers and ''a bunch of other weapons'' is because robots are apparently hard to make without them.

'''Korvo:''' They're ''avoiding us!''

* VillainProtagonist: The entire family, since they generally use their sci-fi tech for selfish reasons, kill, maim and or torment the people around them (sometimes on purpose, sometimes through sheer stupidity), and generally cause all sorts of mayhem wherever they go. The Pupa's main purpose is to eventually destroy the earth and recreate it as a new Planet Schlorp, though it remains to be seen if it'll actually do it. [[spoiler: Also their nonchalance at the death they cause is due to not realizing that humans don't regenerate upon death as their species does.]]

* AnAesop:
** Yumyulack delivers it to Jessie in the second episode; sometimes there ''is'' no FreudianExcuse for why a person decides to be mean and violent. People can choose to be assholes for no reason just as they can choose to be good. [[spoiler:To drive the point home, he sets a murderous suit on autopilot and wipes out the Neo-Nazis threatening to kill them for crashing their bar]].
** The ending of episode 7 [[spoiler:gives a lesson about rebellions; when The Duke is finally overthrown, Tim betrays Cherie so he can become the next leader. This shows how rebellions can just as easily install new dictators when it lacks an end goal or a plan to create a long-lasting diplomatic structure. Stephen's character arc also shows how anyone can become a soldier of a tyrant if they suffer enough tragedies without the means of processing those tragedies healthily. The soldiers of a tyrant aren't born evil or just suddenly decide to do evil for the rest of their lives, they can just be regular people who are suffering the same thing as you.]]
** Episode 6 gives one on gender politics: Feminism is about what women can choose to be and the stereotype about feminists being misandristic wet blankets is just a small minority that was exaggerated by the media for profit and attention. At the same time, men should take responsibility and treat women as equals. The episode also shows that anyone can be sexist without realising; Corvo and Terry didn't understand what a man cave is and were just following a trend. While Jesse was just looking for something patriarchal to fight against because she was trying to finish an assignment that had expectations that were too high for her to complete.

* AliensSpeakingEnglish

** Yumyulack delivers it to Jessie in the second episode; sometimes there ''is'' no FreudianExcuse for why a person decides to be mean and violent. People can choose to be assholes for no reason just as they can choose to be good. [[spoiler:To drive the point home, he sets a murderous suit on autopilot and wipes out the Neo-Nazis threatening to kill them for crashing their bar]].

** Jessie: Phlegmatic

* KarmaHoudini: Jessie and Yumyulack have imprisoned a bunch of humans in their closet full of terrariums called the Wall, with the only food being candy and leftover takeout. At first it's just mean adults, but then Yumyulack starts doing it for petty crimes. He's never punished for this. Yumulack and the other aliens were arrested and sent to prison in one episode but it was for a crime they “didn’t” do.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Yumyulack's idea of integrating with the cool crowd involves him sitting with them and hoping that they will notice him. Jessie's response - "Like Hulu?"

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Jessie is the only female member of the Shlorpian family.

* FaceHeelDoubleTurn: Between Tim and The Duke. Tim started off as a NiceGuy who led a LaResistance against The Duke who was a selfish EvilOverlord of The Wall who many have suffered and died under his rule. Once Tim drives The Duke out of The Wall however, Tim betrays Cherie and leaves her to die before he takes over The Wall, while The Duke and Cherie work together to survive outside The Wall where The Duke saves Cherie's life and dies regretting having been a tyrant.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: