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8	An index of tropes dealing with planets.
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10	Tropes specific to the planet Earth belong on the sub-index ThisIndexEarth. Compare StellarIndex.
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14	%%If you're about to add a trope about a Solar System planet, check the second list at the end first before doing so to avoid duplicate entries.
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16	[[index]]
17	!!General tropes
18	* AlienLandmass\
19	Weird land, continents, or highlands which immediately show that the planet is not Earth.
20	* AlienSea\
21	The planet's sea has unusual features/appearance that visually sets it apart from the Earth that we know.
22	* AlienSky\
23	The sky looks very different from that of the Earth that we know.
24	* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike\
25	All alien planets resemble Earth to a lesser or greater degree.
26	* BabyPlanet\
27	An inhabitable planet that is far smaller than astronomically possible, often less than a few miles in diameter.
28	* BinarySuns\
29	This planet has more than one sun in its sky.
30	* CasualInterplanetaryTravel\
31	Interplanetary travel is quick and inexpensive.
32	* CityPlanet (aka Ecumenopolis)\
33	A planet covered entirely in city.
34	* ConvenientlyClosePlanet\
35	Traveling from planet to planet is much easier in fiction than reality.
36	* DeathWorld\
37	This planet is so dangerous that simply going there is considered taking your life into your own hands.
38	* EarthShatteringKaboom (aka Planetary Destruction)\
39	When TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt entails the destruction of the entire planet you're on (not necessarily Earth, despite the name).
40	* GenesisEffect\
41	The birth of a planet, through natural or artificial means, usually with a good deal of [[SceneryPorn impressive visuals]].
42	* GhostPlanet\
43	What you get when a Ghost Town is global in scale.
44	* HomeworldEvacuation\
45	A planet has been struck with a disaster that forced (a portion of) the native population to leave for outer space.
46	* InterplanetaryVoyage\
47	A story where space travel is less concerned with the destination and much more with the journey itself. Common in early ScienceFiction, not so much in modern times.
48	* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll\
49	Planet equals small town.
50	* LandfillBeyondTheStars\
51	An entire planet is used as an interstellar municipal landfill.
52	* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway\
53	A story is set on a planet in a galaxy so far, far away that the very distance lends an air of credibility to even the most fantastic of plots.
54	* MetalPoorPlanet\
55	A planet is lacking in metals or metal ores, which causes problems for the people living there.
56	* MulticulturalAlienPlanet\
57	This world is no PlanetOfHats; its native population comprises several distinct ethnicities and cultures, each with its own traditions.
58	* NamedAfterTheirPlanet\
59	The name of an alien race is derived from the name of their home planet. Conversely, aliens will tend to [[HumansByAnyOtherName call humans by a name derived from Earth's own]], such as "Earthlings" or "[[PlanetTerra Terrans]]".
60	* NamingYourColonyWorld\
61	NamingConventions for colonized worlds.
62	* NewEden\
63	An exiled race discovers that [[EarthThatWas their once ravaged homeworld]] has healed over.
64	* NumberedHomeworld\
65	An inhabited planet lacks a proper name, instead is known by the name of the star it orbits and a number.
66	* ParadisePlanet\
67	A beautiful, hospitable world portrayed as a wonderful place to visit and the perfect place to live.
68	* PastoralScienceFiction\
69	A green, fertile agrarian planet.
70	* PlanetBaron\
71	Somebody who controls and owns an entire planet.
72	* PlanetEater\
73	A character that not only destroys planets, but '''eats''' them for nourishment.
74	* PlanetLooters\
75	A species or group has run out of a resource on their own planet and now must steal it from others (usually [[EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Earth]]).
76	* APlanetNamedZok\
77	Just as aliens can have bizarre names, so goes for the names of alien planets and other celestial bodies.
78	* PlanetOfHats\
79	An entire world/species is culturally uniform with a single set of quirks shared by all of its members.
80	** OneProductPlanet\
81	A planet that specializes in providing a single commodity or service on the interstellar market.
82	*** AgriWorld\
83	A planet chiefly or entirely dedicated to agriculture.
84	*** IndustrialWorld\
85	A planet chiefly or entirely dedicated to industry and material production.
86	** PlanetOfCopyhats\
87	An entire race's "hat" is extrapolated from the behavior of one or two characters.
88	* PlanetaryCoreManipulation\
89	Draining, poisoning, destroying, or stabilizing the core of a planet.
90	* PlanetaryNation\
91	An entire planet is ruled by a single government.
92	* PlanetaryParasite\
93	A parasite that victimizes '''planets''' instead of the organisms living on them.
94	* PlanetaryRelocation\
95	Relocating a planet.
96	* PlanetaryRomance\
97	Stories, nominally ScienceFiction, set on alien worlds described in lush detail. The world can be Earth in the far distant future, or an alien planet, but it is reached by science-fictional means, not magic.
98	* {{Planetville}}\
99	In SpaceOpera, entire planets serve the same function in space that towns and countries do in more traditional planet-bound stories.
100	* PleasurePlanet\
101	An entire planet that is dedicated to providing luxury and pleasure to its inhabitants/visitors.
102	* RoguePlanet\
103	A planet that wanders in interstellar space outside of a solar system.
104	* SacrificialPlanet\
105	The plot-driving threat destroys a less important planet first.
106	* ShatteredWorld\
107	Once a planet, now broken into small pieces floating through space.
108	* SingleBiomePlanet\
109	This planet has no ecological diversity: it's dominated by a single environment type, often regardless of latitude.
110	* SingleLanguagePlanet\
111	All inhabitants of the planet speak the exact same language, no exceptions.
112	* StrollingOnJupiter\
113	Planets known not to have solid surfaces, such as gas giants and ice giants, are depicted as having traversable land masses.
114	* {{Terraform}}\
115	A planet's enviroment is artificially changed to better suit a species, human-like or otherwise [[note]]in the latter case, the proper term would be "xenoform".[[/note]].
116	** HostileTerraforming\
117	Making a planet less suitable for native life and more suitable for alien life.
118	* TidallyLockedPlanet\
119	A planet is tidally locked to its star the way the moon is to Earth; one side is always day, one side is always night. Extreme opposing temperatures (burning hot on the day side, bitterly cold on the night side) often result from this.
120	* WorldShapes\
121	SpeculativeFiction is rife with unusual choices for a planet's shape, as a way to drive home the exoticness of said planet in comparison to the more familiar Earth.
122	[[/index]]
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124	!!Tropes about UsefulNotes/{{the Solar System}}[='s=] planets
125	[[index]]
126	* ColonizedSolarSystem\
127	Humanity has several space colonies across the UsefulNotes/{{the Solar System}}.
128	* IndustrializedMercury\
129	The closest planet to the Sun is used as a hub for industry, mining, and/or energy production for Earth or the whole Solar System.
130	* OnceGreenMars\
131	Depictions of UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} as having once been bountiful and full of life, perhaps even home to a thriving civilization, before some disaster left it as the lifeless red world we all know today.
132	* PlutoIsExpendable\
133	UsefulNotes/{{Pluto}} treated as the ButtMonkey of UsefulNotes/{{the Solar System}}.
134	* SolarSystemNeighbors\
135	When bodies in the solar system are inhabited.
136	* ThisIndexEarth\
137	An index for all tropes specifically about [[UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} the very planet that we humans live on]].
138	* UranusIsShowing\
139	Making a joke about UsefulNotes/{{Uranus}} and its name's unfortunate homophony to a certain phrase.
140	* VenusIsWet\
141	UsefulNotes/{{Venus}} is permanently covered by clouds; that surely means that they're concealing a thriving biosphere with tropical rainforests and/or vast oceans!
142	[[/index]]
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