When one thinks of space, one usually thinks of stars, nebulae, black holes, and possibly neverending emptiness. But there's also lots of rocks in space. Some of them are lucky enough to be considered planets, or dwarf planets, or moons. But for the rest of them, the comets, the meteors, and the asteroids, and whatever other tropeworthy forms of non-planetary non-lunar space rocks there are (including those that are more ice than rock), here's this index.
Not to be confused with Space Rock, a Sub-Genre of Alternative Rock. Despite the name, Meteor Move rarely involves actual or simulated meteors. Similarly, Asteroids Monster is rarely about actual asteroids.
Tropes:
- Alternate-History Dinosaur Survival: What if the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs missed, was destroyed, or otherwise failed to drive the dinosaurs into extinction?
- Asteroid Miners: Mining in space rocks.
- Asteroid Thicket: Real asteroid fields are nowhere near as densely packed as they are in fiction.
- Came from the Sky: An extraterrestrial object or lifeform falling from the sky like a meteor.
- Colony Drop: The world is in danger, because a large object from space is about to crash into it!
- Comet of Doom: Comets are treated as a sign of (and possibly the cause of) great events, both bad and good.
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died: Incoming dinosaur-extinctifying rock!
- Flaming Meteor: Meteors are always depicted as a flaming boulder falling out of the sky. Not scientifically accurate, but it looks cool.
- Magic Meteor: Meteors as the cause of someone gaining superpowers.
- Meteor-Summoning Attack: The power to summon a meteor shower as an attack, or at least make something that looks like a meteor shower.
- Thunderbolt Iron: Weapons made with meteoric metal are better than those made with terrestrial materials.
- The Tunguska Event: A mysterious explosion that happened in Russia circa June 1908, believed to be caused by a meteor strike. Well, either that or aliens.
- Wish Upon a Shooting Star: When you wish upon a meteor...
