Compare The Ground Beneath Our Feet, Heliotropes, Index on the Moon, Stellar Index, Otherworld Tropes.
Tropes:
- All Planets Are Earth-Like: The plot-relevant planet conveniently supports life.
- Counter-Earth: A hypothetical planet on the other side of the Sun from the Earth which is usually like the Earth, but hidden.
- Earth All Along: Turns out that ruined planet you were on was actually Earth itself.
- Earth Drift: A setting becomes less similar to real life Earth than it was at the start.
- Earth Is a Battlefield: The whole Earth is used for battle.
- Earth Is the Center of the Universe: A lot of cosmically significant events or other unusual activity happening on Earth.
- Earth Is Young: Present-day Earth turns out to be young on a cosmic scale.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: An entire planet explodes.
- Earth-Shattering Poster: The stock image version of Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
- Earth That Used to Be Better: Earth used to be well-regarded, but it is now seen as lesser by those who have left it.
- Earth That Was: Earth is no more.
- Fictional Earth: Same name, mass, Sun, Moon, etc., but a completely different world.
- Flat World: The world has no horizon due to it being flat.
- Genesis Effect: The creation of an entire planet.
- Got the Whole World in My Hand: Symbol of a hand grasping at the globe.
- Hell on Earth: Demons invade the world and transform it into a hellish wasteland.
- Hemisphere Bias: Any shot of a spacecraft or other object orbiting or approaching the Earth will only show the side of the planet where the target audience of the production lives.
- Hollow World: The world is a hollow shell, and something lives in it.
- Homeworld Evacuation: Someone's homeworld becoming inhabitable, forcing the populace to leave.
- Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Earth depicted as boring and/or useless.
- Mars Needs Water: Mars is dry up.
- Mars Needs Women: Non-human males think human females are hot.
- Not of This Earth: Evidence is discovered that suggests we're not alone in the universe
- One World Order: A planet or species answers to a single government.
- Planet Terra: Earth being called Terra in science fiction stories.
- Puny Earthlings: Compared to other sentient species, humans suck.
- Vichy Earth: Alien invaders rule humanity before or instead of exterminating us.
- The War of Earthly Aggression: Off-world colonies declare independence from the mother planet.
- Why You Should Destroy the Planet Earth: A fun, lighthearted page describing the myriad reasons characters may want to eliminate Earth.
