History WesternAnimation / FinalSpace

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: The "butterflies" in episode 5 zap prey and make them shrink to bite-size. [[spoiler:Avocato temporarily falls victim to one.]]

** The good guys ''don't'' always win in the end.

** Sometimes life sucks, and sometimes you ''can't'' save the day -- but no matter how dire things get and no matter how your luck runs out, there's always the hope for a better tomorrow.

->'''Lord Commander:''' You have no idea, do you? Mooncake is the key. That being can unlock... ''Final''. ''Space''.
->''({{beat}})''

On September 2022, due to the Warner Bros and Discovery merger, a very disappointed Olan Rodgers [[https://twitter.com/OlanRogers/status/1573686640094191617 announced]] that the series will be effectively purged from all networks as a tax write-off and will no longer be available to view through copyright-respecting online means.

* StandardPostApocalypticSetting: [[spoiler:Earth]] is Season 3 is a barren and muddy-brown wasteland after [[spoiler:it was dragged into Final Space]]. The only sapient survivors are [[spoiler:an army of [=KVNs=] and Kevin van Newton]], all of whom dress in a fairly scavenger-like manner and live in a bunker, and mutated beasts roam the otherwise-lifeless planet's surface.

** Although [[TheAntichrist the Lord Commander]] is killed by Nightfall, his actions during the first season have a lasting impact [[spoiler:before his resurrection]]: he's caused the Earth's destruction, which in turn sets off Todd's vendetta against Gary, [[spoiler:and his actions also led to Quinn getting trapped in Final Space, with reaching Final Space to get her back being the Team Squad's primary mission throughout Season 2]].

** [[DimensionalTraveller Nightfall]] is '''not''' a thin-skinned person, but in Season 2, it's {{implied}} she's just about hit this point when she realizes that Gary ([[spoiler:the first version of Gary she's managed to save after twenty years of watching him die in hundreds of alternate realities]]) doesn't want her the way he wants his timeline's Quinn nor the way that his counterpart in Nightfall's original life fell in love with her. It explains why she uses the ''Crimson Light''[='s=] Virtualasium to construct a digital copy of her Gary from memory despite it putting everyone's lives including her own at risk, [[spoiler:and she has a definite breakdown at the episode's end]]. For a straighter example in Nightfall's backstory, she used to be just like the main Quinn, but after losing her Gary, she was about to kill herself when [[SealedGoodInACan Bolo]] first contacted her and gave her purpose again.

*** Ash crosses the event horizon ''horrifically'' at the season's end after she overhears Gary and Avocato discussing the latter's dark secret ([[spoiler:that Avocato isn't Little Cato's birth father and that he killed the kid's biological parents]]) -- having endured a season's worth of systematic psychological manipulation [[spoiler:and the loss of Fox, on top of her DarkAndTroubledPast of being betrayed by her parental figures]], Ash completely breaks in that moment: [[spoiler:jumping to the rash conclusion that the entire Team Squad sans Little Cato are just more future betrayers of her trust, ''[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope gleefully attempting to MURDER Gary and Avocato]]'' in the process of kidnapping Little Cato, and worst of all deciding Invictus was right and selling out the whole of reality to it]].

** Invictus apparently doesn't take being betrayed by those under its thrall well at all if them doing so wasn't according to Invictus' plan. Invictus is content to let Ash shout defiances at it while it works on slowly breaking her faith in the Team Squad, but when the Lord Commander [[spoiler:turns on Invictus so he can take a fast-track to becoming a Titan]], Invictus can barely ''contain'' its rage at him whenever it sees him from then on, screaming at the Lord Commander for choosing to be a heretic over learning from Invictus what true power looks like.

* AlienBlood: In a setting full of various alien beings and a show which isn't exactly family-friendly with the violence, this is a given. Shades of purple seems to be a popular color, and Serpentians (Ash's people) have yellowish blood. ZigZagged among [[EldritchAbomination the Titans]]: while Bolo and Oreskos bleed green blood, several of the Titans slaughtered by [[spoiler:the Lord Commander]] have red blood.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:In the Season one finale, Earth seemingly suffers a ApocalypseHow/ClassX: the Final Space breach's gravity is drawing the oceans away from the planet and ripping the planet's inner-magma out through the crust, before a Titan physically drags the planet into the breach. Season 3 reveals it was more of a ApocalypseHow/Class4: though the Earth has lost its sun, almost every human who was on it and most of its biosphere, the physical planet and its surface have more or less remained intact (the continents even retain their original shape despite the effects that the breach's suction and the gravity of the Titan's arm should have had), at least ''one'' human and an army of [=KVNs=] have survived, and some of Earth's animals even mutated into monsters instead of dying from Final Space poisoning. The Earth is finally destroyed ''completely'' when [[PlanetaryParasite the Titan incubating in the core]] shatters the planet like an egg]].

* CosmicHorrorStory: The universe in which humanity and many other alien races now live (which is already a CrapsackWorld in its own right) was once ruled by chaotic, monstrous {{Eldritch Abomination}}s of god-like physical power, and only a rapidly-''thinning'' dimensional barrier is holding said Abominations back from returning to the universe and tearing down reality as we know it. What's worse, these Abominations themselves answer to an even older and more powerful cosmic evil [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned within Final Space]], whose expressed end goal is to devastate the whole of reality [[{{Sadist}} while enjoying it immensely]]. Even while the Titans and Invictus remain imprisoned in Final Space, the universe isn't free of much lesser cosmic monsters and demons -- the [[JerkassGods serpent god Werthrent]] whom Ash's people worship and feed themselves to is proof of that. And despite the show's colorful appearance, it is ''not'' adverse to {{Downer Ending}}s or a pessimistic tone at all -- at times, it seems like the best the heroes can do instead of triumphing over the villains is ensure that the villains lose too.

** Downplayed with Ash, who seems to have been born with only one eye, with nothing but bare skin where a right eye would be. [[spoiler:At least, until Invictus changes that. Ironically, Ash gaining a second eye symbolizes her worldview being narrowed and ''corrupted'' instead of broadened]].

* AerithAndBob: To name but a few, humans with normal first names and [[AwesomeMcCoolName Awesome McCool]] surnames (Quinn Ergon, Gary Goodspeed), aliens with alien names and human surnames (Tribore Menendez), a [[CatFolk catlike creature]] named "[[JustForPun Avocato]]," and two aliens named Ash Graven and Fox who are the adoptive children of yet a third alien named Clarence Polkowicz. Plus several robot names pronounced as familiar human names (KVN / "Kevin," H.U.E. / "Hugh").

The serialized Sci-Fi series follows Gary Goodspeed, a futuristic astronaut with a big personality, as he waits out the last days of his five-year sentence aboard the PrisonShip ''Galaxy One''. He soon runs across an adorable green PlanetDestroyer named Mooncake and a CatFolk bounty hunter, Avocato, and finds himself embroiled in a desperate mission to unlock the mystery of something called "Final Space" and save the universe from [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt total annihilation...]] while also keeping Mooncake out of the hands of the villainous Lord Commander and his forces.

The show started as a small series of low-budget and roughly made Website/YouTube videos uploaded to Rogers' channel in 2010 under the title ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmM_261kxY Gary Space]],'' but went on hiatus three episodes into its planned ten episode run, only to re-emerge six years later as a professionally produced and drama-heavy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yco11ZQ0UE pilot]] which quickly went viral and caught the attention of former ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' writer and TV producer Creator/ConanOBrien, who would go on to serve as the executive producer for the show. Originally, it was going to air as part of a TBS animation block that would have featured J.G. Quintel's ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' and a show called ''The Cops'' created by Creator/LouisCK When Louis C.K.'s sexual misconduct scandal came out, ''The Cops'' was shelved indefinitely (if not outright canceled before it could premiere) while ''Close Enough'' was shelved until 2020 (when HBO Max was released). ''Final Space'', however, aired anyway and the fourth show in the line-up (''American Dad'') continued.

The show started as a small series of low-budget and roughly made Website/YouTube videos uploaded to Rogers’ channel under the title ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmM_261kxY Gary Space]],'' but went on hiatus three episodes into its planned ten episode run, only to re-emerge six years later as a professionally produced and drama-heavy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yco11ZQ0UE pilot]] which quickly went viral and caught the attention of former ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' writer and TV producer Creator/ConanOBrien, who would go on to serve as the executive producer for the show. Originally, it was going to air as part of a TBS animation block that would have featured J.G. Quintel's ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' and a show called ''The Cops'' created by Creator/LouisCK When Louis C.K.'s sexual misconduct scandal came out, ''The Cops'' was shelved indefinitely (if not outright canceled before it could premiere) while ''Close Enough'' was shelved until 2020 (when HBO Max was released). ''Final Space'', however, aired anyway and the fourth show in the line-up (''American Dad'') continued.

* KnightOfCerebus: The Lord Commander. Things tend to get significantly more serious whenever he shows up.

On September 2022, due to the Warner Bros and Discovery merger, a very disappointed Olan Rodgers [[https://twitter.com/OlanRogers/status/1573686640094191617 announced]] that the series will be effectively purged from all networks as a tax write-off and will disappear from copyright-respecting streaming platforms.

On September 2022, due to the Warner Bros and Discovery merger, a very disappointed Olan Rodgers [[https://twitter.com/OlanRogers/status/1573686640094191617 announced]] that the series will be effectively purged from all networks as a tax write-off and disappear for good.

On September 2022, due to the Warner Bros and Discovery merger, a very disappointed Olan Rodgers [[https://twitter.com/OlanRogers/status/1573686640094191617 announced]] that the series will be effectively purged from all networks as a tax write-off.

* CyberCyclops: All KVN units.

** {{Downplayed}} by Gary in Season 2, when he remains trapped several months in the past so that the rest of the Team Squad can save [[spoiler:Avocato]], and he takes TheSlowPath.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Because he broke Time Swap laws in helping the Team Squad save Avocato, Time Swap Sammy lost his job. He grew to resent the Team Squad and in season 3 returns to kill them as vengeance. Good intentions or no, Time Swap Sammy still broke the law and suffered the consequences for it.]]

** It's eventually revealed in Season 2 that Sheryl Goodspeed entered into an analogous alliance with [[spoiler:the Titan Oreskis]] in the style of a DealWithTheDevil.
** [[SatanicArchetype Invictus]] tends to make its ''direct'' mortal allies (the Lord Commander and later [[spoiler:Ash]]) ''think'' they're partners, although in reality they're little to nothing more than Invictus' puppets or tools.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:In the Season one finale, Earth seemingly suffers a ApocalypseHow/ClassX: the Final Space breach's gravity are drawing the oceans away from the planet and ripping the planet's inner-magma out through the crust, before a Titan physically drags the planet into the breach. Season 3 reveals it was more of a ApocalypseHow/Class4: though the Earth has lost its sun and is completely poisoned by exposure to Final Space, the planet has mostly remained intact, and there are not only a few survivors but also some animals who mutated instead of dying. The planet is finally destroyed for good when the Titan incubating in the core breaks the planet apart like an egg]].

* MindControlEyes: Anyone who's being possessed by Invictus gains [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[SupernaturalIsPurple purple]] MonochromaticEyes.

* PurpleIsPowerful / SupernaturalIsPurple: Ash's psychokinetic powers produce a purple glow, as do Invictus' EldritchAbomination multiple powers and also its true form. It turns out in Season 3 [[spoiler:Ash's powers actually came from Invictus, essentially making her an AntiAntichrist, and cementing purple as a color signifying evil]].

* FromZeroToHero: Gary starts out as a loser and eventually [[spoiler:goes on a misson to save the entire universe]].

** [[spoiler:The end of Episode 6 interrupts [[HopeSpot a heartwarning victory for the team]] with Avocato's HeroicSacrifice.]]