| Alien With Ridiculous Name | Long-Winded Exposition | Memories Are Altered Or Wiped | Mentor Gets Killed | "We Have To Save Them!" |
| Suspended Animation | Cannon Fodder | Someone Attempts To Blow Up A Planet | Exotic Wildlife | Lens Flare |
| Self-Aware Robots Or Computers | Jet-pack | I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS (free square) | Subtle Racism | Tattooed Bad Ass |
| Techno-Babble | Turns Out To Be Earth All Along | Jesus Allegory | Annoying Sidekick | Hologram |
| Corrupt Police | Someone Thrown Out The Airlock | Sound Travels In Space | Wise Old Mentor | Blue Filter |
| Expert With An Outdated Weapon | "We Have To Save Them!" | Turns Out To Be Earth All Along | Physics Doesn't Work Like That | Cutting Random Wires |
| Hero With A Tortured Back Story | Long-Winded Exposition | Crash Landing | Hero Gets Maimed | Ancient Earth Mystery Attributed To Aliens |
| Rag-Tag Bunch Of Rebels | Exotic Wildlife | I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS (free square) | Self Destruct Stopped With Seconds To Go | Villain Has Magic Powers |
| Annoying Sidekick | Hologram | Clones | Radiation Gave Us Mutations Or Monsters | Deus Ex-Machina |
| Techno-Babble | Escape Pod | Jesus Allegory | Sudden Betrayal | Heroic Motivational Speech |