| Hero Gets Maimed | Personal Vendetta | Unauthorized Medical Experiments | Turns Out To Be Earth All Along | Memories Are Altered Or Wiped |
| Someone Attempts To Blow Up A Planet | Ancient Earth Mystery Attributed To Aliens | Someone Thrown Out The Airlock | Didn't Check If They Were Dead | Jet-pack |
| Cannon Fodder | Someone In An Access Hatch | I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS (free square) | Self Destruct Stopped With Seconds To Go | Naive Trainee |
| Red Filter | Suspended Animation | Someone Charges In Half Cocked | Teleporter Failure | Sex At An Inappropriate Time |
| Corrupt Police | Device That Kills You And Hurts The Whole Time You're Dying | British People From Space | Techno-Babble | Earth Pop Culture Reference |
| Unauthorized Medical Experiments | Suspended Animation | British People From Space | Deus Ex-Machina | Villain Has Magic Powers |
| "Explain It In English!" | Teleporter Failure | Self Destruct Stopped With Seconds To Go | Useless Blinking Lights | Mentor Gets Killed |
| Hero Gets Maimed | Lens Flare | I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS (free square) | It Was All A Dream (Or Simulation) | Chess-Inspired Game |
| Incompetent Henchmen | Corrupt Police | Sub-Par Employee Motivation Skills | Hero With A Tortured Back Story | Red Filter |
| Turns Out To Be Earth All Along | "We Have To Save Them!" | Parallel Worlds or Timelines | Planet With A Single Climate | Clones |