Sci Fi Counterpart

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There are many differences between Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but some things blur the lines between them. Regardless, there are lots of ways that Tropes from both can overlap.

Sister Trope to Gun/Sword Counterpart, compare Magic Versus Science, Speculative Fiction Tropes, Magitek. Not to be confused with Fantasy Counterpart Culture, though the two could overlap.

Fantasy tropes and their sci-fi counterparts:

• Alchemy -- Chemistry Can Do Anything
• All Myths Are True -- All Theories Are True
• Aura Vision -- Stat-O-Vision
• Bioluminescence Is Cool -- Tron Lines (though the latter can sometimes be found in fantasy)
• Chainmail Bikini -- Latex Space Suit
• Creating Life -- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
• Constructed World -- A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away
• Cool Airship -- Cool Starship
• Doing In the Wizard -- Doing In the Scientist
• The Fair Folk -- The Greys
• Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes -- Alien Tropes
• Fantastic Science -- Fictional Field of Science
• Fantasy Gun Control -- Nuclear Weapons Taboo
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink -- Sci Fi Kitchen Sink
• Functional Magic -- Psychic Powers
• Golem -- Ridiculously Human Robot
• Heroic Fantasy/Low Fantasy -- Planetary Romance
• High Fantasy -- Space Opera
• Instant Runes -- Matrix Raining Code
• The Legions of Hell -- Everything's Deader with Zombies/Mecha-Mooks
• Lilliputians -- Nanomachines
• Lizard Folk/Snake People -- The Reptilians
• Magi Babble -- Techno Babble
• Magic Carpet -- Hover Board
• Magical Land -- Inside a Computer System
• Magitek/MagicPoweredPseudoscience -- Magic From Technology
• Mithril -- Unobtainium
• Our Elves Are Better -- Space Elves
• Our Monsters Are Weird -- Starfish Aliens
• Portable Hole -- Pocket Dimension
• The Sky Is an Ocean -- Space Is an Ocean
• Standard Fantasy Setting -- Standard Sci Fi Setting
• Steampunk/Dieselpunk -- Cyberpunk/Biopunk (arguably)
  • Gaslamp Fantasy -- Steampunk/Dieselpunk/Cattle Punk
  • Gothic Punk -- Cyberpunk
• The Undead -- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
• Urban Fantasy -- Urban Sci Fi
• Weird West -- Space Western