Sci Fi Counterpart
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 -- AI 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)
- The Undead -- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Urban Fantasy -- Urban Sci Fi
- Weird West -- Space Western