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{{quote|'''Raditz:''' No, my space pod! *oof* Argh, my space armor!

 

Taking regular words and giving them appropriate futuristic flair with a simple addition since the 1930's.

There is, believe it or not, a [[Real Life]] precedent for this. Consider all the Sea Lions and Sea Anemones and Sea Horses and Sea Stars and Sea Robins and so on and so forth, not to mention all the Catfish, Dogfish, Parrotfish, Lizardfish, ad infinitum. (The reason for this, if you were wondering, is that in [[Science Marches On|the early days of biology]], it was thought that every land animal had an undersea equivalent. Obviously this theory didn't quite work out, hence a pretty epic level of [[Call a Smeerp a Rabbit|Calling Smeerps Rabbits]].)

 

 

For Space-named Tropes, see [[Tropes in Space]].

* The mice in ''[[GoLion]]'', and possibly ''[[Voltron]]'', were called space mice.

* in ''[[Sailor Moon]] S'' Sailor Uranus obtains an ancient talisman called the [[Sinister Scimitar|Space Sword]], culmulating in her [[Calling Your Attacks|attack]], "[[Sword Beam|Space Sword Blaster]]!"

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the Jodoverse (which includes such series as ''The Incal'', ''The Caste of the Metabarons'' and ''The Technopriests''), a far-future science-fantasy dystopia, characters sometimes refers to persons and use exclamations familiar to contemporary readers, but qualify them with the prefix paleo-. One has to wonder why they feel the need to refer to Paleo-Marx and Paleo-Christ instead of simply using their names, call someone Paleobitch and so on, unless there are several versions of these persons and concepts, which are in turn associated with different eras. There is nothing to indicate that the latter is the case.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

** Piccolo tells Nail he switched to Spacebook in episode 25 (from... [[Fridge Brilliance|myspace]].)

** Freeza: "It's kind of like putting down Old Space Yeller." Krillin: "How is that even a thing?"

 

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Suburban Commando]] references "Galactic NARC Duty".

* [[Treasure Planet]] is basically [[Treasure Island]] with "space" or "planet" put in front of everything.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

{{quote|"Well, after all, science fiction is pretty easy to write, isn't it? It's just a matter of using fancy names -- just change the names, apply a thin layer of technologese and jargon, right? Say 'helicar' instead of car, 'helipad' instead of driveway, 'tri-vid' instead of television, 'feelies' (or 'smellies,' or 'grabbies') instead of movies. Better still, use the word 'space' as a prefix for everything: spacesuit, spacegun, spacehelmet, spacehouse, spacedog, spacecow. ... Right? Just change the names and you can write a confession-magazine love story, a cowboy story, a gothic, or a nurse novel, and sell it as science fiction. Right?"}}

* In ''Stark's Command'' by [[John Hemry]], about U.S. soldiers on the Moon, Stark warns one of his subordinates that if the unit's [[The Scrounger|wheeler-dealer]] does something too unscrupulous, he'll [[Reassigned to Antarctica|put her on guard duty at the lunar pole]] "for so long she'll think she's a space penguin."

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

'''Bubbles''': Ricky... that's not very good. Use space words, real ones, not talking about space weed.}}

 

* ''[[The Lonely Island]]'' song: Space Olympics. " SPACE DISC! is totally cancelled."

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

*** At least one source said that that was exactly what they were: hamsters modified to be giant and more suited for Spelljammer-voyages. The Tinker Gnomes were to blame, naturally.

**** That's "Gnomes, Tinker" to you!

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

'''Weebl:''' That... is so space hot. }}

* [[Space Tree]]. (full title: Space Tree the space tree [[In Space]]) In addition to the name of the show, loads of things in the show are examples of Space X, including the names of the first 10 episodes.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Parodied constantly in ''[[Starslip]]'', where adding "space-" in front of things is their version of [[Future Slang]], such as "Good Space Heavens!" and "Space-cool your space-jets!" It becomes truly absurd when 'air-space' becomes (you guessed it) ''space''-space.

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' does it with weapons (including the famous "laser sword"), and hangs a lampshade on it [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0001.html right out of the gate]:

{{quote|'''Qui-Gon:''' Let's see. Electro-axe. Energy mace. "Plasma bow"?? You just took a D&D equipment list and stuck techy words in front, right?

'''GM:''' Don't be stupid.

** In [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0307.html a later installment], Count Dooku speaks with a "space French" accent.

* ''[[Nedroid]]'': In space, Beartato runs into an alien that looks like Reginald with antennae and calls him "Space Reginald". The alien replies [http://nedroid.com/2009/07/like-regular-beartato-but-in-space/ "How did you know my name?"]

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Space Food Sticks were allegedly developed for the space program, then marketed under that name to the general public. (Later, they were renamed simply "Food Sticks", which sounds eerily vague and generic, like opening a can of People Food.)

** People Food sounds [[I'm a Humanitarian|eerily specific]].

 

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