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