Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called

Sun is called Sol.

Right? I can't think of any scifi that refers to the sun as helios?

Yeah, I like being thrown into a new world and still somehow understanding the basics of it so it's familiar. No need to name everything differently if that's not the focus of the game.

Credits will do fine

Credits are for future and guns, it's coins/pieces of gold/silver when swords.

The money can’t be any real earth currency, and making up something like florbs would also make people roll their eyes. Credits is fine

Government is the UN.

Watto, lul!

Somehow I understand completely & agree.

Aliens are humanoid and sexually attractive.

Exactly. You've got limited time to tell your story in a movie, so establishing a fake currency that nobody except hardcore numistatics nerds will care about is kinda pointless when everyone already understands that credits = future money.

And as you say using a real currency doesn't make sense in most future movie contexts, and using the "wrong" one may even offend some people who may then boycott your movie - which is obviously not desirable when you're a studio trying to make money.

I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.

And Luna makes a ton of sense if you want to remove the ambiguity of a moon and the moon.

2 strips of gold-pressed latinum for you

I image its the same reason for the Gold/Silver currency in many fantasy settings.

I think that's also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.

Sol too, if you want to call the closest star the sun wherever you are.

Takes off space helmet on alien planet, "the air is fine!"

Aliens land in the US.

Soldiers open fire on the Aliens

Why is there no movie where they land somewhere else and we all go "well thank fuck they didn't land in Texas"

“Oh no! Some of the black liquid got on me. Better get back to the ship.”

In Doctor Who the aliens are mostly concerned with Great Britain.

Regional childrens tv show doesn't count.

But I did forget about Dr Who.

"Oh no! Something bit me while taking swamp samples from the jungle planet with 0 PPE!"

Bonus: "We're not allowed to treat them, because they're sentient naturalised swamp people now."

“Let me back on to the ship!”

an uncredible scifi where billionaires gain empathy

Any sci-fi that takes place in antiquity, I suppose.

It has been so funny to me reading Foundation by Isaac Asimov as it appears very tropy, but then you realize that those things are tropes because of the books.

Just a little regional kids show that is also one of the most famous TV shows of all time lol

District 9 did this really well.

I'm from Britain. Its an export show for Americans.

Garth Meranghi's Dark Place is more my jam

District 9 was excellent, but those were also refugee aliens.

You know how that'd play out over there...

I'm (unfortunately) American and can assure you it's a well-known export. Not really my thing either but it has more reach than you're giving it credit it for

Would actually be fun to have an android character that tries to be less human. Like it's an unfortunate happenstance that someone designed him to be human-like, and its primary goal is to purge this aspect of itself. Like an Uncle Tom character with deep-rooted anxieties and a machine supremacy complex. Come to think of it, this has to exist already, it doesn't feel all that original, but I can't point to where I would've seen that.

Let's just settle on Moon™ as a compromise for our moon and just moon for all other moons.

Check out Automata (2024)

I won't spoil anything, it's a good movie.

Not if you are Spanish.

I come from the island and the Hambly Pambly franchise has outperformed it in mindshare, at-least before I became an immigrant and escaped.

Gunther Hermann

Also see: Tolkien was a total hack.

Literally the One's from Battlestar Galactica.

Yes, it was an experience watching Torchwood and thinking it so hilarious all this stuff was happening in Wales. Made me reflect on how I never gave a second thought to how aliens only ever landed in the United States in all the time I've been watching shows about aliens.

Though, to be fair, every once in a while, the (usually movie) wants us to know that the United States liberated THE ENTIRE WORLD so we'll see a montage of racially diverse people celebrating around recognizable global landmarks. Thank you America! Please continue to bomb us to spread your freedom!

Moon-like natural satellite.

No, they won't.

And for everything else, there is multipass.

Very true and so has James Bond! I'd even say Taskmaster is giving a run for its money now that they're uploading it. Even my brother in law asked me if I've seen it and he's all-in on American entertainment

Oh, okay

I think that’s also because a couple hundred years ago practically every currency was just a certain weight of gold, silver or copper. Different coins were just an easy way to recognize the weight.

Maybe we need to get some numismatics to weigh in here, but I think currency could be extremely tricky depending on where and when you were. I remember reading about medieval Italy and it seemed every city issued its own currency with different denominations, names, and weights. And even then, people would be scraping them to get some precious metals off of them, and with all those different currencies, counterfeiting must have been a real issue.

To apply this Tolkien, the Shire would probably have a different currency than even Bree, though Butterman would even take your coins from Gondor out of politeness to travelers.

I think in Rick and Morty one of the fake currencies is called a schmeckle, which is Yiddish for penis (diminutive).

In my opinion as neither Brit nor Murican I would say it becoming an export show started with Matt Smith as Eleventh Doctor and especially with series 6 in 2011.

Especially the later assimov robot books have that theme somewhat; at least robots that think weather being more or less human in some regards is better.

You know Uncle Tom was basically the perfect human right?

That's the point of the book. Pro-Slavery people use to argue that slavery wasn't that bad so long as your slave master treated you well; so Uncle Toms cabin is a book about a flawless human who is also a slave named Uncle Tom that literally every single person who ever meets him deeply loves and respects but is powerless to stop anything bad from happening to him because he's not legally a person

If Uncle Tom sucked in any way the reader could always justify the bad shit that happened to Tom not as a result of his legal status, but as a consequence to his shitty actions or personality.

It destroys in every way the argument that slavery can be fine if your slave masters treat you well and for this reason it's rumored to be the book that broke the proverbial straw and kicked off the civil war.