- abusive husband
- adoption
- alien
- alien civilization
- alien contact
- alien language
- alien race
- alien space craft
- alien technology
- armor
- betrayal
- birth
- blockbuster
- blood
- bolting upright after a nightmare
- burned alive
- chancellor
- childbirth
- child murder
- children killed
- chosen one
- christ figure
- compassion
- computer
- crushed to death
- cult favorite
- cult figure
- dead children
- death star
- decapitation
- desert
- destiny
- disciple
- disfigured face
- disfigurement
- disguise
- dismemberment
- doctor
- domestic violence
- downfall
- dream
- dream sequence
- dying in childbirth
- electrocution
- elevator
- elevator shaft
- elongated cry of no
- emperor
- epic
- evil robot
- expectant father
- expectant mother
- exploding ship
- falling from height
- farm
- fictional war
- fight
- funeral
- funeral procession
- galactic war
- general
- giant lizard
- giving birth
- good versus evil
- hangar
- hatred
- hologram
- human alien
- humiliation
- invented language
- jedi knight
- lava
- ledge
- lifting someone into the air
- lightsaber
- loss of friend
- loss of wife
- man on fire
- marital abuse
- marriage
- martial arts
- mass murder
- mechanical hand
- melodrama
- mentor
- messiah
- monster as victim
- moral corruption
- murder
- nightmare
- no opening credits
- numbered sequel
- number in title
- outer space
- part computer animation
- personality change
- person on fire
- planet
- pregnancy
- pregnant wife
- premonition
- prequel
- prosthetic limb
- punctuation in title
- queen
- remorse
- rescue
- returning character killed off
- robot
- robot vs. robot
- roman numeral in title
- saga
- secret marriage
- senate
- senator
- sequel
- severed arm
- severed hand
- severed head
- severed leg
- shame
- shootout
- shot in the back
- shot in the chest
- shot to death
- soldier
- sole black character dies cliche
- space battle
- spacecraft
- space fight
- space opera
- spaceship
- space shuttle
- space travel
- space war
- stabbed in the back
- stabbed in the chest
- subjective camera
- suffering
- surgery
- sword and sorcery
- sword fight
- telekinesis
- temple
- temptation
- third part
- torso cut in half
- torture
- tragedy
- tragic event
- tragic villain
- treason
- triple child murder
- twin
- violence
- vision
- volcano
- warrior
- warrior race
- wilhelm scream
- woman in labor
- wuxia fiction