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Space Is Slow Motion
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Stuff happening in zero gravity requires a whole new outlook on the laws of physics as we're aware of them, but most writers ignore that and just make things move slower and floatier. Never mind that in many circumstances, objects move faster in zero gravity since, obviously, there's no gravity to slow them down. If you kick off from a wall, you'll travel as fast your legs propel you. This trope presumably originates from footage of astronauts deliberately moving very slowly, because they know it's easy to let momentum get the better of you and hurt yourself bashing into something. It may also be a weird side-effect of Space Friction, or of writers' only personal experience of "weightlessness" being a dip in the swimming pool. Examples |
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Quite definitely disproved in MythBusters: flailing around and then slowing down the clip looks a lot different than actual zero-gravity movement. | |
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A bizarre version is shown in Diamonds Are Forever when men in spacesuits are training to use a Moon Rover on a stage set outside Las Vegas. They move slowly according to this trope, which might be justified if they were making a publicity film, but when James Bond comes racing past pursued by guards, the astronauts slowly try to block his path, while Bond nimbly dodges their inept efforts. | |
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Played so straight in Space: 1999 that they filmed moonwalking scenes in slow motion. | |
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Played straight during the spacewalk sequence in Star Trek: First Contact. | |
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In the "Horizon Lunar Colony" map in Overwatch, there's an airlock you can use to leave the colony and explore the surface. Doing so doesn't cause any actual damage, but it does gradually slow your movement speed to a crawl. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Jackie and Hak Foo end up fighting in space during the Moon Demon episode, and Hak Foo is forced to rethink his attack names. "Tiger prowls... through pudding? Turtle... fist! Sloth... kick!" | |
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The Flash (2014): Apparently, space is such slow motion that the Reverse-Flash is powerless in zero-gravity. They don't provide the plausible explanation of careful movement; they act like he's truly powerless. | |
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Averted by Gundam. Many of the series characters are born and raised in Space Colonies and are very comfortable in zero-gravity, and will jump and bounce off of walls/ceilings/floors with practiced ease to move around — and, of course, the zero-g space battles are generally fought at very high speeds. The only time slow-motion is going on is during docking operations, when precision is of the utmost concern. | |
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Moon Zero Two: This is the effect of turning off the moonbase's artificial gravity, leading to a rather underwhelming Bar Brawl for a Space Western. | |
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Averted in Planetes when the crew barely manage to move a piece of debris out of the way of an oncoming spacecraft in time — said spacecraft flashes by very fast. | |
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Alien averts this trope when Kane's body gets a Burial in Space. Rather than a stately drift into space, the body is shot rapidly from the airlock. | |
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In the Firefly pilot episode "Serenity", there is a scene in which Serenity is passing a Reaver ship in open space. They are both in transit between planets or moons, moving in opposite directions, but pass each other at roughly jogging speed. At that rate, it would take them (hold on, let's do the math, let's see, nuthin', and nuthin', carry the nuthin') roughly forever to get there. | |
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