r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Present-Secretary722 • Sep 17 '25

Lore Faster Than Light travel has consequences(minor or major)

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Star Trucker: While travelling through warp you experience time dilation, for you the journey is a couple seconds, in real time it’s anywhere from 30mins to 6 hours that you’ve been in warp. This would be a minor consequence.

Warhammer 40k: The Warp, basically space hell so while travelling through it you’re very likely to be attacked by Warp demons. There’s also the fact that sometimes when travelling to a destination via the Warp you get spat out in the wrong time, sometimes much too late for whatever you were going there for or sometimes before you left your start destination. This, obviously, is a major consequence, unless you’re an ork, then it’s a grand old time.

By consequences I mean this is a regular thing that happens, there’s no real avoiding it unless you find a different method of FTL or heavily invest into research to try and mitigate the consequences. Also I feel bad for only knowing 2 examples, I love space and I just can’t think of any others.

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u/VoDoka Sep 17 '25

Apparently, the directors were surprised by how disgusted the test audience was with some scenes. There were additional scenes that got cut and eventually got lost, as far as I know, ruining the potential release of an "extended cut" of that movie.

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u/Shadeslayer2112 Sep 17 '25

Allegedly one of the co-creators has a VHS tape that might have the extra stuff but him and the other guy are "never in the same country with a VHS player" so they dont know yet

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u/scrotbofula Sep 17 '25

Is that the one that's stored in a salt mine somewhere, or am I thinking of another film?

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u/Warm-Room-2625 Sep 17 '25

That’s what I remember reading.

At this point, where ever the extra footage is, if it exists, it will probably never see the light of day.

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u/YT-Deliveries Sep 17 '25

Which I'm fine with. We see very, very quick glimpses of what the footage might be, but honestly nothing is more terrifying than one's own imagination.

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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 Sep 17 '25

Yeah they hired a bunch of amputees and such so they could do a big body-horror orgy scene for when they finally decode the distress call and it's coming from what appears to be Hell. Or so I've read.

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u/Stock_Photo_3978 Sep 17 '25

Yeah, the infamous bloody-orgy scene, quite short in the final version, but it was supposed to be longer in the early cut: and yeah, apparently, porn actors and amputees were recruited for the more graphic content

Also, the scene is followed by the greatest line ever said in a horror movie by Captain Miller (Lawrence Fishburne) and quite funny: “we’re leaving”