#Tv tropes babylon 5 serial#
#Tv tropes babylon 5 series#

Especially when he asks for 10,000 credits as a finder's fee. Cranston of holding this in 'Hunter, Prey' for believing that someone from Downbelow had legit information on the fugitive they were tracking.

#Tv tropes babylon 5 series#

Idiosyncratic Wipe: The opening credits for series 2 transition from one actor to the next with a '5'-shaped wipe.I can only tell you that it was necessary.

I cannot tell you that you will ever forget his face. Londo: I cannot tell you that your pain will ever go away. Franklin, and Vir assassinating Emperor Cartagia.

#Tv tropes babylon 5 serial#

Rosen using an alien healing device to drain the life of a serial killer who was threatening her daughter and Dr.

The point is made repeatedly throughout the series of doing what is right versus doing what is necessary.

They used thirty innocent people, knowing the chance of their deaths were high, in order to prevent the deaths of thousands more.

Of particular note is Sheridan, Lyta, and Doctor Franklin using The Shadow-modified telepaths to disable rather than destroy a fleet of Clark-loyalist ships in orbit over the planet Mars.

I Did What I Had to Do: By the end of the series, you would be hard pressed to find any main character who did not end up compromising their morals for what they at least thought was the greater good.

G'kar throws them out sometimes when disciples keep asking questions he has already explained he doesn't have an answer for and doesn't think anyone does.

Ice-Cream Koan: The Vorlon language seems to consist mostly of these.

Icarus Allusion: The scientific expedition that reawoke the Shadows by poking into Things Man Was Not Meant to Know was called the 'Icarus expedition', after the ship on which it traveled.

Emperor Londo is visiting the new Alliance HQ on Minbar and asks about alcohol, but there is none, so he can't get drunk and put his Keeper to sleep.

In a late season 5 episode Sheridan references the effect alcohol has on Minbari.

I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Even small amounts of alcohol can turn a Minbari into a violent psychotic.

I Am Legion: The Vindrizis' human hosts communicate this by Finishing Each Other's Sentences.