Did not nominate, but can verify that the following are very space-y indeed:

Gundam 00F
Robotech Masters
Robotech: The Macross Saga

Why were some of the TOS characters rejected?

Hi, I'm the nominator for Final Fantasy XIII and Young Wizards, and I can confirm space is an integral part of both settings!

The setting for FFXIII (that is, the first game) for the most part, is an artificial satellite set orbiting around a planet, much like a moon. The characters are aware that they live in an artificial satellite, and the ultimate plan of the bad guys is to drop that satellite onto the planet surface below, killing everyone in it. While the satellite's descent is stopped, it is only a temporary fix, and the ultimate goal in FFXIII-2 (the second game) is to stop that artificial satellite from completing its fall. The third game, LR: FFXIII, has another satellite as a major location: one major character lives in it and has done for about 250 years, and another visits it on a daily basis by ~magic~. Wikipedia doesn't really make it clear that Cocoon is not so much another planet as it is essentially a colony suspended above another planet. If you need more info, let me know, but in short, Final Fantasy XIII does have a lot of fantasy elements, but the setting is more space-y than the wiki page suggests.

As for Young Wizards, it is very space-y. The characters go to the Moon on a regular basis, visit other planets on a regular basis, aliens visit Earth on a regular basis, and three books are explicitly set off world. (Wizard's Holiday, Wizards at War, A Wizard of Mars). Minor characters also include Saturn, Jupiter, Pluto, and the Sun (as in, the planets, dwarf planet, and the star itself), which makes sense in the setting.

Not the nominator, but Predators (2010) involves humans having been abducted to another planet and needing to steal a ship to get free, with aliens hunting them. So everything takes place on a planet, with space travel a definite moving cause.

Transformers: Beast Wars involves starship chases! And they live in a spaceship. And they're alien robots.

That's not Gundam Wing, that's Gundam Wing Frozen Teardrop which AO3 (in it infinite stupidity) insists on lumping with Gundam Wing.

Scheherazade, Tallgeese Heaven, Snow White, Prometheus, Warlock, Epyon Bai, Epyon Ares, and Proto-zero all belong to Frozen Teardrop, not Gundam Wing. If you can separate those two fandoms, it would be appreciated.

No, Tallgeese and Tallgeese Heaven are not the same, and Scheherazade is not the Scheherazade from Middle Eastern legendry.


While I'm on the subject, since AO3 likes to repeat its mistakes, the following belong in Gundam 00P -- which, like Gundam 00F, and Gundam Wing Frozen Teardrop, is a separate series and should not be lumped with Gundam 00:

GNY-001 Gundam Astraea
GNY-002 Gundam Sadalsuud
GNY-003 Gundam Abulhool
GNY-004 Gundam Plutone
GNY-0042-874 Gundam Artemie
GN-XXX Gundam Rasiel
GN-005/PH Gundam Virtue Physical
GNY-001F/hs-A01D Gundam Avalanche Astraea Type F'

Games of Command is set onboard a spaceship :D

I didn't nominate him, but Mirror Tuvok is in an episode of DS9.

Technically, Ame-Comi Girls is DCU (Comics) but usually when people say DCU (Comics) they mean the main universe. Ame-Comi Girls is an alternate universe that doesn't cross over with the main one at all. If someone were to offer/request one they would not expect to get the other. All the characters in Ame-Comi are different versions.

You are having a crisis of infinite Clarks going on in DCU (Comics). Clark Kent (DCAU) and Clark Kent (Smallville) are showing up under it.

I have a question about RPF: would it be acceptable to nominate, for instance, cosmonauts like Gagarin and Tereshkova?

Further, there is an existing micro-fandom for works about "Space Vehicles" (mostly the Mars rovers, but also various probes). Would that be kosher to nominate?

Thanks!

Edited 2016-02-18 05:35 pm (UTC)

Just to clarify a couple of my noms, in case their space-y-ness is confusing:

Young Avengers: Noh-Varr and Teddy Altman are aliens. Spaceship travel is also involved.

Runaways: Karolina Dean is an alien.

FF: Space travel is involved (they visit the moon several times).

X-Men (Comics): the X-Men go to space a lot.

Austin & Murry-O'Keefe families: Meg travels in space. Vicky and Adam do not, but they live in the same fictional universe as Meg--Adam works for Meg's husband at one point.

Love is Zero: This is a text adventure game about vampires living on the moon. (http://aliendovecote.com/vampire.html)

Earthian: the 'angels' are actually aliens from another planet. They travel from their planet to our moon and to Earth, and use a spaceship near the end. The main characters also sit around in space above the Earth a couple of times.

World of Warcraft: Velen and Kiljaeden (two of the nominated characters) are aliens from the same planet. Because of a vision he had, Velen flew a giant, megacity-sized dimensional ship (given to him by another set of aliens from a different planet) away from their planet around the galaxy for 10,000 years while KJ chased him, finally coming to Draenor (where Ner'zhul lives, which is a different planet still from where humans live in universe).

Space in Warcraft gets a little complicated because the Twisting Nether acts as simultaneously kind of an astral plane/hyperspace and magical travel in it is not only possible but far more common. The draenei are the only major lore figures to use spaceships, however, unrelated to the nominated characters there are also other quests in game involving space, including one where you send a talking velociraptor and five of her children into outer space in a rocket: http://www.wowhead.com/quest=14422/raptor-raptor-rocket

Also, I didn't nominate Legend of the Blue Wolves, but it involves humans fighting against parasitic aliens in defense of a human colony on Pluto with space-capable mechas.