Iiiii, having seen it finally today, kinda want to nominate the movie John Carter. Interesting alien politics! Subversions of normal tropes in that there is background politics. The 'native princess' is not your normal spiritual naive girl in one with nature, but basically a mad scientist with a sword whose reaction to things is "I NEED MORE DATA" and "...I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS. THIS IS TECHNOLOGY I'VE NEVER SEEN *___________* WHAT COULD I DO WITH IT" and characters whose rebellion and issues with their culture are neither helped nor hindered by the arrival of the main character. And I...kinda badly want all the fic set on Barsoom with Dejah Thoris and Sola and the workings out of culture and identity and subversion, and what to do with an OT3 when all three members are of different species and thus not only different cultures but different innate sexualities, and also the father-daughter relationships everywhere (Sola and Tar Tarkas, and the working out of what this means,and-) and-

Yes, I want people to write me all the thinky and inventing/exploring culture fic *coughs*

But I should think of other things to nominate, too, once I get out of "BUT I WANT FIC SET ON MARS, THERE COULD BE METAPHORS WITH ACTUAL SCIENCE PEOPLE. AND AIRSHIPS. THERE ARE AIRSHIPS ON MARS" mood I'm in.