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'''''Animal Armageddon''''' is a 2009 [[Speculative Documentary]] series that aired on ''[[Animal Planet]]''. Each episode (there are eight in total) focuses on a different extinction event in Earth's history (although there are two episodes about the end of the Cretaceous, because, you know, [[Everything's Better
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* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]: After killing a juvenile [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|hadrosaur]], two ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Troodon]]'' are driven from their kill by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Tyrannosaurus]]''.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: It's played straight, but only true paleobuffs will notice it.
** More noticeable in "The Great Dying", which somehow put the crocodile-like ''[[
** What's ''[[
** ''[[
* [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape]]: Subverted. Hey, ''any'' species will commit cannibalism in the face of extinction.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The basic premise of the series. Generally, it's a [[Apocalypse How/Class 4|Class 4]] event. A future [[Apocalypse How/Class 1|Class 1]] or [[Apocalypse How/Class 2|Class 2]] are implied, with regards to humanity.
** [[Apocalypse Wow]]
* [[Badass]]: There's always at least one in each episode, with [[
* [[Big Creepy
* [[Camera Abuse]]: When the [[
* [[Crapsack World]]: Goes hand in hand with the extinction events.
* [[Documentary of Lies]]: Usually averted, but it's played straight in the episode about the Triassic-Jurassic extinction. It claims that the Triassic extinction (which, while bad, wasn't going to do much more than wipe out most of the larger animals) nearly wiped out all life on Earth and turned Earth into a new Mars.
* [[Downer Ending]]: A given, seeing that [[Apocalypse How]] is the main point of the series.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: The survivors of the extinction.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Even Worse
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Quite a number, but the ''[[
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: A scantily feathered ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Velociraptor]]'' (with the model also used for ''[[
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]
* [[Giant Flyer]]: The ever-popular ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]''.
* [[Gorn]]: Mostly averted. This is a noticeably less gory documentary than ''[[
* [[It Got Worse]]: Repeatedly at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous.
* [[Grand Finale]]: {{spoiler|Mankind nearly goes extinct}} in the last episode.
* [[Mega Neko]]: The [[
* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
** [[
* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with implied [[Outrun the Fireball
* [[Panthera Awesome]]: The [[
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]: Not the worst case, but not a realistic portrayal either.
* [[Ptero-Soarer]]: ''Almost'' avoided with their ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]''. They flap their wing membranes a bit too fast. ''So close!''
** Their ''[[
* [[Raptor Attack]]: A half-arsed ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Velociraptor]]'' with the wrong skull shape and a pair of naked ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Troodon]]'' that take down a subadult [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|hadrosaur]].
** Cameos by ''[[
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: The extinctions all qualify, with the most literal examples ever at the end of the Cretaceous {{spoiler|and the hypothetical future}}.
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: In "The Next Extinction", after humanity hides underground to survive an asteroid strike, in cities, rats grow to the size of dogs.
* [[Sea Monster]]: [[
* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: A healthy variety. ''Astraspis'', straight-shelled nautiloids, eurypterids, ''Tiktaalik'', ''Materpiscis'', ''Bothriolepis'', ''Purgatorius'', gorgonopsians, ''Thrinaxodon'', ''Proterosuchus'', ''Eudimorphodon'', ''Rutiodon'', ''Desmatosuchus'', ''Staurikosaurus'', ''Megazostrodon'', and ''Stegodon''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Clash of the Dinosaurs
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Gorgeously averted. ''Astraspis''? ''Materpiscis''? ''Proterosuchus''? ''Desmatosuchus''? ''Purgatorius''? ''Stegodon''? What shows have ''these''?
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: Their tears might prevent them from getting a clear view at those awful [[Computer Generated Images|CGI critters]]. To list some problems besides their hideousness:
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** Elephant-legged [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|ceratopsians and sauropods]], as well as incorrect hand posture on the carnivorous dinosaurs.
** Sauropods with their nostrils on the top of their head. A widespread image, but science shows it's wrong.
** And "''Phobosuchus''" should be called ''[[
** Not to mention ''a 20-ton [[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|mosasaur]]?!?''
** ''And a '''20,000-ton [[
* [[Speculative Documentary]]
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Not that many, compared to the rest of the cast. Among the great stock dinosaurs, there's ''Triceratops'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor,'' and the woolly mammoth. Among the semi-stock dinosaurs, there's hadrosaurs. Among the rare stock dinosaurs, there's mosasaurs.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: One roar is used for the ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Triceratops'', ''Velociraptor]]'', ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]'', ''[[
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Several less cool and more plausible theories are abandoned in favor of cooler, less likely ones. This is especially noticeable in the Ordovician episode.
* [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]: And its Asian relative ''[[
* [[The Hunter Becomes the Hunted]]: Before the Ordovician extinction, the [[
** In the grip of the Great Dying, the wolf-like [[
* [[The Magic Goes Away]]
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