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'''''[http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com Dawn of Time]''''' is a webcomic by Michael Stearns. 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, there was a young cavewoman named Dawn. Armed only with her determination and only a little common sense, Dawn sets out to make her way in the savage wild. Along the way, she meets and befriends a big, friendly triceratops named Blue, as well as a time traveler named [
In July 2011 Stearns [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=305 announced] that he was putting the comic on indefinite hiatus due to other commitments. It was still on hiatus as of June 2020.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Dawn
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Blue
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: In Blue's backstory it's shown that he [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=220 hatched] among a clutch of ''Protoceratops''. Lampshaded by the title of the chapter: "[[The Ugly Duckling
* [[Anachronism Stew]]
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|A merman who saves Dawn from drowning appears to be attempting to turn her into a mermaid to join his little undersea harem, but she rejects it. A giant nautiloid attacks their ship immediately after.}}
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: The lungfish.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]
** The "[http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=51 Chaos] [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=95 Elephant]". As it was named when returned later.
** {{spoiler|Even Dawn's spiral hairdo, in fact.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]
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** Mary Ann Woodhouse.
* [[Chekhov MIA]]: {{spoiler|The old man Dawn befriended as a child.}} Too bad we [[Left Hanging|never really get to see]] what ''that'' was all about due to the [[Series Hiatus]].
* [[Chess
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
** Dawn
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* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Blue's ''Protoceratops'' "sibling". It looks as though he has died and has become part of the [[Truth in Television|"fighting dinosaurs" fossil]], but it turns out he was just dreaming and Blue had already saved him.}}
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: What self-respecting cavewoman does?
* [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!]]: Sets off the [[Indy Escape]].
* [[The Drifter]]: Dawn
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Dawn
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Squishier
* [[Face Palm]]: Dawn can make {{spoiler|even Death}} facepalm.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]
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** As pointed out in the blurb, bare feet are hard to draw and the author was getting over his fear of drawing them with [http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=8 this strip].
** [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=259 This one too.]
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: In the guest comic Mantell gives Dawn his hat and leaves. [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=215.1 It was a really swell hat...]
* [[Fur Bikini]]: Dawn
* [[Genre Savvy]]: [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=51 Mantell]. He also [[
* [[Giant Flyer]]: The azhdarchid pterosaurs in Chapter V.
* [[A Boy and His X|A Girl and Her Triceratops]]
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: There are actually (at least) two of them, [http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=284 one for humans and one for other creatures]. Dawn and Blue escape them, and so are apparently still alive.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
** [
** And Gideon's eventual (from his perspective) wife Mary Ann Woodhouse.
** [[
* [[Historical Villain Upgrade]]: Owen
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: Dawn, who steals a mirror, a brush, etc. And repeatedly Mantell's hat!
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** Also when, after adventuring in the future, [http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=281 she and Blue arrive back in their own time JUST as the Chixhulub meteorite is about to impact].
* [[One Million BC]]: About 100 in fact. {{spoiler|Also, Dawn is the only primitive. Everyone else seems to be relatively further along.}}
* [[Ptero
* [[Rain of Blood]]: See [[Blood Lust]].
* [[Raptor Attack]]: The featherless dromaeosaurids in earlier pages play this straight, but the dromaeosaurids that appear later are more true to real life.
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** The [[Butt Monkey|lungfish]] are screwed whenever they think about getting out of the water.
** Dawn vomiting after trying to eat something inedible {{spoiler|(or smoking a pipe)}}.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Quoth the guy who found himself between [[My Future Self and Me|two instances]] of very unamused Blue - "You definitely didn't say anything about two of these things".
* [[Seashell Bra]]: Averted! The author couldn't bring himself to draw any because there would be no reason for [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=163 them].
* [[Series Hiatus]]: Since July 2011.
* [[Shout
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Mantell smokes a pipe at first.
* [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying]]: This is on purpose so "dinosaurs read as clearly as possible." Averted [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=146 here.] Also averted with ground-hunting [[Giant Flyer|azhdarchid pterosaurs]] and a more bird-like view of the hypothetical "dinosauroids".
* [[Steal the Surroundings]]: [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=249 It's easier to] abduct Dawn than to take a hat from her when she's in a possessive mood.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Played straight and averted. Fan-favorites like ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'' and ''Triceratops'' make appearances, but so do less well known species like ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' and ''Sauropelta''.
* [[Storming the Castle]]: The dinosauroids enlist the help of pterosaurs and use Blue as a wrecking ball to do this in order to save Dawn. {{spoiler|After the dinosauroid chief is killed, Dawn leads the surviving dinosauroids on a second charge.}}
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* [[Take That]]: To Dr. Horner's hypothesis that ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'' was an obligate scavenger. {{spoiler|Dr. Horner and Dr. Bakker go into the past to investigate, and, predictably, Dr. Horner gets eaten when he tries to show that ''T. rex'' would not be interested in live prey.}}
* [[Temple of Doom]]: {{spoiler|Complete with a half-elephant/half-man god thing guarding the inside.}}
* [[Thirty Minutes or
* [[Time Paradox]]: {{spoiler|Mantell goes to get his hat to avoid one, but then Owen leaves him behind.}}
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]
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* [[Underwater Kiss]]: Of the Type B [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=156 variation].
* [[Wanted Poster]]: Dawn for [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=91 "attempted 'cattle' rustling and destruction of property."]
* [[What Happened to
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: Averted. Dawn successfully changes the past and saves herself. Not only that, but the circumstances in [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=298 the past she returns to] ends up slightly different from
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