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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|The Ugly]] ''[[The Ugly Duckling|Protoceratops]]''".
* [[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 with Death]]: Not only [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=291 chess], but also a test of [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=290 guitar-playing skill]. [[Settlers of Catan]] is also an option.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
** Dawn
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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 [[Lampshades]] the fact that the oldest tricks are still [http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=52 fresh.]
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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.
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* [[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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